4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
▼ SERVICE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
Center finds headquarters
Pinet House becomes hub for volunteers
BY GABY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The KU Center for Service Learning has found a new use for the Pinet House. It will be the center's new hub.
of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics before it moved to its current site west of the Lied Center. It is named after Robert Pinet, who a history professor at the University of Kansas.
The Pinet House, located across 12th street from The Crossing, 618 W 12th St., was the location
The Center for Service Learning will work together with the Center for Community Outreach to find nonprofit organizations that need assistance or vol-
anteers. Students in individual classes will then be given a number of volunteer hours they need to complete on their own time at a certain organization.
The Center was just recently funded and we don't even have phones and computers yet. We will be searching for a faculty director in the coming months."
based service organization in the area they are selected to serve.
"What is hoped is that through classroom teaching and learning, students will have the opportunity to engage their academic learning in a rich way through applying it to community needs," Linda Luckey, assistant to Provost Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, said in an e-mail interview.
Kevin Hager, Shawnee senior and associate director of the Pinet House, spoke from personal experience when he said that volunteering as part of a class was a rewarding experience.
The long-term goal of the Center for Service is to work together with faculty to provide service opportunities that deal with individual classes, said Jackson Sellers, a Volunteers in Service to America volunteer who is living at the Pinet House. Volunteers for VISTA devote a year of their lives to working for a particular community-
Hager said he has taken two
Linda Luckey
Assistant to Provost
formed in 2003 to look at the possibilities for service learning at the University, Luckey said. They decided that forming the Center for Service Learning was the best plan. The project was funded by tuition dollars.
sociology classes, one at the University and one at Johnson County Community College, that required service hours. He volunteered at Jubilee Cafe as part of the class at the University.
"It will give first-hand experience to students of systems they're studying," Hager said.
A work group,
made up of students,
faculty and staff, was
"The Center was just recently funded and we don't even have phones and computers yet. We will be searching for a faculty director in the coming months," Luckey said.
— Edited by Anne Burgard
Playing the waiting game
Nicoletta Niosi/KANSAN
Burcu Pinar Alakoc, graduate student from Turkey, played the piano yesterday on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Alakoc decided to play the piano while she waited to call her parents in Turkey.
Pflaum said she was heading to her Overland Park home today, where she'll figure out her next step with her family.
Accept
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Before the storm hit, more than 400 Tulane students were evacuated to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., where they are being sheltered and fed temporarily. Others were evacuated to Dallas and Atlanta. Tulane reports an enrollment of 13,000.
Tulane's Web site has posted emergency messages to keep students updated. One message contains the following condition report, which was posted Tuesday night:
"As expected, our facilities have been damaged; however, based on our preliminary assessments, the majority of the damage can be remediated in a reasonable period of time. The uptown campus is covered with debris from fallen trees and shrubs, making it almost impossible to drive or even walk on campus. We have no power in any of the buildings other than a few where we control the power source."
Tulane has not announced when or if this semester's classes will begin.
Provost David Shulenburger said the University would send
"As expected, our facilities have been damaged; however based on our preliminary assessments, the majority of the damage can be remedied in a reasonable period off time."
Tulane University Web site statement
a message to faculty members advising them to allow transfers from hurricane-battered colleges to make up missed work.
"We've got everyone alerted to work with students as they appear," he said.
Marlesa Roney, vice provost of student success, said the University would waive the late enrollment fee for these students.
"If we can make that happen for students and help them get a good semester under their belts, then, obviously, that's a lot better than not going to college at all," she said.
— Edited by Tricia Masenthin
Fears
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"The goal is within two years from now, we would really like to move in, coming that fall," said Chad Sinclair, associate director of expansion for Alpha Tau Omega.
Alpha Tau Omega has just started its first week of a five-week recruitment process.
The group will hold informational meetings and provide information for interested students.
The fraternity's goal is to attract 20 to 30 members to start a colony group, which would allow the members to
"The goal is within two years from now, we would really like to move in, coming that fall."
Chad Sinclair Associate director of Expansion
Alpha Tau Omega
work together to develop the future of the fraternity.
"We'll stay as long as it takes, until we get the 20 guws." Sinclair said.
Once the colony group is established, Alpha Tau Omega
ga would aim to become a chapter beginning next fall with at least 40 new members.
The group would then build up recruitment until it has about 75 members, which would be enough to fill the house.
Meanwhile, Pi Kappa Phi is furthering its presence in the greek community to gain support.
Zimmerman said the recruitment process Alpha Tau Omega is undertaking has only served to motivate his fraternity.
"Their trying to recruit gives us a bigger push to make more of an impact on
campus," he said. "Each year is kind of like you're making yourself known on campus."
The threat to Pi Kappa Phi's current housing has elicited mixed reactions from around the greek community.
"I'm a little concerned for Pi Kappa Phi because they are an outstanding chapter for us," said Scott Shorten, president of the Interfraternity Council.
" (Alpha Tau Omega) is absolutely welcomed back on campus. The more we can get greek life here the better."
— Edited by Theresa Montaño
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