18A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
Hawk Week greets new students
MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2003
By Kevin Kampwirth
kkampwirth@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Free ice cream, Coca-Cola products and movie passes are just a few perks of Hawk Week 2003, which kicked off last night at the Kansas Union.
Hawk Week will last until Saturday and consists of a series of social events and gatherings to introduce incoming freshmen to the University of Kansas environment.
"Hawk Week is one of the most exciting weeks of the year on campus," said Shanda Hurla, the Hawk Week coordinator in the office of new student orientation. "It allows new students to see everything KU has to offer and to interact with others."
Hurla and event coordinators expect about 10,000 incoming and returning students to participate in the activities.
"I don't plan on going this year," she said. "But when I went as a new student, I met a lot of people and it was a great experience."
Today marks the first full day of activities with events such as choir auditions and tours of various libraries on campus.
Highlighting the night's events are an ice cream social with free ice cream at the Adams Alumni Center, across from the Kansas Union, and Traditions Night at Memorial
DAILY HIGHLIGHTED HAWK WEEK EVENTS MONDAY
Watson Library Tour: 11 a.m. to
11:45 a.m., Noon to 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m.
to 1:45 p.m.
Free Admission to the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center at 727 Kentucky from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. (all week long)
Ice Cream social in the Adams Alumni Center from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Traditions Night:8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Memorial Stadium
Rock-A-Hawk: 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in the Visitor Center parking lot
Stadium, where students can learn the University's traditional songs and cheers.
Students also have the opportunity this week to decide which, if any, optional campus services they wish to subscribe to. Some of these include buying parking permits, bus passes, sports combo packages and Student Union Activities movie cards.
The day events during Hawk Week are designed to familiarize new students with the KU campus and surroundings, while the nights' activities are more for entertainment.
"Most students tend to see the night events," Hurla said. "But it is the events during the day that show students how to succeed academically."
Beach 'N' Boulevard with Info fair: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Wescoe Beach
TUESDAY
■ Hawk Link Block Party: 10 p.m.to 1 a.m.on Wescoe Beach
WEDNESDAY
Take Over the Beach: 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. at Wescoe Beach
University Picnic: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the Lied Center Lawn
Convocation: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Lied Center
Downtown Hawks: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. throughout downtown Lawrence
FRIDAY
THURSDAY
First day of classes
SATURDAY
- Lied Center Art Festival: 6 p.m. to
7 p.m. on the Lied Center lawn
- Lied Center Concert: 7 p.m. to 8
p.m. on the Lied Center lawn
- Movie on the Hill: 10 p.m. to 12
a.m. on the West Campanile Hill
Community Service Project: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the 4th floor lobby of the Kansas Union SUA Welcome Back Concert: 7 a.m. on the Lied Center lawn
One of Wednesday's highlights is "Take Over the Beach" sponsored by Hawk Link. The event held on Wescoe Beach allows students to interact with University organizations.
"Wednesday's event really gives new students a chance to come and see the wide diversity of KU's campus," said Lase Ajaji, Lawrence senior and Hawk Link guide. "It's extremely important that students realize early on what resources they have and where they can turn."
Wednesday culminates with Convocation from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Lied Center. This address from Chancellor Robert Hemenway to the University marks the official start to the academic year.
Some other highlights for the rest of the week are Friday night's
Lied Center Concert, featuring Grammy-award winning banjo player Alison Brown. This is followed at 10 p.m. by SUA's "Movie on the Hill" showing of Anger Management on the Campanile Hill.
The events end Saturday night with a welcome-back concert at the Lied Center featuring Evac, Kelpie and g.b. Leighton.
The organizers' intent is for students to take the opportunities presented this week and use them to their advantage the rest of their time at the University, Hurla said.
"The more students can be connected before classes begin, the more likely they will succeed academically and socially," she said.
University offers new transportation with free bus route
By Paul Kramer
pkramer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The distance from Summerfield to the Union is relatively short. But it, like any one time trip on a KU bus, costs $1 without a bus pass.
Edited by JJ Hensley
Paying a dollar might be a minor inconvenience for some, but for KUnited, giving students a free way to get around campus was a major part of its last election platform.
The Jayhawk Express, a new free bus route that will snake through campus in a figure eight form, hitting lower campus, swinging by the Union and continuing through campus past JRP, helps students who don't have a bus pass avoid some of the long walks the University's hillsy campus offers.
Andy Knopp, student body president, said the extra money for the bus came from the budget. If the popularity of the program surpasses the capacity of the one bus, Knopp said a small charge to students would be needed to cover the costs of additional busses.
One bus will pass every thirty minutes.
Knopp said he was proud that students with classes at opposite ends of campus would be able to make the trip without paying the price of a regular bus pass.
Student Body Vice President Catherine Bell said the project did not get caught up in red tape. The proposal passed at the first transportation board meeting after elections.
Although the bus route did not require any additional student fees, Tim Akright, transportation committee chairman, said the money came from adjusting other routes to fit costs.
"The JRP bus was cut last year and so was the East Lawrence route, so there was some money saved there," Akright said.
Knopp, Bell and Akright said the bus would be beneficial for students who didn't have bus passes — though they are worried that students who do have a pass will take up space on the new route.
So there will be no mistaking the bus from other pay routes, the bus will be labeled "Jayhawk Express" at the top of the bus.
The bus will start running when all campus busses start and will remain free all year.
— Edited by Ashley Marriott
Hoopla is over for University's Dole Institute now what?
The Associated Press
LAWRENCE—At the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, the focus has shifted from the field of battle to the field of dreams.
At last month's dedication, the spotlight was on the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate's fellow World War II veterans and their stories of heroism and tragedy in battle.
With the hoopla over, the focus has turned to the institute's role on the University of Kansas campus and beyond — what will set it apart from some two dozen other political centers honoring former congressmen and senators.
"If we're just a repository for the Bob Dole papers, I can guarantee you that 10 or 20 years from now, there will be limited
use,” director Richard Norton Smith said. “There is so much more that is possible.”
It's not like the institute is standing empty and void of ideas.
The 28,000-square-foot building houses some 4,000 boxes of Dole's papers from his four decades in Washington, plus exhibits of his political life and boyhood in Kansas. Some 200
boxes have been processed and Smith said it will take 15 years to complete the task.
Already in place is the annual Dole Lecture that features a prominent figure; the Presidential Lecture Series with a slate of notable speakers discussing the presidency and the $25,000 Dole Leadership Prize.
On Sept. 11, about 100 people will stand in front of the giant
stained-glass American flag window and two steel columns from the World Trade Center to become naturalized citizens.
"I can't imagine a more in moving ceremony or a more appropriate place to welcome America's newest citizens," Smith said.
For the institute, the challenge is coming up with what Smith calls the "academic component." That's not university courses and credits, but ways to combine scholarship with public participation.
"We could be a world-class research facility that doesn't sequester knowledge or ideas in a tight academic circle but reaches out with the radical notion that public policy making requires some degree of public participation," Smith said.
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