University Daily Kansan, January 22, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
Page 6
Four halls adopt program of academic coordinators
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Four more residence halls have joined the ranks of Hashinger and Oliver halls in an attempt to create a more academic environment.
Ellsworth, Gertrude Sellars Pearson, Corbin, Lewis and Templin hills hired academic program coordinators last fall.
The coordinators are graduate students who are paid $500 a month for a minimum of 20 hours a week and teachers who have academic problems.
The program is financed by the office of research, graduate studies and public service and is run by the office of residential programs.
Rod McIntyre, Ellsworth's academic program coordinator, said the coordinators worked with three objectives.
He said the coordinators helped students who had academic problems by organizing study groups and providing information about tutoring.
THE SECOND OBJECTIVE of the coordinators, McIntyre said, is to promote cultural events. The third objective is to strengthen relations between students and faculty. He said some halls were
planning to "adopt a faculty member" and have faculty members for dinner.
McIntyre said programs were given on time management, study skills, adjusting to a university system, stress, and sleep and nutrition and how they relate to one's academic output. He said the coordinators counseled students and referred them to the Student Assistance Center if they could not help them.
Mike Osterburh, Templin resident director, said Templin had invited faculty members to the hall to give programs. Osterburh said one professor lectured on how to get along with academic advisers, and another spoke on career selections.
"It will be on an informal basis, to bridge the gap, tear down that wall imagined to exist," he said.
MCINTYRE SAID THE primary academic problem he saw was freshmen having trouble making the transition from high school to life at the University. He said feedback had been very positive.
McIntyre said 72 Ellsworth residents had said in a survey that they would use the programs.
"we expect that to increase," he said. "We hope word gets around to more students and that they will take advantage of the programs."
Hall early Sunday morning, police said.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES,
WORTH $287, were stolen from a retail liquor store in the 900 block of Iowa St. stemtime between late Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, Lawrence police said.
Director Tom Anderson met with the Lawrence City Commission and officials of Kansas Public Service Co. to discuss reducing the costs of mounting natural gas to the campus, but no agreement was reached.
ON THE RECORD
TEXTBOOKS AND A calculator, valued at $251, were stolen Friday morning after they were left outside in the room in Learned Hall, KU police said.
More negotiations are necessary before the University of Kansas decides whether to file a federal complaint to obtain natural gas at a cheaper cost, the director of facilities operations said yesterday.
Pipeline cost needs study, KU decides
Representatives of Northwest Central Pipeline Co., which has been involved in previous negotiations, were not present at the meeting.
Anderson said more discussions were needed before KU decides whether to file a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against the pipeline company and KPS to force them to transport gas to the campus at a cheaper cost.
AN OLYMPUS 35MM camera,
valued at $300, was stolen from a
table in the main lobby of McCollur
Last month, KPS offered the University about an 8 percent reduction in natural gas prices.
"We want to keep KU as our customer," said Bill Salome, KPS president. "That's why we offered them the lower rates. But we have responsibilities on the other side, also."
Salome said other industrial users, such as Haskell Indian Junior College, had pressured KPS into negotiating their rates after it dropped KU's rates. Negotiating lower rates with other industrial users could raise residential rates, Salome said.
Buford Watson, city manager, said the City Commission's role was to protect residential users from harmful changes.
"I commend KU for wanting to cut canes, but the city can't be inconvenient."
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