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University Daily Kansan, October 6, 1983
Academic Fair offers easy advising help
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Renorter
Unlike the days when students scrambled for last-minute assistance during Allen Field House enrollments, students yesterday had the chance to talk casually with faculty at KU's first Academic Fair.
Lou Rieithmann, St. Louis, Mo., senior, said he was glad to get an overview of what the University had to offer.
"You can go straight to the person you want to talk to without running around." he said. "I want to get an apartment, but I want to go through to get into graduate school."
RIETHMANN WAS AMONG several hundred students who visited KU's first Academic Fair, sponsored by the office of academic affairs. Faculty from the University's departments and schools presented slide shows and answered questions about everything from requirements to job opportunities.
Randa Dubnick, coordinator for academic advising and the fair's organizer, will be tasked to computerized enrolling its meant that students lost the opportunity they had at Allen Field House to ask question of faculty members.
She said the fair was designed, in part, to make up for the lack of personal contact between students and teachers under the new system of enrollments.
Dubnick said that students had been already waiting in line outside the door to the Kansas Union's Ballroom at 10:30
'You can go straight to the person you want to talk to without running around.'
—Lou Reithmann
St. Louis, senior
a. m., when the fair opened. She estimated that 150 students had attended the fair each hour.
THE FAIR'S ORGANIZERS tried to choose a day for the event when they thought that the greatest number of students were on campus. They also tried to choose a time when most students wouldn't be busy.
She said she was glad the students were responding because it wasn't easy for many faculty members to leave
Some students were shy when they came in and didn't know what to expect. Others, Dubnick said, were enthusiastic.
their occupations to make themselves available at the fair.
"I had a student come up to me, spontaneously, and tell me, This is what I should do," he said.
The main purpose of the fair was to inform students of academic options at the University before they talk with their advisers, she said.
"We surveyed advisers and they generally agreed that students were unprepared to take an active role in advising. We thought the fair was an active way to address the problem." she said. "Students need to think about the fact that they have to plan their education with an adviser in a few weeks."
RATHY LEMING, LAWRENCE freshman, said that the fair was particularly useful for her as a teacher and had many questions about the system.
"I think the fair is very impressive, educational and informative," she said.
"It is good because I haven't really taken the time to talk to an adviser.
Joan Wyrick, assistant professor of
occupational therapy, said the department had tried to make its display as informative as possible.
The occupational therapy display included slides and an assortment of assistive devices for students to try, such as a spoon with a strap for people with arthritis, and arm and hand molds.
SHE SAID THAT many students' questions had centered on job and salary possibilities, but that they also had asked about the duration of the program and about the academic requirements.
The College of Health Sciences and the University of Kansas Medical Center also had a display and information table.
Anne Moffett, administrative assistant for the College of Health Sciences said that the college needed to improve its communication with the Lawrence campus and that the fair was an excellent opportunity to do so.
"We are trying to build a good level of communication between the two campuses," Moffett said. "It's been wonky. We smiled so much my mouth hurts."
Students circulate among information tables at the first Academic Fair at the University of Kansas. Yesterday's fair at the Kansas Union offered several hundred students insight into the University's academic fare.
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A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT THE NEW INDIAN CENTER
A column entitled "A Little Compassion Needed Here" by University Daily Kansan (UKD) staff columnist Michael Beck in the UDK's September 24th issue discusses the City Commission's recent decision to purchase a $55,000 house in the Breezedale area and lease it to the Indian Center. Mr. Beck feels that those Breezedale residents apprehensive about the increased littering, traffic and noise that this transplantation may entail are actually masking their "fear (of) having people they don't understand, such as American Indians, frequenting their neighborhood". Because, says Mr. Beck, "the residents' complaints are unfounded . . . they (should) learn to be objective by throwing away fear and bias".
As a result of his having spent a limited amount of time in the community, Mr. Beck doesn't realize that certain neighborhoods have endured the periodic misbehavior of a few Haskell students for years. Some local residents continue to suffer because this unruly minority is still permitted to litter, trespass and disrupt at will. (At the end of the City Commission's September 6th session, someone from the area southeast of Rusty's Louisiana Street store brought before the Commission two garbage bags full of empty liquor bottles and beer cans which she had collected the preceding weekend from her yard and a nearby parkway.)
According to Mr. Beck, "officials from the Center and ... the real-estate agency selling the house (1) say that an average of three to four persons now use the Indian Center on any given day and that it would take more people than that to create traffic problems". This claim gives rise to one of two questions.
Is it really practical to use thousands of dollars first to purchase a home and then demolish a garage, create several parking spaces and render the acquisition accessible to the handicapped so an agency which sees three or four persons a day during its forty hour work week occasionally can counsel in greater privacy?
(or) Because this community institution designed to serve those living south of Nineteenth Street will assist a greater number of people than it presently does, won't it generate within the Breezedeale area more traffic than the neighborhood's streets can handle and thus fundamentally alter this enclave's character?
Breezedale is now zoned for residential living. If, in Mr. Beck's words, "a federal grant to pay rent for the Indian Center stipulates that the Center's office be located in a residential area", then the Boorish Bureaucracy is using federal resources to disfranchise Breezedale's inhabitants as zoning, in this country, was first and often still is used to protect neighborhoods and preserve property values.
Mr. Beck claims that the Breezedale residents don't want "American Indians frequenting their neighborhood" but is it reasonable to attribute this area's reaction to such a fear when, because Breezedale adjoins the very attractive Haskell campus, American Indians have been passing through the neighborhood for decades. The Breezedale residents' response to this blatant invasion is inspired by a respect for law, reason and the rights of the individual and should be honored.
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