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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 20. 1989
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Elementary students' lives recorded
Using a colored marker, Merideth Denny, a first-grade student at Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hilltop Drive, decorates a balloon with Cassie Liligendahl, Prairie Village sophomore.
by Marian Weeks Kansan staff writer
"The new millennium kids," the high school graduating class of 2000, met with their personal biographers March 9 in their Hillcrest Elementary School's first grade classrooms.
For a class project, the biographers create an annual promoting each child, said Lazzarino, lecturer in journalism.
Last year, this year and every year until graduation these millennium kids can pick their own biographer from Diane Lazzarino's Promotional Writing class.
They phone each other, make brownies, draw and paint with glitter paints, oils and fabric crayon markers and go out for movies and pizza, said Cindy Denny, Merideth's mother.
First-grader Merideth Denny picked Cassie Liliegand, Prairie Village sophomore, to be her biography. She and they were having a great time.
"It's nice for her to have a college friend. It makes college seem really attractive." she said.
Lilgendahl said it brought back memories.
seem really attractive," she said.
As a parent, she said she liked having a book written promoting her child each year.
"I'm only 20 years old, and it does seem like a million years ago, but talking to the kids and all, it snaps right back." Liligendani
Going to lunch, listening to music, coloring, gluing and pasting are fun for her and Merideth both, she said.
The art they make together, experiences they share, photographs, achievements of the child during the year and special fam-
Thursday, the historical occasion was a candy hunt.
"I'm not shaming with my sister," shouted first-grader Barrett Hamilton, his plastic sack fat with colorful treasures. "If someone
kills me, I'll eat 'em when I'm dead."
he was running fast ahead of his partner, Vince Long, Overland Park junior.
The pair soon joined first-grader Loy Ukpokodu and Todd Stanton, Prairie Village junior, in a game of tag
"I wish I could be there when they graduate in the year 2000, just to see the looks on their faces. It's what you must ask what they say they want to be."
"I'm learning how to promote a first grader's life," Stanton said after the group returned to the kids' classroom to color a page
"The pairing is fantastic. I have not had — knock on wood — a bad experience yet," she said. "They're sincerely getting involved with students like they couldn't with shampoo."
Regents back new research center
bv Candv Niemann
Kansan staff writer
The Board of Regents approved plans for the University of Kansas Center for Excellence and voted to extend the Kansas-Missouri reciprocity agreement at a meeting Thursday in Topeka.
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research graduate studies and public service, said that the center would be used by faculty members and graduate and undergraduate students conducting research in telecommunications and computer-aided design.
The potential for knowledge advancement being transferred to the marketplace in these areas is high. "How are you going to do it?"
area is very high. How is it said?
She said that she hoped that the research done at
the center would generate jobs in the private sector.
KU has requested that Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. in Topeka provide $150,000 a year for five years for operating costs and research at the center.
But the agency will not decide whether to provide the financing until it knows how much money the center will receive from the Kansas Legislature.
"If KTEC can't fund the center, it won't come into existence," Horowitz said.
The Regents also voted to continue the reciprocity agreement that allows Missouri students studying architecture to pay in-state tuition at KU and Kansas State University. In exchange, Kansas
students studying dentistry pay in-state tuition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said that the agreement had been extended for three years. Each year, 556 Missouri students, and 100 Kansas students may attend UMKC.
Negotiations to continue the program had been strained this year, because the mass was losing water.
money in the age of Facebook. Koplin said that the agreement was similar to the previous one and that the state would still lose money.
"But we decided that for the next three years both sides can live with it," Koplik said. "We hope that during time that we can assess the program."
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
kerr said one alternative would be to extend taxes that finance Washin-
born, now paid by Topeka residents,
to all of Shawnee County. That would increase revenue by $2.25 million each year, he said.
Legislative committees pass Margin, approve Washburn Regents bill
The bill survived a motion by State Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchison, that would have trimmed it to a plan to send the college to community colleges for five years.
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A bill that would admit Washburn University into the Board of Regents and a financing bill for the second year of the Margin of Excellence completed the first of several steps for passage last week.
Members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee on March 13 approved a bill that would make Washburn a full member of the Regents in five years. It will be addressed by the Senate on Wednesday.
He proposed that the addition of Washburn be studied in an interim committee to decide whether it was possible to replace the state and the Regents schools.
"We have not really looked at the alternatives for funding Washburn," Kerr said. "There are alternatives."
Further study encouraged
He said the study would benefit Washburn because faculty and staff members would know in advance what areas of the institution would be increased or decreased to blend in with the Regents schools.
State Seen, Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence, agreed that the Washburn
issue should be further studied by
the Legislature or the Regents.
Members of the committee opposed to the motion said now was the time to add Washburn. The school would not cause large numbers of students to leave Emporia State or any other school in the area, they said.
An approved amendment would allow the Regents to set tuition levels at Washburn for the 1960-90 year. Other colleges that had been frozen in 1988-89 levels.
Margin financing approved
The Margin is the Regents three year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent
The committee also approved a bill fully financing the second year of the Margin of Excellence.
of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
The bill also is scheduled for dis cussion on the Senate floor Wednes day.
The committee amended a bill for fiscal year 1990 by cutting an increase in unclassified salaries from 5 percent to 4 percent.
State Rep Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, said the decrease was a method of controlling the amount of money transferred from unclassified salaries to other budget items by Regents schools.
however, some members of the committee said the cuts were not fair to schools or employees.
"Unclassified salary increases are not tied to unclassified employees," said State Rep. John Sobach. Bain, the money is used on a merit basis.
Sobach said the decrease would make it difficult for universities to attract quality employees and would lower the morale of current employ-
An increase in operating expenditures for areas besides salaries and wages was reduced from 4 percent to 3 percent. Solbach opposed the change, saying other problems could occur if the money was not provided.
He said universities were having a tough time catching up with their peers at current levels and inflation would make it even tougher.
The committee approved full financing of the second year of the Margin, after defeating a motion that would have provided 100 percent financing of unclassified salary enhancements, but only 75 percent financing of mission-related enhancements.
State Rep. Rex Hoy, R-Fairway, said mission-related enhancements needed to be evaluated if financed in full. He said he did not want schools to divert financing from this area to other budget items.
Several members said because full support for the Margin was pledged last year, it must be supported in full until it is completed.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, said he was pleased that full financing of the Margin had been endorsed, but that cuts in the base budget eroded some of the gains.
Missing cookie case solved, but Brownie troop loses $62
by a Kansan reporter
Brownies are missing cookies.
Boxes of Thin Mints, Savannahs
and Scot Teas, to name a few, were
taken in a Lawrence prison last week. Lawrence police reported. But no cookie monster is to blame.
Thirty-one boxes of Girl Scout cookies, valued at $62, were taken without being paid for, reports said.
"They were all different kinds of cookies," said Valerie Murphy, leader of Brownie troop 662.
Murphy said a resident of the rest home had taken cookie orders from other residents of the home for her Brownie granddaughter.
Brownie granddaughter
Apparently, the granddaughter
supplied the grandmother with extra
It's not anything dramatic She was just shy $62. '
leader of Brownie troop 662
Valerie Murphy leader of Brownie troop 662
boxes of cookies hoping that additional sales would be made to residents.
But the cookies were taken without being paid for. After the grandmother delivered the cookies to resister back to the Brownie桶 $62 short.
It seems rest home residents who had purchased cookies just picked up too many boxes, Murphy said.
"It's not anything dramatic," Mur phy said. "She was just shy $62."
New magazine targeted at KU students
dy Kris M. Bergquist
Kansan staff writer
KU students will have one more to read next semester, but it won't be a textbook.
Campus Scene, a new magazine, will be available for free on campus in the fall.
The magazine will be like national magazines distributed on campus in the past, but will have local interest articles all college students can relate to, such as resume writing, said Mick Urban, Lawrence marketing manager for STAMATS Communications, the magazine's publisher.
"We want to give KU their own magazine. We're going to make it work by localizing the magazine." We wrote the student a reason to read it.
a reason to read it.
The magazine will include a cam
pus calendar, sports schedules, a restaurant and entertainment guide, student and faculty profiles and stories on careers, health, travel and money. The magazine also will have coupons.
STAMATS will distribute 50,000 copies of the magazine on campus and around Lawrence at the beginning of each semester.
"We figure we'll have a niche in the market place," Urban said. "We're hoping this will be something that people will pick up and hold onto."
Donn Hess, Kansas City, Kan. junior, said that even though a magazine would be supplemental reading for him, it sounded attractive.
"I'd probably be attracted more by a new magazine than a newspaper," Hess said. "It's flasher and more permanent."
The magazine will be distributed at six other Midwest schools: the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, the university of Oklahoma, the northern Iowa. Each magazine will be geared to the individual universities.
Urban said 12 to 17 people - five as writers and seven to 13 as distributors - would be hired for the Lawrence magazine.
Sharon Bass, associate professor of journalism, said that anytime there was a new magazine on campus it
Ben Jones, Lawrence editor of Campus Scene, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1985 and worked for three years as a writer for Kansas Alumni Magazine.
Jones said local writers would appeal to students and the community of Lawrence.
"It's kind of a social counterpart to the student handbook," Jones said. "It will fill students in on how to adapt to KU sociality. We hope they use it with their course material on a shelf and pull it out when they need it."
The magazine had a test market last semester when 50,000 copies were given out at the University of Iowa.
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