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University Daily Kansan, December 3, 1981
Conference to stage U.N. crises, troubles
High school and college students will help solve a simulated international crisis on the University of Kansas campus in January.
Organizers of the KU Model United Nations said that they hoped about 70 delegates would register before yesterday's deadline for a mini-conference scheduled for Jan. 22 and 23.
Kevin G. Yowell, Overland Park junior, who will be secretary general of the mini-conference, said that most colleges and high schools within 100 miles of Lawrence received invitations.
"Anywhere over 50 delegates would be a success," Yowell said. "It gets kind of hard to pull off a challenge, but there aren't enough enquiries."
The conference would enable students to study the workings of the United Nations and the complexities of international relations, he said. Last year, 35 students from four Kansas high schools and two colleges attended the first annual KU mini-conference.
BEFORE COMING to the conference, students would prepare to represent their assigned U.N.
country, Yowell said. Only two students would be in each delegation.
The delegates would apply their knowledge during mock sessions of both the Security Council and a military interment on territorial integrity, he said.
Sometime during the conference, participants would be faced with a simulated crisis situation, Yowell said, to learn how the U.N. reacts during a threat to international peace.
"During the crisis, messages from their home countries will be sent to the delegations," he said. "They get just enough information to take a stand and argue that stance for their country."
IT IS important for people to learn more about how the U.N. works, Yowell said.
"The delegates will learn how the thing works and learn about real problems they do have along with the positions of each country," said Mike McCannon, Wichita sophomore, who is public information director for the conference.
Rv JOE REBEIN
Deserted mines dangerous, geologist says
A century of mining in the rolling plains of southeastern Kansas has left a bitter legacy.
Staff Reporter
Miners, searching for lead and zinc, bored deep shafts into the prairie to extract the precious metals.
But now the rich veins are gone and all that is left are hundreds of deserted mine shafts and huge pile of discarded rock that scar the land.
Even worse, the earth above the mines is starting to buckle, leaving gaping holes that pose a danger to the people who live near the mines.
"When you walk among the mines, you feel as if you are dealing with an ancient civilization of sorts," James McCaulay, assistant scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey, said yesterday.
"It's really a mess out there. The streams that run into the mines are being polluted and more than 100 people in the mines have accidents in the mines over the years."
MCALEAU, who was the featured speaker at the University Forum, said the mines posed an immediate danger to the residents who lived to them.
"The problem is that most of the mining was done before the En-
environmental Protection Agency was formed," he said. "There was almost no regard with what it would do with the environment."
McCauley was commissioned last year by the federal Bureau of Mines to study the abandoned mines in the area. His study will give the Kansas Legislature some guide to protect the mines in a three-state area near the mines.
McCauley has hiked through the area around Baxter Springs and Galena, near the Missouri and Oklahoma borders, mapping out more than 800 abandoned mines and using aerial photography that maps mines he could not find from the ground.
Investigators also are exploring the mines in Missouri and Oklahoma, he said.
"What we are trying to do is to make recommendations that would alleviate some of the hazards," he said. "So far,
we haven't come up with any good solutions to the problem."
THE PROBLEM has received nationwide attention with residents in the area protesting about the pollution in the city. The mines in Kansas into Oklahoma.
"The water runs into the mines and becomes charged with lead, zinc and iron," he said. "There is some concern that the water that has filled these mine wells will filter downward until it pollutes the fresh water aquifer beneath it."
McCauley said some money had been appropriated for demonstration projects to stop the pollution of the waterways, and to enhance recommendations for reclaiming the land.
One of the hindrances to reclaiming the land is the tremendous amount of dirt needed to fill in the abandoned shafts, McCaulley said.
"One man in Galena had a shaft
collapse next to his building," he said. "After 150 truckloads of dirt were dumped into the hole, it was only four feet higher."
McCauley said he had seen collapsed mines that could easily swallow Memorial Stadium.
"They were supposed to leave pillars of rock in the mines to provide support for the land above them," he said, "But, because the ore was so profitable, the mining companies often shaved the pillars or removed them altogether.
"That means there are no visible means of support for the dirt above."
McCAULEY SAID that the flooding of the mine shafts had soaked the rock, making the shafts susceptible to collapse when the water level fell.
"Some of these shafts can be plugged with concrete, but the more hazardous areas will just have to be fenced off to keep people out," he said.
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