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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 19, 1996
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Socializing, adapting keys to Hawk Week
Events familiarize students with KU life
By Dave Breitenstein
Kansan staff writer
Steve Riedl thinks Hawk Week is the wrong name for the orientation days preceding the fall semester.
"It should be called 'Making Friends Week,'" said Riedl, Shawnee senior. "Hawk Week is when I met most of my friends who I hang around with now."
Hawk Week, Aug. 18 to 21, is a KU tradition that allows new students to become familiar with the campus, participate in social activities and listen to staff members speak.
Hawk Week was more than just lectures on academic life, Riedl said.
"In my freshman year, I participated in athletics and other dorm-sponsored events. I liked Beach-B-Noulevard a lot," he said.
"The parties at night were what I liked the most. That's how I got to know people on my dorm floor."
Riedl said Hawk Week familiarized him with campus buildings and other important information. But he did have one complaint about Hawk Week.
"I wish it was Hawk Month," he said.
I wish it was Hawk Month. He said.
T.J. Clark, Hawk Week coordinator and program assistant for the Office of New Student Orientation, said the main goal of Hawk Week to is introduce new students
"We provide a laid-back atmosphere where students can socialize and get their feet wet before classes start," Clark said. "They can experience a little bit of KU so they're not too shocked about the myths of college life."
to campus.
Office personnel plan and coordinate all Hawk Week activities. Each program offered this year was well-attended last year, Clark said.
"The most popular programs are Beach-N-Boulevard and Traditions Night," he said. "Beach-N-Boulevard is popular because of entertainment and prizes; the KU band plays, and some campus groups will also perform."
"The personal class schedule tour is probably the most helpful tour," Clark said. "We have an orientation assistant walk with them to each building and classroom where they will have a class. That way they won't get lost on the first day of class."
offers several campus tours for students.
Daytime programs cover a variety of topics, ranging from academic matters to adjusting to life away from home. Clark said these programs helped all who attended, and he encouraged students to listen to as many lectures as possible.
"I think students who attend Hawk Week programs are further ahead than those who don't because they are more familiar with the University right away," he said.
Jason Kerschner, Old Westbury, N.Y.
junior, said he knew what to expect from Hawk Week when he arrived in Lawrence. He was sent a calendar of events, and his resident assistant explained Hawk Week.
"My R.A. helped put things together to get us to meet people," he said. "He tried to split up so we'd meet people from other dorms."
Kerschner said Hawk Week was designed to get students to meet a lot of people. He had some advice for incoming freshmen.
"You have to want to meet people," Kerschner said. "Try to get involved and be as open and outgoing as possible." he said.
For more information about Hawk Week activities, call the Office of New Student orientation at 864-4270.
Manic Panic hair colors the market
Dye's bright shades have been seen on models, musicians
By Patricia Bibby The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Forget those subtle shades of flaxen blond, copper red, and warm chestnut that Linda Evangelista would have you believe are all the rage in hair coloring.
Truly hip hair this summer is asserting itself in shades more commonly associated with artificial candy and '70s poster art.
The hair dye du jour? It's called Manic Panic, and it comes in shades such as atomic turquoise, cotton candy, shocking blue and electric sunshine.
Dennis Rodman, Manic Panic's unofficial poster child, has strutted in locks of apple green and shocking red and since has graduated to more elaborate rainbows and even a red AIDS ribbon against a white background.
But Rodman is hardly alone.
Manic Panic has graced the heads
of Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong, Porno for Pyros' and Lollapalooa founder Perry Farrell, Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots and Mike D of the Beastie Boys.
Cyndi Lauper was an early Panic pioneer. Models Rachel Williams and Jenny Shimizu, and actresses Ione Skye and Lori Petty also have Panicked. The ever-whimsical designer Todd Oldham has gone green himself.
It's inevitable that Cher, a woman hardly known for cosmetic restraint, has taken to the Manic Panic bottle. too.
But celebrated heads aren't the only ones .. turning heads.
From New York City's Soho to Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue and points in between, the daring and probably non-corporately employed have taken Manic Panic's pigment plunge.
At only $8 a bottle and with an array of 32 shades available, dying possibilities abound. Some of the more creative are creating bilelevels of white hair on top with brightly colored ends.
"Deep, rich purply reds, I think, will be the big colors this year," says Victoria Gentry, an image
consultant on the road with the Lollapalooza tour. (An image consultant at Lollapalooza? Who knew?)
"It's anywhere between black and blond, and that's pretty boring," she says.
Tish Bellomo, Manic Panic's coowner, says natural hair color is rather limited.
Manic Panic has its roots, so to speak, in punk. Way back in the mid-1970s, Bellomo and her partner-sister, Snooky, were singing backup for Blondie when the band was just another unsigned group.
It was a time so devoid of hair coloring alternatives that lead singer Debbie Harry was using mere food coloring on her bleached-out tresses.
Being good entrepreneurs, the Bellomos sensed a need and stepped in to fill the void by importing Manic Panic from England.
"In the olden days of punk rock," Snooky Bellomo says, "it was kind of a shock value thing. But now I
think it's more just a cosmetic thing."
So just what's it like to walk down the street with a mane of, say, cotton candy pink hair?
"Everyone loves pink," says Lisa Cullen, a hairstylist and colorist at John Dellaria's in Soho who sports a pale pink hue that looks remarkably like spun sugar.
"It's kind of like doll hair. Kids look at me like some sort of magic little dolly goddam." Cullen says.
And pink's not the only color with shock value. Conn Braftain, a spokesman at Todd Oldham, has turquoise hair
"Little kids freak out and point and stare and think you're, like, a cartoon character," Brattain says. "I get lots of people who just give you weird, dirty looks."
"Then I get people who come up to me and tell me it's incredibly beautiful. They are glad somebody does it and it's happy looking."
But, dyer beware, Brattain also recounts true Manic Panic panic:
"The shocking part was putting the blue color on my hair, rinsing it off under sink and then looking up and there was blue hair! And you're like, 'Oh my God! I can't leave the house like this!' he says.
Buying a computer isn't stop'n' go shopping
Students should consider major, Internet access prior to purchasing
The Associated Press
Students soon will be packing up their books, clothes and a decent personal computer for their coming college careers.
Now considered an essential, personal computers outnumber VCRs, answering machines or microwave ovens in the residence halls at Purdue University, said Lanny Wilson, associate director of residence halls at the West Lafayette, Ind., campus. The most recent count was 4,261 computers in 6,500 student rooms.
A student's age, interests, future plans — and the computer setup on campus — will affect his or her choice of computers, said Jack
Wilson, dean of undergraduate and continuing education at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
"Here at Rensselaer, for example, students can choose to participate in a laptop pilot program in which they will need a computer that is compatible with the program." Wilson said.
Students also should consider the way that the campus connects to the Internet. If high-speed Ethernet connections are not available, the computer selected should include at least a 14.4-baud modem that can handle images, video and sound on the Web, he said.
Daryl Johnson, assistant professor in Rochester Institute of Technology's information technology department in Rochester, N.Y., said freshmen should check with their university to see what particular platform — Macintosh, IBM
personal computer or UNIX computer — it supports.
If the university doesn't support any particular platform, then the focus should shift to the program the student is entering. Find out what software tools will be used and choose a computer that will run that software. Software used in a particular curriculum will narrow the choice of computers.
The standard for the industry the student plans to enter after graduation is another consideration. Johnson said that IBM PCs are used most in the business world, UNIX or DOS computers frequently in engineering and Macintosh in graphic arts.
Suppose a degree program doesn't require a particular program and post-collegiate industry considerations aren't that important. Johnson said that if the student already had experience with a particular platform, he or she
should stick with it. It's easier to go with a familiar system than trying to learn a new one while concentrating on new classes.
Also, a student should think about how the computer will be used most. Johnson said many students used computers as word processors for most curricula. A liberal arts student, who doesn't take as much math or science, might do 95 percent of his or her work on the word processor, which is a good system for gathering and organizing information and writing. Johnson said Macintoshes were a good choice for students who are first-time users and mainly will be using the word-processing function. Regardless of the choice, Johnson said it was a good idea to get experience on a variety of platforms. That will make the student more attractive to an employer later on.
On-line, off-campus night classes fit into working schedules
He's studying storytelling among other subjects, at Columbia 2, the continuing education division of Columbia College in Chicago.
CHICAGO — Michael Sloat is 50 years old, a Chicago health care executive — and a college student.
"In health care, we have lots of meetings," he said. "It helps me get my points across if I can present them in captivating stories with strong messages."
Another storytelling student, Edna Montemayor, 48, has degrees in English literature and nursing, and has done graduate work in anthropology.
"Storytelling is very much related to the work I'm doing now in women's group therapy, and we certainly didn't learn this in nursing school," she said. "But I'm especially fond of it because it is also related to my personal interests in folklore and mythology."
Nearly half of all college students are over 25, according to a study by The College Board.
So universities and colleges are striving to serve up a menu of early-morning, late-evening and weekend classes, on-line classes, off-campus locations and client-based services to meet their needs.
The board estimates that about 40 percent of these students are being reimbursed for tuition by their employers.
Older students are more holistic in their approach to education, said Philip Klukoff, associate provost for Columbia 2. They're looking for courses to both advance their careers and fill personal needs. And they're signing up for classes that once might have been seen as frivolous or artsy.
Courses in performance arts are naturals for lawyers, business
people and other professionals,
Klukoff said.
"In classes such as storytelling or stand-up comedy, we learn to be credible, enthusiastic communicators not only in our public presentations, but in interviewing and job-seeking strategies as well," he said.
The storytelling class is taught by Nancy Donoval. Among her students are a corporate diversity consultant, a massage therapist and members of the clergy. All have differing needs and viewpoints, but all of them are trying to learn to communicate more effectively.
Norma Long, president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education, said, "In the past, it was typical for schools to have a narrow approach which enabled 'traditional' students to get a full-time education in the liberal arts. Now colleges have to take on a much broader scope."
That scope includes offering courses by computer, called distance learning, typified by the Distance Instruction for Adult Learning program launched in 1993 by the New School for Social Research in New York City. Or cooperating with area corporations, as does the University of Minnesota, whose adult education division, University College, worked with IBM as it was downsizing its Rochester operations.
Long said, "Some higher educational institutions are forming alliances with business groups in their communities. They're asking businesses to serve on their boards and committees, which helps them both with long-range planning."
Gayle Hendrickson, director of communications at Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, said schools must adjust to fit the older-student market.
"We can use our regular day school courses," she said, "but we must reconfigure, reconstruct and modularize them to fit an audience of working adults."
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