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Touchy situation
Mark Wickersham, Shawnee Mission junior, takes aim at a suspended golf ball in a point control exercise designed to improve his épée fencing technique. Wickersham's ball at different speeds and from different depths and angles is ultimately with touching a training fencing opponent at any point on his body. He is a member of the BU Fencing Club.
Vegetarian delights await planter
Associate Entertainment Editor
By JERRY JONES
With the late winter snowfall slowly turning backyards into primal ooze, and young men's (and women's) funnies turning lightly to spring break, why worry about a garden? After all, that's something that comes after the sun has dried the muck and the frost has kissed us a final goodbye. "Saving 'See you in the fall.'"
to take heake, you backyard busbusters, now's the turn that quagmire into a productive garden plot with grass.
Many vegetables thrive in cool, frosty weather. They will quickly in heat, and the earlier they can be planted in the ground, will be more resilient.
THE APPROXIMATE last frost date in the Lawrence area is April 15. (Frost dates for any region may be obtained from any local garden center or county extension office.) By May 28, frost dates should have arrived on a ruchy salad tidbits from the garden.
If the soil can be worked, head lettuce should be planted from transplants by March 15 (all dates are based on an April 15 (frost date) depending on the variety of lettuce, a full head should be ready for harvest as early as *Mav 1*
full meal at the leaf lettuce, taken from seeds, should be planted at the same time. Blackseeded Simpson is an excellent variety, producing a light green leaf that is excellent when wilmed in bacon fat and vinegar.
Spinach is another tasty salad vegetable that should be planted early. It matures even more quickly than lettuce, going from seed to full tender leaves in just forty days. Its growth also makes it easy to plant again in the fall.
FOR COLESAW fans, cabbage seedlings should be transplanted outside by March 15. Cabbage requires more
Depending on how weird you want to make your salad, or if you just want some tasty side dishes, these vegetables should also be planted by March 15: broccoli, brussel sprout, cabbage collards, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, burdach, shells and turnips.
Three early vegetables deserve special mention: peas, onions and potatoes.
tume than spinach or lettuce to mature, but the first firm heads should be ready by late May.
There is absolutely no comparison between fresh peas and canned peas. Just-picked peas, popped from the pod straight into the mouth, might be the juiciest, sweetest vegetable found in any garden, anywhere. To get that fresh sweet quality, peas must be planted early. Production and quality both suffer harshly from hot weather.
PEAS MATURE QUICKLY~ by mid-May~ and whether they are served cold in salads or warm with boiled and buttered new potatoes, they are one of the garden's most succulent delights.
Potatoes require a lot of room to grow properly, but they reward the gardener with a proliferation of what may be kitchen's best and hardest dishes. The kitchen's that white potatoes are preferred for baking, while red potatoes are more easily stored. In mid-May, probe gently below the surface around the plants for small-sized new potatoes, to serve with those garden fresh peas.
Onions are a versatile vegetable, requiring little space, and providing an edible morsel through all stages of development. Onions are usually planted as small bulbs. As they mature, they will be thinned to provide mild, sweet green onions for salads.
WHEN THE TOPS of the onions begin to fall over, they
should be broken off to hasten the onion's maturity. The bulbs should be dug up and sun-dried, away from moisture. If the bulbs remain in the ground, they will become soft. Onions can be stored almost indefinitely.
By the end of March, even more seedlings should be planted. Beets, carrots, celery, endive, garlic, mustard greens, parsley, parsnips, radishes, rutabaga and swiss chard all benefit from the cool spring weather.
Root vegetables such as beets, carrots, radishes and rutabagas tend to turn pigly and fail to mature if the heat is too high.
Radishes, of course, are an impatient gardener's delight. Some varieties are ready for the table a mere three weeks after the seeds were covered. They afford a crisp and colorful addition to any salad.
CARROTS SHOULD be planted in a fairly sandy and deeply spedaled soil. They take quite a while to sprout, and some gardeners like to plant radishes in the same row. By the time the carrots have established themselves, the carrot roots will be
Beets are a naturally sweet vegetable, and sweeter still when just pulled from the garden. They also are savored for their flavor.
Nearly all vegetables have varieties that mature earlier than others. By planting those early varieties, a spring break breakfast could yield a harvest at semester's end that would fill every bowl in the kitchen. Besides salad, the vegetarian could gorge himself on pickled beets, steamed broccoli and Brussels sprouts, sweet and sour red cabbage, baked carrots, cooked cauliflower in cheese sauce—all delicately flavored with freshly grown herbs.
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Dinner, anyone?
Arts & Leisure
Book aid for novice job hunters
By JERRY JONES
Associate Entertainment Editor
Jobs 78
by William Yeomans Windhover Books pp
With May galloping ever closer for the average senior, visions of employment begin dancing in his head. With the usual graduation glut of highly-educated bodies pouring onto the job market, any advantage is appreciated. William Yeemans may provide that advantage in his book, "Jobs 78," published by Berkley Windover Books.
Yeamans has an M.B.A. from Cornell University, supplemented with 15 years of personnel management experience. He has also worked with companies he have employed him. In "Jobs 78" he draws
Fencers learn basic techniques background of aristocratic game
About 11 University of Kansas students belong to a club that involves a touchy situation.
The students are members of the KU Fencing Club, which meets every Monday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. and every Friday at 5:30 p.m. The Robinson. Each session lasts two hours.
"Fencing has always been thought of as an aristocratic game in Europe. It was essentially a game for people of upper class who were not well-off. He had that distinction in the United States."
Mary Elliott, KU fencing instructor and club supervisor, said recently that she taught basic fencing instructions and the background in both her classes and the club.
FENCERS MUST NEVER use their unarmed hand when engaged in a bout and must never turn their backs on or have bodily contact with their opponent.
A match between two fencers is called a bout. The object of the bout is to hit the opponent with a weapon which not getting hit will win. A bout is hit five times within a six-minute time limit. If a person hasn't been hit five times within the six minutes, the opponents fence has been broken.
"Fencers must not speak to their partners either," Elliott said. "They may make noises and stomp their feet, but no talking or swearing is allowed because this may upset one of the players and someone could get hurt.
"Fencing is a sport for ladies and gentlemen," she said.
upon his accumulated expertise in the field to detail the job-hunting trail, warning of the pitfalls and rating the job market of 1978 in over a hundred different categories.
There are four women and seven men currently in the fencing club, Ellott said. She said fencers under 19 years of age in both the club and her beginning and intermediate fencing classes, as well as young fencers in assorted areas, will be eligible to compete in the Three Weapon Championship tournament March 25 in the North Gym of Robinson.
Essentially, "Jobs 78" offers some practical advice and some of Yoonans' expert opinion. He sprinkles the book with "principles" based upon his experience—in resume writing, he advances the "principle of respect," while in job interview, he suggests, should be obvious: "the harder you work at job hunting, the better the job you are likely to get."
Fencers will compete in the foil, epee and sabre competitions. The foil and epee are point weapons. Fencers must make hits by thrusting these weapons at their opponents. Hits are made with the sabre by either pressing the blade through the air with the edge of the blade.
"THE FOIL AND sabre have limited target areas," Elliott said. "Fencers may hit anywhere on the torso except for the legs, head or arms when using the foll. With the sabre, they may hit anything from the groom up."
The epe is the genome dueling weapon because the whole body is the target, Elliot
I've never had anyone get hurt in either my classes or the club," she said.
Fencing is good exercise, Elliott said, because it helps develop good balance and flexibility, strong legs and a fine sense of spatial control.
"Fencing helps develop good mental discipline because it is a head game as well as a skill."
Highlights
Weekend
The 767 GALLERY will show "Small Painting" by Roger Shimamura and "Recent Painting" by Banksy.
THE GALLERY will display "People, Pots and Paranipamata" a collection of clay, bark and soft sculpture by Leni Salkind and Karen Gould through March 31.
THE HELEN FORSEMAN SPENCER MUSEUM OF
ART will display 'Artists Look at Spencer' from Sunu
THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY Marion
Brown University Press by Linda McKay, potter by Jolie Woidal and
and many others. (C) 2014 Linda McKay.
THE KANAKS UNION GALLERY will display the "James Repertoire" through March 22.
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Exhibits
Elliott, who won the Women's SABre Open fencing championship three weeks ago in Kansas City, Mo., she loved the fencing ritual in which opponents salute each other by dipping their weapons toward one another after a bout.
together who know all the moves and rules, but in order to win, they have to know how to make those moves.
ELLIOTT SAID THE health, physical education and recreation department furnished the uniforms and masks for the fencing club. Recreational Services, a group that sponsors all sports clubs at the University, gives money for weapons and competitive gear.
**PRESERVER RESEARCH LIBRARY has "Kansas Portraits" in the Kansas Collection. The King's Cabinet: Art Collections of Louis IVX, in the Main Gallery. Other Curious Cabinets, in the North**
THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER will show the Fourth Annual Painting Exhibit" sponsored by the Lawrence Art Guild, through March 30. The Center hours are 9 to 1 S tuesday through Friday and 9 a.m.
Gallery through March, and 'Avoid Ways and New
Artices of Cultural Practice' through mid-May.
year. Humanities and social science major will find more job openings than in 1977, but will have to compete for them with the education majors who can't find jobs in teaching."
"I LIKE THE idea of pitting myself against another person because I never know what's going to happen," she said. "It's the attitude of 'may the better bencer win,' and the idea that somebody out there can beat me that makes me stick with it."
Of course, as with any book, one experience is worth a thousand words. No matter what the job hunter reads here, his actual on the job-hunt experience will illustrate a point far better than Yoomans—or anyone—could describe it. However, the book should serve to remove part of the unknown factor for the novice job seeker.
Lectures
The MARVIN HALL ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY will show Philo Widman's paintings through July.
ELIZABETH BROWN, curator of prints and drawings, will lecture on "Art At Bedhill Doors." A Close Look at the Graphics Collection at $5 Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Heiden Memorial Science Museum of Art.
much to include, what length and things not to include ('I have gotten resumes that listed, among other things, push-up records
... Don't put down stuff like that. Most employment people hate push-ups, anyhow.) In particular, he emphasizes two things to include: love of hard work ("You should stress love of hard work in every contact with employers") and any significant percentage of college expenses paid for them, which is about 25 percent of your college expenses with money you earned yourself, put it down. Employers go nuts over that. It shows fortitude, determination, desire, and humility and can help explain a way a low average.)
After all, how far away from the conscience of the American college student can a man be when he offers this gentle reminder: "You probably will have to dress up a little. And wear shoes. You will be excited and happy to stick around and stick around on nice sunny afternoons. What's more, your boss may not be immediately receptive to your ideas for overhauling the methods he has been using to run his department successfully for thirty years and may insist you do it this way, at or while. But no one is really in spirit."
Special Events
Concerts
When examining various forms of jobhunting, Yeemans tends to be highly critical of some accepted institutions. Chapter four, for example, is entitled, "Your Enemy the Driver." The authors criticize ("In some ways, used car dealers are admirable by comparison.") and state employment services ("Use the State Employment Service if there is no other hope: take a job at our company direction.") Conversely, he seems to preface faith in college placement offices.
"You'll have the easiest time finding work if you have a technical or 'occupational' degree," Yeamans said. "Demand for engineers and accountants should be strong, while business majors should have a good background in computer science will find ideas of jobs waiting for them, and computer science majors should also be popular."
Actually, for the bulk of graduates, Yeomans' book opens on a depressing note. He charts the percentage of 1978 graduating majors like slices of a pie, (example: education, 19 percent; social sciences, 16 percent) then charts the percentage of jobs held by recent graduates (social science: one percent).
- Education majors will continue to be the big exception. They will have big trouble with graduate-level math and science.
Yeemans lists "Jobs to look at first" and "Jobs to fall back on" for each major. In the back of the book, he lists one hundred occupations—examples include actuarial trainee, claim adjuster, accountant, home economist, social worker and urban planner. For each job he tries to explain such things as advance opportunities, starting salary and employment outlook for this year.
Special Events Spring Break through March 19.
Probably one of the most valuable segments of the book is on resume writing. Yeomans stresses that a resume is often the initial contact with an employer, and since first impressions count for a lot, a good resume is a necessity.
Films
FOGHAT will appear Tuesday at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City.
Throughout the book, Yeamans expresses an awareness of the problems involved with a beginning job hunter. His final principle is that of "In inevitable discouragement you will be convinced the more convinced you will become that you'll never find work." That principle may illustrate the real value of this book: to offer encouragement and a pat on the back while it is being developed.
Yeoman's tells a prospect, what to expect in the job market based upon his total score in the evaluation. Basically, the lower the score, the more resumes that need to be ground out.
THE 21TH INTERNATIONAL TOURNEE OF ANIMATION will be shown at 3:30, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. today and tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Other categories include: scholastic standing, percentage of college expenses earned yourself, appearance (four points under "wear looking"), personality zero points for "weird looking"), personality and height (men: 6' to 6'4", score three points; under 5"7", over 6"4" or overweight, score zero. Women: 5' to 6' score three points or under that, or overweight, score zero).
Neovans gives us the tools to work hard. He has devised a self-evaluation sheet—with no scientific significance, he admits, but a test which he feels “pretty accurately reflects the way many organizations view applicants.” The test lists 10 different categories with points assigned for two levels of value: fantastic, pretty good; and poor. The second category is “major,” with engineering and accounting rated as “fantastic,” worth 10 points; humanities, social sciences and education are “not so hot” and worth just one point.
Here, some solid, practical advice is offered:
what to include in a resume, how
Class aids in dream memory
By PAM EKEY
Entertainment Editor
Have you ever wondered about the dream you had last night that seemed so familiar, but now you just can't remember the details?
Or maybe the dream was so strange that you actually remember it. Perhaps the dream is reoccurring and you can't understand why it keeps coming back.
Brent Menninger isn't an expert on dreams and dreaming, but he organized a free University class so he and other students could talk about them. "I'm amazed at my unconscious mind because it is so imaginative," he said recently.
The class, Dream Awareness, doesn't attempt to interpret dreams. "We're just curious and we're checking it out," he said.
"EVERY ONCE IN a while, you will talk to someone about your dreams, but the subject usually gets switched," he said. "We've gotten together a group of people with similar interests to talk about them."
Menninger said that by discussing dreams, the members of the class were able to remember their own lives. In the first two weeks ago, he passed out a list of suggestions to help his students remember their dreams. He said he encouraged them to think each morning as soon as they woke up, but most of the class members
weren't interested in recording their own dreams.
But Mmengerain said that discussion was the best way to help remember dreams. "It's a way of telling the unconscious that the conscious is thinking
HE SAID HE had noticed a 30 percent increase in his own ability to remember dreams since the class began and the students were able to remember what they were able to remember.
"I knew just from common sense that sharing dreams with other people was a good way of remembering them," he said.
The class attracted about 20 persons to the first meeting, and 13 attended Monday's discussion. "We sat there for two hours and talked," Menninger said, "It's the focus that I enjoy. We're not in analyzing the individual's deep uncounscious, although somethingOccurs, all but jump out it is that obvious."
He said that at the last meeting, the class puzzled over what dreams were good for. "One guy thought dreams were bad for a child and so we talked about that for a while."
THE CLASS DECIDED that dreams were fun, creative and they had a good sense of humor, Menninger said. "But everyone had different opinions on it."
Menninger said the class had not closed its enrollment yet.