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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY AUGUST 19,2002
SECTION C
Pre-game alcohol policy renewed
By Todd Smith
By Todd Smith
Kensan staff writer
Responsible tailgating will return this fall Chancellor Robert Hemenway announced July 5.
Football fans will be able to drink in designated tailgating lots during the three-hour period before kickoff at home games.
"We will continue to allow the responsible tailgating promotion, with some modifications." Hemenway said.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said tailgating had helped increase attendance. The average attendance at home football games was up about 7,300 people last year, she said.
Bretz was part of a tailgating committee working to simplify the tailgating area by slightly increasing its size.
She said there was a space between lot 50, behind Carruth-O'Leary Hall and lot 55, behind Memorial Stadium, that people would walk through to be out of the tailgating area.
"There was no rhyme or reason that this area could not be included in the designated tailging area." Bretz said.
Bretz said the committee was also trying to make the boundaries clearer by adding more signs. She said the committee would announce boundary changes this month.
Chris Keary, assistant director of the KU Public Safety Office, said officers informed fans that they were not within tailgating boundaries while drinking or were drinking after the allotted time period 3,217 times last year. Fans then had to pour open containers and walk to a tailgating area to continue drinking, he said.
He said that officers issued only 10 citations to fans possessing alcohol outside the tailgating area or designated tailgating time period last year.
A citation can result in a maximum sentence of six months in jail and a $500 fine. Officers issued only three minor in possession citations last year, Keary said, because they did not have to ask people whether they were minors.
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Minors caught in possession lose their drivers license for 30 days and can receive up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Contact Smith at editor@kansan.com. This story was edited by Kristin Keeny.
Tailgaters were allowed to consume alcohol in designated areas near Memorial Stadium last fall. The policy was renewed for this fall.
Professor owns rare basketball dolls
Journalism instructor collects Russian matryoshka dolls that resemble Kansas players
By Lauren Beatty
Kansan staff writer
Apparently Russian people aren't as familiar with University of Kansas basketball players as Lawrence residents are.
In Russia, Paul Pierce is really Paul Pierge,
Raef LaFrentz is African-American and Billy
Thomas is a ravishing blond.
Tom Volek, associate professor of journalism, owns some Russian matryoshka dolls, commonly called nesting dolls, featuring the mugs of five of Kansas' favorite sons. Matryoshka dolls are the traditional wooden dolls that fit inside each other. Take the head off of one doll and the smaller doll appears inside.
Ryan Robertson and Jared Haase complete his set. He said the dolls were rare.
"The novelty ones are primarily for American tourists," Volek said. "You walk past a million of them. There are teams like the Chicago Bulls or the Washington Redskins, but this is the first time I've ever seen a college team. It's amazing. I never thought I'd see a KU matryoshka doll."
Volek said he didn't know who made the dolls or why they had mistakes.
Volek's daughter Sabra was the first to set eyes on the unusual dolls. She brought them home from Moscow where she studied for a year. Volek said when he traveled to Russia, the only local team he ever saw was the Kansas City Chiefs.
Volek said he kept the dolls at home, but brought them to his office in the Dole Human Development Center to show all his coworkers.
"They get a kick out of it," he said.
Maria Carlson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, said the first matryoshka doll was created around 1891 by a Russian artist named Sergei Maliutin. They were traditionally represented motherhood, she said.
Carlson said the art form blossomed when folk artists began to create exact replicas of Mallutin's Russian peasant woman as souvenirs.
"The nesting dolls are some of the most varied and often encountered souvenirs in Russia," she said. "No longer are they just peasant women. If it comes in a series, someone will make a matryoshka out of it."
Contact Beatty at beatty@kansan.com This story was edited by Mike Gilligan.
Tom Volek, associate professor of journalism, displays rare Russian dolls made to look like Kansas basketball players and Kansas City Chiefs football players. The dolls often have flaws like misselloid names, or they have the wrong skin color.
Administration and faculty
New faces can be found throughout University
By Lauren Beatty
Kansan staff writer
Students won't be the only ones unpacking this week. Several new administrators and deans hired this summer will be setting up their offices and getting ready for the start of the semester.
- Kim Wilcox, dean of liberal arts and sciences, comes to the University of Kansas after serving as president of the Kansas Board of Regents. Wilcox previously worked for the
college in the department of speech, language and hearing from 1984 to 1998. While there, he served as chairman of the department and earned a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988. Wilcox earned a bachelor's degree in audiology and speech sciences from Michigan
Wilcox
State University, and master's and doctoral degrees in speech and hearing science from Purdue University. He worked at the University of Missouri at Columbia for four years before coming to Kansas.
Stuart Bell, dean of engineering, is a former professor from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering and master's and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. He joined the faculty at Alabama in 1986 and served as chair of the mechanical engineering department since 1995. Bell also served as director of the Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies at Alabama. He earned several awards including the meritorious Service Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Barbara Atkinson became dean of medicine Aug. 1. She was a professor and served as chairwoman for the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University before moving up to the position. Atkinson came to the University in 2000 after serving dean of the MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She has also worked University of Pennsylvania school of medicine and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She earned degrees from the College of Wooster and Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. Atkinson is a trustee of the American Board of Pathology and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
■ Mary Lee Hummert, interim dean of Student Affairs, began her career at the University in 1987. She last served as a professor of communication studies and a research associate in the Gerontology Center.
Hummert will oversee several University entities such as health services, student housing and student financial aid. She earned her bachelor's degree from Fontbonne College in St. Louis, a master's degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and a doctoral degree from the University of Kansas. She received a W.T. Kemper fellowship for teaching excellence in 2000.
Two department heads were also named this summer. Dale Seuferling is the new president of the Endowment Association and Donna Hultine is the new director of parking services. Seuferling has worked at Endowment since 1981 after earning a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University. Hultine, formally the assistant director of parking services, will fill the position of director until a permanent replacement can be found.
Contact Beatty at lbeatty@kansan.com.
Campus jobs hard to find this fall
By Jay Pilgreen
Kansan staff writer
Ann Hartley, associate director of the Career and Employment Services office, said she posted eight to nine hundred job listings on the office Web site, www.ku.edu/~uces, last year, but she wondered how many she would post this year.
Students returning for fall semester might find their campus jobs no longer exist. Budget cuts this summer forced departments to reduce the number of students employed.
"Unfortunately, with all of the budget cuts this year, one of the first things we lost was our student help," Hartley said. "When you lose a couple of thousand dollars in the budget, there's no place for it to go."
Hartley said she was currently placing fewer jobs than usual on the Web site, and expected the number to stay low when departments request jobs in August for the fall semester. She said her office wasn't the
Ann Hartley, associate director of the Career and Employment Services office, said she posted eight to nine hundred job listings on the office Web site, wwwku.edu/~uces, last year, but she wondered how many she would post this year.
Doug Riat, director for the department of facilities operations, said the department usually employed about 25 students, but that number would go down.
only one forced to drop student employees.
He said th loss of employees would put further demands on full-time employees, and the department had altered programs to fill the void. He cited housekeeping now cleaning twice a week instead of daily as an example.
"We are going to lose a majority of the students," Riat said. "We may have one now, but that's it."
Hartlev said the largest employers of students were the libraries and the Student House Department.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said the housing department tired students to run the desks, cafeterias, serve as security officers, custodial weekend crews and resident assistants. He said the department wasn't cutting any student employees, because funding came from students living in the halls.
"Any cuts by the state hurts all of us, but we won't be affected as much." Stoner said.
The libraries employ about 250 students, and they aren't cutting any positions either.
Hartley said programs that were forced to cut might find help through the federal and Kansas work study programs. She said the programs were equivalent to financial aid, and would allow departments keep a student staff.
Chris Johnson, associate director for the
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From libraries to labs, student services abound
Kansan staff writer
By Lauren Beatty
The University of Kansas offers a variety of services to make student life a little easier — from 24-hour computer labs to online library card catalogs.
The Herb Harris Computer Lab in the Kansas University has 45 workstations and two
Sometime in their college careers, students will find themselves in one of the 12 computer labs on campus. Whether students need to type a paper or check e-mail, there's a computer lab available in every corner of campus. The largest lab is located in Budig Hall. The lab has 72 computer work stations as well as printers and a scanner. Computer use is free, but students must provide their own paper for the printers.
printers. Wes Hubert, associate director for Academic and Computing Services, said his department was updating software and extending lab hours to make sure all student needs were met in the campus computer labs.
"The Harris Lab will be open 24 hours in the fall" he said. "And all the labs are staffed most of the time. We are also working on updating the computers in the Fraser Hall lab."
Academic and Computing Services also offers classes and workshops on using the University labs and on using computer programs like Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
The University Libraries are moving into the future with more and more online servi-
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