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Speech competition honors COMS students
ALICIA GARZA
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Eight students will participate in the Linkugel Speech competition finals today from 5-7 p.m. in the Woodruff auditorium. This year the annual competition became semi-annual to create more opportunities for speakers, said Phillip Wagner, assistant basic course director for the communications studies department.
The competition is hosted to honor William Linkugel, who was a professor in the public speaking department, and it showcases the best and brightest of the University's Communications 130.131 and 132 classes, Wagner said.
Students are nominated to
Jacqueline to compete.
Lauren Schleicher, a freshman from Germantown,
Wis., said the student-nomination process was a good validation experience.
"It one thing to have your professor nominate you, but the fact that your peers actually got something out of what you were saying and they thought that your message was carried well across ... was a really good honor, that your peers recognize your accomplishment as well as your professor," Schleicher said.
She will speak at the competition as the winner of the Honors Communications
category.
One of the finalists Patrick Spanier, a freshman from Mount Prospect, Ill., also said he enjoyed having his classmates' support.
"People can share that in a way that helps other people understand that tonic."
JOSHUA SLOCUM Junior from Olathe
"I'm from a small town near Chicago, so I don't have that many classmates here," Spanier said. "A few of my classmates specifically went to see me, and it was really cool to see that support I
had."
Around 100 students have participated in the competition this year. Wagner said the competition was a good way for University students to see how public speaking can be beneficial to students after college.
"I think this gives the whole student body the opportunity to step back and say, 'Wow, you can really do something with public speaking skills;'" Wagner said.
Garrett Fornicola, a freshman from Naperville, ill., who is also a finalist, agreed the competition had been a good experience for himself and fellow competitors.
"I think the best thing is you get to see everyone
else speak," Fornicola said. "There's usually good speakers and good points on things."
Joshua Slocum, a junior from Olathe, who will also compete with his speech on pro-nuclear environmentalism, said he thought it was important to the University to showcase the Linkugel competition.
"It shows that for hardwork, people can really shine and do well, and that everyone comes from different walks of life, especially when it's a topic you're interested in. People can share that in a way that helps other people understand that topic." Slocum said.
Chabad hosts eighth Hanukkah celebration
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ALANA FLINN
@alana flinn
The Chabad Center for Jewish Life hosted the eighth annual Chanukah Festibowl at the Union yesterday. The event included bowling. Jewish holiday foods and various activities and entertainment.
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel said the Festibowl is a chance for all members of the community to come together and celebrate Chanukah, more commonly spelled Hanukkah.
Hanukkah is a holiday that has a common theme across the community.
"So many students are away from home and so many miss the opportunity to celebrate with family, so this is family."
"So many students are away from home and so many miss the opportunity to celebrate with family, so this is family," Tiechtel said. "This is how we get together and have the foods we have at home and celebrate just like we would at home."
ZALMAN TIECHTEL Rabbi
Tiechtel added that
"It's all about bringing light to the world," Tiechtel said. "There's such a dark world and so much hate and racism with what's going on in the world these days. Hanukkah is a universal message: bring light."
Sophomore
Melissa
Stasi from Overland Park volunteered at the event in hopes of spending time with other Jewish community members.
"It's a community that everyone can be together with and have fun with and celebrate together" Stasi said. "I love eating all of the different foods and playing dreidel."
Freshman Emma Bernstein from Chicago celebrated Hanukkah with Chabad since she can't be home with family for the holiday.
"I celebrate Hanukkah because it's very important to me, because it's a family holiday and reminds me of happy times," Bernstein said.
Hanukkah officially begins Dec. 16 and lasts eight days.
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ALANA FLINN/KANSAN
Members of the Chabad Center for Jewish Life bowl at Jaybowl on Sunday in the group's eighth annual Chanikikah Festibowl.
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Admussen, a sophomore from Urbandale, Iowa.
Admussen said he believes SLAB is a valuable organization to be part of because of the ability to bring students together over common issues.
"We encourage all political perspectives to come. That's actually what makes us as strong as we are — that we have diverse perspectives that can all kind of take off their party hat and put on a general civic engagement hat."
This semester, the group hosted an event about police brutality, and this week it will host the Post Election Conference, an event that brings together pollsters, journalists and political strategists from
DOLE INSTITUTE STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
The Dole Institute Student Advisory Board will be working on programming throughout the next semester, but has started brainstorming ideas for their primary semester program. Alex Montgomery, a senior from Overland Park and coordinator of the board, said the group is considering income inequality for the issue to be discussed.
Montgomery encouraged students to get involved with the board because he believes it's a good way to make the University feel smaller without a stressful organization. He said board welcomes all students and doesn't place attendance requirements or heavy responsibility on them.
if you are going to KU and not getting involved with groups like the Dole Institute and those groups that kind of give you those individualized resources, then you are missing out on a lot of what KU has to offer."
Though the group has yet to formalize plans, Joey Hentzler, a senior from Topeka and the events coordinator, said the group would use its ties to local officials to bring speakers or panel events. He said the whole leadership team will be interning for officials in Tope-
both sides to discuss the 2014 midterm election.
FUTURE MAJORITY
The Future Majority, which participated heavily in the 2014 midterm election through voter registration efforts, will be hosting a variety of educational events and participating in Higher Education Day along with SLAB.
"We can leverage our legislators on a more personal level and that's just because of the dream team that we have assembled of student leaders," Hentzler said. "Back home, I personally know my senator and representative. I go to church with my representative and I've campaigned for my senator twice and that's true for a lot of our members."
ka, and many leaders have personal ties to their home-town legislators.
Hentzler said the leadership team has been vital to the group's success, and they hope to recruit additional successful leaders as the current ones prepare to graduate. Leaders in the Future Majority come up with ideas and execute events with the support of the rest of the group.
"When a member wants to host an event, the group surrounds and supports them in any way possible," he said. "The really great thing about the Future Majority has been that everyone involved has been experienced. Really it was like this fantastic coming-together of campus-wide leaders who already know how to do it."
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being the most noticeable. CarmaHop also no longer requires drivers to sign up with CarmaHop to provide rides. This change came after O'Brien noticed that trying to register both drivers and riders was impractical and overly limited the number of vehicles that could provide rides.
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After a Lawrence city ordinance prohibiting hitchhiking was altered to allow CarmaHop to operate in October, O'Brien said the project is now in "listening mode" and they will carefully monitor feedback from riders and drivers alike to further refine the program.
"We're optimizing this for randomness," O'Brien said. "And we've had some pretty amazing experiences already."
Jaimie Hofling, a Lawrence resident that used CarmaHop for a ride
Sunday, said it was a fun experience and she enjoyed being able to get to know the people who pulled over to give her a ride to the Community Mercantile.
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"Hopefully this will make it easier for people to get to know each other and feel comfortable doing things like this," Hofling said. "I see it making a more close-knit community."
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Looking forward, O'Brien is interested in expanding CarmaHap into other small college towns, such as Grinnell, Iowa, and Maryville, Mo. Concurrently, O'Brien will continue to promote the project in Lawrence using events like Ride Days, which take place every Wednesday and Sunday and give interested Lawrence residents a chance to try out the program in a controlled environment.
PROFESSOR FROM PAGE 1
wrong," Bavel said. "They will change the rules so that the next time things are OK, but they will not admit wrong."
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"The district court rejected professor Bavel's claims, finding that the University's conclusion was supported by substantial evidence." Barcomb-Peterson said in an email. "The University is confident the court of appeals will
Despite Bavel's claims, the University is confident in the court system and its case, said Erinn Barcomb-
Peterson, KU's director for news and media relations.
Although Bavel remains unsatisfied with the way KU has handled his case, he said he continues to teach here because of his initial desire to make the University better.
agree with the district court's findings and deny professor Bavel's appeal."
"I came here to invest
myself, make a better University and department, and to help the students." Bavel said. "I chose to come here because of what I saw as a suppleness and a dedication to research and teaching. KU is no longer what it used to be, but I am too old to move now."
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