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KANSAN.COM / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011 / NEWS
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STATE BUDGET
Kansas'2012 budget could end Kan-Ed program
Number of Kan-Ed Members in 2010
890 Members Total
Kan-Ed has received $10 million in state funding every year since it was established in 2001. The cuts, recommended by the house committee, will move these funds into the State General Fund. The Kansas Board of Regents, which is in charge of administering the Kan-Ed program, has opposed the cut. "If successful, this legislation would make Kansas the only state in the nation without a statewide educational network," said Dr. Andy Tompkins, President and CEO of the Board of Regents, at a hearing on the bill.
Total Tutoring Sessions by Subject
ast week a house committee recommended approval of legislation to cut all $10 million of state
Kan-Ed Expenses in 2009
Last week a house committee recommended approval of legislation to cut all $10 million of state funding for the Kan-Ed program. Kan-Ed provides a broadband network connecting schools, hospitals and libraries in Kansas to each other and the Internet. Last year, the majority of members were schools and libraries, which used the services for educational purposes including cultural exchanges with students in other countries and live online tutoring. Through Kan-Ed, hospitals gain access to real-time information about each other's capacity and emergency status. They can also use Telemedicine to speak with specialists at other hospitals.
Last year, Kan-Ed started an online live tutoring service called Homework Kansas. The service provided students K-12, introductory college students, adult GED students and other adult learners with live assistance on their class work. Math was the subject that students most frequently needed assistance in. "Other" includes citizenship, career help and Proof Point.
Sources: kslegislature.org, kan-an.org, kansregents.org
Graphic by Clayton Ashley
CAMPUS
Mural gives all a chance to be artistic
SUA and faculty are creating the first mural for Kansas
BY SHAUNA BLACKMON sblackmon@kansan.com
Camille Clark stands over a bare canvas in the Kansas Union, concentrating on painting a purple flower. Clark, a retention specialist in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, chose to add to the canvas labeled the "Free for All board." She said themed boards are too much pressure and would rather paint whatever comes to mind. Clark's flower is a part of a large collaboration of students and faculty to create the University's first mural.
The project, lasting through Friday, encourages students to contribute to any of the four murals, regardless of artistic talent.
"This project shows anybody can be an artist, you don't have to be Picasso to paint," Laurie Gallagher, a senior from Lenexa and the assistant coordinator of the event, said.
Each mural has a theme — "KU", "Pieces of Me", "Free for All", and "I love or am inspired by". Gallagher said that Student Union Activities wanted to separate each board into themes in order to "catch a specific focus, so people can make it more meaningful and express themselves."
Travis Young/KANSAN
Travis Young/KANSAN Camille Clark, a multicultural affairs worker, paints a flower on the Free for All canvas Monday afternoon at the Kansas Union for SUAS Campus Mural Project. Clark said that she stopped to paint because she was interested in what was going on. There were four different canvases open to the public to paint on in the painting event that will continue all week long.
Provost's planning groups publish work
ADMINISTRATION
The completed murals will be displayed in the Union Gallery during finals week. SUA is trying to put the murals on display in other venues, but nothing has been finalized.
over specific changes to the academic and administrative goals of the University.
Provost Jeff Vitter and his staff have been involved in a massive project to fundamentally improve the University's working structure this year. Some of the work is now being published. Several workgroups with strategic planning initiative, the multi-pronged group, released preliminary reports Monday. The reports cover meetings
Alex Garrison
Vitter says he wants student and faculty to give feedback to these reports. There will be town hall meetings at noon Wednesday in the Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union and at noon on Thursday in the Summerfield Room of the Adams Alumni Center.
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Chemicals found in parking garage cause concern
CAMPUS
"It gives you a sense of ownership," Clark said. "You have something everybody worked on and everyone can see."
Serry Wang/KRASM A half-full bottle containing biodiesel and heptane was found in the Allen Fieldhouse parking garage Monday morning. The origins of the bottle were unknown, but the label identified it as coming from Molf Hall, which is where the chemistry department is located.
Around 10:45 a.m., a hazardous materials team, two fire trucks and multiple KU public safety officers responded to a report of a suspicious bottle in the Allen Field parking garage
BY ADAM STRUNK
astrunk@kansan.com
The responding units found a half-full plastic container, which resembled a Gatorade bottle, labeled as containing biodiesel and heptane. Heptane is a stable, non-polar solvent that causes minor irritation at exposure.
"We're not taking any chances. Just because the bottle is labeled
what it says it is, there's no way of knowing that's what's in the bottle," said KU Public Safety Capt. Schuyler Bailey. "The hazmat crew will secure it and remove it."
Although the origins of the bottle are unknown, the label on the bottle identified it as coming from Malot Hall, where the chemistry department is located.
Bailey said officials were allowing people in the garage because the bottle was not located close to the entrances.
Edited by Jacque Weber
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The murals are located in the Traditions Room of the Kansas Union and students can paint from 12 to 2p.m. every day this week.
That's one aspect of the murals Gallagher said she was looking forward to.
"Anyone can walk in and say 'You see that Jayhawk right there?' I painted it," she said.
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