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Online classes cost more, however. For undergraduate Kansas residents, an online summer course costs about $293 per credit hour, compared to about $245 per credit hour for a traditional semester course. For undergraduate non-Kansas residents an online summer course costs about $650 per credit hour, compared to about $644 per credit hour for a traditional semester course, according to the independent study course catalog.
Adam Baratz, a junior from Tulsa, said that he was glad to see summer online courses becoming an option for students, but that he would have
liked to see this option sooner.
"I'm really glad for future students because I really wish I would have had this option," Baratz said.
"I'm a big fan of online classes. They're just easier and more convenient."
A list of online courses offered this summer can be found on jayhawkssummer.com. Instructors are still adding courses, and will continue to add or delete options depending on department approval, Peters said.
"It's a very fluid list," Peters said. "It kind of shifts as courses are added and deleted."
Aesthetics, a requirement for film majors. Jake Thomson, a junior from Westminster, Colo., is a film major and said that he would have been interested in taking this requirement online over the summer, but that he already had summer plans.
One of the courses offered for this summer is Film and Media
"If I had this option last year I would have taken the class for sure," Thomson said. "If I could be knocked out a requirement
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for my major or some other general education requirement then I would have taken advantage of it."
Although some students might already have plans for the summer.
Peters said that online courses were a great option for students who might be going home and could fit a class into their schedules.
Tanner Ford, a junior from Wellington, said he had taken online courses from Cowley County Community College and that online classes fit his learning style better than traditional classroom styles.
"I'm a big fan of online classes," Ford said. "They're just easier and more convenient."
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Andrew Hines, a junior from Chicago, isn't worried about the myth either. He first heard about it during a tour of campus before he came to the University.
"I walked through the bell tower my freshman year." Hines said. "I don't believe the legend is true and I'm pretty sure I'll graduate on time."
Hines said that he wasn't sure how true the myth about kissing your significant other under the bell tower was, but that he thought it was funny how many myths the tower holds.
Whether the legend is real or not, some students won't attempt to test it.
Sydney Levinson, a senior from St. Louis, said she had definitely made sure not to walk through the bell tower. She said that when she found out about the tradition she thought it was exciting and had tried to follow it.
According to KU Info's website, the Campanile was constructed in 1950 and dedicated on May 27, 1951 as a World War II memorial. The tradition of walking through the tower began the following year.
"Whether or not it's true, it's still a cool tradition," Levinson said. "To graduate in four years and be able to finally walk down the hill with all of my friends is a pretty big accomplishment."
In former Chancellor Hemenway's 2009 address to graduates of the University he
FUN FACTS ABOUT THE CAMPANILE
■ According to KU Info's website, it takes the averaged-size graduate about 300 steps to make it from the Campanile to the bottom of the hill.
The Campanile holds a carillon, which consists of 53 bells that are played similarly to a piano or xylophone using the hands and feet.
- The bells chime every 15 minutes from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- According to kupreservation.org the 53 bells are made from a mixture of copper and tin and weigh from 10 pounds to seven tons, hanging in six tiers.
- The entrance of the Campanile is called "Doors of Memory" and the exit is called "Doors of Kansas."
- The architects of the Campanile were Homer F. Neville and Edward B. Delk.
emphasized the importance of this myth.
"As we say every year, the walk is the ceremony." Hemenway said. "You have to walk before you can fly. The walk prepares Jayhawks for flight."
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Photo illustration by VARANEL SKRABAN
The Campanile was constructed in 1950 and dedicated on May 27, 1951 as a World War II memorial. The tradition to walk through the bell tower after graduation began the following year.
Photo Illustration bv Valerie Skubal/KANSAN
NATIONAL
Nashville residents regroup after deadly floods
BY CHRIS TALBOTT Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The dark waters of the Cumberland River slowly started to ebb Tuesday as residents who frantically fled the deadly flash floods returned home to find mud-caked floors and soggy furniture. Rescuers prayed they would not find more bodies as the floodwaters receded.
The river and its tributaries had flooded parts of middle Tennessee
after a record-breaking weekend storm dumped more than a foot of rain in two days, rapidly spilling water into homes, roads and some of Music City's best-known attractions.
up to six months.
At least 29 people were killed in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky by either floodwaters or tornadoes. Water submerged parts of the Grand Ole Opry House, considered by many to be the heart of country music, and the nearby Opryland Hotel could be closed for
The flash flooding caught many by surprise, and efforts to warn residents to not drive on flooded streets were hampered by power outages. As the water began to recede, bodies were recovered late Monday from homes, a yard and a wooded area outside a Nashville supermarket. By Tuesday, the flash floods were blamed in the deaths of 18 people in Tennessee alone, including 10 in Nashville.
Hundreds of people had been
rescued by boat and canoe from their flooded homes over the past few days. Those rescue operations were winding down in Nashville on Tuesday, though emergency management officials were checking a report of a house floating in a northern neighborhood, trying to determine if anyone was in it.
It remained unclear how many — if any — people were missing in Tennessee. Authorities in south-central Kentucky searched Tuesday for a kayaker who was last seen
Monday afternoon in the swollen Green River.
"Those in houses that have been flooded and some of those more remote areas, do we suspect we will find more people? Probably so," Nashville Fire Chief Kim Lawson said. "We certainly hope that it's not a large number."
The Cumberland River also deluged some of Nashville's most important revenue sources: the Gaylord Oprilyal Hotel and Convention Center, whose 1,500
guests were whisked to a shelter, the adjacent Opry Mills Mall, and the Grand Ole Opry House.
Parts of the hotel remained flooded on Tuesday, and officials estimated it could stay closed for three to six months with more than $75 million in damage.
At the Grand Ole Opry, which is moving its shows to alternate concert halls, water reached the stage and the first floor of the Minnie Pearl building was flooded over the doors.
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