By Cathleen Siechta Kansan staff writer
They're small. They're sticky. They cover Shannon Ferber's desk. And just when she thinks that she's seen the last one, they come back.
They're "Post-it" notes.
"Every Sunday night, after I've taken the last one down, I put up a whole new week's worth of 'Post-it' notes," said Ferber, Overland Park junior. "That way I know what to do every day. I remember to do Tuesday's homework on Monday, Wednesday's homework on Tuesday, and so on. Over the week, I put up even more notes with lists of things to do and errands. That way I don't forget anything."
Ferber is not alone in her quest for organization and efficiency. Keeping appointments, getting homework done and remembering test dates are just a few of the things that can drive some students to planning paranoia.
"I'm obsessed," said Angela Kokoruda, Leawood junior. "I look at my day planer every morning when I get up, in every class, before I go to bed, and I'll even get out of bed to write something in it if I think of something I need to do."
Kokoruda said that she wrote in her planner daily and that she usually completely filled the two pages allotted for each day.
"I write homework assignments and appointments in it," she said. "But sometimes I'll even write stupid things in it like 'exercise,' or 'drink eight glasses of water.' Really, those are things I should know to do anyway."
Dan Hubbard said he could empathize.
"If anyone opened up my planner and read it, they'd probably think I was an idiot." Hubbard, Chesterfield.
Mo., senior said. "Sometimes, if I'm going home for the weekend or something, I'll write stuff like 'Get packed,' which hopefully, I would know to do without writing it down. Hopefully."
Time management may seem an admirable virtue, but could date books and infinite lists of "things to do" encourage an unhealthy compulsion in some students?
"Compulsion is usually defined as when something becomes so important to you that if you don't engage in it, it tends to make you feel uncomfortable and panicky," said Raymond Higgins, professor of psychology. "These students are more of a case where they make things like lists as a way of trying to maintain control in their lives. It may seem silly to write down things that you should just naturally know to do, but it gives you a sense of security."
Hubbard said that his three-ring DayRunner brand daily planner with personal directory, ruler, metric conversion table and an instruction booklet on how to use the planner, not only gave him a sense of security, but also an identity.
freshman I wrote everything on my hand. When I was a sophomore I had
when I was a sophomore, I had a little throwaway spiral planner. I realized that it just didn't fit my planning needs. So, my junior year I got the DayRunner. Since then, I've bought the most extensive refills you can buy for it.
But with planners ranging in price from $4.95 for the Jayhawk date books sold in the Mt. Oread Bookshop to Kokoruda's $130 tapestry-covered Franklin day planer with $30 yearly refills, writing reminders on hands may be the most economical organization option for some students.
it really does keep me from screwing up. Before I got it, I was late for appointments and classes and forgetting things like homework and tests. That was when my method for remembering things was writing them on my hand."
"When you write things on your hands, it's just right there," said John Edwards, Wichita senior. "You can't miss it, unless you take a shower and lose it all, or your hands get sweaty and blur the message."
Edwards said that another disadvantage of keeping messages on his hand was lack of privacy. On the Friday before Valentine's Day, Edwards's girlfriend noticed the message 'Get flowers' scribbled on his hand and ruined his surprise.
"I guess that's one drawback I didn't think of," he said.
Photo illustration by Heather Lofflin/KANSAN
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Museums and galleries offer campus culture
Kansan staff writer
By Kevin Hoffmann
The KU campus is filled with opportunities to satisfy the appetites of those with a taste for art and museums.
The University is home to many museums and art galleries that house treasures from ancient Greek coins, to a 17th century European painting, to a 20th century sculpture. Stephen Smith, Prairie Village Kan., graduate student of art history, said that he hoped every student would take the time to see the University's artistic and historical collections.
"Art is a part of the campus too, just like the basketball games," he said. "It would be a shame if people overlooked what was available."
Here is a brief description of the various museums and galleries on the KU campus.
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, A BEGINNING
Before classes began in the fall of 1866, Francis Snow, one of the University's first professors, started a collection of specimens from nature with the hope of forming
From its founding, the University has emphasized the display of artifacts.
Dyche traveled the world acquiring various mammals, bringing his collection back to Kansas. During the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, worldwide attention centered on Dyche's 112 mounted North American large mammals. The display is now part of the large panorama display that visitors first see when they enter the museum.
a Natural History museum. By 1877, Snow's collection had grown to over 12.000 specimens.
In the late 1800s, the efforts of L.L. Dyche continued the growth of the University's collections. Dyche, who was hired as an assistant in the Natural History Department, was a taxidermist with a flare for adventure.
The museum, now spans four floors of Dyche Hall with more than 150 exhibits. The museum schedules four traveling exhibitions each year and constantly upgrades its permanent exhibits.
The museum is internationally recognized as a center of research and teaching for natural history, and more than 35,000 adults and children participate in museum education programs.
Kathryn Morton, Coordinator of Marketing and Public Relations said she hoped everyone who entered the Natural History
Museum would feel welcome.
Hours for the Natural History Museum are Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday 1to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
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"You don't have to feel like your a naturalist to step inside our doors," she said.
THE HELEN FORESMAN SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART
The Spencer Museum of Art is one of the bigger university museums in the U.S. The museum houses twelve different galleries on its third and fourth floors that display more than 20,000 different works of art. Eight of the galleries are used for permanent displays, and four are used for traveling exhibitions and works on loan from other institutions.
The museum's walls are lined with original paintings dating as far back as medieval times. Visitors also will find numerous sculptures, textiles, ceramics and other decorative arts by such famous artists as Monet and Rosetti.
Asian, European and American artworks are most common throughout the museum, which is arranged in chronological order.
relations for the Spencer museum said it allowed students to get a real-life look at the artists they study.
Sally Hayden, managing editor of public
"It's a place students can come to relate to many of the things they're studying," she said. "You can find works from any of the different time periods in history."
Hayden said visiting the museum could also be a relaxing pass-time for students.
"It's a retreat from all the work and pressures of a student's classes," she said.
Gallery hours at the Spencer Museum of Art are; Tuesday through Saturday; 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with the gallery staying open until 9 p.m. on Thursday; and Sundays, noon to 6 p.m. The museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is Free.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ART AND DESIGN GALLERY.
The art and design gallery is located on the third floor of the Art and Design building. This large, single-room gallery is dedicated to showing the work of KU students and faculty. Throughout the year, paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures are displayed. Exhibits change every three to four weeks.
See MUSEUMS, Page 8.
People and places at the University of Kansas.
In January, a 33-pound, 2-foot-long Border collier named Apple swallowed an entire 12-inch carving knife in the course of snacking on devil's food cake at the home of her owner, Eric Fuchs of New York City. Two days after doctors removed the knife surgically, Apple was back at home, "ready to play" according to Fuchs.
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According to trial testimony in January in Santa Ana, Calif., George Edgar Lizarralde, 31, was legally blind in 185 when the Department of Motor Vehicles issued him a driver's license. He had failed the test three times, and DMV granted the license on the fourth try even though he again failed the vision test. In the January trial, DMV's negligence was found to be the cause of injuries to Deborah Ann Mohr, whom Lizarralde plowed into in a crosswalk in 1990.
-Police in Santa Rosa, Calif., went door-to-door in January to warn residents that a 6-foot-long python had escaped from a bath tub down a drain and that they should keep their bathroom doors closed and their toilet lids down.
-A pro-nuclear power video, sponsored by a private company seeking to develop nuclear reactors in Japan, features the cartoon character "Mr. Pluto," who downplays the risks of plutonium to the primarily school-age audiences. Says Mr. Pluto, "If everyone treats me with a peaceful and warm heart, I'll never be scary or dangerous." A narrator says that if a person drank plutonium, most of it would pass through his body without harm.
- Firefighters in Canton, Ohio, rushed to the home of Lisa M. Ash, 24, in November to extinguish a fire. They pulled out of her oven a smoldering voodoo doll, made from cloth and twigs, that she said she was using to cast a spell against someone, based on advice she said she received from a telephone psychic line.
-In January, an administrative law judge ruled against the claim of the California Department of Motor Vehicles that the vanity license plates of Bruce Deam, a federal geology researcher, were offensive. Deam, who is female, is a serious cat lover and has had the plates "A PUSSY" since 1973.
-In October, Blue Shield of Idaho and Blue Cross
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