University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 6, 1978
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Staff Photo by RANDY OLSON
Sooner blues
The Oklahoma Sooner ball boys are uncertain about cheering for much of the Kansas-Oklahoma basketball game Saturday. The lead changed hands 10 times during the game but never by more than five points. The Jayhawks rallied to win 69-68, although three starters fouled out.
ASHC asks for internship
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
Scholarship hall residents will pay a little more next year if a proposal by the All Scholarship Hall Council to establish a new scholarship building be approved by the Administration Housing Board today.
The proposal, passed unanimously by the ASHC Thursday, calls for a scholarship hall resident to be hired to keep communications with the ASHC and the University over the summer.
The intern position would be funded by the addition of $1 as a line item on each desk.
The summer intern would act as a representative of the housing board, check on summer maintenance done in scholarship halls, coordinate summer orientation publicity and a newsletter and take care of organizational work, according to the proposal.
Kent Ervin, ASHC president, said yesterday the duties listed in the proposal were only suggestions. If the AHB approves the intern position, a committee would be appointed to draw up a specific job description before an intern was hired.
Qualifications for the intern also would be decided by the committee. Ervin said.
Ervin said the concept of a summer intern was not new but funding the position intended.
The offices of the deans of men and women funded an intern last summer, and the Pearson Trust Committee funded an intern two summers ago but these were one-time positions. The proposal would establish a permanent intern program.
Ervin also said the residence hall association had hired interns for the past year.
Ervin said he proposed the intern position
because he thought that the scholarship hall council had increased its membership and that the need for continuity over the summer had become vital.
Children follow museum workers to wildlife
Staff Writer
An enthusiastic expedition walked silently on the cold ground Saturday morning searching for animal tracks. They did not find those of "Big Foot," but their thrill was
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great. It was not a typical expedition either.
Excited 8-year-old children looked carefully for tracks on the snow on the North Bank of the Kaw River. They tried to guess which animals had passed by the same
However, to make sure they had guessed right children consulted the professionals.
Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall, was the instructor for the field trip entitled "Animal Tracks and Signs." Mike Williamson, Lyons senior, is a systematics and ecology major who taught the children how to identify tracks.
one trip was sponsored for children and adults by the Museum Associates, a membership organization of KU museums of Natural History.
Swearingen and Williams showed eager children tracks of raccoons, coyotes and
"I've seen tracks before," Megan Fitch, 643 indum, told me, "the only time I saw any of them was kind of a kind of tracks."
The highlight of the journey was when the children saw bald eagles flying over the
The group saw the first eagle from the bus in which they were travelling.
A few parents accompanying their children were as excited as their 8-year-olds. Were suddenly their attention switched to that black spot in the sky—a bald eagle.
Susie Schowen, 315 Dakota, said, "They're neat. It's the first time I've seen
After the children had seen a number of eagles, including one that dove into the river and caught a fish, Swearingen said they had been lucky.
"You've seen more eagles than what students study for years have ever seen."
According to Richard Johnston, professor of systematics and ecology, there are about 2,500 bald eagles in North America, excluding those in Alaska.
Swearingen was pleased to see the eagles because he said they were an endangered
Demystifying an old belief, Swearingen said eagles did not eat lambs but fish. He said sometimes they ate only once in several days.
After the children had enjoyed the excitement of wildlife, Sweatingen also gave them a challenge.
"The more we build cities," he said, "the more habitats are destroyed. Although cities create new habitats, too, because rats like to live in cities."
Then they all grabbed field glasses.
Williamson, who worked with 500 children last summer's workshop as an equipment coordinator, said he loved working with children.
Alvamar . . .
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fee of $400 a season for the use of the course and the women's team pays $125.
Peter Whitenight, county commission chairman, said the commissioners would meet today with the county appraiser to consider the matter. Whitenight said the back taxes on the nine holes known as Hidden Valley that were still being carried out by county officials would be reassessed in a routine manner with no loss of revenue to the taxpayers.
Darwin Rogers, Douglas County appraised, said he had obtained additional information from the state Board of Tax Appeals about other golf courses in the
According to Robert C. Gardner,
Senate drops poll paralyzed by apathy
Brit McPherson, chairman of the Senate Polling Subcommittee, said Friday that he had not found enough people to help him. The vote was seen as a random mail sampling of 800 students.
A student body poll to identify the issues the Student Senate should consider next year will not be taken because of a lack of interest.
Writing the questions and tabulating the results would have been too much to handle.
The results of the poll were supposed to be available for the March 1 meeting of the current Senate and the Senate to be elected Feb. 15 and 16.
McPherson said the subcommittee was assigned the project by the communications
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Williamson is known by the children as Mike the Blue Goose driver" because he was a bit shy.
After a two-hour exploration, "Mike the Blue Goose driver" drove the children to a rest area outside Lecompton. There, the child was formally themselves up with hot chocolate and juice.
Even the eating stop was exciting.
Williamson found a baby junce bird in the
box.
children gathered around him to feel the bird's soft feathers and to learn about the
"Feathers are the best insulation man has ever found," he said.
On the way back to the museum, all the children got a chance to hold the dead bird
Williamson said he was glad he had found the bird, although he was sorry it was dead.
“It’s hands-on when the kids feel and touch animals,” he said. “They might remember the eagles. But they will always remember touching the junco.”
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