CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 30, 1994
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Recycling center to reduce solid waste, increase awareness
Recycling center
Lawrence will spend $339,000 to build its first recycling center, which will open at the end of next year.
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence cardboard no longer will be heading for the dump.
Source: Kansan staff research Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Starting late next year, it will instead head for a new recycling facility in North Lawrence, where it will be bundled and shipped to recyclers. And if city recycling and waste management officials have their way, the center will serve as a meeting place for people interested in issues related to recycling and a jump-off point for future recycling efforts.
Corrugated cardboard makes up much of the city's garbage, said Bob Yoos, city solid waste superintendent. Yoos said the number of retail and commercial stores that use boxes to ship merchandise added to the total.
Although the center, 320 N.E. Industrial Lane, initially won't be available for use by the public, planners said they hoped to devise a public cardboard drop-off in the near future.
But Yoos said the new center would remove that cardboard from Lawrence's total solid-waste. Several collection points will be set up
around town for businesses to dump their cardboard, and other business will stack their cardboard for pick-up.
The cardboard then will be taken to the center, bundled and sold to a recycling company for about $5 a ton.
The center also will serve as a drop-off point for equipment that still functions but that companies no longer need, Yoos said. He said schools and other tight-budgeted institutions could drop by and pick up used computers and typewriters for free.
He said cardboard recycling would bring the amount of Lawrence trash recycled to 26 percent. City recycling projects, such as yard waste and hazardous substances, and private recycling also will contribute to that number.
"There's a lot of cardboard out there, and that cardboard has some value," Yoas said.
Lawrence recycles specific waste sources instead of using curb-side recycling, which many other cities have implemented. Yoos said that curb-side recycling looked like a bigger recycling commitment but that targeting specific sources was both cheaper and more effective.
"My concern is that it is an efficient recycling program," he said. "I can't recommend a recycling project that costs more money."
The center will mean more opportunities for future recycling, said Patricia Marvin, city recycling coordinator. She said the city would begin to look into white-paper recycling, which the presence of the University of Kansas makes feasible.
"KU is probably the largest single producer of white paper in the state," Marvin said.
Marvin also said the center would serve as a meeting place. City officials could take business owners in and teach them how they could reduce their trash.
"Reduction is learned through recycling, and reduction is the ultimate goal," Marvin said.
The Lawrence City Commission voted 5-0 on Nov.15 to buy the property for the center, now known as the CBW building, for $339,000. More than half of that, about $175,000, already had been budgeted for a recycling center. The city will raise the rest of the money through issuing bonds.
Phone book drops
Old University directories and Lawrence phone books can be dropped off for recycling at four locations on campus; north of Carruth-R'叶'Leary Hall, north of Stauffer-Flint Hall, west of Haworth Hall and next to the Burge Union. The dumpsters are marked to distinguish them from other dumpsters. Drop-off locations off campus include all Dillons grocery stores, all McDonald's restaurants.
all McDonald's restaurants,
Southwestern Bell, Walt-Mart, Simple
Goods and Community Mercantile.
Drop-off dumpsters will be available until Dec. 19.
for more information, call the environmental ambassador's office at 864-3208. For city recycling information, call 832-3030.
By Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
First Nations people diverse
KANSAN
During an interview on the "Today Show" last spring, an actor was asked what he called himself.
He replied, "Cherokee." The interviewer asked if he referred to himself as Native American or American Indian. Again, he replied, "Cherokee."
"She just didn't understand that neither term described him," said Ray Pierotti, assistant professor of biology.
Pierotti told the story to a group of about 25 people last night in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union. The group was gathered in honor of Native American Heritage Week on the Hill, a part of Native American Heritage Month that was sponsored by the Native American Student Association.
The term "First Nations peoples" is becoming more appropriate, said Michael Yellow Bird, assistant professor of social welfare. The terms American Indian and Native American emphasize that he and his ancestors were forced into American society.
Titled "First Nations of the Americas: Alive and Diverse," the program was a forum on the diversity among First Nations indigenous peoples.
Yellow Bird moderated the forum.
which included Harold Iron Shield, a writer and journalist from the Siseton-Wahpeton reservation in South Dakota. Iron Shield spoke about problems with cultural diversity seminars.
Most of the seminars are attended by First Nations people, he said.
"It's a shame that we're speaking to our own but not to whites, who we're really supposed to be talking to," Iron Shield said.
Ironically, though, many of the seminars are conducted by whites.
"Why do I want to learn about racism from a white person when I experience it myself?" he said. "I've had cigarettes burned in my back because I didn't want to speak Enlish."
That abuse is a part of the racism suffered by First Nations people, a racism that extends throughout their lives, including into college.
"First Nations people have the highest drop rates of any minority," Iron Shield said. "Many are dropping out because they are in the minority. They are ridiculed because of who
they are."
Another topic of discussion was the naming of mascots. Dorothy Stites, Lawrence senior, said that, after an article about mascots appeared in the University Daily Kansas earlier this semester, people approached her waving their hands as if their hands were tomahawks.
"Some people say that we take the issue too seriously," she said. "I've got a 5-year-old. You're darn right I'm going to take it seriously."
Sites said the problem of how First Nations people were perceived was brought home to her by her daughter.
"One night at the movies, she said to me, 'Mom, we don't like Indian people, do we? They kill people. 'I nearly broke my heart,' she said."
Pemina Yellow Bird, Lawrence resident, said that celebrating diversity in forums, such as the one held last night was important.
"But the danger is in putting us in the same cubby hole and not recognizing our individual differences," she said.
Pemina Yellow Bird said that there washope.
K-State increases number of women escorts
"Yes, we lost our land," she said.
"Yes, we went through a holocaust. Yes, our languages are almost gone. But we still have our spiritual life. It's the most powerful thing we have."
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. — It's 8 p.m., and a Kansas State University freshman at Ford Hall wants someone to walk with her to Farrell Library. She calls a campus escort service, and a few minutes later, her escorts arrive.
One of the escorts could be Karla Gebhardt of Leavenworth, a sophomore in psychology. Accompanying Gebhardt may be another female escort.
Escorting, typically a job handled by men, is now being handled by women at Kansas State. Gebhardt and 19 other women, all residents of West Hall, help run an escort service with male residents of Moore and Haymaker halls.
Together, they form escort teams, one man and one woman — or in some cases, two women — who help make the walk across campus safer. The free escort service has been offered on the campus for more than a decade.
"It's not that we don't trust them," she said. "It's just we're taking an active role in our own safety."
Scott Hagemeister, a sophomore in sociology, is chairman of the Haymaker-West-Moore service. He and Gebhardt said the addition of female escorts had worked well.
"Many women feel more comfortable when there is another female to talk to," Gebhardt said. "There's less of a first date atmosphere."
Capt. Charles Beckom of the campus police department, who has begun working with the campus escort service, backs the team escort approach.
"it is my recommendation that teams do the escorting, and that there be one male and one female escort," he said.
Beckom said he has studied escort systems at other universities and talked to students who use the services. He said clients feel more comfortable when two escorts are present.
"There is safety in numbers," he said. "The comfort level also is much better if there are male and female escorts present."
Gebhardt credits the addition of female escorts with helping to increase the use of the service.
"We are averaging three or four escorts a night," she said. "A few nights ago, we had 11 escorts in a two-hour period."
Gebhardt said she feels confident she can handle any situation that arises. She said it is important for escorts not to view themselves as crime-fighters. If a problem arises, they should notify campus police.
Beckom agreed but said escorts actually can help make the campus safer by noticing things that could improve security.
"You always run across a sidewalk that's chipped or a rough area on a sidewalk or a dark area that needs lighting," he said.
Although a student likely can walk across campus late at night without encountering any problems, Beckom said using the buddy system is best.
He acknowledged that the buddy system isn't fail-safe but added that "a single individual is a greater target than two or three people."
Wheel patrons take scholarship halls' parking place
By Ashley Miller
Kansan staff writer
The Parking Department has towed 255 cars from only four KU parking lots this semester.
That's about 64 cars from each lot and about one car towed every two days.
The four Alumni Place parking lots are reserved for scholarship hall students. But the lots fill late at night with the cars of patrons of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, 14th and Ohio streets.
This forces residents in the scholarship halls to park two or three blocks from their halls.
Blaine Baldwin, Pearson Scholarship Hall president, said parking several blocks away was becoming common, especially on Wednesday nights or game nights. Residents have to walk from their car to the halls in the
dark.
"That's not particularly safe," he said.
"That isn't particularly sure," he said. Donna Hultine, assistant director of the Parking Department, said the Wheel did not have its own parking lot.
"It really confusing that there's an establishment with no parking lot," she said.
The Alumni Place lots, which include the large lot south of the Wheel, are the only lots where the Parking Department can ticket a car and immediately toit it. Cars in the Alumni Place lots also can be ticketed at night, unlike other parking lots, Hultine said.
The towing policy began about two years ago. Some scholarship hall residents who forgot to post their permits have had their cars towed since the policy was adopted.
"It leaves everyone open for potential towing." she said.
Although Hultine said she had not received
many complaints this year, students could call the Parking Department and request that a car be towed from the lot if it did not have an Alumni Place permit.
Hultine said that the Parking Department had called the Wheel in the past to warn customers that an employee of the department was coming down to give out tickets. However, the department stopped calling ahead when the warnings were ignored.
Hultine said there were no other plans to keep patrons of the cafe from parking in the scholarship hall lots.
"We could put up arm gates, but I think we'd probably be replacing them frequently," she said.
Jeff Tidman, Curtis, Neb., senior and Pearson proctor, said he thought the parking problem could be made easier by the Parking Department.
"I'd like to see the Parking Department tow
later at night." Tidyman said. "But they just don't do that."
The Parking Department stops towing cars about midnight.
Students who park at Alumni Place have experienced other problems as well, Tidyman said.
the biggest problem right now is vandalism once we do find a place to park," he said. This semester, there have been four incidents of criminal damage to property in the lot south of the Wheel, said KU police officer Cindy Alliss.
These incidents include kicked doors, stolen chrome from car tires, damaged windshields and a shot-out window.
Although residents in the scholarship halls have noticed an increase in vandalism, Alliss said, four cases were not out of the ordinary. Chad Ball, manager of the Wagon Wheel Cafe, refused to comment.
No 'Wheel' parking
Patrons of the Wagon Wheel Cafe park in the Alumni Place parking lots, which are reserved for scholarship hall students. Recently, many cars have been towed from these lots (shaded).
Source: KU Parking Department Dave Campbell / KANSAN
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