MONDAY,MARCH 24,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 7A
Director search continues
4 candidates named for admissions job; interviews begin soon
By Eddie Yang
eyang@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A University of Kansas committee composed of faculty, staff, administrators and students will be interviewing four candidates for the position of director of admissions and scholarships over the next month.
"There is a long list of requirements we are looking for in the candidate," said Larry Maxey, professor of music and dance and committee member. Maxey said the university had been conducting a nationwide search.
The director of admission and scholarships provides direction and leadership for the office's programs and operations, including student recruitment activities and publications,
applications processing, undergraduate admissions and new student scholarships, according to the KU Web site.
The position has been open since Alan Cerveny, the former director, left the University in April 2002 for a similar job at the University of Nebraska.
"Cerveny had an opportunity to return to his alma mater," said Lisa Beck, associate director of admission and scholarships and committee member. "I'm sure he will do great things there like he did here."
The University interviewed five candidates last year but did not hire a new director.
"We are looking for someone who can lead and guide with vision and improve services," Beck said. "Someone who can grow the university at the rate it wants to grow."
Lisa Pinamonti, former associate director of admissions and scholarships at KU, is filling the position on an interim basis after Cerveny's departure. She is also one of the candidates for the position.
MEET THE CANDIDATES
The candidates for the director of admissions and scholarships will give public presentations at the KU Visitor Center Auditorium on the following dates:
Lisa Pinamonti, 2 p.m. today and tomorrow
Roger Bilow, 2 p.m. March 27-28
Paul Buskirk, 2 p.m. April 2-3
Patrick O'Neill, 2 p.m. April
17-18
The other candidates are Roger Bilow, the director of admissions at Stephen F. Austin State University; Paul Buskirk, associate athletics director for student support services at KU and Patrick O'Neill, associate director of admissions at the University of Nebraska.
"We will complete the first interviews by the end of April," said Beck. "Hopefully we will have someone shortly after that."
- Edited by Leah Shaffer
Filmmaker to visit KU this week to show work
British filmmaker Tony Palmer will visit the University of Kansas this week to show and discuss many of his documentaries and theatrical features. Palmer's work has captured on film the lives, works and politics of numerous musicians and composers, including the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones and Frank Zappa.
Palmer has won more than 50 international prizes for his work.
"Tony Palmer is one of the most astonishing, versatile, and eclectic artists of our time,"
said John Tibbetts, associate professor of Theatre and Film at KU.
Palmer's visit will begin with a public reception from 5 to 6 p.m. tonight at Oldfather Studios, 9th and Avalon.
His visit will include a presentation of "Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N Roll," tonight at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Admission is $2 at the door.
At 3:30 p.m. toorrow Palmer will be in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas
Union for "Biography on Film: Constructing a Public History," where he will screen his composer biographies. Admission is free and open to the public.
Palmer will conduct a question-and-answer session for students at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. This event will also be free and open to public.
For more information contact the Department of Theatre and Film at 864-3511.
— Kevin Wiggs
Activist up a tree over parking lot
Kellev Weiss/Kansan
As Sihka, above, sits in the elm tree in the vacant lot next to Borders Books and Music, 700 New Hampshire St., for the sixth straight day, a woman leaves flowers to show her support. Sihka, who would not give her last name, said she would not come down from the tree until the developer of the lot agreed to turn the land into a park, instead of the proposed condominiums. Sihka has been in the tree since last Tuesday night. Despite rain and cold weather SihKA said she had not had second thoughts about living in the tree. Approximately 20 people yesterday afternoon were scattered around the lot playing drums, dancing and talking with each other. SihKA said people stayed with her during the night and sent food and water up in a bucket.