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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 25, 1989
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KU picks 5 seniors for honor
Rhodes, Marshall nominees selected
By Stacy Smith Kansan staff writer
Nominees for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships were chosen last week by the KU Rhodes-Marshall Selection Committee.
"We are really dealing with the cream of the crop, top notch students all the way through," said Sharon Brehm, chairman of the selection committee at the KU honors program. "We're very proud of this year's nominees."
Brenda Eisele, Fredonia senior; Brett Leopold, Hoxie senior; and Angela Nonaka, Buckner, Mo., senior, were chosen to represent Kansas in the Rhodes Scholarship Competition. Robert Hinrichs, Lincoln, Neb., senior, was chosen to represent his home state.
This is a competition for people who are well-rounded and have interests in a variety of activities, not just academics.
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Sharon Brehm
— Sharon Brehm selection committee chairman
Nonaka and Katy Monk, Atchison senior, were chosen to represent Kansas in the Marshall Scholarship Competition.
Brehm said the Rhodes Scholarship allowed graduating students to continue their education at Oxford University in Oxford, England. She said about 30 winners were chosen in the United States each year. A KU student has not been chosen since 1983, she said.
"This is a competition for people who are well-rounded and have interests in a variety of activities, not just academics," Brehm said. "These are people who also show promise of being leaders in the future."
The Marshall Scholarship selects about 30 scholars each year from the United States, Brehm said. She said this scholarship paid for students to attend the university of their choice in the United Kingdom. She said the last Marshall scholar from the University of Kansas was Don Dinwidie, Sand Springs, Okla., in 1988.
"This is an extremely competitive scholarship," she said. "Even to be nominated by one's university is an honor."
Jay Turnbull, right, is an honorary member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He is pictured with Pat Hughes.
Leopold said he applied for the Rhodes Scholarship because he wanted to study political science at Oxford.
Brehm said the Marshall Scholarship Committees not only selected recipients based on leadership and academics but also on what the students contributed to society.
"I was really happy about it," he said. "I really had no idea I'd be nominated."
Eisele said she also was surprised to be chosen.
"I was surprised because I didn't think the interview went too well," she said. "Being a Rhodes Scholar would be such an honor."
Fraternity opens doors for handicapped
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Natural Ties adoptions are well-received
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Jay Turnbul likes to be called JT by his fraternity brothers at Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
A friendship that started naturally between Jay Turnbull and Pat Hughes, SAE member, has into an expanding national program.
A picture of the 90 members hanging on the wall of JT's new house. He said he blessed them right when he said his prayers.
Hughes brought Turnbull, a 32-year-old mentally handicapped Lawrence resident, to the fraternal society. The Turnbull started spending time there.
Hughes, Turnbull, and Cory Royer, SAE member, now live together in a house bought by parents, Rud and Ann Turnbull.
The living arrangement was an extension of an adoption program started by KU's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Based on the fraternity's adoption of Turnbull, Hughes and Royer have started a national adoption program called Natural Ties.
Hughes said the goal of the program was to create the opportunity for friendship between a mentally retarded person and any member of a living organization who wished to get involved.
"The whole idea of Natural Ties is not forced on anybody," Hughes said.
This summer, Hughes, Turnbull and Royer went to the SAE national headquarters in Evanston, Ill., and talked to 500 SAE leaders from across the country about Natural Ties.
"We got an incredible response," Hughes said. Any greek chapter or living group could participate in the adoption program. Hughes said.
Sigma Nu at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., has started
an adoption program.
Next month, Hughes is going to the University of Missouri to talk to the Kappa Sigma chapter about the program. Hughes also will be going to Madison, Wis., to speak about the program at the state capital.
Mark Varouakis, SAE member, said the longevity of the program allowed people to get to know the individual personally.
"Natural Ties is really a unique experience," he said. "The difference between Jay in the very beginning and now is enormous."
Turnbull's parents are both professors of special education at the University of Kansas.
"What they are doing has major national and international implications." Ann Turnbull said.
Rud Turnbull said parents would see this experience as important as any class.
"When this works here, people everywhere in the United States will want JT's house." Rud Turnbull said.
Rud Turnbull said Jay had grown up so much since he was adopted by the men.
Ann Turnbull said that as Jay's parents, they have a natural tendency to want to protect him.
"They can see him more as a peer," she said. "They want him to be an individual and want him to fit in."
Royer said people with mental disabilities had to be integrated into the community.
"Everyday I take a cab to the SAE house and hang out with the guys," Turnbull said.
Turnbull has the opportunity to interact with many people because of the SAE house, he said.
The University is going to be the pioneer of this program that is going nationwide, Hughes said.
"People have to make the initiative," he said. "He (Jay) smiles and you know he is the happiest he has ever been in his life."
Academics put to the test
Kansan staff writer
Bv Doua Fishback
A University committee next week will begin the task of drafting a questionnaire to define KU's general education goals as part of the University's self-assessment program.
David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the four-member committee's Oct. 3 meeting would be the first in a yearlong process of reviewing documents and writing questions.
The questionnaire would be completed in December 1990 and would be distributed in early 1991 to various constituencies, such as faculty, students and alumni, he said. Information will be assessed how well the University meets the needs of the various groups it serves.
"It's got the potential to be quite valuable," Shulenburger said. "It's important to know what your constituencies expect of you."
One year had been allotted for the process because the committee
would study various documents along the way, such as the University's founding documents and goal surveys from other colleges and universities, Shulenberger said.
He said a Johnson County Community College goal survey was among the literature the committee would study. That survey lists general education goals, such as broadening knowledge of the arts and sciences offered in college and others. Those taking the survey rank the importance of each goal and rank the institution's effectiveness in reaching those goals, he said.
Last spring, the University Assessment Committee drafted and took a sample survey, Shulenburger said. Two goals on that survey were teaching the cultural heritage of the West and teaching the ability to read and write in a foreign language.
Peter Casagrande, professor of English, will chair the committee to draft the new survey. He said he was not taking any preconceptions about the University's goals into his job.
process of defining its task," he said.
"The committee is just in the
Shulenburger said the committee would use information gleaned from University goal surveys for individual schools and majors at KU.
He said the assessment process would benefit from insights gained by existing review mechanisms at the departmental level.
"We have been doing it in more or less formal ways for a long time," Shulenburger said.
Departments have reviewed goals and policies in various ways, Shulenburger said, but one common method was by debate within curricular committees.
He said the diversity in current assessment practices would aid the committee as it sought guidelines for drafting the survey.
Shulenburger said he did not expect the survey's results to bring about great changes in the way general education was approached at KU, but he was confident information from the questionnaire would prove useful.
Congressman works for research building funds
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Financing for a new KU research building is likely to pass through Congress, a Kansas Congressman said Saturday.
"I think that there's an excellent chance that we'll be able to get at least part of the funding for the project at KU," Rep. Jim Slattery said.
Slattery, a Topeka Democrat, made the comment after a Forbes Field news conference with Tom Foley, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Foley, D-Wash., was in Topeka Saturday and yesterday campaigning for Slattery, who is seeking re-election in 1990.
The new KU building, a bioscience research center, would be an expansion of the Higuiri Bioscience Center on West Campus. The new center would house research on drug design and genetics, said Frances Horowitz,
vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
finding for the building is part of an appropriations bill for the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education and related agencies in 1990 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
The original version of the bill, which passed the House on Aug. 2, contained no money for the KU building, said Ken Murphy, Slattery's press secretary.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Sept. 13 added $1 million to
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said then that the project was estimated to cost $7.2 million, with the University contributing $2 million. Horowitz said the $2 million would come from private sources.
Foley said on Saturday he was optimistic that Congress would pass the authorization bill this session.
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