WEDNESDAY, JULY17, 2002
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 13
Readership program to return for fall semester
By Jay Pilgreen Kansan staff writer
Despite its absence this summer, the student readership program will resume the first day of fall classes.
Jonathan Ng, student body president said last year's trial was a success and the program would continue in the fall without many changes.
"It provides an alternative source of getting information beyond the Kansan," Ng said. "The Kansan briefly covers national or international news, but The Kansas City Star, The New York Times, The Lawrence Journal-World and the USA Today really take those issues a lot further."
Ng said the program also added to the academic mission of the University of Kansas.
"Increased readership and increased knowledge about current events adds to the learning environment and the learning process," Ng said.
Ng said students would be able to get the same four newspapers in 24 boxes across campus, though locations might change. He said Senate would discuss current locations and how to make the program more cost-effective before the end of
the summer. Senate might use information collected about the use of each station to gauge how many papers to place in each one, Ng said.
He said Senate was also trying to get more specific newspapers for schools that would use them. He said Senate wanted to get The Wall Street Journal for the School of Business and was discussing funding.
Ng said the program did not continue this summer because summer students were not charged the student fee for the program.
Next fall the fee will decrease from $6.50 to $5 per student because of over budgeting last year.
He said he thought the program provided a good service.
Grant Jones, Prairie Village senior, said he wasn't bothered by the lack of the program this summer but looked forward to it next semester. He said he usually picked up The Kansas City Star and The New York Times when he was on campus.
"I like to read about what's going on in Kansas City and the rest of the world," Jones said. "The Kansan doesn't really cover that stuff."
Contact Pilgreen at 864-4810. This story was edited by Kristin Keeney.
Outgoing dean looks toward new job
By Lauren Beatty
Kansan staff writer
The prospect of new challenges has always motivated Deborah Powell. And as the new dean of the University of Minnesota's medical school, Powell will have plenty of challenges to keep her busy.
Powell, executive dean of the University of Kansas Medical Center, accepted the new position July 2. She said taking the job at Minnesota was an exciting move because Minnesota's medical school consisted of seven interdisciplinary programs and several teaching hospitals.
"In a sense, they are the same kind of job, but the scale of the institution is much larger." Powell said.
Frank Cerra, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Minnesota, said in a press release he was pleased to have Powell join the staff.
"Dr. Powell has the experience, vision leadership, and maturity of judgment critical for this medical school to reach its next level," Cerra said. "She is a highly respected and nationally known physician, scientist and academician. I believe Dr. Powell's strengths and style will enhance the strong leadership and faculty of the Medical School and the Academic Health Center."
Powell said she became interested in medicine after ruling out a far more glamorous career.
"After I decided I didn't want to be an
opera singer because I can't sing, I decided on medicine pretty early on. Powell said.
After doing hospital volunteer work in high school, Powell earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College at Harvard University and an M.D. from Tufts University.
She began her professional career at Georgetown University and worked for 20 years at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine before coming to the University of Kansas in 1997.
Powell will begin work at Minnesota in October. She will the be the first female dean of the medical school at Minnesota.
Powell said she hoped more women would follow in her footsteps by taking on leadership positions in medicine, despite the hard work the jobs sometimes required.
Another woman will replace Powell at the Medical Center. Officials appointed Barbara Atkinson, professor and chairwoman of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine, as the new executive dean.
- Contact Beatty at 864-4810. This story was edited by Jason Royer.
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