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MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005
NEWS
Interim dean takes over school
BY GARY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAMP WRITER
The University of Kansas School of Law appointed an interim dean one week ago.
Provost David Shulenburger appointed Mike Davis to the position Aug. 16. Before his appointment, Davis was a professor at the school, specializing in property law.
Davis
A search committee, also appointed by the provost, began its
search for the new dean two weeks ago.
search for the new dean two weeks ago With school in full swing, the committee hopes to fully begin its search, said Sandy McKenzie. co-chair of the search committee.
But right now, the committee has just scratched the surface of its assignment with a few meetings, she said.
Davis said school officials hope to name a permanent dean as early as July
2006.
The dean's position opened after former dean, Stephen McAllister, announced his resignation last January. McAllister was dean of the law school for more than five years.
He stepped down to resume his career as a professor specializing in constitutional law. However, he will not begin teaching until the spring semester. "There are a fair number of frustrations in being a dean," McAllister said. "I have five young kids and lots of things I still have to do. It's time to move on."
Davie said he will have his hands full with his regular duties as the interim dean.
Some of Davis' objectives will include recruiting faculty for the school and preparing the school for its accreditation by the American Bar Association in March. And after only a week on the job, Davis said he was still finding out more responsibilities as dean.
"There's lots to do," Davis said. "It's a job just keeping all the trains running."
Edited by Nate Karlin
WORLD
Trump to produce Chinese 'Apprentice'
HONG KONG — Communist mainland China will soon have its own version of "The Apprentice" — Donald Trump's reality TV tribute to capitalism
Trump will be the executive producer of the Chinese show, which will be hosted by Beijing property mogul Pan Shiyi, the South China Morning Post newspaper reported vesteday.
The newspaper said China's version would closely follow the U.S. original, in which contestants compete for a job with Trump. Details of the deal are under negotiation.
The show will run in direct competition with "Wise Man Takes All" — which was inspired by The Apprentice"
and backed by trumps business partner, Vincent Lo Hong-su. That show offers a cash price of about $123,400.
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New source for cheap textbooks
"These books lie stagnant on the student's shelf with no use for him/her during those intermittent periods," Varadarajan said. "Our Web site will serve to make maximum use of those unused resources."
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
correspondent@kansan.com
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Book-lending Web site lets students borrow rather than buy
Like the Student Senate book exchange, Hawzo allows the lender to set the value of a book and list it for a prospective borrowers. Based on that
value, a 7 percent lending fee is charged for each two-month loan period. For example, a $100 book would cost about $20 for a six-month loan. The percentage was based on the price Muralidhar and Varadarajan would be willing to pay to borrow a book. Students can borrow a book for as many two-month loan periods as they want.
Until the book exchange relaunches, students will be able to use Hawzo at www.hawzo.com. Hawzo, an online
The inevitable, pocket-wrenching doom that is the purchasing of textbooks is here again. While many students flock to local bookstores, others fill up online shopping carts at Internet textbook companies.
"Buying books online is a lot easier because you don't have to wait in line or go to three different bookstores because one doesn't carry your specific text book. Also, it seems like you can get them cheaper online," said Meghan Armstrong, San Antonio senior.
In Spring 2004, Student Senate started an online book exchange for students to buy and sell used textbooks. The service went mostly unused and now, a year and a half later, the Student Senate Web site is temporarily shut down while they work on revamping its service to attract more users.
Convenience may sometimes outweigh price, but students generally search for the cheapest deal. In order to cater to the thrifty KU student, two alternative options are available. The Student Senate Online Book Exchange and Hawzo are two KU services geared to provide students with the most inexpensive options.
"In order to get the book exchange more integrated, we have been working with Academic Computer Services to launch a new site by the end of fall semester," said Student Body President Nick Sterner. "The new site will be incorporated with Kyou portal, which ideally will enable students to view their classes and the textbooks they need at the same time."
The site is designed to provide students a place to find books at a minimal price. Hawzo is ideal for students who keep books as a reference for advanced courses or job interviews. Todd Peters, Wichita senior, said he prefers to keep his pre-med books as a reference for graduate admissions tests.
"We chose two months because we want to protect the current condition of the book as much as possible, but there is no problem renewing the loan." Muralidhar said.
"If after the six-month period the site is still running well, we will integrate it with Student Senate so that our site will be part of KU and will continue when we leave the university." Muralidhar said.
More changes may be made to Hawzo when the Student Senate's book exchange reopens.
Muralidhar and Varadarajan have worked in cooperation with other University groups in order to keep the site as KU oriented as possible and to help ensure its success. They are working with the School of Engineering for logistic support. Last week, they registered a new student organization called BLAB, which stands for "book lending and borrowing."
"We were discussing the increasing cost of books and wanted to try and borrow them instead. It was hard because we didn't know who to contact or people we knew had moved," Muralidhar said.
marketplace for borrowing and lending textbooks, was created by Vinod Muralidhar and Karthik Varadarajan, two KU computer science graduate students from India.
"PayPal is used by about 50 million people right now, so I figured that customers would know this service is safe and that their money is not being misused," Muralidhar said. He added that it could be changed later based on user request.
"We formed this group primarily as a means to involve and interest more and more people into our Web site," Muralidhar said.
Hawzo users will make their payments with PayPal, www.paypal.com, an online service with a broad customer base. This service allows the buyer and seller to make the transaction with either a credit card or a checking account.
The exchange of the book is done by postal mail. Muralidhar and Varadaraj are considering creating a drop box on campus to make the process more convenient.
They developed the idea of a book exchange after several failed attempts to borrow seniors' books for advanced courses.
The possible collaboration between Student Senate and Hawzo's creators could give students the ability to both sell and lend books on a single site.
Edited by Katie Lohrenz
NATION
'Desperate Housewives star getting married
NEWYORK — "Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross is engaged.
Wives, sisters, cross marriages.
Cross last weekend accepted a proposal from her boyfriend, stockbroker Tom Mahoney, the actress's publicist.
Heidi Slan, said in a statement.
"The happy couple have not set a date for the wedding yet," Slan said.
It will be the first marriage for both Cross and her 47-year-old fiance.
The engagement was first reported by Us Weekly.The magazine reported the couple began dating about six months ago.
The 43-year-old actress, who
Cross's TV credits also include "Melrose Place" and "Knots Landing."
plays Bree Van De Kamp on the hit ABC show, last month was nominated for a best comedy series actress Emmy. "Housewives" raked in a total of 15 nominations, including nominations for her co-stars Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman.
STATE
The grant was given by the U.S.Department of Education's Gaining Early Awareness and
Grant to benefit Topeka schools
The Topeka School District will benefit from a $9.3 million grant given to the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning last week.
Readiness for Undergraduate Programs GEAR UP). It will provide more than $1.5 million a year for six years to expand KU-CRL's Pathways to Success project, which provides tutoring and other services for Topeka middle school students.
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The grant will allow Pathways to Success to expand from three Topeka middle schools to all six. It will pay for
an instructional coach for each school, 20 paid tutors for each school online mentors from the International Telem entor Program, and more teachers for reading programs.
Jim Knight, the KU research associate who oversees Pathways to Success, said the project is in Topeka rather than Lawrence because Topeka has a higher percentage of students who
receive free or reduced lunches, which is necessary to qualify for the project's services.
Knight said he was already hiring more staff members in anticipation of the new funding.
"We're doing everything we can to help these kids be successful in colleges and have successful lives," he said.
— Frank Tankard
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