MONDAY,AUGUST 18,2003
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5D
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Balancing time tough for student workers
By Annie Bernethy
aberneth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Jared Soares/Kansan
Liz Starnes, Wichita senior, pours a beer at The Massachusetts Street Deli catessen, 941 Massachusetts St., where she is a manager. Starnes is part of the large amount of students who work part-time.
The college experience is different for everyone. Some students don't have to work, but those who do must juggle studies, a social life and work.
For Chad Irwin, Mt. Vernon Ill., senior, budgeting his time is important. Irwin, a manager at Massachusetts Street Deli, 941 Massachusetts St., works an average of 35 to 40 hours a week during the semester while working on an architectural engineering degree. He has worked there for three years.
"When you get home from work you don't want to study," he said. "But it makes you manage your time better."
Irwin said he still managed to get A's and B's, but had a hard time finding time for a social life.
"My social life consists of class and work," he said. "I wait until summer, then I let loose."
Irwin's not alone according to the Office of Institutional Research and Planning Web site. Irwin works as do 4,019 other undergraduates with on-campus jobs.
Gail Rooney, director of University Career and Employment Services, said she usually recommended new students to limit their work hours.
"Undergraduates don't know how hard their classes will be," she said.
When students become upperclassmen, they can make decisions on how many hours to work without compromising school work, Rooney said.
An employment fair at the beginning of each school year gives students the opportunity to find employment both on and off campus.
campus. This year's Student Employment Fair is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug.19 in the Kansas Union. Students can also visit the employment services' Web
site at www.ku.edu/~uces or go to room 110 at the Burge Union for job listings.
It was an opportunity for students to talk to many offices and fill out applications in one stop, Rooney said.
Being able to work became an advantage because students had
money to support themselves, she said.
she said.
"If people aren't working, they should be getting straight A's," Irwin said. "If I had more time to work on stuff, college would be so much easier."
—Edited by Brandon Baker
Art museum displays Chinese paintings
By Ehren Meditz
emeditz@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The Spencer Museum of Art is overflowing with art, but its first exhibit of the fall semester will be paintings from the University of Michigan.
The exhibit, The Orchid Pavilion Gathering, features 60 Chinese paintings that date back as far as 900 years. Andrea Norris, director of the museum, said the museum had a large number of Chinese paintings from the
20th century, but that the Michigan exhibit offered older and unique paintings for the KU audience.
"Adding rented exhibitions significantly expands the museum's scholarly and visual range and creates educational opportunities for its audience," Norris said.
EXHIBITION
The title of the exhibit comes from a common theme in Chinese and Japanese paintings; a springtime gathering where friends and families relax and escape from the pressures of life. The exhibition is
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering begins Aug. 16 and runs through Oct. 26 in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Norris said the University of Michigan offered the exhibit to the museum about two years ago for its reputation for showing Asian art. Norris said East
made up of hanging scrolls and hand scrolls that date back as far as the 12th century.
Asian art was a core interest of study at the museum dating back to 1917 when Salie Casey Thayer donated 7,000 mostly Asian art works to the museum.
museum. Marshall Wu, the exhibition curator and retired curator of Asian art at the University of Michigan, wrote a two-volume catalog detailing the history of the paintings. Wu will speak at 7 p.m.on Sept.25 in the Spencer Museum Auditorium.
- Edited by Annie Bernethy
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