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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
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quote of the day
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock died on Aug.11, 1956, after drinking himself into a rage and crashing his Oldsmobile on a curving road in East Hampton, N.Y.
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SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
Reorganization details not finalized
BY BRANDY ENTSMINGER
bentsminger@kansan.com
When Lindsay Elliott heard about the reorganization of the School of Fine Arts, she sent in an application to transfer to Florida State University.
"I don't think I've heard the same twice," Elliott said.
Elliott, Overland Park junior, wanted a degree from a fine arts school, not from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. After the change, she wasn't sure that's what she was going to get.
The School of Fine Arts announced in October that it planned to reorganize to become the School of the Arts by July 2009. The change will move some degrees, such as art and design, to new schools within the University. Since the announcement, some students have been confused about how the changes will affect them.
After researching the split online, Elliott said she still didn't have answers to the questions she had about her diploma. She said the information she received from her professors and adviser was inconsistent.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Communications, said the University decided not to work out all the details until the Board of Regents officially approved the change. She said the board would discuss the reorganization at its meeting this month and vote on the reorganization in January. Bretz said she thought the changes would have "minimum disruption to students" and would produce more benefits for students than problems.
But some students had concerns about the effect the reorganization would have on their degrees.
Elliott said she didn't think a college degree would reflect the number of studio hours she had put in during her art classes. She said
the degree wouldn't look as prestigious to future employers because it wasn't as specialized.
Anna Hoard, Topeka senior, who is a voice performance major, said she didn't think the changes would affect her but that she hadn't received much information about the changes.
Ann Sitzman, Prairie Village senior, is a theater design major. Although she will graduate before the reorganization is complete, she said she understood why people were upset.
When Sitzman first came to the University as a freshman, she said there was confusion about which school her theater design degree would come from.
She said people might be nervous because they didn't know exactly what was happening with their degrees and were afraid they would be forgotten in the new schools.
"A lot of the students feel like they're going to get lost," Sitzman said.
Elliott said she would make her decision about transferring to Florida State after learning more about the changes and finding out whether she had been accepted at the school.
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"I think that it's worth it for the degree," Elliott said.
Edited by Lauren Keith
Michael Banks, Paola freshman, works on a design project dealing with split-complement colors. Banks is a graphic design major and said that the reorganization of the School of Fine Arts would have benefits but would take some getting used to.
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Majors in the School of Fine Arts will be divided up into other schools within the University, and a new School of Music will be created, if the Board of Regents approves the changes.
FINE ARTS
BUSINESS
Online promos attempt to bring shoppers back
BY MAE ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
But after weeks of heavy discounting at regular stores and online, experts doubted the day would give much of a lift to what is still expected to be one of the weakest holiday seasons in years.
NEW YORK — Retailers who saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed stepped up online promotions on the day known as "Cyper Monday" to try to get consumers tired of the crowds at stores to keep shopping.
"People are expecting that deals will only get better as we approach the Christmas time frame," said Youssef H. Squali, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. "So while Cyber Monday is significant I wouldn't
say today is the only day to track. People may opt to wait a little more."
The Monday after Thanksgiving was dubbed "Cyper Monday" by the National Retail Federation trade group in 2005 to describe the unofficial kickoff to the online retail season — when customers shopped at their desks as they returned to work. But with more deals advertised ahead of time and more consumers with high-speed access at home, the day has lost some luster.
Marcia Turner, 43, a freelance writer in Rochester, N.Y., said she plans to buy a Dell laptop before Christmas, but is holding off.
"I suspect prices will come down further before the holiday season is out," she said. "I doubt they will go
up, so there is little risk in waiting,
as I see it."
Crowds turned out for early morning specials after Thanksgiving on "Black Friday" — so called because it had historically been the day retailers turned profitable for the year — but many analysts say they were thinner than last year and shoppers were focused on bargains and smaller-ticket items.
Sales rose 3 percent to $10.6 billion on Friday from the Black Friday a year ago, but slipped 0.8 percent to $6 billion on Saturday, said ShopperTrak RCT, a research firm that tracks total retail sales at more than 50,000 outlets. Total retail sales for Friday and Saturday combined rose 1.9 percent from a year ago.
ShopperTrak co-founder Bill
Martin said he expected sales to pull back again on Sunday.
Although "Cyber Monday" is not the busiest online shopping day of the year — that day usually occurs later in December as shipping deadlines approach — retailers who have seen consumers pull back amid the recession stepped up their online deals — offering discounts on clothes and gadgets, set amounts off purchases, free shipping and more.
Traffic at online retailer eBags. com was up 12 percent compared with the Monday after Thanksgiving last year and sales were up 10 percent as of 1 p.m., said co-founder Peter Cobb about what he expected. The site is offering a 20 percent off deal for Cyber Monday.
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DANIEL BISHOP Overland Park sophomore "Leaving Lawrence"
WHAT IS THE WORST PART ABOUT THE END OF THE SEMESTER?
BY LISA CURRAN
SAMANTHA NEAL
"It's getting cold and dark."
Atlanta second-year law student "Finals."
PARAG MEHTA
ALLISON BLOOM Red Oak, Iowa, junior "It's the last few weeks with friends."
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The workshop "Supervisory Training for Excellence in Performance" will begin at 9 a.m. in 204 JRP Hall.
The workshop "Unclassified Professional Staff Evaluations-Brown Bag" will begin at 9 a.m. in 103B Carruth- O'Leary Hall.
The lecture "Operation Enduring Freedom: Similarities and Contrasts with the Soviet Experience in Afghanistan" will begin at noon in 318 Bailey Hall.
The Faculty Senate Executive Committee Meeting will begin at 3 p.m. in the Provost Conference Room in Strong Hall.
The seminar "Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Roman Empire" will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room in Hall Center for the Humanities.
"Tell Me How This Ends; General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
"Visiting Artist Chris Thompson, baritone with Faculty Artist Steven Spooner, piano" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
The play "Book of Days" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Our football victory Saturday propelled us to a 7-5 record. It is the first time we've had consecutive seven-win seasons since 1960-61, when we beat MU in the last game of the year, dashing Missouri's only hopes for a national championship.
Detective Jeffrey Ackley identified Vanise Dunn, 31, as the prostitute involved in the raffle. She has worked at Frank lin County Children Services since 2000, and court records show she was charged with prostitution Nov. 12 for allegedly soliciting a detective.
Both Johnson and Blades were charged with promoting prostitution. A Judge set bail Saturday at $50,000 for Blades and $25,000 for Johnson.
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OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said that Johnson was placed on leave and that the school will investigate whether he improperly used his computer
Christopher S. Johnson, 33,
an academic adviser at OSU's
School of Nursing, organized
the raffle through a Craigslist.
com chat board, police said.
Real estate agent Rusty Blades,
42, held the invitation-only
party at his house in October.
Her attorney declined to comment.
NATIONAL Police: College adviser ran prostitute raffle
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