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Mondav November 26. 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Fort Leavenworth monument project receives $150,000
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Grants totaling $150,000 will help finance the construction of a monument at Fort Leavenworth to two Black U.S. Cavalry regiments known as Buffalo Soldiers.
The Reader's Digest Association inc. announced it will contribute $100,000 to match two federal grants, $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities and $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The monument will feature a 16-foot bronze statue of a soldier on his mount with rifle in hand. The statue will be surrounded by historical markers commemorating the regiments' achievements as well as those of individual unit members.
The monument will be near Smith Lake at Fort Leavenworth, the Buffalo Soldiers lived there and stay at the dorm during the late 1880s.
The Buffalo Soldier Monument Committee plans to raise $75,000 from a combination of federal and private sources and from public fund-raising activities conducted by the committee.
Cmdr. Carlton Philpot, who is directing the project as a volunteer, said the two federal grants and the Reader's Digest contribution were a big boost to the effort, it isn't sponsored by the military.
Philip said he expected to dedicate the monument July 28, 1992, the anniversary of the date in 1866 when Congress first
authorized the formation of Black regiments. The 9th and 10th regiments of the cavalry were created that year, with the 9th based near Greenville, La., and the 10th at Fort Leavenworth.
Although Blacks served in state militias dating back to Colonial times, they weren't authorized to deploy until Congress reorganized the army in 1866. After that, they were encouraged to enlist and were detailed to help settlers opening up the West and Southwest.
After one year of training, the soldiers were immediately given the most dangerous, high-risk duties of escorting and guarding wagon trains, surveying roads, fortifying forts and protecting settlements.
Indian tribes the regiments encountered were so impressed by their bravery in battle that they named them Buffalo Soldiers, after the animal they trained for its strength and courage.
The two cavalry units adopted the title with pride, and the 10th later included the buffalo on its regimental crest.
The soldiers rode with Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders and fought in the Spanish-American War in 1888.
Both regiments saw service during World War II, and elements of the 9th fought in the Korean War.
The units were racially integrated in 1952.
Professor probes into environment
By Mike Brassfield
At the University of Kansas, Steve Hamburg speaks for the environment.
Kansan staff writer
Hamburg, assistant professor of environmental sciences and systematics and ecology, is the KU environmental ambassador. He investigates how KU policy and actions could be modified to reduce the University's effect on the environment.
Although Hamburg attempts to identify programs and systems within the University in which the effect can be reduced, he does not attempt to alter the basic mission of the institution or to say what he said. He merely tries to point the way toward more efficient technologies and ways of doing things.
"I firmly believe that much of the University's environmental impact is completely unnecessary," he said. "We can have our way of life. We just have to do things in more efficient ways."
And although Hamburg can identify problem areas, he has no direct authority to make changes in those areas, he said. Instead, he makes recommendations to whoever is in the position to make these changes.
Ultimately, the KU environmental ambudman reports directly to the interim executive vice chancellor, Del Shankel.
Former executive vice chancellor Judith Raimay created the office of environmental umbudsman and appointed Hamburg to the position in early July. Hamburg said he had given the new job little publicity because he first wanted to define exactly what the job was.
"We wanted to figure out exactly what sorts of issues we were willing to tackle," he said. "I've spent the past few months getting a sense of what kinds of changes are feasible. I need to make any promises I could keep."
Hamburg said he would work with facilities operations, the KU recycling task force and various recy
cling companies to develop a long-range recycling plan for KU. He will look into how the University uses its energy resources.
"There are countless little changes that could make a lot of difference here," he said. "For example, we could light campus buildings using less than 50 percent of the power we use to light brand-new buildings."
New campus buildings should be designed with more efficient lighting systems, he said. More efficient bulbs and fixtures could be used.
"No one loses in that case," he said. "The University spends the same amount of money. People in the building would have the same responsibility for less of the pollution associated with energy production."
Hamburg will teach a class next semester dealing with issues in resource conservation. Students in the class will attempt to identify and solve environmental problems on campus.
"The students efforts will feed into this office, but they will not be governed by the needs of this office," he said. "The University's richest resource is its students. They have a lot to make and to make a different face of the efforts and ideas this office will deal with will come from students."
Hamburg is assisted by Anita Davelo, associate environmental ombudsman, and Sue Ask, assistant environmental ombudsman.
Davelos said that she was a half-time graduate assistant and that Ask was an undergraduate assistant
Davelos said Hamburg was advised by a board consisting of Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations; Marci Francisco, assistant director of facilities planning; Jay Differforder, chairperson of the KU recycling task force; and Robert Bearse, associate vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service.
Habitat group dedicates its third house
Rv Flicia Hill
Kansan staff write
John Sundell. Habitat for Humanity volunteer, borrowed from the Mother Goose rhyme "The House That Jack Built" yesterday as he dedicated the third Habitat house built in Lawrence.
"Here is the home, that received the care, that the volunteers shared, who rolled on the paint, which covered the nails, that keep up the boards, of the house that Habitat built," Sundell read to 43 people at Lawrence Indian United Methodist Church. 950 E. 21st St.
Habitat for Humanity is a volunteer organization that builds houses for low-income residents. Three
houses have been built since the Lawrence chapter of Habitat began in 1989. The group plans to build two more houses by summer.
Dick Hayes. KU basketball coach
The dedication ceremony included KU students involved with the project and a former KU basketball coach.
"Students on the hill are trapped in the campus bubble of a world of privileges, instead of helping those in need," said a doctoral student from New Jersey.
Wolfe said about 30 KU students and representatives from the Chi Omega sorority and the Alpha Tau Epsilonaternity helped build the third house.
from 1948 to 1964, said he was pleased to see people from all walks of life come together and help other people.
"In our society, we have a difficult time understanding priorities," he said. "And to see the terrible failure of public housing when people needed that hope makes me sad. In a very concrete way, with hammers and nails we've tried to be good neighbors."
The third house, at 1690 Powers St., was ravaged by fire last year but was rebuilt with the help of volunteers. The new owner, Ethes Barnes, was selected from a pool of applicants to buy the house. Barnes and her 2-year-old son will move into the house Dec. 1.
Habitat is not a handout organization but a hand up to those people in the community, who otherwise would have to go out and live a home of their own, members say.
"I had no idea at this time last year that today I would own my own name," she said. "Thank you so much."
Barnes tearfully thanked the Habitat volunteers for the opportunity to become a homeowner.
Mullens
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growing up in a Kansas City, Kan. neighborhood filled with people from many backgrounds.
Mullens said he never thought twice about playing with children of different nationalities.
"I always felt fairly comfortable with mixing with about any of them," said Mulens, in between drags on one of many daily cigarettes and one of the nicest ones I felt really comfortable wherever I was", and whoever I was dealing with.
Living in such a neighborhood made Mullens appreciate people's differences and often exposed him to the sense of jealousy = and, thus, police officers.
Mullens' father volunteered as an officer with the Kansas City, Kan. police department, and several of his father's friends were police officers.
But these early influences did not entice Mullens to go into police work, he said.
After graduating from Bishop Miege High School in 1967 with the highest science grade point average in his senior class, Mullens enrolled at it and studied chemical engineering until he entered the school of business.
In addition to attending school full-time, he sometimes worked two jobs, including stints as a bartender and as a mechanic, to support himself. He wanted to be financially independent so he could do what he wanted to do about his parents' permission. But working so hard eventually took a toll.
Eighteen hours short of a bachelor's degree in business administra
took. Mullens
took a full-tim
work in 1973 as in
KU security off-
door doing mostly
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On-campus protests against the Vietnam War also distracted
Mullens
Mullens from his formal education, which he eventually completed in 1973.
He watched as some of his high school friends in Vietnam were seriously injured or never came home. He was amazed that students set ablaze campus buildings.
The final straw was the burning of the Union in 1970.
'That was the point when I
thought. "The only way you’re ever going to change those things is inside the system, not outside it." "Mullens said, 'It probably might have been a police work because I could see a lot of points being made on both sides."
Mullens has striven to ensure safety on the KU campus through all his years with KU police. He prides himself on being able to make instant decisions that often save the University a lot of money and trouble, beyond doing administrative duties such as planning a budget.
"What I get paid for is not to make sure everything goes perfectly right as much as it is to be there when it starts falling apart at the seams, and at least get some order back into things." Mullens said.
'I think there are a lot of people
much better at . . . sitting down and drawing up a budget and just running with it or setting a policy that may not change for 20 or 30 years. I think basically what we get paid for is when you have got absolutely no time whatsoever to sit down and think about it, and you either have to react or operate with a split-second decision."
Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said her husband's commitment to serving the University amazed her.
"It's the nature of his job to be available — available to phone calls, whether that be at 2 in the morning or 5 in the afternoon," she said.
Linda Mullens that her and her husband's careers were complementary because they both were concerned with the welfare of students, so being supportive of each other was easy. The two recently celebrated their first anniversary.
Lt Jeanne Longaker, who has worked with Mullens for more than 16 years, said Mullens' love for the University and his dedication to KU police were evident because he attended University athletic and theatrical events when he did not have to work.
James Denney, director of KU police, began working with Mullens 16 years ago when they both were patrol officers.
"His forte is research — to look at a problem, research what needs to be done and take the appropriate action." Denney said. "He doesn't do it because he knows that he is doing in the good for the University, he doesn't hold back."
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