THE UNIVERSITY DAILY LANSAN
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009
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peted against 70 other projects, a 60-hour-a-week deal."
peted against 70 most of which were designed by professional firms.
"Receiving the Merit Award was a shocking, nice surprise," he said.
Matt McKillip,
Lawrence senior
involved with
"We built the trailhead structure in 11 days. It was a pretty fast and furious design."
MATT MCKILLIP
Lawrence senior
the project, said third-year students completed the trailhead as a project for a studio class.
"It is a six- to nine-hour credit course, but you basically live in the studio," he said. "It turns into
McKillip said that most students involved in the project were new to construction so they did research on steelwork and woodwork. The whole project lasted 11 weeks, but construction happened much more quickly.
"We built the trailhead structure in 11 days," McKillip said. "It was a pretty fast and furious design."
Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
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RAISING STUDENT INTEREST
Students may not be interested in the debate because it is too complicated to understand.
Jen Welch, Michigan sophomore who works at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, offered another explanation. She said many students weren't concerned about the health-care debate because they were still on their parents' insurance plan.
Welch said the Dole Institute held an event during Homecoming Week this fall to refute the top-10 myths about health-care reform. Only two people showed up.
"They're not really worried about what it all means for the future," she said. "It doesn't really affect them now, so they don't really care."
Welch said students should care about this issue because they won't always be on their parents' plan. One day, they will be responsible for their own insurance.
Smith said CAAS would be handing out fliers with all the information laid out in simple, concise language. She said CAAS would also chalk the facts on sidewalks all across campus.
"We're just trying to promote awareness," she said. "We're also giving out information on how to contact senators, so if students do feel they're opposed or for the bill they can contact their senator and let them know what their opinions are, and hopefully they can decide what they want to do about it."
Edited by Brenna M. T. Daldorph
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Pearl Harbor witness to return to attack site for 68th anniversary
The USS Arizona is engulfed in flames Dec. 7, 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack sank four U.S. battleships and destroyed 188 U.S. planes. Another four battleships were damaged, along with three cruisers and three destroyers. More than 2,200 sailors, Marines and soldiers were killed.
HISTORY
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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Ed Johann will always remember the sound of planes diving out of the sky to bomb U.S. battleships, the explosions and the screams of sailors. He still recalls the stench of burning oil and flesh.
The 86 year-old retired firefighter is due to return Monday to Pearl Harbor for the first time since World War II to attend a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
"I really don't know how I'm going to handle it," said Johann, from his home in Oregon. "When I think about it, all I have is unpleasantness. I'm sure it's not like that now."
Johann was a teenage apprentice seaman on Dec. 7, 1941. He had enlisted in the Navy only five months earlier so his parents, who picked and packed tomatoes and other crops in California's San Fernando Valley, wouldn't have to support him.
He and two other sailors were waiting to ferry passengers on a
small boat to and from the USS Solace, a hospital ship that was moored in Pearl Harbor, when they saw the Japanese planes.
Johann's motor launcher boat rushed to the USS Arizona, which was hit by several bombs, one of which struck her forward ammunition magazines and set off a massive explosion. Already fueled and manned when the attack began, their 30-foot boat was the first rescue vessel to arrive at the scene.
They first thought they were U.S. aircraft conducting drills until they saw explosions and flames from the stricken ships.
They found the water littered with people — some wounded, some dead, some unharmed. Many were covered in the leaking oil from the ships.
They loaded as many as they could and delivered them to the hospital ship before returning to the USS West Virginia for more.
"As we're pulling them out of the water, a lot of times the skin would come right off the arm," Johann said. "They would just be
black with oil, except maybe you could see the white of their eyes."
The planes kept coming. Dive bombers plunged out of the sky, dropping bombs and strafing the water and ships with machine gun
ADMINISTRATION
fire before roaring back up for another round. Torpedo bombers flew in level to drop their submersible weapons for underwater assaults.
Student jobs will be safe from furloughs Temporary layoffs in response to budget cuts will be allocated to top salary earners
BY JESSE RANGEL
jrangel@kansan.com
As the University rolls out its new furlough policy to patch any future budget holes, student employees and temporary facili ties.
"Those are the people that we absolutely felt needed to be protected."
the idea of protecting employees at the lowest end of the salary structure came up quickly in committee meetings.
Goddard said the committee thought those in the middle and higher end of the salary structure should be able to contribute more
"Those are the people that we absolutely felt needed to be protected," Goddard said. "And that included all student employees."
Furloughs — reducing employees' salaries by instituting temporary layoffs — might be one of the options the University uses as it braces for more bad budget news down the road from the state and the Board of Regents. Danny Anderson, interim provost and executive vice chancellor, said in an e-mail to faculty and staff Wednesday that the University did not anticipate the need to institute a furlough this fiscal year. However, he said it could be a possibility in the future.
residence halls? How do we manage just some really important basic services that we would be doing?" Reesor said.
DIANE GODDARD Vice provost for finance
Lori Reesor, associate vice provost for student success, said the issue of protecting student employees from furloughs was something everyone agreed on. She said her department employed a large number of students, and that shaped her perspective on protecting student jobs.
"If we furloughed staff, then why he's feeding the students in the
furlough days. She said the committee recommended four or five salary levels and completely excluded the lowest levels.
However, the current policy, which Anderson developed using the recommendations of
the committee, had not yet made those divisions.
Mason Heilman, Lawrence senior and student body president, said though he appreciated the consensus on keeping student jobs away from furloughs, he also wanted to make sure the policy allowed full-time faculty members to spread their furlough days out. This would ensure that faculty aren't forced to miss an important day of teaching or critical research.
"They're both crucial parts of their jobs," Hellman said.
Anderson said in a University budget forum Wednesday that the University would use furloughs to target immediate budget cuts from the Board of Regents. He said the University would adjust the amount of mandated furloughs to the amount the Regents cut from the University's budget.
"We do not have a specific amount to know." Anderson said.
Goddard said in the Wednesday meeting that each round of furloughs that asks top earners to take one to five days off would save the University $6.6 million.
Edited by Amanda Thompson
SCIENCE
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Psychiatric study combines therapy, financial planning
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tensions at home were mounting after Jeremy Field lost a second construction job as the recession hit.
He spent his days on the Internet and the phone looking for work. His wife, Kelly, who had been home caring for their toddler son, reluctantly returned to teaching preschool. But her part-time work meant a huge cut in wages and benefits, forcing them to sell a car and slash Christmas spending.
Kelly Field pushed her husband to keep searching. He was discouraged and it was hard watching her leave for work in the morning.
"It never was to the point where we were yelling and screaming at one another," said Jeremy Field, 30, who has a degree in construction management. "But there definitely was some tension that
could be felt."
So the Fields were eager to participate in a study at the University of Georgia aimed at merging the realms, of them.
apy and financial planning. The couple, who live in Athens, Ga., walked away applauding the blended approach, which is being tested at Kansas State University as well.
"...All the people I know who are married, their biggest problem is money..."
A Nashville therapist and his son also have started writing about the subject.
"I loved the fact that they were together because all the people I know who are married, their biggest problem is money and who is spending what and not paying the bills," said Kelly Field, 29. "I hear that so much, people having
blowups and fights. I thought, this is genius to talk about both."
KELLY FIELD Patient
Researchers say the timing for the broader approach couldn't
The recession "certainly gets everyone's attention," said Ted Klontz, the Nashville financial behavioral consultant. "They are open to a lot of ideas they weren't open to
be better as families feel deeper financial woes in the poor economy.
before."
Experts say therapists are taught to look for mental health causes for problems, not mone-
In the past, people like the Fields, struggling with financial issues that put a strain on their marriage, have left both therapists and financial planners with questions unanswered.
"When something financial does come up in a session that pro-
tions would arise when counselors met with widows consumed with grief who were also nervous about learning to manage their finances.
KRISTY ARCHULETA
Financial planning
professor
vokes a lot of anxiety, it becomes glossed over or just rolled up with another problem," said Kristy
"When something financial does come up in a session ... that provokes a lot of anxiety..."
And most universities aren't teaching financial planners to address the causes of people's spending behaviors, such as
spendthifts wed to overspend...
who learned their habits by how
their parents dealt with money.
tary ones, and haven't traditionally learned how to help their clients budget or reduce debt. So que-s
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"They don't have any clue what to do," said John Grable, a financial planning professor at Kansas State University. "What we are finding is if you exclude the really high net worth individuals — the people who can write a check to have a planner and a therapist, and you just think about middle America
—a lot of middle America is facing financial and marital problems both. Where do they turn?"