TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002
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Sorority women go'geek' for this week's midterms
By Todd Rapp trapp@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Sorority women will go from "greek" to "geek" this week at Watson and Anschutz libraries.
The Panhellenic Association organized "Geek Week at the Library," a competition between sororities to see which chapter can study the most at the libraries during midterms.
Scholarship chairs from each sorority volunteered to man tables at both libraries. Women from each chapter sign in at the table and sign out when they leave. The chapter with the most participation per woman will win study snacks on Oct. 13 and 15.
With midterms coming up, students will be studying harder, said Erin McCall, vice president for educational programs for the Panhellenic Association.
"I think there will be a pretty good turnout because if you are going to study, why not study at the library?" McCall, Tulsa, Okla. senior, said.
a reinforcement to study than motivation and the program was designed to allow sorority women to have fun studying instead of trying to push the image that greeks do study.
She said the event was more of
The program enables women to combine study efforts, said Kelli Olechoski, Panhellenic appointed officer for scholarship. She said the program promoted going to the library and assuring women that they were not alone in stressing over midterms.
Olechoski, Omaha, Neb., junior, said that challenging chapters would bring more participation and get more women studying at the library.
"I think people will rise to the challenge. Even though it is a little thing, people like to win," Laura Kinch, Alpha Chi Omega senior from Buffalo Grove, Ill., said. "Plus, I think a lot of people go to the library, so you might as well sign in."
The program began Sunday and ends Wednesday. Women can sign in each night from 7 to 11 p.m. at either library.
Liz Brown, Overland Park sophomore and Cathy Houts, Prairie Village sophomore, study at Watson Library as part of Geek Week
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— Edited by Amanda Sears
Advising Network to converge communication on campus
By Molly Gise
mgise@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A new organization will connect academic advisers campuswide.
The Advising Network is a way for advisers to exchange ideas and to share information, said Lynn Mosteller, senior academic adviser at the Freshmen-Sophomore Advising Center.
"It's just a way of pulling everyone together who provides aca
demic advising on campus," Mosteller said.
The group will distribute information about advising, enrollment and changes to policy. Mosteller said. One change in the advising process includes the arrival of online enrollment next semester.
"It's very exciting, but with changes comes a little bit of stress." Mosteller said.
It will also provide professional development for advisers, facilitated communication
between departments and give an annual advising award from student and faculty nominations.
Faculty can benefit from the Advising Network, said Paul Crosby, medical professions adviser. Once students are no longer advised by the Freshmen-Sophomore Advising Center, they often see their department's faculty for advising.
Advising at the University had been focused more on first-year students than on upperclassmen, Crosby said.
"I think there's a bit of a vacuum there when students leave the freshmen-Sophomore Advising Center," Crosby said. "They will be able to fill that vacuum with faculty advising."
The Advising Network can shape advising by providing suggestions, but cannot make decisions about how advising is run by the University, Mosteller said.
The group will coordinate the Adviser Brown Bag Series, a
"We want to be a place that can generate ideas," she said.
lunch-hour discussion series started two years ago with hopes it would turn into an organization for advisers, Mosteller said.
Graduate teaching assistants, peer advisers and people who work at the front desks in dean's offices can all benefit from the Advising Network, she said.
The Advising Network encourages anyone who advises students to join. Mosteller said.
questions."
"They're not titled as a professional adviser," Mosteller said, "but they're answering student
The Advising Network is meeting for the first time at 2 p.m. today at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, Kim Wilcox, dean of liberal arts and sciences, will speak about the Board of Regents' vision for academic advising and the benefits for students from high-quality advising.
For more information about the Advising Network, contact Mosteller at lynnm@ku.edu.
— Edited by Christine Grubbs
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