University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 25, 1988
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Group to collect canned food
Students Against Hunger will trick-or-treat to get food for needy
By a Kansan reporter
KU Students Against Hunger will be trick-or-treating for canned food next week in Lawrence.
Amy Johnson, the organization's president, said that 20 to 30 groups of two or three people will be knocking on doors from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday to collect food for the needy.
The group plans to give half of the food to the LINK Program at the First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St., which serves meals to the hungry. The other half will go to the Salvation Army, which also will be serving hot meals at the shelter this
winter.
The organization is also working toward its second annual War On Hunger Week which will be during the last week in March.
during the week. Lauren's hunger week was a success, Johnson said. During the week, the group helped sponsor events including a balloon launch, a speech by Dick Gregory and a panel discussion on hunger. In six days, the organization raised $3,000 and about 500 cans of food.
Steve G. Brown, former president and founder of KU Students Against Hunger, said, "A lot of people
were really challenged by what we were doing. The most commendable thing was that we were able to pull other groups into the events of the whole week."
War on Hunger Week was recognized earlier this month at the National Student Campaign Against Hunger Leadership Conference in Chicago.
Hunger Games Conference, at Northwestern University, was attended by representatives from more than 100 schools. Johnson said that the campaign developed an informational booklet for the schools that was based on KU's program.
Sun revolves around the earth, or so millions think
The Associated Press
CHICAGO - More than 450 years after Copernicus proved the Earth revolved around the sun, millions of U.S. adults seem to think it's the other way around, a researcher said yesterday.
"It's a fairly dire situation," said Jon Miller, director of the Public Opinion Laboratory at Northern Illinois University, who conducted a nationwide survey for the National Science Foundation.
"The results show that on very basic ideas, vast numbers of Americans are scientifically illiterate," he said in a telephone interview.
In the telephone survey of 2,041 adults 18 or older, conducted in July, people were asked about 75 questions testing their knowledge of basic science, Miller said. The survey had a margin of
error of plus or minus 3 percent.
ertr on plus a km/h.
When asked whether the Earth went around the
sun or the sun around the Earth, 21 percent replied
incorrectly. Seven percent said they didn't know.
Of the 72 percent who answered correctly, 45 percent it took one year for the Earth to orbit the sun, 17 percent said one day, 2 percent said one month and 9 percent didn't know.
The Associated Press
Comic strips focus on plight of the homeless
WASHINGTON — The comic pages "are not going to be so funny" today as more than 100 cartoonists will focus on the plight of the homeless, an organizer of the effort said Monday.
"it's not going to change things overnight; it's just one more expression of the movement," said cartoonist Mell Lazarus, who draws the comic strip "Momma."
Both comic-strip and editorial cartoonists are joining the effort, including some of the best-known panels and strips, said Barry Zigas of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
"If a kid tells his parents, 'Hey look. All the comics are about homeless people today,' we will at least have raised their consciousness," Lazarus said in Los Angeles.
"The goal of the project is to tug
at America's heart strings through its funny bones. Tomorrow's funny pages are not going to be so funny," said Zigas at a news conference in Washington announcing the project.
Similar news conferences were scheduled in 22 other cities across the nation in an effort to focus attention on hunger and homelessness, including Los Angeles.
Paul Conrad, editorial cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, said, "I'm trying to attract attention to the homeless, but I've been drawing about the homeless for years and so far it hasn't had any effect." His cartoon on the homeless will appear later in the week.
"Hunger and homelessness are not partisan issues, they are human tragedies that deserve our immediate attention." Zigas said.
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