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The Inside Front
Wednesday July 28,1999
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KU recognized as a top school by Kaplan
A nationwide survey of high school guidance counselors has listed the University of Kansas as one of the top schools for the learning disabled.
The Kaplan Newsweek College Catalog 2000, published this summer, cited the University for its superior programs and services.
KU also was recognized as a top school for athletic programs and for offering the best value per tuition dollar.
"Midwestern guidance counselors say that KU is a 'big school with a much smaller feel' because of the personal attention given to each student," the Kaplan catalog reported.
KU's office for students with disabilities aids nearly 500 students each semester who request assistance. About 160 have learning disabilities. The University does not waive any admissions or graduation requirements for students with disabilities, including learning disabilities.
The Kaplan Newsweek College Catalog reviews and rates more than 1,100 colleges and universities in the United States.
Students with learning disabilities focus for KU
With a new federal grant, a team of researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning will focus on ensuring that students with learning disabilities can earn a high school diploma.
"We're concerned about students who are failing. We want to find things we can do to help them succeed," said Donald D. Deshler, one of four principal researchers on the project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant provides $700,000 annually for five years.
The team — Deshler, Jean Schumaker, Janis Bulger and Keith Zelnant — want to develop methods to help teachers recognize how students with learning disabil-
ties learn and how to engage those students in wanting to learn.
Deshler is the director and Schumaker is the associate director of KU's Center for Research on Learning.
Native-American art experts to judge show
Two authorities on Native-American art have been chosen to judge the entries in the 11th Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show juried competition at the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall.
Margaret Archuleta, Phoenix, and Ruthe Blalock Jones, Muskogee, Okla., will judge the juried show and sale, one of six that will take place during the annual art show, Sept. 11 through Oct. 24 at the museum.
Archuleta is the curator of fine art at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. She has curated exhibitions such as "Shared Visions: Native-American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century."
Jones serves as the director of the Bacone College art department in Muskogee, Okla. A practicing artist, Jones uses a wide range of utensils including oil, acrylic, pen and ink and original printmaking.
For more information about the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, call Maria S. Martin at 864-4245.
Plastic surgery seminar set for Shawnee location
KU MedWest in Shawne will sponsor a free informational seminar about surgical options for women considering breast changes from 7 to 8 p.m. Aug. 4 in the KU MedWest Community Room.
Plastic surgeon Richard Korentager, assistant professor of surgery, will discuss choices women have for changing their appearance through breast reconstruction, augmentation and reduction.
Admission to the seminar is free, but registration is required. To sign-up, call (913) 588-1227.
Kansas Arts Commission granting cash to artists
The Kansas Arts Commission is accepting applications from Kansas artists for fellowships through the Individual Artist Program.
Mini-fellowships of $500 will be offered in the same areas of art, in addition to music composition, performance art, film/video, choreography and play writing
The commission will award up to five fellowships of $5,000 to artists interested in creating fiction, poetry, two-dimensional visual art, three-dimensional visual art or crafts.
The deadline is Oct. 19. For more information, call (785) 296-3355.
Med student ceremony has cloak but no dagger
First-year medical students at the University of Kansas School of Medicine will participate in the second annual White Coat Ceremony 10 a.m. Aug.6 in Battenfeld Auditorium on the University of Kansas Medical Center campus.
Each of the 175 students will be recognized and cloaked with their white lab coat by Deborah Powell, executive dean of medicine.
The ceremony was established to symbolize entry into the medical profession.
Dog trainer offers tips at Borders book signing
Sandy Butler, author of "Train Your Dog in One Hour," will do a training demonstration, sign books and answer questions at 7 p.m. Aug. 5 at Borders Books and Music, 700 New Hampshire St.
NATION
Butler, who made a similar appearance on Feb. 25, developed a talent for training dogs after owning a candy store in Colorado that was next to an animal shelter. She said that frustrated dog owners often would ask her to watch their pets until the shelter opened.
Athletes bring violation of privacy against Web sites
Butler offered to train the dogs in one hour or less if the owners promised to keep the animals rather than leave them at the shelter.
CHICAGO — Athletes at eight universities claim that they were secretly video-taped in locker rooms, and that the tapes were sold through Internet sites advertising "hot young dudes."
Louis Goldstein, one of the attorneys representing the athletes in a lawsuit, said Tuesday that he has eight tapes and believes the practice of secretly taping athletes in locker rooms is widespread.
"There's a whole industry," he said. "They send people all over the country to do videotaping."
The tapes, with names such as "Straight Off the Mat" and "Voyeur Time," began to come to light in April, when the Chicago Tribune reported that hidden-camera tapes — including footage taken during a 1995 wrestling tournament at Northwestern University — were being marketed online and by mail.
Hidden-camera videos are also known to have been made at Illinois State University, Eastern Illinois University and the University of Pennsylvania, Goldstein said.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges invasion of privacy, unlawful use of the plaintiffs' images for monetary gain, and mail and wire fraud under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, said the Communications Decency Act gives Internet service providers immunity from responsibilities for what their customers put on their Web sites.
"I think the law goes a little further than it probably ought to in shielding ISP's, particularly in cases where they have knowledge of what's there," he said. "It's a little ironic in a case like this that it's a law called the Communications Decency Act."
The Associated Press
Regents elect KU professor as executive director
By Ronnie Wachter
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents on Thursday named professor Kim Wilcox, former chairman of the department of speech-language-hearing, as its new executive director. Wilcox had been serving since May 30 as interim executive director of the board, which coordinates the operations of Kansas' universities and other learning institutions.
Wilcox said he was excited about the opportunity he had been given by the Board.
"Higher education is at a crossroads in Kansas," he said. "The Board's expanded role offers an unprecedented opportunity for college, school and universities to cooperatively build on our state's strong tradition of quality post-secondary education."
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said that Wilcox's hiring was something the school could be proud of.
"That's obviously the highest compiment the University can have," Hutton said. "Dr. Wilcox had an outstanding career here, and I'm certain he'll have an outstanding career on the Board as well."
Wilcox is the first full-time executive director of the Board since the number of schools it oversees was expanded. The Board was created to direct Kansas' six universities, but was recently given charge of the state's vocational and technical schools along with its community colleges.
Wilcox served in several positions at the University before being hired by the Board of Regents. Besides being a professor in the department of speech-language-hearing, he was a co-director of the intercampus program in communicative disorders and director of the Native-American training program.
Wilcox worked with Chancellor Robert Hemenway during the 1997-98 school year as special counsel for Initiative 2001, a project designed to plan what University life will be like in 25 years. Wilcox then joined the Board in August of 1998 as interim director of academic affairs.
Diane Loeb replaced Wilcox as acting chairman of the department of speech-language hearing.
Edited by Mike Miller
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