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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 28, 1996
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Graduate forum looks for clarity
By Jason Strait Kansan staff writer
Graduate students concerned with the new organizational structure of the University of Kansas' administration had a few of their questions answered last night by the University's highest authority.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway led a panel of six University officials in a discussion with about 30 graduate students at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Other panel members were Renee Speicher, director of graduate student council, Ruth Hillers, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences director, Jay Shaiefer, chairman of the graduate executive committee, and Sara Martin, graduate studies assistant dean.
Hemenway explained the job descriptions of the newly-created positions of provost, vice chancellor of information services and dean of libraries. He also described the graduate school's place in the reorganization.
"Graduate education is a prime mission of this institution," Hemenway said. "With the reorganization, by putting such a strong focus on our academic mission, that should enhance a lot of things for the graduate students."
After each panelist had been introduced, the forum was opened to the graduate students.
The panel was questioned about departmental accountability and whether having a decentralized format allowed students to disappear within the department.
"My expectation is that each department cares about each student," Hemenway said. "It's my assumption that every single graduate student will be working closely with a faculty member of the department. If that relationship is not occurring, we need to take a look at that."
Martin said she had been working on a major review of all graduate programs and on establishing a stronger student-faculty relationship.
Hemenway said the issue between a decentralized and centralized administration was not as important within the restructuring as other factors.
"It's less important than having a clear set of principles," Hemenway said. "The real issue is what standards, what goals, are established. That should be the mission of that department."
Speicher offered an additional mission for the reorganization project, however.
"I challenge this program to prepare us for the job market." she said.
Speaker to address fitness
Hemenway responded by saying that the University did not control the marketplace and, therefore could not guarantee graduates a place in it.
He said it was the University's obligation to prepare the student as well as possible for that marketplace, which is something that can be done within the reorganization.
"I would consider it a fiscal opportunity, not a fiscal constraint," Hemenway said. "We are not so short on resources that we can't reorganize without enhancing the institution."
Kansan staff report
No one has ever made Maiesha Camp, Kansas City, Kan. freshman, feel as if she had to strive to measure up to a media image of fitness.
But if she thinks she has put on a few pounds, Camp starts taking the stairs and walking to campus.
Sometimes the little things one can do to stay in shape are not always easy to see, and Nancy Bell, a certified aerobic instructor, may be able to offer a few tips on exercise, eating and relaxation.
She will speak at 7 tonight at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union. The lecture is sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Renee Speicher, graduate assistant at the center, said she asked Bell to speak because
of Bell's balanced approach to fitness
"There is no doubt in my mind that women have a great deal of pressure to look a certain way," Speicher said. "Sometimes they tend to take dramatic measures that aren't healthy."
Speicher said she hoped Bell's lecture would show women that they could make good fitness choices that are moderate.
Although the program will be directed at the special physiological needs of women, men also could get something from the lecture, Speicher said.
Abby Kepka, Ellsworth freshman, said that she thought women definitely were measured by a different standard of physical fitness but that she thought that was changing.
"Now with all the men's magazines around, there is a definite picture of the ideal man, too," she said.
The science of exercising
Travis Warren, Topeka sophomore, lifts weights during his physical conditioning class. He said that for him, exercising was not just about having a nice body. He plans to major in exercise science.
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Stones skip across campus
Pieces of Old Fraser Hall removed from landscape
By Teresa Veazey Kansan staff writer
A rolling stone gathers no moss, and about a dozen stone pieces from Old Fraser Hall gathered no moss this week as they rolled from a patch of weeds on 15th Street to Jayhawk Boulevard and back again.
The stones were moved Monday from behind the facilities operations building on 15th Street to the west side of Watson Library and in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
The idea behind using pieces of the old building for landscaping was to cut down on mowing time while beautifying the campus, said Bence Williams, assistant director of facilities operations. Now the pieces are gone.
They weren't stolen, and they weren't damaged. They were moved back early
yesterday morning to the supply yard on West Campus, Williams said.
"It was an experimental thing on the part of the landscape unit," he said. "Landscaping thought it would be attractive there. Others didn't see it that way."
Rodger Oroke, director of facilities management, said that on his way to lunch at the Kansas Union, the pieces of Old Fraser on campus took him by surprise. But it wasn't how the landscaping looked that caught his eye.
"I was quite irritated and quite upset that there was an improvement made, and I didn't know about it," he said. "I wasn't concerned about the looks."
Authorization for major landscape improvements needed to be given by Greg Wade, landscape architect for the campus, Oroke said. In this case, Wade would be seen as the person who created the design, but he didn't have anything to do with it.
"We didn't receive prior authorization to do something like that," said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations. "I
asked them to move it back."
Oroke said he thought the incident was the result of a communication breakdown within facilities operations. The bottom line was that the landscaping project needed to be approved before the rocks were moved.
Williams, Richardson and Oroke all said the landscaping employee's intentions to use the stone pieces were good, since the pieces were sitting in storage.
"I thought they were well-intentioned to enhance the beauty of campus," Williams said. "I don't fault them at all."
In the future, landscaping efforts such as this one need to be planned out and approved so that changes in landscape can be done in an orderly fashion. Oroke said.
While it took time and energy to move the pieces from storage to campus and then back to storage, Richardson said the efforts weren't totally in vain.
"It wasn't a waste," he said. "It lets people know that those things are out there and we need to do something with them."
Finalists are chosen in college dean search
Kansan staff report
Sally Frost-Mason, acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that she has been named as one of the five finalists for the position of dean of the college.
But the names of the other four candidates have not been released.
David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the list of the finalists would not be released to the public because disclosing their names would be an invasion of the applicants' privacy.
Kim Wilcox, chairman of the search committee, said the finalists were chosen from a pool of 68 applicants. The finalists will meet with faculty and students in March, and a dean will be selected sometime in April.
The new dean will assume duties on the KU campus before the 1966-97 academic year. Responsibilities of the new dean will be to direct and serve 600 full-time faculty and handle a $60 million budget. The college is the largest of the University's 14 instructional units and has an enrollment of more than 13,000 students.
Brewery remodeling to improve services
Free State expands expects to increase production of beer
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
It is a concept many college students can appreciate: more beer, better beer, faster brewing.
And during the past few months, the Free State Brewery and Pub, 636 Massachusetts St., has been remodeling and expanding to accomplish that goal.
Owner Chuck Magerl said new equipment had been installed that would increase the brewery's beermaking capacity by 50 percent.
The brew pub added three 14-foot barrel horizontal conditioning tanks that will enable it to produce 3,500 barrels of beer a year.
"The installation was completed in mid-December, but it is just now coming up to full utilization," Magerl said. "We will be able to offer a greater variety of beer, and it allows us to produce some styles of beer we were unable to before."
Among some new brews Free State will experiment with are an English-style bitter and a lager barley wine, Magerl said.
Head brewer Steve Bradt said the brewery was unable to make the barley wine before because of the length of time it must ferment.
"It's a very long, time-consuming beer to make," Bradt said. "It takes three times as long to make as most
But with the extra tanks, Bradt said the brewers could experiment with different beers and still keep up with the customers' daily beer demand.
other beers."
The new tanks also enable the brewery to accommodate keg orders.
But the expansion is not just about quantity, Bradt said.
"It allows us to take our time with the process," Bradt said. "Before, you had the temptation to rush things because you were trying to keep up with the amount that people want. The expansion gives us more time to devote to each batch."
Free State also is undergoing expansion in the kitchen and dining areas.
The outdoor seating area will be enclosed for year-round use, but the decision to do away with the area known as the beer garden hasn't made everyone happy, he said.
"Whenever you make a change, there is going to be someone who is disappointed." Magerl said. "The reality is, outdoor dining in Kansas is more of a concept people love than a reality people love. The area will be like an enclosed courtyard, just protected from the elements."
The brewery closed for 12 days earlier this month for the expansion but is now open as a drinking establishment only.
The kitchen will re-open in seven to 10 days, Magerl said. The enclosed courtyard seating area will open at the end of March.