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This sign near the entrance of Watson Library informed students about the server outage that occurred on campus yesterday. A power outage caused all KU websites, including e-mail and Blackboard, to shut down and prohibited printing at all libraries on campus.
In order to cope with internet problems, services such as KU Libraries and the KU Parking Department recorded transactions by hand and later uploaded information onto their servers.
presentation." Moccia said. "I was planning to e-mail it to myself and open it in the classroom before my presentation. But then the Internet was down and I couldn't open it."
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Moccia said her professor allowed her to give the presentation to the class and e-mail the PowerPoint file to him later.
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A representative with the KU Police Department said the power outage did not affect its operations.
Tyler Janzen, a senior from Lindsborg, reads the call number on a book at Watson Library Thursday afternoon. The server outage on campus yesterday forced library employees like Janzen to hand write check-out sheets as they were not able to check-out books using computers. Janzen said the hardest part of the day was "not being able to rely on the technology and having to put up with hand writing everything."
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Relay for Life participation rises, but funding still short of goal
CAMPUS
BY JENNY TERRELL jterrell@kansan.com
With almost 600 participants and 69 teams, this year's University Relay for Life has doubled its participation from last year. However, with volunteers set to walk around the Memorial Stadium track for 12 hours starting at 7 tonight, the group is still about $15,500 short of its goal.
"It's not that we are far behind or we're not where we need to be," Easley said. "We will meet our goal, if not surpass it."
Volunteers have generated about $22,500, which is $10,500 short of last year's total and well shy of this year's goal of $38,000.
However, Amanda Easley, a sophomore from Junction City and vice president of the University's Relay for Life, said she was not concerned.
Carolyn Haller, a junior from Alna and president of KU's Relay for Life, said the increase of teams came from several different places, including Greek houses, student
organizations and self-formed groups.
"We have a lot more of everything," Haller said. "We even have a Baker team this year."
Last year the University's Relay for Life raised about $33,000, which amounted to
goal of $32,000.
funding has matched any increases in participation.
While participation this year is high, the fund raising is coming in slow. Fund raising is not a problem seen only at the University.
Megan Waggy, a sophomore from Philadelphia, is participating as a member for Alpha Chi Omega sorority. The sorority has two teams and 25 total participants. She met
"It's not that we are far behind or we're not where we need to be. We will meet our goal..."
"Unfortunately fund raising in general is down, but it is especially seen at the university level," said Katie Lord, community manager of development for the Lawrence-Topeka area.
AMANDA EASLEY Junction City sophomore
Lord said an increase in participation and shortage of funding was something she only saw at the University. In other areas the
her fund raising goal this year, but said she could see the economy hurting efforts.
"It is defi nitely much harder to fund raise right now," said Waggy.
of friends and family that donated to the cause, but she knew it was harder for some of her teammates to ask friends and family this year.
Waggy said she had a lot
The suggested fund raising goal for each participant was $100, but Haller said they would accept whatever people could donate.
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POYNETTE, Wis. — Big Jake might be taller than any other horse in the world, but his owner Jerry Gilbert describes him as a gentle giant.
Wisconsin Clydesdale is tallest living horse
is the Guinness World Record holder for world's tallest living horse at one quarter inch short of 6-feet,11 inches.
Gilbert says Big Jake, who weighs about 2,600 pounds, is good with people and even likes to goof off. He says people are astonished when they see just how big he is.
shows Big Jake as a draft horse in four-or six-horse hitches and he raises money for the Ronald McDonald House.
That's 2.75 inches taller than the previous record-holder, a Clydesdale from Texas named Remington.
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The 9-year-old Belgian gelding
Gilbert and his family own Smokey Hollow Farm near Poynter, Wisconsin. He usually
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Student party focuses on the absurd in post WWI art
Brodie Rush performs for the closing of the Spencer Museum of Art's Spring Student Night Thursday. During the Student Night, SMA hosted pieces created by KU students with the theme of rejecting popular art standards — creating art that is meaningless to the modern world.
BY ERIN BROWN
ebrown@kansan.com
The Student Advisory Board put on the event and about 200 people attended. Billups said she hoped the event had encouraged students to come by Spencer more often.
"I have many friends that have work out this evening." Cacioppo said. "I think it's really nice, there's some good work up."
"The museum offers so much to students for their classes and just for enjoyment." Billups said. "Hopefully students come back after this function."
The Spencer's major spring exhibit "Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts" inspired the theme for the evening. The exhibit features art from the post-World War I era, including art from the Dada anti-war art movement. Artists of the Dada movement sought to create absurd and nonsensical art as a reaction to a war that also didn't make sense, said Katy Billups, a communications intern with The Spencer Museum of Art.
Activities for the event followed this theme. For example, students decorated T-shirts with abstract stencils and created a collage of nonsensical items to paste on the cubic sculpture in the central court.
"The world's reaction to the war is illustrated and depicted in the different forms of art at the exhibit," Billups, a senior from Dallas, said. "It doesn't make a lot of sense, because it's not supposed to."
The event also featured local music from KJHK DJ Danny Spence and food from Local Burger, Buffalo Wild Wings. The Community Mercantile and Tortas Jalisco.
Students enjoyed local music, food and art at The Spencer Museum of Art's seventh annual Spring Student Night.
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Students from KU professor So Yeon Park's community-based art class displayed performance art throughout the evening as well.
Ashley Warren, a student in Park's class, made unique hair clips to give away at the event.
"I have this little flower that I put in my hair to feel pretty," Warren, a senior from Shawnee, said. "And I thought what if I could start making these for people so they could feel good on a bad day. It's just about spreading good feelings."
Tierney Cacioppo, a senior from Overland Park, attended the event to support some of her friends.
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advocates that there aren't winners or losers.
Each piece of art exhibited was shown for its artistic quality and response to the theme. Students were to exemplify their talent to modify the perceptions of the things they see everyday.
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Olivia Tedford, a senior from
"It was supposed to actually be a monster," Mayes said. "When I finished and stepped back I realized it was a self-portrait."
Olatha and one of the five winners, created a mushroom print with pencil, watercolor and a found library card. She said she went for something very natural.
from Medicine Lodge, wasn't one of the winners but managed to create a self-portrait on canvas without even meaning to.
"When I finished and stepped back I realized it was a self-portrait."
Sara Bluvas, a senior from
CORY GENE MAYES On his artwork
from Roswell,
Ga., and co-director of
the juried Art
Show, said although this
was the second year the
Juried Art
Show had
happened,
it was the first
Cory Gene Mayes, a senior
"I like Martha Stuart and when I was thinking of a mushroom print something really intrigued me," Tedford said. "I wanted to use something without toxic ink, something from nature."
Tedford said it took her a few tries because the mushrooms have to be really mature for her to get a print with spore marks on it. She covered the mushroom with a big bowl and allowed the spores to release.
Students' artwork will be displayed in the Teaching Gallery at the museum until May 10.
"As long as I've been on the board, getting student art in the museum has been a goal." Bluvas said. "We're so happy that it's finally happened."
time students were able to display their artwork in the museum. Bluvas, also a Kansan copy editor, has been on the board for four years.
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MEET THE WINNERS
Olivia Tedford
Olivia Tedford
Senior, Printmaking
"Delightful Find"
Mushroom print, pencil,
watercolor, found library
card
Bethany Christiansen
Junior, English "Hades" Ink on Bristol paper
Mari LaCure
Graduate, Printmaking
"Spiral"
Watercolor, colored pencil and pen on paper
Rose Kopf
Matt Kuhlman
Graduate, Journalism
"Growth Patterns"
Intaglio and colored pencil
Rose Kopf
Senior, Textile Design
"War Mockery"
Textile printing