KU chancellor to serve on national education board
Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway will serve on the governing body of a nationally recognized education advocacy group.
Hemenway was elected to the American Council on Education's board of directors at the group's annual meeting last month in Washington, D.C.
The organization includes about 1,600 higher-education institutions. It lobbies Congress and federal agencies on education issues, serves as a higher-education advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts, and provides programs to train educators, increase access to higher education and ensure quality in institutions.
Library to play host to teen job forum
The Young Adult Services staff at Lawrence Public Library is sponsoring a Teen Job Fair Forum this month to help teen-agers looking for summer employment.
Teens and parents will be able to visit a variety of stations to gather information about jobs, view demonstrations and learn about topics such as filling out applications and the interview process.
The forum will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at the library, 707 Vt. Registration for the forum must be completed and returned by March 9.
For more information, contact Kim Patton, young adult specialist, at 843-3833, Ext. 121 or kpatton@lawrence.lib.ks.us.
Organization to offer meeting on surviving drought
The Douglas County Family and Community Education Council is offering a program on how to make landscaping less water-dependent.
The program, "Drought-Resistant Plants," will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Douglas County Extension Center at Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
Bruce Chladny, Douglas County extension agent, will discuss what can be done to help landscapes survive a drought, and what plants withstood last summer's drought.
To register for the program or for more information, contact K-State Research & Extension-Douglas County at 843-7058.
Probable cause found in fraternity arson case
A Lawrence man appeared in court a second time this week after being jailed in connection with a fire that destroyed a vacant Kansas University fraternity house.
The 19-year-old man was ordered held on a $5,000 professional surety bond on Wednesday, when he appeared from the Douglas County Jail through closed-circuit television at Douglas County District Court.
Although no formal charges have been filed, Judge Peggy Kittel determined through written reports that there was enough probable cause for a single count of arson.
The man was arrested shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday on suspicion of arson, burglary and theft linked to a Feb. 28 fire at Phi Kappa Theta, 1941 Stewart Ave.
He had been arrested earlier after he was caught throwing rocks at windows at the building. Police said he admitted to having been there before the fire and stealing property.
A bond review hearing will be conducted on March 14, when the man's bond will be re-evaluated.
Missing 73-year-old found dead near Tonganoxie
A Leavenworth County man missing since September was found dead in his car, the Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.
John Brezgiel, 73, was found Tuesday morning inside his vehicle, which had crashed underneath a bridge about 11 miles north of Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County Sheriff's Sgt. John Schermbeck said.
Brezgiel, missing since Sept. 20, was found dead inside his vehicle, which had landed in a creek about 100 feet from the roadway and was in about five feet of water underneath a bridge, Schermbeck said.
Schermbeck said that Brezgiel's death appeared to be the result of the vehicle crash; no autopsy was scheduled.
Brezgiel was discovered by a county road maintenance worker. Although authorities weren't certain of the date of the crash, they think it might have been close to the date of disappearance. Schermbeck said authorities remained somewhat puzzled how Brezgiel's vehicle could have remained unnoticed until Tuesday.
SUA to offer interactive theater
Individuals will be able to enjoy dinner and participate in a play next week, thanks to Kansas University's Student Union Activities.
SUA will offer Murder Mystery Dinner at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The room will be decorated like a 1939 nightclub for the interactive play, which features a murder at the opening of a businessman's nightclub.
The play, performed by Repertory Theater of America, costs $10 with a KUID and $15 for nonstudents. Today is the last day to buy tickets.
For more information, contact the SUA box office at 864-SHOW.
Stories of Kansas migration featured Friday at workshop
A new oral history workshop centered around stories of Kansas migration will be featured Friday at Kansas University.
Sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Project on the History of Black Writing, the workshop will be at 9 a.m. in the Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The focus of the workshop will be stories of black, Swedish, German and Mexican migration to Kansas that explore when and why they chose Kansas, and what the process of assimilation was like.
Examples of oral history work done by faculty at KU and Haskell Indian Nations University will be among those featured. This year's opening session will address the theory and practice of oral history.
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