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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LET'S TALK ABOUT PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC CONCERNS
WHO: WOMEN OF COLOR AND OTHERS INTERESTED
WHERE: PINE ROOM, KANSAS UNION
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1996
TIME: 7:00 P.M. -- 9:00 P.M.
FACILITATOR
Dr. Barbara Ballard, Director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
sponsored by The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
155强 Hill Hall, University of Kansas. For more information contact
unold@bk4-8654.3529
Uncertain about what to wear to a job interview?
Plan to attend "Dress For Success"
Wed. Sept. 25, 1996
3:30 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union
Learn from experts in the retail clothing industry about the proper attire for a job interview. A show style of men's and women's suits will be presented at New York/Executive Suite from the Lawrence Riverfront Mall. Sponsored by the University Placement Center. For more information call 864-3624.
KU students reveal moronic acts
Delicate moments imitate new book about stupid actions
By Jeff Ruby Kansan staff writer
Too lazy to drive to his girlfriend's house, a man tied helium balloons to a lawn chair and ended up at 15,000 feet, closing the Los Angeles airport.
A Chinese contraception program caused the birth rate to rise when men were discovered taking birth control pills and unrolling condoms on their fingers—exactly as shown in the training film.
Moronic moments such as these are chronicled in The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done, a new collection of outrageous anecdotes of human behavior by Ross and Kathryn Petras.
The siblings have previously written the bestselling The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said. Their new book devotes 192 pages to utterly asinine activities from throughout history, such as the story about a gang of Norwegian thieves that carefully used explosives to open a safe—only to find the safe was filled with dynamite.
While perhaps not as outrageous, there is no shortage of embarrassing moments for KU students. Several revealed ridiculous situations in their lives they would gladly take back if they could.
"I fell in a halfway uncovered manhole," said Stacy Renfroe, Derby senior. "I was walking and talking and not paying attention." Renfroe said it happened in downtown Wichita, in front of a popular bar during the lunch hour.
"Most recently, one of my friends, who used to be a Mormon, he had a few beers, and he got out of control and thought he was Superman," said Dan Santa Maria, Overland Park sophomore. "I had to run around all day and try to drag him down. He said he wanted to fly out and save countless millions."
Davia Jewett, Cherrypale freshman, said that while in high school, she was in the girls' restroom skipping class with some friends when one of her friends flushed the toilet, flooding the bathroom so badly they couldn't even get out the door.
"I walked in on my roommate and his girlfriend when they were going at it," said Aaron Hetherington, Lenexa sophomore, who added that he wasn't really coherent at the time and had to be told about the incident later.
Sharon Hart, Lawrence junior,
said when she worked in food service
and was stocking juice, she bent
down and her pants split open. "I didn't want to go to the boss and say,
'My pants split. Can I go get some more pants?'" Hart said. "So I just wrapped my sweater around me and
Alana Winner, Overland Park junior, said that once, while playing racquetball at a gym in Overland Park, she noticed several men watching her while taking off their shirts to play basketball, and at that moment, she ran full-speed into a large, glass pillar.
hoped it didn't fall off during the shift."
Kate Cavanaugh, Prairie Village senior, said that last weekend, while intoxicated, she went to Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway., at midnight and approached every employee, welcoming them to the store.
Jessica Dunn, Belton, Mo. freshman, said she was on a dance team in high school for which she wore a somewhat revealing Lyca outfit. "We had on these big huge jackets over them, and I had my skirt tucked up underneath my jacket," Dunn said. "That was in front of a whole football stadium. None of my friends told me why they were laughing."
Volunteers get on the horn to help freshmen
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
Attention frustrated freshmen:
Answers to life's great mysteries are coming to you by way of the telephone.
To ease new students' first semester at the University of Kansas, the New Student Orientation office is implementing the New Student Outreach Calling Program. The program will employ faculty, administrators and students in the next couple of weeks to call all new students to inquire about their first semester and to answer any questions they may have.
"We want to let students know we haven't forgotten about them," said Kristin Adkinson, assistant
director of the New Student Orientation Office. "We want to let them know where to go and what to do it they are having any problems. If they are not having problems, that's great, but that's not realistic."
Maggie Ward, Beloit freshman, said that she was not having any major difficulties with University life but that the calling program was a good idea.
"It would be nice to talk to someone about my financial aid because it is so confusing," she said.
"I definitely would have liked
Kelley Knib, Fairway sophomore, said she would have liked to have someone call her with advice and information during her freshman year.
"We want to let students know that we haven't forgotten about them."
Kristin Adkinson Assistant Director
some more direction from someone," Kneib said. "I didn't understand Add/Drop, and I was scared to do it. It would have been really
nice to have some advice on advising and enrollment."
Adkinson said that response from calling volunteers had not been what she had hoped.
Those interested in contacting new students can attend one of two training sessions to get a better understanding of the program and their role as a caller, Adkinson said. The training sessions will be from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. today and from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. tomorrow at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Manson said the training sessions for interested faculty, administration and student volunteers would give volunteers time to practice with a prepared script as well as give information to pass along to students.
Retired KU professor of geography donates $250,000 to help libraries' staff development
Kimberly Crabtree
Kansan staff writer
As a child, Walter Kollmorgen was stricken with polio. As an instructor, he founded the department of geography at the University of Kansas. As a retired professor, he has pledged $250,000 to support the KU Libraries.
It was in 1946, before the University had a department of geography, that Walter Kollmorgen came to the University. A former student of Kollmorgen's said the instructor came here because Paul Lawson, dean of liberal arts and sciences, had promised to hire geography faculty to begin a curriculum for the discipline.
"He started with nothing," said James Shortridge, professor of geography. "They awarded the first doctorate in 1959 and the first master's in the late '40s."
Kollmorgen, who lives in Omaha, Neb., holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Nebraska. He earned a doctorate from Columbia University in 1940.
In 1947, a year after he came to the
Walter Kollmorger
University, two more geography instructors were hired, and Kollmorgen founded the department of geography, Shortridge said. At the same time, Kollmorgen became chairman of the department. a
position he held until 1967. In 1963, Kollmorgen was named a University distinguished professor. He is now a professor emeritus.
While at the University, Kollmorgen was interested in changes in agricultural systems in western Kansas, Shortridge said. Kollmorgen also advised Shortridge while he was earning his master's degree and his doctorate.
But the KU Libraries were special to Kollmorgen, and they were special to his sister, Johanna, who also was stricken with polio. In Lawrence she worked with many groups, including
the city planning commission, the League of Women Voters and the University Women's Club. She died in 1994.
William Crowe, vice chancellor for information services and dean of libraries, said the Kollmorgens had been important contributors to the Lawrence and University communities.
"Anybody who knew them would always talk about their remarkable intellectual vitality," he said.
Because of their diseases, Walter and Johanna Kollmorgen often required special assistance from library staff, Crowe said.
"for many, many years they both thought they had been treated very well by the library staff," Crowe said.
In July, the Kansas University Endowment Association announced that Walter Kollmorgen, who retired in 1977, had pledged $250,000 to the association to establish the Walter M. and Johanna Kollmorgen Library Fund.
Walter Kollmorgen specified that after his death, the money would ben-
"Anybody who knew them would always talk about their remarkable intellectual vitality."
William Crowe vice chancellor for information services
eft staff development in the libraries, Crowe said.
"It's not unusual for faculty to consider leaving part of their estates to the libraries," he said. "What is remarkable here is that he chose to focus it on the staff. It is remarkable, and it is tremendously appreciated."
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