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Wednesday, Dec. 3
What: Resident Fellows Seminar
When: Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Hall Center
About: A lecture by Margot Versteegh,
associate professor of Spanish &
Portuguese.
Thursday, Dec. 4
Thursday, Dec. 4
What: Conflict Management Workshop
When: 9 a.m. to noon
Where: Joseph R. Pearson Hall,
Room 204
About: A workshop about conflict as a natural part of relationships, including confrontation and resolution.
Friday, Dec. 5
What: Undergraduate Research Office Hours
When: 10 a.m. to noon
Where: Strong Hall, Room 151
About: Learn how to get started in research, find a mentor or apply for funding.
Saturday, Dec. 6
What: Open Drawing
When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Art and Design Building,
Room 405
About: Free drawing classes offered
by the Department of Visual Art.
WORK FROM PAGE 1
delay was due to the extended time it took to acquire a building permit.
The new dorms on Daisy Hill, as well as McGarthy Hall. are expected to open before the beginning of the fall 2015 semester.
Construction of the Daisy Hill dorms have remained on track to be completed by July 2015, according to Diana Robertson, director of Student Housing. Crews plan to roof both buildings to work on the interior over the winter.
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Construction on the Capitol Federal School of Business is also expected to be completed on schedule in fall 2016, said Austin Falley, the communications director of the School of Business.
"In terms of the current construction site, utilities are done, the building piers and the building pads are complete, they are about 40 percent completed with the grade beams and the west half of the building is complete," Falley said. "We're installing the east half right now."
The DeBruce Center, a new facility attached to Allen Field-
house, is also in progress. Gavin Young, the associate director of strategic communications at the University, said the facility will not only house James Naismith's original rules of basketball, but will also contain a food area and a few retail shops.
According to the KU Athletics website, the DeBruce Center is expected to be completed in time for the 2015-16 basketball season.
Edited by Alyssa Scott
Group to hold meditation meetings during finals week
KELSI KIRWIN
@knkirwinUDK
Finals are quickly approaching, which means stress and studying. In order to help students relieve stress, KU Active Minds is hosting a mindfulness meditation meeting in the first floor conference room at Watkins Health Center tonight at 5:30 p.m.
Led by psychologist Keith Floyd from the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), mindfulness meditation is a way for students to connect with their bodies, emotions and thought processes in the moment rather than focusing on the past or present, said Katelyn Cook, KU Active Minds events coordinator.
KU Active Minds holds mindfulness meditation meetings each year around finals week.
Floyd said mindfulness meditation directs attention to one's present experience and emphasizes awareness of breathing and posture. The goal is to focus on what is happening now instead of letting the mind wander.
"In a way, [mindfulness meditation] is kind of impossible to do, but with practice we can learn to be more aware of when we're lost in thoughts or reacting to the stuff in our heads and return our attention to our immediate experience," Floyd said. "It's really interesting to notice the difference between experiencing things with openness and curiosity versus our habitual judging and reactivity."
The members of KU Active Minds are invited to this free event, but everyone is welcome to come: The meeting not only teaches students to meditate, but it also encourages students to utilize the services CAPS offers.
KU Active Minds President Rachel Hagan said participating in mindfulness meditation is a different experience.
"I think it's really neat because it's 15 or 20 students who know each other in varying degrees just sitting very quietly in a room during a really hectic time in the semester." Hagan said. "It's really weirdly cool."
"I think it's really important, especially in times of high stress, that students know what resources are available to them and this is one of the ways that Active Minds tries to introduce CAPS to students because CAPS is a great resource, but is not one that is used by many students," Hagan said. "Outside of that, this is a way to practice mindfulness meditation or get introduced in case you don't know about it."
Cook tries to practice mindfulness meditation on her own despite her busy schedule.
"It's very hard to keep yourself focused at first because you start thinking about what you're going to have for dinner or how much homework you have to do." Cook said. "I try to do it, but I'm very busy so I don't think about it all the time. It definitely helps and it gets easier as time goes on."
As a student organization, KU Active Minds aims to end the stigma surrounding mental illness by leading educational and fun meetings as well as spreading the word about the organization, Hagan said.
"Basically, [with] Active Minds we try to be an outreach arm," Hagan said. "Mental health can be hard to talk about, but I think students trust other students. It's important because mindfulness meditation can be mental health care."
"With mental illness, it can sound like it's a very serious club about health," Hagan said. "Really, we're a very positive group. It's all about connecting to resources that can improve your life."
Hagan doesn't want students to shy away from joining the club because it sounds like a solemn subject.
Floyd also holds weekly mindfulness Training Groups through CAPS.
Edited by Ashley Peralta
Student Senate addresses student bus driver conflicts
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MIRANDA DAVIS
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Student Senate is continuing to work on issues with the Daisy Hill bus route and conflicts between students and bus drivers.
Jenny Erice, the transportation coordinator for Student Senate, said they have only received two formal complaints from students
"It is utterly embarrassing that due to the hostile, vocal minority of Daisy Hill students, we had to prioritize worker rights over route convenience for students."
JENNY ERICE Transportation coordinator for Student Senate
The complaints stem from issues students had regarding an additional bus stop on Daily Hill. One bus stop was removed to streamline the Daily Hill route, and multiple students began acting out toward bus drivers.
Students allegedly kicked the buses and one student threatened to spit on a driver, according to Erice.
"College students can and should do far better than this," Erice said. "We should all be aware that kicking and screaming to get our way is a strategy whose usefulness is long dead. Complaints and reasonable suggestions from students, or any resident who uses the buses, are absolutely welcome and taken into account when transit decisions are made and bus drivers do not directly make these decisions."
The bus drivers' union intervened and the stop was added back into the route for the safety of the drivers.
"It is utterly embarrassing that due to the hostile, vocal minority of Daisy Hill students, we had to prioritize worker rights over route convenience for students," Erice said.
Student body President Morgan Said wants students to stop acting out and understand that the routes are not the bus drivers' choice.
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"I hope that students taking the buses understand that the bus drivers have been told what routes to take and this isn't something that the bus drivers have chosen and therefore I hope students treat them with the respect and dignity they deserve and allow them to do their job to their best ability." Said said.
For now, because of students' actions, the bus stop remains. Student Senate is still exploring options to remedy the situation and encourages student input.
Erice said students can contact her at KUon-wheels@ku.edu to voice concerns.
— Edited by Jordan Fox
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