2. The first letter of the second line is an 'a'.
UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Thursday, January 20, 1994
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Company concerts
The University Dance Company has announced its spring concerts.
Student dancers will be selected today for the company. Auditions were held last night.
Shows will be presented at 8 p.m. April 21 and 22 at the Lied Center.
Admission is $3 for students and $6 for general admission. Between 30 and 35 students will make up the group.
■ An informal concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 15 in Sherbon Theater in Robinson Center. The concert is free.
A student choreographers concert will be at 2 p.m., April 16, also in Sherborn Theater. It is free.
Source: University Dance Company KANSAN
Jennie Zeiner/KANSAN
Strike a pose
Michelle Reiter, Lawrence freshman, stretches before she tries out for the University Dance Company. Reiter was one of 28 people — 26 women and two men — who tried out for the company last night at Robinson Center. The company will perform April 21 and 22 at the Lied Center. Because dancers are chosen by talent and not by a quote, the size of the company is not predetermined.
Main campus reaches KC with Regents
By Gennifer Trail
Kansan staff writer
The KU Regents Center, 12600 Quivira Road in Overland Park, has become an accessible resource to students who are unable to drive to Lawrence from the Kansas City area.
A survey of the center's students by the staff at the center showed that most of its students were nontraditional. The average age of students is 33. Almost three-fourths of the students are married, and 68 percent are employed. About half of the students have school-aged children.
To cater to these students' needs, classes are taught in the late afternoon or evening. The classes are concentrated, which means they may meet once a week for three hours instead of three times a week for one hour.
"You have a more serious kind of student at the Regents Center, but some are also anxious because they haven't been back to school in awhile," said Alice Ann Darrow, associate professor of music education-music therapy and special education.
The center offers 10 master's degrees, including engineering management, which is not offered at the Lawrence campus.
The center is in a building that opened just one year ago, said Bruce Lindvall, assistant dean of the center. The Regents Center program began in 1975 at a former elementary school, Linwood Elementary, at the corner of 99th Street and Mission Road in Prairie Village.
"The other school just wasn't adequate for our expanding Engineering Center program," Lindvall said. "This new building was designed with college students in mind. Every classroom is equipped with a 27-inch TV, VCR computer, projector, large screen and white board. We have three computer labs and a state-of-the-art library."
The library is setting up a system that would allow students to tap into all KU library computers by modem. They could work on papers from
Master's degrees
Business administration
Public administration
Education
Architecture management
Architectural engineering
Civil engineering
Engineering management
Journalism
Health administration
Social welfare
Engineering management
Source: KU Regents Center KANBAN
home or office computers and receive help from a librarian who monitors the calls.
Lindvall said he was especially enthusiastic about the center's interactive televised-classroom capabilities. This technology allows two classes in separate locations to be taught simultaneously by one teacher. A course on teaching special-education classes is taught in this manner between the center and the Lawrence campus.
"If more classes were taught using this system, we could allow greater choice and flexibility to the students here who can't drive into Lawrence." Lindyda said.
Every year, enrollment grows at the center. From the time the center opened in 1975 to the new center's opening in Spring 1993, enrollment has more than doubled. On Jan. 8, 1993, more than 900 students went through enrollment, but Lindwald said he expected a total enrollment of about 1,500 students.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
"The Regents Center is a real convenience for students who work full time," Darrow said. "The program reaches out to communities that otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to receive a graduate education."
Lindvall said he thought that the center's agenda for the future was to be more responsive to the public.
"Are the masses going to move to us, or are we going to meet them?" Lindvall asked.
Study Abroad program offers scholarships
Kansanstaffreport
The Office of Study Abroad has announced that grants are available for students to study in countries other than Canada and those in western Europe.
The grants are part of the National Security Education Program and are available to freshmen, sophomores, juniors and nongraduating seniors. Scholarship awards last for a minimum of one academic term. The program will begin in Summer 1994 and will continue through Spring 1995.
Freshmen and sophomores can apply for the summer semester. Sophomores may apply for the 1994 fall semester and the 1995 spring semester. Up to $8,000 will be available each semester.
Tribal arts on display
Interested students should contact Mary Elizabeth Debicki in the office, 203 Lippincott Hall. Applications are due Monday, Jan. 31.
On-line mail service links historians
The KU Anthropology Museum in Spooner Hall will be opening a new exhibit Saturday called "The Menhner Collections of Tribal Arts."
The exhibit represents an entire collection from the southwest United States and artifacts from North, Central and South America. The artworks include Navajo rugs, pottery vases and Hopi kachina dolls.
The exhibit runs until April 10. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The artifacts come from the collection of Karl Menninger and his wife. They collected the items during various trips to the southwest, Africa, Oceania and the Orient.
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Sending a letter the traditional way — and not being sure whether it will reach its destination — soon could become a novelty act.
Lynn Nelson, professor of history,
said that four years ago he had gotten
the idea for an on-line mail service
from the bulk mailings that were sent
by computer to academic departments.
He decided to start mailing
lists in the academic world, where
everyone on the list would receive
mail from other people on the list.
Such a list will help scholars of history, said Charles Stansifer, head of the department of history.
"It's a means of exchanging information among individuals who know a lot about the subject, from modems across the world," he said.
Nelson started his eighth mailing list, Kansas-L, in August. The list,
On his computer, Nelson sends out an updated list of all the on-line mailing systems that are available from the department. Then, historians can join the list.
Until this summer, the department had seven mailing lists.
which consists of people interested in Kansas history, is the first list devoted to one state.
Nelson said sending a letter through the network was not difficult.
"The person just sends a message to Kansas-L, and that message is received here and then sent to everyone else on the list," he said.
One of the first people to go on the computer mail line was a woman who grew up in Kansas.
"She is working on her Ph.D. at the University of California," Nelson said. "She said that sometimes she gets homesick and wanted to talk to Kansas folk."
He said he had gotten messages from the other side of the world.
"A fellow came on the list and had a question as to whether anyone knew the name and addresses of other discussion lists," he said. "I sent him a phone list so he could get a hold of other addresses. He came back almost immediately with, 'Where are you?' I replied that I am in my study, which is located in the basement of my house, working. A letter came back in seconds, in capital letters, 'I mean where are you physically?' I couldn't understand why this person
S. A. Moore / KANSAS
was so insistent. Then it struck me his address was Perth, Australia.
"In answer to his question, I said, 'I come from a land far away where the national product is wheat and the national religion is basketball,'" Nelson continued. "He replied back, 'You're from Kansas?'
If students want to send a message through Kansas-L, they should send it to: listserv@ukanai.xc.ukans.edu. Also, they should indicate that they want to get on the maillist by leaving the message: SubKansas-L, followed by their electronic address and their name.
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