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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 13, 1994
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Committee to begin search
High expectations set as team looks for new chancellor
By Alicia Hein
By Anicia Hein
Kansan staff writer
Members of the chancellor search committee will get down to business in Lawrence tomorrow.
The 17 members of the committee, appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents, will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave., to discuss the task ahead of them — finding a replacement for Chancellor Gene Budig. The meeting will be open to the public.
Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Regents, said the group hopes to accomplish several goals at the meeting.
"We'll begin with an introduction," he said. "We sent out bio sheets on all
the committee members, but now we'll try and put names with faces."
After reviewing selection guidelines set by the Regents, the group will set the wheels of the search in motion.
Jordan said the committee will write an advertisement for the position and decide what publications the ad should appear in. Then, the committee will discuss letters that they will send out asking for nominations.
"We'll send out letters, maybe to presidents of other universities, asking for nominations of people who possess the qualities we're looking for," said Frank Becker, head of the search committee.
Becker was a member of the Regents and a member of the search committee that selected Budig.
The group will schedule meetings when they can begin reviewing the preliminary applicants, Becker said.
they should be ready to narrow the field of applicants. Interviews will probably begin in November.
"All this should get us down the road or so." he said.
The finalists who have survived the close scrutiny of the group will the announced in January.
Becker said the panel will probably meet in September, and by October,
Some committee members have high expectations for their new chancellor.
"We're looking for an extraordinary person," said panel member Wint Winter Sr., alum and former Kansas Senator. "We have an extraordinary University, with an outstanding faculty and student body. It's of utmost importance to the people of Kansas and to the faculty and students that we have the right person."
Leadership was a quality stressed by several committee members.
"It's a vigorous, demanding job," said committee member Arlo Hermreck, professor of surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "I think leadership of the University, which includes faculty and student body, is very important. If the person
Hermreck's fellow committee members from the Med Center also said leadership was important.
is a great leader, we'll be in great shape."
"We're certainly interested in candidates with great leadership experience," said Kim Russel, chief operating officer of the Med Center. "Since I'm at the Med Center, I'm also interested in candidates with experience and expertise in the medical field."
Virginia Cassmeyer, assistant professor in the KU school of nursing, said she also thought it was important for the new chancellor to understand the workings of the Med Center.
Committee members said they were aware of the importance of the task they will begin tomorrow.
"We're one of not very many universities that operates and manages a hospital," she said. "We need someone with the background and expertise to take on that responsibility."
"Choosing a chancellor is a heavy responsibility," Winter said.
The chancellor-selection committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow at the Adams Alumni Center, 1266 Oread Ave. The committee includes KU faculty, students, alumni, staff, administrators and members of the public.
Members of the committee are:
Ann Allegre, clinical associate professor of internal medicine and KU alum
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
Frank Becker, head of the committee, former Regent, KU alumnus and chief executive officer of Becker Corporation, the largest petroleum carrier in Kansas.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism and recipient of the 1992-93 Outstanding Educator Award by KU's Mortar Board
Virginia Cassmeyer, associate professor and member of graduate faculty at the KU School of Nursing Jennifer Ford, Lawrence senior and 1994 Truman Scholar
Don Green, the Conger-Gabel Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and head of the University Teaching Commons
Arlo Hermek, professor of vascular surgery and vice chief of staff at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
William Hougland, KU alum and former president of Koch Oil in Wichita
Roland Hurst, laboratories manager in civil engineering and former president of the Lawrence NAACP chapter
Dorothy Lynch, head of the KU Alumni Association
Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Board of Regents
Sherman Reeves, KU Student Body President
Richard Mann, University director of administration
Kimberly Russel, chief operating officer at the Med Center
T. P. Srinivasan, head of Faculty Executive Committee and professor of mathematics at KU
Garrett White, second-year medical student and member of the minority medical organization at the Med Center
Students' actions save 500-year-old artifacts
Wint Winter Sr., former Kansas Senator and KU alumnus
By Laurie Hudson
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The revving tractor engine echoed in the ears of Brad Logan as he waved his arms at the driver.
'A University of Kansas archaeology class halted a road crest just in time last month. The crew almost destroyed a pit full of artifacts buried 500 years ago by the White Rock Indians.
"One of the greatest contributions we made this summer is that we discovered and preserved part of the White Rock site," said Logan, professor of anthrology.
A Kansas Wildlife and Parks road crew was grating a bed for a new road near Lovewell Reservoir in northern Kansas, where the class was digging up artifacts. The students were drawn away from their work when they heard the rumbling tractor and saw its blade tear into the earth.
Logan and several members of the class trailed the tractor, their eyes on the ground. Suddenly, they spotted bison bones and signaled the driver to stop.
Will Banks, Laramie, Wyo., graduate student, cleans a bison bone from the White Rock site. The bones and other finds will be categorized and stored for future research possibilities.
Now, students are sifting though what they found at the White Rock site on their June dig.
Ten students went on the 20-day trip, and now two spend time in the basement of Spooner Hall recording facts about the bones, stones and pottery chips they collected.
"We're doing all this so we can get an idea of how these people were living," said Will Banks, Laramie, Wyo., graduate student.
One of the biggest conclusions the class has drawn from this summer's study was to accurately date the White Rock culture.
;"Nobody had ever bothered to radio-carbon date charac-
After having two charcoal samples analyzed, the KU class was able to date the culture at A.D. 1260-1450, a jump from the previously estimated A.D. 1500-1700.
"It is striking," he said. "They definitely specialized in bison hunting."
About A.D. 1250 a climactic shift occurred, Hogan said.
This could also explain the abundance of buffalo bones found in the White Rock culture's remains.
Work in the field is tedious, but fun, said Meredith Whitney,
a Mount Holyoke, Mass., senior.
"You're ready to quit all day," she said. "And then all of a sudden you find a bone or something and 45 minutes will
The 10 students split into groups of two or three. Two students shoved, and one screened. A lot of time was spent on hands and knees with a trowel digging in tough clay, Whitney said.
go by and you don't even notice. It'll be time to go and you don't want to."
"The worst part is the heat." Banks said, "There's no breeze and you're sitting in a ditch."
ans used.
Banks, who is pursuing a masters in anthropology, said the best part for him was finding the stone tools the Indi-
"Some people are bone people, others like ceramics, but I go for the stone tools myself," he said.
Whitney is one of the original 10 that went on the field trip that now spends her time weighing, measuring, and recording each chip of pottery.
"One of the things most people don't realize is that it's not just digging, it's paperwork," Whitney said. "A couple of months of the year are spent in the field. The rest are spent doing research and writing."
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death," said Judy Osborne of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department. "The vehicle had been left running in the garage, and the carbon monoxide simply permeated the whole house."
At KU, Mengel founded the Latin American Library Enhancement Project, an international effort to provide library resources to 100 universities in Latin America. She also secured more than $300,000 of grant support for the museum.
grandchildren.
A private service was held in her home last night. Donations in her name may be made to the Douglas County United Way or the American Civil Liberties Union.
Mengel was survived by her mother, two sisters, a brother, a daughter and two
Marion Mengel, adjunct curator of the Museum of Natural History since 1968, died Thursday at her home from carbon monoxide poisoning. She was 57.
Gov. Joan Finney recently appointed John Gaunt, dean of architecture, as the Lawrence representative to the State Building Advisory Commission.
Finney appoints dean
Gaunt said the commission was a public
service advisory and review committee that deals with new construction of buildings in the state.
"The coroner ruled it was an accidental
"I'll do my best to apply my architecture experience in the interest of the public trust," he said.
The new dean, who began working at KU July 1, formerly was the president and CEO of Ellerbe Becket, an architectural firm based in Minneapolis.
The first meeting of the committee will be today.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Libraries get new policies
Natural History Museum curator, 57, dies at home
By Scott MacWilliams Special to the Kansan
Special to the Kansan
Next month, KU libraries expect to get the first major, change in lending codes in 15 years.
Pending final approval by the chancellor's office, the new guidelines will include a two-week increase for student checkout of long-term materials as well as an increase in fines, Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries, said.
"We expect authorization to go through, and the changes will be significant," she said.
Hawkins said that the changes were developed during the previous three years and were designed so that people would be more responsible about returning books and short-term checkout items.
The news on dues
But in addition to the increase in check-out time, a recall period for books and short-term checkouts will be reduced.
- long-term loans—$5 the first day, 50 cents each day after
- six-day loans—50 cents per hour during the hours the library is open
KU libraries will begin new loan and fine policies Aug. 1.
Changes in the fines include:
short-term loans for one-week or longer—$1 a day
longer-loan reserves—$2 a day
one-week reserves—$1 an hour
> overdue loans—$15 dollars per item will be the maximum charged.
Source: Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries
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"That means a book could be kept for seven days, and then the borrower would have 11 days to return the book after the recall period began," Kendall Simmons, head of circulation at Watson Library, said.
The 30-day grace period for long-term checkouts would remain, with overdue notices sent out after 10 days.
Borrowers can renew loans an unlimited number of times, as long as no recall has been issued for that book. Renewals must be made in person. Telephone or mail renewals are not accepted.
Fines will also be increased, Hawkins said. The maximum fine per item will be increased to $15.
Hawkins said that library patrons must notify the library of address changes. Overdue notices returned by the post office would result in a suspension of loaning privileges.
Loaning privileges would also be suspended for failing to return any long-term loan or recalled item by the end of the grace period, failing to return short-term or reserve items by the time the maximum fine has occurred or accumulating $50 in unpaid fines.
The basic loan period for faculty and doctoral candidates will remain at four months.
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