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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 124
ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS
Repeat dreams end in Indy
Freshman forward Marcus Morris covers his mouth with his jersey as Kansas inbounds the ball down five with 3.5 seconds left on the clock. Kansas' Elite Eight chances slipped awav after a 67-62 loss. See page 1B for more coverage.
CRIME
Shooting, robbery occur over weekend
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
Lawrence police are investigating a number of unrelated and as of yet unsolved crimes that occurred early Sunday morning. The following is the information that was available as of Sunday afternoon:
SHOOTING AT CLUB AXIS
A 25-year-old Lawrence resident was shot just after 2 a.m. in the parking lot of Club Axis, 821 Iowa St.
Police arrived at the scene at 2:05 a.m. after an officer on routine patrol heard a single gunshot, Sgt. Richard Nickels said.
TEACH FOR AMERICA
The victim was taken by friends to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
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Kristen Watkins, Lenexa senior, John Babcock, Holton senior, Bill Walberg, El Dorado Hills, Calif., were among the 12 KU students selected to work for Teacher for America next year. Teach for America employs seniors and recent teachers to teach in low-income areas.
12 among the few hired by non-profit
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
rburchfield@kansan.com
Twelve University of Kansas students will join the Teach for America corps next year and work to end educational inequality in the United States. Teach for America employs seniors and recent graduates to work for two years to help raise the quality of education in low-income areas across the country.
Whitney Walden, Teach for America recruitment director, said that getting into Teach for America was a very competitive process and that the program's acceptance rate had gone down in the last year.
"We had about a 20-percent acceptance rate last year, and this year around 36,000 people applied," Walden said. "This year our acceptance rate has gone down because of competitiveness."
Bill Walberg said when he found out three weeks ago that he would be teaching middle school math in Kansas City, Mo., for teach for America, it was the biggest excitement of his life. Because only approximately 4,500, or 12 percent, of those 36,000 who applied got accepted to the program, Walberg, El Dorado Hills, Calif., senior, said he was extremely honored.
Teaching math wasn't Walberg's first choice, but Teach for America placed him in that subject area because of a lack of teachers and because students were often behind in the subject.
"From what I've heard from friends already in the program teaching kids math, they're about two to three grade levels behind, so even in sixth grade they'll be at the third-grade math level." Walberg
said. "I'll be catching kids up in the course of one year - getting them up three grade levels or more."
John Babcock, Holton senior, will also be teaching middle school math in Kansas City, Mo. He said he hoped to take math — a subject that was "notoriously and historically known as boring" — and make it as interesting as possible for his students. He said that he was excited and nervous at the same time to begin teaching and that he couldn't wait to see the students improve.
"The best part will probably be the first sign of success, of improvement, after working so hard," Babcock said. "To see students be so excited about their success and learning — that will be the first real
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application process
Becoming a Teach for America corps member is a two-month interview process open to students of all majors. The process can be broken down into three steps.
1. Applicants submit an online application with their resume and two 500-word essays. The topics of the essays are "Why Teach for America?" and "Describe an obstacle you have overcome."
3. Following the phone interview is a full-day interview where present a five-minute sample teaching lesson, engage in group discussion, do a problem solving activity and have a one-on-one interview with a Teach for America staff member.
2. Next comes a 30-minute phone interview with a Teach for America representative.
After the last interview, applicants wait two to three weeks to hear Teach for America's final decision.
Source: Whitney Wollan, Tearch for Arica recruitment director
CAMPUS
Club will prepare meal of authentic foods
Indian feast will aid India's needs
BY DAVID UGARTE
dugarte@kansan.com
Authentic, homemade Indian food will be a feature of KU Cultural India Club's fundraising dinner tonight. The dinner starts at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries and tickets are $10.
Amruta Bhadkamkar, Mumbai, India, junior, is president of KUCIC and has been a member for two and a half years. He said KUCIC would donate the funds to one or two charities that alleviate poverty in India.
One supports the educational and personal development of Adivas, the indigenous tribes of India, and the other is Save-A-Mother, an organization working to reduce maternal mortality in India.
"If we don't collect enough money to split, we will choose 'an organization after the dinner,' Bhadkamkar said. "But for now, we are hoping that we'll be able to help both the organizations."
Sudarshan Loya, Aurangabad, India, second-year graduate student, said the charity for the Adivasis provided medical aid and schools for Adivasis living in the Vidarbha region of India, where those services wouldn't otherwise exist.
CULTURAL INDIA CLUB DINNER
WHAT: Charity Dinner for Adviasis and Save-A-Mother
**WHEN:** Tonight at 7
**WHERE:** Ecumenical Christian Ministries
**COST:** $10 (Can be purchased at the door or by e-mailing kucicindia@gmail.com)
"We are in a very secure country, but there are people around the world who only have one meal a day," Lova said.
Bhadkamkar said the charity for the Adavasis was started by Prakash Amte, an Indian social activist, 30 years ago. The Adavasis are undernourished and living below the poverty line without good roads and electricity, he said.
"For us students, $10 in exchange for good food would not make or break us. But for these people, the same amount would mean more than a month's worth of good food, medicines or other hygienic materials." Bhadkamkar said.
Varsha Desai, Gujarat, India.
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