CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1985
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Events celebrate Black History Month
By SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
The Big Eight Conference on Black Student Government will be the main event in Lawrence during Black History Month, Michelle Van, coordinator of this month's celebration, said last week.
Van said the office of minority affairs sponsored Black History Month, but anyone on the campus or in local churches must organize an event to observe black history.
"We help coordinate some of the events," Van said. "We'll help the group put out filers or programs. Or groups can call and tell us about their events, and make it on our list of events. It's really a Universitywide project."
Black History Month, Van said,
was established in 1926 to provide
a specific time for observance of
history, culture and contributions.
She said, "People need to know that a black founded the first blood
bank, and a black invented the stoptil. Black contributions tend to get glossed over in history classes. You may wish to visit inside a special time to notice them.
The following are events scheduled for Black History Month.
*Deborah Dandridge and Marilyn Brady, graduate students in history, will speak on "United We Stand: A Historical Look at Black Women's Clubs in Lawrence and the Nation." The program begins at 7:30 p.m. today at St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church, 900 New York St.
*Brett Fuller, an evangelist from Howard University, will speak on "Destiny of Black America" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, and at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Burge Union. The lectures are sponsored by Campus Ministries.
●Maynard Jackson, former mayor of Atlanta, and Gilbert Parks, a Topeka psychiatrist, will speak at the School for Student Government. Jackson will
speak at the Saturday dinner and Parks will speak at the Friday dinner. The dinners begin at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $9 and are available at the office of minority affairs or from Robert M. Nelson, program manager of conferences and special programs for continuing education.
- "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds Exhibit" will open Saturday and run through Feb. 16 at the Elizabeth M. Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts St. The exhibit is financed in part by the Kansas Committee for the Humanities.
- "Achievements," a panel discussion, will start at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Watkins Community Museum. The event is free and open to the public.
- The Nigerian Students Association will sponsor a dinner of Nigerian food, a symposium, cultural plays and a fashion show of Nigerian clothes Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. at the
University Lutheran Student Center,
2104 W. 15th St. Tickets cost $5 for adults and $2.50 for children and are available at the office of minority affairs, the Student Union Activities office and from the Nigerian Students Association.
- The African Students Association will sponsor a banquet and a night of poetry, cultural displays, films and African music Feb. 23 at 5 p.m. at the Lawrence Community Center, 115 W. 11th St. Tickets cost $5 for adults and $3 for children, and are available at the SUA office, the office of minority affairs and the African studies department office.
- Ellsworth Hall will sponsor a soul food dinner at 6 p.m. Feb. 23. Tickets cost $4.50.
- Andrew Conteh, assistant professor of Soviet and East European studies, will direct a colloquium on "African Socialism: Panel Discussion" at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 in the Kansas Union.
Electric cart means smooth ride for patients
By GREG LARSON
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — From his hospital window overlooking the University of Kansas Medical Center's helicopter pad, State Rep. Bill Wisdom, R-Kansas City, watched nurses slip and slide last spring while trying to push a patient up a ramp in the bad weather.
Wisdom, who was in the hospital in March, saw the helicopter land with the critically injured patient moments before.
"I thought they should have another method of transporting critically ill patients. I work in a GM
plant that has a vehicle . . . for all sorts of medical reasons." he said
Friday, Wisdom cut the ribbon on a new electric ambulance at the Med Center. The ambulance has been in use since the last week of December.
LAST SPRING. Wisdom suggested that the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee, of which he is a member, appropriate money for such a vehicle.
The committee obliged by appropriating $10,000 for the electric arithmetic.
The ambulance resembles a large golf cart with a roof and plastic drapes on the sides to protect patients from the weather.
Ken Ranum, head nurse in charge
of the ambulance, said the ambulance cost $6,000 without modifications and was manufactured by Eagle Vehicles Inc. of Dallas.
The modifications, he said, were a joint effort by the manufacturer and the department of biomedical engineering at the Med Center.
EAGLE VEHICLES Inc. provided the plastic drapes, and the biomedical engineering department installed a red light on the roof, which allowed him to ring to hold the oxygen tank and a metal stand for an IV, he said.
The ambulance can carry as many as five persons and can be run by one attendant, Ranum said. It is powered by several car batteries.
"We have used the ambulance in 10
charter trips since December," he said.
He said the ambulance would save emergency carts, like gurneys, that weren't made for outside weather and would allow patients to be transported helicopter to the emergency room without being exposed to the weather.
Mary Harrison, a Med Center spokeswoman, said the process of getting the patient from the helicopter to the emergency room used to involve three to four people, but only one had to be employed now.
Ranum said that since 1980 patients had had to be transported in ambulances.
Commission to vote on theme park plat
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
The final plat for a proposed Western theme park in North Lawrence is scheduled to be considered by the Lawrence City Commission at its meeting at 7 p.m. on April 14th, 6th and Massachusetts streets.
The development, called Frontier Land, would have a "Western atmosphere," the owner, Glenna S. Hill, 1908 E. 24th St., said last month that the building should be centered on a building containing 20 antique booths.
However, antique shops are not all the proposed development would include. Hill said she hoped to have wagon and sleigh rides on the seven-acre park, in addition to a stocked pond.
Frontier Land would be on the east side of U.S. Highway 99, south of Ichabod's Tavern, RPd 3. Hill this location with tourists in mind.
"It's just two blocks south of the I-70 exit so I think it's a good location," she said.
HILL, WHO RUNS an antique shop in Perry, said the idea of Frontier Land was something she had always wanted to realize. The booths will contain antique dealers and artists. Kansas City area. Hill said she hoped to open Frontier Land by May.
In other business, the commission is scheduled to consider financing alternatives for a proposed recreational complex at Holom Park, Lawrence Avenue and 27th Street. The complex, which will cost $1 million to build, will include a gymnasium, a
racquetball court and men's and women's locker rooms with saunas.
The cost of the complex will be split evenly between the city and private sources. In December, the commission asked the city to study several options for financing the project.
Also, the commission is scheduled to consider an application from Jack Harris and Associates for the issuance of $1.5 million in Industrial Revenue Bonds, which are issued by the city to help finance business expenses. The agency's revenue's postmaster, and a group of local businessmen are requesting the IRBs.
A public hearing on the matter is planned for Feb. 26.
The commission also has received a request from a Lawrence couple that they be granted a license to operate a sidewalk hot food business on the southwestern part of Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
Anh Tnh Nguyen, 1009 W. 20th St.
Terrace, made the request to
city in a letter. Nguyen said his
business would serve hot food from
the store on Fridays and Saturdays
hours of operation are 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Site plans for two proposed apartment complexes also are scheduled to be discussed by the commission. One of the complexes, planned for the north side of 15th Street west of Meadowbrook Apartments, would be composed of 70 units.
ON CAMPUS
The other proposed development is planned for the 1300 block of Kentucky Street. It would be composed of 18 units.
THE STRATO-MATIC BASEBALL Club will conduct its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
THE ST. LAWRENCE Catholic Center will sponsor a meeting of science students at 4:30 p.m. in 2007 Maltall Hall
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S MONTHLY meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
THE UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT Center will present a workshop, Beginning the Job Search, from 3:30 p.m. in 102 Carrion-O'Leary Hall.
THE COLLEGE YOUNG Democrats will meet at 9:15 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. Members and nonmembers are invited.
THE ST. LAWRENCE Catholic Center will conduct its weekly
ON THE RECORD
scripture study at 7 p.m. at the center,1631 Crescent Road.
WEEKLY CLASS AND discussion for Moral Development and Conscience Formation will be from 8:15 to 10:30 at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
THE WEEKLY FOUNDATIONS of Catholicism class will meet from 7 to 8 p.m. at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
TOOLS AND A plumbing auger with a total value of $717, were stolen sometime between 5 p.m. Jan. 28 and 8 a.m. Tuesday from a housing van parked in the 2300 Block of 15th Street, KU police said Friday.
A FIRE ACCIDENTALLY starteer in a trash chute in the basement of
McCollum Hall about midnight Thursday, KU police said. No one was injured in the fire.
A COLOR TELEVISION was stolen between 3 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Sunday at the All Souks Motel, 209 Iowa Street, Lawrence police said yesterday.
$250 was stolen between 11:20 and
11:25 p.m. Saturday from a car
parked in the 1000 block of West 23rd
Street, police said.
A RADAR DETECTOR valued at
AVIDEO CASSETTE recorder and video tape, with a total value of $724, were taken between 3:30 and 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, block of Ash Street, police said.
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