University Daily Kansan, April 21, 1983
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KU Orienteering Club wins intercollegiate championship
The KU Orienteering Club won the U.S. Intercollegiate team championship last weekend near Cross River, N.Y., and defended the five-time defending champion, the United States Military Academy.
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME that the club, which is sponsored by Student Union Activities, has won the championship.
"It's quite an achievement when you consider we took five kids there and we came out with the top score, and West Point. probably had 100, there, and they're familiar with the area," said Gene Were. SIA advisor.
More than 400 people from across the United States participated in the two-day event.
Orienteering consists of a cross-country running race in which maps and companies are used to navigate the course. Orienteering competes as part of a five-man team.
A SEVEN-KILOMETER COURSE and a 10-kilometer course were used in the championship.
a five that time
The three fastest individual times are combined each day to make up the team time.
Members of the KU team were Mike Eglinski, Lawrence sophomore; Bill Comfort, St. Louis, Mo. sophomore; Dave Linticum, Linticum Heights, Md. graduate student; Karan Keith, Leawood senior; and Peggy Dickison, St. Paul, Minn., graduated student
Museum to get new director
George Byers, KU professor of entomology, has been appointed senior curator and director of the Snow Museum of Entomology, authorities
He replaces Charles Michener, Watkins distinguished professor of entomology, who is leaving the post to do research.
BYERS, WHO HAS BEEN at the
University of Kansas since 1956, was assistant curator of the Snow museum from 1956 to 1965, when he became curator. He was chairman of the department of entomology from 1969 to 1972.
He also has been a visiting curator at Harvard University and a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and at the University of Minnesota.
Soviet lab crew sent into orbit
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union launched three cosmonauts into Earth orbit yesterday for an expected long-term flight aboard the year-old Salut-7 space laboratory.
The crew is to carry out scientific-technical, medical and biological research and experiments boarded at the base. The news agency said
THE MISSION, DESIGNATED Soyuz (U-B) T was commanded by a rookie spaceman, Air Force Lt. Col. Vladimir Titov, 36, along with the crew of Space Shuttle Strelakov, 42, flight engineer, and Alexander Serebrov, 39, researcher.
Tass said the mission would include the study of pasture land, nature preserves and forests, but Western space experts have suggested the space lab may have military applications.
ASKED AT A PRE-LAUCH news conference about President Reagan's recent proposal for an orbiting anti-ballistic missile weapon, cosmonaut Strelakov said, "If we want future generations to be healthy, then we have to put an end to the arms race."
Midwest hard to define,but image is admired,KU prof's study says
By DAVID POWLS Staff Reporter
There is something about the culture of the Midwest that makes people want to belong to it — even if they don't know exactly where the Midwest is.
According to the results of a recent survey by a KU professor, many people in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan are still in state to be the heart of the Midwest.
James Shortridge, associate professor of geography, sent a questionnaire and a U.S. map to college students in 35 states to learn about their perceptions of the Midwest.
SHORTRIDGE, WHO TEACHES A cultural geography course here, discovered that students in 12 states thought their home state was either the center of the Midwest or at least part of the region.
But Californians and New Yorkers agreed that only the plains states of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa were the states according to the survey results.
The six other states that students mentioned as Midwestern were Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, North Dakota and South Dakota.
"Journalists say Chicago is the center of the Midwest," Shortridge said. "But students say the center is on the northern plains."
“You never see extravagance or drunkenness mentioned among Midwest traits,” he said. “The traits you see over and over are self-reliance, openness, strength character, progressive idealism and moralism.”
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Shortridge researched the term Midwest and discovered that it was used once in 1827 to describe Tennessee's relation to Ohio and Indiana, which then were northwestern states. Alabama and Mississippi were southwestern states then, he said.
So why do people in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and other states think they have Midwestern culture?
Economic depression and droughts in these states during the 1880s and 1890s solidified the region's hard-working economy, which is associated with speculation and boom days, be said.
western states also had a tradition. Shortride also said that in the 1880s, the term began to be used culturally to describe Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
SHORTRIDGE SAYS IT IS partially because of the Midwest's image.
DURING THE 1928S, PEOPLE in the United States began their love affair with cities, often looking to the West for new ideas, he said.
"The traits of materialism and conservatism started to be used to describe Midwest culture and many people left Kansas for California. The dregs who stayed tended to be conservatism was considered a back-water region.
1897 to 1920, everybody was willing to be part of the Midwest." Shortridge said. "Teachers and preachers were saying that this was the way to be."
"But in the 1940s and 1950s people still considered it a good region. The negative things were just more evident then, though."
Now people seem to be going back to the ideas of building a life in a community in places like Iowa and Kansas, he said.
BY LOOKING THROUGH CITY telephone directories to see how many businesses use the word "Midwest" in their names, Shortridge has discovered today's boundaries of the cultural region.
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