THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
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ENGINEER FROM PAGE 1
for the past years, and I only see that effort continuing." Bell said.
In order to handle the expected influx of new students, the school
is hoping to hire five new faculty members per year over the next six years as well as construct additional facilities.
struction, is expected to be com pleted in 2015.
Phase I of the expansion, currently under construe
The school also began offering a bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Computer this year and is working on expanding its educational programs on the Edwards Cam-
"I get to watch my ideas become things... It's something that's integral to human society."
tion near Learned Hall, accounts for a quarter of the expansion and is expected to be completed next year. Phase II, which will add an additional building and account for another 50 percent of the con-
pus.
JAMI BESSEY freshman from Paola
Alexis Jones, director of recruitment for the school, and a team of recruiters travel around the state as well as the Omaha, Neb., St. Louis, Dallas, Houston,
Denver, and Kansas City, Mo., areas in an effort to reach high school students interested in engineering.
"We are looking for students who really have a passion for math
and science as well as problem solving," Jones said. "That's what engineering is all about."
Jones promotes the student groups, research opportunities and diverse population as reasons to choose engineering at Kansas.
"A lot of engineering is making a difference and making lives easier and better, and we're recruiting students who show those qualities." Jones said.
Jami Bessey, a freshman from Paola majoring in mechanical engineering, chose to engineering at Kansas because of its close proximity to home and her ability to be creative in the field.
"I get to watch my ideas become things," she said. "Engineering is used everywhere from building to electronics. It's something that's integral to human society."
TYLER ROSTE/KANSAN
Edited by Laura Nightengale
RETAIL
H&M opens on Plaza
H&M's new storefront on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. It opened Thursday with a line of customers that stretched down the block. H&M now has more than 2,200 stores in more than 40 countries.
SARA SNEATH ssneath@kansan.com
H&M, a Swedish clothing company, opened a new location on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Mo, Thursday afternoon. Students like Kristine Anderson, a junior from Olathe, made the trip from Lawrence this weekend to check out the low-priced fashion store.
H&M is one of the many affordable, but still trendy stores to open in the Kansas City area. According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Forever 21 opened in 2010 on the Country Club Plaza and Love Culture will open in Leawood this spring.
"My girlfriend and her roommate wanted to come," Anderson said of H&M's opening. "It just opened. So, they're really excited about it."
On Saturday, H&M hired a disc jockey to spin at the Kansas City location. Anderson said she enjoyed the music, but the lines were really long.
Jessica Luber, a sophomore from Kansas City, Mo., said she saw the H&M mbanner on the Plaza in October. Luber said she went to the H&M in Chicago over spring break and intended to check out the Plaza location, once for herself and again for Christmas shopping.
H&M's large crowd over the weekend may be due to the advertising of Kansas City's first branch location, but it also may be a result of its familiarity as an international brand, with more than 2,200 stores in 40 countries.
Kerry Ternes, a sophomore from McIntosh, S.D., said she's been to the H&M in St. Louis and Vancouver. Ternes said there isn't another store like H&M. She said Forever 21 is kind of similar, but appears to be geared more to a younger audience.
While H&M products cannot be purchased online, shipping will become available in Spring 2012. Ternes said regardless if H&M products are available online she intends to continue to go to the Plaza location.
Before the Kansas City location opened, the nearest H&M location was St. Louis.
—Edited by Mandy Matney
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In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students.
Police pepper spray protesters
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SAN FRANCISCO — As video spread of an officer in riot gear blasting pepper spray into the faces of seated protesters at a northern California university, outrage came quickly — followed almost as quickly by defense from police and calls for the chancellor's resignation.
University of California Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi said in a statement Saturday she was forming a task force to investigate the police action and the video images she said were "chilling."
However, a law enforcement official who watched the clip called the use of force "fairly standard police procedure."
she had no plans to resign.
In the video, an officer dispassionately pepper-sprays a line of several sitting protesters who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.
As the images were circulated widely on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter on Saturday, the university's faculty association called on Katehi to resign, saying in a letter there had been a "gross failure of leadership."
At a news conference, Katehi said what the video shows is, "sad and really very inappropriate" but defended her leadership and said
"I do not think that I have violated the policies of the institution," she said. "I have worked personally very hard to make this campus a safe campus for all."
Katehi remained in a media room for more than two hours after the news conference, eventually walking to an SUV past a group of students nearly three blocks long who, in a coordinated effort, remained completely silent. The Sacramento Bee said.
The protest was held in support of the overall Occupy Wall Street movement and in solidarity with protesters at the University of California, Berkeley who were jabbed by police with batons on Nov. 9.
Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department's use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a "compliance tool" that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
"When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them." Kelly said. "Bodies don't have handles on them."
After reviewing the video, Kelly said he observed at least two cases of "active resistance" from protesters. In one instance, a woman pulls her arm back from an officer. In the second instance, a protester curls into a ball. Each of those actions could have warranted more force, including baton strikes and pressure-point techniques.
"What I'm looking at is fairly standard police procedure," Kelly said.
Images of police actions have served to galvanize support during the Occupy Wall Street movement, from the clash between protesters and police in Oakland last month that left an Iraq War veteran with serious injuries to more recent skirmishes in New York City, San Diego, Denver and Portland, Ore.
Some of the most notorious instances went viral online, including the use of pepper spray on an 84-year-old activist in Seattle and a group of women in New York. Seattle's mayor apologized to the activist, and the New York Police Department official shown using pepper spray on the group of women lost 10 vacation days after an internal review.
In the video of the UC Davis protest, the officer, a member of the university police force, displays a bottle before spraying its contents on the seated protesters in a sweeping motion while walking back and forth. Most of the protesters have their heads down, but several were hit directly in the face.
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