THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2006
VOL.116 ISSUE 83
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Employers can see you on Web site, too
BY DAVID LINHARTD
editor@kansan.com
KANSH CORRESPONDENT
Make sure to add "Change Facebook profile" to your graduation to-do list — future employers may be checking your resume alongside your facebook.com profile and rejecting you based on what they find...
Campus police at George Washington University have used Facebook to snoop for underage drinking in parties. Parents use Facebook to check on their children. Now employers and even the career centers at the University
of Kansas use Facebook to evaluate students who are being considered for KU jobs.
"We hire students to work in our office and professional staff and we do look at their Facebook entries," said Mary Andrade Carlson, assistant director of the University Career Center. "It gives us better insight to how they truly present themselves."
Carlson uses Facebook regularly to evaluate hiring prospects for a particular job or just to find contacts in a particular field to invite to alumni panel presentations.
Facebook, an online networking site for college stu
dents, was created by Harvard students who wanted to post traditional yearbooks online.
Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes said he had not been aware of any employer using Facebook to assess potential employees.
Jolene Byer, assistant director of the Business Career Services Center at the School of Business, said an employer at a recent conference had mentioned using Facebook to screen candidates for a job.
"One person had posted a suggestive picture, and another talked about being drunk all the time," Byer said. "One had a fairly vanilla profile,
Byer said Facebook was like a big ad in a newspaper and anyone could see it. Facebook allows anyone to register as a user, but they must have e-mail addresses ending in "edu" to be accepted. Employers easily obtain access to Facebook through employees or interns belonging to Facebook.
and that person got it."
"There's an illusion of privacy, but the information is out there," Byer said. "It can help you or hurt you at some point."
A manager's job is to make sure an employee fits his company, Byer said. If he sees on
Facebook that all a candidate ever does is party and post suggestive photos online, then that person might be a problem.
After the Kansas Association of Colleges and Employers conference last November, Byer explored KU student profiles on facebook.com.
"I found things that could get people fired," Byer said. "It was something I had never thought of before this conference."
Carlson and Byer both warned against mentioning your company on Facebook.
"We recently had an employer contact a career service."
es office on campus because a student had mentioned negative information about their company on a Facebook profile." Carlson said.
Byer said to use common sense. Can something you post online come back to haunt you?
The career centers at KU are planning to better inform students of the risks of posting private information online.
"Facebook is a fun tool." Carlson said, "but there's no reason to look like an idiot in your profile."
SPEAKERS
- Edited by Hayley Travis
Attorneys bring case against ID to University
BY KRISTEN JARBOE
kjarboe@kansan.com
KANSA STAFF WRITER
In a Dover, Pa., case, a judge ruled the curriculum for intelligent design was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of church and state.
Kansas science standards also should be declared unconstitutional, said Jack Krebs, president of Kansas Citizens for Science.
He said the Kansas science standards expect teachers to teach intelligent design, changing the definition of science to include supernatural causation. Krebs said this violated the separation of church and state.
He spoke to more than 100 people at the Dole Institute of Politics Saturday as part of a forum called "Intelligent Design, Kansas Science Education and the Law."
He also was an adviser to Rothschild and Harvey during their case.
Attorney's Eric Rothschild and Steve Harvey, who argued against teaching intelligent design in the classroom in the Dover, Pa., case. ioined Krebs in the discussion.
Also joining them was Richard Katskee, the assistant legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
"We're here partly to say Pennsylvania is with Kansas."
Rothschild said, "Kansas has been a state that's probably been dealing with this issue the longest in recent times among the states who are confronting this opposition to teach evolution.
The Kansas State Board of Education revised science standards last year, which now include criticism of evolution in the curriculum.
Hume Feldman, associate professor of Physics and Astronomy, spoke about the series of lectures he has organized.
He said the University would educate students about what he considered to be the true definition of science.
Five lectures are planned for the spring and five in the fall, but dates are not set.
"Science is being re-defined as we sit here, and I think KU should take a leading role," Feldman said.
Pedro Irigonegaray, who argued against including criticism of evolution in science curricula at the Board of Education science hearings in May, also was at the discussion.
"Anyone from Kansas who loves this state, I think, has to be thinking, 'How far are we going to let the pendulum swing?' Irigonegaray said.
"I would suggest to you that the message that we as a group are sending is not one of a legal plug. It's not one of a thread of litigation. It's more in terms of a warning saying, 'Please pay attention.' Instead of being unaware, let's become aware of what's happening and how can we make it better."
KU 95 - ISU 85
'Hawks on the run
Freshman guard Mario Chalmers makes a fast break down court against Iowa State on Saturday in Ames. Chalmers led the Jayhawks with 21 points. For full basketball coverage, see PAGES 1B, 4B and 5B.
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Edited by Janiece Gatson
STUDENT HOUSING
Housing director to leave Kansas
Ken Stoner, director of the Department of Student Housing, is leaving the University of Kansas in early March to take a position at the University of Tennessee.
Stoner has been employed by the University for more than twenty years, and has won numerous awards during his term at the University including an Outstanding Faculty Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and a research and publication award from the Association of College and University of Housing Officers.
He was earlier recognized within the association as one of only two individuals in the United States that is an expert in all four domains of housing administration: residence education, business and fiscal management, physical plant and maintenance, and dining services.
"The department and the University will lose a great man," said Nona Golledge, assistant director of the Department of Student Housing.
— Rachel Parker
STUDENT SENATE
New coalition names candidates
BY NICOLE KELLEY
nkelley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
There will be a new coalition on ballots in April's Student Senate elections. Members of the coalition, called Ignite, unveiled their new party, officially kicking off their campaign process.
The presidential candidate for Ignite is Jason Boots, Plano, Texas, senior and current Student Senate Executive Committee chairman. The vice-presidential candidate is Mel Horen, Overland Park junior and current College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator.
Both candidates ran under the KUited platforms in past elections. They said that as discussions about
elections started this year, the decision was made that it was time to do something new for the campus. They said
"It's going to be pretty obvious when they look at our new vision that we are very different than KUnited." Boots said.
they did not know if any candidates would run under the KUnited platform for this coming election.
He said that, in the past, KUnited had just
ficial platforms will not be announced until early March.
Boots said many of Ignite's ideas
"It's going to be pretty obvious when they look at our new vision that we are very different than KUnited."
Jason Boots Ignite presidential candidate
worked on safe issues that took one call to the administration, but the goal of the ignite coalition was to present bold ideas that were more exciting. Of-
any of ignite's ideas
would be riskier
and could take
more than one year
to complete. He
said that he was
not worried about
students having a problem with that because they had seen the strong attachment most students had to the University.
Horen said that, in the next few months, she and Boots would be getting out and visiting with different student organizations to listen to
what ideas and concerns they had. She said they wanted to be the first group to reach out to more students and make more of a connection between the student body and the Student Senate.
Right now, he said, there was a gap between the student body and Student Senate. Boots said to close the gap they needed strong lines of communication with students on campus.
"Previous Student Senates and coalitions have been 'open' to students, but simply being open isn't enough," Boots said. "In order to truly attain the input from our fellow students, we must approach them and ask for it."
Edited by Timon Veach
This just might be the golden ticket for Kansas Bill Self isn't like most coaches. He takes risks that will hopefully make the Jayhawks stronger, columnist Michael Phillips says. PAGE1B
It takes more than a pretty face to compete A handful of people at KU participate in pageants. Find out how two of them deal with the stress,the cost and the confidence it has brought to their daily lives. PAGE 3A
Ancient Artifacts
Ancient Artifacts KU has hired a professor to oversee the return of artifacts from the Museum of Anthropology to the tribes that they belong. Find out how they are being categorized and organized. PAGE 2A
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