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THE UNIVERSITY DAVY KANSAN
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FRIDAY
HI: 53
LO: 36
line Sniezek said.
Partly cloudy with a 0 percent chance of rain. Wind SE at 13 mph.
MONDAY
HI: 73
LO: 43
SATURDAY
HI: 60
LO: 40
What: Campus Transportation Fee- Bus Procurement
wnat they will be funded now: $90.90
SUNDAY
HI: 70
LO: 38
Why: "The campus transit contracts for three buses every couple of years and in order to fulfill that contract, it required an increase of one dollar and 10 cents," Pringle said.
What they were previously funded:$89.80
What: Office of Multicultural Affairs- OMA Operations
    They were previously
What: Campus Environmental Improvement- Recycling Fee
Why: "Lawrence got a new single-stream recycling, and therefore we needed to increase it so our campus could go single-stream so that student workers at Rock Chalk Recycle won't have to dig through the recycling to sort it. It's a little more expensive but it's an efficient way to recycle," Sniezek said.
What they were previously funded: $4.30
What they will be funded now: $5.80
funded: $1.45
What they will be funded now: $2.05
What they were previously
Why: "Office of Multicultural Affairs came to the fee review with a detailed plan of potential programming, and in order to support those endeavors we increased their fee." Pringle said.
What: Student Union Activities Fee
What they will be funded now; $7.00
What they were previously funded: $5.00
7 dollar athletic fee. The fee goes to student wages in the athletic department," Pringle said.
What they will be funded now: $5.25
Why: "They want to bring back the carnival, which has happened for the past three years. They felt it was a good way to bring back different groups across campus that usually don't interact and this is one big event that creates a community for all demographics across campus." Sniezek and Pringle said.
Why: "When the women's and non-revenue fee was cut by the fee review subcommittee last year, the Chancellor instituted, in response, the
What: Athletics fee
What they were previously funded: $0.00
What: Campus Environmental Improvement- Renewable Energy & Sustainability
WHAT'S FACING CUTS
what they will be funded
now:$0.00
What they were previously funded: $1.50
Why: "They had a reserve account of about $75,000, so we want them to spend down their reserve, do some projects they are looking at and spend the money on environmental projects. Once they have spent the reserve down, they can come back and ask for money. But now it is not smart to keep pouring money in if not enough is being spent out," Sniezek said.
What: Newspaper Readership Fee- University Daily Kansan
The University Daily Kansan requested an increase of 50 cents from the initial cut which passed finance two weeks ago. Tonight, it was moved down to one dollar again.
What they will be funded now: $1.00
What they were previously
funded: $2.00
Why: "The UDK fee was cut the amount of money we saw they would save without printing on Tuesday and Wednesday," Pringle said.
What: Office of Multicultural Affairs- Multicultural Education Fund
"Once they have spent the reserve down, they can come back and ask for money."
MADELINE SNIEZEK
Student Senate treasurer
What they were previously funded:$1.15
What they will be funded now: $1.10
Why: "They have a big reserve account, so with our new director of diversity and inclusion, she's up to the outreach that many cultural groups weren't aware of, so we tend to see an increase in requests for the fund, but we don't want to decrease it too much," Sniezek said. "The goal was to decrease it a little bit so they could spend the
revenue plus a little bit of their reserve."
What: Campus Safety Fee
What they were previously funded: $0.00
What they will be funded now: $0.00*
The student safety advisory board requested an increase to 50 cents, which passed finance two weeks ago. Tonight, it was moved down to zero again.
Why: "For right now, the student safety board has a reserve account of about $100,000 and that's enough money to do their priority projects before we give them more money. We still think that they are important, we just think they need to run their reserve down first."
TOTALS
How much students paid during the 14-15 year:
$450.04
How much students will pay during the 15-16 year:
$455.50
Change of $5.46
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ART FROM PAGE 14
changes that will add more space for student accessibility to the art.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO CLOSING
March 25 to April 12 Cultural Mosaic: Spencer Student Advisory Board Juried Art Show
"I think that as far learning at the Spencer, it'll be better because the spaces now are very small, as far as seeing the stuff in person," she said. "I think it'll be better for students seeing it up close rather than standing the five feet from the wall."
Perkins-McGuinness said the museum serves more than 10,000 University students, but currently, it does not have a central staircase or elevator, forcing visitors to leave the museum to visit a different floor. Under phase
March 28 from 12 to 5 p.m. — Multicultural Arts Festival at Spencer and Kansas Union
April 1 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. — Performance: Soundwall presented by KU's Percussion Group
In 2010, the Spencer chose globally-known architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed and Partners to renovate and expand the museum. To date, the museum has raised more than $5 million for phase one from individuals and foundations across the country. Elizabeth Kanost, the museum's communications director, wrote in an email that the University will contribute financial support for educational technology and equipment for the project.
April 4 at 4 p.m. — Springtime tea party
April 11 at 4 p.m. — MoonDrop Circus will perform circus acts with a twist inside the galleries and offer demos April 12 from 12 to 3 p.m. — Day of Creativity
"What was presented by the firm represented a deep understanding of us as a university art museum and a willingness to explore with us what aspects of our program could be enhanced by renovations and what ways we could change the facility to promote growth of engagement with students and university," Perkins-McGuinness said. "One of the aspects that's been really incredible is the architect's ability to think creatively about how to take on this first phase in a way that every element would be included as we move forward so there's no aspect that would need to be undone to move forward."
April 12 from 3 to 5 p.m. — Closing party with refreshments, entertainment and a last look before doors close.
The firm has worked on more than 250 projects around the world, from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. to the Grand Louvre in Paris. However, its notoriety was only one of the appealing components that led the Spencer to choose this firm.
Perkins-McGuinness said the firm's plan captured the unique role the museum plays for students, faculty and visitors alike.
one, both of those missing aspects will be added to connect floors. Donovan said that with the current layout, students don't get to view the art if they're just there for class, unless they go out of their way.
"I personally have a class there every semester. I feel like the actual museum, it doesn't really make sense," she said. "You can't interact with anything; you have to leave the museum to go to the next floor or to go to your classes. Basically I walk in and never see art itself. I know they're talking about building a staircase and elevator in the actual museum space, so I think it'll enhance the museum."
"I think it'll change the way art is viewed because if you go in there now, every piece has its own spot lighting, whereas if you go somewhere like the Nelson[-Atkins Museum of Art], you get a better aspect of how art is actually put together because it's not synthetic." Donovan said.
The new floor-to-ceiling windows set to face Martin Grove and the Campanile will bring the added element of natural light to the museum. Donovan said the natural light will make the Spencer more up-to-date and compliment the art in the museum.
The changes will affect more than 15,000 square feet of space inside the museum, and the lobby and visitor orientation spaces will nearly triple in size. Additionally, teaching and learning galleries will be implemented for short-term exhibitions and interactive elements, which will allow visitors to explore Spencer's collections and learn about behind-the-scene happenings at the museum
Space will also be created for the Stephen H. Goddard Study Center for Works on Paper, a gift funded by an anonymous benefactor, which will increase research access and allow for the teaching of Spencer's more than 20,000 works on paper. Donovan said she is most looking forward to this addition as it will make works more readily available for students.
"If you go back there now, it's standing room only because most of its storage," she said. "I was told they're making that space like four times bigger, and I think that'll be better for actually seeing the art, and you'll have space to go work instead of having to reserve a spot."
Though change is coming quickly for the museum, it will offer multiple galleries leading up to the closing, as well as a closing party to kick off a change to make the museum more nationally known. "Spencer is highly regarded as one of top university art museums in the country and this project will only enhance our reputation in that regard and allow us to expand an already nationally-known University program," she said.
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Tiffany Adkins, a former KU student who left the University after the start of her freshman year in 2013, said she transferred to a community college because of financial reasons and because she didn't feel connected with the University as an African-American student.
FRESHMAN FROM PAGE 1A
by being one of few minority students in an organization or in classes. This, in turn, may cause them to consider leaving the University.
"I felt kind of invisible because the campus is so big and it was hard to find people that look like me," Adkins said. "I didn't want to keep paying so much money to be at a place that didn't feel like home."
Adkins' concern was reflected after the Ferguson events, when minority students created the Twitter hashtag #RockChalkInvisibleHawk to describe their experience on KU's campus. Some black students have expressively complained about being the brunt of racial slurs and discrimination, according to Blane Harding, director of OMA.
Harding also said that a negative experience inside or outside the classroom can be a main factor that drives minority students away from the University. He believes there is a need for cultural awareness training for students and faculty to learn about other cultures, develop sensitivity to cultural differences and enhance cross-cultural communication skills. He also thinks the faculty needs to be more diverse.
"If we don't have diverse faculty, how can we keep diverse students when they don't see themselves in the classroom?" he said. "They go hand in hand: diverse students with diverse staff and
diverse faculty. We have to work on all three at the same time."
In July of 2014, the University hired Nathan Thomas as vice provost of Diversity and Equity to help with the recruitment, retention and development of underrepresented faculty and students.
In addition, Student Senate appointed KU graduate student jameelah Jones to the new position of Director of Diversity and Inclusion in January. Jones acts as a bridge between administration and minority students. She is in charge of creating cultural training to help with inclusion and making sure that all Jayhawk voices are heard, understood and valued at the University.
"I would tell [minority] freshmen students not to give up on the University," Jones said. "You are not alone. You are deserving of this space, and we need students like you to help make this space an equitable community for everyone."
Caleb Bobo, a junior from St. Louis and the president and founder of KU's Black Men's Union, said he founded the organization to provide a community that would provide social support for new students and upperclassmen. He said retention rates are only half of the problem and that he also worries about KU's graduation rates of black students.
"The problem becomes clearer when you see that the graduation rate for white students at KU is at about 70 percent and the graduation rate for black students is at about 46 percent," he said. "All schools struggle with this problem, even historically black colleges, but the question is 'what are we going to do to begin fixing it?'
- Edited by Victoria Kirk
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