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University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 31, 1991
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New law publication will help students publish their views
By Mauricio Rios
Kansan staff writer
KU law students will have a new publication to read today when the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy is published.
The journal is run by second- and nerd-law students, said Michael Hammond, a law professor at Columbia University.
"Third-year students felt there were enough opportunity for writing."
Blumenthal, third-year law student,
said the idea of creating the journal
came from students' needs to publish
their views about law.
He said the Kansas Law Review, a publication of the law school since 1832, was oriented more toward faculty and students than did have articles written by students.
The other 10 articles were written by University of Kansas faculty, faculty from other universities and people from the law profession such as Donald Elliot, former general counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency.
The first edition of the journal,
which will focus on environmental
policies and laws, features 13 articles,
three written by students.
Karl Kuckelman, managing editor of the journal, said students would write five or six articles for the next year, which will be published in the spring.
He said that putting the journal together had not been an easy task for the 20 students working on it.
The journal was supposed to be ready in August, he said.
But problems ranging from authors not meeting their deadlines to page layout difficulties delayed publication, Kuckelman said.
The production cost of the journal is about $10,000 an issue, he said. There will be 2,000 copies, and copies will sold for $12.50 each.
He said the price was comparable to other legal periodicals.
*Students that can't afford it can go
This is different from a typical law review. So somebody who is not a graduate can pick it up and understand it."
Karl Kuckelman
Managing editor of law school journal
to the (lawschool) library and readit," he said.
Because this is the first edition of the journal, about 1,700 copies will be mailed out free to law firms, universities and other organizations to promote subscriptions. Kuckelman said.
"We had high expectations when we started," he said. "The quality of the work."
Kuckelman said the journal would differ from other law journals in that the pages were laid out like in a magazine, articles were limited to about 10 pages, and the journal had fewer footnotes.
"This is different from a typical law review," he said. "So somebody who is not a graduate can pick it up and understand it.
"We think it's going to work fantastically."
Reggie Robinson, associate professor of law and one of the advisers of the
"It's a nice alternative in writing about the law and issues about the law."
He said the review was more interested in exploring legal issues while the journal was more interested in public-policy questions.
"They have different goals, and they need to publish in different ways," Robinson said.
Ron Barrett, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student (left), and Mike Thacker, Bunker Hill graduate student, monitor aerodynamic characteristics.
Wind tunnels simulate flights
By Keith Thorpe
Special to the Kansan
A switch is turned on and a low hum builds to a crescendo. Within a minute, the noise is so loud that shouting is necessary to overcome the roar of the 200 mph wind
els in our wind tunnels."
At KU's aerospace engineering department, wind tunnels are used to channel high-speed winds over students' aircraft design models to simulate actual flight conditions.
KU's wind tunnels in Learned Hall could help dive Boeing Co. to the Lawrence area, providing jobs and educational opportunities for KU students. At Iokki, interim director of aerospace engineering.
Lawrence is one of five sites being considered for a wind-tunnel complex that would provide about 120 jobs. Other contenders are Hanging Ridge, Edge Tenn., Portage, Ind., and Rathdrum, Idaho.
"Our three smaller winters would help the Bosei facility." Farkhi said. "If their wind tunnels were closed, we could be more productive."
Farokhi said the department of aerospace engineering also would enhance Lawrence's chances
He said a large university like KU would provide educational opportunities for Boeing engineers in aerospace and in other fields.
"I see a potential for a great deal of interaction of faculty members with the Boeing facility," Farokhi said. "It would be a tremendous opportunity for the faculty to graduate for part-time and summer employment."
Ron Barrett, research assistant in charge of wind-tunnel operations, said despite 30 years of work
use, the KU wind tunnels compared favorably with those at other universities and were used regularly for testing and research.
"The amount of research this semester is about 10 times more than has been over the last five years," said Barrett, City Manager, graduate school. "The research schedule is getting really tight."
Barrett said the Boeing complex would be a valuable extension of KU's wind-tunnel program.
"Wind tunnels are the lifeblood of experimental aerospace research," he said. "Without ours, we'd be lost."
Mike Thacker. Bunker Hill graduate student,
aid aerospace research would be difficult without
"It's the only way to do some of the research," he said. "Much of the work would be hard to simulate on computers."
Orientation class helps freshmen adjust
Bv Adeline Ow
Special to the Kansan
Along with campus tours, the office of new student orientation for the past two semesters
Freshmen may feel out of place and overwhelmed by the size of a large university. But there is help — an orientation course for freshmen.
The course, CPSY 101: Orientation seminar,
was organized by the office, the School of Education and the department of counseling psychology and social life at the University of Kansas.
It teaches basic necessary skills that students should know, said Shawn McClaren, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, who is enrolled in the course this semester.
He said that the time management class had helped him the most. It taught him how to plan his time so that he has more study and spare time.
Two course sections are offered this semester, and there are plans for two in the spring. The classes have limited space and are open to students who have completed less than 30 college hours. Transfer students also can take the course in the spring.
The idea for the course is not new, said Kathryn Kretschman, director of new student orientation. Similar courses are being offered at other universities in the United States.
The textbook for the course was created by
faculty at the University of South Carolina, and the course syllabus was approved by KU's School of Education, she said.
During the two-hour credit course, students learn about academic and skill studies. University students
The course also covers diverse opinions of issues and multiculturalism, problem solving, communication skills, and student rights and responsibilities.
Patricia Dinas, Canfield, Ohio, graduate teaching assistant, teaches the class this semester. She said the class was divided into four segments. The first segment focuses on study skills and learning styles, such as time management in which a person is most able to concentrate.
The second segment contains job responsabilities, KU senates and government, diversities, and more.
The third segment deals with relationships, stress management, dealing with conflicts and
conflicts.
One of the course exercises is a faculty interview and report. Students pick one of their professors or teaching assistants to interview and then write an evaluation report about what
The last part of the course focuses on decision making and students' physical and mental health.
"It's an introduction to a wide range of titles," Dinas said. "They're getting it of infor-
they learned from the interview.
"It helped me learn how he grades and evaluates the class," said Kristin Kelso, Leawood freshman, who interviewed her history teaching assistant.
She said the interview opened communication channels between her and her instructor.
There have been changes in this course this semester. Volunteer orientation assistants now regularly lead discussion groups of about 10 students.
Both Kelso and McClaren said they liked the discussion sessions. The discussions let them express their views, find out about other people's views and share information.
Curtis Beatty, Coffeivey sophomore, took the course last spring and said that it taught him a lot about the different resources on campus. Students who are enrolled in roll and get involved in student organizations.
Kretschmer said that her first goal was to provide students with some tools to succeed academically and that the second was to help students feel connected to the University.
"I think it should be a required course for all incoming freshmen." Beaty said. "It not a totao course, but it's a course."
Like most other KU departments and offices,
the office of New Student Orientation has been
opened to students.
"My hope is to expand it (the program), but we still want to do what that remains to be seen." Kratzinger says.
County raises prices of routine emergency ambulance service
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission last night approved an increase in the price of water.
People will have to pay $23 more for routine ambulance service and $72 more for room rent.
The routine-service cost will increase 21 percent from $189 to $121, and the cost of emergency service will increase 36 percent from $178 to $250.
Routine service is when paramedics are not needed.
The commission also decided to charge an extra $100 if the ambulance has to pick
The cost for the basic service does not include a $4.25 mile charge and the cost of phone calls.
The commission agreed to raise the mileage rate from $4 to $4.25 and to keep the rate unchanged.
Ted McFarlane, director of the department of emergency medical services and emergency preparedness, said the price of using an EMT is higher, equal to the rate that Blue Shield, an insurance company, would be willing to pay.
The price increases also will come closer to the rate that Medicare would be willing to pay, he said. Medicare is a government-owned health insurance program for 65 years old and older and for the disabled.
Insurance companies and Medicare account for 78 percent of the money that the company pays to workers.
But McFarlane said it would be difficult for fixed-income individuals who did not work in the labor force.
The increase also would raise the percentage of money that is not collected from people who owe money for ambulance services, he said.
However, D. Wayne Parkinson of Lawrence said that the county should worry about collecting from people who owed money rather than increasing rates.
Chris McKenzie, county administrator, said the county was open to ideas about how to collect money from debts.
Debts will increase because of the raise in ambulance rates, he said.
However, the money the county receives from the insurance companies and Medicare is more than the debts that people owe, McKenzie said.
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