Wednesday, June 17.1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Camps fund housing
Conferences pack students in residence halls
By Kristi Hartley Kansas staff writer
The Department of Student Housing has found a way for the University of Kansas to attract new students and make money.
Darrell Cox conducts a band during an afternoon session of the Midwest Music Camp. The music camp has the most participants of all the conferences this summer at the University. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
The University brings between 124 and 130 summer conferences to its residence halls each summer. On average, 10,000 people are on campus attending classes, sports clinics or student orientations, said Randy Timm, assistant director of the Department of Student Housing.
For many years, the University lost money on the conferences.
Last year, summer conferences and regular students living in residence halls brought $1.1 million to the University during a three-month period, Timm said.
In the past, most conferences were organizational conventions. Now they have an educational purpose, said Sharon Rankin, program manager of Academic/Professional Programs for the Office of Continuing Education.
"I think it's important for the University to provide this opportunity for young people to be on campus." Rankin said.
Midwest Music Camp is the largest summer conference held at the University with about 830 participants. The conference has three sessions for junior high and high school students and will run through July 11. Students participating in the first session moved into Hashinger Hall Sunday.
"It's one of the major events for us for the year." Timm said.
Students can take advantage of working with a nationally-known composer, Jim Barnes, or director, Robert Foster.
"This is a good opportunity for them to meet some really wellknown names throughout the United States," Timm said. "It just happens that they're at KU."
"This is a great way for us to bring students to campus and say this is a great place to be. They get an actual taste of what KU is like."
Randy Timm
Assistant director of the department of Student Housing
One reason the University began holding summer conferences was to allow students and employees to remain at the University year round.
"Now we're able to offer people 12 month housing and 12 month contracts with us," Timm said. "In the past, that wasn't possible."
Summer conferences are also used for recruitment.
"This is a great way for us to bring students to campus and
say this is a great place to be," Timm said. "They get an actual taste of what KU is like."
The conferences impact the local economy as well.
When parents drop off their children, they are doing more than just dropping them off. Timm said.
"They're visiting the outlet mall. They're filling up with gas," Timm said. "It's a major thing for the town of Lawrence."
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By Sarah Morgan Kansan staff writer
The School of Engineering recently announced outstanding senior awards for the 1997-98 academic year.
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In addition to the overall school award, an outstanding senior is
chosen from each engineering department. The Engineering Student Council, a student governing body, chooses the school's outstanding senior from those department winners.
The outstanding senior award recognizes the graduating senior who is judged to be exceptional in academics, leadership and service to the University or to the Lawrence community.
1998 graduate in civil engineering Andrew Fabel Broman, Lawrence, a December 1998 graduate in computer science
Chet Belchner, Spring Hill, a May 1998 graduate in civil engineering
The outstanding seniors are:
James F. Colwell, Leawood, a May 1998 graduate in chemical engineering
Eric William Dahlgren, Oklahoma City, a May 1998 graduate in petroleum engineering
Michael Glenn Gay, Topeka,a May 1998 graduate in mechanical engineering
Jeffrey Keith Johannsmeyer, Lake St. Louis, a May 1998 graduate in aerospace engineering
Patrick Allen LeGresley Lawrence, a May 1998 graduate in aerospace engineering
Taimoor Noor, Dhaka Bangladesh, a May 1998 graduate in engineering physics
Samuel Dale Smith, Liberal, a May 1998 graduate in computer engineering
Charles A. Veitch, Joplin, Mo., a May 1998 graduate in architectural engineering
Light work earns student award
By Sarah Morgan Kansan staff writer
"This kind of thing does not escape the attention of the lighting world," said Clay Belcher, associate professor of architectural engineering. "The reputation of our lighting program is growing by leaps and bounds."
University of Kansas alumnus Dean Chandler is reaping the rewards of his senior project.
On June 5, Chandler, who graduated in May with a degree in architectural engineering, was notified that he won the Howard Brandon 1998 Student Lighting Design Education Grant for a project he created for his Senior Seminar 681 class this spring.
This is the third consecutive year and the fifth out of the last 10 years that a KU architectural engineering student has won the Brandston award.
Chandler said that he would travel to San Francisco later this summer for an awards ceremony. He also received complimentary registration for the 1998 annual conference of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
"I was pretty excited about winning $1,000," Chandler said. "I'll probably use the money to pay bills."
"I was pretty excited about winning $1,000.I'll probably use the money to pay bills."
To do this, Chandler had to work with specified ceiling heights, wall and floor coverings, extensive windows and an interior passageway to a new car showroom.
For the project, Chandler had to illuminate a 9,300-foot used-car showroom addition to a luxury car dealership while retaining visibility, comfort and a sense of exclusivity.
Dean Chandler
University of Kansas alumnus
University of Kansas alumnus
Chandler's design, titled "A Walk in the Clouds," was intended to invoke a feeling of north and south complete with the yellowish lights of a setting sun.
"I tried to create the sense of an overcast day inside the showroom," Chandler said. "I used different color temperatures of lights and draped translucent white fabric below the lights as clouds. The fabric also changes the color of the lights."
The color temperature of the lamps becomes warmer as one looks toward the southwest. Chandler describes his design as an afternoon stroll near dusk.
Chandler said that his adviser for the project, Martin Moeck, assistant professor of architectural engineering, encouraged him to enter the contest because of Moeck's interest in computer-generated designs.
His biggest challenges in creating his design were learning the computer software, grinding through the computer problems and coping with the trial and error that went along with creating the right design.
Chandler was hired by Henderson Engineers, Inc. Lenexa, where he is an electrical engineering intern.
The design, which was one of two projects Chandler was assigned, was computer generated. Chandler said that designing on computer and using strip lamps made his design efficient and practical.
"There were a few times when I had to scratch the work I had done and start all over again." Chandler said.
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