THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
VOL.115 ISSUE 26
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ADMINISTRATION
Offices combine to help students
BY GABY SOUZA
gouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Leaders in the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success want to be more helpful and accessible to KU students. To achieve this goal, the office will combine with the Office of the Dean of Students.
Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success, said combining the two offices would make the office more accessible, less bureaucratic and easier for students to understand.
Marynell Jones, student body vice president, said, "Centralizing the location will give a similar title to everyone in the office. Students can go to anyone in the office for information."
The office also announced that the title of dean of students would be replaced by the title of associate vice provost by March 2006.
The dean of students title is being retired because of the
confusion regarding the title's meaning, Roney said. The title implied that one person was ministering to the needs of the entire student body, which is impossible.
"Academic titles don't mean anything to students," she said.
Roney said the idea surfaced in a survey that student success employees completed about the office. Employees expressed concern about the confusion between the student success and dean of students offices.
Student success manages 18 departments that employ more than 750 staff members and 1,300 student employees within the Department of Student Housing, the Office of Admissions and Scholarships and Student Health Services.
The Office of the Dean of Students manages thematic learning communities and Student Senate, as well as Homecoming and the newly formed KU Parent Association. Five universities in the Big 12 have eliminated the dean of students title and replaced it with the associate vice provost title that the University is adopting.
A 16-member search committee will begin a national search to fill the associate vice provost position, Roney said. The committee was finalized yesterday. Richard Johnson held the position until he was fired from the University in April.
The search committee comprises faculty, staff and students.
The committee will have its first meeting Oct. 1.
Ann Brill, dean of journalism, is the chairwoman of the committee, which also includes representatives from the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Edwards Campus.
Roney said she hoped that on-campus visits would begin in February 2006 and that the new associate vice provost would start work June 1, 2006.
- Edited by Tricia Masenthin
As part of a realignment, the Office of the Dean of Students is combining with the Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success.
New structure for the
Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success
HEALTH
Jared Soares/KANSAN
Catherine McCalley, Mission Viejo, Calif., senior, signs a student up for tickets to the Kansas-Iowa State football game during the Wellness Fair at the Clean-n-Safe tent. The health fair was held yesterday afternoon on the lawn outside of Watson Library.
Sexual health campaign's goal
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Half of all people who are having sex will get a sexually transmitted infection by the age of 25, according to pamphlets handed out at the 18th annual Wellness Fair. The pamphlets are part of Clean-n-Safe, a campaign launched yesterday by the Wellness Resource Center that attempts to raise student awareness about STIs.
Bill Smith, public health educator with the Wellness Resource Center, said the Clean-n-Safe campaign attempts to inform students about gonorrhea and
Clean-n-Safe was one of many booths set up outside of Watson Library for the Wellness Fair. The fair showcased services offered by Student Health Services and community organizations such as Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the American Red Cross and the Douglas County AIDS Project.
chlamydia, which are the most common STIs. Smith said that there was no difference between STIs and sexually transmitted diseases, but that STI was now the preferred term.
McCalley, a Mission Viejo, Calif., senior, said the T-shirts were gone in less than two hours. She said that the event was going well, and that everyone who stopped by Clean-n-Safe's booth was very responsive to the STI information the booth was offering.
Catherine McCalley, student intern at the Wellness Resource Center, handed out free T-shirts, cups and pamphlets to STIs
Smith said clean-n-Safe was sponsored by Gen-Probe, a company that develops laboratory and blood screening products used to test for conditions such
"They really like the logo on the T-shirt." she said.
at the Clean-n-Safe booth from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.yesterday.
SEE HEALTH ON PAGE 4A
SAFETY
Registry lacks current offender information
Addresses, statuses outdated
BY JOHN JORDAN
jordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The registry, available at http:// www.ku.edu/ ~kucops/CSC- PAlist.html, is intended to provide the names and addresses of all sex offenders that work at or attend the University of Kansas.
The KU Public Safety Office's sex offender registry is out-of-date and contains seven errors in its list of nine offenders.
Yet, according to an investigation by
on to the University.
It's the offender's responsibility to notify the KBI or a sheriff's department of any address or student status changes. Meier said.
According to an investigation by the University Daily Kansan, four of the nine offenders on the list have outof-date addresses and three offenders are no longer at the University.
the University Daily Kansan,
four of the nine offenders on
the list have out-of-date
addresses and three offenders are
no longer at the University.
However, if an offender changes his address without
Chris Keary, KU Public Safety Office assistant chief, said that the office does not compile the information that appears on the registry. The information is provided by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, he said.
Sandy Meier, manager of the offender registry for the KBI, said an offender must notify the KBI if he or she is a student or if he or she is planning to become one. The KBI then sends that information
"I don't make changes unless I get info from the KBI," Kearv said.
changing his classification as a student, the University will not be notified, Meier said. Essentially the University only receives information on each offender once — when his or her status as a student or an employee is registered.
The investigation revealed that there are
many discrepancies between the KBI's list of registered offenders and the KU Public Safety Office's list.
According to the Registrar's office, one of the listed offenders hasn't attended the University since Fall 2000. The public safety office lists his address as being updated in May 2005, but the KBI has no record of the offender.
Another student has moved four times since being at the address the KU Public Safety Office lists him at, said Sgt. Al Deathe of the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Deathe deals with the county's sex offenders. He said keeping track of offenders is complicated because there are more than 20 circumstances
REGISTERING
Step-by-step process to update the KU Sex Offender Registry
- Student sex offender notifies Sheriff's office of KU enrollment
- Sheriff's office files change and sends information to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation
KBI updates its sex offender registry
The Public Safety Office updates its list
KBI then notifies the KU Public Safety Office
The KU Public Safety Office sex offender registry is available at http://www.ku.edu/~kucops/CSCPAlist.html. The KB1's site is available at https://www.accesksanasa.org/srsv-registered-offender/index.do.
Source: Kansan reporting
that require an offender to provide updated information to the KBI.
When Deathe is notified of changes, he sends in the information to the KBI. Deathe said it can take two to three weeks for the list to be updated, because, he said, the offender registry office is understaffed.
Deathe also said names and addresses aren't officially changed on the list until the sheriff's office can prove the offender actually lives at the new address provided.
Deathe said one offender on the Douglas County list doesn't live at the address listed but remains on the list
SEE OFFENDER ON PAGE 4A
Today's weather
Group forms to bring attention to Uganda Erin Larive visited Uganda during the summer and came back with a goal to educate and encourage others to help bring peace there. PAGE 3A
Basketball recruits to visit campus soon Men's basketball coach Bill Self and his staff have hit the recruiting trail to sell the University of Kansas to some of the most highly-recruited players in the nation. PAGE 1B
1
Texas deals Kansas
first Big 12 loss After two error-ridden games ended in Texas victories, Kansas fought back to win games three and four. But the effort wasn't enough as Texas ended a Kansas six-game winning streak. PAGE 18
Index
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Classifieds... 7B
Crossword... 6B
Horoscopes... 6B
Opinion... 5A
Sports... 1B
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