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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009
CAMPUS
Policy could open door for more access to rooms
BY MEGAN HEACOCK mheacock@kansan.com
Clinking beer bottles or loud gatherings in student housing could become grounds for staff members to demand entry into a room, according to a proposed policy change.
The Department of Student Housing recommended this change as a better way to enforce drinking regulations on campus. It would allow staff members to immediately enter the rooms of students who are suspected of violating policy.
As the policy stands now, officials may only enter the room without notice when "imminent danger to life, safety, health or property is reasonably feared."
Emily Williams is the chairwoman of the alcohol subcommittee, which is discussing overall alcohol policy change on campus. Williams, Overland Park graduate student, said alcohol abuse was a major issue in student housing at the University.
"The situation is that no matter what the rules are people will break the rules," she said. "And so we are faced with a very serious dilemma here as to how to reduce drinking to the point of abuse with our student body. Unfortunately, that kind of drinking is in housing."
Kiley Luckett, Garden City senior and president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said the rule caused complaints among residents who said this was a way for staff members to enter rooms
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whenever they wanted, Luckett said this was not the intention.
"We are not trying to invade rights of any of our residents," she said. "The purpose was just to better give us the resources to help residents
help residents if they may be in need."
"The purpose was just to better give us the resources to help residents if they may be in need."
Student Housing Director Diana Robertson said the University was one of the few schools that didn't already have room access. In the Big 12, Kansas and Iowa State are the only two schools that don't have this policy.
Devon Cantwell, Topeka soph
Members of the committee debated the effectiveness of a policy change.
KILEY LUCKETT president of the Association of University Residence Halls
"The issue is that there's a cultural change that needs to take place and address things in what I would consider an adult and mature manner face-to-face. That's what we're seeking," she said.
omore and Student Senate executive secretary, said the policy change could potentially help students who were sleeping sleep or study time because of their neighbors' noise, but she said it could be less effective in stopping alcohol abuse.
"I don't think this will necessarily help any way with the alcohol culture on campus," Cantwell said. "But I think it will help the quality of life for the students in the residence halls."
Mathew Shepard, Norton junior and All Scholarship Hall Council president, said this was the general reaction he
received from students who were told about the policy proposal.
"They heard about it, they learned about it, they loved it because they want a safe place to come home," Shepard said.
Williams said the purpose of the committee was to address alcohol problems at the University by looking to change various policies, but she said focusing on drinking in residence halls was still only part of the solution.
"This policy is related." Williams said about the student housing policy change. "But it's not the silver bullet for taking care of alcohol abuse at KU."
WEB SEMINAR
— Edited by Nick Gerik
Applications made easier
Schools that have signed up to recruit Kansas students include Arizona State University, the University of Tulsa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Online collaboration allows students to learn about schools, applying
Lindsey McCaig, Engineering Career Center coordinator and an organizer for the database, said about 70 programs were participating in the online recruitment database. She attributed much of that interest to the reduction in budgets and the amount programs can spend on face-to-face recruitment.
With a growing number of graduate students and fewer dollars for graduate programs to recruit them, Kansas schools are offering a new opportunity for students to connect to graduate schools online.
Hire Kansas Talent is a group collaboration that offers an online substitution for information fairs. The Web fair allows students to browse information about graduate schools from across the nation. The University collaborated with six other four-year schools in Kansas to make the group.
This week, the group is holding the 2009 Kansas Graduate and Professional School E-vent, a weeklong series of live, online seminars. Seminars will cover topics from how to apply to graduate school to tips for writing personal statements and programs in specific fields of study.
BY JESSE RANGEL jrangel@kansan.com
"They don't have as much travel and recruitment money," McCaig said. "So with the budget cuts, we felt like this was a good alternative
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Online seminars, chats this week:
The Talent Consortium will host online chats this week on topics for students who are interesting in graduate school and law school from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday. In these chats, students will have the opportunity to speak with representatives from schools such as Marquette University,
Indiana University School of Medicine and the University of Missouri.
Some schools will also hold seminars Monday through Thursday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. with topics ranging from tips to applying to graduate school to writing effective personal statements.
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Students can register for the seminars or the chats by going to https://kut-csm.symplicity.com/events/2009gps.
for them to reach out to a lot of students with actually no cost this year. A lot of schools just don't have the recruitment budgets anymore that they used to."
McCaig said the online system would benefit specialized graduate programs that may only find a few students interested in their programs on recruiting trips.
Bruce Blair, Bellville, Ala.,
"So, by combining the other Kansas schools, then we're giving them a better pool list of students," McCaig said. "We're also getting a broader scope of schools that are going to participate because they don't have to travel here."
She said the system was a no-cost option for schools to market themselves to students.
graduate student and president of the Graduate and Professional Association, said he thought any way to increase the information available to students about graduate school was a good thing.
"You can't reach all students through fairs, and you can't reach all students through online action," Blair said. "So I'm guessing if both are conducted together, I see no reason why they won't be successful."
Lorna Kenyon, administrative director of the College of Medicine at Ohio State and participant in the event, said this was the first time she had participated in a Web fair. She said the school had participated in other online exercises, such as chats with students who had been accepted to the school.
"I think it's just another mechanism to try to reach applicants," Kenyon said. "With all the social media that's available now, it's not surprising that it comes to this."
Edited by Abbey Strusz
Town holds fundraiser for family of murdered 7-year-old
NATIONAL
Children kneel and pray Friday at a memorial for Somer Thompson, who was murdered earlier in the week in Orange Park. Investigators are still searching for information about Thompson's killer.
Police still searching for the person who abducted the girl
BY TAMARA LUSH Associated Press
ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Investigators had more than a thousand tips but are still trying to figure out what happened when 7-year-old Somer Thompson disappeared on her walk home from
north Florida school last week.
At a fundraiser Sunday for Somer's family, children played in a bounce house as adults watched carefully. They vowed to find the girl's killer and raised about $18,500
Monday. Her body was found in a Georgia landfill Wednesday.
"I've been crying since day one," said Amanda Wendorff, a co-organizer of the fundraiser. "When it's a child, it just touches a community."
Wendorff, the wife of a Clay County Sheriff's deputy, has four children of her own. She urged
"I've been crying since day one. When it's a child, it just touches a community."
so her mother doesn't have to go back to work immediately.
AMANDA WENDORFF fundraiser co-organizer
Somer's name and photo were everywhere at the carnival-like fundraiser, which was held in a tree-lined park in the town's center. A silent raffle, a bake sale and even glittery makeovers for little girls were offered to help the family after the girl went missing after school
people at the carnival to be on the lookout for anyone suspicious — underscoring the fear that is running deep in the community.
eral law enforcement agencies are combing through tips: more than 1,150 calls from people around the U.S. have poured in regarding the little girl.
Meanwhile, detectives from local, state and fed-
so tar, no one has come forward to say they saw the girl abducted or attacked. Investigators have ruled out all 161 registered sex offenders who lived within a 5-mile radius of
Somer's home.
Thompson's mother, Diena Thompson, has praised the hard work of investigators.
"These detectives — excuse my language — are busting their (expletive) to find it. Because it's an it," Diena Thompson said Saturday referring to the killer of her daughter.
When reached by The Associated Press by phone Sunday, Thompson declined an interview.
"I don't want to think about doing any news until after I bury my baby," she said.
A public viewing and funeral are planned for Monday and Tuesday, but graveside services and the burial will be private.
Dozens of mourners and supporters have held nightly vigils outside the Thompson's home. They have gathered around a huge makeshift memorial of Hannah Montana balloons, stuffed animals and candles that have burned so long that the wax has melted into the grass.
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