6A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPT. 18, 2001
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Niki Anderson,(left) St. Paul, Minn., freshman, buys her tickets for the Counting Crowse' concert as Katie Danon, Chicago sophomore, Anne DeCicco, Wichita senior, and many other KU students wait their turn to buy tickets at the Kansas Union. Anderson said that she waited in line for three hours to get tickets. When the box office opened, the line wrapped around to the back stairwell, said Traci Pillard, Salina junior and Live Music Coordinator. The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, at the Lied Center.
CLAS assembly seeks student applicants
Lack of representation could create policies that hurt college
By Paul Smith Kansan staff writer
Faculty members on the College Assembly outnumber students by a 21 to 1 ratio.
That's not how it should be, said Pam Houston, director of undergraduate services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The College Assembly is a faculty and student committee within CLAS that formulates policy for the college, which often affects students—such as defining academic misconduct and graduation requirements for students.
Only 25 undergraduates have applied to serve on the College Assembly this year, leaving 112 vacant seats for undergraduate students on a committee that includes all CLAS faculty members, about 550
professors. Each of the 25 applicants had no experience working on the assembly, and all were accepted.
The lack of student representation is detrimental for the student body, Houston said.
"It's like your mom and dad making all your decisions for you," she said. "We need the student voice to know if what we are proposing is relevant and whether it meets the needs of students."
Bridget Bradley, office manager for CLAS undergraduate services, said student representation on the assembly could not exceed 25 percent of the number of CLAS faculty. She estimated that in the last 10 years, the number of students in the assembly never came close to its limit.
"Granted it's not exciting stuff," Bradley said. "But occasionally we do get something that affects the student body."
Houston said the student membership in College Assembly fought off a proposal in the early 1990s to implement a plus-minus grading system in the college, meaning that instead of a flat 3.0 for a B, numerical grade point values would vary higher or lower depending on a plus or minus.
"Had the students not been vocal in their opposition, we would have a plus-minus grading system in the college today." Houston said.
Igor Shkolnik, Spring 2001 graduate, served on the assembly last year with five other students and said that the experience didn't measure up to his time on the University Affairs Committee of Student Senate.
Students on the assembly have also dealt with general education requirements and diversity issues in the past.
"I didn't feel as though a lot of discussion was involved," Shkolnik said. "Maybe it was because of the lack of students."
The College Assembly meets once each month,starting Tuesday,Oct.2. Applications for service on the assembly will be accepted until Monday, Oct. 1. The only necessary qualification is that applicants be full-time students in the college.
"We need the student voice to know if what we are proposing is relevant and whether it meets the needs of students."
Pam Houston director of undergraduate services for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
"I don't think we'd deny any applicants." Bradley said.
Contact Smith at 864-4810
Award encourages students to pursue career at library
By Eve Lamborn
Kansan staff writer
Bill Crowe said that in his 33 years as a librarian, he had never been bored.
"It is the oldest and most honorable profession," the Spencer Research librarian said. "I like helping people discover things and put things together in unusual ways."
To encourage others to join Crowe's profession, the University of Kansas is offering the $1,000 Rubinstein/Mason Award for a student planning graduate study in librarianship in one of 50 of the nation's programs.
The University of Kansas does not offer a graduate program in library science, Crowe said, because the University did not want to duplicate the successful and well-established program at Emporia. ESU has the only librarianship program in Kansas.
The annual award is in its second year and honors the late Joseph Rubinstein, first head of the KU Department of Special Collections, and Alexandra Mason, Spencer Librarian Emerita, for their service to scholarship. Students at the University of Kansas who have been accepted by a graduate program accredited by the American Library Association and who intend to pursue a career in an academic or research library are eligible to apply for the award.
KU students interested in the $1,000 award have until March 29, 2002, to apply. The recipient will be announced by the Dean of Libraries in April 2002.
Rick Clement, Spencer collections librarian, said a master's degree in library science was a professional degree similar to a medical or law degree. He also said that KU librarians were faculty members who earned tenure, just like other professors.
Crowe said there were many kinds of libraries besides school libraries and public libraries. Businesses, corporations and government agencies also have specialized libraries.
"They need people to funnel and channel information to support the work force." Crowe said.
He said librarians, or knowledge navigators as they are sometimes known, also did free-lance research for any group that needed information.
"It's about people connecting information with people." Crowe said.
He estimated that six to 12 students each year from the University entered graduate programs in librarianship at other universities. Students do not need a specific undergraduate degree with librarians coming from a variety of fields, Crowe said.
Rebecca Miller, doctoral student at Emporia State University, said she earned a bachelor of arts degree in French from the University of Nebraska and did not know what to do with it, so she enrolled in the librarianship program at ESU.
"It was a way for me to marry my interest in French and languages with my desire to stay on a campus," she said.
She said she planned to become a professor of library and information studies but could one day work for a specialized library at a private corporation.
"An information manager is a key player in that organization," she said. "They help decide the future of the organization and how to get there."
Contact Lamborn at 864-4810
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