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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, July 19, 1995
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KU students draw experience from Arts
Design program simulates work in the real world
By Kimberly Crabtree Kansan Staff Writer
Graphic design students in the Arts program are not only designing professional projects — they are designing their futures.
"The Arts is a professional design studio," said Chris North, Arts director. "It focuses on every aspect of a graphic design project."
Started in 1981, the Arts program was developed to give students a chance to design for real clients, under real-world conditions such as time and budget constraints. During the semester,
Richard Varney, associate professor of design, critiques the work of Ashley Gamble, Independence, Mo., senior; Fernanda Viegas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, junior; and Lori Tice, Marion senior. The students are part of the Arts program where they work with real-world clients.
"The experience you gain is a definite advantage, because you get an idea of how a real studio works," said Julie Hillemeyer, St. Louis senior.
students are regularly critiqued by instructors and other students as well as get a grade.
Since the program services only University-related, nonprofit clients, none of the students are paid for their work. The clients pay for the cost of supplies and the printing.
Most of the program's work comes from the department of music and dance and the Lied Center performance series. Projects include logos, brochures and posters.
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"We do 50 to 60 projects in a semester," North said. "It's more true-to-life."
The program's instructors select 15 to 18 participants during regular semesters and six to eight participants during the summer semester. Portfolios, grade point averages and academic history all are taken into consideration when selecting participants.
"Because of the limited space, the competition can get tough," said Scott Gilbertson, Lawrence senior. "But it's a good motivational tool."
North decides which projects to accept from clients and then assigns individual projects to a student who has appropriate experience for that particular work.
The student then sets up client meetings, sketches ideas, develops budgets and gets printer estimates. At each step, students are required to get approval signatures from their clients.
"When I interviewed for jobs earlier this summer, they were impressed I knew how to get a project printed and that I could produce a project on a time element," Gilbertson said.
"We're getting hands-on experience, but it seems like we're getting more," said Lori Tice, Marion senior. "Projects for other classes don't involve budgets, and they are usually just done on the computer. The Arts involves aspects I hadn't known about."
"The bulk of our work goes there," said Karen Christilles, public relations director for the Lied Center. "They're fantastic, and it is a wonderful relationship for both sides. We get to work with different designers who are interested in our projects, and they get the experience."
Out-of-state RAs to lose resident status
The program's clients aren't complaining either.
Budget cuts put student benefits on chopping block
By Gwen Olson
Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' budget-cutting process has eliminated one of the major perks related to becoming a resident assistant.
Lined up to take a similar hit are other student-monthly employees, whose salaries and benefits are under evaluation by the University
RAS still will receive free room and board. But newly hired RAS who are out-of-state students will no longer receive the benefit of in-
state tuition starting fall 1995.
"Anyone hired now will not get in state tuition unless they are instate students," said Fred McElhene, associate director of student housing. He added that out-of-state students hired before June 1 would continue to be given the benefit of paying in-state tuition.
This change may cause a financial problem for many RAs.
"I really don't know how it will affect the number of students who become RAs," McElhenie said. "RAs are not the only group on campus that has gotten this benefit."
"This cut is totally in line with the whole situation," McElhenie said of recent University budget cuts.
Scholarship halls do not have resident assistants that will be affected, but the directors at the scholarship halls will be affected.
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"When there is a shortfall, there are steps that the University has to take."
The cut of in-state tuition for out-of-state RAs was a decision made by the University.
"It was a University regulation all along," McElhenie said. "They qualified for it so we got it, but there was no legislation that this had to go through to get passed."
Most resident assistants were aware of the decision before it was implemented. Student housing hired next year's RAs in March.
"Most of this has come about late in the year so I think most of them know about it," McElhenie said. "People will continue to get the benefit of in-state tuition until there
are no longer people who were hired before June 1."
Even though the RAs know about the change, some still will be affected financially.
"It would have probably affected me in terms of the money," said Jennifer Douglas, resident assistant at Lewis Hall. "It was a really nice incentive and a nice bonus. Many of the in-state RAs were not happy about it, though, because we were basically getting paid more money to do the same job."
The department of student housing hires about 95 resident assistants each year. But some might have thought twice about applying.
"I probably still would have have an RA even with the cut," Douglas said. "I wanted to do it anyway, but now that I know how hard it is I might have decided against it."
Texas couple sues Glickman for lapse in loan
The Associated Press
Larry Kemp, 40, and Connie Kemp, 38, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman and George Ellis, state director of Rural Economic and Community Development, RECD.
LUBOCK, Texas — U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have been sued by a Muleshoe, Texas, couple who feel they were left in the "frying pan" over a loan nafta.
The Kemps accuse the USDA's lending agency of misapplying a 1980 note payment and then treating the Kemps' paid notes as default.
"It will set a precedent if the federal judge
The lawsuit seeks no monetary damages. Instead, it seeks to force a decision on the couple's application for loan restructuring through the RECD, formerly called Farmers Home Administration, or FmHA.
"I'm just tired of being run over," Larry Kemp said Monday. "They've done wrong and they don't want to admit it."
rules the FmHA has to make its decisions timely," said Bill Arens, who represented the Kemps at an appeals hearing in March.
Dan Glickman
That hearing — in front of the USDA's National Appeals Division — concluded that the agency failed to act on the Kemps' application within the required 30 days.
"Plaintiffs have faced apocalypse now for two calendar years and for three crop years because
Lubbock attorney Floyd Holder filed the lawsuit on behalf of the couple who raise corn and cotton near Muleshoe, about 80 miles northwest of Lubbock.
The Kemps had been current on their loan payments until two paid-off notes resurfaced as default and the FmHa threatened to foreclose in July 1993, the lawsuits says.
of an agency mistake," reads the lawsuit.
Glickman did not return a telephone message Monday.
Ellis said the case is under review.
The lawsuit says the FmHA in the 1980s had been applying the Kemps' payments to lower-interest promissory notes that were not yet due rather than to higher interest, more secure notes that were due.
"We don't have a very good record over the past 10 to 12 years in meeting our time frames," Ellis said. "We've tried over the past couple of years to speed that up."
The Kemps blame the agency for their loan delinquency. They applied for a loan write-down that the agency has not approved or denied — even though the 30-day deadline has expired.
"In view of the previous experience the Kemps have suffered at the hands of the agency, any further, unnecessary delay is fundamentally unfair," a USDA hearing officer wrote April 18.
"When you deal with them," Larry Kemp said, "I don't know how you can ever get out of the frying pan."
Scorching temperatures pound Lawrence, nation
Air conditioners, students attempt to defeat the heat
By Gwen Olson
Kansan staff writer
Sweltering, boiling, scorching and just plain hot. These are the words many people used to describe the weather last week.
Temperatures were greater than 100 degrees for several days as students were forced to find ways to stay cool.
"We don't have air conditioning in our house," said Tiffani Despain, Lebo sophomore. "We just sit there and try not to move. We also try to stay out of the house as much as possible."
Many students have tried to stay cool by going to places that have air conditioning.
"Since I don't have air conditioning at home, it has increased my attendance at work," said Tanya Lundsford, Utah graduate student.
Many students also have to deal with the problem of having classes in buildings without air conditioning — such as Strong, Bailey, and Blake halls.
"I try to sit next to the window and try to stay cool," said Lundsford. "Also, I wear shorts a lot."
The heat wave blanketed Kansas and caused three heat-related deaths in Topeka and seven in Kansas City. The victims often were found at home in rooms that ranged in temperature from 95 to 120
degrees.
Across the country the heat wave claimed more than 200 victims and knocked out power in Chicago for three days.
The heat wave also has led to an increase in air conditioning repairs.
"We have been averaging about 80 to 95 calls per day," said Mike VanZuiden, sales manager of Cloud Heating and Air Conditioning Co., 920 E. 82th St.
The reasons for the calls range from power surges to problems with old air conditioning units.
"When the power blinks off, it makes the breakers trip on people's air conditioning," VanZuiden said. "It's very frustrating for us because people often won't check their breaker box, so we have to go over and charge them for flipping a switch."
Age seems to be a major problem with air conditioners in Lawrence.
Another factor is that people don't service their units, VanZuiden said.
"Air conditioners run from 1,000 to 1,100 hours each year," VanZuiden said. "That number equals about 100,000 miles on a car. People don't realize that their air conditioning unit needs service just like their car does."
It seems that the heat wave has ended and temperatures are supposed to remain lower than 100 degrees for the remainder of the week.
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