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Friday, April 29, 1994
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Emily Nelson Memorial Run to benefit Natural Ties project
A KU student who died last year will be remembered through a memorial run Sunday morning.
By Jamie Munn Kansan staff writer
Theherese Everett, Pasadena, Calf., junior, said the five kilometer run and a plaque dedication would keep alive the memory of Emily Nelson, who was an Evergreen, Colo., sophomore last year.
"We just want to make people aware that life is short and that you can make it as sweet as you want," Everett said.
Friends and family members of Nelson are traveling from Colorado to attend the run, she said.
Proceeds from the Emily Nelson Memorial Run will benefit Natural Ties, a student organization that helps physically and developmentally handicapped people adjust to college.
Nelson had been involved in the Natural Ties program before she died in a car accident last April.
Nelson had been on a ski trip in Vail, Colo., when the driver of the car she was riding in a patch of ice and the driver lost control of the vehicle.
"You just don't expect things like this to happen," Everett said.
Everett said Nelson had been a carefree spirit who had a wonderful sense of humor.
Another friend of Nelson, Sarah Boresow, Prairie Village junior, now coordinates the Natural Ties project.
Beginning at KU in 1988, the project pairs disabled individuals with KU students for activities such as dinners and canoe trips.
"It's a commitment, but it's a rewarding commitment," Boresow said.
Boresow said Nelson had been an avid bike rider and had reassured Boresow, who was nervous about riding in Lawrence's traffic.
"I can still picture her on her bike," Boresow said.
Mari Haggart, Manhattan junior,
also will participate in the event.
Haggart agreed with Everett that Nelson had been known best for her sense of humor.
"She knew how to make everyone laugh," Haggart said.
Haggart said that Nelson had liked the music from the movie The Big Chill and that she still thought of Nelson when she heard those songs.
Haggart said that Nelson had enjoyed the University of Kansas but that her real love had been for the state of Colorado. Haggart said it made her feel better that Nelson had died in her home state.
"She was where she wanted to be," Haggart said.
Registration forms for the race will be available at Francis Sporting Goods, 731 Massachusetts Street; radio station KLZR, 3035 Iowa Street; Pi Beta Phi sorority 1612 W 15th and Dillons grocery store 1015 W 23rd Street.
For more information about the event, call the Pi Beta Phi sorority at 843-3910.
SCOLA brings the world to students
By Geraldo Samor Special to the Kansan
It could be called "the campus CNN."
SCOLA, which stands for "Satellite Communications for Learning," is a nonprofit organization that receives news broadcasts from all over the world and retransmits them to its member institutions. The University of Kansas has subscribed to SCOLA since 1989. It costs the University about $6,000 a year.
"It brings the world to the University," said John Huy, director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center, which often is referred to as "the language lab."
SCOLA's original goal was to help foreign-language students enhance their fluency, but most KU international students use it to get news from home.
The TV monitors at the center, in 4069 Wescow Hall, receive live broadcasts from SCOLA. Students can look at the schedule posted outside the lab to find out what time their country of interest will be on the air. Then, they simply check out headphones and watch the news. Students also can
check out previously recorded broadcasts for those they cannot view live.
The interest that international students take in SCOLA shows in the number of tapes that are checked out at the center. Although KU's four most-studied languages are Spanish, French, German and Japanese, the tapes most checked out are French, Spanish, Taiwanese, Swedish and Korean.
In addition to the resource center, each TV-equipped classroom at Wescoe has access to SCOLA. Some departments such as French, Slavic, English, and communication studies also have TV monitors in their conference rooms to broadcast SCOLA.
"The ideal is if SCOLA could be broadcast throughout campus, people could receive it in their dorms, but the campus is not wired for that." Huy said.
Olaf Westerberg, Lund, Sweden, freshman, said that SCOLA was a free way to get news from home. "But it would be good if they could record it more often, because now it's just once a week," he said.
Lisa Stewart, assistant director of the Academic Resource Center, said
she heard that comment frequently.
"We have a limited number of VCRs and storage space, so it's impossible to record everything," she said.
Because of monthly schedule changes in SCOLA programming, the center staff stops recording some countries' news for a while.
"We've had students coming in and asking, 'Why are you suppressing my country?'" Stewart said. "But we're not!"
The SCOLA advisory board is planning to open three new channels to offer a larger variety of programs and less-commonly taught languages, said Huy, who is also a member of the board.
Huy said that these channels should be on the air in a year but that he did not know whether KU would carry them.
The center's plans for SCOLA are up in the air because of the space shortage on campus.
"We'd like to expand so that we can have a separate room for SCOLA broadcast," Huy said. "A kind of lounge atmosphere so that people could watch and discuss the news without using headphones."
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