Tuesday, September 30, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A- Page 7
Engineers showcase technology, research
Chancellor Robert Hemenway delivers the opening remarks at the 1997 Technology Overview and Advisory Board Meeting in Nichols Hall. The meetings began at 8:30 a.m. yesterday and continue today. Photo by Pam Dishman/KANSAN
Review day lets administrators peek inside labs
By Daniel Ethan Thompson dthompson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A meeting to discuss and review the nearest toys engineers can make took place yesterday at Nichols Hall. The Information and Telecommunications Technology Center, the second-largest research laboratory at the University of Kansas, held its inaugural Technology Review Day.
The purpose of the day was to show off what ITTC has accomplished in the past year.
ITTC was formed last fall when the Telecommunications and Information Sciences Laboratory and the Center for Excellence in Computer Aided Systems Engineering merged.
The center now researches and develops everything from artificial intelligence to smart antennas.
ITTC employs about 20 faculty members,11 staff members and 80 students,Sam Shanmugun, director of the center,said.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway addressed yesterday's meeting in the morning and outlined the importance of the program.
Phil Anderson of Kantronics, a Lawrence-based company, member of ITTC's advisory board and University of Kansas alumnus.
"We will come up with a five-year strategic plan. We'll take our ideas and the board's ideas and mold them together."
Sam Shanmugan
said he was impressed with the chancellor's remarks.
director of technology center
"He was straight," Anderson said. "He told us it was important to the University and the mission."
Speaking after the chancellor, Shanmugan said the purpose of the meeting was twofold: First, to overview the technology developed at the center for the center's advisory board and guests; second, to plan for the future.
The advisory board is meeting today to achieve the second goal.
"We will come up with a five-year strategic plan. We'll take our ideas and the board's ideas and hold them together," Shamnagu said.
The first-ever ITTC annual report was also available.
"Funding looks solid for the next two to three years," Shanmugan said.
The center spent almost $5 million this fiscal year and has been awarded more than $7 million.
New Web site honors School of Education
"Many projects are multi-million, multi-year projects," Shannugan said.
Prospective students can take virtual tours
By Susie Gura Special to the Kansan
People across the country and around the world can tour the University of Kansas' School of Education without leaving their homes.
The school is featured on the national Virtual College Day Web site's online video tour, which came online Sent. 1.
The Web site, produced by Criterion Productions, features 19 undergraduate schools, and eight more will be added this fall.
The school is the only graduate school featured at this time. When the Web site is complete, only one other education graduate school, the University of Michigan, will be on the site.
The University's video is about 10 minutes long and allows students to "meet" professors, learn more about education programs and tour the KU campus from their homes.
The Web site is accessible from both the School of Education's and the University's homenages.
Michael Glenn, producer of Virtual College Day, picked the graduate schools for the site based on their reputations.
"It was a very selective process because we wanted to feature a variety of the best." Glenn said.
The selection of the schools on the Web site was based on answers from surveys conducted by Criterion Productions. One guidepost in the selection was high rankings in "U.S. News and World Report." The school was recognized because it is ranked No. 1 in special education, Glenn said.
"Various keywords and combination of words will connect you to the site. It will take only minutes to access because of the elimination of download time."
Michael Glenn producer, virtual college day
Brian Kresin, assistant to the deanof the school, said, "The school received information about the site and was then contacted. Because we already had a video it was really easy to do."
The video was digitized by Criterion Productions before it was displayed on the Web site. It then was put through a process called video streaming, which allows students to view the actual video from their own computers without downloading it.
"Various keywords and combination of words will connect you to the site," Glenn said. "It will take only minutes to access because of the elimination of download time."
University officials hope the Web site will help bring diversity to the school by recruiting more students from out of state. It is targeted towards students who are not enrolled at the University and are interested in graduate school, Kresin said.
The School of Education will be featured on the Web site until March 1, 1998. The site's address is www.criterioninfo.net/vcd/
Future Spirit Squad
KU Spirit member Jolene Moore, Kansas City, Kan., senior, shows children at Camp Jayhawk how to make a minipyramid at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The Spirit Squad had one of many student-athlete stations where children could participate in and learn about individual sports on Saturday. Photo by Dan Elaisky/KANSAN
Creative class names can attract, mislead students
Jennifer A. Yeoman
jyeoman@Kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
As the semester progresses, more and more students are beginning to fall asleep in classes or just skip them altogether.
However, there are a few classes on campus that keep students coming back and staying alert.
"My class is at 9:30, but I still stay awake, and I will like to go," said Dave Wright, Prairie Village senior, who is taking HPER 489, Health and Human Sexuality with Phillip
Huntsinger, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation.
Wright thinks the professor is great. "He cracks you up, and he's real down to earth," he said. "The class relates to campus stuff and our age group. It would definitely be a elective. We study everything from pregnancy, birth control and STDs."
In the timetable, one can find classes with unusual titles like Masquerade, Anthropology of Sex, From Goddesses to Witches and Make-up.
describe the class, Phil Wedge, a lecturer in the department of English, said. Others serve a different purpose.
"If the University published a course description or class reading lists, classes could speak for themselves," said Wedge, who teaches ENGL 203, Literature of Sports. "But, since you only have one line in the timetable, a catchy title helps to draw students in."
Wedge teaches his class because he enjoys the subject. "The class combines interests that I have in sports and writing," he said. "When I was
Some titles are only included to
an undergrad, I took a class on the literature of baseball and enjoyed it."
Names can be deceiving, Wedge said. Students often drop his class because they expect it to be easy.
Donald Marquis, professor of philosophy, who teaches PHIL 500, Philosophy of Sex and Love, agrees.
"Sometimes students end up in my class because of the title," he said. "But, the class doesn't always work out well for those students. It also helps that my class is a 500 level and not a 200 because it scares students away who are not majoring in philosophy."
Interesting classes
This is a sampling of some unusual and interesting classes offered at the University of Kansas:
AF S 320 Introduction to Jazz
Ar S 079 Masquerade
AM S 098 Ben Culture
ANTH 359 Anthropology of Sex
ANTH 484 Magic, Science, and Religion
COMS 575 Loving Relationships
ENGL 2012 Infant Wound Reqn
ENGLE 203 Intimity and beyond ENGL 203 Literature of Sports
HIST 320 From Goddesses to Witches: Women in Premodern Europe
PHIL 500 Philosophy of Sex and Love
TH&F Make-up
HPER 108 Square and Ballroom Dancing
Dancing
HPER 252 The Coaching of Football
HPER 252 The Coaching of Football
HPER 489 Health and Human Sexuality
ABDS 201 Color
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