FRIDAY,APRIL25,2003
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Undergraduates look forward to summer research
By Amy Potter
apotter@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Cody Marrs couldn't imagine a better summer opportunity than the one he is about to have.
Marrs, Wichita junior, is one of 45 undergraduate students who received a Undergraduate Research Award scholarship of $1,300 or $1,500 to research during the summer.
"My first summer home I did data entry. It bored the hell out of
me. It was terribly wretched," Marrs said. "Another summer I worked at a bank. I came home each day feeling like I hadn't done anything important."
Though he won't be making much money, Marrs will be doing something he cares about. Marrs is studying the French cultural theorist Michel Foucault. He will look specifically at how his writings were misinterpreted during the 1980s. He will use his $1,300 scholarship to pay for living expenses, copying costs at the
The scholarship gives some students an opportunity to devote an entire summer to research, said Barbara Schowen, director of the honors program.
library and new books
"They give up their summer to do this because they want to do projects they are interested in," Schowen said. "It allows them to do research instead of work at McDonald's and Pizza Hut, which they don't want to do."
Laura Adams, Topeka sophomore, said the undergraduate
award was a vital source of funding so students could have the research experience. She is studying water quality of the Arkansas River near Leadville, Colo., and California Gulch, Colo.
Adams wants to present her research not only at the Undergraduate Research Symposium next spring and at the American Chemical Society, but also to the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
"I'm hoping what I find will benefit them," Adams said.
Schowen said research supplemented the undergraduate education.
caution.
"In some sense your bachelor's degree isn't complete unless you are actually doing something in your field," Schowen said.
"It's certainly one way to add to the store of knowledge in that field."
The awards are from funds made available by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the provost's office and KU's General Research Fund.
kansan.com For a list of students who received an Undergraduate Research Award, head to www.kansan.com
For Marrs, summer couldn't come fast enough.
"All I could think about was that I just wanted the semester to end and the summer to get here so I could start working on it," Marrs said. "It's almost here."
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Whistle
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Anitha Rao, Overland Park senior, enjoys the whistle and is ready to have her timekeeper back.
"I seriously don't think I'm going to know how much I've missed it until they put it up." Rao said.
Facilities Operations has heard mixed reactions concerning the new whistle.
"I hear pros and cons, people saying 'We're going to hear that again,'" Cone said. "I'm an old sailor. I kind of like whistles."
The new whistle was built by Richardson's Landing in Cincinnati.
It replaces a 60-year-old whistle that suffered an irreparable crack Jan. 22.
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Civil Rights CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
with the promotion and protection of civil and political rights of children and adults and the elimination of discrimination against women.
These resolutions have been ratified by more than 145 nations, with the United States being the only nation not ratifying the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
"How can you lead civil rights but not belong?" Robinson asked audience members.
Robinson said she wasn't making an accusation but rather opening a debate of the importance of these issues.
"She understands that
these are not simple issues and there are conflicting ideas at work in implementing them," said Daniel Bernstein, University of Kansas psychology professor. "She made the crucial point that we shouldn't get lost in the talk of ideas but take whatever steps possible for implementation."
Bernstein said that there was enough common ground in the global community to begin to think about the implementation of these ideas.
Robinson told audience members that the cost of implementing these programs would be $50 billion a year.
"At first I thought that was a big figure, but after seeing the figures associated with the recent war, the money is there.
It isn't impossible," she said.
"It costs $50 billion a year and I say 'Why not?'
Erin Nielsen, Lincoln, Neb., graduate student thought Robinson's conversation was educational.
"I don't stay as up-to-date on human rights as I'd like to," Nielsen said. "I definitely think that if the United States population was aware of these shortcomings in policies there would be more of a push to take action in the human rights stance."
Robinson's lecture was sponsored by the KU School of Law and was funded partly by the Stephenson Lectures in Law and Government and the David H. Fisher funds.
- Edited by Amber Byarlay
Old bonds show missing $6,000 in Louisiana sale
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - A find by the National Archives suggests that the United States might have shortchanged the investors who financed the Louisiana Purchase 200 years ago this week.
President Thomas Jefferson's purchase from France is recorded as having cost $15 million — $230 million in today's dollars. The archives found three apparently unredeemed $2,000 bonds that the Treasury sold to finance the Louisiana Purchase from a cash-strapped Napoleon.
Yesterday's display was for reporters and photographers. No public exhibit is planned.
The bonds, then called "stock certificates," were not canceled or stamped, so the Treasury may never have reimbursed the money that Dutch investors paid for them—a $6,000 saving to the American taxpayer, or $86,000 in today's change.
today's change...
"That's what we think," said Milton Gustafson, the agency's expert on treaties. "But maybe they were just kept as samples."
He said no figure survived for the total repaid. None of the otherbonds is known to have survived.
"It is a tremendous find, considering the efforts in the past and the timeliness of the find," said archivist Wayne DeCesar.
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