Wednesday, July 19, 2000
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Peace pastors send aid, change to Cuba
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Caravan breaks trading act in effort to crumble 40-year U.S. embargo on Cuban goods
By Scott M. Lowe Jr.
Kansan staff writer
Travelers with a cause for Cuba made a pit stop July 11 at Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
Three members of Pastors For Peace spent the night at the ECM. They're part of a caravan providing aid and protesting the United States' trade embargo with Cuba.
Corrine Cohut, national coordinator of Pastors For Peace; Drew Chebuhar, a temporary worker from Iowa City, Iowa, and Bill Regehr, a retired community activist from Winnipeg, Canada, stopped in Lawrence while en route to San Antonio from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
They are part of an 11-leg, 80-person caravan that is traveling on separate routes through 100 North American cities and towns and will converge in San Antonio.
The three left Winnipeg July 3 and should reach San Antonio July 22.
Cohut, Chebuhar and Regehr hauled a trailer with more than a ton of school supplies, food and medicine. None of the three is clergy
or works in the church.
An estimated 100 tons of aid will be trucked from Texas to Tampico, Mexico, and then shipped to Cuba. Some volunteers also will fly to Cuba to volunteer in schools and hospitals.
Pastors For Peace is part of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. This is the
organization's 10th trip to Cuba since 1992 and the third time caravan members have stopped at the ECM.
The Rev. Thad Holcombe, ECM director, said he respected the hard work and integrity of Pastors For Peace.
"Sometimes a higher moral impetus can be more important than laws in books." Reghr said. "People 500 miles away from Winnipeg sent supplies."
The three said that public opinion was starting to sway in favor of ending the 40-year-old embargo and that it was only a matter of time before Congress listened. The embargo is not
The hospitality we show here at ECM, they present on a much grander scale," Holcombe said.
"If we have normal trade relations with China, then why not Cuba?"
Cohut, who has worked with the organization for four years and is in charge of the entire effort, said she believed strongly in civil disobedience.
Bill Regehr retired community activist
"What we're doing is technically illegal because we're breaking the Trading with the Enemy Act," Cohut said. "By doing this, we're risking 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine."
Regehr and Chebuhar said they believe just as strongly in the cause.
only oppressive to Cuba, they said, but also to third-party countries because trading with Cuba makes it difficult to trade with the United States.
"If we have normal trade relations with China, then why not Cuba?" Regehr said.
The caravan stops at
churches and other places like ECM to save costs. The expenses for this trip are underwritten by church groups in Winnipeg.
"It's important to do something because if you do nothing, you're supporting an immoral policy," Cohut said.
After delivering the supplies, the whole process will start over again. It's a long road for the three travelers but one they believe is well worth it.
"Sometimes to make progress, laws must be broken," Chebuhar said. "We'll keep on doing this until the blockade has ended."
- Edited by Mindie Miller
KU recycling hopes to tap residence hall windfall
By Scott M. Lowe Jr.
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writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students living in residence halls this fall will be part of a renewed recycling effort.
The office of Resource Conservation and Recycling part of the University of Kansas' Department of Environment, Health and Safety plans to work closely with residence halls to create more interest and awareness in recycling.
The University's recycling program began in 1996 and has doubled its output every year, said Kara King, assistant program manager. The total collected went from 60 tons in 1996 to 300 last year.
Student workers collect paper, newsprint, aluminum cans and plastic bottles from 30 campus buildings. The materials are stored in trailers on West Campus and later hauled to Deffenbaugh Industries in Kansas City, Mo.
Mike Hevel, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, plans to increase the amount of recyclables hauled away from campus by increasing participation at residence halls.
"It's much easier for fellow students, rather than staff members, to encourage residents to recycle." said Hevel, Waverly senior. "We'll seek out those interested in environmental issues at the beginning of the year."
Hevel said he would meet with the University's recycling manager, Victoria Silva, to discuss how to increase collections from residence halls.
The recycling program also is planning to donate the University's discarded office computers to a nonprofit organization or have them recycled. A pilot composting project will attempt to collect solid food and wood wastes, which can be used to make fertilizer and cut food and waste disposal costs.
To encourage water conservation, the recycling program is promoting xeriscaping — rather than regular landscaping — to beautify campus. Xeriscaping, which is used in the arid Southwest, makes efficient use of drought-resistant plants and soil. The result is usually a 25 percent to 75 percent
"We do so much more than recycle. Silva said. "We've hit a point in the program, and we need more facilities." Silva said. "I'm not sure we'll have the same rate of growth, but we'll still expand."
Provost David Shulenburger is pleased with the program's progress.
the impact is clear, but there's more we can do." Shulenburger said. "I'm very proud of the offices that recycle."
Shulenburger said that he hoped the KU recycling program would reach a level of success that would allow it to pay for itself.
"We've got to keep increasing," he said. "I still see too many cans and bottles in the trash."
- Edited by Mindie Miller
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