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Regents exploring possibility of dental school

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Thursday, 01 December 2011 10:11
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In reaction to rumors that the Kansas Board of Regents are making plans to establish a new dental school in Kansas, interim President H. Edward Flentje sent a memo to all faculty outlining his support for Emporia State as the designated site for such a program.

“Emporia State, located where it is, I think, would be an appropriate site for this school,” Flentje said. “Most of the responses I have heard from the faculty have been positive and it is something that will definitely be on the agenda for the new president. That new president will be a key in Emporia State’s push to get the school if it goes through.”

So far, the regents have established an Oral Health Task Force to explore the possibility of a dental school in Kansas, which could potentially be located in Emporia.

In Flentje’s memo he explains that the regents are looking to attract and retain dentists in Kansas. Flentje recently met with Sen. Jeff Longbine, who is a member of the task force, to discuss the work they have done and offer support.

“I do not expect to see the work of the Task Force completed during my interim assignment here at Emporia State,” Flentje said in the memo. “However, if the Task Force does recommend the establishment of a new dental school in Kansas, I believe consideration should be given to Emporia State University as a site for such a school.”

The Oral Health Task Force held their first meeting Nov. 15, to which Longbine was assigned to the committee to study “the feasibility of a dental school” in Kansas.

“We currently don’t have a true dental school in Kansas,” Longbine said. “Our overall goal is to see if we can improve access to dental care. Kansas has a severe shortage of dentists, particularly in rural Kansas. If we have more trained dentists in the state, the hope is that would help all communities, not just the rural communities.”

Comprised of some regents members, dental work experts and legislators, the Oral Health Task Force is hoping to have a recommendation to KBOR by next summer. Longbine said he would like to see Emporia be in the running for a location if KBOR goes through with it.

Flentje said having a dental school in Emporia would also raise the declining enrollment.

“We could also keep some students on campus,” said Gwen Larson assistant director of marketing and media relations. “We have a pre-dental program, but students cannot finish it here because we do not have a dental school. These students end up doing course work here and finishing somewhere else.”

The Oral Health Task Force is expected to make their decision on the feasibility of a school in Kansas by June. If approved, locations for the school will start being evaluated.

Rocky Robinson

Target has green goals for North Long Beach

Press-Telegram September 29, 2008 | John Canalis LONG BEACH – Those behind the soon-to-open Target Store in North Long Beach plan to bring two seemingly contrasting shades of “green” to the 9 th District: Commerce and environmentalism.

Minneapolis-based Target Corp. calls the 126,000-square-foot center slated to open Oct. 12 at 6750 Cherry Ave. environmentally friendly.

But is the store really easy on the Earth or just being scrubbed in a marketing slogan known as “greenwashing?” The former, said city officials, adding that the new building met Long Beach’s recently approved standards for sustainable construction.

Recycled materials, toxic-free paints and environmentally sensitive materials were used to build the store over nine months.

Energy-efficient lighting was installed throughout. The thermostat was dialed up a bit to reduce reliance on the cooling system, and many of the lights go down at night to save energy.

“We have a strong environmental philosophy,” said Mike License, on-site construction manager at the store. “Target likes to be the leader on stuff like that.” Vice Mayor Val Lerch, who took a tour of the store last week with other city officials, said he likes the environmental angle but is also pleased with the new paychecks coming to his 9 th District. pizzahutcouponcodesnow.org pizzahut coupon codes

The new Target will require 500 full- and part-time workers – 300 of them new hires and roughly 200 transfers from the closing Target location on South Street – to a city with a higher unemployment rate than the national and state averages.

Lerch has made attracting major retailers to his 9 th District, which lacks the variety of shops found in other parts of Long Beach, a priority since his election in 2002.

“Right now, to me, it’s the single-biggest accomplishment since I’ve been on the council,” he said of the new store.

Lerch and the city’s Economic Development Bureau and Redevelopment Agency spent more than two years negotiating with Target Corp. to bring the store to a shopping center that also includes a Food4 Less.

The Cherry Avenue location certainly met the “blighted” criteria so the project could qualify for redevelopment incentives.

The Target was built on the site of the former Home Base, which stood vacant for a decade. Tearing down the store’s shell was such a big to-do in Northtown that the Jordan High band performed at the demolition in 2007. Some of the materials from Home Base were recycled and used in building the Target.

Target Operations Manager Kelly Andrews recently provided Lerch, city officials, community leaders and the media a preview of the store, which also houses a Starbucks and PizzaHut Express.

About 50 percent of the merchandise needed to fill the Target was already on display, including fashions that will not officially go on sale until October.

Target is increasingly attracting major designers, including Converse, Liz Lang and Mossimo, Andrews said, as she showed visitors some of the labels. go to web site pizzahut coupon codes

“We’re getting bigger names,” she said.

Halloween and Christmas decorations were already on display in aisles adorned in red and white and Target’s ubiquitous, circular logo.

The store features many of the same departments found at the Target in the Eastside’s Los Altos Shopping Center, including electronics, toys, office supplies, home decor and a limited amount of groceries, such as cereal, soda, milk, butter, eggs, frozen meals, bread and snacks.

Like the Los Altos store, the Cherry Avenue location will not sell fresh meat and produce, but Andrews said, “We do have all the things you want to put in your pantry, fridge and freezer.” The Cherry Avenue Target will have something the Los Altos location does not: A pharmacy. Prescriptions will start at $4.

Because of its proximity to the new store, the existing Target at 3705 E. South St. will close at about the same time the new store opens, Andrews said.

That will leave the city of Long Beach with two locations. There are also Target stores in Lakewood, Signal Hill and Seal Beach.

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Faculty challenge presidents’ salary hikes

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Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:59
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The Faculty Senate votes on the resolution indicting the presidential pay raises. The vote passed 25-0. Julie Thephachan/The Bulletin

The Faculty Senate passed a resolution, 25-0, Tuesday afternoon challenging the recent pay raise for Kansas Board of Regents university presidents. Last month KBOR approved salary raises for the heads of its six universities while also making sizeable adjustments for three presidents, according to the resolution.

“The feeling is… that even if these market adjustments were in line with what university presidents are making, in Kansas, right now, this is a spectacularly bad time to be doing this,” said Max McCoy, senator, assistant professor of journalism and adviser to The Bulletin. “The Resolution is not saying, nor is it intended to say, that these presidents aren’t worth the money. It is just saying an adjustment of this magnitude is ill-advised during this economic climate.”

All university presidents received a 1.8 percent cost of living increase for the coming year. But the presidents of Fort Hays State, Kansas State, and Pittsburg State each received raises ranging from 12.2-14.7 percent, including a $50,000 salary boost for Kirk Schulz, K-State president, according to the resolution.

The resolution also states that such large increases are “well above a reasonable cost of living adjustment, regardless of whether it is supported by private or public monies.”

“I think this reflects the consensus of the faculty that there is concern over presidential salaries,” McCoy said. “Particularly in times of economic hardship, this sends a message to the average Kansan that perhaps they could not or would not accept.”

A motion was passed unanimously to send the resolution to each individual member of KBOR. Kevin Johnson, associate professor of business administration and education and president of Faculty Senate, also suggested to send the resolution to other universities to see if they would like to follow suit.

The Intellectual Property Bill was also brought up during the meeting. The bill, which aims to “foster the creation and dissemination of knowledge and to define the individual and institutional rights associated with and the distribution of benefits that may be derived from the creation of intellectual property,” was left on the table until a new president is appointed by KBOR.

“We thought it was best if we would just leave it on the table until a new president is elected,” Marvin Harrell, professor of mathematics said. “It could keep president Flentje from acting on it and potentially rejecting it while allowing the senators and the departments to look at it more carefully.”

Rocky Robinson

Film festival highlights eating habits

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Thursday, 10 November 2011 10:29
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Deborah Gerish, associate professor of social science, discusses food issues with students during the Food Film Festival on Monday in Science Hall room 72. “Super Size Me” was the first film shown. Yiqing Fu/The Bulletin

What gives you the fuel you need to carry out bodily functions? Unless you have learned how to photosynthesize, it’s food.

In honor of food, The General Education Council and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is hosting the first ever Food Film Festival.

“The reason we are doing the Food Film Festival is to try to get students to look at the different aspects of reality from the food perspective,” said Jon Leach, graduate teaching assistant. “It helps students understand that even though we have these separations of academic disciplines, it is all the same base of human knowledge that is interconnected.”

The festival started Monday with a showing of the documentary “Super Size Me,” which follows filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s attempt to eat a diet consisting only of McDonalds for one month. At the end of his 30-day experiment, Spurlock had packed on almost 25 pounds and had a cholesterol level of 230.

“I thought (the film) was interesting,” said Lesha Bacon, sophomore communications major. “It wasn’t as gross as everybody made it out to be. I don’t really eat out to begin with, so I don’t see this changing my eating habits, but it is something I would tell people about.”

Several other films on food, each sponsored by a different student organization, will be shown throughout the month of November. “Super Size Me” was sponsored by the Quidditch League and the Gamers’ Guild. They provided “Harry Potter” themed snacks like Mrs. Weasley’s rock cake and warm butterbeer.

The Environmental club, The Department of International Education and The Black Student Union will also sponsor films.

“The general education curriculum as a whole has been trying to find way to show students that classes such as history, biology and physics, everything in the general education, curriculum is connected,” said sponsor Deborah Gerish, associate professor of social sciences. “There have been several of us putting together this pilot program this semester to modify what is needed next semester.”

Leach, who is co-founder of the Quidditch League, said they not only provided warm butterbeer to fight off the cold but also explained how food is common among populations.

“Students can take what they have learned in their various general education classes under that food theme,” Leach said. “We are trying to recreate what the goals of the general education program are through films showing how food is common to all people.”

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After the movie, Gerish held a discussion with the group over what they had seen in the film.

“Food is such a crucial part of our lives that we often pay no attention to it,” Gerish said. “Thinking about what goes into food before the fork ever goes into your mouth can raise all kinds of wonderful possibilities. The films we have chosen range from films that gross people out to educational films like ‘Food, Inc.,’ and even feature films.”

“Food, Inc.” was the last film shown this week.

“We chose ‘Food, Inc.’ and ‘Super Size Me’ because they are more health conscious,” Leach said. “We like the gonzo journalism perspective in ‘Super Size Me,’ and ‘Food, Inc.’ is more about the geopolitical ramifications of food.”

The Food Film Festival will continue through next week with “The God of Cookery” showing at 7 p.m. on Monday in Science Hall room 72. The film is a Hong Kong comedy, sponsored by the Department of International Education to go along with International Education Week.

The festival will wrap up Wednesday with What’s Cooking sponsored by the Black Student Union. The film will also be held in the Science Hall room 72 at 7:00 p.m.

Rocky Robinson

Website highlights student achievements

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Thursday, 03 November 2011 11:37
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Googling your name is something everyone may do, but it is becoming more and more common for employers to do it also.

Readabout.me, a website that helps students create a positive online presence, is joining with Emporia State to better publicize student achievements.

Gwen Larson, assistant director of marketing and media relations, said ESU is already publishing student achievements through Readabout.me, using the website to house these achievements online.

“Students at ESU can start building an online profile using Readabout.me,” Larson said. “Every news release we send that has the student’s name in it will be posted on that site, and from there you can post the link on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.”

Post graduation success and creating a positive online identity is the main focus of the website, said Danielle Velenti, community manager of readMedia.

“The idea is to get the students’…profiles to show up if an employer were to do a Google search of their name,” Velenti said. “It is basically equal to having an online version of your diploma because this gives employers a list of all the great achievements you have done during school.”

The website also sends achievements to the hometown newspapers of the student to better get the student’s success publicized, Velenti said. The website sends messages using the zip code of the student’s home address.

“The reason for that is to just let your hometown community know all the great things you are doing on campus,” Velenti said. “Just because we send it doesn’t mean they are always going to pick it up, but its great content that most newspapers like to run.”

Students receive badges for each of their accomplishments, which are verified by the institution and then posted on the student’s profile. Students can receive badges for scholarships, making the Dean’s list, completing a study abroad tour and even doing community service.

“I think my friends and family back home would visit the website to see my activity,” said Dillon Riley, social science major. “I doubt that my achievements would be news worthy for my hometown, but the online profile seems like a good idea.”

Velenti said the student profiles are open for students to customize, but the achievements happen automatically. Student do not have to register for the stories to be published.

“The only social aspect of this is the ability to share it,” Velenti said. “It gives you the ability to share it on Facebook or send it to grandparents while keeping the Emporia State brand.”

ReadMedia helps schools nationwide, with about 450 schools involved, but Velenti said ESU is one of a few schools helping test out some new features.

Rocky Robinson

Teach to the Test: American education system lacks creativity

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Thursday, 03 November 2011 09:55
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Students of Ms. Frass’ class at Emporia Middle School prepare for a practice test on Monday. Two practice tests are given to gauge competency before the official test is given. John Henningsen/The Bulletin

Is this going to be on the test?

The aforementioned is a question heard in classrooms at any grade level and is a question that John R. Schrock, professor of biology, said is becoming more common.

“It is getting to the point that if it isn’t going to be on the test then it is not going to be taught in the classroom,” Schrock said. “The American teacher isn’t really a teacher anymore – they are an assembly line worker. They are handed the test and then are told what they will teach each day to prepare for the test.”

Schrock, who has written several articles over teaching to the test, said it should be a part of a teacher’s academic freedom to be able to choose the way they teach their classes. It is the students who are hurt when teachers must follow the same syllabus.

“When you educate, when you train and when you are teaching, it is all about how to get the right answers on a test, it focuses you straight in on memorizing,” Schrock said. “Then the American teachers stopped doing what they are suppose to do, which is trying to teach you to apply what you learn in the classroom to new things outside the classroom.”

Schrock said that teaching to the test is a reaction to the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires all schools receiving federal funding to take part in standardized testing. Student scores on the standardized tests are supposed to determine whether the students have been taught correctly.

“We want to prepare the students for life, not just taking an exam,” said Jared Giffin, assistant principle at Emporia High School. “With No Child Left Behind being reauthorized, assessments will be changing in the next few years and will hopefully mirror what the common core standards require of us.”

Because funding is so tight, teachers lose the opportunity to fully cover all the subjects and must focus on those that are covered in the test.

“People are more worried about the score to meet a yearly progress goal,” said Carson Moore, freshman biology major. “I can definitely say getting public interest groups and politicians out of education would be beneficial and teachers should have an increased say in what is taught in their classroom.”

In July the Kansas Board of Education voted 6-4 to apply to be one of four states to develop the national science standards test. Schrock said this is a way to force science back into the classroom since No Child Left Behind mainly covers reading and math.

“I just focus on the sciences,” Schrock said. “The case is true for the other areas as well, we just teach too little and we teach it too late. It is apparent when you see exchange students come over and they coast for a year because it is stuff they covered three years ago.”

Schrock said creativity is lost when teachers only teach what is going to be on the test, and this lack of creativity is damaging the American education system.

Rocky Robinson

Campus is ‘In the Mood’ for unusual 1940s music performance

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Thursday, 27 October 2011 23:26
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in the mood 2 RGB The 1940s will swing and dance into Emporia this Friday. The Emporia Arts Council will host In the Mood, a group made up of six singers and dancers accompanied by a 13 piece orchestra playing swing music from artists such as Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and the Andrews Sisters, according to David Shaw, president of Art Beat.

The show is not the type of performance that the council would normally host, but they decided to bring it to Emporia after being contacted by Art Beat, the nonprofit organization that helps schedule shows for In the Mood, said Melissa Windsor, executive director of EAC. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Albert Taylor Hall on campus.

“It is such a big production that there wasn’t room for it at the Granada,” Windsor said. “It is a show that attracts a broad range of people but really appeals to the older generation that lived through the 40s.”

Windsor said that about 200 tickets have already been sold, but EAC expects a rush in the days before the show.

“I heard about the show in one of my classes and saw fliers around town,” said Landon Noll, freshman theater education major. “I am probably going to go even though the tickets are kind of expensive.”

The show is a celebration of an unusual era in American music, according to In the Mood’s website. The show is on its 17th year and has even been performed overseas. It has recently been on tour in Australia and the group performed a show for the 53rd presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton.

Shaw said the goal of In the Mood is to bring a quality show to small towns. After receiving positive feedback from past performances in Emporia, Shaw was eager to get in contact with the EAC. He said the show will run throughout Kansas each year, and although no schedule has been made, he said they will probably make another appearance in Emporia in the future.

“We encourage feedback from the audience and often ask for suggestions for new music,” Shaw said. “We add new music every year so it is something that people like to see over and over again. The older generation really gets into the show because it is something they experienced in their lifetime.”

Tickets are available at the art council building downtown or at Brownpapertickets.com. Adult tickets cost $27 and youth tickets are $12.50.

Rocky Robinson

Flentje sacks transparency bill

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Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:35
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Faculty Senate President Kevin Johnson explains that interim President H. Edward Flentje decided not to sign the bill that would modify the current administrator evaluation policy. A motion is made that the bill should be held and submitted to the new president. Yiqing Fu/The Bulletin

Despite efforts of the Faculty Senate to provide more transparency in the administration, interim President H. Edward Flentje opted last Tuesday not to sign a bill that would modify the current procedures for faculty and staff evaluations of administrators.

“Last week I met with President Flentje,” said Kevin Johnson, Faculty Senate president at last Tuesday’s meeting. “It appears the rejection was not so much an opposition to the policy but the main thing he stressed was he just did not want to saddle the next president with the bill.”

The bill would promote “an atmosphere of transparency and trust at Emporia State,” according to a letter sent to Flentje on the senate’s behalf by Max McCoy, senator, assistant professor of journalism and adviser to The Bulletin.

The bill aims to allow administrators the opportunity to share the results of their own, individual evaluations with the faculty. It also states that the evaluations will “neither be made public nor available to any party outside of Emporia State University without the consent of the evaluated administrator, the University President, or as required by law.”

But last spring, former President Michael Lane vetoed the bill because he believed it was “self-contradictory and inconsistent with (the Kansas Open Records Act),” according to McCoy’s letter.

Still, the bill recognizes that certain information found in administrator evaluations may be deemed confidential under KORA. Last spring, Provost Tes Mehring made her own administrator evaluation available online.

A motion was made and passed 25-4 that the bill should be held and re-submitted as is to whomever is appointed as the next president of ESU.

Three other bills were also brought to the attention of the senate.

Marian Riedy, associate professor of business administration and education, said that the intellectual property bill was passed last April, but it was never sent to former President Lane for approval.

A bill addressing credit hours for different courses was also discussed. The Department of Education now requires institutions that enroll students receiving federal financial aid to define the amount of work needed to receive a credit hour.

“We are looking at a variety of things out on the internet and various other schools who have already dealt with this issue,” said Dwight Moore, associate professor of biology. “It defines a credit hour in face-to-face classes and accommodates distance learning in which the same amount of learning should occur to earn a credit hour.”

Another bill regarding the time limit for which a course can still be considered consistent with current academic standards was also addressed.

Moore said the issue was called to attention when a past student graduated with a 40-year-old course which “had gone stale.”

Drafts for these bills will be looked over at the next meeting at 3:30 p.m. next Tuesday in Webb 2 Lecture Hall.

Kenzie Templeton and Rocky Robinson

New meters, permits bring revenue to police and safety

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Thursday, 13 October 2011 09:12
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Green parking permits are now available to off campus students.

The permits – which go for $70 each – have traditionally been reserved for residents of student housing. But this year’s 4.6 percent enrollment drop created an unexpected parking surplus in some green permit zones, according to Capt. Chris Hoover, director of police and safety.

It has also created congestion around the Towers complex, where most residents are incoming freshman.

“The freshman parking lot is always full,” said Mason Teeter, a freshman majoring in business administration. “It makes me not want to leave so I don’t lose my spot. And when I do leave, I have to drive around for 15 minutes just to find another one.”

The green permits are being offered to off campus students in order to relieve parking congestion in other areas, Hoover said, and to gain revenue. A few green permits had already been sold and there are also plans to add meters to the Morse parking lot.
“If I am late to class in the morning, then I use the meters,” said Carlos Urgiles, sophomore biochemistry and molecular biology major. “If I am not late or am going to take more than a couple hours, I just find free parking on the streets somewhere. I am already wasting money on gas so I have to balance the expense someway.”
Hoover said he would like to see an increase in revenue from the new meters because revenue has decreased due to the decline in enrollment.

Police and Safety records for 2009 show incomes of about $100,000 from all permits, $87,000 from meters and $74,500 from tickets and other violations. This money goes to maintain parking lots and meters, Hoover said, and to pay salaries of police and safety employees and updating equipment.

“The meters are more fair in my mind,” Hoover said. “Anybody can use them. All you have to do is have a quarter and it still generates some revenue.”

Because of the cost, Hoover said the department will relocate old and repaired meters for the lot. A few students have complained about malfunctioning meters, a problem Hoover said is bound to happen due to old meters and the number of meters, which makes it hard to maintain them all.

Hoover said that members of police and safety do not actually test the meters regularly because they are tested every day by the people who use them. If a meter is not reading the correct time, Hoover said he or another officer check the meters but most of the malfunctions are dead batteries or jams.

“We need to be notified that it is malfunctioning,” said Hoover. “We do try to keep them in functioning order and as with any device things malfunction. It is a machine and machines are not going to be working correctly all the time.”

Rocky Robinson

‘Cuddly’ animals may pose threat to health

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Thursday, 06 October 2011 08:44
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Watch out for furry critters this fall. A disease that can be transferred to humans from animals like squirrels and rabbits is on the loose after officials at the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks confirmed a case of tularemia in a squirrel collected from an Emporia resident’s yard.

Shane Hestings, Wildlife Disease coordinator at KDWP said the squirrel showed symptoms consistent with tularemia, a disease caused by the bacterium francisella tularensis and found mainly rodents, rabbits and hares. This was confirmed after being shipped to a lab in Georgia, where it was tested again.

“We think it was a localized event,” Hestings said. “Sometimes it shows up in urban areas.”

Cases of tularemia have been recorded in every state in the United States, with the exception of Hawaii. There have been four documented cases in Kansas, none of which where in Lyon County.

“It is kept active and alive and transmitted among the animal population,” said professor of biology John Shrock. “That is what keeps it going and only once in awhile do (humans) get in on it. Those types of disease are called zoonosis.”

Tularemia can infect humans if they are bitten by an infected insect, handle an infected carcass or eat drink contaminated food or water. But the disease is not spread from person to person.

“It is highly infectious,” Schrock said. “There is a potential for it to be used as a bio weapon. It only takes 10 to 15 bacteria to become infected, usually it takes a much higher dose…but the bacteria is not airborne.”

But Hestings said there is nothing to be alarmed about.

“People don’t need to be alarmed they just need to be aware that it is here to stay,” Hestings said.

Fever, headaches, dry cough and progressive weakness are a few symptoms that appear, usually after three to five days after exposure.

“I don’t plan on going around and catching rodents,” said freshman biology major Dalton Whaley. “It doesn’t seem to be that common so I don’t think I would change my daily routine to try to protect myself.”

Tularemia can be prevented by wearing insect repellent, avoiding animal carcasses, cooking food thoroughly and getting water from a safe source. If infected, the CDC recommends you call your doctor, who will most likely prescribe antibiotics. A vaccine is under review by the Food and Drug administration but is not currently available.

Rocky Robinson

Faculty weigh in on search, enrollment

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Thursday, 29 September 2011 17:28
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Faculty members directed questions regarding the presidential search and low enrollment figures to members of the administration Monday afternoon in the Flint Hills Room of the Memorial Union. The open “brown bag” lunch was intended to open communication between the faculty and the administration.

“The purpose today is to just simply remain transparent,” said Tes Mehring, provost and vice president of academic affairs. “In our strategic plan, communication was something we wanted to kind of work on and this was an idea brought up by the Faculty Senate last spring and was something we wanted to implement.”

Questions were directed towards interim President H. Edward Flentje; Ray Hauke, vice president of administration and fiscal affairs; Jim Williams, associate provost for enrollment and vice president of strategic partnerships; and Mehring.

Faculty members who could not attend were able to send questions to Kevin Johnson, Faculty Senate president and associate professor of business administration and education.

Williams said the administration is currently looking to improve student enrollment, which is down 4.6 percent since last fall, and scholarships by strengthening the quality of ESU’s message. This will include getting scholarship information out earlier so ESU can receive press on awarded scholarships.

“We have got to have a different date of securing what that funding is to recruit those students,” Williams said. “We have coordinated a date that would make us receive the funding about eight to 10 months earlier than we have received in the past. This will help get the communication out to small community newspapers and we will be able to get more press.”

Williams discussed some ideas regarding the heightened enrollment of international students as well.

“International students have added richness to the campus and we will commit to those students,” Williams said. “These international students also have a higher average G.P.A. than domestic students – I just think an English competency test might be a good solution.”

The regents and the selection of the new president were also brought up. Flentje said after meetings with KBOR and the search committee, the administration is pleased with the number of quality candidates who applied for the position. Flentje also said that KBOR is on track for appointing a new president by January 2012.

But faculty members expressed concern with the credentials of the presidential candidates. Most supported a president who has a background in education.

“We have voiced opinions that this person should be of the academic area,” said Nancy Hite, professor of business education. “They should know the qualifications and the steps that faculty have to go through to be a quality faculty member. We are not looking for somebody just from the business world.”

Flentje said the search committee is a diverse group of people and the faculty will be well represented.

Mehring said the administration plans to hold another brown bag lunch during the spring semester to maintain communication with the faculty.

Rocky Robinson

CNBC, Cramer go ‘Mad’.(Consumer News and Business Channel Partnership)(Jim Cramer)(Brief Article)

Daily Variety January 10, 2005 | Learmonth, Michael CNBC is canceling its year-old evening business news show “Bullseye With Dylan Ratigan” and replacing it with “Mad Money,” a show hosted by money manager Jim Cramer.

“Mad Money,” produced by CNBC’s primetime group, will air weeknights at 6. Cramer will continue to contribute to CNBC’s 5 p.m. talker “Kudlow & Cramer.” “This new program will allow Jim to translate to television what he does so well on his successful radio program,” wrote CNBC topper Pamela Thomas-Graham in a staff memo. “Mad Money” will give viewers “unprecedented access to what Jim feels are the opportunities and pitfalls of the often confusing jungle of Wall Street investing.” The programming change is expected to be announced later this week. go to website jim cramer mad money

CNBC, a fixture on the screens of trading floors and in financial institutions, typically scores a Nielsen peak of 217,000 in-home viewers between 3 and 4 p.m. ET, around the time the markets close. website jim cramer mad money

CNBC estimates its viewership is far higher, because Nielsen does not measure viewers in the workplace.

But the network has struggled to find its footing in primetime, and morning ratings have slipped from a peak in 2000 as viewers lost interest in financial news.

CNBC canceled “McEnroe” after just six months due to poor ratings and remade its franchise morning show, “Squawk Box,” late last year.

“Bullseye” host Ratigan will remain at the network.

Learmonth, Michael

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