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the pioneer spirit in this region. Once I graduated, I started my career in architecture in Chicago, but I was actually called back to K-State to teach. I've also worked in Kansas City.
KANSAN: What are you most looking forward to in your position as dean?
DAAS: Many things. I'm mostly excited to pull together students, faculty, staff and alumni to find the strengths of the school and learn what it's really about and how we can move forward. It's important to reflect and contemplate about the future of the school, and this transition will allow us to do that.
KANSAN: Why do you prefer the education side of architecture rather than the actual field?
discovered my love for the academic world and the broader impact I could have on the field and future architects through education.
KANSAN: What are some interesting facts about yourself that others might not know?
DAAS: I also have a bit of a second life as a writer and a poet. I specifically enjoy Latin American literature a lot. Another thing that my kids will not approve of me saying is our routine we have each night. Whenever I'm at home, I have to put them to bed and I have to do so by telling them an original story. We invent characters and involve themes of our family. It's a fun time for me to connect with them and discuss stories about our family, the world and life.
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FAST FACTS
Royals or Chiefs? Both.
Favorite food? My mom's lentil curry.
Cats or dogs? Dogs.
Favorite hobby? Playing cricket.
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the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identifying suicide as the leading cause of death for people of ages 10-24, mental health has been a topic of discussion among colleges across the U.S.
Chris Maxwell, project coordinator at the Kansas Suicide Prevention Resource Center, said that despite trends in the report, suicide rates are
This report showed that suicide rates among young women have been steadily increasing since the mid-2000s, and suicide by suffocation for young women has also tripled since 1994.
"An emotional illness needs to be treated the same as any other type of illness."
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rising across all variables. "The rate [of suicides] for males of all ages and ethnicities is still higher than that of women, and it will be that way for a while, if not always," Maxwell said. "As of right now, the shift for young women is just rising at a sharper rate."
"Specifically for college students, we need to educate incoming freshmen during orientation, whether it be ways to cope with stress or problem-solving skills," Maxwell said. "We don't ever want someone to reach the point of feeling suicidal."
Maxwell said that he nor the CDC knows the reasoning behind this shift. What was important,
he said, was to pay more attention and increase education.
A national program that promotes emotional health and strives to prevent suicide among college students is the Jed Foundation. Victor Schwartz, the medical director for the foundation, said he finds the new data to be troubling.
"It's not so clear what's happening specifically on college campuses," Schwartz said. "While it's easy to assume that these young people ages 18 to 25 are attending school, there's no guarantee."
CLAS drops 100 hour graduation requirement
Schwartz said young people in college are actually less suicidal than those not in school, but this fact does not diminish the severity of the issue.
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"In school or not, it's vital that everyone know the importance of mental health," Schwartz said. "An emotional illness needs to be treated the same as any other type of illness."
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The College Academic Council voted to eliminate the requirement that students complete 100 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) hours as part of the requirements for a bachelor's degree at its March meeting.
In an email sent to the KU Advising Network on March 27, Administrative Director of Student Academic Services Karen Ledom said the change will take effect in summer 2015. This applies to all CLAS students, regardless of initial KU term.
CLAS Director of Communications Kristi Henderson said students will still have to complete their
KU Core requirements, major requirements, and electives.
"It makes it a lot easier for students with multiple degrees, or if they're in a professional school and want to have a major in the College" she said.
Before the recommendation was approved, the proposal was introduced in the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising.
It then moved up to the College Academic Council where it was officially approved. Ledom's email also said the recommendation
wasn't given final approval in time to update the information in the next university catalog, but all students should have a degree progress report that correctly excludes the 100 hour rule no later than Aug. 3.
"If students have any questions as far as how it applies to their studies or their degree, they should contact our Student Academic Services office," Henderson said.
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Students can reach Student Academic Services by email at clas109@ku.edu or by phone at (785) 864-3500.
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did that slight decline justify such severe reductions," she said. "That's not the way we calculate budgets. We're really meddling in the Regents business when we get down to making specific appropriations for a program. It wouldn't say this is a precedent, we've done it before, but never to this extent and never with this sort of malice of intent."
Senator Anthony Hensley (D-Topeka) said he views the cuts as as a personal attack on the University of Kansas by Arpke.
"Well, it's a fairly significant cut to the University," he said. "It seems to me that what's happened in the process here, debating the budget, is that KU was singled out for cuts, which I believe is very unfortunate. The person mainly responsible for that is the Chairman of the Subcommittee, Tom Arpke. That's how I'd characterize it, — a personal vendetta against KU."
This leaves only $16 million in the State Scholarship fund, which in previous years was split with half going to state universities and half going to private universities. Under this amendment. 83 percent of the funds will go to the nearly 20 percent of Kansas students who attend private universities, while one 17 percent will aid state university students.
Additionally, Kelly said in the preliminary report, the $9.4 million was cut from the Lawrence campus, but $7.4 was allocated to the University Medical Center-Wichita and $2 million would be put into the State scholarship fund. However, when the Subcommittee reworked the bill, the entire $9.4 million was taken from the University, but none was reallocated anywhere.
"I think there's a general disdain on the part of my colleagues for the four
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While the University of Kansas took a major hit from this bill, Kelly said the proposal cut nearly $4.6 million from Kansas State University.
year liberal arts universities, Kelly said. "They're more comfortable with technical education and they've actually put money into technical education, as they're decreasing it for the four year liberal arts colleges."
These cuts are in addition to the previous allotments ordered by Gov. Brownback that cut University funding by $2.7 million. However, while this $9.4 million is by far the largest cut, Kelly said she wouldn't be surprised if more cuts were made to try and remedy the budget crisis by the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Kelly said the budget passed Wednesday doesn't balance, something that she hasn't seen in her 11 years on the committee.
"Part of it is a knee-jerk vote in what I would consider to be reckless and irresponsible pieces of policy," she said. "While I think there's greater animosity to KU, K-State did not get off the hook with this one. After the Subcommittee meeting, it was quite heated! It's very unfortunate, and people need to make a lot of noise."
"The budget we passed yesterday didn't balance, and we don't do that," she said. "We call this our mega-budget, when we come back from veto session, we'll do omnibus budget. We'll take the mega-budget and everything we did in law and reconcile the books and pass the omnibus budget. The constitution says we're required to have a balanced budget, originally what wed do if we couldn't get it all together is we wouldn't pass
the mega budget."
"The only reason it's that low is because we're stealing from the Department of Transportation and various other funds and sweeping into the general fund to fill the holes," Kelly said. "If we weren't doing that, it'd be closer to $500 million. The reason this is like it is because they passed those very reckless income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013."
"I think many of them are taking advantage of this revenue shortfall to shrink government," she said. "I think there are some that really like the direction we're going. They like underfunding higher education, public education, our social services, our infrastructure programs and even our public safety programs. I think there are a number of my colleagues and thats why they came to the legislature. They have no heartache over what's going on right now."
Kelly said the reason behind pushing out the mega-budget is so the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee can work with the numbers provided and decide what taxes need to be raised to ensure Kansas can meet its constitutional requirements. She said the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee has to come up with nearly $200 million, a number that'd be higher if the State wasn't sweeping funds from various funds into the general funds.
Kelly said she foresees this bill passing and becoming law, but feels there's an underlying problem with the majority of the Republicanled Senate and the way the look at government's purpose.
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