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"It's a really positive move that the University is making," Rapp said.
Jeffrey Vitter, provost and executive vice chancellor, approved the update on Dec. 10 and the new policy will take effect in the fall.
Graduate students felt the old policy — established in 1998 — did not adhere to every department and even discouraged students from obtaining both their master's and doctoral degrees at the University.
Kelly Kirkpatrick, a doctoral candidate and graduate affairs director from Ellinwood, said it can take longer when you are getting multiple degrees.
"Different research at different places can take different amounts of time," Kirkpatrick said. "So it's nice that this rule will allow the flexibility to take those sorts of things into consideration."
Danny Anderson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the graduate students and departments in the Humanities and in the Social and Behavioral Sciences often discovered that the single set of guidelines did not easily align with other fields.
"This option provides flexibility across all departments," he said. "These multiple options align with the reality of different paths to graduate degrees."
Stuart Day, chair of the Spanish
and Portuguese department and associate professor, said a way to assist graduate students throughout master's and doctoral programs efficiently is by offering "financial support packages" in the form of GTA positions.
Rapp said the transition from GTA to instructor complicated things such as health insurance and abolished student amenities such as recreation center access.
"It was putting a lot of paperwork and undue stress at this moment when students are writing dissertations or putting out job applications," Rapp said.
The extra two semesters of support, Day said, enables the University and individual departments to properly support students.
"This is crucial because they are the backbone of our teaching program," Day said. "Without them, we would not be able to serve the needs of hundreds of undergraduate students each semester."
The fight for this change goes back several years.
Kirkpatrick said the Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition fought hard to get the 10-semester rule invoked, to no avail, about five to seven years ago.
Rapp said last spring he circulated a petition within the Spanish and Portuguese department where
it is not uncommon for students to simultaneously pursue both degrees.
The long awaited and much needed change, officials say, will have nothing but positive implications.
"This will impact the way departments spend their money, students have access to appointments." Rapp said. "I think the graduate students themselves will have more options because they will be able to more confidently be at KU for both the master's and Ph.D. without worrying about losing funding at a critical moment."
Anderson said it also helps the university retain "top graduate students" who serve as GTAs and are preparing to become future faculty members and researchers.
"It keeps KU graduate programs competitive for top students while still encouraging timely completion of degrees and addressing concerns voiced by GTAs themselves," Anderson said.
kapp and Kirkpatrick said not many graduate students know about the change but because it affects them in so many aspects, they need to be aware it.
- Edited by Danielle Packer
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Lecture analyzes Hitchcock
BY MAX ROTHMAN
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Film critic David Thompson presenting Hitchcock's "Tales of Terror" at Kansas Union Feb. 14, 2011
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A 19-year-old film student in London, David Thomson knew next to nothing of what he was about to witness. It was the premiere of 1960's "Psycho" and Alfred Hitchcock did not publicize his film. Thomson, like the rest, sympathized with Marion for the film's first forty minutes. Then Hitchcock killed her off.
"After the shower sequence, I said to myself, 'Oh, please don't do that to me again.' Thomson said. "I knew that once he'd done it, he was going to do it again—the bastard."
Thomson, a London-born film critic who lives in San Francisco, presented "The Hitchcock Moments: Psycho and Other Tales of Terror" for Monday night's Film and Media Aesthetics class at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Thomson presented different film sequences from Hitchcock's "Rebecca", "Shadow of A Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window",
vertigo"; "North By Northwest" and "Psycho". After each clip, Thomson scurried back to his podium and provided historical context and analysis of craft. Continuing with conjunctions and a steady, measured voice, the clips and Thomson's corresponding information flowed as one.
"He wanted to have power over the audience," Thomson said of Hitchcock, "so they forgot where they were."
During the clip from "North By Northwest", actor Jimmy Stewart avoids an aircraft hunting for his head. The suspense builds as the aircraft's motor buzzes. Stewart ducks as the aircraft zooms right over him and swerves within the frame.
"You give Hitchcock a single figure on a flat plane," Thomson said, "and look what he can build it into."
Edited by Sean Tokarz
LAWRENCE
Bobcat carcass seen on Bob Billings is now missing
BY CHRIS HONG chong@kansan.com
On the eve of the Jayhawks game against Kansas State, a different type of wildcat made headlines in Lawrence.
On Sunday night, the Lawrence Journal-World first reported that a dead wildcat was found on the 2200 block of Bob Billings Parkway.
However, despite rumors of mountain lions living in Lawrence, the animal found Sunday was not a cougar.
Matt Peek, wildlife research biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said officials at the Lawrence Police Department told him the animal was a bobcat. Peek said that bobcats live in every county in Kansas.
"It's not unusual for a bobcat to
Peek said that people in Lawrence have sent him pictures of bobcats in the area and he does not consider this an unusual event. He also said it's not unusual for people to mistake a bobcat for the much larger cougar.
"This is fairly typical. A story
get run over," Peek said. "There are bobcats throughout much of Lawrence, at least around the edges"
While Peek said a source in the Lawrence Police Department confirmed the animal's identity, multiple city officials do not know who retrieved the animal nor where the carcass currently is.
(that) involves bobcats get blown out of proportion," he said.
Sgt. Matt Sarna, public affairs for the Lawrence Police Department, said the police department does not have the carcass. He said
Lawrence sanitation officials were called to the scene, and an officer removed the animal from the road and onto the median. Craig Pruett, operations supervisor at Lawrence Public Works, said sanitation workers responded to the scene Monday morning, but by the time they arrived the animal was gone.
According to the Cougar network (www.cougarnet.org), a nonprofit organization that studies
cougars, the last reported sighting in Kansas was in Nemaha County on Dec. 7, 2010. A Kansas Department of Wildlife release stated that biologists confirmed the legitimacy of the photos and officially confirmed the sighting. Nemaha is located about 90 miles northwest of Lawrence.
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