THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2003
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
NEWS
Scholarship hall residents choose incoming students
By Jessica Palmenio
jalimenio@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In addition to cleaning and cooking, some scholarship hall residents can add a new duty to their housework; selecting future residents.
Applicants' fates will be decided by, among others, their future roommates.
Scholarship hall residents have the opportunity to attend
meetings and give input into the selection of future residents. Students meet once a week for an hour to read and score submitted scholarship hall applications.
Students are given this opportunity because the scholarship halls' living arrangements are based on cooperation and communal living, said Dan Suitor, scholarship hall complex director.
sense." Suitor said.
"In the spirit of the scholarship halls themselves it just makes
Jennifer Overstreet, orientation and selections chair for the All Scholarship Hall Council and Maize junior, said it was important for residents to have this opportunity.
"In the scholarship hall community we have a very close environment," she said. "It is important to make sure future residents have the right qualities for communal living."
When scoring the applications, the residents look for wellrounded students who will work well with others and preform their required shifts responsibly.
Evan Stange, Wichita sophomore, participates in the meetings, and he said it was a privilege and his responsibility.
Stange said there were good and bad applications, but it was fun to read them all.
"Sometimes you get really
funny ones and you can read them out loud with everyone else that's there," Stange said.
During the meetings, the group tries to read through 40 application files. Each application file includes three essays and two letters of recommendation.
Suitor said more weight was put on letters from teachers or employers than on the essays because the letters could accurately describe the students' work
ethic and responsibility.
Each application must be read and scored by three students before it is returned to the housing department to be scored by Suitor and Jennifer Wamelink, assistant director of student housing.
Suitor said administrators' scores were no more important than the students' decisions.
Edited by Amber Byarlay
Film festival promotes Brazilian culture
By Eddie Yang
eyang@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
The Center of Latin American Studies and the department of Spanish and Portuguese are sponsoring the first annual Brazilian Film Festival beginning today.
They will show the Brazilian film Orfeu at 3 p.m. today at 318 Bailey Hall.
"I felt it was a good time to show this movie," said Dovis Pollock, director of the film festival
and Portuguese graduate teaching assistant. "It has to do with Carnaval, which just happened in Brazil on the 4th."
Pollock said Carnaval was similar to Mardi Gras in the United States.
Orfeu is the contemporary retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film celebrates the culture of Rio de Janeiro with spectacular scenes of Carnaval. It is based on the play by Brazilian writer Vinicius de Moraes and also inspired Marcel
Camus's 1959 film Black
Orpheus.
Pollock said the movie was in Portuguese but had English subtitles.
"The people that usually come out to these movies are usually people taking a Portuguese class, people in Latin American studies and people interested in filmmaking." Pollock said.
Ryan Zorad, KU graduate in film, said he tried to watch as many good foreign films as possible.
"Those foreign directors are coming from a different angle, different background," Zorad said.
"You can learn something in those movies that you may be able to use."
Pollock said the organizations would show a different movie the second Thursday of each month. They plan on showing the comedy Bossa Nova and Auto de Compadecicl a in April and May.
"This is the first time that we have done this," Pollock said. "If there is a good response, we plan on continuing it."
Edited by Melissa Hermreck
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