Monday, April 19, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
EARTH WEEK EVENTS
Information fair 5-7 p.m. in front of K默Dining Compoms
Tomorrow:
Beginner Driving Cameras
Registration for Environmental Studies Student Association Earth Day bike ride, Wescoto Beach
Day bike ride, Wescoe Beach Wednesday
Speaker at 7 p.m. at Templin Visita
ters Center
Registration for ESSA Earth Day bike ride, Wescoe Beach
- Helping Hands Earth Day Awareness Fair, 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. at the Kansas Union
Earth-related poetry slam from 7 to 8 p.m. at Hashinger Hall front lawn
■ Registration for ESSA Earth Day bike ride, Wescoe Beach
Friday:
Winners declared in residence hall energy conservation and poster design contests, time to be announced
Saturday:
■ KU Environs Earth Day celebration, noon - 7 p.m., South Park Gazebo
Sunday:
ESSA Earth Day bike ride, Broken Arrow Park at 29th and Louisiana Streets. Bike ride begins at 10 a.m., but early registration for ride at 9 a.m.
Students to celebrate planet
Organizations plan week-long activities
By Jennifer Roush
jroush@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Various student organizations hope to paint the University of Kansas green this week in celebration of Earth Day, which officially is observed Thursday.
Students will be able to attend events such as poetry readings or an Earth Day open house, which are sponsored by KU Environs, Student Union Activities, the Kansas Union, the Environmental Studies Student Association and an environmental group made up of residence hall students.
Katrina Warren, marketing and promotions coordinator for the Kansas and Burge Unions, said this would be the sixth year the Union had an open house to honor Earth Day.
"It's a place for student and community groups to celebrate Earth Day and give out information." Warren said.
Thursday's free event at the
Union, which also is sponsored by SUA, will include flower planting outside the Union, Tunes at Noon, Earth Day snacks and a table where students can make their own hemp necklaces.
SUA also will sponsor free flower pot painting at Wescoe Terrace and will distribute flower seeds for students to plant in the pots.
Warren said the only activity that would cost money was the wax hand-making station. Students can make impressions of their hands in colored wa, and then take the impressions home for $2 each. The proceeds will go to reimburse the group that is running the station.
Other free events taking place this week are the KU Environors Earth Day celebration and the Association of University Residence Halls Environmental Issues Council events.
James Katzenneyer, Ellsworth Hall environmental chair, said the organization would sponsor several activities throughout the week, including an information fair, a poetry slam and an energy conservation contest.
Students who are interested in participating in these events
should contact Josh Burdette, president of AURH, at 864-6373.
Earth Week will end on Saturday and Sunday with the KU Environments Earth Day celebration and the ESSA Earth Day bike ride.
The Environs event will take place from noon to 7 p.m. at the South Park Gazebo, 13th and Massachusetts Streets, said Matt Dunbar, KU Environs president.
Dunbar said the celebration would include speakers and musicians. The headline speaker will be Adam Werbach, former Sierra Club president. Werbach was the youngest president in the group's 104-year history. There also will be information tables, family activities and food and art vendors.
Jill Richardson, ESSA member, said this was the second year the bike ride had taken place. The $15 per person registration fee, which buys participants a T-shirt and lunch, will help to set up a scholarship for environmental studies majors.
Students can register for the 25-mile or 40-mile bike rides tomorrow through Thursday at Wesco Beach.
—Edited by Juan H. Heath
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Experience drives KU senior to volunteer
by Jamie Knodel
jknodei@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
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Michelle Crouse has mastered the skills it takes to drive Van Go Mobile Arts' 21-foot checkered cab limousine and shuttle kids to and from art projects around Lawrence.
"Getting used to the car wasn't too bad," said Crouse, Overland Park senior. "It is just getting used to having 11 kids in the back seat."
"I found myself saying such mom things, like. 'Don't make me stop the car, or 'is your seat belt on?" she said.
She said she was surprised at her reaction to the kids while in the limo.
Crouse volunteers at a social agency that provides at-risk and under-served Lawrence youth the opportunity to create and participate in visual arts projects.
Crouse was the limousine driver and project assistant for this spring's "Let it Show" program, which was a Superhero Revue created by the children.
Lynne Green, executive
director for Van Go Mobile Arts, Inc., said she never worried with Crouse behind the wheel of the mural painted limousine.
"I always knew that the kids would get from school to practice safe and on time," she said.
Besides transporting the kids from school to practice, Crouse also pitched in to help in all areas of the project.
Crouse said the best part of spending her Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings working on the project was the kids.
"She did everything basically,"Green said.
Green said volunteers such as Crouse, were vital to the success of the organization's projects.
"The volunteers are irreplaceable." Green said. "The projects don't run right without them."
This week across the nation, people are recognizing the contributions of volunteers such as Crouse. Yesterday kicked off the 26th annual National Volunteer Week.
Wendy Marshall, manager
of the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, 2518 Ridge Court, said this week provided an opportunity to recognize the contributions volunteers, such as Crouse, made to the Lawrence community.
"If we don't recognize the value of volunteers' contributions, we could lose them," she said. "We hope the volunteers' stories encourage more people to come out and provide for the community."
Crouse said volunteering was a rewarding experience. She said watching the kids' final performances and projects made donating her time worthwhile. She also said the participants developed impressive and clever plots.
Crouse said she enjoyed her involvement with the project and would continue to volunteer at the center. She plans to help in the Van Boat project to be presented at Lawrence's Art-to-Go Parade May 1.
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"There were a lot of super dogs that saved animals and super villains that protected the environment," she said. "They were mostly good, nonviolent skits."
- Edited by Amber Stuever
Michelle Crouse, Overland Park senior, sits behind the wheel of the 21-foot checkered lima busions that she uses to shuttle kids to and from Van Go Mobile Arts projects. Crouse said that volunteering was a rewarding experience. Photo by Dan Elvasky/KANSAN
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