THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009
NEWS
STUDENT SUCCESS
3A
E-mail gives pros advice tips
Handout helps counselors advise students in tough economic times
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD rburchfield@kansan.com
A handout titled "Job Search in Tough Times" was recently distributed from the University Career Center to Student Success employees to assist them in answering students' questions about the current job market and career opportunities in the nation's struggling economy.
The handout, circulated via e-mail on the Student Success listserv, was sent to help professionals give sound advice and the most accurate information available about the troubled economy, the e-mail said.
"I think it's definitely something that's on students' minds," Sara Clayton, UCC career consultant, said. "It's really important that
Student Success staff be able to give students the most accurate and best information and advice that we possibly can."
Amber Bortz, Pratt junior, said it would be helpful for professionals to already know the answers to some of her questions before she sought them out. She said she hoped, because of information learned through the e-mail, professionals could give her direction on what she needed to do to succeed in difficult times.
"If you have someone with an inside opinion, someone with a little bit of experience with how to get a job in tough times, any advice is helpful." Bortz said.
Michael Wade Smith, Goodland sophomore, said he thought the e-mail was beneficial. He said individual schools and departments should consider drafting a similar e-mail to give tips on what students with more specific degrees can do.
Clayton said with the economic climate constantly changing, it was important for professionals to be on the same wavelength as students when it came to economic matters.
"Anything they can do to make the transition easier for students, especially in tough economic times, is nothing but beneficial," Smith said.
"It's kind of hard staying up-to-date because everything is changing so quickly," Clayton said. "It's our intention to fill everyone in on what we've been telling students to look over."
Edited by Susan Melaren
CAMPUS
CLAS dean names new honors program director
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, professor of psychology, will take over the University honors program
In the past, McCluskey-Fawcett has served as associate vice chancellor for academic affair, associate dean of the college and interim dean of the college.
July 1, Joseph Steinmetz, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, announced yesterday.
McCluskey- Fawcett currently serves as an honors faculty fellow.
Mark Daly, associate director of the honors program, said he thought McCluskey-Fawcett would nurture an environment of camaraderie within the honors program and collaboration with other units on campus.
McCluskey-Fawcett
Christie Appelhanz, assistant to the dean of the college for outreach, said that after reviewing the applicants, a search committee of 12 professors and staff members and two students made a recommendation to Steinmetz, who made the decision.
"In addition to her experience in administration and excellence in teaching, Kathleen has developed wonderful connections within the KU and Lawrence communities,"
McCluskey-Fawcett will also serve a five-year term.
She will replace Stan Lombardo, professor of classics, who held the post for five years before announcing in December he would step down and return to teach in the department of classics.
Daly said.
"These traits will help the Honors Program to continue
Daly said McCluskey Fawcett would takeover the 321
improving and expanding great courses, advising and co-curricular and research opportunities for undergraduates at KU." he said.
McCluskey-Fawcett commended the work of Lombardo and others within the honors
"I look forward to continuing the great work that is being done currently in the honors program."
KATHLEEN
MCCLUSKEY-FAWCETT
students currently in the program and the 450 new students approved for the 2009-2010 school year.
KATHLEEN
MCCLUSKEY-FAWCETT
Professor of psychology
"I look forward to continuing the great work that is being done currently in the honors program and exploring ways of making this wonderful program even better," McCluskey-Fawcett said yesterday in a
press release
program.
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Edited by Melissa Johnson
Last week Obama set aside a $634 billion "down payment" to start the renovations of the health care systems and work toward his dream of universal health care.
controlled $760 billion annually and both Medicare and Medicaid. She will also be in charge of overseeing the reformation of public health care.
"Healthcare reform that reduces costs while expanding coverage is no longer just a dream we hope to achieve — it's a necessity we have to achieve," Obama said as he introduced Sebelius yesterday afternoon. In his announcement he called health care reform a fiscal
Taking on the current health care system will be a huge task for Sebelius, say some political analysts, citing her failure to implement a cigarette tax in order to expand Kansas' health care coverage. The National Coalition on Health Care reported that in 2007 nearly 46 million Americans, or 18 percent of the population under 65, didn't have health insurance.
imperative and part of his economic overhaul.
Sebelius was the Kansas insurance commissioner for eight years, from 1995-2003, until she was elected as governor.
"Nominating Sebelius is a plus for health care," Toth said, "Obama couldn't have picked a better candidate."
Speculations on the possibility of Sebelius becoming the next secretary of HHS began when she visited with an Obama aide on a routine trip to Washington. Sebelius, who had been an avid Obama supporter during his campaign, was named his second pick for the cabinet position after his first choice Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination.
Edited by Melissa Johnson
Birds fly over the Rolling Hills Recycling and Disposal Facility in Topeka. Waste Management, which owns Rolling Hills, disposes of more than 128 million tons of waste annually, according to the Waste Management Web site.
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"Our guys are trained to look for things that are smoking or fuming or reacting." Sedlock said.
truckload was unloaded and spread out to make sure there was nothing that could be hazardous to workers.
Kathy Richardson, waste reduction and recycling operations supervisor for the City of Lawrence, said hazardous materials could be dangerous to crews if they weren't disposed of properly. She said there had been several fires in trash compactors because of flammable hazardous materials.
"We had an incident where an employee was sprayed with a corrosive cleaner. Little drops of this cleaner got on his face and burned his skin." Richardson said.
Sedlock said as much as 95 percent of what he saw come into the landfill could have been recycled.
"It just depends on what you want to do and what you want to spend to do the recycling." Sedlock said. "We can put a man on the moon — surely we can recycle."
WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR RECYCLING
Student workers collect recyclables from the bins located in buildings and residence halls around campus. Celeste Hoins, administrative manager of KU Recycling, said her organization handles about 30,000 pounds of recycling each week. After materials are collected, they are transported to a recycling facility on west campus. There, staff members make sure the materials are properly separated, and they further sort materials.
Max Weis, Wichita senior and recycling technician for KU Recycling, is one of the students who pick up materials from recycling locations on campus. Weis said he stopped by five to six places in each campus building, and said it took 20 minutes to pick up office paper, newspaper, bottles, cans and cardboard in each building. Weis said sometimes the wrong things could end up in recycling bins.
"Sorting the paper isn't too gross but on Saturdays we have to sort bottles and cans and that can get a little nasty because we have to empty out the containers before we bale them," Weis said. "A lot of times people don't completely empty their containers or they fill it up with chew and that gets gross quickly."
KU Recycling generates revenue from the sale of recyclable materials. Plastic and paper, for example, is bought and collected
by Batilner Paper Co. in Kansas City, Mo. Money generated from selling recyclable material is put into funds used to further the recycling program.
"If someone is making paper that has to have a 30 percent recycled material content, you have to get that from somewhere," Hoins said. "And places are willing to pay us for that because we offer them a clean product."
Weis said working for KU Recycling made him think about the recycling process in a different way.
"I never really recycled before I started this job and didn't think much of it," Weis said. "Now I'm more aware of what I go through at home, and I'm sure to recycle it whenever I can."
WHAT HAPPENS TO CHEMICALS FROM LABS
When students throw away materials in specialized containers in science labs, they will most likely end up passing through Mike Russell's hands. Russell, the director for the department of environment, health and safety, said his department's mission was to make sure hazardous materials were properly disposed of once they've been used.
Russell said last year the University threw away 24.5 tons of hazardous chemical material. The majority of hazardous waste he picked up was in the form of liquid solvents, such as alcohol, acetone and hexanes. These solvents and other chemicals he deals with can be corrosive, toxic, flammable or reactive.
The City of Lawrence has a
hazardous waste collecting facility at 711 E. 23rd St. that collects household hazardous wastes such as paint and pesticides, but Russell said the University dealt with material students wouldn't find in their homes.
"We have more of the exotic stuff, the weird stuff", Russell said.
Russell said he and his staff were out on campus every day of the week, visiting labs and picking up hazardous waste containers once they were full. Russell said hazardous materials on campus were packaged in the department's facilities before they were picked up once every two to three months by Clean Harbors Environmental Services. From there, the materials are ultimately shipped out of state to be incinerated or turned into alternative fuels in kilns used to make asphalt or concrete.
Because of the dangerous characteristics of the materials Russell works with, he said he would never allow the University's chemical waste to be sent to a landfill.
"We don't have a pipe sticking out of our leg like a factory would, so it's difficult for any of us to imagine our daily activities as polluting," Brooks said. "But pretty much everyone who comes on campus is in part contributing."
Although most students won't ever see their water bottles, used napkins or lab chemicals again after a swift toss into the appropriate bin, students contribute to the waste produced on campus every day.
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Edited by Susan Melgren
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