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KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Friday, August 22, 2003
Vol.114 Issue No.3
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Professors rake in cash
William T. Kemper Awards for teaching excellence surprise seven professors, with 13 more to come
By Robert Perkins
rperkins@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
John Kelly didn't expect to receive a check for $5,000 yesterday morning.
The assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas looked caught off guard and pleased as Chancellor Robert Hemenway led in a "surprise patrol" of University, Kansas University Endowment Association and Commerce Bank officials armed with an oversized cardboard check during his class.
The Kemper Fellowships recognize the University's outstanding teachers and advisers with a monetary award.
"When people get the award at the Oscars, they say they weren't prepared," Kelly said. "But they're lying. I'm not."
Professor Kelly was the fifth of seven educators to win the W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence today.
"We try to put our money where our mouth is," Cancellor Hemenway said.
The award comes from a $500,000
fund established by the William T. Kemper Foundation, with matching funds from the Endowment Association.
This is the eighth year of the 10-year program that will have delivered $1 million by its completion - $100,000 each year to 20 teachers.
"The idea is to demonstrate that at KU, teaching is a million dollar enterprise," Hemenway said.
The other six winners of the award yesterday were W. Perry Alexander, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, Jonathan Earle, assistant professor of history, Charles Eldredge, professor of art history, Richard Hale, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, John Head, professor of law and Steven Fawcett, professor and senior scientist of human development and family life.
Craig Martin, department chairman for the division of biological sciences, said that he was overjoyed that Kelly won the
John Kelly, assistant professor of biological sciences, accepted a letter from Chancellor Robert Hemenway that explained why he was receiving a Kemper Award during a morning class yesterday. Thomas Carigan, branch manager for Commerce bank and Dale Seuferling, KU Endowment Association president presented oversized checks and glass trophies to seven instructors.
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Tuition increase hinders students
By Steve Schmidt
sschmidt@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, tuition seems to be in the eye of the bill holders at the University of Kansas.
While some students' costs are covered mostly or completely by parents or scholarships, others have to find alternate ways of making ends meet - an even more arduous task after the recent tuition increase.
tion increase.
"When I got my bill it surprised me," Jared Wollen, Kingman sophomore, said.
"But I'm not going to move anywhere else as long as the bill's not too huge."
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Wollen said he paid for 90 percent of his tuition through a summer job at an insurance agency in his hometown, with his parents making up the difference.
the price tag on tuition went up 17.7 percent from last year — roughly a $600 increase — for Kansas residents, a trend that will continue over the next three years.
"I think most people are paying the increase and not thinking a lot about it," Wollen said.
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Travis Nelson has a different take and a much different story.
She said she knew the University was the place for her undergraduate studies and thanks to help from her father and loans, she was able to overcome the out-of-the-state sticker price.
"It makes me desperately unhappy," Nelson, Bonner Springs sophomore, said. "I don't have a whole lot of money, so that's a lot of money to me. I don't know about other people, but it is to me."
Nelson should be a junior. But he took a last year off because he couldn't pay for tuition after last year's increase. So, he went to Hong Kong to work for a non-profit organization while doing some private tutoring on the side to pay for his trip and for a large portion of this semester's tuition.
Now the retirement plans of Nelson's father have been put on hold. He's helping his son pay for school. Nelson said he would still have to eventually pay it all back.
The tuition increase is also hitting nonresidents, who will pay an 8.3 percent increase at roughly $1,300 over the next three years.
"I'm not in a desperate situation by any means," Nelson said. "But it's painful enough."
But three days before he was to head back home, his passport and about $1500 was stolen.
next year Jill Unger, Chicago graduate student, is the oldest of four kids. Her sister, Katie, is a freshman.
"That was all for KU," Nelson said.
Skyla McCollum, Lawrence resident, demonstrated how to inhale Sex On The Beach, one of 18 different oxygen flavors at the oxygen bar in Eight-One-Five, formerly Raoult's. McCollum said her first experience with Oxygen was "uplifting." The oxygen bar is open every Friday and Saturday.
Photo Illustration Jared Soares/Kansan
Oxygen bars present a trendy new aroma to the nightlife of Lawrence
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Rum and Coke, a Budweiser and a shot of oxygen.
Get used to hearing this bar order.
Oxygen bars, the latest craze from overseas that have found a place in American pop culture over the past few years in cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago, have now found a home in Lawrence.
"It's really new in the Midwest," said Juana Simons, owner of the oxygen bar AirO2mas. "But people really seem to be
getting used to the idea."
Simons' oxygen bar is portable, which allows her to cater to private parties as well as bars and clubs. Simons has operated her oxygen bar for about a year.
Staci Chew, employee at the Lawrence bar Eight-One-Five, 815 New Hampshire St., which offers the service on Friday and Saturday nights, said she tried it a number of times. The bar has offered oxygen for a couple months.
Based on this, frequenters of oxygen bars claim the service boosts energy levels and improves endurance and concentration. They even said it takes the edge off headaches and hangovers.
"It's just nice because it wakes you up and gives a very refreshed feeling." Chew said.
to 95 percent oxygen.
An oxygen bar is based on filtration. A small generator pulls in normal air front.
It's just nice because
wakes you up and gives a very refreshed feeling."
Oxygen bars
Staci Chew Eight-One-Five employee
Oxygen bars, popular in Japan, Europe and Canada for almost ten years, originally started as a way to combat the unhealthy effects of air pollution.
the bar and filters for impurities. The filtered air then travels up a tube that leads to a cylinder of water. The user puts a separate tube in their nose, similar to a breathing tube seen in hospitals, which connects to the water
The air we breathe on a day-to-day basis consists of about 19 to 21 percent oxygen, whereas the air dispensed in an oxygen bar contains anywhere from 87
The water is usually scented, or "flavored," to make the experience more enjoyable. Each flavor offers a different sensation when inhaled. For example, "Serenity" is calming and warm, "The
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cylinder. Concentrated oxygen is then pulled from the water and travels up the user's tube and into the nose.
Oxygen tubes rest in flavored water cylinders as the oxygen carries the scent to the user's nose. Scents add different sensations to the process and keep breathing passages moist.
Beach" provides a cool, refreshing scent and "Chillin" gives a purifying effect.
"Flavoring the oxygen just makes it
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