Wednesday, May 3, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Student up for residence hall award
Bv Jessie Mever
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Dedication to the University of Kansas residence halls won Josh Burdette the title of Midwest Affiliate for College and University Residence Halls' student of the year.
Burdette's up for national honors, too, and at the end of the month, he will know whether he won.
Burdette, president of the Association for University Residence Halls, will be up against about eight other students during Memorial Day weekend in Boulder, Colo., for the National Association for College and University Residence Halls honor, said Randy Timm. AURH advisor.
"It looks like he has a pretty good chance," Timm said. "He has done amazing things here at KU."
But Burdette who has lived in student housing for five years and served as AURH president for two, modestly said he was surprised by the MACUR honor.
"I honestly didn't know they had bid me," Burdette said. "I am not a person who is always seeking praise. I wasn't expecting it at all."
Katie Bartlett, resident assistant at McColum Hall and co-president of Kansas Leaders in Progress, said Burdette was the perfect nominee.
"We decided he had a lot of great accomplishments that we could talk about," Bartlett said. "This is a pretty big deal, and
we're pretty proud of him."
Burdette's modesty shined through once more when asked about his chances to win the national title.
"I honestly don't know," Burdette said. "I hope so. But the other people that are going up for this award are equally good individuals and good workers and servants to their resident populations."
But, if he did win, Burdette said the impact of the national award would be much more than a personal honor.
"For me it would be cool to win." Burdette said. "That would be a great honor. And for AURH it would mean a lot because it would make the NACUR take notice of the wonderful things we do at KU."
Burdette will not attend the conference, which will be held May 25-28, because he will not be returning to student housing next fall. Instead, about 15 KU students who will be involved in student housing next fall will attend, and they will accept the award on his behalf if he were to win.
Burdette's involvement in residence life began during his sophomore year when he worked with the McCollum government and extended to AURH during his junior year. These activities have left lasting impressions on him and his life, Burdette said.
"It's been an incredibly huge learning experience," said Burdette, who will begin working toward a graduate degree in higher education this fall. "It's really made me look at things with an educational mind set and get involved more."
Josh Burdette, president of the Association for University Residence Halls, was named Midwest Affiliate for College and University Residence Halls' student of the year. He has a chance to win a national award this summer. Kansan staff portrait
Textbook author responds to complaints
By Jim O'Malley
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Members of the school board of Unified School District 497-Lawrence have some more reading to do.
Last Monday, Parents for Objective Science and History, a group of local parents critical of the teaching of evolution in the public schools, presented the school board with an 11-page critique of the biology textbook used in Lawrence's high schools.
One of the textbook's authors has sent a 20-page response to the board.
POSH representative Ellen Barber said her group objected to what members considered a dogmatic approach to teaching evolution in the book. She said POSH presented the board with worksheets intended to balance the book's approach. The POSH critique and worksheets can be found at http://posh.roundearth.net/mis
sion.htm.
According to the POSH document, the textbook may contribute to prejudice against scientists with unorthodox ideas about evolution.
The document also says the book discriminates against some religious beliefs by excluding biological evidence consistent with theistic suppositions.
Brown University biologist Ken Miller is a co-author of Biology, the book the parents object. He spoke about evolution at a scientific conference last month at the University of Kansas. Miller said that after members of Kansas Citizens for Science told him about the POSH challenge to his book, he spent a day-and-a-half writing the response.
Miller said that creationists had challenged his textbook four or five times before and that POSH's criticism was fairly typical. All the criticisms have been circulating in cre-
ationist circles for at least 30 years, he said.
"That's why I was able to write the response in a day-and-a-half," he said.
"They do not explain why they take a special interest in just this one area of biology," Miller wrote, "leaving it to the reader to determine whether they have chosen this area in order to examine our book from a particular religious or political agenda. In their zeal to oppose the teaching of evolution, they have assembled a document laden with half-truths and outright distortions."
POSH's document said students who believed a common creator was the best explanation for similarities
in living things should not be ridiculed.
Miller wrote that nothing in his book called for such treatment of any students and that evolution didn't contradict the idea of a divine creator.
Miller's response can be found at http://www.kcfs.org/miller/analysis.html.
The school board voted unanimously last year to continue the teaching of evolution. School board member Leni Salkind said last week that she had not yet read either POSH's document or Miller's response.
She said the POSH presentation to the board was interesting. POSH members wanted to balance evolutionary theory with their own point of view, she said.
But Salkind said she wasn't sure there was another scientific alternative to evolution.
Celebrating Erek's Life
THE HEART HATH ITS OWN MEMORY,
LIKE THE MIND,
AND IN IT ARE ENSHRINED
THE PRECIOUS KEEPSAKES.
Did you know Erek Doperalski? To keep Erek's spirit alive, I am compiling a book of memories that his family and
friends can share with one another. Please take time in May to collect your memories of Erek, whether they're big events or small moments. Send your written, recorded, or on disk stories to the address below or e-mail them to SalTaylor@aol.com by May 31, 2000. Also include a photo of yourself so we can put a face with the story. I do realize this will be an emotionally-challenging journey, but I am so comforted by stories of moments shared with Erek -- and I'm hoping you will be, too.
- Include your name, permanent address (if student), phone number (in case I have a question), and a photo of yourself.
- How did you meet Erek?
- No limit on number or length
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