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hour. He would sit on top of a gun truck with a spotlight searching for anything suspicious.
It could be exhausting.
"You try to stay awake," he said. "You tell iokes. You sine songs."
Sometimes, hed drink Red Bull after Red Bull. He said he has holes in his molars to prove it.
But he's OK with that.
"Id gladly have these holes in my molars but keep all my fingers," he said while stretching and extending his fingers. "That's fine with me."
Kyle Brown, a senior from Topeka and secretary of CVA, has known Duncan for about two years. He said he thought other students sometimes don't realize how different college life is for a soldier.
"We're normal too," he said.
"But it's like we have two lives in a way."
Being a student and a sol
He first enrolled at the University in fall of 2005. Two months later he was deployed to Iraq for the first time.
dier hasn't been an easy task for Duncan.
He's been back at the University for three years. Duncan is majoring in English and minoring in Japanese. But that wasn't always his plan.
"After dodging grenades, bullets and bombs for 16 months, I said that I think I owe it to myself to do something I want to do," Duncan said.
Keith Yehle, director of government relations at the University and faculty advisor of CVA, said he's continually learning from the veterans in the group.
At first, he set out to major in business. That changed after Iraq.
"Every time I meet these guys," he said, "I'm impressed."
the veterans have from being deployed to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan allows them to accomplish tasks in an efficient manner.
Yehle said the perspective
He'll leave in January with nine hours left to complete at the University before he can graduate.
For Duncan, though, his service isn't over.
In January, he will be deployed again — this time to Africa — as part of AFRICOM, which focuses on war prevention.
"That's nine years," Duncan said. "That enough."
He'll be gone a year. After that, he'll be done with the military. He's done his time, he said, from starting basic training in 2003 before his senior year of high school to the end of his mission in Africa in 2012.
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Military Education, "It's a small program but it is very important as well."
Wounded Warriors currently has eight people actively pursing their degrees. After graduation, the Army ensures them a job within its organization.
"It's a great opportunity for veterans who aren't necessarily able to serve in a physical realm but would like to remain with the military," Tallchief said.
COLLEGIATE VETERANS ASSOCIATION
The Collegiate Veterans Association, or CVA, is a group of KU student veterans who are seeking to form a support group with each other while educating the student population about their experience in the military. For Andrew Foster, a senior from Wichita, CVA provided him with a group of friends he could talk to about his experience overseas.
"It just helped me progress," Foster said. "Hearing what others have gone through kind of puts your own experience in perspective"
"It's a nice place where we can go to study or just relax," said Kyle Brown, a senior from Toneka.
The group also helped bring about a Veterans Lounge in the Burge Union. The lounge is only open to veterans and contains several computers, free printers and a flat-screen TV.
As a member of the Student Veterans of America group, Brown has recently taken the initiative to help surrounding schools like Washburn and Pittsburg State University start their own CVA chapters. "It helps out veterans more if you have a network that you can go to,"
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Brown said. "There are more programs and opportunities available through these types of programs too."
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT
Despite all of the programs the University has in place for veterans, there is still room for improvement. Mental health is one area that several veterans said could use improvement.
"I had a friend who went to CAPS once and he didn't get the care he needed," said Johnathan Duncan, a senior from Newton.
CAPS, or the Counseling and Psychological Services group on campus has tried to improve its mental health programs for veterans by training last spring with the
Center for Deployment Psychology based out of Maryland. While it wasn't required for staff to attend, approximately 80 people attended.
"We are not a comprehensive mental health agency specifically for veterans," said Pam Botts, an associate director at CAPS. "But if they can't find the help they need here we are able to refer them to services we know of within the community."
Still, many CVAs would like it if CAPS could provide them the care they need on campus.
"We are dealing with the highest suicide rate — it even exceeds Vietnam," Foster said. "It's important that we have services that veterans can turn to."
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said.
Crystal worked on the first OP production in the famous recreation at the Globe Theatre in London in 2004. Meier was thrilled to hear Crystal was open to working with his own production at the University. Then this year Crystal came to teach a clinic with the cast.
Initially, Staniunas thought audiences wouldn't be interested in a play with OP because they wouldn't be able to understand it. For example, one of the words that Staniunas has had to work hardest on is "juice." In OP it is pronounced "nice".
John Staniunas, chairman for the department of theatre, is playing Oberon, the king of the fairy world. He said he spent individual time with Crystal trying to understand what vowel changes were going to be made and what consonants were going to be dropped or emphasized.
"People have very precious ideas about Shakespeare and
But Crystal and Meier changed Staniunas' mind quickly. Staniuanas said once he got into the dialect, it actually came quite easily. Now, when he thinks in OP, everything seems to rhyme and come together.
For example, when he thinks of the words "tongue" and "wrong," they don't rhyme in today's American English. But in OP, "tongue" changes to "tong" as to rhyme when paired with "wrong."
Like much of the cast, James Teller, a junior from Pittsburg, had never done any work with such complicated dialects before this.
how Shakespeare should sound." Stanianus said.
For Meier, OP is actually easier to understand than many modern dialects such as Scottish or Northern Irish — and he was happy to give examples. He said he has no
"It's really just a matter of remembering the rules," said Teller, who plays Sung the Joiner. "Once you get into it, it's really pretty easy."
Instead, he thinks they will find a strong connection to the roots of American English. He said this is the language that would've come over to the new world on the Mayflower with the pilgrims.
"Everybody recognizes something," Meter said, "It's a nice thing for Americans to hear."
worry about the audience's ability to understand the lines of the play.
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Students disgruntled by advisers' performance
BY MEG LOWRY
mlowry@kansan.com
Katie Law's adviser told her that she would need to fill out an academic survey before she could enroll in her spring semester classes. Her adviser said the hold on her account would be removed 48 hours after she completed the survey.
"My adviser didn't tell me that after the 48 hours I'd have to make an appointment to see a second adviser," said Law, a senior from Hutchinson. "The appointmen took all of 30 seconds, but by then, my classes had already filled."
Dan McCarthy, an academic adviser at the University Advising Center, said students could make better use of the advising system.
mlowry@kansan.com
"Students should be seeing an adviser two to three times a semester to make sure that they are keeping track of their hours and courses and that they are well informed" McCarthy said.
instructed by her adviser to enroll in Spanish 111, despite never taking a Spanish class before. After the first class, she decided it was a bad fit.
CAMPUS
Derks was instructed to enroll in Spanish 104, a less advanced course, in the spring.
"I was pressured into taking a class that I definitely wasn't fine in." Darke said.
"What my adviser didn't tell me was that Spanish 104
"Just because the holds stop doesn't mean the process does."
Other students, like Law, are also disappointed with advising services at the University.
isn't offered at KU in the spring," she said. "Now, I have to drive 35 minutes to JCCC twice a week to take a class I could have taken here this semester."
"I know that they have a lot of students to deal with, but it
Will Leach, a senior from Overland Park, also had a bad experience with the advising center. He has to take a class $ ^{t} $
"I was pressured into taking a class that I definitely wasn't fine in."
CHELSEY DERKS.
A junior from Olathe
"Junior-senior credit hours and things like getting your graduation application in on time are common
is just so frustrated," said Chelsey Derks, a junior from Olathe.
e a class this
That's something that would have been helpful to know before the last semester of mv senior year"
McCarthy said that mistakes like this can be avoided.
This semester Derks was
said. "Then I went to my graduation check this year and was told I needed three additional hours.
summer, after graduating,
that he was unaware he needed.
DAN MCCARTHY Academic advisor
oversights",
McCarthy said.
"A grad check shouldn't be the only advising appointment a senior makes. The process is continuous"
On the other hand, Justin Zielke, a junior from Wichita, had a great experience with his adviser. After Zielke changed his major from biology to illustration and animation, the advising staff helped him through the process.
"It was a huge change, but if you work closely with your adviser, they get to know your strengths and weaknesses," Zielke said. "They can help you choose classes and send you in the right direction."
McCarthy said students are not required to see an adviser to enroll after declaring a major, but it is important that they do.
"Just because the holds stop doesn't mean the process does," McCarthy said.
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