2A / NEWS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN KANSAN.COM
"When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Author Unknown
FACT OF THE DAY
Most of the modern forms of football are derived from ancient games, especially harpaston and harpastrum, played in Greece and Rome.
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Thursday is the last day to drop a class. If you choose to drop a class on the last day, be prepared to wait in some lengthy lines at Strong Hall.
What's going on today?
**Watkins Memorial Health Center will offer a free runner's clinic from 9 to 11 a.m. at its southwest entrance. Call 864-9592 to reserve a spot.**
The Kansas Relays will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.The event is free with a KUID.
The University Career Center will host a spring etiquette dinner from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union. Reservations are required, and seats are $15 per student.
THURSDAY
April 15
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The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
at Memorial Stadium. The event is free with a KUID.
Valerie Hudson, a professor of political science at Brigham Young University, will present the lecture, "The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 116 of the Sabatin Multicultural Resource Center.
The KU School of Music presents KU Saxophone Quartets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Baptist Hall in Murphy Hall. This event is free.
FRIDAY
SUNDAY April 18
The KU Opera Chamber Ensemble will present Xerxes by Georg Friedrich Handel from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art.
April 16
Student Union Activities will host local bands for its Tunes At Noon concert from noon to 1 p.m. in the Plaza of the Kansas Union.
The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.at Memorial Stadium.The event is free with a KUID.
■ Free Cosmic Bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
MONDAY
April 19
SATURDAY April 17
FDIC Chair and KU alumna Sheila Bair will discuss her career in public service and her efforts to restore American's faith in the financial system at a 7:30 p.m. lecture at the Dole Institute of Politics. Tickets are free, but are only available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Diana B. Carlin will offer the seminar, "Oskar Institute: America's First Ladies: More Than the Women Behind the Men," at 2 p.m. at the Continuing Education Building, 1515 St. Andrews Dr. The seminar is free and open to the public.
The Kansas Relays continue from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. The event is free with a KUID.
The annual KU Spring Pow Wow will be from 5 to 10 p.m. in the Auditorium of Robinson Center.
- Free Cosmic Bowling from 10 p.m. to
1 a.m. at Jaybowl in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY
April 20
Donna Lopiano will present the lecture "Tite IX: The Evolution of Women's Sports Markets and an Analysis of Barriers to Growth" at 4 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union as part of The Dr. James Naismith Lecture Series.
Pianist Stanton Nelson will perform from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall as part of the KU School of Music Student Recital Series.
CORRECTION
ENVIRONMENT
Student Senate candidate Rebecca Talman was identified without a photo in Monday's paper.
Green fund will create sustainable projects
BY BRENNA LONG blong@kansan.com
From light bulbs to solar panels, the new Revolving Green Fund will finance sustainable projects across campus. Tyler Enders, a junior from Leawood, and J.J. Siler, a senior from Overland Park, have worked to start the fund for more than a year, but Student Senate just approved $10,000 to start the fund. April 7.
The fund will pool money from the University and use it in investments aimed at reducing energy costs and consumption. All the improvements will be monitored so the savings can be tracked. The money earned
through the savings will be returned to the fund.
"Instead of giving a one-time gift, the donor gives a gift that keeps on giving." Enders said. "The gift might go toward double pane windows, and then five years later toward solar panels."
The Kansas University Endowment Association also plans to add money to the fund once it is set up, Rosita Elizalde-McCoy, senior vice president of communications at the association, said.
Right now, the fund has a lot of planning left, Theresa Gordzica, chief business and financial planning officer for the University, said. The
University has a list of projects to begin with the fund, but the money will first go to the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness.
Recreation Fitness Center.
Exact plans for greening the recreation center have not been made, but Gordizka said she hoped to have a meeting by the end of the semester to talk through the timeline. The
plan laid out so that we can, if not do the work, figure out the design," she said.
fund could be in full effect within the next school year.
"I would hope that we can get a
"This just falls right in line with the idea that KU is a sustainable place."
J. J. SILER Overland Park senior
Harvard University and Iowa State University already have green funds in place. In the last 10 years, Harvard has funded 153 projects and saved $4 million. Since 2008, Iowa State has funded 10 projects.
ments are in the University's portfolio. In the past 10 years, the University has invested about $40 million in green changes, Gordzica said. The previous projects range from the KU Bioluel initiative, which involves collecting used cooking oil from campus dining halls and converting it into biodiesel fuel, to the ReRev program at the Recreation Center, which features 15 elliptical machines that convert kinetic energy and feed it back to the building's electrical grid.
Energy savings and green improve
"This just falls right in line with the idea that KU is a sustainable place," Siler said.
— Edited by Kirsten Hudson
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