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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
COMMENTARY
Film school dean doubles as 'Smurfs' director
PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
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LOS ANGELES — Veteran movie producer Jordan Kerner spent nearly 10 years finding a way to make "The Smurfs," which earned $35.6 million in its opening weekend in the U.S. But it's not his long track record in Hollywood, which includes producing everything from "Less Than Zero" to "The
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Kerner has recruited a host of faculty members who still have their day jobs, which helps give students a grounding in the kind of problem-solving necessary to survive on a film set. Through a shadowing program, students get
up to talk to an actor, our kids would be right there with him. They also got to spend time with our editors, visual effects supervisor, sound designers and other crew members. Sometimes the discussions were difficult, but that was the whole point — it's a way to learn the whys and why nots of filmmaking." (With it being 2011, students had to sign release forms promising not to blog about what
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip Wrecked," which will hit theaters this Christmas. He also has his students listen in on his conversations with his agent so they can develop an understanding of the demands of the marketplace.
Kerner never imagined himself being a film school dean — in fact, he never went to film school himself. But after surviving a freak staph infection and enduring the
their experiences. But Kerner felt the school needed more outside professionals on the faculty, so he recruited a host of industry pros, including producer Bob Gosse and Peter Bogdanovich, who teaches a freshman film class.
My biggest concern with today's film schools is that they tend to offer students far more instruction in technique than in actual ideas.
But the student films I watched
Immersion project, where students gain a deeper understanding of character and story by spending several weeks at places like the Veterans Artificial Limb Hospital in Philadelphia and Habitat for Humanity in New Orleans.
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"They can't take cameras or recording devices — just a pad and pen," he says. "The whole idea is to go out and get to know people, hear their stories and get under
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APPEALS
A $5,000 fine and other tales from the lot
MATT GALLOWAY
editor@kangon.com
One University staff member has totaled a record $4,830 in parking tickets since January 2007.
Perhaps even more surprising than the record 255 tickets the employee has received is the number of appeals they have filed: zero.
Donna Hultine, director of Parking and Transit, did not reveal the employee's name but said the situation was one of the strangest in her
30 years with Parking and Transit.
"It's boggling to me as to why they would spend almost $5,000," Hultine said. "Plus, the permit that they buy is $230 a year. It doesn't make any sense to me."
The employee is not tenured enough to buy a permit closer to their building's entrance, Hultine said.
A ticket can be appealed within 10 business days. From there, the Court of Parking Appeals, also referred to as "Traffic Court," determines the validity of the claim.
In the last two completed fiscal years, fined drivers filed a total of 2,165 appeals. Of those submissions, 737 were granted, or slightly more than 34 percent. The department collected $1,539,448 in ticket revenue for the two-year period, which it used partially to repair campus roads and parking lots.
In some situations, Parking and Transit will void a ticket before it reaches the appeals process, Hultine said.
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"When it's something that we can't see clearly, that's what the court is there for," Hultine said.
Ali Serum, a sophomore from Olathe, successfully had one of her tickets overturned before it reached the appeals process. Last April, a meter ate all her change outside the Robinson Center. When she returned, she discovered a ticket on her own kidhole.
She wrote Parking and Transit an e-mail that night and said the ticket was unfair. A few days later, the department returned the e-mail telling her the ticket had been voided, Serum said.
ey, but they can be understandable because they did help me with my situation."
"When it's something we can't see clearly, that's what the court is there for."
Serum received four other tickets last year but the April fine was the only one she appealed.
DONNA HULTINE
Director of Parking and Transit
"I do feel it is a reasonable process," Serum said. "There are other times when it feels like you have two minutes left and they're waiting to write you a ticket. They seem kind of like vultures wanting mon-
The Court of Parking Appeals is led by a student chief justice who is elected by fellow student judges at the end of every spring semester, according to the University Senate Rules and Regulations.
"it's a court of equity, not really a court of law," Hutine said. "The
court looks at extenuating circumstances"
If a situation is out of a ticketed driver's control, such as a vehicle breakdown or a sudden illness, the appeal is likely to be granted. Hul-
tine said. However, Hultine said not all of the appeals filed are exactly reasonable.
"There was a student who wrote that she had a yellow permit and she thought that meant she could park on a yellow curb," Hultine said. "[Other examples] escape me right now. They kind of all run together."
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In some situations, tickets will be voided before reaching the appeals process.
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