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THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 20,2003
Meals differ for vegetarians in scholarship, dining halls
By Jessica Palomino
jalimenio@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Vegetarians living in large community living situations can face challenges in meatless eating.
When relying on someone else to do their cooking, vegetarians must learn to adapt to menus prepared for a large group of people.
Megan Pace, Chicago freshman, Lewis Hall resident and vegetarian, recently reduced her residence hall meal plan from 10 meals a week to five.
"I don't eat there very much because they don't have a big variety of what I eat," Pace said.
Nona Golledge, assistant director of dining services, said the department took vegetarians into consideration.
"The department is trying to improve vegetarian menus and
get feedback from vegetarians," she said. "Right now at E's we have Wednesday dinners where we test a new vegetarian recipe. If it goes over well it is added to the menu."
Department of Dining Services employees try to plan a vegetarian meal option at each station in the food court at Mrs. E's. In the GSP-Corbin and Oliver dining halls, the department offers at least two or three options because they serve a much smaller population of students.
Aaron Showalter/Kansan
All vegetarian items are identified on the menu, and even though the options are available it is difficult to please everyone.
When Pace does eat at Mrs. E's, she eats bread products or veggie burgers, but she said more could be done to accommodate vegetarians.
"There is other stuff they could have, like vegetarian meat
made with soy products," Pace said.
The scholarship hall group living situation means meals must be planned to accommodate vegetarians.
In Watkins Scholarship Hall, the 50 residents are divided into seven kitchen communities in which they eat and prepare meals as a group.
Three of the kitchens cook vegetarian meals, and residents choose which kitchen they eat with.
Katie Kollhoff , Beloit freshman and Watkins Hall resident, has been a vegetarian for five years and recently changed to a purely vegan diet. Vegans do not eat meat, fish or meat byproducts, such as dairy.
Katie Kollhoff, Beloit freshman and Watkins Scholarship Hall resident, fries vegetables for a dinner that will include marinated, baked tofu and steamed rice. Kollhoff, a vegan, said a lot of people in Watkins Hall ate vegetarian, even though they were not vegetarian.
Kollhoff said the meal situation in her scholarship hall was good for vegetarians.
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who will take his final lesson with a Federal Aviation Administration examiner next Tuesday. "A lot of people don't get attached to the air right away, so it's a good idea to try it out before you start paying for lessons and equipment."
Drew Steketee, Be A Pilot CEO, said the lessons also helped remove some major misconceptions about flying.
"The biggest being that you have to be rich to learn how to
fly," Steketee said. "If you are a nervous flyer, this takes the mystery out of it."
Removing the mystery begins on the first lesson. After meeting with the instructor for approximately half-an-hour, students get to taxi to the runway, pull back the controls on takeoff and practice turning at 2,500 feet. They also assist in the landing.
Short estimates he is more than halfway through the training required to get his private pilot certificate, but that doesn't mean those who know him are comfortable with him in the air.
"It doesn't really make me
nervous, but my buddies tell me it sort of makes them nervous," Short said. "I guess there is a risk every time you go up, but it's just a question of having confidence in yourself and what you're doing."
Short gained much of that confidence from the extensive training he's received in the air and on the ground.
The FAA requires student pilots have at least 40 hours of flight time to get certified, though many students take up to 60, said Janice Smith, Hetrick Air manager.
With students paying either
"I guess there is a risk every time you go up, but it's just a question of having confidence in yourself and what you're doing."
Billy Short Oxford senior
$58 or $105 per hour for a plane from Hetrick Air, and $30 per hour for each instructor, the cost to get a private pilot's license can range from $3,500 to $8,000. It's an expensive hobby but worth it.
to students like Short.
"The coolest thing about it is that you're able to go pretty much anywhere at will, without making arrangements with an airline," Short said. "And if you're going somewhere local or regional it's a lot easier."
General Aviation is funded by a group of more than 60 aviation-related businesses.
Registrant information is shared among those 60 companies and the more than 1,800 flight schools participating in the programs.
— Edited by Todd Rapp
GTAC
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"Our question to the University is how does someone who has had 15 years of teaching experience suddenly become such a poor teacher?" said Lindaman. "It seems more is going on than Al's teaching."
an outside evaluator to be brought in, but his request was denied, said Lindaman.
The evaluation contained negative criticism and followed two months of negative feedback on his teaching by his supervisor, said Lindaman.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said it would be inappropriate to comment on personnel issues.
But she said the University was allowed to pursue dismissal of a teaching assistant for performance or disciplinary reasons in accordance with Article 13 in the agreement between the teaching assistants and the University. Teaching assistants have full access to grievances, according to an Article of that same agreement. Bretz said Shulenburger would respond appropriately to the letter as soon as possible.
Al-Gibaly taught Arabic 210 last semester and would have taught Arabic 220 this semester. He had previously taught Arabic at the University from 1984 to 1988. Bretz said Al-Gibaly was not enrolled in any courses this semester.
Al-Gibaly said he had never received such negative criticism about his teaching. He had also taught at other universities, such as the University of Arkansas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Al-Gibaly said there had been a lot of injustice.
"I just want it to be erased," he said.
— Edited by Julie Jantzer
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