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CAMPUS Low survey response worries KU Libraries
A low number of undergraduate students have responded to a survey sent out by KU Libraries.
Stella Bentley, dean of libraries, sent the LibQUAL+ survey on April 10 to all graduate students, faculty and staff, and to 3,000 randomly selected undergraduate students to ask them various questions about the libraries. The survey must be completed by April 28.
Only 63 undergraduates had responded as of last week, compared to 373 graduate students, 159 faculty members and 136 staff members.
The last time KU Libraries sent out the survey, in 2003 more undergraduates,241 responded than the other groups.
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Only 156 graduate students responded to that survey, while the faculty and staff numbers remained about the same as this year's totals so far.
It might seem like just another survey at a time when several other campus organizations are sending yearly e-mail surveys out, but Bill Myers, assessment coordinator for KU Libraries, said that the libraries made much of their decisions based on the results of the survey, and that if undergraduates didn't respond, their voice wouldn't be heard.
Myers said that since the last time KU Libraries sent out an LibQUAL+ survey, the libraries had made major changes "as a direct result of the input."
The changes included adding 200 computer workstations and 60 wireless laptops, redesigning the library's Web site and increasing the collections budget by $1.4 million.
Nicolette Niosi/KANSAN
Frank Tankard
Performance with a purpose
Amy Do, McPherson junior, and Dominique Franklin, Wichita sophomore, perform during Zeta Phi Beta sorority's probate on Wescoe beach Friday. The probate was Do and Franklin's public induction into the sorority.
Painting professor dies of cancer
Memorial service to be held at 4 p.m. today
OBITUARY
A memorial service for Robert Brawley, professor of painting, will be held today in Baldwin. The service will be at 4 p.m. today on the
Brawley died in Overland Park Friday after a six-month battle with cancer.
The 68-year-old professor had been a member of the
KU faculty since 1988 and served as the chair of the art department for five years. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute.
In a press release Friday, Judith McCrea, chairwoman of the department of art, said Brawley's work was hyperrealistic because of his "choosing objects with complex narratives implications and symbolism."
"He was a highly respected teacher and intellectual whose knowledge of art reflected in widespread pursuits in philosophy, theory and art criticism. He will be greatly missed," she said.
His work has been in more than 18 public museum exhibits, including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Brawley is survived by his wife, Judith Cramer; two sons; a daughter; a sister; two brothers; six grandchildren and a great-grandson. -Catherine Odson
CRIME
Accused killer planned to eat victim
BY SEAN MURPHY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PURCELL, Okla. — The man accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor girl for an elaborate plan to eat human flesh joked about cannibalism on his online diary, discussed the effects of not taking his anti-depression medication and mentioned "dangerously weird" fantasies.
All he wanted in life, Kevin Ray Underwood wrote in his blog, was "to be able to live like a normal person."
People who knew Underwood described him Sunday as a quiet, "boring" and seemingly trustworthy young man. His mother who lived across town called him a "wonderful boy."
"This is something that I don't know where it came from," Connie Underwood said of her son through tears in a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I would like to be able to tell her family how sorry we are. I just feel so terrible."
Kevin Underwood, a 26-year-old grocery store stocker in this small community 40 miles south of Oklahoma City, was arrested Friday. Investigators searched his apartment after he aroused their
suspicions at a checkpoint and found a large plastic tub in a bedroom closet. According to a police affidavit, he confessed that he killed Jamie Rose Bolin, telling FBI agents: "Go ahead and arrest me. She is in there. I chopped her up."
Jamie's unclothed body was inside the tub, along with a towel used to soak up blood, officials said. Police said that, while there were deep saw marks on the girl's neck, she had not been dismembered.
Kevin Underwood, who is to be formally charged with first-degree murder Monday, lived alone in an apartment downstairs from the one where Jamie lived with her father.
Authorities believe Kevin Underwood killed the girl Wednesday, when she disappeared after going to a library, by beating and smothering her.
Investigators found meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers that he planned to use on the body, McClain County District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said.
On his blog, an online diary that he had kept since September 2002, Kevin Underwood described himself as "single, bored, and lonely, but other than that, pretty happy."
CAMPUS Election results can be seen online
The Mountain Dewds received 28 write-in votes in
this year's Student Senate election.
Check out more election results at:
https://apps.ku.edu/
~election/cgi-bin/election_
admin.shtml
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
Kansan staff reports
Career Advice for Business Students
CRAIG MILLER
Marketing intelligence analyst at BlueScope/Butter Buildings will hold an interactive session offering students real-world career advice. He will also speak about his international work experience in the steel industry.
MONDAY, APRIL 24 @ 7:30 PM KANSAS ROOM AT THE UNION
The international platform for women to receive databases and advanced their research.
Earth Day/Environs Celebrate EARTH WEEK!
wEDnesday, April 19
"Open Space in Douglas County"
University Forum
Roxanne Miller of Kansas Land Trust
12pm at the ECM
Monday, April 17
Environs Meeting
6:30pm in International Room
Thursday, April 20
Tuesday, April 18
"The End of Suburbia"
7pm FREE in Woodruff Auditorium
Thursday, April 26
Chevron Energy Awareness Day
Presentations: 10:15pm, 12:15pm, and 2:15pm
Kansas Room in Kansas Union
Earth Day Fashion Show and Silent Auction
Hosted by Lada Salon and Proceeds go to Haskell
Baker
Wetlands Preservation Effort
7pm in Liberty Hall
Tickets are $10 in advance/ $15 at the door at Lada
or Liberty Hall
April 17, 2006 funded by: SENATE
Friday, April 21
Environmental Stewardship Waste Audit
Stauffen Flint Lawn 10am/3pm
Candidates:
Jim Barnett (Emporia)
Ken Caufield (Olathe)
Robin Jennison (Healy)
Candidates for Governor Forum Tuesday April 18th,2006 7:00pm at the Dole Institute
★★★
Everyone is Welcome!
Wednesday April 26th, 2006
7:30pm Kansas Union Ballroom
KU Students for Life Bobby Schindler, Brother of Terri Schaivo
Free Event, Part of Stand Up for Life Week Sponsored by KU Students for Life
7pm at Plymouth Congregational Church Sunday, April 23
"Future of Food, Farming, and the Prairie Earth Day Forum
Dr. Kelly Kindscher of KBS, Wes Jackson of the Land Institute, and Kansas Senator Marci Francisco
Environs Ultimate Frisbee
Noon to 5pm at 23rd and Iowa fields
Email biology@ut.edu to sign up
SAGE
Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m.
in the Olympian room of the Burge Union.
the Student Association of Graduates in English
Panelists: Professors Amy DeVitt and Frank Farmer
PAID FOR BY KU
Possible topics include understanding the level of scholarship and writing needed for academic publishing, places to seek publication, how academic publishing "works" (you may not see the paper published for a year or more after it is accepted), understanding peer review, etc. Please attend! The panels are informal and largely driven by the questions from audience members.
Call for Artists
for the F-WORD Artwalk
Artists of all media needed for a progressive "woman artist/woman inspired" artwalk to be held April 28th.
Submit digital images to:
comstwomen@ku.edu
Submission deadline is
April 21st.
(The F-Word is female/ feminist)
Saturday April 29 Recycling Drop-off East of Memorial Stadium from 10 AM to 4 PM
Center for Community Outreach We are now hiring paid director
positions for next year.
CCO is in need of Co-Directors (2)
Communications
Financial Director
Technology Director
Financial Director Technology Director Deadline is April 24
for more information
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