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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, October 26. 1993
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Only those who ask shall receive
Students must seek scholarship money
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
Last year 3,929 KU students split a $7.5 million jackpot.
The winning ticket? A scholarship application.
John Scarfe, communications director for the Kansas University Endowment Association, said scholarship funds were allocated through University departments, the Office of Student Financial Aid and the University Scholarship Center.
"All we do is try to encourage people to get scholarships while they're here," Scarfe said. "But it's up to the University to award them."
And it is up to the students to inquire about them.
Linda Delker, assistant director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said although most scholarships are distributed in the fall, some funds become available in the spring if, for example, a student on scholarship guits school.
She suggested that students check with their academic departments and file for the fall financial aid. The deadline for financial aid applications is March 1, 1994. Departments may have deadlines as early as January, she said.
In order to receive scholarships through the financial aid office,a student must have a 3.5 cumulative grade point average and demonstrate financial need.All applicants must meet the criteria set by the fund donor.
Although rare, some scholarships go unclaimed because of the donor's criteria. For example, one scholarship still awaits a Protestant English major taking music classes. Another, only recently filled, was dedicated to students majoring in business, law or medicine from the western two-thirds of certain Kansas counties.
"That one drove me crazy for quite a while," Delker said and laughed.
The Scholarship Center, which administers Endowment Association scholarships for freshmen, also maintains a computer database of national scholarship information.
Another source for scholarships is the Office of Minority Affairs.
Director Sherwood Thompson said his office had applications on file for about 300 different scholarships offered by both private and government sources.
Thompson suggested that as an alternative students literally advertise their need for scholarships in the classified advertisement sections.
"They don't know you need scholarship money unless you tell them," he said.
Former vice chancellor for academic affairs dies
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
Ambrose Saricks, former KU vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor emeritus of history, died Sunday at his home in Lawrence. He was 78.
Saricks, known to friends as "Amby," came to KU in 1950 as an assistant professor of history.
He was named associate dean of the graduate school in 1966. In 1970, he left KU to be dean of the graduate school at Wichita State University.
Ambrose Saricks
academic affairs. He remained at that post for three years.
Francis Heller, professor emeritus of law and the first vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Sairks was
During that time, Saricks served as co-chair on the student-faculty committee that reshaped the current University Governance system at KU.
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instrumental in forming the current Governance system, which includes students in decision making by his introduction of a Senate code that stated students must be allowed in the Governance process.
"We were, then, confronted with considerable unrest and demand for students to be heard in a setting that would make a difference," Heller said. "Saricks was an essential leader in the governance system undergoing that change."
Del Shankel, professor of biology and former executive vice chancellor, said that Sarick's contributions had made KU's University Governance the strongest in the state and one of the strongest in the country.
"He was a distinguished colleague, and had a great gift for words. He had a theater-like flair about him," Shankel said.
Survivors include Margaret C. Byrne, Sarick's second wife and professor emeritus of speech pathology; a daughter, Alison B. Merrill, Fort Collins, Colo.; and a son, Christopher L. Saricks, Downers Grove, Ill.
No public memorial services are planned.
Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Hudson Deeter, Leawood senior, plays ball with his dog Kayla, a black Labrador retriever. Deeter and Kayla were taking advantage of October's warm weather at Potter Lake yesterday afternoon.
Dog days
Chinese group helps students adapt
"I was so scared," said Kuo, Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, graduate student. "I was in a strange country, and nobody else could help me."
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Ten years later Kuo finds KU much less intimidating. She is married to an American and holds a job at the Transportation Center in the School of Engineering. She also is a member of the Chinese Student Association, which was founded to help Taiwanese students adapt to U.S. life.
In 1983, Alice Kuo arrived at the Kansas City International airport from Taiwan with little knowledge about the United States and even less about her new school, the University of Kansas.
The group's 120 members mainly work to support each other, said Yuhua Tsui, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student and president of the Chinese Student Association. They also help new students feel welcome, she said.
"Every year we welcome them, pick them up at the airport, take them through enrollment procedures and find them housing," Tsui said.
Tsui said one of the group's aims was to get its students to meet American students. She said it sponsored events where American students interested in Chinese culture could teach the students English in exchange for some education about China
But problems with culture and language often get in the way, Tsui said.
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"Most of the students can't communicate fast," she said. "They speak fast and they can't think fast in English. When they interact with native English speakers, sometimes they feel intimidated."
Although the group consists mostly of Taiwanese students, any Chinese speaker is welcome. She said a few ideological differences existed between the group and the Chinese Student and Scholar Friendship Association, which consists of students from the People's Republic of China. But she said the two groups had a good relationship and often celebrated events together.
Todd Yao, Taipei, Taiwan, senior and vice president of the Chinese Student Association, said the two groups were planning a celebration of the Chinese New Year in February along with the Hong Kong and Macau Student Association.
The members of the nationalist government of Taiwan, formerly the government of mainland China, fled to Taiwan after Mao Tse Tung's Communist government took power in 1949.
Most Taiwanese students who want to overcome the major barriers of language and culture have an opportunity to do so, Yao said.
Johnson said KPL had to make sure the line was open, so no electrical connection could be made and the power line could be grounded.
Kansas Power and Light was called at 12:11 a.m. Sunday and arrived shortly afterward. Before the fire department could raise an aluminum hydraulic ladder to the pole to rescue Schupp and John Freed, Baker University freshman, all power had to be turned off in a two- to three-block radius surrounding the accident site, said Steve Johnson, KPL division manager, yesterday.
"There's a big gap between the Asian and American value system, but they accept that," he said. "It's more getting used to the day-to-day things."
KU police officer helps capture escaped prisoner
Student's condition critical after shock from power lines
Travis Schupp, Valley Center junior, is in critical condition at the University of Kansas Medical Center burn unit.
Late Saturday night, Schupp was electrically shocked in a power line accident, sustaining first and second degree burns to more than eight percent of his body, Med Center officials said.
A Lawrence police officer first encountered Bench when the officer attempted to stop two vehicles on 23rd Street after a traffic violation. One driver stopped, but the other driver, who the officer later learned was Bench, fled. He left his car at the Taco Bell on 23rd Street and ran north.
A KU police officer Saturday helped Lawrence police catch a prisoner who had not returned from a work-release assignment on Oct. 8.
Ronald Bench was arrested at 21st Street and Hillview Road about 2:15 p.m. He was charged with escaping from jail custody, attempting to elude police, driving with a revoked license and having an illegal registration.
The Lawrence officer called in a description of Bench to dispatchers, and KU officers were called to assist.
A KU officer saw someone matching Bench's description running through a yard at 21st Street and Hillview Road while the officer was patrolling the area. The KU officer stopped the suspect, who did not resist, and began questioning him. The Lawrence officer who began the chase then arrived and arrested Bench, taking him back to the Douglas County Jail.
Students to appear in court in fire extinguisher incident
Two KU students were ordered to appear in Lawrence Municipal Court after spraying a fire extinguisher in Ellsworth Hall on Saturday.
An officer went to Ellsworth at 2:09 a.m. Saturday in response to a fire alarm, according to police reports. The officer found that a fire extinguisher had been set off in room 841.
Ryan Bump, Bellevue, Wash., freshman, and Edward White, Hickory Hills, Ill., freshman, admitted to the officer that they had discharged the extinguisher. Bump and White are residents of McCollum Hall.
The two were not arrested. They were issued citations to appear in court Nov. 8.
Briefs compiled from Kansan staff reports.
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