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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014
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Student Senate to vote on department name
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MIRANDA DAVIS
Douglas Dechairo, director of Student Health services, speaks to the Student Senate on Wednesday night.
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A representative from Student Health Services proposed a potential name change for the department at Wednesday night's full Student Senate meeting.
Douglas Dechairo, director and chief of staff of Student Health Services, said the department has conducted marketing research and discovered that there is confusion with the current name. He said many students think that students are providing services instead of trained medical personnel.
Students have also been confused about the affiliation with Watkins Memorial Health center, the building that houses health services, which is why Dechairo proposed the name Watkins Health Services.
Dechairo also said that there have been conversations about adding dental care and orthopedics to the center. He said
that Student Health Services is also working to provide free STI testing, but he said he does not know if funding will be available.
Dechairo said these additional services would pay rent to be within Watkins Memorial Health Center and therefore, would not raise student
fees to in relation to the health center.
"If anything, our students benefit because they pay us rent to use our building to run the clinic and we benefit because that gives revenue to us to turn around and give more services to students." Dechairo said.
Student Body President Morgan Said said that senators can write a resolution to change the name and send it to committees for discussion and voting. Then it would pass to full senate. If the bill passes in both committees and full senate then Student Health Services would have a green light
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to change its name.
A University Senate meeting is Friday and conversation will be about a change in policy that would allow students on active military who have to leave for short periods of time to make up exams and work that they may miss in the classroom. The University Senate will vote on this Nov. 6. This policy already passed in Student Senate but must also pass in University Senate in order to update the policy.
"Its a great thing we're finally able to put through here," Miranda Wagner, student body vice president, said.
Wagner also mentioned that work has begun on the mental health platform and that members of senate will meet with the director of Counseling and Psychological Services next Thursday to discuss plans.
—Edited by Amelia Arvesen
CLAS to launch language school in 2015
CHANDLER BOESE
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After a year of work, the foreign language departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have come together to form the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, which will launch publicly next August.
According to Marc Greenberg, director of the new school and chair for Germanic languages and literatures, the school will offer the same courses that individual departments have offered in the past, which can be viewed on each department's individual websites.
"We offer 40 languages at this university, more than any other between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River," said Danny Anderson, dean of liberal arts and sciences. "The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will serve as both a destination and a portal to those interested in expanding their linguistic abilities and cultural awareness."
Greenberg said that the East Asian Languages and Cultures, French & Italian, Germanic, Slavic and Spanish & Portuguese programs will make up the core departments of the new school. Departments within the African and African-American Studies, Classics, Linguistics, Jewish Studies and Area Studies programs will also be included.
During the last year, several dozen members of the University community, faculty, staff and student body worked in committees to form the new school, which was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents on Sept. 17.
"The process gave us a chance to think creatively about what we might do in the future to deploy our resources not only efficiently, but also create new opportunities for students," Greenberg said. "Over the next few years you will see evolutive change in the way we operate, with a great deal of attention
given to students' evolving needs and interests."
Anderson hopes that the creation of this school will open up more co-curricular options such as guest speakers, career lectures and internship opportunities, as well as a way for foreign language students to associate with each other.
ahead in the competitive, international job market of today. Schofield says that from business to engineering, every field across the board can benefit from a great knowledge of other languages and cultures.
"By creating a tighter-knit community of language-teaching practitioners, we will foster a culture of best practices as well as provide opportunities for professional support," Greenberg said.
Ann Schofield, associate dean of humanities, said she believes the new school will provide an opportunity for students to get
"Study in foreign languages can take students from KU to nearly anywhere around the globe," Anderson said. "Alumni with language skills have found jobs from Hong Kong to Brazil to France to Nigeria. They work overseas for major corporations or humanitarian organizations, as professors, as entrepreneurs, and a whole host of other careers. It's a fantastic launching point."
Edited by Jordan Fox
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