WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
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The African Students Association is holding its annual elections Friday at 6 p.m. in the Olympian Room of the Burge Union. The elections will be held to replace outgoing members of the group's executive board.
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The Spencer Museum of Art is holding a "Dollars for Scholars Tag Sale" from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday in the museum's Central Court. Money raised from the sale and auction of art donated by Lawrence community members will go to the museum's Saturday Children's Art Appreciation classes.
Ladies of Lawrence Artwork is showcasing artwork created by Lawrence women this weekend. More than 10 local artists will be discussing their work, which will be for sale. This fourth LOLA showcase will be Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Crafty and Company, 918 Massachusetts St.
Student Union Activities is holding its first "Poetry Slam" of the semester tonight at 7 p.m. in the Hawk's Nest. Poets have five minutes to speak, and the top three poets, determined by a vote of the audience, will receive prizes of $50, $25 and $15. Poetry Slams will be held every Wednesday of the semester.
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ADMINISTRATION
New faculty, courses ahead
Students' tuition money funds new faculty positions
BY GARY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The University of Kansas plans to create 42 new faculty positions for the fall of 2006.
The new faculty members will be hired as part of the five-year Tuition Enhancement Plan, which raised students' tuition for University-wide improvements during a five-year period. The plan, in its fourth year, has already funded the hire of 58 faculty members. As soon as the 42 remaining positions are filled, the number of faculty members hired under the Tuition Enhancement Plan will total 100.
"It gives us the opportunity to create more offerings of things we weren't able to before," said Lindy Eakin, vice provost of administration and finance.
Hiring the new faculty members would allow the University to grow in new directions and add new classes or programs without making budget cuts, Eakin said. The University will focus on hiring professors in life
sciences and globalization. One of the new fields the University hopes to include is bioinformatics, which is the combination of biology, chemistry and engineering.
"It gives the faculty an overall boost since the faculty will have more colleagues to collaborate with," Eakin said.
Carla Hines, Shawnee senior, said she was not sure if an increase in the number of professors would help or hurt the University.
The engineering student said she thought a larger number of professors could lead to conflicts in viewpoints and a less straight-forward approach to what was being taught. The School of Engineering is searching for seven new faculty members; it already filled 10 new positions in the past two years.
Jesse Burns, St. Louis senior, was not happy that tuition had risen so greatly since he was a freshman. But he thought it was good that new professors were
"At least we won't have to wait every other semester to take a class," Hines said.
Eakin said that decreasing class size was not one of the main goals of hiring the new faculty members, but it could be an end result.
being hired so that class sizes would be smaller; it justified some of the raise in tuition, he said.
"Iincreasing the size of the faculty will help to bridge that gap," Weaver said.
national ranking. Schools that rank higher than the University usually have a larger faculty.
Robert Weaver, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the new faculty members could increase the rank of the University because there was a correlation between faculty size and a university's
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Some faculty search committees have been formed, but none have started hiring as of yet, Weaver said. Few professors would be hired before the end of the fall semester; offers are typically made to potential professors during the spring semester.
Edited by Becca Evanhoe
CAMPUS
Freshman senate elections end today
Today is the final day freshmen can vote for their Student Senate representatives. Ballots are available online by clicking "Freshman Elections" on the University of Kansas home page, www.ku.edu.
constituency a voice in student government, Thompson said.
Freshmen can vote on up to five candidates, said Luke Thompson, Lawrence junior and Elections Commission chairman.
Online voting will end at 4 p.m.
the senators are an important part in giving the freshmen
John Jordan
Students arrested for impersonation
James Scully, Chicago senior, was swimming in the pool when
Three KU students robbed a 20-year-old KU student about 12:45 a.m. Sept. 3 near a swimming pool at 1605 Tennessee St.
three men who said they were undercover Lawrence police officers told him to get out of the pool, Sgt. Dan Ward of the Lawrence Police Department said.
money, then beat the shut out of me," Scully said. "Then the police came and saved me."
Scully said he knew the suspects were not police officers.
The suspects placed him against a wall, removed his wallet and planted a bag of marijuana on him. Ward said.The suspects then told the victim that possession of the marijuana was a $450 fine and told him to drive to an ATM to withdraw the money, Ward said.
"I thought they would take me to the ATM, take my
ON THE RECORD
A resident who was watching the incident called the police. Police apprehended a suspect at the scene and later two other suspects who fled the scene, Ward said.
The suspects include Ryan M. Cunningham, 19, Jason D. Warble, 20, and Michael Zotti, 23, all KU students, Ward said. They were arrested for criminal impersonation of an officer, burglary and obstruction.
Steve Lynn
A 20-year-old KU student reported $11,138 in women's clothing and $9,922 in valuables stolen sometime between noon May 20 and noon Aug. 13 from the 4000 block of W. 24th Place.
A 37-year-old KU employee reported $2,000 in damage to a windowpane sometime between 7 p.m. Sept. 1 and 7 a.m. Sept. 2 in Memorial Stadium.
A 20-year-old KU student reported a $15,000 2004 Silver Pontiac Grand Prix with Kansas license plate number QMH 317 stolen sometime between 10 p.m. Aug. 27 and 1 a.m. Aug. 28 from campus lot 53.
- A 19-year-old KU student reported $616 in valuables stolen about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 2 from the 900 block of Kentucky Street.
- A 21-year-old KU student reported a $339 Motorola cell phone and $39 in valuables stolen sometime between 1 and 9 a.m. Sept. 3 from the 1000 block of Mississippi Street.
- A 20-year-old KU student reported $212 in valuables stolen sometime between 1:15 and 1:45 a.m. Sept. 4 from the 1700 block of Kentucky Street.
- ♦ A 21-year-old KU student reported a battery sometime between 4 and 4:30 a.m. Sept. 2 on the 2000 block of W. Sixth Street.
- A 22-year-old KU student reported $30 in valuables stolen sometime between 11 p.m. Sept. 1 and 1:50 a.m. Sept. 2 from the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street.
You're invited... to a special announcement about KU's visual identity
Meet Hal Sandy, creator of the smiling Jayhawk
Free historic KU trading cards to first 150 who attend
1 p.m.
September 7,2005
Alderson Auditorium
in the Kansas Union
Reception follows