4A - THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
OPINION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2002
TALKTOUS
Jay Krall
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I was just downloading songs. I typed in "rock" into the search engine, and the University of Kansas Alma Mater came up as a result. That just reminded me that KU rocks and Mizzou sucks. Ok, just wanted to let you know.
n you ever get pulled over for a DUI, and the officer makes you do the test where you have to reach out and bend your arm and then touch your nose, don't. Instead of touching your nose, don't reach out and touch his nose instead like I did.
Is anyone else bothered by the amount of time Carrot Top has been on TV?
n you ever get pulled over for a DUI, and the officer makes you do the test where you have to reach out and bend your arm and then touch your nose, don't. Instead of touching your nose, don't reach out and touch his nose instead like I did.
Yes, this is for the girl who thinks she's the second hottest in the honors tutorial class. The guys probably didn't talk to you because you couldn't stop talking about yourself.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
I was just watching Headline News, and they said that the University of Missouri is now putting out logos for coffins. This is just one more reason why Missouri sucks and we are cool.
I'm wondering why every single person on the cover of Jayplay travel edition from November 14th is white. Can we at least pretend to be a sophisticated and diverse campus?
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
I'm from Independence, and although I didn't know Casey Nisely, if he was anything like the rest of his family, he had to have been a great person. I just wanted to let Abby and Tyler know that I'm sorry for their loss.
I wish I was a caveman, man, to return to a time before society began. So I propose we start a revival of the culture where men's only goal was survival. No bills, no pills, no philosophical debate. Just a daily agenda of eat, sleep, and mate. As a caveman, you see, there's really no difference between you and me. We're just living life from point A to point B. There's no restaurants, no stores, no gourmet to pick. You a mammoth and a big frickin' stick.
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Hey stupid, it's a curd of cottage cheese, not a kernel.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
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I was sitting in my class again today, and the guy who picks his nose every day, despite the fact that it was in the paper in the Free for All and everybody in the class pretty much is disgusted by it. So I'd really appreciate it if he'd stop. Maybe he'll get the picture this time.
I think the Free for All needs to get a new opening line. The guy says Free really loud. Kinda hurts your ears. Oh, and uh, the comics in the Kansan are very funny, even though they're drawn well.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
I came home as basketball let out, and can't get into my dorm. I talked to six different cops, and I still can't go home. If anybody has any ideas how to get back into the parking lot, please send your info.
Don't leave penguins unattended.
I did a Disney college program last spring and this summer, I'd like to say that Erin Beatty is wrong on this. Yes, we could not shadow people, I am a theatre major, and I was able to go and talk to everyone in the Beauty and the Beast show to find out how they got there. They just don't have the opportunities anymore to let you do it, but you can still get the information and meet the people you need to meet. So Erin Beatty, you are wrong, it was awesome.
If a 20-ounce bottle of Coke costs $1 from a machine, and you can use your KUID card for a 15 percent discount, or for a price of only 85 cents, why does my KUID card with a balance of 95 cents get the reading "balance too low?" Think about that.
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I'm a KU student, and I'm proud of it. But if I read another Free for All comment about how Mizzou sucks, I seriously might vomit. Give it a rest.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
How ironic is it that members of the Delta Force are protesting the military actions in the Middle East when there is a military special ops group named Delta Force that is very much involved in the Middle East conflict?
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Is the University trying to shut down KJHK? What's up with that silly survey about radio listening that's going on? If the university wants to save money, shut down that stupid TV station.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
My friend Liz doesn't know that a pickle is really a cucumber. Isn't that weird?
That boy from Weezer is pretty.
This is for all of you who don't understand how to go around a roundabout. See, the people going around in circles have the right of way. The people entering the roundabout have to wait for them. So when you are going around the circle, and I'm waiting to enter, don't stop for me. And when I'm going around the circle, don't run into me, then honk and flip me off.
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
I have this thing, and it really bothers me because my roommate does this to me all the time. I can't stand to have the volume on prime numbers. Or anything that has factors that are only prime numbers, for example, 21. This really bothers me for, god knows why. But my roommate purposely sets the volume on prime numbers, and it's really starting to annoy me. Is that weird?
demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
I would just like to say that if KU offered a degree for snood, I would definitely already have it and be working on my doctorate.
To all the hippies and librals out there who are against the war on terrorism, I have but one question. How can you sit there and watch people suffer day after day, year after year, and not want to do something to help them? If you had a soul in your body, you would want to help. You should be deported and terrorized so that others sit around and watch you die.
Scott, will you marry me? I wanna have 10 million of your babies.
--demi school year
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
BEELER'S VIEW
SURVEY: ONLY 13% of AMERICAN YOUTH can IDENTIFY IRAQ on a MAP...
BY THE NUMBERS
$2,921
Nate Beeler/Knight Ridder
KU undergraduate resident tuition for a full-time student in the 2002-2003 academic school year.
S2.333
$10,124
KU undergraduate resident tuition for a full-time student in the 2001-2002 academic school year.
KU undergraduate non-resident tuition for a full-time student in the 2002-2003 academic school year.
S9.260
KU undergraduate non-resident tuition for a full-time student in the 2001-2002 academic school year.
$3,227
KU graduate resident tuition for a fulltime student in the 2002-2003 academic school year.
$2,772
KU graduate resident tuition for a fulltime student in the 2001-2002 aca
PERSPECTIVES
Tuition increase dollars kept separate from other budgets
A paradox is "a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true."
KU CHANCELLOR
That's how some people view the fact that KU is cutting its budget and reducing staff in some areas while increasing its budget and adding staff in others.
We recently announced that KU will use tuition enhancement money to increase the minimum wage for student hourly workers, hire three additional advisers in the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center and provide $750,000 in tuition assistance to graduate research assistants.
Yet we all know that's a big assumption. I doubt everyone knows that the state reduced the Lawrence campus budget by $6.1 million this year, causing us to eliminate positions and lay off people in the process.
Robert Hemenway opinion@kansan.com
How do you explain this paradox?
It's important to remember that KU receives funding from many sources; chiefly state government, federal agencies, tuition and fees, room and board payments and private gifts.
It's like having several different pockets—each with its own wallet but you have to keep the money separate. You can't put it all in one wallet and buy anything you want. So room and board dollars pay for room and board. Dollars donated for scholarships are used for scholarships.
The state's $6.1 million budget reduction comes out of the wallet that contains state money. So the cuts
we've had to make were cuts that involved state appropriations.
This year's tuition enhancement money sits in an entirely separate wallet. Kansas tuition grants come from that wallet — so does $500,000 in classroom renovations. It's the source of funding for minority student recruitment and retention, as well as technology enhancements.
The spending of tuition enhancement money reflects a partnership between KU and its students, which works to make a better University. Student leaders have provided good advice on how to spend this money, and every student will benefit in some way.
Many students, for example, have already received Kansas tuition grants for 2002-03.
Keeping the wallets separate is important as the state goes through a very difficult fiscal crisis.
We might like to pull a few bills out of one pocket and slide them over to another, so that we could avoid some
painful choices. But doing so this year would break faith with our students. It would announce our willingness to replace budget cuts with the tuition enhancement dollars paid by students and their parents.
And more budget cuts are coming. I'm sorry to say.
Gov. Bill Graves made the announcement last week that the state budget for 2002-03 will be reduced by a certain amount in order to help avert a projected $310 million deficit at the end of June. This will be in addition to the $41 million in reductions he ordered in August. Ominously, Graves said, "Making the amount of reductions significant is much easier to do if you've got K-12 and higher education on the table."
A thinner state funding "walet" for KU will be unavoidable as the year goes on.
The true paradox is this: the state reduced its support for KU this year, while students increased their support through tuition.
I think the state can take a lesson from KU students.
Students understand the value of a strong investment in their future. Let's make sure others understand how a major investment in higher education ensures the economic future of Kansas.
Hemenway is Chancellor for the University of Kansas.
KANSAN EDITORIAL BOARD
Elimination of pre-holiday tests would make many students thankful
Thanksgiving break provides a much-needed rest from midterm papers and tests. It can also be the first time students have been able to go home to see their families since the beginning of the semester.
For students who have to schedule flights home or have a long drive ahead of them, leaving early Tuesday morning is necessary. However, some faculty members will not provide an alternate test time for these students.
Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the provost, said professors could schedule a test the day before Thanksgiving break as long as it is noted on the syllabus handed out at the beginning of the
"Thanksgiving becomes a problem when faculty members schedule tests on the day before the break and announce that the test will be required to pass the course."
semester.
She said they are not required to give an alternate test time for students who say they can't make it.
"Faculty members have the right to
make the arrangements they feel appropriate for the course they are teaching," Johnson said.
Johnson suggests students plan ahead and get their plane tickets for Thanksgiving as soon as possible.
Most faculty members are realists and will work with a student to reschedule a test if the student comes to them early in the semester with the problem, she said.
However, the week of Thanksgiving is one of the biggest traveling weeks in the year. The U.S. Department of Transportation expects 36 million people to travel by plane this Thanksgiving.
With limited flight times available,
Thanksgiving becomes a problem when faculty members schedule tests on the day before the break and announce that the test will be required to pass the course.
even scheduling early may not allow a student to work around a test schedule, not to mention the fact that in the busy lives of procrastinating students, scheduling a plane trip three months away is not very probable.
Faculty members should be realistic and allow students who have to leave early for break to take a required test at an alternate time.
Better yet, faculty members should realize that Thanksgiving is a time when
When they plan out the course for the semester, they should be sure that any important tests fall in the week before or after Thanksgiving break.
Making sure academic requirements such as tests in a course are met is largely the responsibility of students.
all students need to be with their families.
But at a time when students leave to celebrate a holiday that is meant for family and friends, faculty members should be responsible to see that students have alternate times to complete course requirements.
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Caroline Boyer for the editorial board