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Schol hall residents diverse
By JAN BOUTTE
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The scholarship hall selection committee encounters stereotypes and myths in its search for new residents each year, Matt Anderson, Concordia senior and chairman of the selection committee, said yesterday.
"A lot of people think you have to be some kind of genius or an egg head to live in a scholarship hall," Anderson said.
He said that while most residents maintained at least a 3.0 grade point average, they were anything but bookworms. When choosing residents, the coalition committee looks for a secure sectional grounds and interests. Anderson said.
HE **SAID** that another prevalent myth stemmed from the name of the balls.
"You don't have to have a scholarship to live in a scholarship hall," he said.
Although many of the residents do have scholarships, that is not one of the reasons.
that the selection committee
sides when choosing residents,
or judges.
Anderson said.
$^{g}$ Academics, the application, financial need and references are evaluated in accordance with new residents for the scholarship halls.
Each category is assigned a share of the 40-point scale that each applicant is rated on, with academics and the application carrying most of the weight.
Joyce Cliff, assistant director of the office of residential programs, said the average resident scored about 25 points in the selection process.
BOTH RESIDENTS and administrators are involved in the evaluation process. After the application deadline March 1, the selection committee will begin processing the applications, Anderson
The number of openings will be determined by that time after current residents indicate whether they'll be returning.
Cliff said that an average of 125 of the 400 positions in the scholarship halls opened up each year.
Three residents and one administrator evaluate the application and references. Cliff said that an even more important role and women evaluate rach application.
Anderson said the evaluators looked at the way applicants presented themselves.
The written application is important because the selection committee never reviews submissions.
He said the questions asked on the application were handled through her the applicant would interact with the living group.
"We ask them to discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and how they could affect their ability to live with others." Anderson said.
a peer and the other two from any unrelated persons.
Anderson said he looked for more than the standard form reference.
"Anything that shows you that they thought well enough about the person to take the time to write a good recommendation is important," he said.
Current KU students are evaluated on their college records, and incoming students on their high school rank and ACT scores.
phrase. "We feel that the confidentiality of that is very important." Anderson said.
The administrators in the office of residential programs assign points for the academic and financial categories.
Cliff said that these aspects of the application were hended through her office to insure the privacy of the applicant.
ONCE ACCEPTED, the applicants are asked to indicate which of the eight scholarship halls they would like to live in. Anderson must get their relatives' choices.
Cliff said that the process should be completed by mid-April and that applicants would be notified of the openings in the halls.
EACH APPLICANT is asked to have three person write references, one from
Anderson said there was more continuity among scholarship halls than residence halls, as many residents return for more than one year.
Those not immediately accepted are placed on an alternate list.
SUA games near finish
"It does a pretty good job of getting a wide variety of people who are motivated to achieve," Anderson said.
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
The SUA All-Campus Days which began last week had their problems, but overall things went as expected.
Chris Orlando, SUA indoor recreation chairman, said that despite a lack of workers at the tournament, he thought the games went well.
"The only real problem that we had with the campus days was with the billard tournament and ping-pong games, which had conflicting times.
"As far as people wanting a refund on their money, they're going to have to have a good reason," Orlando said.
Orlando said that as a result of the overlapping games, people had asked for refunds.
"We at SUA felt that we were not responsible if someone entered both of these events, because we didn't know how to compete and tournament would last." Orlando said.
The games were open to everyone in the Big Eight region.
In the billiards tournament, Mark Gunter, Prairie Village junior, was the winner. Jim Conard, Oaklute junior, was the second and Spear, Overland Park junior, was third.
Orlando said that all of the games were completed except for the backgammon tournament. He said that qualifiers in each event could compete in an SAU-sponsored all-expense paid trip to Winbucks on Feb, 19 and 20. The players will match their skills with other students from the Midwest.
There were 95 people who participated in this year's tournament, which Orlando said was more than last year.
In bridge, Yuan Hu, Taiwan graduate student, finished first and Kuang Fu wished him well.
The checkers game winner was William Barron, Mission Hills freshman.
The chess winner was Brad Blake, Wichita state, and runner-up was Chris Orlando, Shawnee Mission senior.
The dart tournament was won by Patrick Hodges; second-place finisher was Dan Mauer; third place was taken in the state finals. Sumyauve, Calif., graduate student.
In the football tournament, Greg Wylie, Derby junior, and Darrin Frye, Kingman senior, were the co-winners.
The table tennis tournament was won by Sam Ritmitter, Kansas City, Mo., special student. In second place was Kirkman, New York, N.Y., freshman.
The Frisbee game was won by Grady Boles, Liberal senior. Richard E. Smith, Topeka freshman, finished second.
AMERICAN COVENANT, page 5. Marshail Foster, 1981 (Foundation for Christian Self-Government)
--with the launching of "Sputnik" in 1957. Slavic studies boomed at the University and a larger Slavic book collection was needed.
KU's statues reoiled during spring cleaning
By LISA GUTIERREZ
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Twice a year, Jimmy Green gets a new coat of oil.
So does the old pioneer near Fraser Hall and the Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall.
Spring and fall mean maintenance time for the eight sculptures and five fountains on the KU campus.
"We don't often do too much to them," Robert Porter, associate director of physical plant management facilities operations, said yesterday.
PORTER SAID the statuary was all cast bronze and required only a light coat of oil.
"That's the purpose of bronze, to let the weather elements get to them."
The eight statues are located at Blake, Lippincott, Fraser, Strong, Nichols and Spooner-Thayer halls and in front of the Spencer Art Center.
Porter included the controversial Salina Piece in his list of eight.
Porter said that of all the statues and fountains on campus, the Chi Omega fountain probably sustained the most abuse from vandals.
"We have problems with the Chi
Omega fountain every year," he said. "They do everything from soaping it to putting dye in the fountain."
"THAT BIRD over in front of Strong is usually the biggest target for paint," he said.
TOURNAMENT
As for the statues, Porter said the
Jayhawk in front of Strong Hall also
got a lot of abuse.
In addition to the twice-a-year coats of oil the statues are given, Porter said they were also coated before special functions when large groups of people were anticipated on campus.
"When we anticipate highly intense football games, the statues are given a small, thin coat of oil," he said. "Then, if they're sprayed, the paint is more easily removed."
But Porter's men have ways of preventing serious damage to the statues.
"But we haven't had too many problems with them in past years."
Porter recalled an incident that occurred in the mid-70s.
Some paint jobs, however, haven't been frowned upon by the men who maintain the statuary.
"A GROUP WITH special permission from the proper authority painted the Jimmy Green statue," he said. "He painted everything, his hands, his gloves, even his top hat. It was a super-looking job."
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George Jerkovich, professor of Soviet and East Europeanstudies, describes the work he has done as curator of Slavic Collections at Watson Library.
Curator helps build Slavic collection
By DEBBIE DOUGLASS Staff Reporter
Twenty years ago, George Jekovik began working at Watson Library. Today, the University of Kansas is bigger and so is his job.
Jerkovich, curator of Slavic Collections and professor of Soviet and East European studies, began working on the study material for Slavic materials Feb. 1, 1983.
Originally from Yugoslavia, Jerkovich also began teaching Serbo-Croation and bibliography and methods as an assistant professor.
At that time the library was one-tird the size it is now, and Jerkovich was teaching in an army barrack where Spencer Library now stands.
"THE SLAVIC BOOK collection was also extremely small then, consisting of six or seven thousand volumes." Jerkovich said recently.
Jerkovich said that over the last 20 years the greatest achievement in his job had been building up the Slavic language consists of more than 200,000 volumes.
"I would like to stress that the collection an excellent resource for wishing a gift to you."
the old and rich cultures of Slavic countries," he said.
AS AN EXAMPLE of Americans' lack of language study, he said, there were more teachers of English in the Soviet Union than American students
Jerkovich, who has studied 12 languages, said U.S. foreign policy would be a lot better if top officials of the United States were members of the countries they had to deal with.
He said this lack of language study strained the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world.
"Americans need to learn more about the peoples of other countries, especially a superpower like the Soviet Union," he said.
"The more you wish to know, the more you'll understand, and the Slavic library collection has an immense collection of literature, literature and culture to this end."
The collection ranks among the 10 best in the country, he said.
"We have a lot of Russian pre-revolution materials and also many other rare books that even compete with those by Michigan or Michigan don't have." Jerkwich said.
The South Slavic book collection, he said, had more than 35,000 volumes and was second in quality only to the U.S. Library of Congress.
KU HAS A strong Polish collection, he said, which includes some 17th-
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Even with good financial support, he said, KU could not have afforded such a large collection if he had not taken book-buying trips to Slavic countries.
These contacts, particularly in Lehengad, Moscow, Kiev and Warsaw, in the last decade of the 1980s.
BY TRAVELING to Slavic countries, Jerkovich was able to buy books cheaply, and at the same time he found a library in town where books could to have international book catalogs.
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Through these exchanges, he said, the library had been adding many good books to its Slavic Collection.
Jerkovich said he had been offered a higher paying job at the State Department in Washington, D.C., seven years after visiting there he turned it down.
"I would miss the students and the exchange of ideas in a university atmosphere," he said.
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