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GEORGE MULLINIX/KANSAN
Jonathan Earle, a history professor at the University, will take over the position of Honors Program director starting Jan. 1. Earle plans to expand the program for juniors and seniors.
History professor named new director of Honors Program
EMILY DONOVAN
The Honors Program will be under new leadership next semester.
edonovan@kansan.com
Jonathan Earle, a history professor involved in the Honors Program, takes over the position of Honors Program director Jan. 1. Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, the current director, is retiring at the end of this semester.
"I think he's going to do a wonderful job," McCluskey-Fawcett said. "He's highly enthusiastic and very well-known in the community."
McCluskey-Fawcett's achievements as Honors Program Director include expanding the number of incoming freshmen accepted to Honors, more aggressively recruiting high school students, bringing in more fundraising and increasing communication with Honors alumni.
"It's important, as the flagship institution, to make sure that we have a high proportion of high-ability students," McCluskey-Fawcett said.
The Honors Program gives the same first-rate education as elite, private schools at a public university for less student loan debt, Earle said. The success of Honors students also makes the University more appealing to state legislators and grant-giving organizations.
"I think he's going to do a wonderful job. He's highly enthusiastic and very well known in the community."
The Honors Program was designed as mostly a freshman and sophomore program, but Earle
"It's one of those parts of the University that we have to continue to not just focus on but enhance," Earle said.
KATHLEEN MCCLUSKEY-FAWCETT
Current Honors Program director
wants to expand junior and senior departmental honors.
"Right now, every school has departmental honors," Earle said. "It's a very crazy, quilt system. I'd like to streamline that."
Earle wants to add more 300- and 400-level Honors courses.
Earle wants the Honors Program to encourage Capstone experiences that allow students to engage in and contribute to their fields of study.
Finally, Earle wants the Honors Program to reflect reality: many Honors students are seeking science, technology, engineering or mathematics degrees, and the Program needs to accommodate for
these non-humanities majors. He plans to recruit more STEM and pre-medicine faculty fellows.
"I think pretty much everyone's on the same page that we have to have more integration between schools." Earle said.
He plans to achieve these goals by getting more faculty across campus involved in the Honors Programs. Earle will tour individual schools and meet with deans to design the best possible learning experience for Honors students.
His first semester teaching here in 1997, Jonathan Earle taught an Honors section of a history course covering America through the Civil War.
Earle was in love with the class.
Earle was in love with the class. The students were every bit as talented as his previous students at Princeton University, he said, but they were more willing to take risks and do extra work, and less likely to haggle over grades.
"We have some of the best students here in the country," Earle said. "What's important for the University and the state of Kansas is to do the best job we can for these really talented students."
Edited by Jessica Mitchell
Wildlife workers struggle to save dozens of stranded pilot whales
NATIONAL
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. - Wildlife workers in boats struggled unsuccessfully Wednesday to coax nearly four dozen pilot whales out of dangerous shallow waters in Florida's Everglades National Park, hoping to spare them the fate of 10 others that already had died.
The workers suspended their efforts after dark, but planned to return Thursday morning to try again, said Kim Amendola, spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is taking part in the effort.
The whales are stranded in a remote area near Highland Beach, the western boundary of Everglades National Park and about 20 miles east of where they normally live. It takes more than an hour to reach the spot from the nearest boat ramp and there is no cellphone service, complicating rescue efforts.
Six of the whales were found dead, and four of the whales had to be euthanasized Wednesday, said Blair Mase, coordinator for NOAA's marine mammal stranding network. At least three could be seen on the beach, out of the water.
Park spokeswoman Linda Friar said rescuers were trying to surround the whales, which were in roughly 3 feet of salt water about 75 feet from shore, and herd them back to sea.
We want to set the expectation low, because the challenges are very, very difficult," Mase said.
The short-finned pilot whales typically live in very deep water. Even if rescuers were able to begin nudging the 41 remaining whales out to sea, Mase said they would encounter a series of sandbars and patches of shallow water along the way.
"They are not cooperating," Friar said.
Workers also tried to nudge the whales out to sea earlier in the day with no success.
Federal officials were notified about the whales Tuesday around 4 p.m. Because of the remote location, workers were unable to access the site before dark. They arrived Wednesday morning and discovered 45 whales still alive.
This particular whale species is also known for its close-knit social groups, meaning if one whale gets stuck or stays behind, the others are likely to stay behind or even beach themselves as well.
"It would be very difficult for the whales to navigate out on their own." Mase said.
Four were euthanized with sedatives, and more could be put down Thursday if their condition deteriorated, Mase said. She described the remaining whales as
"There were some that were very compromised and in very poor condition." Mase said.
swimming and mobile but said scientists don't know how long they have been out of the deep, colder water they are accustomed to and could be impacted by secondary consequences, such as dehydration.
As workers tried to coax the animals to deeper water, at least one could be seen a few feet from shore floating upside down with its head bobbing up and down. Three to four more could be seen on the beach bleeding.
Necropsies being done Wednesday on the deceased whales. Scientists will look for disease or other signs to indicate how whales got stuck in the shallow Everglades waters.
"I don't think we have a lot of time." Mase said.
Twenty-two pilot whales became stranded in Florida's Avalon State Park in Fort Pierce in 2012. Residents, state and national officials attempted to rescue them, but only five could be saved.
not a hush-hush thing that we don't want to talk about because it's happening to us"
"Stepping back from Greek life for a few years I think is really important because we want everyone else in Panhellenic to succeed." Loundsa said.
Mase said NOAA was consulting with experts in different counties with experience in herding whales to see if there were other options, but said she was not optimistic.
SORORITY FROM PAGE 2A
Lounds said Sigma Delta Tau may not be hindering other chapters from succeeding individually, but their organization needs time to lose any stigmas it has so it can move forward and succeed alongside the 12 other chapters at the University.
"It's not uncommon," Friar said.
"But it's not something that happens a lot."
WHAT'S NEXT?
Coming back will allow Sigma Delta Tau to reignite the excitement both in its organization and in the Greek community as a whole.
"The outlook ultimately does not look good," she said.
The women currently in the chapter will become alumnae of Sigma Delta Tau and have the opportunity to come back to campus to help reinstall the chapter in 2016.
"It'll almost be like having a new Greek chapter come on campus," Lounds said of the expected return in Spring of 2016.
"We have such high hopes for the future." Lounds said. "We'll be graduated by that time so we're excited to come back and help."
But it will take more than just time and the alumnae support; Lounds said the Panhellenic community will need to pitch in too.
Support has already poured in from the other sororities and the Panhellenic board unanimously approved Sigma Delta Tau's return to campus.
Lounds said support is crucial to Sigma Delta Tau's successful return and she has no doubt that the sororities will provide that when the time comes.
"No chapter would ever want to be in this situation so I think we're doing our best to bow out gracefully," Loundes said. "I think everyone [in the Greek community] really respect us and shows their support."
Sigma Delta Tau will return to campus in the spring and begin a public relations push to let everyone know about the chapter and its return.
At a national level, Snyder said the sorority has started reaching out to alumnae of that chapter.
It will be an opportunity to reestablish itself, Lounds said.
It will also continue to work closely with the University's Student Involvement and Leadership Center to keep track of Panhellenic recruitment during Sigma Delta Tau's absence in order to plan a successful
return in 2016
IN THE MEANTIME
The current members will remain in the Sigma Delta Tau chapter house until the end of the academic year. Then the house will be rented out until its return, but arrangements for who will rent the house next year have not been made yet.
Sigma Delta Tau's national board will spend the time making a plan for the chapter's reinstallation in 2016.
The chapter members hope that whatever image they have on campus will be forgotten and future members will have a clean slate to move forward with.
"This means so much to me and to the rest of our women," Lounds said. "It doesn't change that we're sisters; it doesn't change our relationship. It's just different."
Once a year, national representatives will meet with Panhellenic representatives to assess the status of the Panhellenic community and Sigma Delta Tau.
Edited by Hannah Barling
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