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Happy Birthday, Plaza!
To commemorate its first year and to recognize new heroines added since its dedication in September 1998, a celebration will be held for the Plaza of Heroines at 2 p.m. Sept. 25. President Don Beggs and Linda Weir-Enegren, an alumna of WSU and founder of Rainbows United, are scheduled to speak. Several heroine tributes will be shared. Start holiday shopping early Eddie Bauer, AKA Eddie Bauer and Eddie Bauer Home are offering 20 percent discounts to WSU employees on purchases of full-price merchandise Sept. 22-25. Show your ID, business card or pay stub to receive the discount. The discount may also be used for catalog and online orders during that time. Wild, Wild WU Hey, pardners, the Alumni Association is rounding up Shocker supporters and friends for their fall fling at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at Eberly Farm, 13111 W. 21st St. Heading up the posse will be WSU First Couple Don and Shirley Beggs, as Shocker sheriff and deputy. The featured guests at this family-fun event are WSU basketball coaches Randy Smithson and Darryl Smith and local comic Bucky Walters. Admission is $12 for Alumni Association members, $15 for non-members, $5 for children 12 and younger and free for children 3 and younger. Call ext. 3834 by Sept. 27 to make reservations. More fine print More Southwestern Bell directories are now available in the telecommunications office, 027 Jabara Hall.
Book it, Laurie
Individual tickets for the Faculty Artist Series are $4 general public and $3 for senior citizens, non-WSU students and military members, and free to WSU faculty, staff and students. Ticket information was incorrect in the story about Julie Bees' Sept. 12 performance in the Aug. 26 issue of Inside WSU. We regret any inconvenience this error may have caused.
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Restoring the prairie By Amy Geiszler-Jones As Don Distler maneuvers a
decades-old pick-up truck, its red color faded from too many summers
in the hot sun, around a 330-acre tract of Kansas prairie, he
recalls his reaction when he first saw the land.
WSU's natural treasure By Amy Geiszler-Jones The Ninnescah Experimental Tract may
be among WSU's best-kept secrets. Located in southwest Sedgwick
County near Viola, the tract became a biological research station
for WSU in 1983, when the Endowment Association acquired it. Faculty support center opens
Rosalind Scudder is a little closer to heaven these days as she presides as
director of the new Center for Teaching and Research Excellence located in an
office on par with the treetops on Jardine Hall's fourth floor. Faculty, staff asked to support annual fund
When funds were being raised to bring Ablah Library to the next level several years ago, faculty and staff were called upon to
demonstrate their support for a dire cause. At that time, 60 percent of faculty and staff responded "yes" to the on-campus campaign, donating just more than $20,000 to the
effort. Incentive pay plan process is under way
A voluntary review program that would give full professors at WSU a $5,000 raise underwent some finishing touches last week.
Titanic discoverer visits WSU Robert Ballard, the world's premier
marine explorer and discoverer of the RMS Titanic, will give a free,
public talk about his undersea discoveries at WSU Tuesday, Sept. 28.
Another good fund-raising year Private donors gave the WSU Endowment
Association a total of $8,687,605 in fiscal year 1999, making it the
second best fund-raising year since 1995. The 10-year average for
the Endowment Association is $8.1 million.
WSU psychologists, KDOT begin
project to combat underage drinking Underage
drinking is a serious problem in Kansas with youth under the age of
21 at a higher risk for
alcohol-related traffic crashes, deaths and injuries.
Cuba's best jazz pianist to give concert at WSU Cuba's most renowned jazz pianist and his quintet are making Wichita State one of their stops on the group's first U.S. tour. Jes‚s "Chucho" Valds and
his fellow musicians will open the College of Fine Art's Connoisseur
Series with a Sept. 24 concert at 7:30 p.m. in Miller Concert Hall. Pattons leave parting gift Thanks to his
role at WSU not once, but twice, former Vice President for academic
Affairs Bobby Patton says his estate has grown. Visiting director leads orchestra Michael Palmer, former Wichita
Symphony music director and conductor from 1977-90, makes his WSU
directorial debut at a 7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 concert in Miller Concert
Hall. David Higgs, head of the organ
department at the Eastman School of Music, will open the Rie
Bloomfield Organ Series with a 3 p.m. concert Sept. 26.
Play will have familiar setting
The setting for the opening play of WSU's Second Stage Series will be a familiar one for the WSU community.
Make a run (or walk) against hunger Volunteers from the WSU community are
needed for an effort that supports the Wichita community
Parking improvements to begin
in spring 2000 The changes in
campus parking and the improvements in Perimeter Road will be
significant, but those changes won't be noticeable until late next
spring. It will be 2002
before the improvements are complete.
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