University Daily Kansan / Wednesday April 15. 1987
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Officials begin hunt for Rhodes scholars
Bv PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Few KU students have been selected as Rhodes scholars in recent years, but honors program officials say they hope to reverse that trend soon.
"I think there are a lot of good Rhodes candidates at KU," said Randa Dubinck, assistant director of the college. "Our problem is finding them."
A meeting to inform students about the Rhodes Scholarship selection process will be at 3 p.m. April 27 at Nunneraker Center.
The Rhodes scholarship was established by Cecil Rhodes, an Englishman who made a fortune in South African diamonds in the 19th century. He colonized the area that later became Rhodesia and now is Zimbabwe.
Only two KU students have won Rhodes scholarships in the last 13 years, in 1974 and 1983. Sharon Brehm, chairman of the KU Rhodes Scholarship selection committee, said she hoped that giving more early publicity to the program would attract more interest and end KU's record of relatively poor showings in recent years.
Rhodes scholarships are awarded annually to 32 U.S. students. The scholarship pays full tuition, fees and travel expenses.
plus an allowance of more than $6,000, for two years of study at Oxford University in England. A Rhodes scholar studies at Oxford after receiving a bachelor's degree in the United States.
“It’s an enormous honor.” Brehm said, “It’s worth delaying almost any plan if you get one of these two options for one's life and one's career.”
Competition for 1988-90 scholarships will be this fall, and honors program officials are increasing their publicity efforts to get as many qualified students as possible to enter the competition.
KU's selection committee, composed of Brehm, Dunick and six other professors and administrators, will select two or three Rhodes candidates who will advance state councilmen in turn on to district competition, where final selections are made.
Brehm said the selection committees were looking for people with leadership abilities and additional to academic achievement.
"They feel they don't match the stereotype," she said. "But their stereotype is too narrow."
"What they're after is an allaround person, a Renaissance person."
After spending thousands of hours on the telephone for the 1987 Greater University Fund national telephone campaign, faculty and students have raised a record $158,307 in alumni pledges for KU.
Volunteers set telethon pledge record
By TIM HAMILTON
Staff writer
This year's total exceeded the campaign goal by more than $8,000 and last year's campaign total by more than $51,000.
Kim Forehand, assistant director of the Greater University Fund and telethon coordinator, said that the record total was a result of the addition of the Schools of Pharmacy, Education and Law to the telephone portion of the Greater University Fund's overall fund-raising campaign had 75 more student and faculty volunteers than last year.
Forehand also said that the campaign had 75 more student and faculty volunteers than last year.
"I think it is a lot of fun for callers to talk to alumni about their schools and how it was 20 years ago," Forehand said. Topics of conversation included students and alumni ranged from the college to what the money would be used for.
She said that the campaign staff took steps to help make the volunteers' task enjoyable.
Campaign headquarters were decorated with posters, streamers and Jayhawks. Volunteers were treated to popcorn, pizza and soft drinks while working To sustain enthusiasm, the KU fight song was held on the a volunteer received a donation of $100 or more. Forehand said.
amounts were posted to promote friendly competition throughout the campaign, she said.
Group and individual total dollar
Linda Morris, Abilene senior and School of Education volunteer, said that she wasn't aware of all the special treatment that volunteers would receive at the time she volunteered.
Morris said that she enjoyed the campaign and that she raised the most money on both of the nights that she volunteered.
"It was kind of a challenge to see if you could get the top amount of donations from donors."
More than 225 campaign volunteers from 10 fraternities, 10 sororities and the Schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Pharmacy, Business, Education and Law called alumni across the country to solicit
donations to be used as unrestricted funds.
Unrestricted funds can be used for anything from scholarships to student loans.
Total amounts for the six parts of the campaign were $76,028 for the University as a whole, $23,124 for education, $15,485 for law, $10,604 for architecture, $9,600 for pharmacy and $23,450 for business.
Paul Haack, associate dean for the School of Education's graduate studies, said that the school would use money primarily for scholarships.
Lois Clark, associate dean of architecture and urban design, said their money would be used to sponsor scholarships, student and faculty travel and to supplement the lecture series.
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