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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 16, 1990
Forum to answer students' free enterprise questions
Business students hope to teach others to start businesses
By Scott Hollis
Special to the Kansan
A forum that will teach people about the opportunities in starting a business of their own will target a non-business student audience.
The KU chapter of AIESEC, a French
acronym for International Association of Students in Economics and Business, and the KU Students in Free Enterprise will sponsor the Small Business and Entrepreneurial forum, which is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Wooldford Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Local young entrepreneurs, bankers and representatives from the Small Business Development Center and the Small Business Association will be at the forum to answer questions.
Coordinator for the forum, Brent Mertz, Lawrence junior, said the forum would be for students who wanted to learn about how to start a business. He said this was important
students need to learn about free enterprise because, eventually, a majority of people will have thoughts about opening their own business," Mertz said. "If they don't have the proper base knowledge they may be more likely not to attempt it or follow through."
for students who were not going to take a large core curriculum of business classes.
Mertz said that free enterprise would interest students because someday, when they were finished with college, students would be interested in working for themselves.
"Sooner or later, people will think their job would be a lot more rewarding if they were doing it for themselves," he said. "Specifically, we want to provide a base knowledge for it and potentially plant the seed for starting a business for the future."
Scott Bacchus, Albuquerque, N.M., senior and AIESEC member, said that anyone was invited to the forum.
"We want to see a lot of people there," he said. "The forum is open to students and the general public as well. We want everyone to get involved and ask questions."
The idea for the forum came from a survey, which showed that KU students had an interest in starting their own businesses. The results of the survey showed that:
23 of 30 architecture students,17 of 30 engineering students and 12 of 30 fine arts students reported they had an interest in starting their own business.
19 of 30 architecture students, 12 of 30 engineering students and 7 of 30 fine arts students reported they thought they would start their own businesses.
23 of 30 architecture students, 22 of 30 engineering students and 16 of 30 fine arts students reported they would take an entrepreneurship class if offered.
The survey was conducted by students in an entrepreneurship class within the School of Business.
Children's literature collection growing
Edited by Chris Fickett
By Kimberly Erb Special to the Kansan
When the School of Education moves to its new home at Joseph R. Pearson Hall in Spring 2000, its curriculum library will feature a children's literature collection unprecedented at the University of Kansas.
Diane Nielsen, associate professor of education, said that the collection would grow by 500 to 1,000 new books each year after the move.
Nielsen said that she initiated the collection of children's books in 1990 because so few were available for teaching related courses. Every year since, in conjunction with the school's Learning Resource Center, she has accumulated a limited number of books through various funds and grants.
"They just don't have it in the main University budget to buy a lot of children's books," she said.
Nielsen is now receiving books from publishing houses free of charge as part of a project through the International
Reading Association.
The project, called Teachers' Choices,
divides the United States into regions
and sends books to people within each
region to be read and reviewed.
Nielsen, as area coordinator for the plains region, receives the books and is responsible for disseminating them to area teachers and librarians. She then tabulates the readers' reviews and reports her findings. In exchange, she is allowed to keep the books.
When the project ends later this year, Nielsen has arranged a program with several publishing houses in which she and the school will be given children's books in exchange for their promotion.
Nielsen said that the growing collection would be an asset to the University in many ways, including the opportunity to develop more courses on children's literature.
"Because of the quality of children's books that are published, schools use a lot of them to teach with," she said.
Arlene Barry, associate professor of education, said that the collection
would introduce students to a variety of books of different genres and reading levels.
"It's a good working example of the kinds of things teachers can be putting in their own libraries," she said
Access to the books will allow teachers and librarians to review the books before purchasing them for their own libraries and classes, she said.
Nielsen said that the books would also be valuable to students, faculty and community members.
Nielsen does not know the monetary value of the present children's literature collection, but said that hardbound books cost about $15 and that there now were about 1,000 books in the collection. That is an average value of $15,000.
Edited by Jason Pearce
Four students recognized for book collections
By Karen Lucas
Special to the Kansan
Building a book collection can bring not only pleasure but also money and recognition.
Such was the case yesterday when four KU students received prizes at the 43rd annual Snyder Book Collecting Contest.
Michael Foubert, Olathe graduate student, won first prize for a collection of writings about AIDS, which he began in the early '80s.
"I started collecting books on the topic for my own education and to share with others," he said.
in his collection.
education and to share with others. He said,
Obertbent said he had met several authors of the books
in this collection.
The other first-prize winner was Jeff O'Neal, Lawrence junior. O'Neal's collection focused on African-American culture in New York during the 1920s. Books by Burton W. Peretti, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes formed part of the collection.
O'Neal said that an American literature class had snarked his interest in the subject.
Helen Sheumaker, Lawrence graduate student, and Monica Peck, Kansas City, Kan., senior, won second place awards. Sheumaker's collection consisted of how-to books, while Peck's entries were poetry books published by small presses.
$150 for second prize. Each prize consisted of a gift certificate from the Mt. Oread Bookshop and a cash award from an endowed fund established by Elizabeth Snyder
published by small process
Individual winners received $300 for first prize and
One of this year's judges was Liane Cantelmi, who won first prize as a graduate student in 1996.
Cantelmi had nothing but praise for the finalists' collections.
"They were all very interesting and showed great potential for future growth." she said.
The winners' collections are on exhibit in the Jim Ranz Reading Area on the third floor of Watson Library.
Edited by Duane Wagler
Dino-mite!
Fifth graders from Green Springs Elementary School are introduced to the Natural History Museum's newest permanent exhibit, a cast of a Mosasaur. The skeleton is the largest ever found of a Mosasaur and was formally unveiled Sunday during Museum Day. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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