Tuesday, August 31, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Union eatery reopens, searches for employees
Irina Rodriguez Special to the Kansan
Diane Nelson from the department of teaching and leadership, Jan Miller, graduate student in education, and Nita Sudbye, a retired professor of teaching and leadership, discuss Miller's dissertation during lunch in the Prairie Room. The restaurant is now open during lunch in the Kansas Union. Photo by Melissa Thornton/KANSAN
The Prairie Room opened for another school year yesterday with a new challenge of accommodating the functions of the Learned Club at the Alumni Center, which closed in July.
Some special events, originally scheduled to take place at the Learned Club, instead will be held in the Prairie Room, which will incorporate some of the Alumni Center menu.
David Mucci, director of the Unions, said many of the former clients of the Alumni Center probably would come to the Prairie Room.
"We will have a steady menu throughout the year," Prairie Room chef, Jason Arnett, said. "But a lot of new dishes will pop up as specials."
The restaurant at the Learned Club was closed as a result of an Internal Revenue Service audit, which ruled that the association could not operate the restaurant and retain its tax-exempt status.
The Prairie Room, which has been part of the Kansas Union for about 20 years, used to hold Sunday brunches, dinners and was open for football games, Arnett said. Now because of
budget problems, Arnett is the only cook for the Prairie Room.
The Prairie Room was closed this summer and did not open at the start of the year because of the staff shortage.
"I just hope to get more assistants," Arnett said. "But I'd rather do fewer things well than take on a lot and not be able to finish them."
He said he hoped to enlarge functions and bring some services from the student cafeteria, which is located across the hall, to the restaurant.
During the summer, Arnett ran weekly demonstration cooking in the cafeteria, which included more exotic dishes than the regular menu and received tremendous response, Arnett said.
Teacher credentials could change
The Associated Press
EMPORIA — Much has been made of the Kansas State Board of Education's controversial vote on the teaching of evolution. But an Emporia State University professor is more concerned about another issue coming before the board. DeWayne Backhus, chairman of the division of physical sciences at ESU, worries about the long-range implications of a proposal to reduce the number of categories in which teachers are licensed by the state. His main concern is that the more generalized teacher credentialing does not include licensing in physics.
At its next meeting, Sept.14, the board could consider the plan that would bring 200 areas of teacher licensure down to 30.
The proposed areas for science teacher licensure would include earth and space science, life science, biology, chemistry and physical science, said Ken Bungert, the board's director of certification in teacher education.
Bungert disagrees with the notion that the change will hurt physics education in Kansas.
Jerry Long, associate dean of the teacher's college and a licensure committee member, said high school administrators were asking
for teachers certified in general sciences who could teach other sciences besides physics.
It will now be up to colleges and universities to decide how they will meet the standards for physics teacher preparation.
He said organizations like Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp., which promotes improving the state's science and technology-based infrastructure, won't like the credentialing change.
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Bill Wagnon, a State Board of Education member from Topeka, says the changes will prepare teachers to teach multiple disciplines in small schools.
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