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Volume 128 Issue 58
Monday. December 8, 2014
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CarmaHop, a ridesharing service, officially launched in Lawrence over the weekend. The service gives Lawrence residents whiteboards so they can write their desired destination for passersby to recognize.
Political groups prepare for legislative session
ALLISON KITE
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COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
As students wrap up the semester,political organizations are already planning their programming for next semester.
From membership development to tabling,educating students seems to be key in programming among multiple political student organizations next semester. Chief among several groups' goals is education.
to speak. However, because she is transferring to Wichita State University, much of the planning will be up to the new president, who will be elected this week.
Brittany Bodenheimer, a sophomore from Topeka and president of Young Democrats, said they too would focus on outreach, hoping to attract more students and get them involved in the political process. However, they will also
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
zations," she said. "I think that the biggest issue that organizations in general are having right now — political or not — is just a lack of student involvement, so I would just encourage students to get involved with whatever fits best with their ideas and really grab on to something."
STUDENT LEGISLATIVE AWARENESS BOARD
The Student Legislative Awareness Board, a bi-partisan civic engagement group
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about 15 to 20 minutes, and told her she had to come back to Topeka immediately for a press conference. So they turned around and drove right back.
"I didn't get to see the campus until later that day, and I was so happy it was gorgeous." Gray-Little said.
A few of her favorite things
Her favorite time of year on campus is a tie between, spring and fall. The way the streets are laid out, the hill the campus sits upon and the vibrant colors are reasons Gray-Little pridefully thinks campus is "just beautiful."
Owning between 20 and 30 blazers, Gray-Little is a very poised and put-together woman. She maintains a vegetable garden at home and tomatoes are her favorite vegetable to plant and eat. She is one of eight children, and celebrates the holidays eating and spending time with her family.
"If I have See's peanut brittle, I'll eat more than I should," Gray-Little said. Gray-Little said she has traveled all over the state, the region and the coasts for work, and doesn't have a
Italian sausage is her favorite type of pizza, although she doesn't eat it often, and See's Candies peanut brittle is her go-to guilty pleasure.
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particular favorite getaway. But there is one vacation she tries to take each year.
"I like to go to the ocean at least once a year, and spend some days there," Gray-Little said. "The Atlantic Ocean, some of the beaches on the outer banks of North Carolina."
Chancellor Gray-Little also likes to sing. She listens to jazz, rock and roll, a little bit of broadway tunes and coffeehouse music, but rock and roll is her favorite genre, which she sings along to in the car. However, even though she usually sings in the car, she's not afraid to belt out a tune in front of others.
Retired faculty were given a surprise when they first met Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. During a meeting in which they were celebrating some birthdays, Gray-Little got up and sang a birthday tune from a Saturday morning radio show she and her family used to sing.
"I got up and sang that song, and they were just flabbergasted," Gray-Little said.
"It's not a balance in a sense of you have time to do this and you have time to do work." Gray-Little said when
Being the Chancellor and being Bernadette
asked how she manages her time between being the chancellor and living a normal, everyday life.
Because of the way things are scheduled and the times of events, she said even if it is a fun activity it might also be work, so fun and work is a true mixture for the chancellor.
"The balance has to be in the perspective that you bring to work and the way in which you approach the work. More than in terms of the time," Gray-Little said.
Being the chancellor isn't a part-time gig. Even when she's at home, Gray-Little still deals with University issues. However, she said there are many enjoyable aspects of being the chancellor.
Gray-Little and her husband do a variety of things together, many of which connect to the University and its offerings. Home games, plays on campus and events at the Lied center are a few examples. She said there are more opportunities to do things here than in a bigger city because they're all so close.
"The ones that come to mind as most memorable are the ones in which we are celebrating, such as celebrating an achievement or a performance," Gray-Little said in an email. "This includes events such as Commencement where we celebrate four or more years of
work on the part of our students, as well as events honoring our faculty, students, or staff for outstanding accomplishments."
Getting home
"There is no typical ending time of the day," Gray-Little said. She might leave at 5 p.m., and come back to an event at 5:30 p.m., then leave again at 9 p.m. She's always going somewhere or moving around.
When she finally does reach home for the evening, Gray-Little changes her clothes, eats a light dinner and rarely turns on the television. In her free time, she usually chooses to read. Gray-Little just finished reading the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction novel "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson, and is currently reading "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The chancellor said her favorite part of the University is the sense of community it encompasses and the collective identity among the students, faculty, staff and alumni. You may only know her as "the chancellor", but she is also Bernadette Gray-Little — the woman who likes to read, drinks coffee every morning, occasionally splurges on candy and loves her Jayhawks.
GEORGE MULLINIX/XANSAN Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little works in her office in Strong Hall. When she's not working, Gray-Little said he enjoys attending campus events like plays, performances and athletic games.
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Last week, student groups, including the Black Student Union, organized several events on campus to protest the issues going on in Ferguson and discuss what was happening
may affect minority students. Cota said the task force that compiled the report and sent it out to many within KU's administration and did not get a response.
may affect minority students.
means, on these platforms, the dialogue has been base, racist and often hateful. This reflects poorly on the entire K-State family and even more poorly on the individuals who are making these posts. The K-State community is better than this and we expect more of ourselves," part of the message said.
Miranda Davis
The accuser, whose name was never released, claimed Bavel placed his arm around her shoulder and his hand on her knee as he helped her study material from his symbolic logic course at Perkins — a place where he has met with students to provide help for
hearing is scheduled for Jan. 14.
in both his personal and professional life. When the Lawrence Journal-World recently published a story on the subject, Bavel's son, who lives in Lawrence, was asked about the accusations at work.
"My son was shown the article at work, and obviously he was hurt by it," Bavel said. "There have been reactions
Aside from the accusations affecting his personal life, Bavel has also become slightly more cautious when it comes to meeting with students to help them outside of class, though he's tried to continue to provide as much assistance as possible.
"Now, anytime a student asks to sit next to me in a booth, I'll refuse. Bavel said. "However,
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While Bavel continues to be passionate about teaching at KU,he said decisions like these were typical of the University.
students between six and eight hours a week. I look at my students as my children or grandchildren, so my main goal is to help them."
"They [KU] will not admit
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