University Daily Kansan, July 10, 1985
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Bound for Atlantic City KU senior prepares for pageant
By Gina Kellogg Staff Reporter
In two weeks Elizabeth Hunter will head for a pageant in Vicksburg, Miss. But unlike last month, when Hunter was crowned Miss Minnesota, she won't be on stage this time. She'll be in the audience.
Hunter, a KU senior in vocal performance, will be watching the Miss
Mississippi pageant to prepare for the Miss America competition in September in Atlantic City, N.J., and to meet other Miss America con-
Hunter
ly the new Miss Mississippi, but contestants from other states.
Hunter said from her Austin,
Minn., home. Sunday, "I'm the first
queen from Minnesota to ever go
to app pageant, so if it's quite
a privilege
"As you know, the southern states are wonderful states. They're so hospitable, and I get a chance to work there." It should be a great experience."
Hunter was formerly Miss Austin, which led to her eligibility for the Miss Minnesota pageant.
"I thought it would be good exposure for myself and for my vocal performing and a good opportunity to
be in a scholarship pageant," Hunter said of entering the state pageant.
Hunter said she had been busy every day with appearances since she won the pageant in Minnesota on June 19. She also has been working with her KU vocal coach, John Stephens, associate professor of music, and other vocal coaches in Austin and at the University of Minnesota to get ready for the Miss America competition.
Hunter plans to sing "Love Is Where You Find It," a song she described as half classical and half jazz, for the talent competition in the Miss America pageant. She also used songs for the Miss Minnesota pageant.
"It has a wide range. It's a show stopper and an audience pleaser." she said. "I'm a high soprano so I cover the range of the song well."
Hunter's rendition of the song won her the talent competition for the Miss Austin and the Miss Minnesota pageants.
She said she would like to sing professionally someday. Her long-term goals include getting her bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas.
"In that way, I'll be able to teach at the college level and perform also," Hunter said.
So far Hunter has won more than $6,500 in scholarships and awards since entering the various competitions. In the Miss Austin pageant, she won a $1,000 scholarship and a talent award of $50.
In the Miss Minnesota pageant, Hunter won a $3,000 scholarship, $1,500 for wardrobe, a talent award, $1,000 for preparation for the Miss America pageant, a trip to Atlanta and the use of a car during her stay.
Hunter said her friends and family were excited about her new title.
Hunter's father, William Hunter, said the family was happy for her.
"This sort of thing will allow her to compete against other girls and be able to tell if this is really her chosen friend. HeAgain this is a scholarship agent, so it's not relegated just to beauty. We’re very proud of her win."
To fulfill her duties as Miss Minse
Hunter, will have to postpone
her studies for at least one semester.
She hopes to return to KU in
January.
"It just depends on how much the state will like for me to do for them." Hunter said. "I'm very excited and looking forward to representing the state. I hope that I perform well for them."
Sparkling Fourth
An aerial display brightened the Campanile during Thursday's fireworks show at Memorial Stadium.
Proliferating rabbits aren't campus problems
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporter
They are the campus cottontails.
They dart across campus paths, carefully timing their efforts to miss the many feet of students who quickly pass by with rarely a pause in their gait. Once again they are safe beneath the cool, shady shrubbery that lines the walkways.
Their only real enemy is the carefree hound, a red bandana around his neck. The dog merrily gives them chase, without their slightest provocation, over the fresh, green laws.
Although no one can estimate how many rabbits inhabit the campus, they seem to proliferate in the area. A study of the population caretaker at the Animal Care Unit in
Malott Hall, said recently that the bunnies could reproduce quickly.
"Those born in the early spring can have a litter before the fall. That's how fast they grow," she said.
Jim Mathes, assistant director of facilities operations, said his department didn't encounter any problems with the abundance of rabbits.
"There's enough dogs on campus that they keep them moving," he said. "The dogs are more of a problem than the rabbits."
Mathes said the grounds keepers had few rabbit casualties when mowing the lawns.
"They're smart enough to get out of our way when they hear us coming." he said
liferated off campus as well as on campus.
"They're all over town," she said.
"They live a lot on campus because there are lots of shrubs and lots to eat."
Mahanna said the cottontail rabbits mainly ate greens, such as clover, grass, certain leaves and anything else low to the ground.
Mahanna said the rabbits pro-
"They don't go too much for flowers, thouh." she said.
Christy Kennedy, an animal caretaker for the Animal Care Unit, said the reason the rabbits seemed so unafraid of people was that they had been on campus all their lives, instead of living in the wild.
"They're just used to people," she said.
young rabbits were brought into the Animal Care Unit by people who thought the animals had been abandoned by their mothers.
But both women cautioned this might not be the case.
Mahama said, "Usually the rabbits that are brought into us don't need help. If you don't know for sure, put some grass over the top and then go back later in the day and see if it's been moved.
She said if their skin were pinched and it stuck together, then the babies dehydrated and probably had no mother. At that time it would be safe to bring them into the Animal Care Unit, Kennedy said.
"the mothers only feed twice a day, in the early morning and the late evening, so if there are no adults it doesn't mean that one isn't there."
feel them and they're getting cold,
then the mother probably isn't
around anymore."
After they care for the animals at
the unit and are sure the animals can
survive by themselves, the animals
taken outside the city to be set free
However, Kennedy said. "If you
She said some people wanted the rabbits back to put in their yards. But she warned against keeping an undomesticated rabbit for a pet
Mahanna and Kennedy said many
Researchers go to Yukon examine life
"We're going to attempt to discover the pattern of evolution of mammals during the ice ages." Hoffmann said.
The group will then travel 900 miles to Inuvial, an Indian-Eskimo settlement. They will return to the University before the fall semester begins.
He said he had been studying manna's that lived in Siberia and Alaska, which were once connected at the Bering Strait.
By Carol Stephenson
Bob Patterson, professor of zoology, left today. He is traveling 3,000 miles by van to Whitehorse, Canada. On July 22, Bob Hoffmann, curator of the Museum of Natural History and professor of systematics and ecology, Jane Junque, Lawrence Catfield, a Swiss colleague of Hoffmann, will travel by airplane to meet Patterson.
Staff Reporter
The Bering Strait connected the old world with the new world by a land bridge. When it was connected, travelers from one world to the other travel from one world to the other.
Two KU professors and a graduate student will leave the warm climate of Lawrence this month for the cooler environment of the Yukon region of Canada to conduct research on the evolution of mammals.
When temperatures would warm up and the strait melted, the land connection would be flooded. During these periods, Hoffmann said, changes took place that often resulted in the creation of different species.
"In Alaska there was quite a bit of differences in size and appearance between animals living in true Arctic regions and those in sub-Arctic regions," Hoffmann said. "We want to examine if this is true in the Yukon.
Blood and tissue samples of the heart, lungs and kidneys of mammals living in the region will be taken, Patterson said. Some small animals, such as ground squirrels, will be sent back for further study.
The trip is being supported by a research grant from the National Science Foundation.
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