University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 4, 1988
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Students build city in 3 weeks
Program benefits all sides
Alan Schultz and Phil Reasoner helped build downtown St. Joseph, Mo., in 21 days
By Debbie McMahon Kansan staff writer
Schultz, a St. Louis senior, and Reasoner, a Shawnee senior, are members of an Architectural Design V class, which has four classes: Architecture, Urban Structure and Urban Design. The sections of fourth year design students, for their second and biggest project of the semester, had three weeks to build a scale model of the city of St. Joseph. The students would then questions to help the river city rejuvenate its riverfront and downtown.
Last year, fourth year students and the school gained attention when they made a similar scale model of downtown Lawrence. The St. Joseph Riverfront Corporation took note of that project and asked the school to do a model and make recommendations for it. Schulz said.
"It's good because when you get out into the practice, it helps to organize." Schultz said. "It is a very realistic situation."
Schultz said coordinating the work of 70 students in the four schools was difficult. Each class did a separate part of the region, which included the downtown, riverfront and cliffs above which many workers on the cliffs, which also was difficult because it was hard to reproduce nature in a model, he said.
One inch on the model represents 16 feet.
Both students said they spent about 100 hours on the project, with one hour Sunday night so the project could be finished by the end of the year.
going to take pictures. It will be a good addition to our portfolio."
"It represents hours worth of "it." Reasoner said, "I'm proud of it. As soon as we put the finishing touches on tomorrow I'm
Reasoner worked on a section of the city. He said the first half week of the project involved going to St. Joseph to take pictures. Aerial wayward department and drawings other architects had done helped to create the model. Objects in the city that were more than 6 inches tall had to be reproduced in the model for tedious work. Reasoner said.
TOP: Almost every detail in the model of St. Joseph, Mo. is exact, including the shrubbery, street signs and park benches. A replica inch is equal to 16 actual feet. BOTTOM: Carol Wakim, Beirut. An actual building model of St. Joseph, Mo. was built by architect students.
"Every chuck is removable," he said. "You can move things, and proof, all of a sudden the downtown has moved."
Barry Newton, associate professor of architecture and urban design, coordinated the project. He said the non-profit St. Joseph Riverfront Corporation was paying only for expenses, and he would have built a construction model by a private firm would have cost $30,000.
"It was really nice to do it for St. Joseph because they came to us and asked us for help." Newton said.
"In the fourth year we like to get students out in a realistic setting." Bob Simpson, president of the St. Louis School for Math and Science of school architecture is one of the
best in the country. The city of St. Joseph is a river city. That is the challenge, to come up with
renewal plans and at the same time protect our heritage and historic buildings."
Cheating creates problems at KU
Bv Laura Woodward
Kansan staff writer
Last year, Joe Biden's campaign in the Democratic presidential nominee announced that he had been caught cheating on an exam while in law
Corporations, the military, the government and law and medical schools can visit KU's office of staff relations. The university is succumb to the same temptation.
Caryll Snyder, dean of student life, said those groups must have the information that they need, and that the information was only available for three weeks.
"We don't ever give the details to they cheated." said Sheila Immel, assistant to the dean of student life. "They have graduated in good standing or not."
Immel, whose office distributed a brochure on cheating this year, said that academic misconduct, or cheating, was a problem at KU.
"Part of the problem is that today's students' values have changed," he said. "It's in getting a diploma that is going to get them a high job." The job.
Larry Sherr, chancellor of the chancellors club and an author of the brochure, said that incidents of cheating were increasing.
"I have administered an anonymous random response survey over the last year," 1,200 students. "Sherr said "About 50 percent she had cheated at."
Both Sherr and Immel said that cheating devalued a student's diploma.
“It’s not a perfect sample. But it’s a pretty good representation,” he said. “You can know what is going on, but they think that cheating just hurts the one you’re playing with.”
mischion mischief includes cheating, plagiarism, tampering with data or equipment that thorized alteration or invention of any information in an academic
The penalties may be grade reduction, a warning or disciplinary probation, suspension or expulsion.
Pam Houston, assistant to the dean of the college of liberal arts and
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Part of the problem is that today's students' values have changed. Their interest is in getting a diploma that is going to get them a high-paying job. The education is not as important.'
Sheila Immel
assistant to the Dean of Student Life
sciences, said she thought that there were more academic misconductearnings last spring than during the last two years.
"To my knowledge there were no expsultions, but there were five or six suspensions," she said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that the breezeway student life was the result of some concerns expressed by faculty members.
"I assume they felt there were increased numbers of students cheating on their studies. I see show that a large number of students admit to cheat."
Br Delkman, vice chairperson for academic affairs, that the administration's approach to cheating is education about its consequences.
"I believe that the University needs to make sure that there is an environment conducive to students being more honest," Brinkman said.
Sherd said that a group of students was formed to look into the possibility of establishing an honor code in the business school
"I went to school at the University of Michigan," Sherr said. "They have an honor code in the engineering school and it works."
An honor code consists of students signing a form before taking a test and agreeing not to cheat and to report anyone they see cheating.
Sherr and Immel have spoken to several living groups this year, including houses balls and Paradise for cheating and itsirlations.
Grading system will face test
College Assembly to put plus/minus grades to second vote
Kansan staff writer
The College Assembly will discuss the College of
Lateral Arts and Sciences plus/minus grading system
for graduation.
By Grace Hobson
Kansan staff writer
The Assembly is the governing body of the college,
consisting of college faculty, officials and 99 student
James Carothers, associate dean of the college, said he expected the Assembly to discuss the grading system, which he did not mention.
"I would assume that the mail-in ballot would uphold the original Assembly action unless there has been a significant change of opinion in the members of the College Assembly." Carothers said.
In March, the Assembly voted 213-165 by a mail-in ballot to adopt the plus/minus system. But in May, Alyson Burnett, Lawrence senior, moved to rescind the vote because of student opposition.
The schools that use the plus/minus system are Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Fine Arts.
Stephen Shawl, professor of physics and astronomy and proposer of the change in grading systems, said he felt that if put to a vote, the outcome would be the same as last spring.
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I there is enough of us, and I'm pretty sure we all want to keep the 5-point (A-F) scale. We should be able to overturn the decision.
— Katherine Killen student representative College Assembly
Shawl said that many students said they were upset because they weren't informed of the change in grading system.
"The argument that students weren't aware of the change is not a valid argument. Student representatives were there — they are in the minutes of the meeting," Shawl said.
"There is enough of us, and I'm pretty sure we all want to keep the 5-point (A-F) scale," said Killen, Owatonna, Minn., senior. "We should be able to overturn the decision."
At the time of the vote, only 24 representatives filled the 113 student seats in the Assembly. This fall, another 67 students took office.
Katherine Killen, student representative, said she felt the added members would affect the vote.
Senate elections this week Interest low in graduate seats, senators say
By Craig Welch
By Craig W.
Kansan staff writer
Graduate school elections for seats on Student Senate will be conducted tomorrow and Thursday, even though there are only four candidates for the 10 graduate seats available.
Elections to fill the two law school seats also will be tomorrow and Thursday. Elected students from both groups will serve until the next Senate elections in April.
Pam Holley, student body vice president, said that both elections almost were cancelled because of a lack of time to participate in the meeting, graduate Student Glenn Shirtle propose cancelling the elections and replacing them with an application/interview process. This would have saved Senate the estimated $3,000 it costs to conduct an
But by the time the proposal was written in the form of a bill, there were three candidates for the two twoway seat. The one who had the same time, little or no money would have been saved by canceling one and not the other, said Senate Republican David Perdue.
However, Shirtliffe said that cancelling the election
could have set a dangerous precedent. The University of Kansas Student Senate Hints and Regulations would have been suspended in order to save money, and the political election process would have been ignored he said.
"There have always been problems with filling graduate school seats," Holley said. "Senate takes a lot of time and most graduate students are busy with their curriculums."
Another possible reason for the lack of interest in graduate seats, Holley said, was that many of the issues before Student Senate don't directly affect graduate students.
Graduate senator Don Hermesch, who applied for his seat as a response to the AIDS task force in 2001, has said that Holley's statement. There is a lot that we aren't directly involved with, but we pay everyone like themselves.
Elections will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday. Graduate students and law school students will be allowed to vote at Strong Hall and the Kansas Union, outside of Wesco Hall, outside of Fraser Hall and behind
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