Monday, May 10, 1999 The University Daily Kansan Section A·Page 5 Watkins much closer to finding new director By T.J. Johnson fjohnson@kansan.com Kansas staff writer The search committee for a new director at Watkins Memorial Health Center is nearing its goal. David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said the committee had interviewed all of the candidates and had issued their evaluations of each one. Ambler said he would be making follow-up calls to the candidates to gather more information about them. Then, the new director will be chosen. "My guess is that within the next two weeks we will be making an offer to someone," Ambler said. Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins, said the search committee was looking for a permanent replacement for James Stroble who retired from the health center last year for health reasons. Rock said Jim Boyle had been the interim director since Stroble's retirement. Ambler said the large group of people who interviewed each candidate had done a good job of evaluating the potential directors and providing comments about each one. "You get positive comments on all the candidates and concerns about all of them, but I would say there were two candidates who had a lot of support from the people who talked to them," Ambler said. Those comments came from the staff at Watkins, the search committee, the Student Health Advisory Board and administrative groups across campus. Ambler said the wide variety of comments on the candidates would help the search committee to pick the most qualified candidate for the job as director of Watkins. "It's been a good process, and we have been impressed with all the candidates," Ambler said. "I think this will result in a good new director at Watkins." - Edited by Jodi Smith KU literary magazine gets new editor, financial help New signs of life mark the 53rd issue of Cottonwood, the University of Kansas' professional literary publication. By Dan Curry dcurry@kanson.com Kansas staff writer After several years of on-again-off-again publishing and subscriptions at a meager 83 count, a new editor and staff launched the retoled *Cottonwood* last week. The new Cottonwood now is published in partnership with the Lawrence Arts Center, and with financial support from Allen Press, said Tom Lorenz, associate professor of English and the publication's editor. The publication features two chapters from nationally known writer Connie May Fowler's forthcoming book, poetry by KU professor Luci Tapahonso and photography from Lawrence photographer Jim Nedresky, Lorenz said. This issue also includes material from a host of other local and national authors. Rick Mitchell, a director at the Lawrence Arts Center, approached Lorenz with the idea of involving the Center with Cottonwood to support the local writing community. The Arts Center will market the magazine locally and nationally, Mitchell said. "I realized that Cottonwood had not been published in a couple years and that there were problems funding it and marketing it," Mitchell said. "The thing needs to run at 500 plus to pay for itself, so my first goal is raise subscriptions," he said. "I would like, for example, to get every public library to get a subscription." Cottonwood suffered a void when the previous editor, George Wedge, retired a couple years ago, Lorenz said. "Phil Wedge stepped in as editor." Lorenz said, referring to the current poetry editor. "But there was a kind of vacuum when George left." Students can contact Lorenz or the Arts Center for subscriptions. Individual copies are on sale at area book stores. - Edited by Keith Burner Good luck grads! 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