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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
FACT OF THE DAY
The greatest snowfall officially reported at the Phoenix, Ariz., National Weather Service Office was one inch. That occurred twice. The first time was Jan. 20, 1933. It happened again four years later on the same date.
— http://nsidc.org/
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This Friday is the 105th anniversary of Clyde Tombaugh's birth. Two weeks and 24 years later, he announced his discovery of Pluto. Tombaugh has had schools, planetariums and university observatories, including one here at the University of Kansas, named in his honor.
What's going on?
WEDNESDAY February 2
There will be a brown bag lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in room 318 of Bailey Hall entitled "The New Germany in Today's World: Strategies, Policies and Great Power Relations" with Manfred Stinnes, a lecturer in international relations at Humbolt University of Berlin.
THURSDAY February 3
*Events could be postponed because of the weather. Check http://www.calendar.ku.edu/ for cancellations postmoments.
Author Michael Byers will discuss his novel "Percival's Planet" which was inspired by the true story of Kansan and noted astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto. Byers' discussion will be in the Kansas Union Ballroom from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY
Februarv 4
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
February 6
The Human Resources and Equal Opportunity department will host the "Dealing with Stress" seminar from 10 a.m. to noon in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, room 204. The seminar will examine the effect of stress on daily lives and will offer advice on how to reduce that stress with simple steps.
The School of Music will host the Student Recital Series, featuring soprano Jennifer White, at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The event is free.
MONDAY
SATURDAY February 5
Student Union Activities will be playing the movie "For Colored Girls" as part of its Campus Movies series at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union.The film is free with a Student Saver Card, $2 with a KUID and $3 without.
February 7
The Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center will be hosting the "Tunnel of Oppression" interactive program from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY February 8
February 8
There will be a brown bag lunch from noon to 1 p.m. in room 318 of Bailey Hall entitled "Stanford U.S. Russia Forum."
ADMINISTRATION
New minimum hours required not yet in effect
BY LAURA THOMAS editor@kansan.com
academic affairs at the University, minimum hours sent an e-mail
On Dec. 2 the University of Kansas Senate approved an amendment that would reduce the minimum number of required credit hours from 124 to 120. This reduction was in response to the Kansas Board of Regents decision in October to lower the number of hours required to earn a bachelor's degree.
Although the rule was effective immediately, Barbara S. Romzek, interim senior vice provost of
sent an e-mail at the beginning of the spring semester informing students that the minimum hours requirement has not yet changed.
T he University government has agreed to make
requirement,"
"I dropped a class freshman year and now I will have to make those hours up somewhere along the line."
HEATHER ZERGER Junior from Kansas City, Mo.
Romzek said. "However, each department now has the authority to decide if they will use the 120-hour m i n i m u m or require more to earn a bachelor's degree."
the step towards changing the departments at the University
Certain the University
may require more than the minimum amount of hours to complete the curriculum and necessary academic work needed to earn a degree in the field. The University hopes to complete the process by the fall 2011 semester.
"Many students call with questions about whether or not it has gone into effect," Romzek said.
Unfortunately, all undergraduate students are still required to complete 124 hours before graduating. The students have mixed feelings about the proposed change.
"Honestly, in the scheme of things four hours does not make much of a difference to me," Shannon Spurlock, a junior from San Francisco, said. "I would definitely not complain if my department chooses to require more than 120 hours, but 124 is not much if a stretch from the minimum."
For other students however, requiring 120 hours means a chance for graduating within four years.
"I dropped a class freshman year and now I will have to
make those hours up somewhere along the line," Heather Zerger, a junior from Kansas City, Mo., said. "Having 120 required hours as opposed to 124 would mean not having to stress about those lost hours."
This change has made Kansas' requirements consistent with the institutions in 39 other states that each require a minimum of 120 hours to graduate.
Edited by Dave Boyd
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