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By Luke Wetzel
Kansan staff writer
Committee revamps Hawk Week party
Jayme Uden has had a busy summer. Uden, Hawk Week coordinator, has been scheduling buses, planning tours, getting donations and updating the Web site to organize and promote Hawk Week, the week-long welcome back party thrown each year before classes start.
"The events are about the same this year, but the times have changed," he said. "The dances were made a bit later and we moved the community service event to a Saturday. Last year it was on a week day and we didn't get a lot of people."
This year, Hawk Week carries a Survivor theme, which organizers hope will portray the University as an adventure.
ture," said David Johnston, marketing coordinator for the Kansas Union. Johnston is a member of the Hawk Week committee, a group of 25 members from different campus organizations who plan the week.
"KU is nothing if not an adven-
Although the theme came easily, it took the committee some time to come up with this year's tag line.
"It was going to be 'Conquer KU,' but that was deemed controversial, and then it was going to be 'Survive KU,' but that didn't work either," Johnston said.
They eventually decided on "Jayhawks Unite," which Johnston said was designed to promote KU as a community. It wasn't always this way, he said.
Johnston said recent Hawk Weeks were a far cry from those held when he was a KU student in
the early 1990s. Back then it was called Country Club Week and attendance was mostly greek.
"It was not embraced by all of campus," he said. "We've seen a real effort on the part of the University to make it more of a campus-wide event. They've done a great job involving all the residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities and sororities."
One of the events, which directly involves people of different groups and living areas, is the Hawk Crawl, a four-location dance that introduces students to KU living environments other than their own. This year, buses will shuttle partiers from the Jayhawk Tower, Wesco Beach, Alumni Place, and the Phi Pi fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority houses, the block in which several of the scholarship halls are
Another Hawk Week staple is Traditions Night, where students gather to hear about KU's rich history.
located.
Uden encourages all KU students — not just freshman — to be a part of Hawk Week.'
"Every freshman needs to go through Traditions Night to learn the songs and learn the traditions on campus," Uden said. "It's one of the better programs here."
"There's a misperception that Hawk Week is just for new students," he said. "It's really meant to be a welcome back to old students as well. Any sophomore who comes to KU and thinks he's seen it all is missing out."
Wetzel can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansen.com
Adams course strengthens mind, body
By Mark Hansen Kansan staff writer
Bryan Christensen, Adams Campus coordinator, sports a T-shirt which reads, "No wall is too tall."
However, a 14-foot wall is too tall to scale with bare hands. That is when the groups realize the importance of teamwork.
Saturday morning, the All Scholarship Hall Council worked through three of the Adams campus' 19 stations. The course is about 12 miles southwest of the University of Kansas, near Clinton Lake.
After each station, the group discussed lessons learned with a course facilitator.
The group did the Mohawk Walk, a tightrope-like challenge in which the entire group must hold hands and traverse a thick wire that zig-zags between trees.
attempts to pass the station.
Elizabeth Beavers, Ames, Iowa, sophomore, said supporting her teammates was crucial to completing the task. The group took three
She said the experience should translate into better cooperation on projects this academic year.
"It really makes you work together," she said. "It was a lot of fun."
Dave Rolling, facilitator at the course and KU graduate student, said the real challenge is more mental than physical. He said 350-pound participants have done as well as thinner people.
The Crock Pit station is like going through a cave, said Christensen, pointing to four posts connected in a square by two parallel levels of rope suspended above the ground. He said he told a story to set the rules for each station.
At the pit, he tells groups that crocodiles await their fall, and the teams have only the tools they've found — two boards and two milk crates — to get across.
Group members have to make levers and maneuver their bodies between the ropes and out of the
crocodiles' imaginary snapping mouths.
Christensen said this is one of the toughest of the 19 stations and usually takes about an hour to complete.
The Adams Campus comprises about 220 acres and has been open for 20 years. The land was donated by Boots Adams, for whom the Adams Alumni Center is named. The KU Endowment Association owns the land.
Christensen said the course is mostly self-funded by user fees. This includes $900 to replace a tire on the tractor trailer that transports groups to the sites' stations and to repair damage done by vandalism.
Christensen said about half the groups that came through were affiliated with the University. Other groups include junior high, high school, teams, churches and business groups. He said 5th-grade students were the course's youngest groups and business
groups of 40-year-olds were the oldest. The oldest individual to tackle the course was 72, he said.
He said the course's busiest week occurs just before the fall semester begins — an average of 10 groups have come to conquer the course in mid-August. Typically about one to four groups a week take the challenge.
Christensen estimated between 2,000 to 3,000 people used the course in a year.
The cost is $15 per person.
Events are either from 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., or from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m. The course closes in late
November and reopens March 1.
The campus staff also provides hayrides followed by toasted marshmallows.
To schedule, contact Bryan Christiansen at 864-0794.
Hansen can be reached at 864-
4810 or writer@kansan.com
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LEARN HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LIBRARIES Fall 2001
Tour guides will introduce information resources and services available to the University of Kansas Libraries. Tours are approximately 45-60 minutes long.
Anschutz Library (864-4928)
Monday, August 20 • 11 am
Tuesday, August 21 • 1 pm
Wednesday, August 22 • 10 am
Thursday, August 30 • 3 pm
Wednesday, September 5 • 4 pm
Friday, September 7 • 9:30 am & 11:30 am
Monday, September 10 • 11 am
Tuesday, September 11 • 4:30 pm
Friday, September 14 • 1 pm
Monday, September 17 • 1:30 pm
Art and Architecture Library (864-3020)
Level 1, Spencer Museum of Art Monday, August 20 • 10 am Tuesday, August 21 • 11 am
Music and Dance Library (864-3496)
240 Murphy Hall Tuesday, August 21 • 10 am
Engineering Library (864-3866)
Tuesday, August 21 • 10 am Wednesday, August 22 • 2 pm
Spencer Research Library (864-4334)
Tuesday, August 21 • 1 pm
Wednesday, August 22 • 2 pm
Watson Library (864-8991)
Monday, August 20 • 11 am
Tuesday, August 21 • 1 pm & 2 pm
Wednesday, August 22 • 10 am,11 am
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Thursday, August 30 • 11 am &1:30 pm
Wednesday, September 5 • 7 pm
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Friday, September 7 • 9:30 am,11:30 am,12:30 pm & 2:30 pm
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Sunday, September 9 • 1 pm & 7 pm
Monday, September 10 • 12:30 pm & 7 pm
Tuesday, September 11 • 12:30 pm &
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Sunday, September 16 • 1 pm
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