Monday, November 13. 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Mentor program helps ease transfer for Haskell students
Bv Jennifer Valadez
Kansan staff writer
Students transferring from Haskell Indian Nations University will receive a helping hand from departments at the University of Kansas.
Staff from the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center and the Office of Admissions and Scholarships will go to Haskell Wednesday to assist and advise students in their transfers to KU.
The advising is part of the Haskell Mentor Program, which began at the advising center four years ago.
"It was developed to satisfy the need to assist students from Haskell in successfully transferring to KU in their first year," said Gloria Flores, director of the program and associate director for the center.
She said the transfer students were provided with a mentor during their first year at the University. The mentor could be a center staff member or student who had previously made the transition from Haskell.
"At the request of the student, we can seek out a faculty member who can also assist them," Flores said.
She said a Student Senate Educational Opportunity Fund grant provided the new students with $150-book scholarships.
"We provide some financial support because a lot of Haskell students don't have to pay as much for school," Flores said. "It's quite a drastic change coming to KU. It's a bigger jump financially, so we try to ease that in their first semester."
expected to attend the University next fall.
Flores said 13 students transferred from Haskell last year and three transfers were
Lisa Beck, assistant director of admissions and scholarships, said she would attend the advising day at Haskell. She handles transfer recruitment for the office.
Flores said she was looking for ways to expand and improve the mentor program to provide more resources throughout the year for the new students.
"This is my first time going out there for the program," she said. "I'm hoping to help the students transfer to KU smoothly."
"We would like to provide additional scholarships for the future, so we're looking for more sponsorship and grants," she said. "We hope to have more programs that may assist them, such as workshops that they may benefit from, that will help them in their transition."
— Edited by J. R. Mendoza
Reporter finds love through the Internet
Continued from page 1A
It's definitely a 21st-century romance, but something that is still a little bit taboo and creepy for many people.
Davis said his friends couldn't believe he went online to find his latest dating interest.
"My friends made royal fun of me," he said. "They just couldn't believe I'd met a girl off the Internet. They though it was kind of sad."
Despite the negative stereotypes, more and more college students are turning to online ways of finding love.
This follows a trend in the rise of home computer and Internet popularity.
According to a study in American Psychologist, the journal for the American Psychology Association, more and more people are using the Internet.
In 1998, about 40 percent of all S. households owned a personal computer. About one third of those homes also had Internet hookups.
The University computer labs and ethernet hookups in campus housing provide KU students with easy ways to get turned on to other people online.
Many students like Stacey Love, Overland Park senior, look to the Internet to meet friends — romantic or not.
She said she had met people from all around the world in chat rooms and through personal ads. She
said, despite many stereotypes, the people she met were usually fun, sane and exactly who they said they were.
"It's just a bunch of people who don't know people in the area," Love said. "It's a great way to get to know somebody or talk to somebody."
Ann Brill, associate professor of journalism who specializes in online journalism, said Internet relationships were not much different than relationships that started in person. And, generally, they had the same problems and successes as other relationships.
"I've heard stories about how things turn out OK," she said. "I also heard stories where things didn't turn out so well, but those
are situations you hear about in other getting-to-know-you situations, too."
Brill said she knew several people, including her niece, who had married or were getting married to people they originally met on the Internet.
But even though Davis' foray into the world of Internet dating has turned out moderately successful so far, he warned people not to take things from online to real world too quickly.
"You hear all these horror stories about people meeting all these weird freaks," he said. "If you have them come to your house they may stay longer than you would like."
- Edited by J. R. Mendoza
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