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"Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
— GK Chesterton
Before the end of the last Ice Age, people only ever grew plants for fun, not because they had to. The catastrophic floods caused by the melting of the ice-caps and the resulting shortage of land put a stop to that forever, and agriculture began.
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Sixty eight years ago today, Dyche Hall was declared structurally un sound and closed to the public, along with the popular Natural History Museum housed within. It remained closed for nine years while state funds trickled in for restoration. Today, it is one of the most beautiful buildings on campus, and welcomes 1,000 visitors a week to its museum.
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What's going on?
TUESDAY
November 30
KU Army ROTC and Red Cross are hosting a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Military Science Building, second Floor Drill Deck.
The Hall Center for Humanities is presenting a Modernities Seminar with Majid Hannoun from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Hall Center Seminar Room.
WEDNESDAY
December 1
The Academic Achievement and Access Center is presenting a workshop about preparing for finals from 5 to 5:30 p.m. in Wescoe Hall, room 4008.
The Student Involvement and Leadership Center is hosting an international internship fair from 6 to 8 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY
THURSDAY
December 4
December 2
- The Department of Visual Art will host an open drawing workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Art and Design Building room 405.
Student Union Activies will host free cosmic bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl, 1st floor of the Kansas Union.
Student Union Activities is hosting a holiday open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby of the Kansas Union.
The KU Libraries' department of institutional services is presenting a workshop on making charts and graphics with Excel 2007 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Anschutz Library instruction center.
SUNDAY
December 5
KU School of Music will present a Holiday Vespers concert from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.
FRIDAY December 3
The KU Department of Dance will present "New Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. in Robinson Center, Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Theatre, Studio 240.
Student Union Activities will host a showing of the movie "Eat, Pray, Love" from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, level 5.
MONDAY December 6
There will be an informational session about the Peace Corps from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU School of Music will present a Percussion Ensemble from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
INTERNATIONAL
U.K. colleges a cheap alternative for American students
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LONDON — Not everyone who attended the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, around 2001 — when Prince William was the man about campus — expected to marry the grandson of a queen.
As tuition at U.S. colleges increasingly becomes less affordable for many, and as spots at the most competitive institutions more and more resemble gold dust, some American high schoolers are looking to the U.K.to meet their educational needs.
It's true that St. Andrews is a popular choice for U.S. college students to pursue a degree abroad, but the college offers more than just the potential for proximity to royalty — or the opportunity to improve your golf game.
It's almost heresy to say it right
now here in the U.K., what with English students recently taking to the streets in protest at the government's proposal to raise tuition fees to no less than 6,000 pounds a year (just under $10,000) for some domestic enrollees, but the fact remains that, by U.S. standards, St. Andrews, like other universities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, remains a "cheap" place to get an education.
And if you're lucky enough to be able to claim "home" or "European Union" status, this figure — though set to triple or even quadruple from 2012 onwards for some institutions
Tuition fees in the U.K. vary from institution to institution, and also from region to region, but the cost for an overseas undergraduate at St. Andrews for the academic year 2009-10 would be about $19,000.
south of the Scottish border under the British coalition government's aggressive overhauls to higher-education funding — would be just shy of $3,000 a year.
Most, in fact, are closer to $40,000 a year, and quite a few top that level.
Even to study in the University of Oxford's hallowed halls would cost a U.S. student just over $20,000 for an undergraduate program of study. (The fee would be about $4,700 for a U.K. student.)
Much easier is to do the math. Every single college that features in the top 20 of the U.S. News and World Report's most recent ranking of best U.S. colleges costs at least $34,000 a year in tuition and fees.
time zones, foul weather and the cultural labyrinth resulting from two nations divided, as the saying goes, by a common language.
diverse curricula, while others are two-year institutions of varied quality and focus, which makes it tricky to compare like for like, especially at the international level.
However, if you're contemplating spending at the higher end of the scale, there's also approximately $80,000 or more to be saved by simply shipping junior off to this island nation hemmed in by the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
There are more than 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. according to the Census Bureau. Hundreds of these are technical or vocational colleges with extremely
aging applications to higher education programs in the U.K.
More than 3,000 normally U.S.-domiciled undergraduate-level students applied to do just that in 2009, according to UCAS, the organization responsible for man-
And while only 1,330 were actually accepted, according to UCAS, the relatively modest numbers mask a rising trend.
There has been a 27 percent increase in undergraduate applications from U.S. students since 2006, while the total number of U.S. students studying for full degrees at British higher-education institutions as of 2009 stands at just more than 14,000, data from the U.K.'s Higher Education Statistics Agency show.
Sure, there are plane tickets.
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