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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2007
BUSINESS
Katherine Loeck/KANSAN
The beef teriyaki bamboo pot and taro milk tea are popular specialties on the menu at Encore Café, 1007 Massachusetts St. The café opened Monday.
Unique dishes spice up menu
BY COURTNEY CONDRON
ccondron@kansan.com
Encore Café, a new restaurant in downtown Lawrence, offers a mixture of Asian influenced food and American favorites such as smoothies and brisket.
Denny Wong, co-manager of Encore, said the restaurant was something unique compared with most oriental take-out places.
Encore, which opened Monday at 1007 Massachusetts St., has several types of bubble tea, a popular Chinese drink, along with milkshakes, slushes and coffee drinks. The menu features snacks such as edamame and popcorn chicken. Salads made of seaweed and calamari also are available. Encore offers a variety of entrees including Asian inspired dishes such as wonton egg noodles and Thai and
curry dishes.
"The food is prepared a different way, and the curry sauce is different from others." Wong said. "The bubble tea is totally different than what people have had before."
Wanna Zhao, Juang, China junior and co-manager of Encore, said the restaurant's unique dishes included pineapple fried rice and the beef teriakii on baked rice.
Encore's smoothies include mango, kiwi and strawberry with optional tapioca on the bottom. The restaurant also offers hot and cold teas such as jasmine milk tea, coconut milk tea and passion fruit green tea.
The restaurant has a casual setting with two flat-screen televisions and a karaoke room that is coming soon.
"We wanted to make it more
fun, not one of the higher-class places," Zhao said. "People can come in, enjoy themselves and socialize."
Zhao said the restaurant would have its liquor license in a few weeks and would then begin serving alcoholic beverages. The karaoke room will be open in a month or two after it is finished being sound-proofed. Zhao wanted to add the karaoke room because of the popularity of karaoke in China and to attract Asian student groups.
Zhao said customers had begun coming in, and she already saw some students come back twice in one day.
"Our menu is really different, and I think people should give it a try. People will like it," Zhao said.
Edited by Ashlee Kieler
CAMPUS
Law school opens doors
BY JEFF DETERS
jdeters@kansan.com
Katie Jahnke is majoring in English and political science. She has used all of her coursework to help prepare for her next endeavor: law school.
"I've really just spent my time at KU trying to build skills that will be useful in law school: organization, leadership, time management, critical thinking, reading, writing, etc." Jahnke said. "Of course, this involved tons of studying."
Students such as Jahnke, Shawnee senior, who are interested in going to law school can get valuable information at the School of Law open house. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the open house ends at 3 p.m. today at Green Hall. The event is free and open to all students. Attendees can tour facilities, learn about academic opportunities and admission requirements and talk with current law students about student life and other information.
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today
Where: Green Hall
What: The event will feature tours, information about the law school and talks with law students. It is free and open to all students.
Jacqlene Nance, School of Law director of admissions, said the goal of the event was to personalize the law school to interested students.
"As a result of the open house, we hope prospective students will become excited about KU Law, KU's
and was still waiting to hear where she would be accepted. Jahnke said development law appealed to her now, but added that her interests could change in the future.
open house
campus and the town of Lawrence, which in turn will encourage prospective students to apply and ultimately attend KU Law', Nance said.
Nance said students often were concerned with getting their applications completed properly and turned in to the school on time. She also said students asked who they should write a letter of recommendation for them as well as questions about the LSAT and GPA requirements.
Wendy Rohleder-Sook, associate dean for student affairs, said law students should look forward to the challenges that awaited them both as a law student and thereafter.
Last year the School of Law received 1,067 applications to the school and admitted 391. Nance encouraged students to plan early. She said if students couldn't attend the Open House, they should set up a visit, sit in on a first-year law class and make an appointment with a pre-law advisor. She said the school started accepting applications on Sept. 15. The deadline is March 15.
"We encourage students to plan on submitting their application by Thanksgiving, New Year's at the latest," she said. "Since we have a rolling application process, turning in your application early is best for both admissions and scholarship opportunities."
Jahnke, who is also president of the Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity, said she had been in the process of applying to law schools
"Both in law school and in the legal profession, students can look forward to an ongoing intellectual challenge," she said. "Because the law continuously changes, a lawyer must rely on the skills he or she develops in law school in identifying legal issues, constructing arguments and researching when practicing law."
For more information on the School of Law, go to www.law ku.edu.
Edited by Jeff Briscoe
CLAS
Philosophy department lacks GTAs
BY JEFF DETERS
jdeters@kansan.com
Ashley Acosta always knew she wanted to teach. She just didn't know which subject. But as an undergraduate at Old Dominion University, she took an introduction to philosophy class and she found she enjoyed it.
sense, and philosophy seemed like the best way to get some answers," Acosta said. "Little did I know that I'd end up with more questions than answers; by then it was too late, and I was totally hooked."
"I eventually got into philosophy because I was at a point in my life where nothing was making
"A lot of the faculty in the philosophy department here are pretty well-established in their areas of specialization," Acosta said. "And I knew I could get a quality education and a great foundation in philosophy at KU."
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who are not teaching this year and instead hoping for a TA position next year.
Joseph Steinmetz, dean of liberal
ASHLEY ACOSTA Graduate student
arts and sciences, said the University was trying to address the lack of funding and available positions through its new plan: Planning for Excellence. Last year when he talked to people throughout the 52 CLAS departments, Steinmetz said the most common complaint was the lack of support for graduate students. Steinmetz said the University wanted to increase the number of positions available for graduate students and better pay.
"A lot of the faculty in the philosophy department here are pretty well-established in their areas of specialization."
Acosta, first-year graduate student from Norfolk, Va., came to the University wanting to be a graduate teaching assistant in philosophy this year. But because of a lack of funding and available GTA positions in the philosophy department, Acosta is one of many graduate students in the
Steinmetz said GTA funding was
paid by the University through state funds in return for the students' teaching work. He said that compared with other Midwest schools such as Iowa, Illinois and Colorado, the university was lagging behind.
Acosta said she could likely work as a TA in the Humanities and Western Civilization department because it often hired students with degrees in philosophy, history and other subjects.
"My main interest in philosophy is actually the philosophy of literature," she said. "And TAing for Western Civ would fit in very well with my intended area of specialization."
And while Acosta wants to pursue a career in education, she's not going to limit herself just to that. She has plenty of other goals she wants to achieve in the future.
"I definitely want to teach, but I'd also like to write a novel, get another degree in either History or American Studies and play banjo in a bluegrass band," she said. "If my career in philosophy doesn't work out, I bet I'd be a great copy editor. I'm a total grammar queen."
Edited by Ashlee Kieler