University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 14, 1990
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Concert benefits variety of causes
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
Sitting on a barstool at the Bottleneck last night, Mary Walker, singer in the band the Which Doctors?, talked about why students cared about nature conservation efforts and fighting against hunger.
"I think people are getting pissed off at the world and are starting to do something about it," said Walker, Lawrence senior.
Walker and other members of the band, along with three other local bands, tried to do something about it last night by performing for free at a benefit concert to raise money for the causes.
Other groups that performed at the concert, which was sponsored by KU Students Against Hunger and Enviromental Conservation, the Sally Iguana and Black Cat Bone.
By 10:30 p.m., a crowd of about 125 had gathered at the Bottleneck. 737 New Hampshire St.. for the event.
Jay Cooper, president of Students Against Hunger, said he started planning the concert early in October. About 100 $4 tickets were sold in advance. Students age 18 and older were allowed into the bar for the
event, he said.
One dollar from each $4 cover charge will go to the Bottleneck, and the rest of the money will be split evenly among Environs. Students Against Hunger and the Lawrence Foundation Formation Committee, Cooper said.
Students were also urged to donate food at the concert, Cooper said. By 10:30 p.m., the group had collected enough food to fill two large boxes.
Bren Gleason, member of Environics,
said the student group had been involved with benefit concerts for a variety of organizations raise money for recovering programs.
Kim Cady, Lawrence freshman, said problems such as hunger were more visible to students in well-publicized events like concerts.
"It's kind of hard to see the problem of hunger when it's not right in our front yard," she said.
Craig Smith, Leawood senior, said concerts probably were the best way to attract students to contribute to needy causes.
"I think it's great that students give up their time to go," he said.
"Also, the bands are doing it for free."
Karen Russell of Black Cat Bone performs at a benefit concert sponsored by Students Against Hunger and Enviros
Vice chancellor tells how university endured first 125 years
By Holly M. Neuman and Amy Zamierowski Kansan staff writers
David Ambler, vice charger for student affairs, led a walk down KU's memory lane last night in a lecture that celebrated the University's 125th birthday.
Ambler spoke to about 85 people in the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. His presentation, "Rock Chalk Jayhawk!" Student Life at KU, 1866-1900" was part of the KU Heritage Lecture Series.
"Student life on Mount Oread, it seems to me, has a special meaning for our alumni not found at most universities," Amber said. "There is
here a special blending of academic life and living on the Hill that cannot be separated, that has kept those in it alumni literally in love with this place.
Ambler described KU's beginnings. He said that 55 students responded to a newspaper advertisement in classes that would begin in Fall 1866.
Tuition was $30. Three faculty members, one lecturer and a janitor were listed in the KU catalog, he said.
To hell with the administration. The University is topheavy. To hell with most of the faculty. To hell, in short, with all silly rules and all silly people.
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The University recognized its first graduating class in 1873. Ambler said. Four students graduated.
- From a 1932 student campaign platform
Ambler also told the group about
the traditions of "Rock Chalk
Chant," and the songs "The Crimson
and the Blue" and "I'm a Jawhawk."
"The fact that few students today know the words to either is regrettable, but none of these facts diminish the enduring value or the emotion
they raise when played before a group of KU students or alumni," he said.
Ambler showed the audience slide photographs of previous KU activities, such as night-shirt parades, events that occurred the night before
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the first home football games, and torchlight parades.
But in some aspects, students of the past were not that different from students of the present. Ambler said. He read a campaign platform from a student.
"To hell with the administration," Ambler read. "The University is top-heavy. To hell with most of the laws and all sily rules and all silly people."
"Sound familiar?" Ambler said. One of the most violent actions at KU was the burning of the Kansas Union in 1907. Ambler said.
"And it has endured decades of constant use, days and nights of
programs and parties, of conferences and speeches." Amber said. "And one great tragedy. But like the legendary Phoenix, it also rose from the ashes to continue and fortify its central position in University life."
Elmer Jackson, a 1935 KU law graduate, also gave a speech that was titled, "Minority Survival Sixty Years in Review."
Jackson told the group to recognize the accomplishments of KU Black graduates and to continue to recruit minority students, faculty and staff.
"This is how we must move forward — building on existing stones placed so carefully before us," he said.
SenEx sets shorter 1992 finals period
1990
The final word . . .
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9
finals will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.
m., 7 p. to 10 p. m.
1992 (no specific starting date has been set)
Stop Day Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6
Finals will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m. to 6:p.m., 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. No exams will be given on Sunday.
No 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. exams will be scheduled on the last evening and on any Friday evening. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening classes will be examined on the same day of the week as they happen to fall during the exam period.
source: Senate Executive Committee
Students will have six days, not nine Kansan staff report
KANSAN
Kansan staff report
Beginning in the 1992-93 KU school year, the final-examination period will be shortened from nine days to six days, and four exams a day will be scheduled. Members of Executive Committee members voted unanimously yesterday.
The exam schedule was changed because of a Board of Regents requirement that increased the number of days from 72 to 75 days a semester.
Frances Ingemann, SenEx chairperson, said a policy had not been approved that would determine what options a student had if that student had two exams scheduled at the same time.
James Scolly, assistant to the chancellor, said SenEx had proposed that the Fall 1992 semester begin Aug. 24 and end Dec. 10. Final examinations would be scheduled between Dec. 14 and Dec. 21.
The Spring 1991 semester would begin Jan. 12 and would end May 4. Spring final exams would be sched- ed from May 6 and May 14, Scally said.
The new schedule must be approved by the University Council and Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Lawrence recycling programs reduce amount of landfill trash City dump receives 1.4 percent less garbage than in 1989
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Recycling efforts in Lawrence have decreased the amount of trash the city sends to its landfill, but it is impossible to tell exactly what difference recycling has made, the public member of Lawrence public works said.
Max Slinkard Jr., the assistant director, said the amount of trash Lawrence sent to the dump had declined 1.4 percent from last year. The total differs substantially from the department's prediction in March that the rate would increase by about 5 percent from 1989.
"A slowdown in building and other factors may have had something to do with it, but it's safe to say that recycling has been the factor," he said. "It may even account for all of the decrease."
Lawrence's garbage is hauled to the Jefferson-Douglas County Landfill in Jefferson County near 294 and the Douglas County border.
Although the dump receives trash from several counties,
Lawrence by far is its biggest customer,Slankard said.
Last year, 46,970 tons of garbage were hauled from Lawrence to the dump, which received a total of about 75,000 tons of trash.
Based on statistics for the first 10 months of 1990, Slankard said that about 46,300 tons of Lawrence's trash would be sent to the dump this year, rather than the 49,200-ton amount predicted earlier this year*
Although the city keeps figures on how much trash is taken to the landfill, it cannot estimate how much trash is recycled in the city because of the large number of small businesses and charities in Lawrence that run recycling programs be said.
"Recycling may have saved a couple of thousand tons from going to the dump, but recycling in
Lawrence still has a long way to go," he said.
Pat Marvin, Lawrence recycling coordinator, said at least 20 percent of the trash that is hauled to the landfill could be recycled instead. Hundreds of tons of aluminum cans, newspapers, glass and other recyclable products are thrown away each year.
Stankard said that during a Lawrence sanitation department study of a west Lawrence neighborhood's trash output during August, about 32 percent of the trash collected was grass clippings, which were also used as part of Lawrence's Earthbond program during the summer.
Slankard said Lawrence had been dumping its trash since 1981 at the landfill, which is part of an attack on a housing company in N. Berry Hamm Inc. of Perry.
Because the company still removes rock from the quarry, new space constantly is created for trash. Stankard said Lawrence probably would not have to search for a new landfill for 25 or 30 years.
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