Tuesday, October 13, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
'Hawks have new places to roost
Writing centers open for students
By Melody Ard
Kansan staff writer
After months of training and preparation, the writers have finally found their roosts.
The writer's roosts, or writing help rooms run by Writing Consulting: Student Resources, opened yesterday morning.
The writer's roosts are locations for students to seek help with general writing skills and on writing assignments from peer tutors.
Jason Capps, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, was the first tutor in the Strong Hall location.
Although he spent most of his time sitting alone with a book and toolbox full of handbooks and other writing-aid materials, he said he was not discouraged by the lack of students wanting tutors.
"I think it will take a few weeks to get people in here," Caps said. "The best method will be hearsay. I think students will filter in and have a good experience and then tell their friends about it."
Michele Eodice, assistant director of Writing Consulting: Faculty Resources, came from State University of New York at Buffalo to pick tutors and guide them through
ROOST INFO
Monday through Thursday:
Sites open at Kansas Union Alcove G; 4003 Wescoe, 156 Strong Hall.
Sunday night:
Templin Hall site open
Wednesdays:
The Multicultural Resource Center site open
Emily Forsyth, Lawrence senior, helps Wendell Brown, Teapek freshman, with an English paper. Forsyth is a tutor for the Writer's Roost, a new program that offers writing assistance to students. Photo by Jeff Sevirin/KANSAN
For site hours or more information about student resources, access the Writers' Roost web site at: http://www.ukans.edu/~writing
the process of starting the University of Kansas' first writing center.
When she arrived, she said she searched the campus for a catchy name to draw people to the center, and decided to spin-off of the University mascot.
"When I first got here in July, I took the time to get the feel for the campus." Eodice said. "I found that everyone loves the Jayhawk, and I wanted to extend the image of the Jayhawk, but the 'Hawks Nest' was taken."
The name "Writers' Roost" became the acceptable compromise, drawing on the image of a nest as a safe place and the tutors as the guides.
Eodice said she was excited to get the program going because a place for writing consultation has been absent from the University. The University is the last school in the Big 12
to add a writing center for students.
Eodice was the answer to that problem. In three months, she helped complete the switch from a faculty-oriented to a student-oriented writing resource center.
Pat McQueeney, director of Writing Consulting: Faculty Resources, said the writing consulting office had previously been faculty oriented, with the intention that individual instructors could help their own students.
McQueeney said the faculty resource aspect of the center was not going to disappear and that faculty supported the writers' roosts as
another option for students to find help.
"The faculty was concerned with the fact that students need different support than what they could give and that it wasn't there," she said.
McQueney estimated that only 5 to 10 percent of students used writing help services before and that the new tutoring sites would enhance the old methods and increase student usage.
"We are pleased with the preexisting services, and we want to work with them, not overtake them," she said. "All of the services are filling an important need."
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Museum wants skeletons out of its closet
No room for dinosaur bones may leave exhibition extinct
Kansan staff writer
By Julio M. Sachs
Kansas staff writer
After almost 100 years, the Natural History Museum is back in the dinosaur business — at least for now.
the discovery and excavation of three camerosaur skeletons in the Black Hills of Wyoming add another exhibit for the museum, but it also poses a problem: The museum does not have room to exhibit the skeletons.
Kemp said the bones would be cast and then sold to other institutions.
The third and most recent camerosaur skeleton measures about 60 feet long and 14 feet high to the shoulder and is scheduled to arrive at the museum today, said Brad Kemp, assistant director of public affairs at the museum.
He said that because of the museum's space constraints, the mold might be exhibited in other locations first.
"We have to construct something for these dinosaurs," said Larry Martin, senior curator at the museum.
The solution is a dinosaur hall.
"We really need someone to say, 'wow, I really like the idea of a dinosaur hall, can I fund it.'" Martin said.
Unless funding emerges for such a project, the University's brief interlude with excavating dinosaurs may be halted.
"There's not too much point in collecting dinosaurs unless you can put them somewhere," Kemp said. "So unless someone is particularly interested in investing in dinosaurs, I don't think we'll be collecting anymore."
The camerosar bones are not the only prehistoric remnants that would benefit from a
dinosaur hall.
Other items in the museum's collection such as a duckbill dinosaur, part of an allosaurus, part of a petasaurus and a triceratops skull also could be included in a dinosaur hall exhibit. Kemp said.
Although the museum does not have the means to exhibit all of its dinosaurs, a small exhibit is planned for the arrival of the camerasaur bones, Martin said.
"We are preparing the front leg and the hind leg of the new one," he said. "As soon as those are prepared, we will exhibit it."
The camerosaur bone exhibit should appear at the museum around Christmas, Martin said.
Kemp said the past excavation would look good for the University.
"I think this project has great potential for the University of Kansas," he said. "I really think that KU museums contribute to the quality of life at KU."
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