University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 4, 1987
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New ASK chief is approved by Senate
Jane Hutchinson, Wichita junior, will take over in January as KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas, replacing Martie Aaron.
Aaron announced at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting that she would resign in January. Senator Dana Hutchison as Aaron's successor.
Aaron, who became the director a year ago, said she was resigning to serve as an intern for State Sen. Wint Winter J. R.-Lawrence.
"Don't think because I'm gone H.E.R.O.'s going to go downhill," Aaron said.
Aaron helped develop ASK's Higher Education Rescue Operation, or H.E.R.O. a lobbying effort under the Margin of Excellence proposal.
Kansas wide receiver Quintin A. Smith will have to serve 30 hours of community service in a diversion agreement that was reached before the Thanksgiving break.
Hutchinson worked closely with Aaron on ASK affairs this semester, although she did not hold an official position.
Jayhawk receiver put on probation
Smith, Houston sophomore, was arrested in September on a misdemeanor charge of theft of telecommunication services. His arrest came after an investigation by MCI officials last spring.
Soviet, U.S. vets will meet in D.C.
Smith will be on probation until Nov. 28,1988.
Soviet and U.S. Elbe veterans will meet in the spirit of cooperation in Washington D.C. to coincide with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's and President Reagan's summit meeting.
The veterans meeting is sponsored by the Lawrence-based Elbe Alliance, which was founded by Lawrence resident Bob Swan.
The Elbe is the river in Germany where U.S. and Soviet forces linked at the end of World War II.
Two Soviet Elbe veterans, Alexandre Silvashko and Alexandre Olsansky, are scheduled to arrive in Washington D.C. tomorrow.
They will take part in a 6:45 p.m. special ceremony with the flags of both nations at Washington National Airport.
The veterans will participate through Dec. 8 in activities promoting peace and cooperation between the superpowers.
Officials aim to stop Big Red snowballing
University official James Griesen said a snowball fight involving 300 people Monday night had resulted in injuries to 15 people. $9,000 in property damage and four arrests.
“Several of the personal injuries were serious and costly, and we are concerned that one student may lose vision in one of his eyes.” Griessen said in a letter to the unharmed snowball fight that I’m sure many students thought they were going out to join.
Winter grads enter the job market
From staff and wire reports.
By MICHAEL HORAK
Official graduation ceremonies for KU students are still six months away, but for about 1,200 of those students, graduation looms closer than Christmas.
Staff writer
About 30 percent of students graduating from the University of Kansas this year will have completed enough hours to receive their undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees this month.
For many of those students, December graduation means they will be entering the work force at a time of the year when new companies don't hire new employees. It isn't until spring, KU placement officials said, that companies hire most of their new personnel.
“It's true that they play the numbers game," said Fred Maude, director of the business school's placement center. "They realize that the more students graduating, the more potential employees they can chose from."
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Nevertheless, several KU placement officials said yesterday that December graduates should be able to find work this winter if they were willing to keep their options open and remain flexible about where they would live.
"The people I've talked to say they are hiring as many people this year as they have in the past," Madaua said. "This semester, students who keep their options open really have a good chance at getting a job."
good chance in getting Jim Henry, assistant director of
the University Placement Center, said that his office was having a hard time getting enough students to interview for job openings several companies have this winter.
Henry said that many December graduates mistakenly think that the first week December is too late to interview for jobs through the University's placement programs. He said students should know that they can use placement center services anytime, even after they graduate.
At Henry's office, those services include on-campus interviews with companies looking for new employees, resume and interviewing advice
December graduates who choose to stay in school will not be able to begin law school until summer, but should be able to enroll in many of KU's
graduate courses.
Ruth Hillers, assistant director of liberal arts and sciences, said that the deadline for applying for graduate school at KU was Dec. 1, but she said students still could take graduate courses in a non-degree-seeking status until they officially became graduate students.
In the non-degree-seeking status, students can take as many graduate hours as they wish if they meet a 3.0 grade point average criterion. Those who don't meet that standard can take as many as six hours of courses that count toward a master's degree.
Hillers said some departments would accept graduate students if they could get required materials from students before classes began next semester.
Stores selling crystal power
By BRIAN BAKECUN
Staff writer
Bruce Blane uses crystals to heal himself. He says quartz crystals unblock energy at acupressure meridian points, or places where the body's energy is conceptrated.
Blanc is one of many in the Lawrence area who see crystals as aids to physical and spiritual health.
Crystals in interest in crystals has been growing lately, says Blanc, who sells quartz crystals through Lawrence Massage Therapy, $927½ Massachusetts St., which he co-owns. This growth, he said, is due in part to the publicity from Hollywood personalities who are into the "New Age" movement that has made crystals trendy.
Actress Shirley MacLaine and singer Tina Turner, among others, have drawn public attention to the spirituality and metaphysical movement through their belief in reincarnation. MacLaine was on the cover of Time magazine this week holding a large crystal.
Time magazine Nearly all naturally occurring crystals are some form of quartz. Blanc said. Quartz's property of vibrating in response to electrical stimuli has been known since the early days of radio, and quartz is used in watches, lasers and other modern devices.
"People think quartz vibrating energy works on any stimulus, including psychic energy." Blanc said.
Spinsters Books and Webbery, 801 $^2$ Massachusetts St. has been selling crystals for about four years. Judy Brow, one of the shop's owners, said crystal sales had been improving during the past year.
been implying during the past year. The crystals emit negative ions, which help soothe people, Brow said. She said positive ions came from TV sets, computers, traffic and stress.
Most of the crystals sold in Lawrence come from crystal mines in Arkansas. Jemila Ericson, an actress from Wilmington, N.C., goes to the mines and sells some of what she finds to stores such as Lamplighter Books. 1027 Massachusetts St.
Ericson said the mine charged a standard fee for crystal hunters to go into the open pit mine and take out whatever they find.
"There are people who don't find much, and there are people who go in and take a truckload out" she said.
A crystal may sell for as much as $50 in Lawrence, depending on the crystal's size and how clear and free of flaws it is.
Bruce Blanc, co-owner of Lawrence Massage Therapy, 9217; Massachusetts St., displays some of the crystals he has for sale. Some believe the crystals help channel psychic power.
KU program helps educate Panamanians
Staff writer
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
The universities have collaborated with the Agency for International Development in Panama to create the Central American Peace Scholarship for Panamanian students.
Charles Stansifer, co-director of the KU Center of Latin American Studies, said the scholarships paid for tuition and room and board at U.S. community colleges and universities for Panamanian students who
"I think it is a policy that is long overdue," Stansiver said. "I think to some extent it is the obligation of the state to ensure that the promotion of economic development."
The department of Latin American studies at the University of Kansas is working with officials at Georgetown University to improve the standard of living in Panama by educating some of that country's college-age students.
had studied English at the Panama Canal College. The scholarships will help students who may not be able to afford college in the United States.
The program's goal is to educate 1,000 Panamanian students, age 18-21, in U.S. colleges and universities. The program, which is ending its first year, has a five-year budget of $622,000.
There are 170 Panamanians in the program studying at U.S. institu-
will come to KU for a workshop designed to introduce them to U.S. culture.
Oscar Quiros, administrative assistant at the KU center, is author of a proposal to help Panamanianans learn English. They've studied in the United States.
In May, 60 Panamanian students studying English at Panama College
"Sometimes this return is the worst because you're not supposed to have that culture shock when you return to your country." Quiros said.
Quiros said educational opportunities in the United States were appealing despite some anti-U.S. sentiment in Central America.
"Even the people who don't agree with the policy of the United States can see there's a good educational system here and they can benefit
from that."
Stansifer said the program was politically motivated, with the United States competing for students in a country where the Soviet Union already had been recruiting students.
"I believe the USSR has worked very hard to recruit in Panama, possibly because they feel it would be embarrassing to the United States if Panama turned toward Russia," he said.
"It may be that the policy was adopted for the wrong reasons," he said.
Stansifer said the key political motive for the program involved control of the Panama Canal.
Officials give tips on grades One last chance
One last chance still there for few
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
As ice winter winds blow the last leaves of autumn from the trees and the campus is adorned with holiday decorations, KU students' thoughts all turn to the same thoughts this time of year: grades.
Two KU officials offered some timely information for students who were wondering how they will get their grade cards this year, and also for students who were planning on putting off getting a grade in a class by taking an incomplete.
Gary Thompson, director of student records, said grade cards would be handled this year as they have been in the past.
faculty members must turn in grades by 9 a.m. on Dec. 22 to Thompson's office and then send out to students early in the week of Jan. 4.
Grade cards are mailed to the address students indicated when they pay fees in August. Thompson said some students have had to decide whether the cards would be sent to their homes or to their school addresses.
Students could request that grade cards be mailed to another address by notifying his office in writing by Dec. 18.
Some students might be more concerned about the grades they may receive than where they may receive their grades.
For students who are wondering whether they ever will finish their work during the finals period, Thompson also had information on the University's policies on incomplete grades.
University regulations call for incompletes to be given to undergraduates who, for good reason, have not completed the required classwork.
What constitutes a good reason depends on the professor, he said.
"If there are 2,000 faculty on this campus, there are probably 2,000 criteria for good reasons," he said.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts, said the mst common reason for offering an incomplete final illness or family crisis during illness.
Professors do not usually give incomplete to students with less valid excuses, he said, but that decision left entirely up to the professor.
Professors must fill out a form when they give a student an incomplete, and must indicate what grade a student will receive if work is not made up by the deadline they assign.
University policies say students assigned an incomplete must complete the work by the end of the next semester. Students need to attend class to make up work, they have until the end of the next semester the class is offered
But Carothers said having the extra time didn't always help students. They have trouble making up incomplete because it's easy to ignore work when students don't have to attend a class regularly.
When students don't make up the work on time, Carothers said they sometimes petitioned for a retroactive withdrawal to try to avoid having a poor grade appear on their transcripts.
Carothers said those were always denied, because withdrawal requests must be received before the end of the semester.
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