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Chemistry prof has winning
formula
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
 Just visit Erach Talaty’s organic chemistry class and
you’ll pick up several clues about his formula for success as a
teacher.
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Making
the budget cut
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
Chemistry students may have
to make do without updated equipment, while fine arts students may have to
do with fewer faculty if budget cuts are as severe as predicted.
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Airline
quality won’t soar during holidays
By Joe Kleinsasser
If you plan on flying to
grandmother’s house for the holidays, you probably should pack extra
patience.
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Dance is flourishing at
WSU
By Julie Rausch
Dance is hot at WSU, and if dance faculty
and students have their way, their art form is going to bubble over into
the community.
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Dance takes dedication
 David Weaver gets strange
looks when he practices a new dance step in the aisles at Dillons. Natalie
VanDever gets weary of looking at herself in the mirror.
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Charting
a new trail in Lewis and Clark research
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
 The story of the
famous Lewis and Clark expedition, as they charted the American
frontier in 1804, has always fascinated Larry Davis.
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Merit pay discussed at
meeting
By Julie Rausch
It wasn’t a difficult decision: Salary is
the priority for classified employees at six Kansas universities.
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Classified
staff put positions on paper
By Julie Rausch
During the Kansas
Council of Classified Senate’s annual meeting Oct. 22 at WSU, a
joint position paper was drafted to be presented to Kansas
legislators in January.
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Co-op
trip destination: more jobs
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
WSU’s cooperative
education internship program is hitting the road in hopes of finding more
employers for the hundreds of students it serves each year.
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Nursing
expects midwife program
By Julie Rausch
WSU and three other
universities in Kansas and Missouri will deliver a new joint program in
nurse midwifery.
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Watch
for passing planets and falling stars at observatory
Lake Afton Public
Observatory is offering three special events later this month, including a
viewing of Mercury passing by the sun and an early morning meteor shower.
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New sculpture is added
To kick off its 25th
anniversary, the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art is adding to one of its
more well known and visible collections.
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- Get a head start on
holiday greetings
It may not be as sentimental as a Hallmark
card, but Inside WSU will once again publish the holiday greetings of
donors who give to a special scholarship fund.
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Campaign
participation is low
By Lynette Murphy
Into the sixth week of the
faculty/staff Annual Fund for Excellence campaign, support from WSU
employees is slow.
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Spinning thespian tales
for breakfast
Actor, director, playwright
and educator Ron Wilson will be featured in Wichita State University’s
Distinguished Alumni Speaker Breakfast Series at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov.
11, at Traditions Café.
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Ulrich Exhibit
An impressive collection of prints by
several notable contemporary artists will be shown Nov. 12-Jan. 16 at the
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. "Contemporary Prints from the
P.R.I.N.T. Press" was collected by the Print Institute of the North
Texas School for the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas in
Denton. P.R.I.N.T. Press maintains a centuries-old tradition of giving
artists the chance to produce fine art in limited edition.
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Who’s
who
The 1999-2000 WSU directories are
expected to arrive on campus the week of Nov. 8. Broadcast e-mail
and voicemail messages will announce the date they will be
available for pickup at the Publications/Printing Building, south of the
Campus Credit Union. You’ll be able to recycle old directories
there, too.
Directory information also will be
available on the WSU Web site.
If you have corrections, here are
the appropriate offices to call:
• Office of Human Resources, ext.
3065, for the sections listing retired faculty and current faculty
and staff
• Office of University
Publications/ Printing, ext. 3643, for the section listing
university offices and teaching faculty
• Office of the Registrar, ext.
3055, for the student listing
• Student development, ext. 3022,
for the student organization listing.
It’s a shoot out
Regional vendors of video/data
projectors will demonstrate their equipment in a "Shoot Out
at the RSC Regents Room" noon-2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8. The
Media Resources Center is sponsoring the Shoot Out for faculty to
see for themselves the different projectors on the market. For
more information, call ext. 3575.
Feast on this
Tickets are on sale now for the
22nd annual Renaissance Feast Dec. 3-4, sponsored by the Rhatigan
Student Center and the School of Music.
The feast starts each night at 6
p.m. with wassail, followed by a seven-course meal in the RSC
ballroom, which will be transformed into a 16th century English
castle. Musical and variety entertainment accent each course.
The $26 tickets can be purchased at
the RSC reservations office 8 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays or by calling
ext. 3475. Group discounts available.
Catch the holiday spirit
Inside WSU will run a listing of
holiday-related events happening on campus in the Nov. 18 issue of
Inside. If you want your event to be included, please submit
information by Monday, Nov. 8, to Amy Geiszler-Jones, box 62, or amy.geiszler-jones@wichita.edu.
A road not traveled
The eastbound lane of 29th Street
North by the Hughes Metropolitan Complex will be closed until June
for construction. Visitors to the complex should use the entrance
off Oliver.
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