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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 3, 1999
City limits bars' hours
City commission requires beer gardens to close early
By T.J. Johnson Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission voted unanimously last night to pass an agreement aimed at resolving a conflict between the Oread Neighborhood Association and The Jahawk Cafe and The Wagon Wheel.
The ordinance will require the two bars to close their outdoor beer gardens at midnight except for specially reserved events. The closing time for The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., and The Wheel, 507 W. 14th St., will remain at 2 a.m.
The bars will be able to operate their outdoor beer gardens after midnight only on nights of home football games and graduation, and each bar will be allowed three nights a year to operate outdoors after midnight on nights they choose.
in no cases, the bars will be required to give advance notice of nights they will be operating late to both the city of Lawrence and to the Oread Neighborhood Association.
The bars also will have to obey city noise ordinances when broadcasting sporting events on outdoor speakers for their patron
Janet Gerstner, president of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said the ordinance was acceptable to the group.
"Although this ordinance isn't really what we had hoped for and we still feel that midnight closings are still needed, we are pleased with the changes that were made," Gerstner said.
John Heleniak, owner of The Hawk, said he was disappointed with the ordinance.
"I wish we could have gotten a couple of extra days because most of our business is at night." Heleniak said.
This agreement was an amendment to a resolution the commission had tabled on Feb. 3 that would have required the bars to close before midnight except for 15 nights when each bar could choose to have their beer gardens open until 2 a.m.
Members of the Oread Neighborhood Association and the city commission expressed concern that this original proposal would have resulted in 30 combined nights per year in which one bar would have patrons outside after midnight.
The ordinance also requires the bars to have security personnel on site from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. Thursday through Saturday and to provide additional outdoor lighting in the area.
Edited by Liz Wristen
Coed greek living unpopular
Single-sex environments seen as important, valuable
By Jamie Knodel and Ezra Sykes
Kansan staff writers
KU administrators and students within the University's greek system are having a difficult time understanding an Ivy League university's efforts to make its fraternities and sororities good.
In early February, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees and President James Wright outlined initiatives that they hoped the college would start implementing by early in the 1999-2000 school year, said Roland Adams, Dartmouth College director of news and public information.
Among their five recommendations was the goal that "the system should be substantially coeducational and provide opportunities for greater interaction among all Dartmouth students."
"I personally feel like it's a little rush. I feel that there is a purpose and place for single-sex learning environments," said Wes Simons, assistant director for KU Greek programs.
The National Intrafraternity Conference, National Panhellenic Conference and the National Pam-Hellenic Council had made statements saying that it wasn't in the best interests of Dartmouth College to combine sexes in the greek system.
Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H., is home to several Greek organizations, including three coed organizations, 16 fraternities and nine sororites.
Several national chapters represented at Dartmouth College also have chapters at the University of Kansas. Among these are Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Nu fraternities and Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta and Delta Delta Delta sororites.
KU members of these chapters said the princi-
plies behind the greek system contradicted Dartmouth's attempt to make chapters coed.
"We have a mandate that states this is an allmen's organization," said Jesse Van Dyk, Sigma Alpha Epsilon president and Minneapolis junior.
Brian Wanamaker, Sigma Nu president and Topeka junior, said he did not think coed Greek organizations would be considered at the University of Kansas.
"It's an alien idea at this campus," he said. "It's out of the realm of possibility."
Simons said it was hard to put into words how valuable single-sex living environments were.
"You have to worry about male and female relationships that you don't have to in a single-sex learning environment. To take that away when that's the way you choose to live is too much." he said.
Noel Brinkerhoff, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Dallas junior, said it would be difficult for sorority members to share a living space with males.
"It would be a houseful of hormones," she said.
Adams said that right now, Dartmouth's idea for coed geek organizations was just a proposal.
"At this point, all that is clear is that Dartmouth College social living will contain substantial change. The administration has said that it will be dramatic and radical, but it is not clear what shape that change will be," he said.
And most Dartmouth College students are resistant to this change.
"They are making major changes in social life without student consultation. A lot of members feel insulted about this and that the trustees went about it in secret," said David Hawkins, member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Dartmouth College senior.
According to a poll in The Dartmouth, the student newspaper, 83 percent of students support single-sex fraternities and sororities.
—Edited by Jon Campbell
A view of the Antarctic continent as it might have looked with vegetation is displayed at the exhibit "Lush Vegetation in Antarctica." The exhibit will be showcased at the Natural History Museum through April 30. Photo by Ruben Nogura/KANSAN
Antarctic findings, fossils on display
By Matt Merkel-Hess
Instead of the mile-thick ice and biting winds that are trademarks of the continent, Antarctica once was covered with trees and undergrowth.
Special to the Kansan
For the first time, the general public can get a glimpse of this ancient world at the Natural History Museum exhibit "Lush Vegetation in Antarctica." The exhibit began in late February and is scheduled to close April 30.
The exhibit showcases the research of Tom and Edie Taylor, professors of ecology and evolutionary biology. It includes about 50 fossils, pictures, maps, drawings of ancient foliage and examples of clothing necessary for survival in Antarctica.
As paleobotanists, the Taylors studied plant fossils and traveled to Antarctica to find and collect fossils 220 to 260 million years old.
"For most of geologic time Antarctica was much warmer," Edie Tayla said. "But today we're in an interglacial time period."
This interglacial period is part of a larger glacial period, which is colder
than much of the earth's past.
"We're looking at the question wrong," she said. "We shouldn't be asking why it was warmer. We should ask why it is colder now."
Tom has traveled to Antarctica nine times and Edie seven, with each trip lasting from six weeks to two months. The Taylors returned from each trip with as much as 16 tons of fossils, now stored in Haworth Hall. Their findings are one of the largest Antarctic fossil plant collection in the world, second only to the British Museum.
Each trip included a survival-training course, which Taylor said prepared them for the rapidly changing conditions.
"The weather rules everyone's life in Antarctica," Taylor said. "If something happens to the equipment, it's not the cold that will get you. It's the wind."
In Antarctica, the Taylers operated out of McMurdo Base, the United States' main base on the continent. Working with a four- to six-person field party, the Taylers took helicopters out of McMurdo and set up research camps in the field.
The fossils were found on the surface by looking in areas where geologists had noted plant fossils on previous expeditions, Taylor said. Sledgehammers and chisels were used to find fossils within rocks and to break the rocks into manageable chunks.
Everything from small bacteria to tree rings were fossilized — giving clues to the vegetation and climate. Taylor said Antarctica was one of the only sites in the world for this type of Permian and Triassic fossils.
Taylor said the thousands of fossils had not been cataloged because they didn't have anyone to work on them until recently.
Rudy Serbet, collection manager for paleobotany, is currently cataloging the collection to make a database to assist other research scientists.
"The ultimate goal is to get it on the Web." Serbet said. He also wants to index the information with pictures of the fossils.
The Taylors came to the University of Kansas from Ohio State University in 1995 and brought their fossil collection with them. This is the first time these fossils will be on public display because the Taylors had never been associated with a museum until they came to the University.
Exercise study under way at University
Kansan staff write
By Jennifer Roush
Spring 2001.
Researchers at the University of Kansas are conducting a groundbreaking study concerning the effects of exercise on college students.
The department of Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences is in charge of the Energy Balance study, which puts experimental subjects through 16 months of laboratory-monitored exercise to determine whether physical activity prevents weight gain in students.
Joseph Donnelly, HSES chairman, said he began the five-year study at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Donnelly then transferred his $2 million grant to the University of Kansas. The study, which will involve 75 KU students, will conclude in
There will be three groups of subjects in the KU portion of the study. Researchers just have concluded recruiting for the current 16-month time period and will begin recruiting in September for the final group.
Donnell said students who were 20 to 30 pounds overweight or had a body mass index between 28 and 29 were eligible for the study, which pays $2000 to participants.
He said there had been no long-term studies to date on the effects of exercise. Most studies are only 6 to 12 weeks in duration.
That was too short a period to obtain reliable data. Donnelly said.
He also said previous studies had relied on subjects to honestly report their own exercise and caloric intake. Most people
who participated in those studies underreported how much they ate and overreported how much they exercised.
"It's hard to keep subjects in line," Donnell said.
The KU study will avoid these problems in two ways: all subjects are encouraged to eat whatever they want, and the experimental subjects must report to a laboratory for physical activity. They must exercise enough to burn a minimum of 2000 calories every week.
Their caloric intake also is monitored. Subjects must eat at least two meals each day at Ekdahl Dining Commons and report any snacks or alcohol intake to researchers, said Pam Legowski, research assistant and registered dietitian.
—Edited by Clint Hooker
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