THE UNIVERSITY DAILY IKANSAN THURSDAY, AUGUST 28.2008
NEWS
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2009. If the 5 percent cut for 2010 were approved, it would reduce the University's budget by $19.2 million: a $10.7 million reduction in Lawrence and an $8.5 million reduction at the Med Center.
The proposed cut for 2010, the Chancellor said in the letter, would surpass the entire general use budget for the School of Pharmacy, for example, which is $9.4 million.
Hemenway said the Lawrence campus was still looking at what
kind of reductions in revenue it might have to deal with. This summer the Med Center declared a 90-day delay in hiring any new faculty or staff to prepare for possible budget reductions.
Hemenway said the Lawrence campus hadn't made a hiring decision yet, because it operated on a different hiring schedule than the Med Center.
"They're studying it, which is the responsible thing to do, to make sure
they get themselves ready to deal with any cuts" Hemenway said.
Hemenway said the University would consider raising tuition only as a last resort, and that it had not entered into the tuition compact lightly. The compact ensures incoming freshman pay a fixed tuition rate for four years.
Lynn Britz, director of University communications, said the administration was hoping for the best but planning for the worst.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
This image by Gonkar Gyatso features a silhouette of a Buddha made of pop culture icons. Gyatso is known for combining traditional Buddhism and popular culture. He moved to England in the early 90s to escape political persecution.
with the Center for East Asian Studies, helped plan the visit and said Gyatso's lecture would give students the opportunity to hear a personal story from Tibet.
"It's certainly an experience much different than a lot of people in Kansas have endured," Vonholten said.
Ercums said it would also provide students with an opportunity to discuss the events in Tibet and gain a broader understanding of a different culture. He said Marsha Haufler, acting director of the
Center for East Asian Studies, contacted him about finding an artist to speak on campus.
Ercums said the museum first considered looking for an artist from China because the visit was planned to coincide with the Olympics. The museum decided to go with a Tibetan artist after the controversy surrounding Tibet and China and the riots in Lhasa last March.
"I hope that it really helps students to begin to think about themselves in relationship to the
In addition to the lecture, Gyatso will be present for a meet and greet with interested students and faculty on Aug. 29 at the museum. He will also participate in a facilitated discussion at the Kansas City Art Institute H&R Block Artspace on Aug. 30.
world at large," Ercums said.
All of the events are free and open to the public.
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GLOBAL WARMING Arctic Ocean ice levels may reach record lows
WASHINGTON — More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that sea ice in the Arctic now covers
about 2.03 million square miles. The lowest point since satellite measurements began in 1979 was 1.65 million square miles set last September. With three weeks left in the Arctic summer, this year could wind up breaking that record, scientists said.
Arctic ice always melts in summer and refreezes in winter. But over the years, more of the ice is lost to the sea with less of it recovered in winter.
Within "five to less than 10 years"; the Arctic could be free of
sea ice in the summer, said NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally.
"It also means that climate warming is also coming larger and faster than the models are predicting and nobody's really taken into account that change yet," he said.
The most recent ice retreat primarily reflects melt in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast and the East Siberian Sea off the coast of eastern Russia, according to the center.
Associated Press
Relocated offices crowd GTAs; new locations confuse students
BY SACHIKO MIYAKAWA smiyakawa@kansan.com
Michael Dellaven, Topeka graduate teaching assistant, works Wednesday afternoon in a Wescoe Hall classroom that has been converted into office space for GTAs working in the Department of German. Several other departments, including the departments of English, Slavic languages and literature, history and philosophy, have also seen their offices moved because of construction at Wescoe Hall.
smiyakawa@kansan.com
Rvan Wandoner/KANSAN
Ali Brox shared her office on campus with two people last year. That number has more than quadrupled this year.
Other new office locations include Watson Library and the Military Science Annex.
"There were only three of us in my office last year," Brox said. "We were spoiled."
The Department of French and Italian moved all of its GTAs and lecturers from Wescoe Hall to the Military Science Annex, located behind the Military Science building.
Brox, graduate teaching assistant for the department of English, is one of 235 GTAs and faculty members who have had their offices displaced by construction at Wescoe Hall. Some were moved into buildings around campus. Others, including Brox, were grouped together in classrooms on the fourth floor of Wescoe where as many as 20 GTAs share the same room.
CONSTRUCTION
Sarah Greenwood, office manager of the Department of French
Gilles Viennot, Paris GTA for the Department of French and Italian, was among 30 instructors from the department whose offices were moved to the annex. He said he worried that the new location discouraged students from visiting him during office hours.
She also said there weren't enough computers in the new office for all the people who had been moved there.
Greenwood said some people confused the annex with the Military Science Building or the new Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center next to the Kansas Union because the annex housed the Multicultural Resource Center last year.
Some humanities departments, including English, history and East Asian languages and cultures, have moved their offices into former classrooms on the fourth floor of Wescoe hall.
The Department of English has its GTA offices in two classrooms in Wescoe and in small rooms on the fifth floor of Watson Library.
She said that although the big room could be noisier, it was a good place to socialize with other GTAs who were teaching the same course and often taking the same classes.
Don Steeples, vice provost for scholarly support, said those who had been displaced should be back to their previous locations by August 2009.
Chen said the noise level in her shared office forced her to use a separate conference room in Wescoe when meeting with students.
Sandra Chen, Tainan, Taiwan,
GTA of Chinese, is also among
the GTAs now located in a group
office.
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"It's a little difficult to communicate with people who don't know the place." Greenwood said.
and Italian, said she received mixed responses from GTAs. She said some of them liked the isolation and quiet environment of the Annex, but others thought the building's distance from their classes in Wescoe Hall was inconvenient. Greenwood also said some students were confused about the new location of the GTAs' offices.
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