Tuesday, February 10, 2009
This week the National Society of Collegiate Scholars is spreading a message of integrity on campus.
To help the cause, the group invited Athletics Director Lew Perkins to speak on integrity at 7 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
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Q & A With Lew Perkins
Subject: National Society of Collegiate Scholars Integrity Week
What major points are you going to talk about?
Perkins: Integrity is about being honest and doing the right thing — personally and professionally. I’ll share some personal experiences and observations that show why keeping your integrity is important.
Why are you or aren’t you a good source to talk to about integrity?
Perkins: Anyone who has as many years of experience as I do has some good stories to share.
What or who has influenced your integrity?
Perkins: My parents and my coaches have been my best teachers. I’ve learned much by their examples over the years.
How do you think integrity can apply to not only athletics, but academics and beyond?
Perkins: You’re only as good as your word, and that’s whether you are in school or in the workplace. Decisions our students make now will follow them through academics and athletics as well as into the workplace.
What do you hope students learn from your speech?
Perkins: Every decision whether big or small matters. Follow through and honesty are essential to success in life.
“We decided on someone from the Athletics Department because how big that is at our school,” Matt Hudson, Humboldt senior and social chair of NSCS’s KU chapter said. “Not only would students like to hear from him, but he’d have some good things to say about integrity.”
Nathan Blaine, Haysville sophomore, said he was thinking about being an athletics director after graduating and said he planned to attend Perkins’ speech to listen to his experiences and insight.
“When you’re in the limelight, you have to show a lot of integrity,” Blaine said. “You have to show integrity in everything you do to get where you want to go in life in an honest way.”
This is the first year NSCS has dedicated an entire week to focusing on integrity. In the past, the society has only spent a day on integrity.
“Every chapter is encouraged to have events to promote not only academic integrity, but personal integrity,” Hudson said.
In addition to Perkins’ speech, NSCS members stood on Wescoe Beach Monday morning to promote integrity week. Students were encouraged to ask questions about integrity.
“The idea of integrity is kind of cloudy,” Hudson said. “Stopping by to talk about it is a good way to clear it up.”
Approximately 75 students on Monday signed the integrity banner, which was given to the chapter by the national office.
Signing the banner helps raise awareness of the importance of having integrity, Rachel Weihe, Shawnee senior and president of NSCS said.
“It’s to remind people that it’s something that needs to be in the back of their minds,” Weihe said.
Last year, NSCS had about 400 signatures on the banner. Though signatures are collected all semester, most of them are signed during integrity week. The banner will be on Wescoe from noon to 4 p.m on Thursday.
— — Edited by Susan Melgren
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Perkins to speak during integrity week
Nothing says "integrity" like continually placing the desires of the athletic corporation above the needs of the students, fans, and community.
Perkins to speak during integrity week
Oh hush, KU Athletics benefits this university in soo many ways. (i.e. National Championship).
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