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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY & ANSAN
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Editor-in-chief Emma LeGault
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Managing editor
Madison Schultz
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Tom Wittler
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Opinion editor
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Calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 22
What: Bikers' Brunch and Sustainability Organization Fair
When: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Watson Library lawn
About: Celebrate bike culture with free muffins and coffee.
Thursday,0ct.23
What: War Termination lecture When: 7-9:30 p.m. Where: Dole Institute of Politics About: An evening lecture that will compare and contrast war of the past and today.
What: Kansas Economic Policy Conference
When: 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union
About: A meeting to examine the impacts of the Affordable Care Act in Kansas.
What: Film and Media Studies Internship Fair
Where: Oldfather Studios, 100 About: Students interested in internships can bring their resumes to meet prospective employment.
Friday, Oct, 24
When: 2-4 p.m.
What: Tunnel of Oppression
When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center
Where: A tunnel designed to create an awareness of different types of oppression.
What: Chet Faker concert When: 8-11 p.m. Where: Lied Center About: Tickets are available at the Union Programs Box Office, the Lied Center ticket office and online at suaevents.com
Saturday, Oct. 25
What: Self Defense Workshop
When: 10 a.m. to noon
Where: Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center
About: A workshop designed to improve awareness, personal safety and confidence in self-defense.
What: Leo Kottke concert
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center
About: A performance by a Grammy-nominated acoustic guitar icon.
LeaderShape program accepting applications
HALEY HAUCH
@HaHaley17
Students could find an email in their KU inbox encouraging them to apply for the 18th year of LeaderShape, which is a six day program that will take place from Jan. 13-18. It helps students practice teamwork, ethical decision making, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, and building bonds with other students.
"For new or transfer students it's a great way to make friends," Director of KU LeaderShape Rueben Perez said.
Last year, 270 applicants applied, but only 70 were admitted to the program. The national organization only allows each program to host 70 students, and it's a once-year thing because of the hosting expense, Perez said.
There is a variety of applicants who are accepted. The committee looks for a diverse group with an
equal amount of men and women all spanning from different backgrounds, religions, political affiliations and ethnicities. There are even doctorate and master students who are accepted, and one man as old as 56 was accepted.
"My favorite things is I've watched natural barriers — like Greek, political, living on and off campus — go down," Perez said. "The program is powerful beyond words."
Perez also said the committee doesn't just look for applicants who are currently student leaders, but they also look for students who aren't leaders who would like to get more involved.
For the first year since the program has been on campus, Perez said they are offering a second, slightly-altered leadership program to the 200 or more applicants they turn away. In the spring, a new hybrid program will run for one day, where it will cover the main points of the traditional
LeaderShape program. Perez said the applicants that were turned away from the January program will be the first to be invited to this new leadership group.
Whether you get into the LeaderShape program on the first try, or plan to attend the hybrid version in the spring, students are encouraged to apply.
"Go for it," Perez said. "It's six days to create opportunities for students to achieve what is the best version of themselves. The $50 is worth the investment in yourself."
Students who have been a part of Leadershape have had positive experiences.
"I came out as openly gay and it was weird in to come out in such a close-knit community.
"I thought it was a hoax and can't be that life changing, but it was, it was an extremely emotional six days. I met some lifelong friends," said senior Bret Koch, who attended the program last year.
I struggled with acceptance in college and never felt more accepted and like it was okay to be who I am when I was at LeaderShape," Koch said, who is from Tonganoxie.
Koch is now heavily involved with activities on campus because he had the ability to network and make connections with people he wouldn't have met otherwise. He applied for an executive position for the KU Dance Marathon because of a friend held made at the program. This year, he is the director of fundraising of the KUDM.
Students who've gone through the program have established other programs such as the House That Greeks Built and KU Unity.
"We don't measure success of the program on how many visions are implemented, but on how students return and live their lives, do their jobs, arrive in their communities," Perez said, who has been with KU LeaderShape since it started.
There are two main points that Perez hopes to get across through the program:
"Within each of us there is an ability to change the world, we are here to help you find that voice," he said. "First, we ask you what you're passionate about. Then, we identify the communities you are a part of. And lastly, we ask students to think about one change they can make in one of these communities so that they can leave with a vision plan."
After you have found your ability to change the world, the second main focus is doing it with integrity. Perez wants students to ask themselves, "How would I make choices when no one is watching?" and apply that to their everyday lives.
The deadline for students to apply for KU LeaderShape is Thursday, Oct. 23. More information can be found at www.silc.ku.edu/leadershape.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mike Wawrzewski, CEO of Clinic in a Can based in Wichita, stands inside one of the medical clinics they built inside a shipping container. The organization's goal is to send eight or more container clinics to Liberia to help with the Ebola disaster response line.
Kansas company raises Ebola money
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WICHITA — A Wichita-based company that converts shipping containers into medical clinics is trying to raise $300,000 to send eight clinics, food and supplies to western Africa to fight the Ebola outbreak.
Clinic in a Can, founded by physician assistant Mike Waurzewski, said his organization wants to create a Wichita response that will get locals involved in the battle against the deadly disease. Sending much-needed clinics to Liberia is a step in that direction, he said.
All surfaces in the clinics can be decontaminated, Wawrzewski said, which is a step up from many of the Ebola treatment centers in Liberia.
Clinic in a Can, which built its first clinic in 2005, has sent
clinics to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, the Philippines after 2013's Typhoon Haiyan, and Moore, Oklahoma, after last year's massive tornado.
"Their medical system is overwhelmed and it's the consequences of poor infrastructure and poor sanitation," he said.
The eight clinics are being constructed now and will be ready to ship in about three weeks if funding is in place, Wawrzewski said.
University reviewing student KORA request
MIRANDA DAVIS
@MirandaDavisUDK
"General counsel can help determine whether the requested records are exempt from disclosure by law and if information needs to be redacted," Erinn BarcombPeterson, director for News and Media Relations, said in an email on Monday.
Update: The materials that stem from the Kansas Open Records Act request a student group sent to the University are currently being reviewed by the University's Office of the General Counsel, which handles all legal matters for the University. The Office of Public Affairs said this is typical for all KORA requests so the University can redact information that isn't public record and would not apply to a KORA request.
The Office of the Provost,
the office within the University that handles all KORA requests, responded to the students' request within the three business days that are mandated by law with all KORA requests and the office has now been gathering all materials related to the KORA request. The University's School of Business and business Professor Art Hall denied an interview with the Kansan due to general counsel's involvement with the current KORA request.
Background: Students for a Sustainable Future, a student group at the University, began looking into the Koch brothers' influence at the University after learning of other higher education institutions that have received money from the Koch brothers that may have contractual stipulations. They learned
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the business school receives some donations from the Koch brothers and the school's Center for Applied Economics is funded by the Koch brothers. The student group filed the KORA request that the University granted — but the documents came with a $1,800 price tag. The student group met the goal by fundraising, submitted the payment and are now waiting for the materials to be given to them.
What's Next: The release of the documents. Because of the extensive nature of the request, the documents haven't been produced yet. Once all documents have been gathered by the University and information has been redacted if needed, the group will receive the documents from the KORA request.
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Victim advocacy: The Office of the Provost has funded a full-time advocate position at the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity this year. Sarah Jane Russell, formerly at GaDuGi SafeCenter, will provide guidance during
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investigations for victims and witnesses of sexual assault. The task force will make a recommendation concerning victim advocacy, which could make Russell's position permanent.
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