Football: Kansas Jayhawks rev up for 1997-98 season with new coach. Page 1B
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CENTIMETER = 0.3937 INCHES
METER = 39.37 INCHES OR 3.28 FOOT
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Templin: Housing director Ken Stoner shows off the remodeled hall. Page 1C
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
MONDAY AUGUST 18,1997
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.104, NO.1
Waving wheat or a cool treat awaits guests of Hawk Week
(USPS 650-640)
Today's festivities end with Traditions Night
By Gwen Olson
Kansan staff writer
Every fall, Jayhawks are welcomed back to school with a week of traditions, activities, learning and fun.
Hawk Week 1997 kicks off today with a variety of programs that new students can use to get to know the University of Kansas. The programs, ranging from tours of campus to an ice cream social, are designed to help freshmen succeed in their first semester of college.
During the day, the activities focus on academics. The Office of New Student
HAWK WEEK:
Schedule of events and activities. Page 2A
Orientation offers personalized class tours and tours of the KU libraries, Robinson Center and Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"I mainly am doing library tours," said Jordan Edwards, Junction City junior and one of helping orientation assistants. "I'm also helping with giving class tours to show students where the buildings are and how to find their classes."
Newly opened Budig Hall also will be available for inspection. Students will be able to take a tour of the building and its three high-tech lecture halls on Wednesday.
"We're hoping especially that the Budig tour will bring students in," said Heather Stoehr, Omaha, Neb., graduate student and Hawk week coordinator.
The daytime programs also give students a chance to prepare for the semester with special workshops designed to answer questions about the University and to provide study tips.
The Student Development Center, formerly the Student Assistance Center, also will offer study skills workshops.
"The workshops are mostly for freshmen and new students, but any student who may need some time-management or note-taking skills could attend," said Marshall Jackson, associate director of the center. "Generally, these programs are well-attended because students want to get a good start on the semester."
The final events of Hawk Week are the KU Football Get Ready Rally and a free screening of "Scream" at Campanile hill.
The most popular Hawk Week events take place at night, when students have a number of opportunities to learn the traditions of the University and to meet new people. Tonight there will be an ice cream social at the Adams Alumni Center followed by Traditions Night at Memorial Stadium. The Marching Jayhawks and the KU cheerleaders will teach students the University's songs and cheers, such as waving the wheat and the Rock Chalk chant.
Other daytime programs include information sessions on parking, adding and dropping classes, scholarships, student employment and student organizations.
Tomorrow night, several sports coaches and the Marching Jayhawks will be in front of Wescoe Hall for Beach-n-Boulevard, an event that features prize giveaways and entertainment.
The school year's convocation at the Lied Center will be Wednesday night. Faculty and staff, including Chancellor Robert Hemenway, will lead the hourlong ceremony, the official beginning to the new school year.
"This year, instead of just the football coach, we have invited several coaches of other fall sports," said Howard Milton, a graduate adviser who works for Student Union Activities. "We will also have a step show with some of the Black fraternities and sororites."
Coke dominates University
By Matthew Friedrichs
Kenan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
On Wednesday morning, Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare, will discuss sexuality and the college student. In the past, Dailey's class on human sexuality has been one of the most popular courses on campus.
For example, a program called Faculty Focus allows the students to hear professors' advice. Tuesday morning, Sally Frost-Mason, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will talk about how to succeed in large classes, such as chemistry and biology.
When University of Kansas students deposit 85 cents into soft drink vending machines this fall, their cola choice will be always Coca-Cola.
KU and Coca-Cola officials signed a letter of intent on Aug. 4 to proceed with a contract which will give Coca-Cola exclusive soft drink distribution rights on the Lawrence and Regents Center campuses for the next 10 years.
Within two days, Coca-Cola representatives were replacing old vending machines and stocking new machines across campus.
The deal is worth an estimated $21 million for the University, said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. The university will receive $7 million when the contract is completed and signed next month, he said.
Coca-Cola will provide $7.5 million worth of event sponsorships during the life of the contract. The remaining money will be generated from yearly guaranteed commissions, additional commissions from sales, interest earned on the initial $7 million payment and sale of the old KU Concessions vending machines to Coca-Cola.
While KU officials focused on the financial aspects of the agreement, KU students noted other details of the arrangement.
Many vending machines on campus have been replaced with machines that dispense 20-ounce bottles instead of 12-ounce cans.
"A 20-ounce bottle is a lot of soda," said Matt Gregory, Independence,毛母. senior. "I like Coke and I'm happy with it, but it kind of limits the options of soda drinkers because
The lack of choice bothered more than one student.
they only have one brand to choose from."
Increased bottle sales also could affect campus recycling efforts.
"People should have the right to choose what they drink," said Chris Hopkins, Gresham, Ore., freshman.
Money from the agreement will be used to fund campus recycling programs, Ambler said. Coca-Cola will also contribute in other wavs.
"They will provide recycling bins for both cans and bottles — anything that they peddle. Ambler said."
Decisions about specific allocations of the funds had not yet been made, but money may be used for scholarships, student programming, and faculty and staff programming. Ambler said.
Cola on campuses
ug 12 Schools and their exclusive soft drink distribution agreements;
Baylor: Dr Pepper Colorado: no agreement
Iowa State: Coca-Cola (except in student union)
Kansas: Coca-Cola
Kansas State: no agreement
Missouri: Coca-Cola
Nebraska: Pensi
- Oklahoma: no agreement, but starting process
Oklahoma State; no agreement
Texas A&M: Coca-Cola
Texas Tech: Coca-Cola
Texas: no agreement
Texas A&M: Coca-Cola
Getting to know the student body
Freshmen Abbie Berg, Iowa City, Iowa, Allen Byerly, Pratt, Ashley Els, Winfield, and Hannah Stubblefield, Liberty, Mo., took part in PlayFair in front of Allen Field House yesterday. PlayFair is one of several Hawk Week activities designed to acquaint student with the University and its traditions. The object of this game was to build trust and meet other new students.
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Separated at birth?
Skull photo courtesy of Discover magazine
The skull of Titanis walleri, a prehistoric bird with similar features as the Kansas Jayhawk. The bird roamed areas of southeastern North America 15,000 years ago.
'Jayhawk' fossil discovered
Early humans and bird may have coexisted
By Mike Perryman Kansan staff writer
Newly resurrected fossils of this large bird indicate to some optimistic scientists that the Jayhawk-like bird not only may have existed among early humans, but humans could have driven it to extinction.
The earliest humans to inhabit the New World may have run into the Kansas Jayhawk, known to the science world as Titanis walleri.
Titanis walleri, a six-foot tall bird with a two-foot long head and four-inch-long claws lived out the early part of its tenure in South America and later moved into the southeastern parts of North America. In the late 1960s, scientists discovered the bones, and they have continued to dig up more remains.
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The most recent component of one of the Titanis skeletons, a toe, was found in the same gravel pit sediment as a collection of bison that date back 15,000 years. However, scientists are uncertain about the age of the toe.
The earliest humans are thought to have
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arrived in the New World some 12,400 years ago. This places Titanis and humans in the same time frame.
"It looks like a Jayhawk. The huge hook on the tip of the nose and the whole skeleton of Titanis looks almost exactly like a Jayhawk." he said.
Richard Prum, curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum, said the prehistoric bird bore a remarkable resemblance to the University of Kansas' beloved Jayhawk.
Prum thinks it is possible, but not entirely likely, that humans walked with Titanis.
"This bird may have existed in southeastern parts of North America and stalked its prey in the tall grass lands; that is uncertain," Prum said. "But as history has proven, if humans did cross paths with these large birds, it is entirely possible that they could have been responsible for Titanis walleri's extinction."
Theories of the Titanis's extinction are as varied as theories of the extinction of the
But Prum and other colleagues at the University are more intrigued by the bird's Javhawk-like characteristics.
dinosaurs.
De Sui Miao, collection manager in the division of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum, agreed that the bird resembled the Jayhawk.
"It's about as close to a Jayhawk as you can get." he said.
Dean Stetler, associate professor of biochemistry and director of undergraduate biology, first stumbled upon some photos and pictures of Titans and its bones while reading "Discover" magazine. He was amazed at the similarities.
"Paint it red and blue, give it a yellow beak and put some shoes on it and you have a Javawk," he said
Prum said Titanis was soon the best-known of the big terror birds — monstrous birds that existed after the fall of the dinosaurs.
"It is interesting to see that this large, ferocious bird that is becoming so well-known looks so much like a Kansas Jayhawk," Prum said. "It is ironic that the plains and tall-grass regions in which Titanis is said to have inhabited and stalked thousands of years ago are not too entirely different than the Kansas landscape of today."
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Watkins makes appointments priority instead of walking in
Kansan staff writer
Starting today, more appointment slots will be available to students.
The long-standing tradition of walking in without an appointment for treatment at Watkins Memorial Health Center is changing.
In the past, doctors had to reserve entire days for walk-ins, Rock said. The new system reserves portions of each day for appointments and portions for walk-ins.
Students requiring urgent care still will be seen on a walk-in basis, but appointments are encouraged for more routine matters. Rock said. Also, the new system will ensure that those with emergencies will not compete for consultation time with those who have other non-urgent needs, he said.
In the past, as little as 30 percent of Watkins business was through appointments.
"We have a fixed day, so we are trying to spread things out so they don't have to wait," Rock said. "We encourage students to use the appointment system whenever feasible."
"That number has gotten a little better — maybe 50 percent — but our goal would be 80 percent with appointments," Rock said. "We want things to be done in a way to best utilize the students' health fees."
"If we channel, control the flow, it will be beneficial to the doctors, beneficial for the nurses and beneficial for the patients," appointment clerk Priscilla Belcher said. "It's going to take a while for people to catch on that more appointment times are available. It'll make a big difference. We're really excited about the change."
The two appointment clerks at Watkins are anticipating a steady stream of appointments.
To make an appointment, students can drop by the appointment desk or call 864-9657 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or call the main Watkins line at 864-9655 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. When calling for appointments, students are required to give their KUID number and identify their medical need so the right amount of time and the correct health care provider will be available.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Limited evening and weekend appointments also are available for those who can't make weekday appointments. A $30 after-hours charge is added for those who do not make an appointment and need assistance during the evenings and weekends.
INDEX
Sports ...1B
Community Life ...1C
Entertainment ...1D