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Awards: Professors react to award for teaching excel
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award.
"He's unique — he has an uncanny ability to explain exceedingly difficult concepts in an understandable fashion," Martin said.
Kelly, who was surprised during his biometry class, joked with
his class when the Chancellor walked in.
walked in.
"I told them that this was either very good, or very bad," he said. "Luckily, it turned out to be very good."
good. He has not yet decided how he will spend his award money, though he received several suggestions from the "surprise patrol" caught Professor Earle during his new Conspiracies and Paranola in American History class.
lence, decide how to spend money
"It's a really weird and wonderful way to give the award," Earle said, admitting that he had not been prepared for the Chancellor's appearance.
cellor's appearance.
Unlike Martin, Earle has already earmarked his money for paying off credit card debt from a summer trip to England. He credited his subject matter in helping him to win the award. He said that American history was inherently interesting.
Coworkers praised both Earle and Kelly for their lecturing skills and their accessibility to students.
and their accoumts. The Chancellor will hand out the remaining 13 Kemper awards, totalling $65,000, over the course of the next week.
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Tuition: Students struggle with tuition increase, although cost among lowest in Big 12
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"I'm really fortunate for my dad, but I'm doing my part," Unger said.
Unger, who received her degree in elementary education last year, has worked five different jobs in her time at the University, including waitressing at the now-closed Brown Bear Brewing Company, a peer educator and a job at a local day-care center.
care center. She is looking for another job despite working with an autistic child and doing school required student teaching at a grade school in Shawnee Mission.
"This is where I really wanted to go," she said. "You can't tell one kid they can go out-of-state and tell the other ones they can't."
Unger said that Kansas is reasonable for out of state kids, compared to other schools like the University of Colorado where the average tuition costs for nonresidents is $20,336 compared to Kansas with its price of $11,577. In fact despite the price increases, the University is seventh lowest in the Big 12 Conference for residents and eighth lowest for nonresidents, not including Baylor, the league's
only private school
It seems it's a form situation when it comes to education, Unger said, where you raise costs to improve the overall product but make that product harder to obtain due to higher costs.
"It's always a struggle, but if it's going to help our education, I support it." Unger said of the increase. "Education is so important. Quality education on levels should be more accessible. I'm sure there's a lot of people that wish they could go where it's best for them but they can't. I think that's unfortunate. I consider
COMPARING THE COSTS:
Tuition is on the rise at the University of Kansas, but it remains one of the cheapest schools in the Big 12 for 2003-2004 school year, especially for nonresidents.
| | Resident | Nonresident |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| University of Colorado | $4,020 | $20,336 |
| Iowa State University | $5,028 | $14,370 |
| University of Kansas | $4,101 | $11,577 |
| University of Missouri | $6,558 | $16,005 |
Source: Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Oxygen: Not recommended for those with lung conditions, may cause more problems
myself very lucky to go away — Edited by Shane Mettlen where I wanted."
easier to take," Simons said. "It also prevents drying out of the air passages."
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Sessions last anywhere from five to 30 minutes. Exceeding 30 minutes is not recommended because breathing pure oxygen for an extended period of time can be
toxic and cause breathing to stop
Recreational oxygen use is generally not considered dangerous to a normal, healthy person if it is used properly and for short periods of time.
one's health, saying "there is no evidence that oxygen at the low flow levels used in bars can be dangerous to a normal person's health."
People with lung conditions such as emphysema are not recommended to use recreational oxygen because too much oxygen may cause them to stop
Lida Osbern, a specialist in pulmonary care, said the levels of oxygen dispensed at oxygen bars are generally safe but refuted any medical benefits it may have.
"Any apparent effect that a normal person may have is probably just a placebo effect," Osbern said.
Beneficial or not, oxygen bars continue to open up all over the country as word spreads among faithful users and as more people find out about it.
find out about it "Everyone should try it and not be scared,"Chew said. "It's a great experience."
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Liberia's peace talks appoint interim leader
The Associated Press
government. The announcement of the selection of Gude Bryant, a businessman seen as a consensus builder, came at the close of 78 days of tumultuous peace talks in Accra, Ghana.
MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia's combatants yesterday chose a longtime campaigner against rule by warlords to lead the country's post-war interim government.
Accra, Ghana.
The top U.N. envoy for Liberia, meanwhile, said he would ask the Security Council for 15,000 troops to secure the peace — a U.N. force that, if approved, would be the largest anywhere in the world.
the world.
Speaking in Monrovia, U.N.
envoy Jacques Klein, an American,
also said he had asked the
United States to keep some of its troops here to help train a new army for Liberia — despite President Bush's commitment to pulling out a roughly 200-strong U.S. deployment by Oct. 1.
"We are hoping the U.S. will take it on," Klein told The Associated Press.
An 11-member U.N. assessment team arrived in Monrovia, charged with briefing the Security Council before it determines the scope and mission of the already-approved U.N. peace force.
Two rebel movements and the government signed a peace accord Monday, ending the latest in 14 years of militia rivalries that bloodied and ruined Liberia, once sub-Saharan Africa's richest nation.
The accord followed Charles Taylor's Aug. 11 resignation and
flight into exile under pressure from fellow West African leaders, the United States and rebels laying siege to his capital.
ing siege to his capitals. In Accra, the West African mediator for 21/2 months of talks sent the combatants home Thursday with an admonishment to keep the peace and a plea for all Liberians to support it.
Liberals to support "You have to play your part," mediator Abdusalami Abubakar, a retired Nigerian general, said after delegates finished their deliberations before dawn. "Your country has bled for quite some time now."
time now. Under Monday's peace accord, Bryant (whose first name is pronounced "JOOD-eh") and his administration will take over Oct. 14 from Moses Blah, the former vice president selected by Taylor as his successor.
He is to serve as chairman in a two-year interim government that will preside over elections, turning over power to democratically chosen successors in 2005.
"I see myself as bringing about a balance across the board," Bryant told the AP an interview Thursday. "I have lived there throughout all these problems, and I see myself as a healer."
and I see myself as a leader. Unlike the other two candidates nominated by political parties and civic groups, Bryant is considered neither inflexibly for or against Taylor. Owner of a mining- and port-equipment company, he is not prominent in politics — but has been influential at times.
The National Action Party to which he belongs was formed in the 1980s to counter former Sgt. Samuel Doe, a semi-illiterate who
oversaw the savage overthrow and execution of Liberia's longtime American-Liberian elite, descendants of freed American slaves.
In 1997, Bryant spearheaded an alliance of six political parties to try to block Taylor's victory in the first presidential elections following Liberia's 1989-96 civil war. The effort failed.
Taylor, a Libyan-trained guerrilla fighter who had launched the civil war, won easily, boosted by his charisma, his illicit profits in underworld trafficking and public fears he would restart the civil war if he lost.
Bryant said his priorities included demobilizing young fighters and restoring security, water and electricity. Power was knocked out in fighting in 1992, and Taylor never repaired it.