THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007
》 PAINTBALI
National Guard provides free day of fun
The Army National Guard sponsored a free paintball tournament Saturday in Franklin County that attracted 296 KU students.
The game could be categorized into three main categories: a serious sport, a way to train for military missions and a fun activity. People who saw the game in all of those ways participated Saturday.
Those who take it seriously approach the game with strategies and tactics. They regularly compete in tournaments. The Army National Guard uses it to train soldiers because it involves communication and strategy, according to Nancy White, Sergeant First Class of the Kansas National Guard. The majority of people just wanted to have fun.
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FIREFIGHTERS REMAIN RESILIENT
Gov. Schwarzenegger visits command post near Orange County fire site
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'GOOD DOSE OF MONEY'
Pharmaceutical politician
University Architect, Warren Corman, gives Representative Nancy Bovda a tour of the new S21 million addition to the Structural Biology Center. Bovda recently helped get $425,000 in federal funding for research at the KU School of Pharmacy.
Boyda looks at $21 million addition proposal, supports School of Pharmacy
BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
Representative Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., visited the University of Kansas on Friday to view a multi-million dollar addition to the University's pharmaceutical program. KU professors presented Boyda with information on how the $21 million addition to the Structural Biology Center would help the University become a major pharmaceuticals manufacturing site.
Keith Yehle, director of government rela
tions at the University, said the excellent pharmaceutical research being done made the west campus site an ideal place for the new buildings.
"The addition will have all of the components of a major drug manufacturer," Yehle said. "The difference is that we work for Kansas, not stockholders."
Two new buildings that will house pharmaceutical laboratories, SBC III and SBC IV, are under construction. The KU Center for Research contributed funds for construction of SBC III, and the Kansas Bioscience
Authority funded SBC IV. Scott Weir, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, said the labs would work on every stage of drug production.
"The goal is to be able to discover, develop and deliver the drugs all from one site," Weir said.
Boyda had helped the Structural Biology Center gain $425,000 in federal funding earlier this year. She stressed the importance of further federal funding to continue the research.
"I've had the opportunity to travel inter.
nationally, and KU's pharmacy program is known worldwide. It opens doors," Boyda said. "This is taking that tradition and giving it a good dose of money."
Boyda said the new labs continued Kansas long history of making groundbreaking discoveries.
"KU has been at the forefront of cutting-edge research for a long time" Boyda said. "The history goes way back. This is our future."
》 UNIVERSITY SENATE
Edited by Chris Beattie
Committee considers student assessment test
University of Kansas students may be required to participate in an assessment to see how much they learned at the University.
Tomorrow, the University Senate Executive Committee will form a task force to look into learner outcome programs. The program would consist of a standardized assessment that outgoing students would take to show their growth while at the University.
Bill Crowe, president of the University Senate Executive Committee, said that the task force would begin in the spring
Tom Cox, student senator and member of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he was curious to learn about the research done by the task force.
and would look into the possibilities of a required standardized test, a portfolio or exit interviews to be done by graduating students.
Crowe said that this was part of a nationwide issue in how to assess college students after they graduate.
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Government commits to cease-fire
SUDAN
The government of Sudan agreed to a cease-fire in Darfur on Saturday. Too few rebels recognized the boycott that U.N. negotiations fostered, making an end to the fighting nowhere in sight. Leaders of rebel groups refused to attend the talks. The government
said the cease-fire was a sign of goodwill that they hoped would be the beginning to the end of the fighting. Government and rebel factions have broken cease-fire declarations before.
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Graduate's panel seeks solutions
Bob Hockett, 1999 graduate, returned to the University of Kansas Friday with a proposal to bridge the benefit and risk gaps created by globalization.
SYMPOSIUM
Hockett began thinking about these ideas when he was studying at the University. He since went on to study at Oxford and Yale before landing a teaching position at Cambridge. Hockett said if he could have chosen to go to only one school, he would have chosen the University because of the accessibility of the professors.
Hockett spoke at the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy Fall 2007 Symposium: Developing the IMF, the World Bank and the Regional Development Banks: The Future of Law and Policy in Global Financial Institutions.
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C. J. Moore, 2007 graduate, was selected by MLB.com last winter as an associate reporter for the Colorado Rockies — the team that would go on to win 21 of 22 games before the World Series.
A recent University of Kansas School of Journalism graduate had a front row seat to the greatest late-season run in Major League Baseball history.
》 CAREERS
Moore
Alumnus shares unique work experience
An award-winning
college journalist, Moore was tasked with writing four stories per day when the Rockies were in town.
Along the way, he shared a hug with a nude Todd Helton, was sprayed in the eye with champagne by Jorge Julio, shared dinner with Bob Uecker, met idol George Brett, grew a healthy dislike of Yankee and Cub fans, and was read by tens of thousands of baseball fans.
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