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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2008
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"Ive always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me, but hey, ya got one head."
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-Cyndi Lauper
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Gyndi performed at the closing ceremonies of the Gay Games VII at Chicago's Wrigley Field, clad in a rainbow lady liberty outfit on July 22, 2006.
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ENDANGERED Great Green Macaws are seen in a captive breeding center in Rio Segundo de Alajuela, Costa Rica, on Friday. Experts are meeting this week in Costa Rica to establish a strategy for saving the rare birds, numbering around 200 in Costa Rica and 3,800 worldwide, according to the Tropical Studies Organization. ASSOCIATED PRESS
ACADEMICS
Tutoring options to be expanded
SBY HALEY JONES hjones@kansan.com
Students in search of a tutor will soon have a new place to look. Student Senate is updating its list of student tutors, which will provide the names and contact information for KU students who are available to tutor various courses or subjects and will be posted on the Senate Web site.
Student tutors decide their own schedules and pay rates and operate independently of Student Senate.
Hannah Love, KU alumnus and last year's student body president, started the list from scratch in Fall 2005.
"This was one of the best resources for students to find an independent tutor on campus," said J.J. Siler, Overland Park junior and chairman of the academic services board, which manages the list.
Siler said the list had not been updated significantly for two years, and the 220 students on the old
list had already graduated. Grant Treaster, Shawnee junior and last year's chairman of the academic services board, said he tried to find students for the tutor list but didn't have much success.
"It was just a really tough process," Treaster said. "I think we had five new people that e-mailed me and we put them on the list."
Treaster said he was glad to see the board trying to repopulate the list so students could have that resource for help with coursework.
Siler said the greatest need for tutors was in entry-level courses in popular subjects such as math, biology and chemistry.
Siler said Student Senate did not require tutors to pass any tests or have a certain level of proficiency in the subject they tutor.
"A lot of students find they need the most help with those because it's a brand new subject." Siler said.
"If you want to do group sessions, you can do that." Siler said. "It's so flexible. It can fit anything
you need."
He said there was no contract between tutors and students. If students are dissatisfied, they can look up another tutor on the list.
Siler said the board was working to fill its tutor list with as many names as possible so students had one more place to turn when they needed help with their academics.
Currently, students can also find a tutor through KU Tutoring Services or can independently hire an individual or company.
KU Tutoring Services connects students with a tutor to meet for an hour and a half twice a week for one semester. Faculty members recommend all tutors in the program to KU Tutoring Services.
Kristin Scott, KU Tutoring Services program director, said the structure allowed tutors to get to know the strengths and weaknesses of the students they worked with and help students with test preparation. She said the program had 60 tutors.
Texas, senior tutors for the Kansas Algebra Program, located on the third level of Strong Hall. The program provides tutors in a group atmosphere to provide free homework help to students.
Schultheis said that although she rarely tutored the same student for more than five minutes, she saw students leave the help room with increased confidence.
Hannah Schultheis, Carrollton.
"People come in all depressed because they can't do anything and feel better about it when they leave," Schultheis said.
She said some students would benefit from the routine of having the same tutor all semester, but because of the differences in teaching and learning styles, the come-and-go tutoring format worked well.
Siler said the board was working to fill its tutor list with as many names as possible so students had one more place to turn when they needed help with their academics.
Edited by Scott R. Toland
CAMPUS
CAMPUS University warns students about telephone scam
KU students reported receiving calls from someone claiming to be from the KU Comptroller's office and asking students to update their banking information by calling an 800 number.
Todd Cohen, director of University Relations, said the comprolier's office wouldn't contact students to update information by phone. He said students should never give out private information over the phone.
"Unfortunately, college students are a frequent target for
these kinds of scams,"Cohen said.
Voice phishing, or vishing, involves scammers requesting personal information through voice messages or phone calls. Cohen said the best defense against vishing was awareness of ways the University might contact students for personal information, including requests through secure Web sites, registered University mail and the Kyou portal.
Information Services is preparing to canvass the campus during October, which is Cyber Security Awareness month, teaching ways to be safe online.
Jayhawks & Friends
— Haley Jones
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Tomorrow is the last day to elect the credit/no credit grade option. This option is available to undergraduates only, and not for courses in your declared major. Check the Registrar's Web site for details.
on campus
The lecture 'Greening the Workplace: Sustainable Strategy for the Office Environment' will begin at 8 a.m. in Regnier Hall on the Edwards Campus.
The student group event "Jewish New Year Celebrations Sponsored by Chabad at KU" will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
The entertainment event "SUA NCAA Football Challenge" will begin at 10 a.m. in Union Plaza in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "University Forum Art and Artifact" will begin at 12 p.m. in the ECM Center.
The student group event "KU Moms Brown Bag Lunch" will begin at 12 p.m. in Alcove J in the Kansas Union.
The lecture "Geology Colloquium Series: Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option" will begin at 4 p.m. in Lindley Hall.
The lecture "Study Group with Dole Fellow Ray Strother" will begin at 4 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
The volleyball event "Volleyball vs. Kansas State" will begin at 7 p.m. in the Horejsi Family Athletics Center.
The public event "Tales from Thailand" will begin at 7 p.m. in Dyche Hall.
The public event "Train Wreck:
The End of the Conservative Revolution" will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
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Golden retriever found by travel agency sent home
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A golden retriever who was 400 miles from his Atlanta home booked a trip back by simply booking pathetic outside of a Florida travel agency.
Nine months ago, Pepper ran
away from Atlanta while his family was on vacation. He somehow made it down to St. Petersburg. It's unknown if he got a ride or wandered on his own.
Getman had recently rescued another golden retriever and became attached to the new dog, too. At first he was hesitant to seek out Pepper's owners, fearing the dog may have been abused
Then Pepper turned up outside 66th Street Travel last week during a thunderstorm.
Authorities allege that didn't stop 34-year-old Donald Dejarnette from using some of the
Employee Jay Getman described Pepper as "just soaking wet, filth, dirty, flea-infested"
INYOKERN, Calif. — Thousands of dollar bills stolen from a restaurant in California's high desert could not have been more clearly marked: The Homestead had a tradition of customers writing messages on the currency and hanging it on the walls.
Bills stolen from restaurant wall used to pay court fine
But then a veterinarian found
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Kern County sheriff's Sgt. Tyson Davis said a clerk immediately recognized the bills. Some even had "Homestead" written on them. Dejarnette and four others have been arrested on suspicion of taking $8,000 from the restaurant. About $1,000 has been recovered.
The sheriff's department Tuesday didn't know whether any of the suspects has hired an attorney.
Stomping grapes like Lucy popular during harvest
"You get one person doing it and then everyone else is want-
popular harvest RUTHERFORD, Calif. — Lucy did it. And you can, too — stomp grapes, that is. Wineries from Napa to New York are rolling out the barrel for those inclined to squish a little merlot between their toes.
The days when winemaking was done by the foot are long gone.
ing to go along," said Ken Morris of the Grogich Hills Estate winery in the Napa Valley, where visitors can stomp daily during harvest
"Doing these kinds of features is very homey, authentic," she said.
With wine now being produced in all 50 states, opportunities to stomp grapes abound at harvest time — generally late August through October, depending on climate.
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