THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.116 ISSUE 31
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005
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Top hawk to step down Students value provost's role
BY GABY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Provost David Shulenburger has announced he will step down at the end of June 2006 after 13 years as a top administrator at the University of Kansas.
Shulenburger, 60, is the chief academic and operating officer for the Lawrence Campus. During his time as provost, he has overseen the five-year tuition enhancement plan and emphasized the merging of teaching and research.
Shulenburger said he began thinking about resigning from his position a few years ago. He said he decided to leave before the job wore him down completely and because he wanted to get back in the classroom. He will remain on the faculty and teach in the School of Business.
Shulenburger said there was only one other provost in the Association of American Universities that had been at his position for longer than he has.
"It's mostly about smelling the roses at 10 miles an hour instead of 70 miles an hour," he said.
Jon Wefald, president at Kansas State University, said Shulenburger's reputation as a dedicated and knowledgeable administrator had won a name for him not just in the Big 12 Conference, but across the nation.
"He is one of the smartest people I know and a brilliant academic administrator." Wefald said.
Wefala began working with Shulen-
burger during Board of Regents meetings
when Shulenburger was associate vice
chancellor for the University.
Barbara Romzek, interim dean of liberal arts and sciences, said Shulenburg
He set boundaries for each school and then let the deans decide what course of action to take, she said. She said he had made himself available to anyone who wanted to speak with him and always had the best interests of the University at heart.
He served as an associate dean and undergraduate program director before he was named associate dean for academic affairs in 1988.
Shulenburger joined the School of Business faculty as an associate professor in 1974.
He became the associate vice chan cellor for academic affairs in 1993. He took over the role of provost of the University in 1996 after a national search and interviews with more than 200 candidates.
Shulenburger said he wanted to be remembered as someone who understood the University community and did what was best for the University.
The hardest part of leaving his position will be leav ing the people he works with,he said.
Shulenburger said he would not have much of a role in the selection process for a replacement. Chancellor Robert Hemenway said he hoped the search committee would be chosen within a week to 10 days.
Edited by Tricia Masenthin
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Student leaders, past and present, are joining administration and faculty in bidding Provost David Shulenburger farewell after he announced his resignation Wednesday.
Nick Sterner, student body president and Shawnee senior, said the provost went out of his way to have active discussions with students, especially when the administration had a different opinion than students.
An administrator that worked so well with the University was valuable for student leaders, Sterner said.
"It's going to be rough for the University," Sterner said. "He'll be missed."
Shulenburger laid the groundwork for the University for the next ten years, working with the Student Senate on projects such as the new Multicultural Resource Center and the proposed entrance gate at 13th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard, Sterner said.
Sterner said that he thought Shulenburger enjoyed working with students and that Shulenburger was fun to be around. The provost never considered a question stupid, Sterner said.
Shulenburger said in a press conference Wednesday he had
Shulenburger laid the groundwork for the University for the next ten years, working with the Student Senate on projects such as the new Multicultural Resource Center and the proposed entrance at 13th Street and Jayhawk Boulevard. Sterner said.
respect for all the student leaders he worked with. He said the most important issue he worked on with students was guaranteed tuition. Guaranteed tuition ensures that students pay the same fixed tuition rate, without annual increases, for their first four years at the University. The students he worked with genuinely cared about the University, which made dealing with them worthwhile, he said.
SAFETY
"When everyone cares, you have to respect one another," Shulenburger said.
Steve Munch, former student body president, said Shulen-burger was accessible and always had advice. The Bellevue, Neb., senior said there was never an e-mail or phone call the provost didn't return within the day.
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Apartment fire displaces two tenants
Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Firefighters clean up Wednesday after extinguishing a fire at the West Hills apartment complex, 1012 Emery Road.
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
troinett@kansan.com
troinett STAFF WRITER
An apartment in the West Hills apartment complex, 1012 Emery Road, caught fire Wednesday afternoon. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene at 2:12 p.m. after receiving a 911 call six minutes earlier.
Tom Bristow, Lawrence resident, said he was at the scene around the time the 911 call was made. He said he saw huge balls of flames bursting from the two bedroom apartment's east window and smoke coming out of the window above it.
Mark Bradford, deputy chief of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical, said the origin of the fire was inside apartment nine in building F. He said that the two people who lived in the apartment were not home and that all residents of building F had already evacuated by the time emergency personnel arrived.
There were reports of 20 occupants in the building at the time of the fire, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical. There were no injuries, Bradford said.
Bradford said that the cause of the fire was unknown and that it would be investigated. He said that the fire did not damage the surrounding apartments but
that smoke and heat did. He said the extent of that damage was unknown.
Apartment nine is on the second story of the three-story, red brick building northwest of the University. The window glass was completely gone and the edges of the hole in the building, where the window used to be, were burnt. A large yellow hose stretched from the fire hydrant around the other buildings.
"I can't go to work because the hose is blocking my car," Marqwuesa Cole, Lawrence sophomore, said. "I'm more worried about the people, as long as they are OK."
"It's really cold and it stinks out here," Kylee Tibbits, Lawrence sophomore, said.
Cole and Tibbits are roommates and live in building F. Bradford said residents of the building were not being allowed back in at that time.
Peter Ingleman, director of acquisitions at Nolan Real Estate Services, which owns West Hills, said that the most important thing was that no one was hurt. He said Nolan Real Estate would help the residents of the damaged apartment find another place to live, possibly in the same complex. The American Red Cross is also assisting those affected.
Edited by Tricia Masenthin
SPEAKER
Powell says technology vital to youth culture
BY ALY BARLAND
abarland@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Technological capabilities have made a world of possibility just a click away with the Internet, but the advancements have also created a society that is fast-paced, impatient and difficult to please, a speaker said Wednesday night.
Powell spoke as part of the Anderson Chandler Lecture Series sponsored by the School of Business. Powell was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the Commission in 1997 and designated chairman by President George W. Bush in 2001. He resigned earlier this year.
Michael Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, addressed a Lied Center audience about the impact of the digital revolution and the speed of technological advancement in today's society.
To demonstrate the generation gap between himself and today's youth, Powell used his sons, ages 11 and 16. He said his sons had never used a record or a rotary phone but instead only knew DVDs, CDs and gaming consoles.
Advancement in technology today is exponential and is driven by innovation, Powell said. Technology must constantly change to maintain the attention
of teenagers and young adults.
"They're incredibly audio-visual minded. Their world moves breathtakingly fast," Powell said.
The digital revolution has
also led to impatience, increased personalization and the consumer's need for interactivity, Powell said. Powell used Napster as an example. Americans demanded music and used technology to find it online instantly and circumvent music companies.
To demonstrate personalization, Powell said that his son would pay $2.99 for a ring tone to personalize his phone, but he refused to pay for downloaded music online. Powell said that cell phone carriers made $4 billion yearly in ring tone sales to satisfy consumers' need to personalize.
Powell said that even television was often not advanced enough for some of the young in America because there was no interactivity or consumer involvement like there was with the Internet or gaming consoles.
SEE POWELL ON PAGE 4A
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Football team focuses on blocking crowd noise As the Jayhawks embark on a string of road games, they prepare for the inevitable distractions of the opposing team's crowd. PAGE 18
Javplav
In this week's Jayplay James Foley smokes out the truth behind Lawrence's marijuana scene and shows how many KU students are getting high before class.
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