Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 18, 1989
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Indian artists gather to show art
Market opens with powwow, benefit
By Jennifer Metz Kansan staff writer
The powwow grounds at Haskell Indian Junior College were filled Saturday and Sunday with Indian artists for the first Lawrence Indian Arts Market.
Families, students and artists gathered to see pottery, paintings and jewelry made by artists from across the country.
The market was part of the Lawrence Indian Arts Show, sponsored by the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology, Haskell and the Lawrence Arts Center.
"It makes sense to have this in Lawrence," said Al Johnson, director of the museum. "With the museum and also the Haskell base, it seems that adding to that base is a logical way to go."
Nearly 40 separate booths were set up for artists to show their work. Johnson said he was pleased with the number of artists who participated in the market.
"For a first time show, it was an awfully good start." he said.
Char Pully, an Indian artist from Michigan, said the community seemed to be very receptive to the show. Pully, a member of the Penobscot tribe, displayed Chippewa dolls at the show.
Patta LT A, a Chochet Indian from Norman,
Oklahoma. He was born in 1950. This
should have been done a long time ago."
Part of the show's opening ceremonies included a Saturday evening powwow, said Ross Byington, instruction specialist at Haskell. He said that the powwow, which included singing and dancing, was a social gathering of Indians from many tribes.
A benefit for the show was held Friday evening at the museum. Johnson said that about 225 people attended the benefit, which included a special gift presented to be shown at the museum through Oct. 28.
Johnson said he hoped the market would become an annual event
Wearing traditional dress, Haskell freshman Auggiefielan, dances a snake dance.
Small town rallies against dump site
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
NORA, Neb. — U.S. Highway 136 displays a definite attitude as motorists near Nora.
One message reads, "Nebrasa soil . . . Is like Texas oil . . . Here comes the dump . . . To screw it royal.
Small yet easily noticeable billboards line the road. As motorists drive along, the one-liners deliver a message.
"Dump the dump."
Another sign warns motorists to "Check your Geiger counter," hinting at what some local residents think will be necessary if low-level radioactive waste is put there.
Land near Nora, population 28, has been chosen to receive waste from Kansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Nebraska, according to a pamphlet distributed by the Nuckolls County chapter of Concerned Citizens of Nebraska.
The five states are members of the Central Interstate Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact. Under the compact, control rods, filters, and other devices, nuclear power plant components would be sent to Nora for disposal.
An estimated 250 people, including 14 from the University of Kansas and Lawrence, traveled to the Farmer's acre yesterday to protest the compact.
Mike Horan, president of Enviros, a KU student environmental-awareness group, went to the rally. He said he was concerned that citizens of Nora and its surrounding area were being mistreated because of their lack of political influence.
Horan is concerned that a dump near Nora would not be well-maintained. He said surveillance of the dump, which would receive waste for 30 years, would end in 100 years. That was not sufficient. Horan said.
"The best sites are in Kansas,
Horan said. "That's what a study
showed. But they got it out of here.
The protested it a long time ago."
'If we can't keep them from putting it there, at least we could maybe get the company to be more responsible," he said.
Horan said another problem with locating the dump in Nebraska was that waste had to be transported too far, increasing chances of radioactive leakage during transport.
"Most of it is shipped by train," he said. "It's the death trai-
One message reads,
"Nebraska soil . . . Is like Texas oil . . . Here comes the dump . . . To screw it royal.
Dave Lovewell, a soil conservation contractor who lives in the Nora area, said the situation was like a civil war.
"If it never comes here, it's already done a hell of a lot of harm," he said. "It's already whipped friendships and families."
Lovewell said that those who wanted the disposal site were coerced by the reported $2 million the company gave each year the site was functioning.
"The people who run things think that they can do all sorts of wonderful things with this two million bucks," he said. "My idea of what they ought to do with this two million bucks is organize a clean-up fund so that we just don't have to worry about the stuff."
Robert Eye, Tonganoxic attorney, is one of three attorneys working to file a lawsuit to keep the disposal site out of the area. He said Nora had been chosen because the people didn't have the political pull of those in larger areas, which may be more appropriate sites.
Small town America, he said, was being victimized.
It's not too early to start looking for jobs
"Ask yourself this question," he said to the crowd yesterday. "If these sites are as safe as they say they are, use them as they build them next to the cities?"
By Bryan Swan
Kansan staff writer
"We're getting quite a few students coming in now," said Terry Glenm, assistant director of the University Placement Center. "Certain types of majors, such as liberal arts majors, medical majors, job searchers together. More education is coming in because they're on their student teaching assignments now."
Although the school year is still in its first month, KU placement officials said they were already assisting students who would look for jobs after graduation.
He said the center primarily served majors in liberal arts and sciences, fine arts and education.
Parachuters swoosh through Topeka's airshow
Glenn said the placement center had workshops scheduled every day for the next four weeks to assist students with campus interviews, counseling, job searches and letter writing.
He said that the schools of Business and Engineering have heavy fall schedules for recruitment and that companies have started interviewing.
encouraged all students interested in any aspect of business to attend the School of Business' career fair Thursday at Allen Field House.
"Recruitment in public accounting is heavy, very heavy right now, but that is common this time of year," he said. "There will be 110 companies at the field house, and we try to encourage both graduate and non-graduate people to attend."
Fred Madaua, director of the Business Placement Center, said he
In a tight formation, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform a flv-bv over Forbes Field in Toneka
"Any technical grad is in demand, primarily in business and computer science." he said.
Julie Cunningham, director of the Engineering Career Services Center, said that on-campus interviews for engineering majors would begin Oct. 1 and that they would be in full swing by the middle of November.
"Chemical companies, consulting firms, the military, the government, just a wide variety of organizations that need technical people (will attend the career fair)," Cunningham said.
She said that the school would have its career fair Wednesday and that many of the 71 corporations expected to attend would use the occasion to take themselves visible to students and meet students prior to interviews.
Kansan staff writer
By Dave Wakefield Kansan staff writer
"Too bad they're going to miss the target," said Sgt. Paul Guerra. Guerra is a member of the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army's parachute demonstration team.
Two members of the U.S. Navy Leapfrogs locked feet, forming a whirligig in the sky.
Team members warmed up and
area they sized up their Navy
counterparts.
The Golden Knights were one of 17 acts that an estimated 110,000 spectators saw Saturday and yesterday at Forbes Field in Topeka, as part of the annual airshow organized by the Combat Air Museum of Topeka.
"Out of the gold, into the black.
Once you go, you'll never come back,
the Knights chanted before
the C-31 Alpha Friendship airplane.
Sgt. Ken Kassens said, "The outsides of the target are gold, but the one-foot-wide black center is where we want to be."
The men donned black turtleneck sweaters, yellow jump suits, heavy gloves and leather helmets. He said that the winter jacket would be 12,500 feet, would be zero degrees.
As the plane reached jump altitude, the men gear up for the
jump.
"Dallas to Damascus," Kassens shouted at his teammates, joking about how far apart he and his jump-partner would get during a maneuver known as a diamond track. In this maneuver, smoke from camistern strapped to the men's boots creates a diamond. The men control their fall,
gaining maximum separation before coming back together and passing each other.
At 12,000 feet, with the doors wide
open, men sucked on black tubes as
they flared.
"Oxygen," Kassens said. "It helps to clear our heads before we jump." Swoosh.
The noise as the first jumper entered the airstream could be heard above the clatter of the engines.
The flight engineer held up 10 fingers, then eight. Eighteen knots of wind at ground level. Team members estimated a new jump point, trying to offset the higher winds.
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