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Tuesdav. October 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Group helps grads set goals
By BRIAN BARESCH
Staff writer
Putting a thesis or dissertation together can be a harrowing task for a graduate student, but help is available.
The Thesis and Dissertation Support Group, run by the University Counseling Center, can help grad students set goals, manage their time and provide moral support, says the group's counselor, Brian McNeill, assistant professor of counseling psychology.
"If they need to just complain and get support from the group, we can do that."
Because a dissertation or thesis is something most graduate students have not done before, they are sometimes unprepared for the magnitude of the project and the unfamiliar deadlines, McNeill said.
"On the dissertation level it can go
on for a couple of years," he said. "It
becomes easy to keep putting it off."
David Gordon, Oklahoma City graduate student, attends the Thursday afternoon sessions to get help in organizing his thesis work. Each week, he decides what he can get done by the following week; thus, he has more impetus to get the work done.
"The idea of report to report every Thursday and to be able to say I have gotten this and that is a real shot in the arm." Gordon said.
Goals are set based upon how many hours a student is willing to work each week.
This semester, Gordon started to put together a thesis in counseling psychology. He hopes, through questionnaires, to see whether stress-related events correlate with certain kinds of mental illness. Right now, he said, he still is formulating a proposal, which must be accepted before he can begin work in earnest.
Most students find out about the support group through ads the counseling center places in the Kansas. McNeill said.
Five students have signed on so far this year; McNeill keeps the group at eight students or fewer. Turnover, as students finish their projects or get past the bumpy part and stop attending classes, come from overflowing, McNeil said.
Most of the students this year have, like Gordon, signed on for goal-setting and time management, McNeill said. Last year a couple of students who were far along with their projects had problems such as poor communication with their advisers or a feeling of nonsupport, he said.
Of those students, two finished and graduated, and a third got a job and is finishing her dissertation.
Regents back construction
The Associated Press
TOPEKA – The Board of Regents asked yesterday that the state spend $80.4 million over the next five fiscal years to help build $174.3 million worth of constriction projects — an amount university officials still think is inadequate.
Warren Corman, regents director of facilities, presented the board's recommendations to the Board.
tion to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Building Construction, saying that it did not take care of many of the needs for construction and maintenance on regents campuses. The plan would begin in Fiscal Year 1989, which begins July 1, 1988.
Corman also expressed support for a recommendation another legislative committee had made for increasing the amount of money
available for construction projects on the campuses of the state universities and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Also, Corman said, the state faces a large and increasing problem in trying to maintain the buildings on its campuses.
Portable religion
Lawrence churches broadcast services on the radio
By ANN SZEMPLENSKI Special to the Kansan
KU students and Lawrence residents don't need to worry if they can't make it to church every week. Church services will come to them — on the radio.
But the pastors said they weren't
Two Lawrence churches, Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., and Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampshire St. broadcast live Sunday services on radio station KLWN.
"We hear from a lot of people who are members of no church," said Annsonon, whose service airs at 11 a.m. Sundays. "We become more aware, even if we don't know their name, or even that they are listening."
"By listening to the broadcast, people are able to feel they are a part of a church," said the Rev. Kendall C. Baker, pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church, which broadcasts at 10 a.m. Sundays. "I think it has a very rich impact on the lives of those who for one reason or another can't make it to regular services."
The Rev. David Ananson, pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, said elderly and sick parishioners and people with no specific church were among the listening audience.
trying to reach into the audience of nationally syndicated radio church programs such as the PTL Club and the 700 Club. The local club and the churches contribute during the broadcasts, which cost the churches $40 a week.
"It is very hard to compete with these high-class productions." Baker said. "Ours is a local radio show, and because it is local, we are going to be more know. In no sense are we trying to compete with other media."
Bill Lee, program director at KLWN, and Aannonson also stressed the differences between syndicated and local broadcasts.
"These local church services are more valid and of interest to Lawrence listeners than Jim and Jimmy Balker will ever be." Lee said.
Ansonsoon said, "We don't tell people that we will go off the air if they don't send us money. We don't try to manipulate people. We just to present a service in the tradition of the Lutheran church."
Another church, First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., broadcasts 30 minutes of taped highlights at 9 a.m. Sundays on KLWN from the previous week's service.
"We've been doing it for at least two years," said the Rev. Robert
B. Kendall, assistant pastor. "We thought we could reach some of our shut-ins and reach a large number of broadcasting parts of the service."
The most difficult part of live broadcasting is the strict time limitations, said Baker and Aanon-Neil Brown to deliver the broadcasted sermons.
"My main concern during the broadcasted service is to finish up the sermon by 11," Baker said. If "they don't work our time is up, I just get cut off."
Despite the time constraint, the pastors said that the broadcasted services were no different from their other services.
"We don't do anything out of the ordinary for the broadcast," Baker said. "We don't design the service around it, but we usually do have music playing during times when there is no speaking."
Although First United Method
Church does not broadcast live, its expensive taping equipment must be monitored constantly and all segments of the service must be timed.
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"On Monday or Tuesday we go over the tape of the service and decide which portions will be on the broadcast," Kendall said.
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