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Te work group created by the Kansas Board o Regents shared a preliminary discus-sion draf o the social media policy with Kansas universities on Monday. A major change in the drafpolicy is the shif rom a dis-ciplinary tone to an advisory tone. Te current policy gives universities the power to pun-ish or fire aculty or improper use o social media; the new draf gives advice to aculty and is more o a guideline.“Te revision encourages use o social media that serves the mission o the University, as well as reminding aculty and staff that they shouldn’t violate the law on social media,” said Charles Epp, a proessor in the office o Public Affairs and Ad-ministration, and co-chair o the work group.Te group was ormed to make revisions and recom-mendations to the Board on the social media policy they approved on Dec. 18, which was met with much criticism rom aculty and administra-tion.“We had two broad goals: to meet the charge o the work group, which was to recom-mend a policy to the regents and to do that in a way that is consistent with the values o academic reedom and the first amendment,” Epp said.So ar the draf has been widely supported as the type o social media policy address-ing proper use o social media without inringing on the ree speech rights o aculty and staff.“Te draf policy was ex-cellently constructed and a hallmark o concerned col-leagues who understand aca-demic reedom and reedom o speech,” Associate Proessor o Aerospace Engineering and President-Elect o the State o Kansas Conerence o the American Association o Uni- versity Proessors Ron Bar-rett-Gonzalez said.Te shif to an advisory tone helps address many o the concerns o aculty, such as protecting the ree speech o employees. According to Bar-rett-Gonzalez, another aculty concern was how the policy could damage the degrees stu-dents are earning.“Some damage has been done, but i the Regents adopt the policy, it’d be a great step to repair the damage done to the reputation,” Barrett-Gonza-lez said. “It’s a shame that this wasn’t adopted rom the start.Students and aculty can view the draf and add comments on the University Governance web page. Te deadline to sub-mit eedback is March 28.Te draf policy will be re- viewed at the next work group meeting on April 4, where they will make revisions based on the comments made by the universities. Te final draf will be recommended to the Board on April 16.
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“Some damage has been done, but if the Regents adopt the policy, it’d be a great step to repair the damage done to the reputation.”RON BARRETT-GONZALEZaerospace engineering professor
IMPORTANT DATES REGARDING THE SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY
APRIL 4
The next work group meeting will be on April 4 to discuss the com- ments made on the draft policy.
APRIL 16
The final draft of the social media policy will be recommended to the Board of regents on April 16.
MARCH 25
There will be a seminar called “What is Free Speech in the Age of Social Media” at the Commons in Spooner Hall on Wednesday, March 25 at 7 p.m. to discuss this and other academic freedom issues.
MCKENNA HARFORD
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DIFFERENCES IN THE POLICY
TONE
There is a shift in tone from disciplinary to advisory. The policy “sug- gests” social media uses instead of restricting them.
LANGUAGE
The language is tighter and more consistent with the First Amend- ment and there are some clarification words, like the word “lawful” in front of a clause that says University employees can’t release any confidential information.
EXCLUSIONS
The new draft policy creates guidelines that are for the use of social media, excluding any use that is for academic research, scholarly activity, academic instruction, any statements made as a shared governance or anything protected under the law.
New social media policy under review
STATE
When whittling down choic-es or college, many students weigh the academic pros and cons o each school and major they’re considering. New data shows those qualifiers might not mean much in the job market.According to a recent poll rom Gallup, business leaders are looking at a job applicant’s skills and experience rather than their alma mater or field o study. Only nine percent o business leaders polled said a job applicant’s college is a ma- jor actor in the hiring process, and 28 percent o them said the candidate’s major is a very important actor. Jake Schmitz, a school lead-er o the KIPP Endeavor, a Kansas City charter school or inner-city kids that hires many o its teachers resh out o college, said employers like him aren’t necessarily looking or a specific degree rom their applicants. He said he first looks or positive character and behavioral traits when in-terviewing candidates, in ad-dition to their education and experience, because those are great indicators o potential success.“We believe that i you have the right mindset and charac-ter traits, then we can support you to become a better teach-er,” Schmitz said.He added that one o the most important aspects o hiring is making sure the ap-plicant fits into the company’s goals on a personal, non-aca-demic level.“I would put mission align-ment above you graduating with a degree in education.
CODY KUIPER
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Skill tops major in job searches
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A Gallup study found that employers are more interested in students’ skills and personality traits than what students majored in.
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Fee cut would reduce SUA funds
STUDENT SENATE
Te University’s Student Union Activities is voicing its opposition to a proposed Student Senate Fee Review that would cut SUA’s unding by 10 percent or the upcom-ing 2014-15 school year.Te Student Union Activity ee currently sits at $5. Te proposed cut that was presented by the Student Senate Fee Review is a cut o 50 cents.Te Student Senate Finance Committee will discuss the ee at 6 p.m. tonight in the Alderson Auditorium.SUA currently gets ap-proximately 65 percent, or $225,750, o its unding rom student ees.Members o SUA have voiced concerns about having to reduce the number o so-cial events to make room or more academic and cultural events. On top o five events that were cut this year, our social events would be cut completely or partially next year, including the Campus Movie Series and Cosmic Bowling.“It’s going to cut back on the diversity o things we offer, and events such as the Campus Movie Series, which is something that a lot o people go to,” SUA president Camden Bender said. “It’s something that we’ve looked at getting rid o completely, just because, in order to meet the criteria that Senate has set out or us, we are going to have to make cuts that we don’t want to to expand those areas [academic and cultural events] where they think we are deficient currently.”Bender also said that SUA may have to look at reducing the number o committees currently programming SUA events to six instead o its current eight.Subha Upadhyayula, SUA’s live event coordinator, said the cuts could also affect the amount o talent ees that the organization is able to offer to entertainers while trying to book acts, musicians and bands downtown or on campus.“Booking a concert is a lot different when you’re looking at how much a concert is, and offering upon a concert and talent ees,” Upadhyayula said. “It’s completely different. I think the type o talent that we would have to look into is going to be completely different with this budget. We can’t get — obviously we still would not be able to get Be-yonce — but it just depends. It will be a lot more difficult.”yler Childress, the Stu-dent Senate’s chie o staff, declined to comment on the proposed ee values until the legislation has been officially presented to the Finance Committee.
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TOM DEHART
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“It’s going to cut back on the diversity of things we offer, and events such as the Campus Movie Series, which is something that a lot of people go to.”CAMDEN BENDERSUA president
Student Senate Fee Review proposed a 10 percent cut to Student Union Activities.Programs to be cut com-pletely next year: Campus Movie Series and Cosmic Bowling.Programs to be cut partially next year: Tea at Three and Grocery Bingo.SUA says the organization will also have to reduce the number of committees to work with the proposed cut.The legislation is to be of-ficially introduced today, during the Student Senate Finance Committee meet-ing at 6 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium.
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It’s literally the first question we ask,” Schmitz said. “We really look or that mission alignment, or people who are passionate, and i they’re fired up about it, we eel that’s a great first step to them be-ing successul.”Paige Adamany, a reshman rom Leawood studying Stra-tegic Communications, said she knows uture employers may not put much stock in a specific major, so she went with one that she hopes will provide her with enough di- versity to impress on job ap-plications.“I definitely think KU had the better journalism pro-gram, so that was a actor or me that KU had better programs or what I was in-terested in,” Adamany said. “I know my major is pretty broad, so I’m aware I can go other places with it and that’s what I really like about it, I’m not boxed in.”Gallup’s study also ound a large gap in how well uni- versities think they have pre-pared their graduates or the workorce and how well busi-nesses think they have. Nine-ty-six percent o college and university chie academic o-ficers say they are extremely or somewhat confident they are preparing students prop-erly or their jobs, while only 11 percent o business leaders aree.Tis isn’t a new issue though, according to Da- vid Gaston, director o the University Career Center. He said businesses look at hiring through a cost-benefit analysis, and the resources it takes to find the right person or a job can cost a company upwards o $100,000, so they expect universities to act as a training program or their potential employees in order to save some cash.Because o this, Gaston said job candidates have to show employers how hiring them will fit nicely into the budget.“I a student can show in one way or another they’re going to add more value to their company than what they’re going to pay them, they’re going to be more like-ly to get hired,” Gaston said. “One o the best ways to do that is through an internship or some other type o work experience, because you’ve shown them you can work in an environment similar to theirs and they’re going to get a better return on their in- vestment.”Gaston said graduates look-ing or jobs need to find a balance o depth and breadth when it comes to their field o study to raise chances o get-ting that first job. Students in proessional schools will pro- vide a depth o knowledge in a specific field, he said, which is much more helpul when it comes to breaking into the job market, but those with a broad knowledge o a field may have a better opportu-nity to work their way up in a company. Te problem or those without depth is break-ing into the job market to be-gin with, Gaston added. “When you’re hiring a stu-dent in an entry level posi-tion, those with a lot o depth find it easier to get a job be-cause you can put them on a task, and they’ll get afer it quickly, so they need less training,” he said. “Unless these graduates that have ma- jors that have more breadth have shown they have depth in some way, they’ll have trouble finding that first job.”
Contributed reporting by Yu Kyung Lee
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Not KU Elections (@KU_Elections), a new witter ac-count, keeps students updated on the Student Senate elec-tions while adding humor to the topics being discussed.“Tis account was created to promote inormation distri-bution about election issues,” Not KU Elections said in an email. “We would love to cre-ate interest in an important, but usually bland, topic. We'd love to put a little spice into the election media.” Not KU Elections also said they are not in opposition to the elections. Instead, the ac-count is “dedicated to point-ing out ridiculous parts o the election season: Retweets rom basketball players, plat-orms that will never happen (+/- system) and drama that comes along with college poli-tics,” they said in an email.Te creators o the account would like to remain anony-mous. Natalie Parker, a junior rom Overland Park and a member o GrowKU, said she finds the account disappointing be-cause the students involved in the election are dedicated.“Something like this gets the general public disengaged and doesn’t want to get students involved in the election,” Parker said. “I think it’s really discouraging.”Elections Commission Li-aison or GrowKU, Will Ad-mussen, said there is a good and a bad side to the account. Admussen said the account allows people to take a step back rom the election and see a different perspective, but some tweets are pessimistic. “I think there are some people who can’t move on rom past elections,” Admus-sen said. “Student Union has worked to change that culture but there will always be people to bring up the past.”Te Jayhawkers coalition has not issued an official state-ment as to whether or not they are in support o Not KU Elections. However, Kristina Maude, campaign manager, and J Blake, social media coordinator and public rela-tions director, agreed that the account creates engagement among the student body. “I think that at some level I find some o them [Not KU Elections tweets] to be harshly worded,” said Blake. However, Blake doesn’t think the account is a bad thing because it creates active engagement, questioning and people caring about the elec-tion. He also said this account is a representation o the real world because not everyone is going to agree with what you do or stand or.Free State and Crimson and rue, two new coalitions, said they have no official stance about Not KU Elections.Mitch Rucker, elections liai-son or Free State, did say that some o the tweets are pretty accurate and tell the “naked truth.”Jeffery Durbin, a junior rom Fort Scott, is a ormer Student Senate member and ollows Not KU Elections on witter. “Te important part o be-ing a representative o a pop-ulation means representing the entire population,” says Durbin. He said this account brings orth another opinion on elec-tions as well. “We believe in awareness, engagement and a good laugh,” Not KU Elections said in an email. “I a coalition can’t handle a good poke, they should get out o the fire.” Te account has 64 ollowers as o uesday evening.
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NEWS MANAGEMENTEditor-in-chief
Katie Kutsko
Managing editor – production
Allison Kohn
Managing editor – digital media
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Associate digital media editor
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Sales manager
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Digital media and sales manager
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NEWS SECTION EDITORSNews editor
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Sports editor
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Associate sports editor
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Entertainment editor
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Copy chiefs
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Design chiefs
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Designers
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Opinion editor
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Photo editor
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ADVISERS Media director and content strategist
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What:
Ground-breaking for two new residence halls on Daisy Hill
When:
3:30 p.m., reception to follow at The Lied Center
Where:
The Lied Center Pavilion
About:
A ceremony to celebrate the new $47.8 million project on Daisy Hill.
What:
Veggie Lunch
When:
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where:
Ecumenical Campus Minis-tries
About:
A free vegetarian meal on Thursdays at the ECM.
What:
Unmanned Drones: Soldiers without Uniforms
When:
7:30 p.m.
Where
: Dole Institute of Politics
About:
The first installment in a two-program series on drones. The technology of drones and ethical questions involving their use will be discussed. Part two in the series will take place on March 11.
What:
Undergraduate Research Office Hours
When:
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where:
Strong Hall, Room 151
About:
Stop by the office to ask about getting started in research as an undergraduate student.
What
: KU Jazz Festival Concerts
When:
7:30 p.m.
Where
: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
About:
Day one of the KU Jazz Festi-val. Performances on both March 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m.
What:
Art Cart: Marvelous Minia-tures
When:
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where:
Spencer Museum of Art
About:
Open to the public, this month’s Art Cart event will have participants look closely at small-scale works of art. They then will create their own miniature piece. The event also meets on Sunday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
SKILLS FROM PAGE 1
Nine percent of business lead-ers polled say a job applicant’s college is a major factor in the hiring process, and 28 percent of them say the candidate’s major is a very important factor too. Ninety-six percent of college and university chief academic officers say they are extremely or somewhat confident they are preparing students properly for their jobs, while only 11 percent of business leaders agree.
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Cold, gray day doesn’t stop Mardi Gras revelers
NEW ORLEANS— Revelers en-dured winter temperatures and a chilling rain along parade routes Tuesday as New Orleans' 2014 Carnival season neared a close.Die-hards, some in Mardi Gras costumes, braved the weather along the traditional St. Charles Avenue parade route and in the French Quarter."We'll drink, drink, drink until it gets drier," said Dean Cook of New Orleans as he walked Bour-bon Street dressed as a pirate with vampire fangs."Mermaids love the water," he said of his wife, Terrina Cook, who was dressed in a shiny blue mermaid costume, complete with a fin.Ronnie Davis, a professor of economics at the University of New Orleans, decided to break his button-down image for at least one day. Clad in tutus, he and his wife, Arthurine, stood along the avenue watching theKrewe of Zulu's floats roll by."All year I have to dress profes-sionally. This is the one time I get to act like a fool," Davis said.As a cold rain fell, crowds alongthe stately, oak-lined avenue thinned and French Quarter barsfilled with patrons looking for a dry spot to escape while lettingthe good times roll."It's awful cold," said Rick Em-erson, a Tampa, Fla., native who was watching costumed revelerspass by from an open doorway of a Bourbon Street daiquiri shop.Temperatures for most of theday in the New Orleans area were in the lower 40s and by early evening had dropped to about 38 degrees. The wind chill made it feel even colder.
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The King’s Jester float makes its way toward the Canal Street turn during a Mardi Gras parade, Tuesday, March 4, in New Orleans.
In 1989, Charlie Sheen told the L.A. Times that KU had once offered him a baseball scholarship. KU Athletics questions the validity of his statement.
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A team o University proes-sors has completed research that suggests race is a signi-icant actor in determining who gets pulled over more re-quently by police.Te research, unded by the National Science Foundation, will be published in the up-coming book “Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship.” Te book, co-authored by University proessors Charles Epp, Don Haider-Markel and Steven Maynard-Moody, is scheduled to be released in April by the University o Chicago Press and ocuses on the dispropor-tionate rate at which police pull over minority drivers.Te researchers released select inormation rom the book as a preview or potential readers. Police routinely stop driv-ers or committing minor violations, such as driving a couple o miles per hour over the speed limit, or having a burned-out license-plate light, to check or criminal activity. Tese stops, called investiga-tory stops, involve minority drivers ar more requently than white drivers, according to the research. Based on the proessors’ findings, a black man 25 years or younger has a 28 percent chance o being stopped by police or an investigatory stop over the course o one year. Tis figure stands in stark con-trast to those o white men and women in the same age range, who stand at 12.5 percent and 7 percent, respectively.Te researchers believe that this disparity poses a problem because it negatively affects the way that minority citizens perceive the police orce, and makes it more difficult or law enorcement officers to effec-tively perorm their duties.Te researchers are hopeul that their findings can become a catalyst or change in police practices, and believe that law enorcement agencies will be receptive to their findings.“I’ve talked to a lot o groups about our research, and almost everyone is interested and wants to hear more,” Epp said. “We’re optimistic that the find-ings will be well-received.”Epp was also quick to deuse any notions that the research would be received antago-nistically by law enorcement agencies.“I’ve talked to police officers, and they are always very inter-ested in the research, and open to internal reorm,” Epp said. “We are not suggesting that individual police officers are being deliberately racist.”
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DALTON KINGERY
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University researchers investigated the role race plays in traffic stops.Findings indicate police pull over minority drivers more frequently than white drivers.Researchers believe the findings will be well-received and lead to constructive reform of police policies.
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University research: race plays role in traffic stops
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University professors release their research on race and police stops in their book, “Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship.”
California gold discovery spurs rush of theories
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LOS ANGELES — Word last week that a Northern Calior-nia couple ound $10 million in gold coins while walking their dog has set off a Gold Rush o theories over who lefbehind all that loot.One is that Jesse James' gang deposited it in hopes o some-day financing a second Civil War. Another postulates that the gold originally belonged to gentleman robber Black Bart, who wrote poetry when he wasn't sticking up stagecoach-es.But the theory gaining the most traction this week is that the hoard is made up o most o the $30,000 in gold coins that Walter Dimmick stole rom the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1901. Te coins were never recovered.Tat theory, rom fishing guide and amateur coin histo-rian Jack rout, set off a flurry o calls to the U.S. Mint afer it was reported by the San Fran-cisco Chronicle on Monday.Te Northern Caliornia couple's coins are called the Saddle Ridge Hoard afer the area o the couple's land where they were discovered."We do not have any inorma-tion linking the Saddle Ridge Hoard coins to any thefs at any United States Mint acil-ity," mint officials said in a statement issued uesday.Although rout acknowledg-es he can't prove his theory, he still thinks he's right."Tere is no real direct proo, but I am getting more research in on this," he told Te Asso-ciated Press by phone uesday rom Chile, where he lives part o the year.Dimmick is said to have spir-ited six sealed bags — each filled with 250 $20 gold piec-es — out o the mint, where he was the chie cashier.Te Saddle Ridge Hoard con-tains 1,400 $20 gold pieces, 50 $10 gold pieces and our $5 gold pieces, with a range o dates beginning in 1847 and extending to 1894.Don Kagin is a rare coin dealer who represents the cou-ple who stumbled upon the coins, which have a ace value o about $28,000. He said the San Francisco Mint heist was one o the first possibilities he and his staff checked out.Even i the mint had coins on hand covering a span o 47 years, which is unlikely, those in the hoard include some so badly worn that they wouldn't have been there, said David McCarthy, Kagin's chie nu-mismatist.Another coin, dated 1876, was in such pristine condi-tion that it wouldn't have been there either."It doesn't have a single marking on it," McCarthy said. "Tat coin couldn't have sat in a bag in the San Francisco Mint and looked like that. It would have had what we call 'bag marks' all over it."As or some o the other the-ories:— Te Jesse James one ails to account or the act the Missouri outlaw died 12 years beore the last coin was struck and was born the year the first one was.— Black Bart robbed stages only between 1877 and 1883, when he was caught and sent to prison.Te finders, who have chosen to remain anonymous, have their own theory.Tey've done some research, Kagin said, and believe their property in Caliornia's Gold Rush country was occupiedat the time by someone in the mining industry. Tat person must have squirreled away thecoins over time.Why the owner never came back or the coins, well, that's another mystery.
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David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service, poses with some of 1,427 Gold-Rush era U.S. gold coins, at his California office Tuesday, Feb. 25,. A California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across $10 million of buried, rare, mint-condition gold coins.
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