University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 12, 1988
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HALO report
Hispanic-American students discuss Chicago experiences
By M. Meredith Reiph Kansan staff writer
Promoting political involvement is no small business, particularly in an election season, and the Hispanic organization is joining the effort.
Eladio Valdez III, Kansas City
Ka. junior and president HALO
said Hispanic Americans from 12
states participated in the conference.
Members of HALO attended a conference this week in Chicago, which featured a keynote address Democrat presidential hopeful Katherine Johnson who attended the conference recounted what they had learned to about 16 people who attendd last night at HALO meeting in the Burge Union.
Speakers at the conference discussed a variety of topics, including a history of Hispanics in the Midwest, national voting rights for Hispanic
Americans, campaigns to encourage more people to vote and the role of minority women in the workplace.
Valder requested the members who made reports on the conference to compile their notes and make them available for future reference
The speakers stressed the importance of unity among minorities in the United States and encouraged them to prove a proud of their heritage and cultures.
"This really motivated people," he said. "We were one of the few student groups there and I think we need to share this with others."
Valdez said he want to organize a statewide Hispanic leadership conference to share the information on the issues with all Hispanic groups in Kansas.
Rosia Dorsey, director of minority affairs, listened to the presentations and said the trip had been worthwhile.
City to consider recycling project
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
Members of a pre-recruitment group asked the Lawrence City Commission last night to consider curbside up of recyclable products in the city.
The group, Trash Our Recycle-
ables from Trash (SORT), presented a petition with about 65 signatures to commisseries calling for a recycling program. Five people spoke SORT and the program at the meeting.
Rebecca Liggett, a Lawrence resident and member of SORT, said that curbside recycling could have economic benefits for Lawrence.
"Recycling can help reduce the annual' tonage of waste land that is being landed" is a major concern of both the Kansas Legislature and the United States.
Another SORT member, John Leuthalter, Lawrence resident, said that both Columbia, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., have curbside recycling programs. He told commissioners that the programs are used in Kansas City, Mo.
Several SORT members said that recycling would make Lawrence a better place, and Burr, a rural Lawrence resident, said he thought recycling is a moral benefit.
14 "Recycling makes us feel that we are making solutions instead of causing problems." Burr said. "We put our trash in a big black bag and send it to nowhereland, but nowhereland is right here."
Commissioner Dennis Constance said that the waste problem in Lawrence would not go away if the office had acquired SORT and curb-side recycling.
Commissioner Mike Rundle, who put the issue on the commission's agenda to staff and SORT to establish a task cobbled recycling cycle. City manager Buferd Watson, who would be putting the resolution form to the city.
In other business, commissioners unanimously approved an amendment with the Chelsea Group regarding the access bridge for the river Dartmouth will now be responsible for building the bridge instead of the city.
John Lingstum, representative for the Chelsea Group, said they did not want to change the contract, but agreed to work with funds in the design phase of the project.
The two-inch floppy disc, used with the Canon RC-760 or the Canon RC-701, is capable of storing 50 images and can be displayed at the same times. The photograph was taken with a still video camera.
Stephen Wade/KANSAN
Artist Peter Fillerup, Wapiti, Wyo. resident, paints blue coloring on the bronze statue in front of the Adams Alumni Center. Fillerup is the original artist and returned to help refurbish the sculpture.
High-tech camera gives instant result
In the new age of photography, the photographer can capture an old high-tech still video camera that allows the photographer to take instantly after completing a snapshot.
The camera, which resembles a 35mm, uses a two-inch floppy disc instead of film. The disc can take
David Carlson and Robert
Technik von Canon
tatives demonstrated
the Canon RC-760 and Canon RC-
760 cameras to journalism
staff.
up to 50 pictures and be erased and re-used 30 times, Jones said.
After shooting, the photographer can view the pictures on a television monitor and print out the picture desired on a color video screen. If the picture is printed in black and as well as in color, Jones said
Only a few publications use this new technology including USA TIME, which is expected that in the next two to five years, more newspapers will use it.
Kent Hain, Norton senior, carefully crushed Tylen to put into capsules yesterday as part of his dispensing lab in Malcolm Hall.
Kansas scores on aptitude tests decline
The Associated Press
**TOPEKA** - Modely declines in scores Kansas students posted on college aptitude tests taken last school year should spur the state to improve high school performance. Commissioner Lee Droemmeruell said yesterday.
is very important. (The Kansas scores) are significant because we're not moving away from it.
"If we don't improve our curriculum, Kansas students are going to fall behind." Droguemuel told the state Board of Education, which began a two-day monthly meeting.
"We're going to move backward by standing in front of the adobe, so we have the ability because it can work in a global society."
Drogemuelmeyer's comments ended a likely discussion among the 10 board members about the significance of declines in American College Test scores (ACT) and Aptitude Test (SAT) and Prelimary SAT/Nationals Merit Scholar test scores by Kansas high school students and seniors during the 1978-88 school year.
from 1045 to 1035 of a maximum 1600 on the
SAT, and from 88.6 to 88.3 of a maximum 160 on
the SAT.
The scores showed Kansas students' composite average scores dropped from 10 in 1986-87 to 4 in 1995-96.
Those scores still ranked Kansas above the national average of 18.8 on the ACT, 904 on the SAT and 768 on the AP.
Generally, Kansas' students math scores declined more than they did in other areas.
Fifty-two percent of Kansas' college-bound seniors last academic year, or 19,633, took the ACT. It is required for entry into most colleges and universities but not the more prestigious ones.
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