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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 18, 1993
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Cold snap brings shivers illness, fears of frostbite
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Baby, it's cold outside.
Mike Summers, Dodge City graduate student, didn't get much pity from his peers Friday, when windchills made the morning low of 13 degrees feel like 22 degrees below zero.
"Yeah right," Summers said. "No way, no pity."
Summers issues tickets for the Parking Department. He worked from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday. He did not check the forecast before work and forgot his hat.
"The wind is the kicker," Summers said.
The wind is the kicker, Sunnivers said. The air mass that swept over Lawrence Jan. 10 is a very strong arctic outbreak, said Paul Castleberry of the KU Weather Service.
A morning low of 11 degrees below zero was forecast for today, with a high of 8 degrees.
The extremities of the body, where circulation is not as strong, are the areas most susceptible to frostbite, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Health Center. Students are particularly at-risk when they
have been drinking alcohol.
The biggest source of heat loss is breathing cold air in and warm air out, Yockey said.
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"The air you breathe in—when it reaches the bottom of your lungs—has to be body temperature," he said. "When you breathe through your nose, your nose acts like a radiator and warms that air up to body temperature, which is 98.6. But if you breathe through your mouth, you bypass that warming mechanism, and then you lose body heat through your trachea."
Breathing in this cold air does not cause colds. Yockey said.
"But getting cold stresses your body's immune system," Yockey said.
People generate heat when they are out in the cold with the intense muscle contractions involved in shivering. Yockey said.
Mount Oread may cause KU students to shiver more than other Lawrence residents, said Castleberry, a Lake Charles, La., graduate student and teaching assistant in the department of atmospheric science.
"Cold air is heavier than warm air," he said. "Up there on top of Mount Oread, you have all the cold air pooling, and then it
Braving the cold to get good seats for the Kansas-Kansas State game, Krista and Karie Shipley, Lenexa freshmen, stand in line outside Allen Field House.
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Sharon England, manager of Sunflower,
804 Massachusetts St., said a nylon outer
shell would take care of students trekking
up the Hill to class.
'Hawks fans' faces freeze before basketball game
Tom Spencer, Dodge City senior, wore tights to the basketball game against Kansas State last night.
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
He began his shift for the parking department at noon. By 7:15 p.m., he was feeling no pain and had no numbness, but the four layers of clothes he wore were not very comfortable.
Spencer wore a stocking hat under the hood of his sweat jacket. Over the sweat jacket, he wore an army surplus jacket, and under it he wore two thermal shirts and a turtleneck. His legs were protected by a pair of pants, a pair of sweats, a pair of thermals and the pair of tights. He wore two pairs of socks under his combat boots.
"When it gets too bad, we back to the car for a break." Soencer said. "We use the heater."
The tip-off temperature was 8 degrees outside but windchills made it feel like zero degrees, according to the KU Weather Service.
Brian Hensyl, Topeka sophomore, was turned away from Allen Field House the first time he went because he didn't have a spring semester enrollment sticker on his KUID. The second time he came clutching his student schedule in his gloved hand. Hensyl said his mother probably would have approved of the way he dressed for the cold.
She bought most of this for me," he said. "I hope she would, except she would probably want me to wear a stocking cap."
Journalist to address hate speech
Kansan staff report
Paul McMasters, vice president of the Freedom Forum and executive director of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, will speak at 5 p.m. today in 100 Staffer-Flint Hall.
McMasters, who also is the national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, will talk about hate-speech codes and the First Amendment on college campuses.
McMasters joined The Freedom Forum, a non-partisan, financially independent foundation dedicated to free speech and free press, in 1992 after a 31-year career in daily journalism. He has worked as the associate editor of USA TODAY's editorial page and is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Information Committee.
Speakers urge activism, education
Lee Kathryn Counts places the M.L. K. Community Youth Choir at Lawrence High School, 1901 Louisiana. The Gospel musical took place Sunday evening and was part of Lawrence's Martin Luther King Jr. day celebrations.
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African Americans encouraged to shed role of society's victim
By Jennifer Freund
In the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., both Tony Brown and Rev. Frederick G. Sampson appealed to African Americans to take an active role in improving their community.
"Blacks who have made a religion of being victims will have to find a new religion," Brown said. "Racism is not fair, but so what? When it gets cold it's not fair. You get a coat."
Brown spoke to an audience of nearly 300 Saturday at the Kansas Union Ballroom. The speech was part of the Ninth Annual King Holiday Celebrations presented by the Ecumenical Fellowship. Brown is the host of "Tony Brown's Journal," which airs on PBS.
Brown told African Americans not to view themselves as victims, but to educate and arm themselves both economically and spiritually.
He pointed out that African Americans spend only 6.6 percent of their income among themselves.
"We can't blame 100 percent of our problems on whites when 90 percent of our money goes to whites," Brown said.
Brown said education also was essential for self-empowerment.
While Asian Americans were getting degrees in chemistry and physics, only a small number of African Americans obtained doctorate degrees in the natural sciences, he said.
To solve the problems of violence and the spiritual deterioration of the African-American community, Brown called on ministers to lead the way in the healing process.
Churches must lead in morality and give vision and spiritual guidance, he said. Ministers must tell their congregations to avoid promiscuity and the self-hatred found in music like gangsta rap. Two-thirds of African Americans go to church.
Monique Garcia, Wichita senior,
said she enjoyed Brown's speech.
"It pertained to all minority groups,"
she said. "It's all of our responsibilities to take constructive steps and to be more aware. We can't feel sorry for those who cry victim anymore."
If African Americans do not turn to God to end the violence on the streets of America they may succeed in harming their community, Sampson said.
Rev. Sampson, who spoke to more than 1,000 people at a commemorative service yesterday at the Lied Center, lectured on leading people away from victimization. Sampson is pastor of the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit.
"Today we're more afraid of our young people than the grandparents
were of the KKK," he said.
Sampson encouraged African Americans to teach children values in the home before they reached school age.
"Parents need to teach their child who he is, so that he will not go around acting the fool," he said.
Three important steps would help African Americans realize King's dream, Sampson said. African Americans must clear their history, claim their history and creatively confront chaos.
"We will not be victimized," Sampson said. "We will be victors in the midst of a dying world."
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Two people sought treatment for problems caused by Saturday's cold temperatures while a diabetic required an ambulance, said Terry Maple, public information director for the Kansas Highway Patrol.
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Ponce made no arrests but they did intervene in two incidents: a man trying to climb the six-foot fence police set up to keep counter-protesters away from the KKK and an argument between two people in the crowd, which police broke up immediately.
Two hours earlier, King supporters held a rally on the south Capitol steps. Police used metal detectors to check each of the nearly 300 people in the crowd as they entered the fenced-off area.
Among the speakers at the King rally were Elma Broadfoot, mayor of Wichita, and Attorney General Bob Stephen.
C.E. "Sonny" Scroggins, one of the organizers of the rally, also spoke.
He encouraged the crowd to unite against racism.
Meneley said at past KKK demonstrations, violence broke out at the end of the rally when the gathering crowds reached the members.
Police estimated that a crowd of 400 to 500 people stood behind the fences, holding signs and shouting at the nearly 25 Klansmen who stood on the north steps of the Capitol. The Klansmen held a single Christian flag along with many Confederate and American flags. They demanded that the FBI open to the public 845 records concerning King. The records now are sealed until 2027.
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Medical emergencies outnumbered incidents of people causing trouble at the Ku Klux Klan's Saturday protest of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at the Capitol in Topeka, police said.
The Klansmen were escorted through an underground tunnel to the Capitol for the rally. When the rally was over, they followed the same procedure and were escorted away from the Capitol. This route kept the Klansmen out of contact with protesters.
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"We wouldn't be here if we didn't think we could get new members," he said.
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Michael Lowe, the grand dragon of the Texas KKK, spoke to reporters before the protest began. Lowe said the KKK had intended to recruit new members at the rallies it held in eight cities over the weekend.
The security police provided for the Klansmen also helped maintain peace. Meneley said.
"It's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared," said Dave Meneley, sheriff of Shawnee County. "I think the good Lord helped us today with the cold weather. It kept the crowds down."
About 330 officers from the highway patrol, Topeka police and Shawnee County sheriff's office were on hand at the event. Leaders of all three organizations said they sent many of their units home early because they were not needed.
"Our purpose here is not to protest the Klan, but the Klan mentality," Scroggins said. "All of us must be courageous witnesses and come forward and speak and do some problem solving."
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