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Tuesday, March 8, 1994
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Security guard keeps eye on art
Ex-police officer protects works at KU museum
By Jennifer Freund Kansan staff writer
Keith Barnhart, Spencer Museum of Art security guard, said even though guarding art exhibits wasn't the most interesting job he has had. it was the one he liked the best.
"I have no real grines." he said.
Barnhart said that students recognized him but that he usually didn't recognize students.
"I was down at the Town and Country Market at 2 a.m., and I saw two young ladies who recognized me and said 'Hi,'" he said. "I didn't know them, but I assume they recognized me form Spencer."
John Estes, Lawrence junior, said that Barnhart made him nervous.
"He follows me around like he thinks I'm going to steal something," he said. "I've never really talked to him personally, but he came in and told my art class one time not to lean on the walls."
Barnhart said that he had been working at the museum since 1978, the museum's first year.
guard at Elsworth Hall and as a police officer for the KU police department.
Barnhart said that his relations with students were much better as a security guard at Spencer than they had been as a police officer.
"I've worked as a security guard at Eldsworth, and I've worked as a KU police officer, but this job is so much better by comparison," he said. "At the police department students felt that I was harassing them, but I really wasn't. I let them off a lot of times."
Barnhart is in charge of hiring other guards and opening and closing the museum, as well as making sure that no one touches the art work.
So far, he said, he hasn't had a problem with KU students bothering the art work.
"They respect the museum," he said. "The problems come with small children touching things."
He also said that he hoped more students would visit Spencer.
"I wish more students would come and bring their parents when they're up here for the weekend." Barnhart said. "Students owe it to themselves to come in and see the museum."
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While he doesn't like art, Barnhart said, he still likes his job and respects Spencer for its collections.
"I don't go to other art museums," he said. "I've only been to one other one, but I respect Spencer. It's one of the top-10 university museums in the country."
Keith Barnhart works as a security guard at Spencer Museum of Art. Barnhart lost his left arm in a 1959 car accident.
Students teach kids about weather
Lessons for pupils stress calmness during bad storms
Bruce Reeves, Lawrence academy, teaches kindergarten and first grade pupils at Riverside Elementary School, 601 N. Iowa St., about lightning, flooding and tornadoes. Reeves and about 10 other meteorology students travel to schools to give lessons about severe weather.
James Wilcox/ KANSAN
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Until yesterday, he also thought that some tornadoes happened in toilets.
Nathan Hickey thinks that lightning happens when God shines a light.
Nanadu, 6, was one of 13 undergirders who participated in a presentation at the Riverside Elementary School, 601 N. Iowa St.
This is the second year for the presentation initiated by Reeves, a meteorology major whose four children call him "Weather Geek." Reeves and about 10 other meteorology students travel to elementary schools and talk to the children about severe weather. Reeves said he thought teaching children about severe weather was important so that they would not panic when it happened.
Reeves told the children about the time he panicked 10 years ago when he and his car were thrown into a field by a tornado he was watching. He said the car was lifted 10 to 15 feet into the air and tossed about 100 yards.
"It was one of those things where I was pushing my foot on the brake so hard, I thought I was going to push it through the floorboards," Reeves said. Reeves said he was shaken by the incident but was not inured.
He stressed that the kindergartners should have a plan in case severe weather hits the Lawrence area.
"What's 'severe' mean?" Reeves asked the children. "Anybody? Dangerous. That's just a big word for dangerous."
The presentations will continue as long as there is a demand for them, Reeves said. Ten have been scheduled so far for March.
March 7-11 has been declared
Kansas Severe Weather Awareness Week. The 18th annual Tornado Safety Drill for the state is scheduled for today. The tornado warning sirens for the city of Lawrence will go off sometime early this afternoon.
Mike Akulow, warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said in an interview that characteristics of a severe thunderstorm include tornadoes, golf ball sized hall or larger and wind 58 miles per hour or stronger.
Akulow said that based on this year's relatively dry winter, a less-active tornado season was predicted. He said Kansas averaged 45 tornadoes a year. In the last four years, Kansas has averaged more than 100 a year.
Often before a tornado, he said, the winds pick up and the sky grows dark and takes on a greenish cast. It may hail immediately before a tornado, and the wind may stop blowing. A great deal of lightning and a roaring sound also could accompany a tornado, Akulow said.
According to the National Weather Service, 113 tornadoes were reported in Kansas in 1993, five of which were in Douglas County.
Akulow gave a presentation on spotting severe weather on March 1. The presentation will be repeated at 7 p.m. Thursday in room 129 at Nichols Hall.
"They're aware of what to do, and they're doing it and saving lives," he said.
Akulow said that citizen awareness had helped weather-related death tolls decline in the past decade.
Tornado warning
What to do if a tornado warning is issued for the area:
Go to the basement and get underneath something heavy, such as a table, workbench or stairway. Try to go to the central or northern part of the basement. Severe weather usually comes in from the southwest, so debris is more likely to fall in that corner.
If you do not have access to a basement, go to the innermost part of the house — such as a bathroom or a closet — on the lowest floor. Put as many walls between you and the outside as possible.
Avoid windows and do not waste time opening them.
Debris and strong winds, not pressure, account for most tornado damage.
Source: Mike Akulow, warning coordination meteorologist, National Weather Service
If a proposal passes the State Senate people will be able to get license plates with their university's logo.
Hawk on the highway
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By Stephen Martino
Kansan staff writer
Licensing loyalty: Kansas mascots may hit highway
TOPEKA - Jayhawks, Wildcats and Gorillas soon may be spotted on Kansas highways.
The legislation would allow citizens to exchange their state-issued license plates for ones bearing mascots of state universities and colleges, public and private, and junior colleges. People would purchase the right to the plate from college alumni associations or foundations. Colleges could charge $25 to $100 per year and receive all the money, which would be designated for educational purposes.
Those university beasts of pride may be permanent fixures on some Kansas license plates under a proposal sponsored by State Rep. David Adkins, R-Leawood and a former KU student body president.
As soon as the college has been paid, it would issue a certificate that can be redeemed for the plate. Persons still would have to pay car taxes and a $40 personalized plate fee to the state.
People would have to pay the university annually to maintain the right to keep the plate. Adkins said.
"A lot of policy questions have to be answered," he said. "It's not a done deal as far as I'm concerned."
The bill passed the House Wednesday 101-24 and is now in the Senate Transportation Committee. State Sen. Ben Vidricksen, R-Salina and head of the committee said the purpose of license plates had been lost in the past few years. "A lot of policy questions have to be answered," he said.
Adkins said the purpose of the plates was to promote education and friendly competition between schools. But, he said, he was confident KU would have the most plates on the road.
"I received a letter, unsigned, by a K-State fan stating that the corridor between Lawrence and Overland Park would be cluttered with Jayhawk license plates," he said. "Frankly, I was just impressed that the letter wasn't written in crayon."
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Kansas wins awards for design
Kansas staff report
The Kansan won three awards for three front-page designs and one for a page-design portfolio.
The University Daily Kansan won four awards for excellence in the 16th annual Best of Newspaper Design contest sponsored by the Society of Newspaper Design.
Ray Chattman, executive director of the organization, said a news panel composed of graphics editors, news reporters and editors judged the contest. There were about 9,000 total entries from newspapers around the world. The Kansan won its awards in the small newspaper category.
"The Kansan won because it stood out among the other entries," Chattman said. "This category has not had great competition in the past, but this year the entries were better than we have ever seen. This puts it head and shoulders over 90 percent of the other newspapers in the contest."
The winners — present and former Kansas staff members Ezra Wolfe, K.C. Trauer, Joe Harder, John Paul Fogel, Tom Leininger, Greg Farmer, Gayle Osterberg, Justin Knupp, Rachel Thompson, Melissa Lacey and Derek Nolen — will be honored at the Society of Newspaper Design's annual workshop in Kansas City, Mo. Their winning entries also will be showcased in Fifteenth Edition: The Best of Newspaper and Design, which will be released in November.
Only one or two other universities competed in the contest, Chattman said.
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