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MichelleThiTran, Derby junior, is one of 20 students nationwide to receive a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship for students planning foreign service careers.
The fellowship covers tuition, board and other fees for the junior and senior years and the first year of graduate school in an international studies program.
Tran is majoring in journalism and Russian and East European studies. She said she has not yet decided where she will attend graduate school.
. Recipients of the fellowship are required to commit four and a half years of service as a foreign service officer.
The program includes a yearly orientation in Washington, D.C., a summer institute in a graduate school of public policy and foreign affairs and two internships.
Aly Barland
One internship is with an embassy abroad and the other is with the U.S. State Department.
School of Medicine celebrates centennial at alumni event
The University of Kansas School of Medicine will celebrate its centennial anniversary Saturday in conjunction with the school's annual alumni weekend at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Missy Heidrick, senior coordinator for alumni relations, said the weekend would focus on alumni reunions.
"It's a big celebration night with cocktails, dinner, dancing and a program to honor our award recipients". Heidrick said.
Seven alumni, two faculty members and two retired faculty members will be given awards.
Heidrick said the award recipients were nominated by individuals outside the school, reviewed by a committee, then voted on by the alumni association and the nursing, medical and allied health alumni boards.
The School of Medicine celebrates the alumni weekend annually, but Heidrick said this year would be the largest alumni celebration the school has ever had.
She said more than 800 alumni and University friends were expected to attend.
She said there has been more interest because the school also is celebrating its centennial anniversary.
Travis Robinett
Mopeds cheap rides
TRANSPORTATION
As gas prices rise, students try out scooters to cut costs
Candice Rukes/KANSAN
BY LOUIS MORA
lmora@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Although students with cars may pay more than $30 to fill their gas tanks, Heather Wertz spends only $3 at the pump.
The Topeka junior is one of the growing number of students who have turned to mopeds as a main source of transportation. Students say they buy mopeds because of their convenience and good gas mileage. But they say it's important understand how to use them safely.
Marta Vicente, assistant professor of women's studies and history, drives her moped from her normal parking spot at Wescoe to Jayhawk Boulevard. Vicente said it is convenient to have a moped because she is able to park next to Wescoe and Bailey, the buildings where she teaches.
Wertz has owned a moped for three years and uses it go to work and school.
Getting to campus takes her five minutes, and a tank of gas will last her a week and a half to two weeks.
"It's so much better for the environment and so much cheaper. It's great to just cruise around on it," she said.
She said having access to campus and the ability to drive up to buildings such as Wescoe Hall make owning a scooter a great form of transportation.
"In a city like Lawrence it's perfect," she said.
The parking department has noticed an increase in moped use and other forms of transportation.
Donna Hultine, parking department director, said the parking department has issued 68 moped permits this year compared to the 57 issued by this time last year. The total number of permits for motorcycles has increased to 150 from 125.
Tom Dierker of Subsonic Scootters said the past few weeks have been the busiest in three years for business. On average the store sells three to four scooters a week. In the past week it has sold 10.
Dierker said the main reason people are turning to mopeds is the recent increase in gas prices.
Mopeds require little maintenance,
It's so much better for the environment and so much cheaper. It's great to just cruise around on it."
Heather Wertz
Topeka junior
On a recent trip to Europe, Mike Nichols, Anthony law student, saw how the locals relied on mopeds. This led him to buy a moped from his friend.
and their fuel mileage can range from 80 to 120 miles per gallon.
"It kind of got me thinking about maybe how it would be as your primary mode of transportation because it seemed popular to them," he said.
Mopeds can be fun to ride, but they can also be dangerous, as Andy Ippel, Overland Park sophomore, discovered.
Ippel was involved in an accident in front of Lewis Hall last year. He flew over the handlebars when a car clipped his moped.
In Kansas, moped riders are not required to wear helmets, and Ippel was not wearing one at the time.
Although he escaped the accident without major injury, people need to realize mopeds can be dangerous, he said.
But the risks moped riders face don't keep them from enjoying their vehicles.
"I like rolling around on a two-wheel vehicle that's got power," Robbie Gerling, Lake Quivira junior, said.
CORRECTIONS
— Edited by Erin Wisdom
*Yesterday's University Daily Kansas contained an error. The Sex on the Hill story, 'Sex in a bunk bed,' was written by Madeline Hyden.
- Yesterday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In Sex on the Hill,'Heard on the Hill: Cheating,'the quote attributed to Kelley Rockey was actually a double print of the quote given by Paul Morris.
ON THE RECORD
- An 18-year-old KU student reported a battery at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday at Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.
♦ A 28-year-old KU student reported that a Gateway laptop computer valued at $994 was stolen and $105 in forged checks were written sometime between midnight Aug. 5 and noon. Saturday in the 2200 block of West 26th Street.
◆ A 19-year-old KU student reported that $861 in valuables were stolen at about 1:30 p.m. Monday in Watson Library.
- An 18-year-old KU student reported $140 in valuables stolen sometime between 5:10 and 5:25 p.m. Sept. 8 from the Art and Design Building, west of Budig Hall.
♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported $100 in damage to a windshield wiper sometime between 8 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday in the 1100 block of Louisiana Street.
♦ A 19-year-old KU student reported $60 in damage to a window sometime between 10 p.m. Sept. 4 and 8 a.m. Sept. 5 in the 3600 block of Clinton Parkway.
♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported a $45 fire extinguisher stolen sometime between 5 and 10 p.m. Saturday from Oliver Hall.
THIS WEEKON CAMPUS
September 15,2005
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WEEKEND EDITION
Students transfering from the devastated Gulf Coast to KU are in need of housing. Now is the time for KU students to step forward and offer these student evacuees housing.
STUDENT EVACUEES!
If you have an extra room for rent or for free, please contact the Off-Campus Living Resource Center by email at RENT@KU.EDU
Check out our Web site for more information at www.ku.edu or email kuwaku.edu
Looking for a good lunch on campus?
Wednesday, September 21st
11:30-1:30
Wescoe Beach
- Information on the KU Hillel Foundation
Start climbing the ladder to success
$2 Falafel
Career Fair Workshop September 20th Tuesday 7:00pm Summerfield Room 127
Drop on by!
American Business Women's Association
Kick off CIVIC LITERACY WEEK!
Friday, Sept. 16th Wescoe Beach @ 1pm
Reading of the Preamble to the Constitution Bell ringing, celebrating Constitution Day Naturalization Ceremony at the Dole Institute of Politics 2pm