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Friday. October 8, 1971
Section 2 University Daily Kansan
Trainees Work on Solid Waste Pollution .. William Mills, left, and Nell Burnett at work ..
Students Work on Pollution
By MARY BESINGER
Kancon Staff Writer
Four University of Kansas graduate students are now positioned program concerning solid waste. The program is supervised by Ross E. McKinney, professor of civil engineering.
According to McKinney, the program is now in its fifth year and is supported by a grant from the National Park Service. The program was started on July 1, 1967. During these five years $211,411 was granted, but McKinney said that the group had spent only a little over half of this
The main concern of the project McKinney said, is "how to handle the solid waste that our society produces in the most efficient manner possible without any environmental pollution."
The purpose is to evaluate the water pollution potential by locating the sanitary landfill in the flood plain of a river. In Lawrence, the landfill is located in flood plain of the Kansas River.
NEILH BURNETT, Abilene,
working on the micro-biological
analysis of the ground water in
the vicinity of the Lawrence
Solid waste is buried within the landfill and then completely disposed of. The question being studied is whether the waste material's germs will survive in the compost.
A year ago, the Kansas House passed a bill requiring all new management plans by 1975. Burnett, as part of his project, also will assist Kansas counties in their formulation of a solid waste law.
THIS IS BURNET'S second year with the project and he will soon receive his doctorate. With his doctorate, Burnett hopes to either go to work with the federal government in its Environmental Protection Agency to teach environmental health and antimotion at a university.
Another problem of the solid waste program is concerned with the use of compost. Regan, Garden City, N. Y., graduate student, is studying this
According to Regan, solid waste contains organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus. The activated algae, a new process, has been proved to remove all of the phosphorus instead of three separate
processes. Right now, Reagan is working well near major states and aims to expand his role into a larger strategic process. In this works, then a full-sized plan is created.
REGAN, ALSO working toward his doctorate, will continue his study for at least another year.
William Mills, Durham, N.C.
graduate student, is on leave from North Carolina Central University to study his project.
Mills is monitoring the effects of leachate on the ground water and chemical breakdown of solid waste that moves through the soil. He monitors the water around the landfill in order to understand Possibly in the future the pollutants could go into the Kansas River and pollute the water.
"We go out every Sunday morning at 5:30 and sample 10 wells and are usually finished
with the sampling of the wells by 11 a.m.," Mills said.
Some of the tests must have an immediate analysis so they can be used to determine the remaining samples can be preserved for analysis during the testing period.
The goal of these tests is to "be able to identify the chemical components of the leachate." Mills said.
The whole problem is to eliminate solid waste. Right now the waste is being buried and the tests will hopefully show whether it can be recycled.
Mills will continue monitoring the leachate until he has obtained his doctorate. He will then return to North Carolina Central University to set up an undergraduate environmental seepage.
The fourth trainee, Mary McGhee, Lawrence graduate student, has not yet been assigned a problem.
KU Jayhawk Maintains Tradition as Agile Bird
BY JOE COLEMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
His experience in gymnastics and on the trampoline enabled Eldon Puett, Topeka senior, to land the job of the Kansas Jayhawk. He was the Jayhawk last year after being chosen in the NCAA championship until the end of the first semester, when he graduates.
The present costume is the second of outfits that have been used. The first costume made its appearance in the fall of 1850. It was supplied by the Collegiate manufacturing Co. of Ames, Iowa.
Pitt became interested in the job from his two roommates, both of whom were former yellers. He had seen last year's tryouts, and they joined Jayhawk. After pitching out for the uniform and doing a few stunts, the judges chose him as the one who best handled the 75-pound
But by 1959, the paper-mache and chicken wire costume had worn out. Collegegate couldn't buy it until C.E. Tefft, of Edison Felton KU professor of painting and sculpture, handmade the costumes for Bark Awning and Canvas Goods Manufacturing Co. of Lawrence.
A lot of tradition is carried on by the Jayhawk. One such record is that the Jayhawk has never fallen to the ground, symbolizing the attitude of the athletic teams. But this tradition was almost gone year during the Jayhawk Classic basketball tournament.
KU was playing St. Joseph's in the first round when the St. Joe mascots, a little fellow who looked like a cat, harassed the KU pomp girls while they were on the floor doing one of their famous routines. This time, they were the girls and in between their lines flapping his wings. Puett, KUT's Jayhawk, wasn't about to catch a bird get away with anything.
So, he went out on the floor, costume and all, to chase this pest back into the stands. Puett lunged for his foot and missed. He fell forward and falling forward. But his left knee hit the floor first and averted a complete fall. The Jayhawk escaped only with hurt pride and intact the Jayhawk tradition—the hawk has never fallen.
By CATHY BROWN
Kansan Staff Writer
Prof Recalls Snake Adventures
For a man who contracted dengue fever while in the Phillipines, who has been bitten by a snake and a reptile, both poisonous, and who has traveled to such places as Borneo, Liberia and Senegal; you wouldn't think it would offer much excitement.
But Edward H. Taylor systematized the biology, systems and ecology and a research associate in the KU Museum of Natural History, Atlanta.
A world recognized authority on herpetology (the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians), he recorded for actual work in discovering and describing new specimens. His findings exceed 70,000 in number alone from among rows of labeled glass containers.
HIS RESEARCH has lured him to various foreign countries and abroad, and he has been a member of adventure. Although he does not discuss those concerning his military work, TAYLOR offers descriptive accounts of his other experiences.
Once, while collecting specimens in the Philippines, Taylor suddenly spotted another man in the forest.
TAYLOR GRADUATED FROM KU with a degree in geology and zoology in 1912. He then went to the Philippines where he worked as a marine Peace Corps" as a government-operated school.
"I thought I'd seen my first wild man," Taylor said, "when out jumped a little dwarf with nothing on but a G-string."
"Hello, I go to St. Louis," the native greeted.
The minute sized man ( known as a "Negrito") was a native of the Phillipines who at one time
To promote peace, a young relative of each of the native areas of the school and the area was recruited to attend the school—as a hostage. The basic curriculum consisted of corn growing and baseball games.
Taylor said his favorite countries were those where the most specimens could be found, however, the 80-year-old zoologist added, "When I was young I enjoyed it, but now travelling is hard work."
AFTER HE LIVED among the behemoths, Taylor spear- ses the bureau of fisheries and was later head of the department of zoology at the university.
In addition to the time spent in the military he has been rehabilitating a large number of material, several of which are now being reprinted in foreign books.
These number among the approximately 14,000 pages of material he has had published under 198 different titles.
One of his works, a four-volume report on the reptiles and amphibians of Thailand, was bound and sent as a gift to King Sultan Abdulaziz and Queen Sirikit to meet while working in Thailand.
IN 1959, TAYLOR received in an official letter from their son.
Taylor did not recall what in particular made him become interested in reptiles, but indeed he had pet snakes when a child.
congratulations and the news that Taylor had been chosen a corresponding member of the (a scientific group in Thailand).
"My mother was always very understanding," he said.
Taylor recounted a story of the time his fraternity brothers "adopted" a baby snake from a nearby street carnival here and used it to frighten the cook. When they left the University the boys gave the snake to Taylor, who in turn put it to a friend in Philadelphia.
The snake was identified as a Carolina American constrictor, an animal about 12-15 feet in length. It was placed on exhibit in Philadelphia at an art museum.
TAYLOR CHUCKLED as he commented, "his ancestors were driven out of the Garden of Eden because it was in a religious exhibit.
After a teaching career at KU which lasted 33 years, Taylor became professor emeritus in the School of research on new material he has obtained since his latest work, "The Caecilians of the World" an odd specimen described as an animal with a backbone), was published
The professor pulled a small bottle from his pocket to display one of the creature's skulls, about the size of a small pea.
"It took me five hours working with tiny instruments to extract the skull." Taylor said. "It
Kansan Photo by DOUG DELANO
had been exhibited in St. Louis as a "wild man from Borneo."
Professor Emeritus Edward H. Taylor
. . . Recognized authority on reprints, amputations . . .
requires an extreme amount of patience."
Taylor said that his life had been both long and interesting; one that has afforded him a vast range of experiences.
A SMILE APPEARED on his feet and he broke into the now frenzy of his children, finally got to go to Disneyland and sandchandelies took me and I enjoyed them.
Several of Taylor's volumes are now in demand on rare book sites around the world in Linda Mammals, published in 1834, is bringing $3 to $35 a copy.
American Society of Ichthyologists Herpetologists and was presented with a Distinguished 1971 commencement exercise.
He is past president of the
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