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said this class draws students from virtually every major on campus. Ashley Smith Maybon, a junior from Norton, is an education major. She wants to teach elementary school students, and she said these exercises with kids would really help them in understanding and dramatizing literature.
"It's like making lesson plans that are more active to get kids out of their seats," Smith Maybon said.
The kids, some of them new to the class and some returning actors and actresses, are able to jump into their roles in a way that the college students find surprising, Klein said. Each semester, Klein's young actors follow a different plot line for four weeks. This semester, it's LaLa Land.
"It's my favorite class I've taken," said Sydona Kegin, a sixth grader who attends Broken Arrow Elementary. Kegin's character's name is Shrine, and she is playing a character who's always in need of sparkles.
All of their characters, including Paul the Zombie, Toad and George the Dragon, have different motives in the course of this land. Leading most of the action is Klein and a student playing the Greek god Kronos. Klein said the kids are learning the organic process of what theater is. It involves plot, characters, movement and conflict resolution.
"The goal is not to put on a show; the goal is for us to create together," Klein said.
She also said the class is about self-expression and letting the kids also put themselves in another person's shoes to understand different points of view.
After their class this Thursday, LaLa Land will cease to exist. All of the lands will have to determine a resolution to their issues regarding who gets the most sparkles. Negotiations have already begun.
"If you share your sparkles," one character from Spartel said, "we can share our food."
The University students must create a story line for the kids to follow for the two weeks after that. This teaches them how to create a lesson plan and a drama, Klein said. For Klein and most of her University students, all of the learning comes directly from observing the kids.
"It's really the children who do the teaching," Klein said. "I can talk all I want about good ideas and what to do, but the kids are going to let you know if it's a good idea or not."
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Though it didn't affect his decision to come here, he said it was beneficial in his research involving high-energy particle physics.
What's most wristrison to University officials is the University's ranking compared to all research-extensive universities in the United States. Half of the 65 universities outside the AAU are performing better than the University. Many of those universities have outperformed the University in things such as federal expenditures and the number of faculty citations, indicators of research excellence used by the AAU to determine membership. Membership is renewed annually. Because of that, AAU institutions must maintain a comparatively high research profile for fear of being replaced.
"KU absolutely wants to be among the leaders of the AAU, to never even be thought of as an institution that might be considered to exit the AAU." Vitter said.
To accomplish that, he formed a 50-member steering committee charged with creating a comprehensive strategic action plan for the University. The plan will include ways to improve the University's research profile and to maintain AAU membership. He said membership in the AAU was "essentially an affirmation that KU is one of the greatest universities in the country."
As a member of the steering committee, Smith said he had confidence in the ability of University officials — notably the chancellor — to improve the University's research profile. The University of North Carolina, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little's previous school, is consistently one of the top-performing AAU members. Smith said she was a major contributor to North Carolina's success.
"She knows what needs to be done and how to do it," he said. "I'm hoping that with the strength of her leadership we'll move a lot closer to being a top 10, top 15 program."
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Graduate purchased and ate local
BY KELLY MORGAN kmorgan@kansan.com
Phil Holman-Herbert, owner of Sweetlove Farm, chats with a frequent customer. The Lawrence Farmer's market is a popular place to shop locally. The last Farmer's Market of the season is Saturday, Nov. 20. Sweetlove Farm is 20 miles north of Lawrence in Oskaloosa.
Although she lived in Lawrence, KU graduate Jennifer Kongs found herself last year driving about 30 miles outside of town to purchase a bag of flour. It wasn't that she couldn't afford the flour at local stores; Kongs was in the middle of an experiment to see if she could live an entire month as a locavore. This meant that from mid-September though mid-October, Kongs could only eat food produced within 100 miles of Lawrence.
"I decided last minute to do it for my Geography of American Foodways class," said Kongs, now a farmhand at Hoyland Farms outside of Lawrence. "The only thing I really made an exception for was salt and pepper."
With many products in the grocery store traveling an average of 1,500 miles to reach the shelves, locavores seek to support farmers that they know will pay their workers fair wages and will not use farming techniques that harm the earth.
"Anymore you're not what you eat but where you eat," said Chris Brown, an associate professor in the geography department. "Every time
Kongs kept in shape during her experiment by biking to and from class every day.
For Kongs, being a locavore meant that she could no longer eat things like cinnamon, maple syrup or coffee, which are all grown outside of Lawrence. While she was able to eat fruits like apples, Kongs still found her diet consisting of a lot more meats and cream than normal, products heavily produced in the Lawrence region.
"I didn't notice a change in my energy level." Kongs said. "I was so busy and just biking so much that it was just one of those
"Honestly, for a while it was great, but then I just started to feel heavy," Kongs said.
you eat something, you're not just absorbing the nutrition of the food but the cultural and social context that the food came from."
Saira Kahn, a senior from Lawrence, said she spends an average of $100 to $150 a month on foods that fit her healthy lifestyle.
The price of food is another concern for those who seek to eat a more local-oriented diet.
"I definitely try to eat foods that are from the area," Kahn said. "But it's not always convenient to do so when you're working late and don't have a lot of time to eat."
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CHRIS BROWN Associate professor of geography
While being a locavore is not always convenient for a fast-paced lifestyle, those who take the time to eat local foods may benefit from
"Every time you eat something, you're not just absorbing the nutrition of the food but the cultural and social context that the food came from."
"There are studies out there that say that the longer a food is off of its life support, the more nutrients it loses," Brown said. "Some foods can change a lot as the natural rotting process occurs."
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"There really is no limit to the amount of reasons for why it's a good idea." Kongs said. "It's not always convenient but if a person just wanted to make small changes like buying some of their food at the farmer's market or even purchasing the local products sold in stores like HyVee I think they'd find themselves feeling better about their diets."
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