UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. November 9, 1995
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Nebraska game promises to have HOPEful teachers
By Josh Yancey Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will have a winner at Saturday's football game against the University of Nebraska.
It will be a teacher.
This year's recipient of the Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator — the HOPE award — will be named during the game.
The finalists are Don Green, Conger-Gabel distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; David Holmes, professor of psychology; Mary Kleyder, assistant director of the KU Honors Program; Marylee Southard, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; and Bala Subramaniam, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
leum engineering professors. Her department's attempts to create a positive and affirming learning atmosphere had contributed to three of its professors being nominated, she said.
"I don't see it as us competing against one another," she said. "We'll be thrilled if any one of us gets it."
"I'm hopeful. This would be like the top of the mountain."
Subramaniam, who has been nominated for the award before, agreed that the close relationship between faculty and students in CPE contributed to the department's professors consistently
The winner receives $300 and a permanent plaque displayed in the Kansas Union. Members of the senior class select the winner through ballot and interviews.
Southern said the award would be a highlight of her career.
"I'm hopeful," she said. "This would be like the top of the mountain."
She recognized the trend of nominees being chemical and petro-
Marylee Southard associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering
being nominated.
“It's a testament to the dedication and importance that we as a department pay to the teaching mission,” he said. “We treat our students like junior colleagues, and we like to be considered a trusted friend in the learning process.”
Green won the award in 1987. Will he win again? "That would be doubly nice," he said.
Klayder, who teaches undergraduate English classes, said such classes and the contacts with students through the Honors Program had contributed to her nomination.
"It're really an honor just to be nominated."
The award was established by the class of 1959 to recognize outstanding teaching and concern for students. This year's winner will be the 39th in the award's history.
Little panhandlers to sweep for pennies
Hillcrest students hope to raise money for Humane Society
By Josla Yancey Kansan staff writer
People on Massachusetts Street this Saturday shouldn't be alarmed if they notice a gaggle of pint-sized panhandlers asking them for spare change.
The group, members of two Hillcrest Elementary School fifth-grade classes, will be seeking donations to help keep the Lawrence Humane Society animal shelter's four-legged tenants comfortable in their new home.
The fund-raising event, called the Penny Sweep, is part of an effort to raise $90,000 for the shelter, which is being built to replace the old shelter on the same lot at 1805 E. 19th St. Shelter officials still need money for equipment, said Renee Harris, shelter manager.
Members of a class in the School of Journalism will be chaperoning and helping the Hillcrest students. The group will gather Saturday morning and collect spare change and bills from passers-by on Massachusetts Street; at Wal-Mart, 3300 S. Iowa St.; at Kmart, 3106 S. Iowa
St.; at the Riverfront Plaza, 1 Riverfront Plaza; and in front of Memorial Stadium before the KU-Nebraska football game.
Coyla Ezell and Helen Tuley teach the Hillcrest classes. About 50 children will participate.
Ezell said that the children would carry brooms to "sweep" change from the street.
"It's kind of a symbolic thing," she said. "It's like they're sweeping across town for all the pennies."
The children know they probably won't raise $80,000 in one day, but they will do their best, said Jamie Johnson, Lenexa junior and student in the journalism course.
"They just want to raise as much money as they can," he said.
Along with conducting the Penny Sweep, fund-raisers have set up collection boxes at some area businesses.
"They though that was pretty cool," she said. "One of them suggested that we not wear our KU shirts in front of the stadium, because then the Nebraska people won't give money."
The fifth-graders will wear name tags with the Penny Sweep logo of a Jayhawk with a penny in its beak, Tuley said.
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