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Spring Edition, March 20, 1985
Sun raises cemetery appeal
Tan fans chase pale faces
By PATRICIA SKALLA Staff Reporter
By night, ghosts and goblins back
in the moonlight that envelopes
Pioneer Ground.
But when the skies turn blue and the temperature nears 65 degrees, students who live on Daisy Hill push the ghosts aside to work on their Copper tone tans.
Nobody is quite sure when students on the Hill began to use the cemetery as their private tanning salon. Judy Ernst, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said recently that students had been sunbathing at the cemetery ever since she came to the University of Kansas three years ago.
"I always thought it was weird"
"I was was a freshman and I thought"
"I was was a freshman."
Ernst said she then realized the cemetery was more than a place dead people were buried. Students enjoy going to the cemetery because not only can they sunbathe, but also
'We'll sit around and joke about the tomb-stones. We sometimes ask what Fred Ellsworth would say if we were sitting on his grave.' Linda Murray Tenaka songhore
they can play Frisbee and softball listen to their portable stereos and even do homework.
RUTH GILLEN. Prairie Village sophomore, said she had heard about sunbathing in the cemetery before she came to KU, so she had no grave marker. But when she saw her she knows thinks sunbathing in the cemetery is gross or morbid either.
"It's close by and a lot of my friends go over there," she said. "It seems more like a park."
Jodell Wickham, Topeka sophomore, said she thought students
used the cemetery as a park because it was a flat place where they could play sports and it was surrounded by bushes so the sun worshipers could catch the rays in privacy.
Ernst said, "It's kind of funny. Those people probably all turn over in their graves when they see the skimpy bikinis and what people are doing on their graves."
Linda Murray, Topeka sophomore, said, "We'll sit around and joke about the tombstones. We sometimes ask what Fred Ellsworth would say if we were sitting on his grave."
Murray said one reason the tombstones didn't bother her was because she had heard a rumor that no bodies had been buried, only gravestones had been placed.
As much as students joke about the cemetery to alleviate their fears, some still have reservations about being around bodies that have been buried.
Wickham said. "I usually try not to sit on any dead people."
Spring weather tricky to predict
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
The 1985 Farmer's Almanac, which can be found at almost any grocery store, predicts that spring weather will start out warmer and drier than normal, but then will turn cool and wet.
But don't plan any picnics around the almanac's predictions. The forecasts usually have about a 50-50 chance of being correct, the director of the KU Weather Service said recently.
"The almanac is very general, so accuracy doesn't mean very much," said Joe Eagleman, the director, of the game. "But that same as if you flipped a coin."
Meteorologists usually predict weather 24 to 36 hours in advance for the most accurate forecasts, said Eagleman, who is also a professor of meteorology, physics and astronomy.
The National Weather Service's seasonal forecast for March is for normal temperatures and normal precipitation.
PHIH, SHIDELER, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service in Topeka, said that prediction didn't mean much, either. The
'If you want monotony, live in San Diego or Miami or Brownsville, Texas. They have 70- to 90-degree weather all year round.'
Joe Eaglerman director, KU Weather Service
mean temperature for Kansas in March was 42.8 degrees and the mean precipitation was 2.08 inches.
But, Shideler said, Kansans can be sure of some things in the spring: thunderstorms, flooding, high winds and tornadoes.
Eagleman said, "If you want monotony, live in San Diego or Miami or Brownleys. Texas. They go to 90-degree weather all year round."
During spring months, the jet stream begins to shift from south to north of the Midwest, Eagleman said. A result of the shift is rapidly rising sea levels that will get 60 degree weather on a Sunday and a snowstorm on a Monday.
As warm. moist air from the Gulf
of Mexico moves north, snowstorms thunderstorms and tornadoes become possibilities, he said.
Kansas ranks third among states hit most often by tornadoes. Oklahoma ranks first and Texas second. Eagleman said.
THE NATIONAL Weather Service reports that between 1950 and 1964, Kansas was hit by 1,529 tornadoes.
But, Eagleton said, the impression of Kansas as the playground of the city was a great one.
"If you calculate the probability of a tornado hitting a specific building," he said, "the chances are only once every 500 years.
"Most Eastern states have quite a few tornadoes and with the amount of people there, the potential for an encountering a tornado is greater than in some other locations in Kansas."
If a tornado does strike, the National Weather Service recommends that people move to the interior part of a structure if no basement is available. Windows, doors and outside walls should be avoided.
If people are in cars or trucks, they shouldn't try to drive away from a tornado. They should head for a ditch or low ground and cover their heads with their arms. Mobile homes also should be evacuated during a tornado.
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