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NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2009
Part of the art
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Harper Wright, Olathe senior, takes a time out between classes Friday afternoon and enjoys the stick sculpture in front of Spooner Hall. In cooperation with the Spencer Museum of Art and The Commons, artist Patrick Dougherty of North Carolina created the stick sculpture out of primary Silver Maple saplings from a sustainable site west of Lawrence. Dougherty's art was part of the Spencer Museum's May exhibition entitled "Trees & Other Narrifications: Branches in Nature & Culture." To find more information about Dougherty or to see other examples of his work, visit www.sheworks.net.
BREWERY (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
The Boulevard Brewery prepares bottles for shipping. The brewery is the eighth largest craft brewery in the country. Recently the brewing company released a new product, a pilsner lager.
MCDONALD'S VISION
McDonald said he was optimistic about the future of Boulevard because more customers were demanding local products. He
said he foresaw the brewery growing, but specifically in a local and regional way.
"The brewing world has become very global in nature but people like us believe it
more hybrid brewing culture than any place in the world. Places like Germany and Belgium, they don't have new breweries opening like we have in the U.S," he said.
"I feel really optimistic that small breweries are part of what's good abut America."
should be a local and regional thing." McDonald said. "I feel really optimistic that small breweries are part of what's good about America. In the U.S. we have a
JOHN MCDONALD Boulevard Brewery
Clint Wedel, a Lawrence resident who has been brewing his own beer for 15 years in Lawrence, said he thought Boulevard Pilsner mirrored the quality of European pilsners.
said.
He said he was glad to see the expansion of Boulevard products such as the pilsner.
"What's fresher and younger than 40 miles away?" Wedel
the brewery was still the same as it was when it opened in 1989: Make really good and fresh beer in Kansas City.
"Having a business shouldn't just be about making money, it's got to be something you're interested in and have a passion for," McDonald said. "If you're interested in it and you work really hard, it still doesn't mean you're going to succeed but at least you've got a chance."
McDonald said the vision of
"Life is a continual learning process," McDonald said. "When you're 56 years old, you're still learning, and often times the hard way. Just work hard and hope for a little luck."
McDonald admitted that even at his age he's still learning.
CELEBRITY
Edited by Abby Olcese
Jackson's doctor defends his previous statements
Dr. Conrad Murray never told detectives he left Jackson
and returned to find he had stopped breathing at 11 a.m. on June 25, attorney Edward Chernoff said in a statement late Monday.
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Michael Jackson's personal doctor says police have twisted his client's account of the singer's last hours.
That was one of the assertions in court papers, unsealed Monday, that are part of the investigation into how Jackson died. Chernoff called much of what's in the affidavit, which
Los Angeles Police filed to search Murray's Texas clinic last month, "police theory."
The Los Angeles Coroner's office ruled Jackson's death a homicide caused by drugs meant to treat insomnia, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
NATIONAL
Associated Press
Investigators look at interrogation tactics
BY DEVLIN BARRETT AND PAMELA HESS Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, revealing Clay interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted.
at the same time, President Barack Obama ordered changes in future interrogations, bringing in other agencies besides the CIA under the direction of the FBI and supervised by his own rational security adviser. The administration pledged questioning would be controlled by the Army Field Manual, with strict rules on tactics, and said the White House would keep its hands of the professional investigators doing the work.
Despite the announcement of the criminal probe, several
Obama spokesmen declared anew
as the president has repeatedly that on the subject of detainee interrogation he "wants to look forward, not back" at Bush tactics. They took pains to say decisions on any prosecutions would be up to Attorney General Eric Holder, not the White House.
Monday's five-year-old report by the CIA's inspector general, newly declassified and released under a federal court's orders, described severe tactics used by interrogators on terror suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Seeking information about possible further attacks, interrogators threatened one detainee with a gun and a power drill, choked another and tried to frighten still another with a mock execution of another prisoner.
Attorney General Holder said he had chosen a veteran prosecutor to determine whether any CIA officers or contractors should face criminal charges for crossing the line on rough but permissible tactics.
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ible and convenient for students.
Videos advertising the campaign will also run in some of the rooms between classes later this semester, Hoins said.
However, Kane said Budig and Wescoe Halls had the most difficult classrooms to clean on campus. He said the housekeeping staff spent 20 to 30 minutes in each room just picking up newspapers and food containers.
Representatives from the three groups said they hoped the campaign would increase awareness about littering, reduce trash pickup and instill a sense of pride in students for the University's campus.
"To keep campus clean, it needs to be a community effort," Vic Kane, assistant director of Facilities Operations, Housekeeping, said. "The KU campus is beautiful, and litter takes away from that beauty."
Cleaning a classroom takes 30 to 40 minutes on average and requires between five and 10 minutes of that cleaning time to pick up the trash left behind, he said.
Christina Graber, Kingman junior, has a class in Budig this semester. She said that she had seen how dirty classrooms could get, especially after lunch time, and that she hoped the efforts to clean up campus would be effective.
Kane said part of the littering problem was the build-up of waste throughout the day because the housekeeping staff could only clean at night, when students weren't in the buildings.
With less trash to collect, Kane said, the housekeeping staff could devote more time to disinfecting surfaces to help limit the spread of disease.
"It's your stuff," she said. "It
shouldn't be anybody else's problem. This is everyone's campus, you just need to do your part and keep everything picked up."
Of all the trash accumulated on facility floors, Kane said newspapers were by far the most littered item on campus.
"Students read the newspaper everywhere, and leave it everywhere but the recycling bins when they're done," Kane said.
Hoins also said she hoped the campaign would help limit that behavior and help people realize that their waste doesn't just disappear when they leave it on the ground.
"Nobody's doing it intentionally to make campus dirty," she said. "But that may be a consequence of all this litter."
Hoins said she hoped to divert at least one ton of newspaper waste each month from classroom floors. According to the KU Recycling Web site, about 150 tons of newsprint waste were collected during the 2007-2008 school year.
"We thought we would be able to get freshmen and sophomores to participate as they start school so the habits would stick with them through their four years here at KU," she said.
The three groups chose Budig and Wescoe for the pilot because the halls host a number of large lectures taken by freshmen and sophomores, Hoins said.
Should the program be a success. Hoins said she hoped to expand the campaign to the entire campus.
The departments chose Snow as a case study to see how successful the program would be with smaller, more advanced classes.
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THE INTERNATIONAL
SHIFT
COUNSELING (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
According to Sandra Issa, language specialist and cross-cultural adviser at the Applied English Center, counseling and advising services for international students have been incredibly busy.
"We see a lot of students who need help adjusting to their new situations." Issa said.
The AEC has six cross-cultural advisers available to talk to international students about classes, academics or even personal issues, such as roommate problems and illnesses.
Huong Thanh Vu, Hanoi, Vietnam freshman, uses resources at the AEC and said it was helpful for her to have someone to talk to about classes and the cultural adjustment.
"I still need courage to drink water straight from the tap" Vu said. "At home we have to boil it, or we'll get sick. It will definitely take some time to get used to it."
International Student and Scholar Services is another department at the University that offers advising to help international students acclimate to University life. Before the start of the fall semester, ISSS holds an optional week-long orientation for all incoming international students. Advisers continue to keep in touch with students throughout the year to make sure they are adjusting well.
The AEC, however, only provides services to international students who have applied to the organization.
Michael Ediger, associate director of ISSS, said the department's main focus was to make the initial transition to the University as smooth and painless as possible.
"We enjoy watching the interaction between students from different parts of the world who wouldn't normally meet each other." Ediger said.
Vu said she had already auditioned and been accepted into the University's World Music Choir.
He said it was important to make the move easy so that students could do well not only with classes, but with personal goals as well.
"I'm really excited to be able to do things here that I wouldn't be able to at home." Vu said.
SHOCK
Students returning to the U.S. after studying abroad can also experience readjustment problems.
REVERSE CULTURE
"When students return to their home countries after living in one place it is difficult," Ediger said. "Dynamics of relationships have changed and learning to re-acclimate can be difficult."
The Office of Study Abroad helps prepare students for the differences in culture and lifestyle they might experience after leaving home. OSA also provides counseling to help make re-entry back to the U.S.easier.
Jennifer Weghorst, OSA program coordinator, compared this transition to what international students at the University go through. When study abroad programs end, KU students are notified about a reentry orientation they can attend if they are having trouble readjusting to life at home.
She said that once students grow accustomed to the cultural differences, they also miss the everyday aspects of their host countries.
"It's easier to see things in your home country in a more critical way," Weghorst said.
Cressler said it was strange to be back in the U.S. after spending two months in Europe.
"I realized how much more wasteful we are and how much more economical Europe is, and it was frustrating to deal with when I first got home," Cressler said.
He also said things that were completely normal before he left took him by surprise after his return.
"When I was driving back to Lawrence for school, I drove up behind this guy who had a gun rack and three guns in the back of his truck," Cressler said. "It really freaked me out because I didn't see anyone carrying guns in Europe."
Weghorst said many students went through this kind of reverse culture shock when they first returned to the U.S.
"Overall it's a very good experience to have on your resume," Weghorst said. "It changes your worldview and opens up a lot more opportunities."
— Edited by Nick Gerik