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Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Hawk Week offers academic, social programs
Scheduled activities are to acquaint new students with KU's environment
by Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
As many new students walked uncertainly from their parents' cars to their residences Sunday, a comprehensive schedule of events was firmly in place to make the transition to KU as smooth as possible.
Known as Hawk Week, the schedule covers both days and nights of the week before school starts to help new students become acclimated to their surroundings, meet other students and generally have one last week of unexcumbered fun before classes begin Monday.
Hawk Week is in its fifth year as a welcoming device to campus, said Sally Bryant, director of New Student Orientation Programs. Bryant is optimistic concerning this year's expanded schedule.
"We're looking forward to greater attendance this year," she said. "We've had better publicity, more
workshops, more participation and more word-of-mouth from others telling freshmen about it."
Bryant's department expanded Hawk Week's activities by soliciting student feedback and including other campus organizations. The result of these efforts was to develop a full schedule of events for days and nights that began Sunday and will run through Friday afternoon.
"We're adding Cheers, Student Government Involvement and Nutrition from student input," Bryant said. "And Recreation Services is doing aerobics, flag football and the Couch Potato Triathlon."
The schedule also features programs that have proven popular in past years. Bryant said some of the better attended seminars include SAVVY — What Every College Student Needs to Know, Listening and Note Taking, Sexuality and the College Student, and the English and
David St. Peter, Wichita senior and president of Student Union Activities, thinks that Hawk Week will benefit from the enrollment schedule and expanded events.
Math options programs.
"This year Hawk Week will have more attendance because fee payment is on Monday and New Student Orientation fills their day because the freshmen have nothing else to do during the week," he said.
The concert will feature the Dangtrippers from Iowa City, Iowa, and the Moving Van Goughs from Lawrence. The event, which also will have an activities bazaar, is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 25, at the Stauffer-Flint Hall. Ram will present cancellation of the concert and other outdoor activities.
The SUA is involved in several of Hawk Week's night events, St. Peter said he expected 500 to 600 students for last night's Outdoor Movie on the Hill (weather permitting) and the free outdoor concert as part of Thursday's Beach and Boulevard Night.
"It's a pretty creative program," St. Peter said. "It's a good way to get freshmen into a university setting without academics. And it's helpful because without it, there would be no other orientation program to help freshmen coming to KU."
New students can get a brief sampling of academics tonight as 80 faculty members participate in Meet a Professor Night by visiting the various residential units to meet and talk with incoming students from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
"This is a very free kind of experience that generates a myriad of questions," Bryant said.
The advance publicity for Hawk Week seemed to pay off for most new students who arrived Sunday. Renee Murphy, Perry freshman, was quite familiar with the schedule and said he would attend Brent Allen, Des Moines, Iowa, freshman, said it would help him get comfortable with college life.
Dan Dokupil, father of Dana Dokupil, arlington Heights, III., freshman, said. "I think it's great. It will get the nervousness out of the way and help people meet people."
Both today's and tomorrow's daytime schedule offers 12 events. The first item on today's agenda is a seminar on fitness at 9:30 a.m. at 156 Robinson Center, followed by a 10:30 seminar on nutrition at the same place.
Class schedule tours will be given at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and will start at the bronze kyngwak statue in front of Strong Hall. Also at 10 a.m. is a one-hour program on choosing a major and a career at the Daisy Hill Room
in Burge Union.
A drop-by aerobic workout will be available from 10:30 a.m to t. p. m. on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint, and a massage demonstration will take place concurrently in front of Wescoe Hall. Completing the morning schedule are one-hour seminars beginning at 11 a.m. on Academic Integrity in conference room 4 at Watson Library and the Study Abroad program at 3140 Wescoe Hall.
The afternoon events are academically oriented. A Chemistry Magic Show, presented by Clark Bricker, professor emeritus of chemistry, will run from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at 1001 Malott Hall. A seminar on Math Options is set from 1 to 2 p.m. at 300 Strong Hall and a similar topic, English 101 and Beyond, goes from 2 to 3 p.m. at 4012 Wescoe Hall.
Thursday's schedule is as follows:
9 to 10 a.m. - Academic Advising in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 4012 Wescoe Hall;
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. - Class schedule tours, meet at the bronze Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hall;
10 to 11 a.m. - English 101 and Beyond, 4012 Wescoe; and Dating Relationships, 1005 Haworth Hall;
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. - Legal Services for Students, 327 Strong Hall;
10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Sport club demonstrations, Wescoe Beach and
on the lawns in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall and Watson Library;
11 a.m. to noon — Cultural Diversity at KU, 303 Hall;
1 to 2 p.m. — Robinson Center tour, west entrance;
1 to 4 p.m. — Graduate Student Orientation and Assembly, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union;
1 to 3 p.m. - Listening and Note-Taking, 10 Stauffer-Flint:
2 to 2; 4 p. 4m. — Watson Library tour, main lobby.
Friday's schedule is as follows:
■ 9 to 10 a.m. — Robinson Center tour;
- 10 a.m. to noon — SAVVY - What Every College Student Needs to Know, Spencer Museum auditorium;
- Noon to 1:30 p.m. — Couch Potato Triathlon, in front of Staffer-Flunt.
Rick Cameron, assistant director of Recreational Services, said the Couch Potato Triathlon would require a contestant to leave a couch, change the channel on a TV set, run around a cone which represents a trip to the restroom and then make a sandwich. Cameron said the event would either be timed to see who could do it the fastest or be in a designated time to see who could do it the most.
124th Convocation breaks traditions Changed date attracts bigger crowd
by Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
A break with tradition was received warmly as the University of Kansas celebrated its 124th Opening Convocation on Sunday afternoon rather than on the first day of classes.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, along with a host of KU officials, deans and professors, ushered in the 1989-90 academic year before a crowd estimated at 1,500 in a steamy Hoch Auditorium. The attendance represented a marked increase from recent years' Convocations and thus fulfilled the reasoning behind the schedule change as many freshmen and their parents were able to attend.
Budig directed his remarks to KU's new students. He invited them to take a voyage of discovery and to actively
cooperate with the faculty, the crew of the voyage.
"You are here to learn to read the map of knowledge," Budig said. "It is an enterprise you have chosen to begin, a voyage you have chosen to make. You have chosen wisely."
Budig stressed the importance of asking questions while learning.
"Our next obligation is to help you learn how to find the answers, or, in some cases, how at least to continue the search. And with each answer you learn, there will be another
"You will question what you have already learned. You will question your previous ideas about a society and a world you may assume you understood," he said. "Our task is to present the questions and to inspire you to seek the answers and discover your own questions."
question."
Budig said that the process of inquiry would enable students to accomplish the University's goal of acquiring "the skills and habits of a mapmaker."
Two faculty members were honored with the Chancellor's Professorship for Excellence in Teaching for their outstanding contributions in their fields.
Edith Freeman, associate professor of social welfare, and Nona Tollefson, professor and chairman of the educational psychology and research department, received the first Chancellor's Professorships, which were made possible through donations to Capaign Kansas, the University's five-year $150 million fund-raising drive.
A reception was conducted on the grounds of the Chancellor's residence after the ceremony. A good-sized crowd mingled with the University's administrators and appeared to leave impressed.
"It was a good welcome, very informative and made us feel at home," said Jerel Taylor, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who attended both events with his mother.
He said that he was impressed with the pleasant spirit at KU.
Budig was very happy with the format and turnout.
"It was nice to have parents in attendance," he said. "I think they appreciated the opportunity to learn more about the University."
Many bands slated for shows this week
by Melanie Matthes Kansan staff writer
Wednesday, Aug. 23:
Several bands will play during Hawk Week; May 23-
Homestead Grays, 9:30 p.m. at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., $3 admission.
Thursday, Aug. 24:
Habitual Ritual, 9:30 p.m. at the Bottleneck $3 .. admission.
Sons of Rex, 9:30 p.m. at the Jazbush, 926 $^{1/2}$ Massachusetts St., $3 admission.
Friday, Aug. 25:
Maboots and Phraug, 9:30 p.m. at
the Bottleneck, $3 admission.
The Backsilders, 9:30 p.m. at the Jazhauz, $3 admission
Bad Brains and the Sim City Disciple at the Outhouse, five miles west
of Lawrence on Sixth Street, $8 admission. All ages admitted and no alcohol served.
Saturday, Aug. 26:
Parlor Frogs and the Bowery Boys at the Bottleneck, $3 admission.
The Backsliders, 9:30 p.m. at the Jazhaxus, $3 admission.
The Kelley Hunt Band, 6 p.m. to m.
p.m. at the Jayhawk Arts and Crafts
Festival, South Park, 1100 block of
Massachusetts Street, Free.
Pura Vida and Dangerfield,
McNally & Wise at the Bottleneck, $5
admission. All ages admitted and
no alcohol served.
Kansas Fiddling and Picking Championship, noon to 5 p.m. at South Park. Free.
LA Ramblers, 9:30 p.m. at the Bottleneck, $2 admission.
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