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Public donations With the help of a new Web site, people can search for local donations made to presidential campaigns. One Lawrence contributor, a KU student, made the maximum donation allowable to the Kerry campaign. PAGE 3A
A dancing revolution Dance Dance Revolution has attracted a loyal group of enthusiasts at the University. They stress the good exercise and new friends that the game brings to their lives. PAGE 5A
Baseball loses
The Kansas baseball team suffered a
4-3 loss yesterday vs. Oral Roberts.The loss marks the 10th time the 'Hawks have lost a one-run game.PAGE 1B
Big 12 South
Ever year, an influx XII
of new players is thrown into the Big 12 Conference. The Kansan's Kevin Flaherty takes a look at this year's important Big 12 South recruits and how they should affect the teams they're joining. PAGE 1B
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KANSAN
IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.150
Smoking debate continues
By Laura Pate
lpate@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence city officials may have voted to enact a smoking ban in restaurants and bars starting July 1, but that doesn't mean the case is closed.
Chuck Magerl, owner of Free State Brewing Company, 636 Massachusetts St., sent a blank petition form to Evan Ice, Lawrence-Douglas County counselor, yesterday. In five days, ice will either approve or reject the form for legal technicalities.
or reject the form for legal notice.
Dave Boulter, owner of Henry's on Eighth, 11 E. 8th St. and The Crossing, 618 W. 12th St., said he planned to band with Magerl in sending out the petition.
If any citizen collects 3,764 signatures,
SEE PETITION ON PAGE 8A
A petition was started a month ago to show the city commission how many people were against a smoking ban. This petition, at Henry's, 11 E. 8th St., was contained more than 2,000 signatures.
GETTING REGISTERED
Any United States citizen who lives in Lawrence can register to vote, said Marni Penrod, deputy county clerk with the Lawrence-Douglas County Clerk's Office. Students can vote if registered in Lawrence. If students are registered to vote in another county or city, they would have to call their county clerk to transfer their registration to Lawrence. Students can register to vote by going to the Lawrence-Douglas County Web site at www.douglas
at www.blogs.com
county/Clerk/voteapp1.asp. They
must print off the registration form online
and send it to the Douglas County election
officer, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Source: Lawrence-Douglas County office
clerk's office
Brynn Harrison, Shawnee sophomore, is studying to be a nurse. This semester she is taking Humane Physiology, Microbiology, Nutrition and Chemistry. She said the hardest class is Human Physiology and her favorite is Nutrition. "It is interesting to learn about what your body needs," she said.
Student ready for nursing
By Samia Khan
skhan@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Every face in the crowd and every name in the phone book has a story behind it. Every week, Kansan staff writer Samia Khan tells the story of a randomly selected
randomly selected KU student.
RO SHAMB
The thought of blood, guts and bedpans doesn't faze Brynn Harrison.
For the Shawnee sophomore, exciting possibilities of her pre-nursing track are more than enough to compensate for sometimes unpleasant potentials.
Harrison is pursuing a degree to become an emergency room nurse. Nurturing and curiosity have been her instincts for a long time.
Harrison has always been curious about medicine and anatomy. Her stomach is strong enough for anything. She confesses to watching surgery television shows while eating dinner.
for a camaraderie. Harrison said she doesn't like doing the same routine every day. She thrives on change and talking to people. Her roommate and childhood friend, Michelle Orrick, said Harrison could start up a conversation with almost anyone. Orrick, a Mission junior, said Harrison had a way of making people
"I'm into the action," she said. "I'm not a cannibal, I swear."
feel comfortable around her
The diversity of the emergency room appeals to Harrison. She said she would rather meet even the most difficult and unruly patients than have gone through life never knowing them.
he never knowing them. "Think of how many different people come through the E.R." she said. "It's probably the most diverse place I can think of."
Since the beginning of high school, Harrison knew she wanted to be a nurse, but her father's heart bypass solidified the choice for her. She said she would have wanted to be the nurse who took care of him.
She is prepared to see patients die
SEE FACES ON PAGE 8A
Marketing University difficult
By Zach Stinson editor@kansan.com Special to the Kansan
the nation's top 25 colleges. Murgula was paid $195,000 a year to direct public relations, marketing and lobbying for the University. And she launched an ambitious effort to unify the University's message, to polish the school's image and to market it as a firstrate institution for higher learning.
Nearly three years ago, Chancellor Robert Hemenway hired Janet Murguia, a former White House aide to Bill Clinton, to help him reach his goal of making the University of Kansas one of the nation's top 25 research universities.
race institution of Munguia left the University in March to head the nation's largest Hispanic-American lobbying group, National Council of La Raza. And the University's undergraduate ranking has fallen to its lowest ranking. No. 44, in at least one major national assessment, the US News & World Report's annual college edition. The University still has no marketing plan and is paying an outside consultant $135,000 to help get one.
All of this has some people asking just what Murgula did and what has happened to Hemenway's ambitious plans.
Chuck Marsh, professor of public relations for journalism school, said he wondered where the results were.
"You need to plan before you act." Marsh said, "but it seems like we just keep planning."
University Relations officials insist the University is not just planning, but taking action.
Kevin Boatright, interim executive vice chancellor for University Relations, said the University is spending $225,000 on its integrated marketing plan, which it will fully unveil in the fall. The University Simpson Communications, of Williamsburg, Va., in September for $135,000, as part of that budget.
SEE MARKETING CYC PAGE 8A
WHAT'S IN A RANKING?
US News & World Report ranks universities every fall. Again last year, the University of Kansas was not listed as a top-25 public school. While not the only ranking available, and often criticized for changing its criteria, the report has been found to affect the number of applications and the quality of students applying. How the University has fared since 1998:
Source: US News & World Report
Year Ranking
1998 No. 30
1999 No. 38
2000 No. 42
2001 No. 39
2002 No. 41
2003 No. 44
Professor to meet President
By Neeley J. Spellmeier
nspellmeier@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Don Deshler, professor of education and director of the Center for Research on Learning, is scheduled to speak with President George W. Bush today in
President George W. Washington D.C. Deshier will be one of five educators meeting with Bush to discuss the Reading First program.
Deshler is the cocreator of the Strategic Instruction Model, or SIM. SIM is a program that helps adolescents develop
Deshler
adolescents' develop learning methods. Deshler began his research at the University of Kansas in 1978 at what was then the Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities and is now the Center for Research on Learning.
Deshler was chosen to speak with Bush to further promote learning methods for adolescents. Previously, programs such as Reading First, a part of the No Child Left Behind Act, had targeted elementary-level readers.
What Deshler and partner Jean Schumaker have discovered in their 25-plus years of research is that reading problems are more of a problem for middle school students. A schism develops in approximately fourth grade, when students begin to move from learning to decode words to comprehending ideas, said Schumaker, assistant director of the center.
center.
In order to comprehend these ideas, SIM creators have created 15 strategies. One of these, the self-questioning strategy, teaches students to want to continue a book they are reading.
"With good readers, at the end of each chapter, they are left in suspension and they question and predict what will happen next. Our strategy teaches kids to ask questions and then read on and search for the answers," Schumaker said.
Another method, the visual imagery strategy, encourages readers to see the images as scenes and a movie, as upperlevel readers imagine it.
These techniques have been successfully implemented in thousands of schools in the U.S., Schumaker said. She said students had raised their reading abilities three to four grade levels, enabling them to keep up with their peers.
peers. SIM has programs to not only improve reading, but also about writing, how to study information, some math and improving learning strategies, Schumaker said.
Deshler and his colleagues gained attention after a school in Florida improved its reading scores using SIM. Deshler met with first lady Laura Bush in January as part of a roundtable discussion on the results.
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Edited by Danielle Hillis