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Dyche Hall hosts third Sexy Science event
This is the third year the event has been put on at the University, but this is the first
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You could sit at home tonight, do your homework, watch some Netflix — or you could learn how honeybees essentially explode postintercourse, how snakes can have anywhere from two to four penises and all about the history of condoms since their creation. Find all this information and more at Sexy Science, a free event by Natural Science Community Outreach (NSCO) at Dyche Hall tonight from 7 to 9 p.m.
year to be held during the week preceding Valentine's Day. In the past, the event was held in the fall, but NSCO decided to switch it up this year in the spirit of the holiday of love, given the event's speakers will talk about reproduction in the natural world.
The event is free and open to the public, and attendees are encouraged to come at any time during the evening.
The event is co-sponsored by Spectrum (the University's student group for those within the LGBTQ+ community), SURGE (Students United for Reproductive and Gender Equity) and the Peer Health
Educators.
The event will be both informational and hands-on. Attendees of the event will learn about human sexuality, instances of homosexuality in the natural world and more.
There will be activities such as "condom games," a Twitterbased "sexy scavenger hunt" and date-night prizes, and there will be opportunities to create an "origami penis," said Kitty Steffens, events coordinator at the University's Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. If that's not reason enough to attend the event, she said, there will also be
aphrodiasiacs: strawberries and chocolate.
Representatives from the entymology, herpetology and ornithology divisions of the museum will be providing specimens in jars of animals with unusual reproductive systems, such as reptiles with hemipenes.
"The Biodiversity Institute has the fourth largest collection of specimens
"[Sex in the natural world] is something that we don't get to talk a lot about at the museum, and we thought it would be a good and interesting new way to reach out to KU students," Steffens said.
nationally, and this will give students the opportunity to see a portion of the museum that they typically wouldn't have access to," said Weston Halberstadt, a senior from Overland Park and a member of NSCO.
"It's going to be fun, it's going to be informative, you're going to get interesting information that will make you a far funnier storyteller at parties, and what is another opportunity where you're going to get to see lizard penises in a jar?" Steffens said.
Student Senate to review finances next week
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Next week, Student Senate will begin their financial review of the year. According to Senate treasurer Madeline Sniezek, approximately $20 to $24 million will be reviewed through three different processes.
The first process is line item, which will begin Feb. 20. This process is for student organizations that have received funding from Student Senate in the past fiscal year. According to finance committee chair Jessie Pringle these organizations will request specific funding for specific events.
Student groups can request funding for specific events if they have an academic purpose, and are open to all students at any time.
Sniezek, a junior from
Prairie Village, oversees a lot of this process along with Pringle. However, Sniezek is worried that many student organizations haven't been going to Student Senate for financial assistance.
"I'm concerned that student groups have been scared to ask us for money, because I think sometimes our committee can be intense because we're passionate about what we can do and giving students money," Sniezek said. "There are strict rules mandated by the university to give money, which scares groups away because they have so many restrictions, so I worry sometimes groups think the committee is going to be so intense that they don't apply"
Fee review is the second process, which will begin Feb. 26 and occurs in conjunction with the provost office. Simulations of different
scenarios project what the provost office expects their upcoming budget to be, which helps Senate deliberate and vote on financial changes, according to Pringle. These changes could encompass things like fees for Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, Legal Services for Students or KJHK. Ultimately, if fee review passes in senate, it will make its way to the chancellor to be voted on.
The third process involves block allocations, which will begin March 5. According to Pringle, these are for specific departments or organizations that don't get sufficient funds from the University, but need a specific lump sum amount for general funding. The only stipulation is the organization or department must have a paid KU faculty member advisor.
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Student Senate treasurer Madeline Sniezek at work on Feb. 9. Sniezek and the rest of Student Senate will review its finances next week.
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incredible energy and enthusiasm that makes him fit to lead the company.
When Shi is not in the lab or giving a business pitch, he hits the gym or works on art projects. In the summers, he gets the opportunity to give back what he's learned by teaching at the University's annual week-long summer engineering camp for high school students.
"We actually, in that one week period, cover at a very high level all of the basics of electrical engineering" he said. "We squeeze all of it into one week. It's a lot of work, but at the end all the students feel a sense of accomplishment, and so that's
really nice."
Shi said the next step for him and the company is to enter the beta testing phase to improve the design to get it as close to perfect as possible. He said he already has a provisional patent on the design and recently applied for grants through NASA and the Navy that, if approved, will total nearly $1.75 million. His goal is to build the company and sell it to a larger company such as Boeing or Amazon.
"That's sort of the ultimate goal for UAV Radars," Shi said. "And then after that, who knows? Maybe I'll start another one."
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Circuity from a project Lei Shi, a University graduate student, is working on for the prevention of drone collisions. Shi started his own company for developing collision avoidance systems for commercial drones and hopes to enter the beta testing phase soon.
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[tax] the same as it had been last year, and voters overwhelmingly said they wanted to keep that funding available," Francisco said. "Now they're saying you can keep that funding, but we can change how it's calculated."
The cuts and this proposed bill are meant to help eliminate the projected deficit of $344 million at the end of the fiscal year, according to NPR. Additionally, on Feb. 10, Brownback signed a bill into law that reduces $18.4 million from the State General Fund and $7.9 million
for a reduction in the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System (KPERS), among other reductions.
Owen said while he's concerned with what will happen at the University level, it's important to keep in mind that Lawrence residents and people who hold jobs in the area will also be affected.
"It's important when thinking about the cuts to education, that we're looking at a deficit in Kansas that many have traced back to Brownback's tax cuts," Owen said. "All of that has resulted in a substantial lack of revenue that he's decided to make
up for by cutting things like education and Department of Transportation spending. We should keep in mind why we have such a daunting deficit in the first place and the various other facets in the Lawrence and Kansas community that are affected besides just the University. A lot of people are having to suffer."
Francisco said the cuts announced in the proposed Senate bill have been seen as a cut to the increase, but not a major cut in regular funding. She disagrees.
"We heard in testimony with regards to Senate Bill 71 and those cuts, for me, mean
that we couldn't fund the summer school programs," Francisco said. "Lawrence clearly lost the money that had been available the year before. For our schools, I think it could only be seen as a loss, and a significant loss." Fearing what could happen to the University budget, Owen said he is most worried about tuition spikes and a decrease in his quality of education.
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