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Happy
Holidays!
Through their gifts to
WSU’s Holiday Card Scholarship Fund, these people wish their friends and
colleagues in the university community a very happy holiday season.
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Taking a community’s
pulse
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
 Before the Wichita public
school district decided to ask for a bond referendum, it wanted to get a
reading on how Wichitans felt about the schools and on what it would take
to change their tax support.
USD 259 had the ideal
resource to go to here at WSU – a public administration faculty member
who specializes in what’s called "citizen demand assessment."
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School planning
committee to meet at WSU
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
When more than 7,200
Wichitans responded to a survey conducted by WSU on Wichita public
schools, an overwhelming majority indicated they’d be willing to
support increased taxes if they had more of a say in the planning to
spend that money.
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Being
a good neighbor
Photos by David Dinell
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LaWanda
Holt-Fields, left, program counselor with the McNair Scholars
Program, paints the north wall of a house near WSU. Holt-Fields
was among the more than 20 student affairs staff members who
volunteered through Mennonite Housing to paint the home at 1614 N.
Lorraine for four hours Tuesday, Nov. 23. |
Educating people about
end-of-life issues
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
Using education materials and the personal
touch seem to be the keys to getting people to sign documents guiding
health care treatment, a WSU study has found.
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Education
college cuts learning center
By Julie Rausch
It is not easy to dismantle
a program – especially one that is so highly regarded and widely used
with roots at WSU for 49 years – but that is what is happening with the
Learning Resource Center.
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Introducing
MARTI
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
 The keys to a successful ad
campaign or an effective presentation may be contained in something no
bigger than two steamer-sized trunks and a remote control pad.
WSU’s newest research
tool called MARTI – Mobile Automated Response Testing Instrument – is
a sophisticated high-tech way to evaluate everything from marketing
strategies to teaching styles to legal defense arguments.
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Beggs
gets recommendations on FY 2001 budget
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
A few months ago, budget
directors were told to plan for cuts of up to 6 percent for fiscal year
2001, which starts July 1.
In mid-November, President
Beggs and his staff found out the state’s budget division isn’t
recommending cuts that severe, but will suggest other ways to reduce the
budget. Its recommendations are...
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Entrepreneurship
center publishes Star Lumber history
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
After a nine-year hiatus,
WSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship has revived its Business Heritage
series with the publication of its 13th book, "Building Wichita: The
History of Star Lumber and Supply Co. 1939-1999."
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Shop ’til you drop
online
By Joe Kleinsasser
It’s beginning to look a lot like an
Internet shopping Christmas, according to Cindy Claycomb, assistant
professor of marketing at Wichita State University. Internet shopping
continues to grow rapidly.
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Celebrating the
millennium – Is the end near?
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
Because she’s an ancient history expert,
Ariel Loftus knows the end of the millennium is months, not days, away.
Still, the WSU faculty member will probably
celebrate Dec. 31 as the end of the millennium. "I’m a creature of
my time," she said.
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Making
friends from around the world
By Amy Geiszler-Jones
Wichitans have an
opportunity to get to know someone from another country through a program
that matches families with WSU international students.
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Search begins for
engineering dean
By Joe Kleinsasser
The search is under way for
a new College of Engineering dean. The goal is to have a new dean in place
by July.
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Library info system
gears up for maiden voyage
By Joe Kleinsasser
The future is now for Wichita State’s
Ablah Library. A new state-of-the-art library information system called
Voyager is nearly ready for use.
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Graves to deliver Berg
lecture
Kansas
Gov. Bill Graves will deliver the 14th annual J.R. Berg Distinguished
Petroleum Lecture at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Bank of America auditorium,
100 N. Broadway.
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Opera
singer Karla Burns scheduled to visit WSU
By Nikki Hansson
Distinguished Wichita State
University alumna Karla Burns has appeared at some of the most exciting
venues in the world. In addition to her classical and musical theater
appearances on Broadway, she has performed with the Paris Opera and the
Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.
As part of the Forum Board
Lecture Series, Burns will appear on the stage of the Hughes Metropolitan
Complex Monday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m. All Forum Board lectures are free
and open to the public.
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Boeing exec is next
alumni speaker
Jeff Turner, the vice president and manager
of Kansas' largest employer, is the next speaker in WSU's Distinguished
Alumni Speaker Breakfast Series.
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Chamber
quintet is first 2000 Connoisseur Series act
A chamber music quintet,
Amerigo Ensemble, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in Miller
Concert Hall as part of WSU’s Connoisseur Series.
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Bookstore
reopens
The University Bookstore will have
its grand reopening at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 13. The bookstore
underwent its first major renovation in its 30-year history this
year. The lower level of the bookstore opened in August. The upper
level will include various specialty areas.
Wish upon a star for more
Lake Afton Public Observatory, run
by WSU’s Fairmount Center for Science and Mathematics Education,
will increase its admission prices by $1 starting in January.
Current prices are $2 for adults and $1 for children ages 6-12.
Those under 6 are free, and will continue to be admitted free when
the new charges go into effect.
Sharing some time
The Office of Human Resources is
asking for donations of sick and vacation leave for its shared
leave program. Classified employees need to have vacation leave
balances of at least 80 hours and sick leave balances of 480 hours
after donations. Faculty and unclassified professionals can only
donate up to 80 hours of sick leave each fiscal year, if they have
a balance of at least 480 hours after donating. For more
information, contact Frankie Brown, 978-3540.
Inside on hiatus
This is the last issue of Inside
WSU for the fall 1999 semester. It will resume publishing with the
Jan. 20 issue. The deadline for submissions for that issue is
Monday, Jan. 10. See the staff box on page 8 for contact
information. Campus news updates in the meantime will be made by
WSU’s online news service, found by clicking on the news digest
icon at www.wichita.edu.
Closing for the holidays
The university will close most of
its offices for an extended holiday break starting at 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 22, and reopening Monday, Jan. 3. Some services
that will remain open, with different than normal hours, include
Postal Services and Ablah Library. A number of services, including
the library, Heskett Center and Rhatigan Student Center, will
operate different hours during the semester break, as well. The
Ulrich Museum will remain open noon-5 p.m., except Christmas and
New Year’s days, during the holiday and semester break.
Check messages during the break
Standard voice mail service retains
both new and old messages for 10 days only, unless you make a
special request. Telecommunications staff advise you to check
messages during the holidays – you can call into the system from
any phone anywhere at anytime. To extend the time or space for
your voice mail, please contact Rae Stevens, 978-5070 or stevens@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu.
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