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Second annual Open House expecting 20,000 attendees
"The intent of this is to have children feeling comfortable on a college campus," said Margey Frederick, director of visitor services and special events. "Then, hopefully, when it's time for them to be coming to college, they'll pick KU."
By Jenna Goepfert
jgoepfert@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Organizers of the second annual event would like to draw about 20,000 people to campus to showcase what the University offers.
Visitors to the University of Kansas' Open House tomorrow can build their own Web sites, watch the University's version of Survivor, or learn the fate of the universe through an astronomy presentation.
Frederick said this year's events would be similar to last year's Open House, which drew about 15,000 visitors. She said the biggest change would be centralizing events on Jayhawk Boulevard to make it easier for visitors to attend.
"Some areas of the campus got huge crowds, and others were on the fringe," she said.
The Open House begins at 10
Wescoe Beach will be the main stage for the day's events, including a history presentation and performances by the Spirit Squad and several student groups.
An event in the Adams Alumni Center parking lot, the Tastes and Sounds of Lawrence, will offer free food and local music after the Hispanic Heritage Month parade at 2 p.m.
"It's an opportunity to showcase what we do to people we don't normally reach," said Charla Jenkins, director of public relations for University Theatre. Jenkins was impressed by the enthusiasm she saw from visitors last year.
Frederick said several of last year's biggest draws came from University Theatre, which offered a silent auction of theater props and costumes, and CyberJay, a virtual reality Jayhawk that interacted with visitors. Both events will be offered again this year.
Holly Harmison, Overland Park freshman, said a friend of hers would be performing as a dancer at the Open House. She said the event would be a good recruitment tool for the University and a good way to showcase
OPEN HOUSE
Main stage: Wesco Beach
11:30 a.m.: American Sign Language demonstration
Open House runs from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m. tomorrow
Language demonstration
Noon: KU Spirit Squad
12:30 p.m.: Random Harmony
12:50 p.m.: ROTC drill
1 p.m.: "Survivor: A Humanities Chautauquae, Jayhawk Boulevard
2 p.m.: Hispanic Heritage Month Parade, Adams Alumni Center parking lot
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.: Tastes and Sounds of Lawrence
For a complete list of events, see www.openhouse.ku.edu.
"It just makes you feel good to realize how many people love KU." Frederick said.
Both Froderick and Jenkins said the highlight of the day was meeting different people.
Open House is free, and current students and visitors can attend. In case of rain, outdoor events will move to the concourse Memorial Stadium.
the arts.
plenty of differences between ecosystems," he said, "so you can't say one region constitutes an old-growth forest as opposed to another."
Edited by Erin Ohm
But the Environs aren't deterred.
Nonetheless, Boise Cascade continues to stand by its definition of old growth. The company owns or controls 2.3 million acres of land in the United States, and says only one percent of that land contains old growth timberlands.
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They plan to continue with their campaign against Boise Cascade and the group has formed a special committee that will meet for the first time Sunday.
"Even if we don't get a recycle contract," she said. "I'm sure we can find someone with a better environmental record because no one can do worse."
Vanessa Meyer, Grayslake, Ill., senior and member of the Environs, said she knew challenging Boise Cascade would not be easy.
Weekend breaks offer reality trips
Edited by Katie Teske
By George Schulz
gschulz@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Starla Titus has endured homelessness before — at least, for two days.
Titus, Newton junior, is a weekend-breaks coordinator for Alternative Breaks, Inc., an organization at the University of Kansas that sends students on trips to do volunteer work during weekend and holiday vacations.
But two days were enough to convince her that homelessness was not easy, and the experience gave her a new outlook on poverty.
Her first alternative break was to Washington, D.C., in 2001. Titus and 10 other volunteers spent the first two days of the trip
without a place to stay as a learning experience. The group of students stayed awake for nearly the entire two days and rested on benches when they could.
Titus said she never imagined the trip would affect her the way it did.
"It was definitely a life-changing experience," she said.
Titus' experience was similar to those of other Alternative Breaks coordinators and site leaders who said the program had given them a new reason to look forward to vacations from school
This weekend, nine students will head to The Great Plains Earth Institute in Wichita for the second alternative weekend break of the semester.
The students will volunteer at
Alternative Breaks, Inc., is an organization that sends students on trips to do volunteer work during vacations.
the institute's community garden that feeds the poor by helping them buy and tend to plots of land.
Alternative Breaks offer 15 free volunteer trips throughout the year.
Titus said alternative breaks were a way for students to learn more about civic education and duty.
Jessi Mester, Topeka senior and co-coordinator for the program, said Alternative Breaks
During fall break, Oct.18 to 20 volunteers will help with repairs at the Women's Crisis Center and the Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center.
Mester said she walked away from the experience thinking that she could get involved with Alternative Breaks.
To find out more about Alternative Breaks, call 864-4317 or go to www.ku.edu/~albreaks
began in 1995 with a group of students who traveled to Mexican border towns to visit sweatshops.
Mester made her first trip her sophomore year to volunteer for Project Lazarus in New Orleans. The program helped treat about 24 people suffering from AIDS.
Edited by Melissa Shuman