University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 25, 1992
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Potential grad students get advice
Program focuses on minorities
By Brady Prauser Special to the Kansan
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is planning a mentor program this spring designed to encourage KU minority students to enter graduate school.
The Dean's Scholars Program, which is scheduled to begin in late March, will match eligible students with faculty members in the college. The mentors, in turn, will assist the students in preparation for graduate school.
"The idea is to expose the student to as much graduate experience as possible early on in their educational career," said Rocio Munoz-Dunbar, program coordinator.
One said the program expected to start with about 29 participants. Sixteen applications have already been received.
Last semester, 373 of the 7,234 KU graduate students were minorities, according to enrollment figures.
Munoz-Dunbar said that all mentors would not necessarily be minorities.
"Because of the relatively few minority faculty members in the college, most mentors will not be minorities themselves," she said.
Participants are assigned a faculty member from the department of the college that they are considering entering. Mentors may be instructors of either undergraduate or graduate courses in the college.
Faculty members serve as mentors on a volunteer basis and were trained in several workshops conducted by Munoz-Dunbar last year.
Students also can select their former instructors to be their mentors.
Munoz-Dunbar spoke about the program earlier this month with various campus minority groups including the Hispanic-American Leadership Organization, the Native American Student Association and Black Men of Today.
"We hope to show the students that yes, they can make it in graduate school," she said. "We really care about getting them there, and we want to make that journey from here to there as easy as possible."
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences and program director, said a variety of activities were planned to acquaint students not only with their mentors, but also with other program participants.
Some of the events scheduled after spring break include a non-alcoholic cocktail party with mentors, students and their parents, plus bi-monthly brown-bag lunches with minority fae-
ulty speakers and various speakers from Lawrence.
"We're hoping that the mentor relationship will meet on a regular basis and do more than just standard advising," McCluskey-Fawcett said. "We want the participants to get the skills they need to apply for graduate school."
Suzanne Racine, president of Hispanic-American Leadership Organization, said the group was interested in the Dean's Scholars Program.
"There aren't as many Hispanic Americans going on to graduate school as there should be," she said. "Without people pushing them and being role models, sometimes they don't realize it's an opportunity for them."
The program is open to minority students who are sophomores or juniors in the college and have at least a 2.5 grade point average. Applications are due March 1.
Fireball falls on Oregon; experts say it's a meteor
The Associated Press
COOSBAY, Ore. — A fireball fell from the sky early yesterday, creating a sonic boom and trailing sparks that were noticed for hundreds of miles.
The object was seen along a 200-mile stretch of coast from Reed-sport to Mendocino, Calif. It also was seen from several ships and as far inland as Klamath Falls, about 125 miles from the coast.
"It was astounding," said Tony Adams of Coos Bay, who was awakened by the object's fall shortly after midnight Pacific time.
"I thought it was a plane falling at first, it was so bright," Adams said. "It was bright white, then it got yellowish, then a red kind of
glow, then it like broke apart and faded off."
A Coos Bay police officer who saw the fireball thought it had fallen south of the city, but couldn't find it, said dispatcher Michelle Kirby.
Author notes that know what the object was, but speculated that it could have been a meteor.
Dick Pugh, a member of the Smithsonian Institution network that gathers fireball reports, said the object probably hit the atmosphere at 40 times the speed of sound, creating a sonic boom that shook people's houses.
Pugh, a high school science teacher in Portland, said there were generally one or two similar reports a year.
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