CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1984 Page 6
Egyptian sands reveal history
By STEPHANIE HEARN
Staff Reporter
The vast, arid wasteland of western Egypt might look like just an overgrown sandbox to most people, but for two KU researchers, the desolate area opens a new world of exciting sights to explore.
Of his trip to Egypt last week, Rolphe Mandel, KU coordinator of environmental research, said, "I've never in my life been a historian or historical material all in one place."
Mandel and Alan Simmons, director of the KU office of archaeological research, braved the sun and heat to survey 10 lake beds that Simmons selected two years ago on a previous trip to the area.
Mandel said he was amazed when he and Simmons discovered that lakes and people who lived around them seemed
to have followed a cycle of disappearing and reappearing.
DRAMATIC CHANGES IN climate over the last 2 and a half million years caused the area in the western desert region to vary along the range from extreme aridness to extreme moistness. Mandel said.
People only inhabited the area, near Kharga, when water was plentiful.
"Obviously, the area is now in a dry climate stage," Mandel said. "It is hard to imagine that that hot, dry area with not even a blade of grass to be seen for miles was once — and may be again — rich with water and vegetation."
From the tools and pottery that Mandel and Simmons found on what used to be lake shores, they determined how to shape rocks three different lines as the lakes grew and shrunk.
Mandel said he and Simmons were also able to distinguish among several
different time periods of human existence in the area.
eat large amounts of food.
Mandel said they found tools made 200,000 years ago and pottery from Roman times, 1,500 years ago.
BEFORE EXPLORING the area, Mandel and Simmons first had to obtain permission from Egypt's antiquities department, because the Egyptian government does not generally allow foreigners to venture off the main roads.
The department allowed Mandel and Simmons to explore only the top eight inches of the soil.
An inspector from the Nile Valley escorted Mandel and Simmons on their exploration to ensure that they took only samples of soil.
Mandel said he would be able to identify the vegetation that once grew around the lakes from pollen preserved in the soil samples of 10 lake beds.
Rolphe Mandel
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
AFRICAN STUDIES 1984 Film Festival will present its work in Nation at "7" Lippincott Park, Baltimore, MD.
9:30 p.m. in 165 Empire Hall
GERMAN CLUB'S Monthly Kafé
festeundle will meet at 4 p.m. in 4065
Wesco Hall
LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will present the films "El Salvador: The Seeds of Liberty" and "Americas in Transition" at noon in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union and at 6 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries,
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of
"TOWARD A CULTURAL Practice"
a lecture by Mary Louis Pratt, Stanford University associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, will be at 4 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union
KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
CANTERBURY HOUSE will sponsor an Episcopal Eucharist at noon in Danforth Chapel.
GRUB STREET, KU's literary maga-
nus. In the Oradial Room of the Union
ORTHOIDHO CHRISTIANS On Campus presents "The Annunciation" by Fr. Demetrios Lokis at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
TGIF, THANK GOODNESS It's
Friday" will be from 3 to 6 p.m. at the
St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631
Crescent Road.
DESIGN DEPARTMENT Student Show will open at 3:30 p.m. in the gallery of the Union.
UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY Club will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
Bus pass prices to remain at $30
By the Kansan Staff
The Student Senate Transportation Board will pay $1 an hour more for bus service in fiscal 1985 than it paid this fiscal year, but the price of student bus passes will not change, the chairman of the board said yesterday.
The board last night accepted a contract proposal from the Lawrence Bus Company for $21 for each hour of bus service, or $89,113 for the year. The board paid the company $20 an hour in fiscal 1984.
Mark Bossi, chairman of the board,
said the contract increase would not
affect the price of student bus passes,
which would sell for $30 again next fall.
Duane Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Bus Company, said he would decide in April to sell his company.
which would take effect July 1.
He said he would wait until April to see whether his insurance would increase but said he didn't expect an increase in his rates.
The contract is a 5 percent increase over last year, Ogle said. He said his company could have asked for a 12 percent salary, increases and higher operating costs.
"We will consider the contract firm offer unless we get a ridiculous quote from the insurance company," he said.
Expecting an increase in funds from the Senate, the bus company last fall gave full-time drivers an 11 percent salary increase and part-time drivers a 20 percent increase, he said.
He said the company also needed the increase because of high operating expenses of four large buses, which the company had purchased over the last five years. The company uses eight other buses, which are cheaper to operate but hold only its riders. The four other buses have a rider capacity of 100.
The Senate did not increase the company's contract, Ogle said, so the company has had to make cuts in other areas to cover the increase.
The Transportation Board negotiates a contract with the bus company based on revenue from bus pass sales and cash fares and funds from the Senate. The board received $6 from each student and faculty for each full-time student and $5 from each full-time student in the summer for a total of $244,530 this year.
Bossi said the fiscal 1985 contract was the first one-year contract. Previously, the company has negotiated a nine-month contract and a separate contract for the summer.
Central Park to get better sidewalks
By the Kansan Staff
Sidewalks that are part of an improvement plan for Central Park will look better because the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board allocated $3,500 for brick edging of the walks, the president of the Old West Lawrence Association said last night.
The money makes a total of $5,500 that the board has allocated for the project at the request of Oliver Finney, the president.
Finney said the association wanted the 1-foot brick edge on the 8-foot-wide
walks to make them look more narrow. The city needs the sidewalks to be 8 feet wide so that city public works trucks to have access to the park, he said.
"Basically, we wanted it to look better, rather than simply to be utilitarian." he said. "We were concerned that it was looking like a waterworks project rather than a park."
The neighborhood association has raised no funds for the project, he said.
The swewaks in the south section of the park, where the Lawrence Municipal Pool is located, will not have the brick edging.
Although the master plan for the park, developed by the Parks and Recreation Department, provides for $400,000 in improvements to the park, only about $70,000 of improvements will be done this spring, said Lynn Goodell, director of community development.
will put brick edging on every third section of the sidewalks in the north section of the park, is $5.077, Finney said.
The estimate for the project, which
Other improvements to the park include earthwork, landscaping and an irrigation system to improve the existing ice rink, said Fred DeVictor, director of Parks and Recreation.
Bill would put limits on beer, gasoline sales
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A bill that would prohibit beer sales at gasoline stations or convenience stores that sell gas would merely drive beer drinkers elsewhere for their "six packs" representatives two years ahead told a House committee.
Representatives of the Kansas Food Dealers Association, Inc., and Kwik Shop convenience stores told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that the bill, designed to reduce the costs associated with roadways, would not be an effective law.
"The person who wants to make the beer purchase is going to find a place to purchase it," said Frances Kastner, a lobbyist for the Kansas Food Dealers Association. "If he has to drive half a mile, he will do so it he wants to buy beer."
Larry Repp, district manager for Kwik Shop, said the new law was not
"THE ISSUE IS unead — sell beer or save lives," said the Rev. Richard Tayne, president of Karsans for Life at the University, a supporter of anti-drinking legislation.
Taylor said the bill would curb drunken-driving without raising the legal drinking age. He criticized Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide group that in the past has been against raising the drinking age.
State Rep. Joe Knoppe, R Manhattan, suggested增加 the bill to allow some grocery stores that sell both gas and groceries.
"Where are the Associated Students of Kansas today?" be asked. "They claim that we can reduce highway tragedies in ways other than raising the drinking age. This is one of those other ways."
"If 50 percent or more of the store's sales were gasoline then the store would be classified as a gas station," he said. "If less than 50 percent of the sales were gasoline, then the store
'Where are the Associated Student of Kansas today? They claim that we can reduce highway tragedies in ways other than raising the drinking age. This is one of those other ways.'
the Rev. Richard Taylor President of Kansans for Life at its Best!
needed because the drunken-driving laws on the books now were sufficient.
"THE OPEN CONTENER laws and the new drunken driver penalties can be adequate preventive measures if they are utilized." Repp said.
Passing the beer and gas law would only put many small gas stations and convenience stores out of business, Repp said.
"The combined sale of beer and gasoline represent over 50 percent of our total sales," he said. "If either were restricted from our sales mix, many marginally profitable stores would be forced to close."
Supporters of the bill argued that it would cut off a major source of beer for people who drink and drive.
would be classified as a grocery store". No, that's too much.
"Knopp said the amendment would prohibit sales only at the stores technically defined as gas stations."
BUT CHARLES NICOLAY, a lobbyist for the Kansas Oil Marketers Association, said stores that sold gas and grocery could not count on a regular percent of profits from gas sales.
"It might be more than 50 percent one month and less than 50 percent another month," he said. "It fluctuates back and forth."
Taylor said that most people who bought beer at convenience stores or gas stations did so to drink while they drove.
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