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Wednesday, April 23. 1980
University Daily Kansan
Earth Day focuses on energy
By DON MUNDAY
Staff Reporter
It was hard to tell the ecology freaks from the spring freaks in South Park yesterday afternoon, but both basked in summer heat.
Unlike the first Earth Day, however, when thousands marched against pollution, this celebration was geared as much toward energy development as it was the preservation of the environment.
"It shows how our priorities have changed," said Gary Waters, a member of the Kansas Organic Producers who had a 43% share in the company.
"So much of energy is involved with the environment," Webber said. "Where we get our energy, how it's used and what we do with it afterwards; they're clearly linked. 1880 is the year of energy."
About 75 people representing various local groups milled up, dissected the future of the environment, eating natural food, and trying to make a difference.
Solar power mounted the displays, which included a solar energy mirror that boiled water and a windmill that once powered it.
WEBER'S HOMEMADE collector, a foot-long wooden box, helped heat his home last winter, he said. The box outside a window, letting sunlight stream in through a glass front and walls, also kept the room cool. A vent then heated the heated air into the room, he said.
The "solar-window-box-room-heater," as he called it, heated his home for five hours each sunny winter day.
"My monthly gas bill was about $14.50," he said, adding that solar power would become increasingly important.
THE CENTER joined various groups including KU's Ecology Club, the Jayhawk Audubon Society, Save the Tallgrass Prairie and the Sierra Club in setting up displays for Earth Day. Some of the talked on what the past decade had meant.
"I think we've made a lot of significant progress," said Carl Horner. Lawrence graduate student. "The last ten years have been a great time for me."
Jm Mendahlen, a member of Lawrence's Appropriate Technology Center, said solar power was no longer a matter of choice.
"But as some of these things have been taken care of, they've uncovered other problems not visible ten years ago," such as
Thor and Mendhenel agreed that the problems posed by hazardous and radioactive waste would be among the most serious.
Earth Day forum for unusual causes
Earth Day '80 in Lawrence is a forum for the well-defined environmental groups in the area, and it attracted some unanticipated reactions.
"The energy problem will be confronting us for years," he said.
Many community groups had set up tables at the afternoon park. Park, with others preferred to pedicle their philosophies on foot.
"These chemical wastes were things nobody had heard of then," They said. "Now people are finding out their homes are being damaged."
The league has five Lawrence members who hope to start a local chapter, Jocobs said.
"I have I given you one of these?" asked one woman with a stack of blue brochures, as she approached an observer. "I represent the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom."
JOCOBS LIVED in New Jersey years ago and remembers environmental celebrations on Earth Day 1970.
The woman, Dorothy Jacobs, 513 Learnard Court, said the league was protesting the proposed U.S. defense budget now before Congress because it included funding for nuclear weapons.
"We're connected to all of this," she said, gesturing the displays around her. "We're against nuclear power, for peace and prosperity."
Films, folk singing and solar energy demonstrations were the main attractions on that day, she said.
Yesterday, tempting displays of sprouting edible seeds sat on one table, free to any passers-by.
Labels identified containers of sunflower seed, mung beans
and alfalfa. A nearby card explained that sprouting increased the nutritional value of seeds four to 10 times.
Behind the table sat Margaret Demarel, an employee of Sat Nam Soros, a seed business north of Lawrence.
"Seed sprouts taste good and they are good for you." DeMarce
grab a handful of alfalfa.
Kids learn either to hate them or have fun.
On the ground behind another table, Dan Bentley, 1916 Tennessee St. methodically massaged the feet of his female colleague.
THE TWO are members of the Wholistic Health Group, an offshoot of the Appropriate Technology Center. They said the motto of the group was "self-sufficiency in energy, food and health."
Bentley said that foot massaging was reflexology by the Wollstein Health Group. It is supposed to soothe and revitalize the feet, which are often a bit tired.
"We believe that the body is literally grounded to the earth through the feet," Bentley said.
Prairie said, "If there is an illness in the rest of the body, it is because the magnetic energy that flows through the feet has been blocked. We massage the feet so that the energy can flow openly through the body."
Bentley said that the practice of reflexology was the reason his group participated in Earth Day.
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However, the federal funds under the UMTA handicapped program are earmarked only for capital improvements, such as the acquisitions of buses.
KU's handcapped bus service, cramped by more passengers, is planning to add another van this fall The van, which will be used for the new route, can be an interferrer Council fund raise.
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STEVE MCUMRY. Student Senate Transportation Board chairman, said in some cases it would be advantageous to steer clear of federal funds.
Bob Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, which directs students in emergency care, successfully applied to the Department of Transportation for UMTA funds in the past. Turvey said that he had not talked to off-campus students but that he was willing to check them out.
"If any place can give us money, we'll seek it out." "Turvee said.
"We if get into that (federal funding), we don't want it," Mr. McMurray said, control, McMurray said, "There are all that bureaucracy that goes along with getting federal money. Our only concern is service."
Whenever a transit authority accepts federal grant money, it is locked into compliance with a number of federal laws that limit its ability to pay its employees the federal minimum wage.
TURVEY SAID that because KU on Wheels was run for a profit, it might disqualify the handicapped service for federal funding.
The handicapped service is included in the KU on Wheels budget, but it is run independently of the service and at a loss. It may be used to run the service, or an average of $1.50 a trip.
"It is an expensive service, and there is no clue what to do." Clones anyone from service is unfair ethically or legally. People in wheelchairs pay the same amount you do to have that
Although KU on Wheels has been running since 1971, the handicapped bus service was added only last spring. Turvey said the number of passengers was growing fast.
"We've been running under a tight roof at peak hours we get getting people because there were too many people and no way to spread them out," Turvey said. "We could have been safer."
The handcapped bus service, which runs from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., plans to add evening hours next fall to offer the same service as KU on Wheels.
ONE HANDICAPPED bus rider Tom, Bissing, Lawrence graduate student, said it took a lot of cooperation to hold the service together this semester.
Scheduling is coordinated by KU's dispatcher service for bac service calls. If participants cannot attend a class, they can be informed for informing FO, which the re-arrangement will take.
"If one or two people were late it would throw the whole schedule into chaos," Bissing said.
Persons wanting to use the service should call the Student Assistance Center to get assistance with the temporary disabilities, such as broken legs, also are allowed to use the handicapped
Bissing said all KU students benefited from the service, not only because they might become temporarily disabled, but also because of their increased awareness of handicapped people's needs.
"The public tends to be more uncomfortable with people with disabilities, but I have seen a lot of people not been exposed to them." Bissing sigh. "The bus service gives more of a chance for people to learn how to deal with a person who is handicapped or runs that is good for the entire population."
ALTHOUGH THERE are no statistics on handicapped enrollment, it is expected that as the campus becomes more accessible, increasing numbers of handicapped students will choose to attend KU. Bissig said that although the academies were not the only institution in selecting schools, the bus system run a close second for handicapped people.
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Art exhibition shows winners of scholarships
"A "Plug in Budda" stares blankly with his hand. "And by a steel skeleton. An inscription on his back hends: "it is it chick or it is sexual? It is perpetual or electrosexual? It is docteuse or electrosexual?"
A scholarship listing of student recipients is incomplete, Phillip Blackhurst, assistant professor of art, said yesterday.
"Plug in Buddh! by Chris Bruch, Independence, Mo., senior, is one of the student pieces ranging in the Cassettes. The award was given to a student art display held last week in the Fine Arts building. Scholarships will be provided to students with piece on display in the International Festival.
The pieces by Eric Pyle, Hutchinson junior, use warm beiges and browns.
The student exhibition draws observers to colorful oils, the muted shading of charcoals and the simplicity of metal welding.
Blackhurst that scholarships were based on the "quality of the work and the recommendations of the faculty. It is not a matter of how much time you spend a student has done the previous year."
Direct lines and shading are the themes of Kim Schrag's unitled charcoal drawing, Larua Ramberg Seibel. Lawrence senior, music teacher, and feminine grace in her "Bell Bounce."
Selbel said that she did bronze casting, but also worked in wood, stone carving, drawing and oil painting. She said she hadn't found her artistic niche.
She said that being offered a scholarship by the School of Fine Arts was a good experience.
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