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Friday, October 22, 1993
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Judaism and Feminism Exploring the Connection
Sunday October 24, 7:30 p.m.
ECM upstairs, 1204 Oread
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Fair opens opportunities for work in volunteering
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
Justin Givens, Wellington junior, wanted to get more from his summer job than just the annual tan from his past four years as a lifeguard.
"I'm getting close to graduating and I want to get some real world experience," Givens said yesterday while looking for public lobbying internships at the volunteer and intern placement fair at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Running until 5 p.m. today, the placement fair has information on 265 local, national and international opportunities for volunteer and internship work, said Thad Holcombe, ECM campus pastor an organizer of the event.
Students can look through folders listing volunteer and intern programs to get names and addresses of organizations students have interest in, Holcombe said.
Beyond giving students a chance to look into volunteer work, Holcombe said the fair gave many KU students a chance to improve their resumes.
"For a lot of students who aren't working full time now, volunteering is an incredible opportunity for trying out new things and taking some risks, 'Holcombe said. It "finds focus for career goals. It's also a legitimate way of moving into a full-time job."
Wandering slowly from table to table throughout the ECM center's main room, students flipped through the alphabetized folders of volunteer programs.
With information ranging from working to protect the environment in Alaska to research with green turtles in Costa Rica, the event covered many areas of academic research and social concerns, Holcombe said.
"The more information they have, the more of an opportunity they have to reduce their anxiety about volunteering," Holcombe said.
Holcombe said he kept the files available at the center year-round, but the fair gave students a better opportunity of seeing the full range of volunteer possibilities.
"We have a lot of short-term programs for next summer as well as
long-term programs for those students who want to experience more immersion." Holcombe said. "Even a week or two, if it's intense, can be fulfilling, but I think there's been a willingness fairly recently for students to try some longer experiences."
Looking for a 10-month program for immersion in Central or South American country, Andy Orton, Overland Park senior and Spanish major, said he wanted to experience a Latin-based culture firsthand.
"Id like to work on the interactive level," Orton said. "It's something I think I want to do before I make a career move or before I decide to go back to graduate school."
"It gave you a different perspective on the world," Tooke said. "It was an opportunity to learn while not being a student."
After going to the placement fair last year and applying with the Houston-based Amigos de las Americans, Thalia Toook, San Francisco senior, said she decided to spend eight weeks this summer with a family living in the seaside village of Zumbi, Brazil.
Newer, friendlier timetable greets students for spring
Five years of revision at work in making the complicated clear
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
It is probably the most boring reading at the University of Kansas, but this time each semester, it is the hottest book on campus.
The producers of the Timetable of Classes have worked for several years to make it more user-friendly for students, staff and faculty. And the Spring 1994 timetable is much different than its predecessors of five years ago.
"I think it's dynamic," said Brenda Selman, assistant registrar.
Selman is one of many people who have worked to make the timetable more clear and easy to read.
Before 1989, the timetable was printed by KU Printing Services, said Rich Morrell, university registrar. It was a smaller book with tiny computer-printed type and one that lacked headlines, diagrams and a table of contents.
Since then the timetable has been printed by a private company, which gave the timetable a four-color cover.
But the book still was not much easier to read. The pages were bigger,but the information was presented in much the same way.
So in 1990, a committee made up of faculty, staff and students studied what was wrong with the timetable. Selman said she was hired in 1991 as assistant registrar, and one of her jobs was to redesign the timetable based on the committee's recommendations.
"It was difficult to read and everything looked the same," Selman said. "There was a lot of jargon and a lot of things repeated several times throughout the timetable."
Morrell said one reason the timetable was difficult to read was the complicated enrollment and fee payment procedures.
"It's tough to make the timetable easy to read when the information in it is so complex," Morrell said.
But staff from the registrar's office and University Relations have made changes throughout the book to make those procedures easier to understand, Morrell said.
A table of contents and a shaded index on the edge of pages were introduced to help students find their way through some sections, such as the schedule of classes and a statement of student rights and responsibilities
Other parts of the book, especially fee payment, enrollment and add/drop information, have undergone drastic changes with graphics, flow charts and highlighted "tips."
Selman said that changes had been made in each issue of the timetable and that the office continued to welcome comments from students, faculty or staff to improve each issue.
"We've had great feedback from students and faculty, and that has helped immensely," Selman said.
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