Wednesday, March 10, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Imagination Workshop postpones performance
By Heather Woodward hwoodward@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The show will go on but not until next month.
Hunter was in fair condition yesterday evening at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit of the University of Kansas Medical Center. After she suffered a seizure Sunday, Hunter went to Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then was flown by helicopter to the Med Center.
Imagination Workshop, which is produced every two months and picked up by National Public Radio, was scheduled for 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. Saturday night at Liberty Hall. Ticket holders can keep their tickets for the April 3 show or take them back to where they purchased the tickets for a full refund.
Kip Niven, an Imagination Workshop cast member and writer, said some portions of the script might change.
The University of Kansas' public radio station has postponed this weekend's production of Imagination Workshop because the station's classical music host and assistant program director, Rachel Hunter, suffered from the effects of a brain aneurysm Sunday. The live comedy show, which Hunter helped produce, has been postponed until April 3.
we were going to do an Academy Awards preview, but now the show will be after the
"Rachel is scheduled to have surgery next week, and it's really serious," said Cordilia Brown, KANU-FM 91.5 operations manager.
Niven, who has acted in Imagination Work shop for five seasons, said the show would include episodes about Barbie and Ken, actor Antonio Banderas' radio show and a musical spoof of the Eagles singing Shakespeare.
fact," Niven said. "If the political climate changes, then some pieces might change. But I remember a lot of the show being less specific and less time-bound."
Although rescheduled the show will cause audience and cast members some inconvenience, Niven said his primary concern was for Hunter's health.
"I have been a professional actor for 28 years, and this is the most fun I have ever had," Niven said. "The group of people is extremely talented, and the material is always first rate. Some people have said it's like a Saturday Night Live, only funny."
"Rachel is one of the great women on the planet," Niven said. "She has one of the great voices in radio. I think audience members will understand. I have a friend who had tickets for 27 people from his church group, and I had to e-mail him and tell him it was postponed."
it's sad that it's postponed, but I'l be able to go some other time," Macfarlane said. "We'll probably just go to the April 3 show. It's a really funny show. I've watched some of the actors in the show throughout their careers."
-Edited by Clint Hooker
Tory Macfarlane, Lawrence freshman, had tickets to Saturday's show and had seen Imagination Workshop a few times in the past.
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Senators urge faculty to post syllabi online
The Student Senate course content subcommittee is trying to encourage more faculty and staff members to post their course syllabi online.
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Sarah Schreck, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator and subcommittee chairwoman, said she received complaints from students who wanted access to more information before enrolling.
She said she hoped more faculty and staff members would post syllabi before enrollment or when timetables are published this spring.
Schreck said the subcommittee's goal was to encourage all faculty and staff members to post course information on the University of Kansas' course content Web site at http://www.ukans.edu/-content/
"If we don't have all the faculty participate, it's going to be rough for students who don't find their classes online," she said.
course information such as of materials, class topics, teachers' expectations, teaching styles and grading policies.
Mike Turvey, Lawrence sophomore and the course content Web site designer, said it was quick and easy for instructors to post information on the site, which was designed last year.
assumes online, site visit. The Web site now displays 175 course syllabi from 6 participating faculty and staff members. About people visit the Web site daily, which provides course information such as average class size, cost
Schreck said the subcommittee may ask Chancellor Robert Hemenway to require faculty to post information on the site.
Schreck said the publication of course content online was a compromise between students, who wanted the administration to post faculty evaluations online, and faculty members serving on the University Council, who rejected the request last year as an invasion of privacy.
Senate committees will consider a bill tonight to provide the subcommittee with $373 to improve and publicize the Web site and to recognize faculty and staff members who have contributed.
- Committees will review bills to provide $750 for a lecture about objectivism sponsored by The Rational Mind: An Objectivist Club and $183 in funding for the KU Polish Club, a new student organization.
Senate committees also will consider a bill to finance KU Environs' Earth Day celebration April 24 in South Park. The organization will request $5,400 to pay talent fees for Casey Neill, environmentalist and musician, and Adam Werback, president of the Sierra Club.
Graduate Affairs, Multicultural Affairs and University Affairs committees will meet at 6 p.m. at Alcove D, Governors and Alderson rooms in the Kansan Union. Finance and Student Rights committees will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Pine and Walnut Rooms in the Union.
Edited by Melody Ard
Influenza exhausts students, Watkins staff
A message for KU students who have been suffering with colds or the flu this winter and for those who have avoided getting sick so far: You aren't out of the woods just vet.
By T.J. Johnson
By T.J. Johnson
johnson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
This flu season has been unusual because it started in January and has remained relatively constant until now. Rock said a typical season started with a peak in flu cases near Thanksgiving, with a second peak near spring break.
"The much anticipated end of the flu season has not arrived," said Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Rock said that Watkins had been seeing and treating many patients with influenza or other respiratory illnesses and that no significant decrease in flu cases had been seen yet.
the flu.
Josh Lake, Wamego sophomore,
said he had missed class last week
because he had been sick with flulike
symptoms, including dizziness
and a cough.
A section of the waiting room at Watkins has even been designated as a "no-coughing" section to keep those who visit the health center from making others sick.
Midterms can disrupt sleep patterns and add additional stress to people with the flu, Rock said. His advice to students who had the flu was to avoid all-night study sessions, exposure to second-hand smoke, excessive alcohol consumption and going out if they were coughing to avoid spreading
Rock said the staff at Watkins had been trying its best to accommodate the large number of patients who had come in with the flu and apologized to those, including Lake, who had been unable to make appointments at the health center because of the overload.
peak, but I imagine that we will continue to see a slightly increased number through spring break." he said.
"I slept through a few classes," Lake said. "I was going to go to Watkins, but I slept a lot and woke up feeling much better."
"I think we're all just getting a
"Probably we are beyond the
little battle-weary," Rock said.
Rock said spring break typically provided an end to the flu season because it decreased close interaction between students in classes and residence halls. When students leave campus to go home or on vacation, it tends to break the cycle of infection and give them a chance to recuperate, Rock said.
"We made that to accommodate students who need to go to Watkins but want to avoid a coughing gallery," Rock said.
Edited by Melody Ard
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