2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
PUBLIC SAFETY
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. 2005
Police car design gains recognition
BY STEPHEN LYNN slynn@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Jayhawk is recognized throughout the nation, but now it has received acclaim for its location on the side of police cars.
The KU Public Safety Office was awarded third place in an annual contest for police car design in the July 2005 issue of Law and Order magazine, which is distributed monthly to state and federal law enforcement agencies.
More than a couple hundred agencies entered the contest, said Ed Sanow, editor of Law and Order.
Police Chief Ralph Oliver and Assistant Chief Chris Keary designed the car graphics when the office received new vehicles in October 2004. Oliver said.
They added the Jayhawk, which had never adorned the flanks of past vehicles, Keary said.
Outside Carruth-O'Leary, Joe Tate, Fairbanks, Alaska, sophomore, inspected the car's design.
"I would have made the Jay-hawk bigger," Tate said. "It's all right as far as cop cars go."
The office entered the contest several years ago, but the publication neglected to mention the office's previous entry, Keary said. The article lists several national and international agencies that entered.
"I don't know if our entrance was processed last time," Keary said, laughing. "This is the first time we were judged."
The contest aims to aid other departments in marking their cars professionally, Sanow said.
"If another university wants to change graphics, they can look to universities like yours," Sanow said.
Carrie Jones, Oklahoma City senior, examined the car.
The design process did not cost more than it has in previous years, Keary said. Luminous Neon Art & Sign Systems, 615 Vermont St., affixed the decals on the cars, he said.
"We should have gotten first," Jones said. "It makes me feel protected."
— Edited by Tricia Masenthin
Kim Andrews/KANSAN
Kim Andrews/KANS. KU's police force placed third in a national contest of police car graphics. "We should have gotten first," Carrie Jones, Oklahoma City senior, said. "It makes me feel protected." The award was given out by Law and Order magazine.
Club helps small-town students adjust to life at University
STUDENT LIFE
Abby Hughes, St. Louis junior and member of the Kansan advertising staff talks with Bethany Beilman, Hays junior, outside of Mollott Hall yesterday. Beilman serves as the vice president and events co-chairwoman for Kansas Connections, an organization that helps small-town KU students meet new people at the University.
New group helps to ease the transition
BY FRANK TANKARD
ftankard@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Tourist guides often describe Lawrence as a mid-sized city with a small-town feel.
Yet, to many students at the University of Kansas, small town doesn't equate to a town of 82,000 with a Wal-Mart, SuperTarget, nearly every major fast food chain restaurant and more than 20 bars.
Where senior Jennifer Meitl comes from, small town means something entirely different.
"We have a Quick Stop, a post office, a telephone company." Meitl said of Rush Center, her 176-person hometown in west-central Kansas. "That's really all there is to it. There's a little bar and grill on the corner. A sign stop. No stoplight."
Wendy Rohleder-Sook, assistant director of the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center, estimated that more than 26 percent of instate students come from outside the state's most populated areas: Topeka, Wichita, Lawrence and the Kansas City area.
That equates to more than 1,500 students, each year, pouring in from small towns and rural areas. They come from unique places, such as Cawker City in north central Kansas, which is home to the world's largest ball of twine, and La Crosse in the west-central part of the state, which is the self-pro
Nathan Ladd, the group's president, came to the University two years ago from a farm outside Effingham, a town of 586 people 40 miles north of Lawrence.
claimed barbed-wire capital of the world.
He said he knew what it was like to come to the University and suddenly be submerged in a sea of unknown faces. He said he quickly
For these students, arriving to the University can be somewhat of a culture shock. That's why a group of students has formed Kansas Connections, an organization aimed at helping small-town students adjust to campus life.
learned to get involved with on-campus groups and enjoy the diversity of his new environment.
"I definitely hadn't had a lot of opportunities," he said. "That's the great thing about KU. You meet people from all over the state, all over the country, all over the world."
Kansas Connections was started in February when Ladd and a few other students with small-town Kansas roots met with Rohder-Look and Erin Michaels, assistant director of the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, to discuss the problems small-town students face when they first come to the University.
The group gained momentum and accumulated more than 40 members by the end of the spring. Ladd said.
Meitl, the group's campus awareness chairwoman, said she was working to make the group a major presence on campus by working with other organizations, such as the Alumni Association and Peer Educators.
Meilt's younger sister, Rhonda, a freshman, is now going down the same path of adjustment that her big sister went down three years ago. The younger Meilt said she was amazed by her first class in Budig Hall, where she sat among hundreds of students. Her high school class consisted of 26 people.
She was one of about 30 students who attended Kansas Connections' first meeting of the semester Aug.15. She's already involved with the club, as she's helped with its Web site and plans to attend an upcoming barbecue at Clinton Lake.
"It's been nice because I can recognize people and say 'hi,'" she said. "We can relate to a small-town background, the quirky things we do."
Brienne McDaniel, a freshman from Scott City, a western Kansas town of 3,545, is also trying to adjust to her second week of college life. Her challenges are the same every student faces, such as being away from parents, living with less guidance, and staying organized.
She also said she discovered that a campus of more than 25,000 people, in the middle of a mid-sized city, can be a lonely place when you've been surrounded by familiar faces your entire life. She said she was grateful for the friends she'd already made through Kansas Connections.
"It made a big place seem smaller to me," she said.
Edited by Kellis Robinett
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