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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007
WAR IN IRAQ Military deaths continue to rise in Middle East
As of Tuesday, at least 3,290 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,666 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
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The AP count is 11 higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 11 a.m.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq,24,645 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.
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Kori Green
BY RACHEL BURCHFIELD
After Kori Green graduated from the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in women's studies, she went to work for both the Douglas County and Sedgwick County district attorneys' offices and had plans of eventually going to law school. Rather than amass a large amount of debt pursuing a career that she no
longer had the same enthusiasm for, Green enrolled again at the University in 2004 to pursue undergraduate degrees in history and secondary history and government education.
Though University life has been different for Green, a Wichita senior, as she pursues her second degree, one piece of her first undergraduate experience has become part of the second. In 1999 Green served as a peer adviser and did so again in 2000, even after she graduated that May with her women's studies degree. After she returned to the University, Green served as an orientation assistant in 2005 and as a peer adviser again in 2006. This summer will be Green's fourth summer as a peer adviser, and she said that she had learned much from her job.
"I realized that you don't have to remain unhappy," she said. "You can go back to school. You have choices, and you have the power to change."
"It gives me an insight into the inner workings of the University, especially the administration and student success," she said. "It has been a great experience and it has opened up so many possibilities."
Green and the 19 other members of the peer adviser team work 10 to 15 hours per week during the summer. They see more than 5,000 students come through the orientation process, said Shanda Hurla, assistant director of the Freshman Sophomore Advising Center and Green's boss. Hurla estimated that peer advisers work with about 20 to 30 students every day one-on-one. Those conversations have proven to be one of Green's favorite parts of her job.
"The contact with students and
the one-on-one time has been beneficial to me," she said. "We are a real face that they can connect with, a student who has been there recently in the trenches. I hope they leave with a really positive impression, an 'I can do this' type feeling."
The team is composed of many different types of students, and Green said the hope was that every student that went through the orientation process could connect with at least one of the peer advisers.
"We work really hard to get a diverse and representative group," Green said. "We want a group where just about any student can find someone to identify with."
One of Green's favorite experiences with being an adviser is when she runs into students that she previously helped.
"Students do remember you," Green said. "They see you as someone they know, someone that knows what's going on. It's nice to be that person."
Edited by James Pinick
Chills and thrills
Rosie Stancer is in the midst of a 60-day journey across 475 miles of the frozen Arctic Ocean to reach the North Pole. Once there, she will monitor the temperatures and wind direction and compare the ice conditions to 10 years ago. This March 4 photo released by Josh Greenberg shows Stancer training in Resolute Bay, Canada.
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KANSAS PUBLIC RADIO Membership drive raises more than $220,000
Kansas Public Radio raised $220,190 in pledges during this spring's membership drive. The drive, which lasted eight days, earned more money for the radio station faster than any other drive in the past 10 years.
Phil Wilke, KPR media manager, said the total included pledge calls made to the station and money received in a direct-mail campaign. He said he expected to raise about $30,000 through delayed contributions from listeners and from grants promised by individuals and businesses.
"We have some very generous and dedicated listeners" Milke said.
and dedicated listeners, Wike said. He said about one-third of KPR's yearly budget came from its biyear membership drives. He said the money would be used to pay for airtime on satellite radio, membership to news associations, music and programming.
KPR broadcasts on KANU 91.5 FM in Lawrence, KANH 89.7 FM in Emporia, KANV 91.3 FM in Olsburg Junction City and K210CR 89.9 FM in Atchison.
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What do you think?
BY JASON BAKER
WHERE DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST PLACE TO GET ICE CREAM?
JAMIE PARKER
Los Alamos, N.M., junior
"Tad's. it's not really an ice cream store, but it's delicious."
ALEX CARRERA Allen, Texas, sophomore
Allen, Texas, sophiomore "The ice cream truck, because during the summertime hearing the music and chocolate tacos are the best."
LAURENT LEWIS
Lawrence freshman
LAWRENCE freshman
"Sylas and Maddy's on Mass Street.
I like the chunks of strawberries in the strawberry ice cream, because strawberries are the natural candy."
AUROM MAHOBIAN Overland Park junior
"Cold Stone Creamery, because it has the buy-one-get-one-free on Wednesdays."
on campus
Ainehi Edoro and Jennifer Farwell will present the Ujamaa Brown Bag lecture "Conversation with the African Women's Student Organization at KU" at 11:30 a.m. at Alcove G in the Kansas Union.
Elif Andac will present the public University Forum "Diversity and Political Stability: Understanding the History Behind Nation Building in the Middle East" at noon at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building.
The Graduate Honors recital concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will present a lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
Robert Bindschadler, NASA, will present the lecture "Ice Sheets on the Edge: A Golden Age for Glaciology" at 3:30 p.m. at Spahr Auditorium in Eaton Hall.
Marc Galanter will present the lecture "Learning from Lawyer Jokes" at 3:30 p.m. at the Conference Hall in Hall Center.
Alina Israeli, of American University, will present the lecture "Repetitions (Reduplications and Tautologies) in Russian" at 2:30 p.m. at 2131 Wescoe Hall.
Max Mayfield, former director of the National Hurricane Center, will present the seminar "The Politics of Disaster" at 4 p.m. in the Dole Institute of Politics.
Before this year, only four KU men's basketball players left school early for the pros. All four players left after their junior year: Wilt Chamberlain in 1958, Norm Cook in 1976, Paul Pierce in 1998 and Drew Gooden in 2002.
The Student Chamber Ensemble Jazz combos will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Lawrence Arts Center.
The play "Keely & Du" by Jane Martin will be performed at 7:30 p.m. at William Inge Memorial Theatre in Murphy Hall.
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