THURSDAY, MARCH 7. 2002
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Fair educates students about available majors
By Mike Gilligan Kansan staff writer
More than 500 students yesterday found out about majors offered at the University of Kansas.
More than 60 majors and academic services were represented at the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center-sponsored Majors Fair, which took place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ballroom in the Kansas Union.
Advisers, faculty and students represented the different majors, said Tammara Durham, associate director of the center.
"The fair is a chance for us to educate students about the different major opportunities," she said. "It gives students a more in-depth look at all the opportunities that are out there."
Durham said students could learn about the requirements for the different majors and what careers they could pursue.
"Someone who is interested in business knows about their major," she said. "It's not just a title."
Gera Elliott, missions coordinator for the School of Architecture, said students asked questions about required courses and what they already had fulfilled.
"A lot of architecture students enter the school as freshmen," she said. "But there are students who change schools and they want to know if the requirements are different."
The fair is also a chance for students to find out about majors they didn't know much about.
Stacy Meisinger, a Leawood junior majoring in classics, said most people didn't know what the classics major included.
"Most people think classics focuses on classical novels instead of Greco-Roman studies," she said.
Meisinger said students asked questions about the requirements and the different degrees offered in classics.
Cynthia Fierro, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said the fair was helpful.
"There was lots of information," she said. "I asked questions about the majors I was interested in and what careers they might lead to."
Sommer Heiserman, Lawrence sophomore, said she was undecided about her major but was leaning towards health, sport and exercise science.
"I wanted to learn about internships, career options, and what requirements I have already fulfilled for the major," she said.
Fierro said she picked up information on the Italian, French, Spanish, business and education majors.
Contact Gilligan at mgillian@kansan.com. This story was edited by Andy Gassaway.
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Students gather information and talk to representatives from different departments at the Freshman Sophomore Advising Center's Majors Fair yesterday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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In addition, many shows have held regular outside practices. Rodriguez said this week had been especially hard on the casts, because they were required to practice from 5 to 10 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 8 p.m. each day on the weekend.
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"I really think the groups are running on adrenaline because they're ready to put what they've been working on on stage and show off their talents." Rodriguez said.
Months of rehearsal will soon pay off for students involved in Rock Chalk Review. The show runs through Saturday
The two organizations in the third show, "Days of our Hives," paired up two years ago to put on a show with an Egyptian theme for the Revue. This time, Delta Gamma sorority and Beta Theta Pi fraternity set their show in a beehive. "Days of our Hives" chronicles the bee colony of Bizmark. Carly Kassen, Delta Gamma director and Lenexa junior, said in the show, an evil bee named Beatrice overthrew the queen bee, but was later beaten by the bees Sting and the Police.
After the two months of preparations, Agustin said she was ready for the revue to be completed so she could get back to a regular sleep schedule.
"I slept until 11 o'clock today because I haven't slept for the past two days." Agustin said. "I'm glad Spring Break is soon so I can get some sleep."
The final show before completion will be "Rock Chalk Revue: A Scandal on Stage." Creating a spoof of the revue, Chi Omega sorority and Phi Delta Theta fraternity include references to the stress and lack of sleep familiar to all cast members.
always, is to raise more money for the United Way than the previous year, though it would be hard to surpass last year's record-setting donation
Agustin said the goal, as
Chi Omega director Ashley Lattner, a Dallas, Texas, junior, said the show was about two organizations in the revue who have to combine their shows and work together, despite two feuding members who cannot get along.
of $50,000 to the United Way.
Performances will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow night and Saturday night in the Lied Center. Tickets for the revue are still
available at the SUA box office. Tickets are $10 for tonight and $15 for tomorrow. Saturday's performance is sold out.
Contact Bover at
Contact Boyer at choyer@kansan. This story was edited by Andy Gassaway.
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Andrew McNeil-Marshall, Chicago freshman, brings up the topic of collective living communities during an anarchist meeting at the Mother Earth Collective, 1305 Tennessee St. The house holds regular discussions and workshops on a variety of socialist topics.
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tainable agriculture. Ayers said the library's collection came from donations from other community members.
"As a collective, we are pushing fora society based on egalitarianism," Ayer said. "To do that, we need to have study groups and workshops for people to develop their own knowledge."
Sean Whittier, Lawrence sophomore, said that the collective was also a place for social gatherings such as movie night and potluck dinners.
"There's a lot of good people there," he said.
Ayer said people should not be scared off by the concepts of learning about anarchy or of going into a place called the Mother Earth Collective.
"A lot of people have bad stereotypes of activists. But we have all dedicated our lives to creating a sustainable community," she said.
Ruscin said the collective
"A lot of people have bad stereotypes of activists. But we have all dedicated our lives to creating a sustainable community."
Elizabeth Ayer collective member
was always open to new ideas and new people with new projects.
"The collective is pretty open to anybody with general left-leaning instincts," Ruscin said.
The Mother Earth Collective is open from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays and from noon to 6 p.m. Sundays. Call 865-0578 for more information.
Contact Shaffer at
Conduit Shearer at lshaffer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Andy Gas-saway.
Graduate and Professional Students:
Do you have a mentor you would like to honor? Nominate him or her for
GPA's Mentorship Award Program !!! Nomination forms and criteria available at GPA, 429 Kansas Union; the Graduate school, 300 Strong; or may be downloaded from GPA's website at:
www.ukans.edu/~gpa.
Nominations will be accepted from January 7,2002 until March 29.2002.
For further information please consult a GPA staff member at: 864-4914. 429
member at: 864-4914, 429
Kansas Union, Email: gpa@raven.cc.ukans.edu.
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