Your Friday the 13th dose of news, notes and links from around Kansas University.

• An expansion is coming to the Underground in KU’s Wescoe Hall, reports the University Daily Kansan.

It will add 139 seats to the popular eating area, and construction will begin after commencement, the paper reports.

The construction will be paid for from a $1.80 student fee instituted by Student Senate leaders, and represents the completion of one of the platform issues raised by outgoing student body president Michael Wade Smith.

It looks like the expanded space could be ready by the time classes begin this fall.

• As college students are becoming more unsure of their personal finances, they’re turning more to universities to help steer them straight because they’re not finding it elsewhere, so says the nonprofit National Endowment for Financial Education.

Research from the University of Arizona and NEFE shows college students’ self-reported knowledge of personal finance topics declined by 19 percent during the recession between April 2008 and February 2009, even though their actual knowledge increased during that same time period.

More than 550 universities offer CashCourse, a free service designed to increase personal financial literacy and teach students basic skills.

And, yes, KU is among the universities that offer the online service. The university also offers appointments to help students with financial troubles, available at money.ku.edu.

I know from talking to students that it’s an issue that they struggle with, even with the available assistance.

• You can get a chance to see more than 100 pieces of recently produced artwork from 40 different KU students at the graduating seniors’ show, “Attractive Nuisance.”

Exhibits will include photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, fine metals, videos, performances and sound installations.

If you (like me) were wondering what a “sound installation” is, here’s some information for you from Wikipedia, the great knower of all things.

“… a sound installation has a three dimensional space and the axes with which the different sound objects are being organized are not exclusively internal to the work, but also external,” Wikipedia tells us.

Sounds interesting, whatever it is.

The opening reception is set for May 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at KU’s Art and Design building, and the show will be open to the public through May 24.

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