2 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2003
Campus Briefs
Picturing the future
Rendering courtesy of University Relations
University of Kansas officials unveiled a color rendering of the new Rieger Scholarship Hall for women on Friday. The $3 million limestone-and-brick building, to be built in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, was designed by Treanor Architects to match the character of the neighborhood. The building design will go before the Campus Historic Preservation Board June 6 and to the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission June 19. Bidding for the project and groundbreaking should take place in spring 2004, with construction completed in summer 2005 and the hall ready to open fall semester 2005.
Student Senate president takes same path as father
Andrew Knopp, the newly elected Student Senate president, has an unlikely mentor for his new job: his father.
Thirty years ago, Joe Knopp was elected to the same position at Kansas State University. Among his accomplishments were setting up legal services for students and initiating semester faculty evaluations. The younger Knopp said his impression was that his father had a successful term.
Despite those successes, Knopp said he ran for president independently of his father's past.
"I ran because I saw the position as the best way for me to contribute to the University and make positive change," he said.
Knopp said his father was always a great resource.
"Most of the time his advice is to study more and spend less time on Student Senate," he said.
Knopp named his executive staff last week: Kaelyn Fox and Kevin Hager, Center for Community Outreach co-directors; Lindsay Kokoruda, student body treasurer; Tim Akright, KU on Wheels transportation coordinator; J. Nicholas Sterner, community affairs director; Kyle Johnson, student executive committee chair; Bryan Young, student body assistant treasurer; Blake Shuart, SLAB director; Jana Szatkowski, student senate communications director; and Marynell Jones, student senate executive secretary.
— Ehren Meditz
Upward Bound receives grant to secure program
The University's Upward Bound program will be financially secure for four more years thanks to a grant awarded last week by the U.S. Department of Education
Upward Bound will receive $376,537 for each of the next four years, a 2 percent increase from the program's previous grant.
Ngondi Kamatuka, director of educational opportunity programs for the school of education, said he was happy the grant was renewed, but disappointed the amount was less than the $407,255 budget requested.
"It won't dilute the basic services, but we may have to cut a few corners," he said.
Kamatuka said the summer program hosted by the University each year may have to be five weeks rather than six and the number of KU students helping with the program may decrease.
The Upward Bound program helps 65 low-income high school students prepare
for college through ACT preparation career counseling and campus visits. The students likely to be the first college graduates in their families enter the program in their freshman year of high school and receive assistance until college.
The grant also included $222,267 for each of the next five years for the Veteran's Upward Bound program, which helps veterans get back into post secondary education.
"Simply enrolling in classes can be a huge barrier for someone who's 45 and been out of school for 25 years," said manager Julia O'Dell.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said there was no truth to the rumor that he was a finalist for president of Indiana University.
— Richard Gintowt
Chancellor says Kansas still his home territory
Hemenway has on more than one occasion said he would not consider leaving Kansas and that he was a "Jayhawk for life."
"You should not believe everything you read in the newspaper," Hemenway said. "To my knowledge, I have not been contacted by anyone from Indiana University."
Hemenway said he was very happy in Kansas and was not planning on leaving.
Hemenway is said to have declined the invitation to become a candidate when he was contacted early in the year.
An Associated Press story named him along with Nancy Zimpher, chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as the two remaining candidates for the president's position at Indiana.
Student claims sexual assault by co-worker in Templin Hall
— Saju Ng'alla
A 19-year-old female KU student told campus police Friday that she had been sexually assaulted by a co-worker at Templin Hall.
According to a police report, the suspect allegedly grabbed the woman's breasts between 1:30 p.m. and 1:31 p.m Friday.
"The suspect was contacted, interviewed and the case will be turned over to the DA's office," Sgt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said.
Annie Bernethy
ON THE RECORD
An employee at the Natural History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., told police that someone had stolen $500 from the museum between 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 8:45 p.m. Saturday.
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