2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2006
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
Kathryn Tuttle, associate vice provost for student success, has held the position for two and a half years. Student Success is a student services organization that oversees 19 departments and offices and more than 750 employees and 1200 student employees.
Two new associate vice provosts have been appointed to the office — Lori Reesor from UMKC and Frank DeSalvo, former director of Counseling and Psychological Services. Both start working with Tuttle this summer.
Why did Student Success hire two associate vice provests?
We did a national search for
one associate vice provost position, and during the process Rich Morell, former associate vice provost, accepted a vice president position for student affairs at Central Missouri State University, so we ended up with two open positions.
What are you looking forward to next year?
I have worked with both Reesor and DeSalvo before and I am confident we will make a great team with Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success.
It will be an opportunity for a new start and to see what our next big initiatives are for undergraduates, graduates and our own staff.
What is a typical day like for you?
I put on several hats in this position. I met today with Carol Seager, Watkins Memorial Health Center director, and
talked about mumps. I otter support to their staff and others. I budget with personnel and meet with candidates to work in the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center. My role is to help support the director and all of the services to help students.
You were the first director of the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center in 1997. What were your goals then, and do you think the center has surpassed them?
We are still helping the Freshman-Sophomore Advising Center. At first we wanted to provide an adviser for every student. It sounds easy but it is very hard. We have developed a variation on that in the past two years by e-mailing students early in the year to let them know their advisers are, and that they can meet with them any time. I would like to see a better transition
into junior-senior advising, and students being actively involved with their education plans. Students need to take responsibility to find out what is available to them and what they want to do. The advisers and faculty need to give them options, but it is a partnership. It takes two to work. A good advising session happens when the student does his or her homework.
What is the best advice you have for students starting their college careers?
There are so many opportunities to become the person you want to be through your major, organizations and the community. I recommend that students get a campus job because it provides a way for you to get connected. It provides structure and extra money.
Beyond campus, the successful students are those who
are involved in the community. I just hope students don't stay here four years and miss being involved.
We think KU is a pretty special place, and the students are special too. I have been here since 1987 and have continued to be impressed. I want to be sure all students can benefit from what's here.
How were you involved in the community?
Before graduate school in 1976 I started the first vegetarian restaurant called Sister Kettle. It was a co-op that lasted five years.
How long will you be on the second floor of Snow Hall while your office at 133 Strong Hall is being renovated?
It will be another two weeks to renovate the office. I encourage people to visit us in the new office.
Keeping the virus away
"Quote of the Day"
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis
Fact of the Day
At least 2,000 child offenders are in prison without the opportunity for parole in the United States. There are about 12 in the rest of the world.
A veterinarian of the Budapest Zoo holds a pelican before vaccinating it against the H5N1 bird flu virus in Budapest, Hungary on Tuesday. Animal keepers will vaccinate more than 800 birds of the Budapest Zoo today and Thursday. Earlier, Hungarian authorities had found the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the southern part of the country where police quarantined three villages.
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Ecumenical Christian Ministries will sponsor a lecture on "FreeTrade vs. Fair Trade in the Context of Globalization" as part of its University Forum Series at noon today at the ECM Center. The ECM will offer an optional lunch. The cost of the lunch is $3 for students and $5.50 for others.
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Woman gets ticket for crossing too slowly
She said the motorcycle officer who ticketed her on Feb. 15 told her she was obstructing
LOS ANGELES — An 82-year-old woman has received a $114 traffic ticket — for taking too long to cross a street.
Mayvis Coyle said she began shuffling with her cane across Foothill Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley when the light was green but was unable to make it to the other side before it turned red.
traffic.
Los Angeles police Sgt. Mike Zaboski of the Valley Traffic Division said police are cracking down on people who improperly cross streets because pedestrian accidents are above normal. He said he could not comment on Coyle's ticket other than to say that it is her word against that of the citing officer.
"I think it's completely outrageous," said Coyle.
"I'd rather not have angry pedestrians," Zaboski said.
"But I'd rather have them be alive."
The Associated Press
Kentucky Derby to sell $1000 drink for charity
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As if custom-made hats, premium box seats and limo rides weren't snazzy enough, spectators at this year's Kentucky Derby can now nip a $1,000 mint julep.
The cocktail will be made with one of the state's finest bourbons and served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw to the first 50 people willing to put down the cash.
Mint from Morocco, ice from the Arctic Circle and sugar from the South Pacific will put the drink in a class of
its own, the distillery selling the premium drink said.
"We thought we would reflect on and complement the international nature of the Kentucky Derby," said Chris Morris, master distiller for Woodford Reserve.The distillery will sell the drink to raise money for a charity that cares for retired race horses.
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Couple fakes obituary, avoids going to work
WATERLOO, Iowa — A couple was apparently so desperate to get out of work that
they created a fake obituary to justify days playing hooky, authorities said.
James Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Jensen, 33, said Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said.
Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jen-sen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Snyder, claiming he was the boy's father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.
Later, people saw the teenager at a downtown restaurant and called authorities.
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