FRIDAY,FEBRUARY7,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
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Brandon Baker/Kansan
the-moment, everywhere-you can-do-it style. Lawrence's graffiti scene, he says, is a thing of the past, though. Two Lawrence graffiti writers, whose art impressed Morales, have graduated from the University of Kansas.
Vincent Pigno, Lawrence resident, breakdances in the middle of a crowd at Project Groove's one-year anniversary show last Friday at The Pool Room, 925 Iowa St.
He sees the current graffiti scene as minimal and thinks there needs to be more.
Andrew Giessel, Larned senior and former graffiti writer, also followed the older writers when he first began writing. Although he doesn't write anymore, he keeps close tabs on the scene. The strong connection between graffiti and hip-hop music exists for him as well.
Giessel came to Lawrence three years ago with a tainted view of graffiti—and the hip-hop culture it was originally created in.
"I there was no exposure to any type of decent music, period," he said. "Let alone hip-hop."
Any exposure to hip-hop growing up in Larned, a town of
4,000 people about two hours northwest of Wichita, were glimpses of Yo! MTV Raps of the mid-1990s at his grandma's house when she left the room. When he came to the University, through sources such as KJHK's Breakfast for Beat-lovers, he found himself loving the hip-hop culture and felt comfortable inside of it.
"In a college town like Lawrence, there's a great turnover in all different aspects of the entertainment society and artistic culture," Giessel said. "So graffiti, in particular, is always going on. And whether or not it's here or in a town like Larned or in town like New York City, it's not going away."
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Although they are choosing to hold off on the vaccine for now, a committee of Med Center staff members is meeting weekly to study the vaccination issues, Barkman said.
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"I suspect a little farther down the line we'll get all this sorted out and move forward."
As time goes on and it gets solid answers to its questions, the Med Center will probably accept the vaccine, Barkman said.
Barkman said.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department as an agency will participate in the vaccination program, said Kim Ens, disease control program coordinator.
It is up to the individual
nurses to decide to participate, she said.
In order to prevent as many problems with the vaccine as possible, Ens said, the department would educate the people who chose to get the vaccine about the risks involved.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital has not decided whether to participate in the vaccination program.
"There are lots of different
avenues we have to look at," said Belinda Rehmer, spokeswoman for the hospital.
The hospital has until Feb. 17 to decide.
Since the announcement of President Bush's vaccination program in December, 432 people have been vaccinated in 11 states and one city, according to the CDC.
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tron papers to hand out and collect or the expense of grading scantron sheets.
"The idea is not original, unfortunately," Shawl said. "I know it's been done in the
physics department at Harvard for a number of years. A lot of modern classrooms are, in fact, wired and these sorts of things are becoming more and more available."
break.
Although the department has had two transmitters systems since last summer, the system wasn't installed until winter
The company that produced that transmitters, Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology, sent the University two transmitter systems to boost interest in its products. Each student must buy a transmitter for $30, but the transmitters can be resold for $15 at the end of the
semester.
"I hope the University will make some decisions on such systems and have them in most of the large classrooms," Shawl said. "Then a student could use the same transmitter through the entire university career."
Weather dampens the search for debris
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The Associated Press
Investigators also checked reports of debris in California and Arizona, but shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore said late yesterday that as far as he knew, no shuttle parts had been confirmed west of Fort Worth, Texas.
NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Rain-drenched searchers trudging through East Texas gathered everything from tiny slivers to huge chunks of debris yesterday as they tried to find clues to what caused the space shuttle Columbia's destruction.
"We're still looking for that elusive missing link," he said.
So far, none of the more than 12,000 individual pieces found in a field stretching across East Texas and Louisiana has provided the answers NASA is looking for.
The shuttle was composed of about 2 million parts, many of
which shattered into pieces as small as a nickel. The key pieces for NASA's investigation will be the data recorders, certain tiles and parts from the left wing where sensors showed a temperature rise before the shuttle broke up over Texas.
With the rain falling across the debris field yesterday, experts worried that sensitive pieces could end up buried in mud or degrade if left exposed to the rain.
"Obviously the weather is a significant factor for us, but we are continuing on," Nacogdoches County Judge Sue Kennedy said.
Volunteers and NASA-trained searchers scoured the ground in East Texas for even the tiniest pieces. Sabine County Sheriff Tommy Maddox said people were bringing in everything from tiny items to pieces 15 to 20 feet long.
At the Toledo Bend Reservoir along the Louisiana border, meanwhile, searchers in Army
neiticopters said they had spotted at least one large object in the water. EPA senior response manager Jim Mullins said it could be the car-size piece of debris reported by fishermen Saturday.
A dive team was unable to begin hunting through the reservoir yesterday, but the team was standing by with an underwater remote-operated vehicle equipped with cameras and sonar.
David Bary, an Environmental Protection Agency spokesman, said searchers had stopped counting the individual pieces found at about 12.000. The parts include the shuttle's nose cone and at least two possible wing sections.
"We're simply consolidating the material and preparing it for shipment to Barksdale Air Force Base," said Bary, whose agency oversees collection of the material.
The debris, including about 1,000 pieces already on the way to Barksdale, will be "laid out for viewing and inspection" by officials, then taken to Kennedy Space Center to be reconstructed, Dittimore said.
A final resting place for the Columbia hasn't been decided, he said. The Challenger debris is buried in a pair of abandoned missile silos at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center.
Authorities said several people had turned in items since federal prosecutors announced an amnesty period for anyone who illegally picked up Columbia debris. They did not provide numbers or details.
On Wednesday, two people had been charged with stealing government property — a circuit board and thermal insulating fabric from the shuttle.
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