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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 12. 1990
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Recycling is group's priority
Task force plans forum, adds collection bin for awareness week
By Mike Brassfield
"Cot RAW!"
That is the rallying cry of the KU recycling task force this week. RAW stands for Recycling Awareness week, a week of events designed to increase awareness of recycling on campus and in Lawrence.
Iay Jafforderfenn, chairperson of the task force, said a kickoff event for the week would be at 12:20 p.m. today in front of Weschel Hall. Members of the task force and Youth In Action, an environmental group from Elementary School, will speak and out cut canvas bags to volunteers.
The volunteers will carry the bags
during the week, picking up any recyclable materials they find. At the end of the week, the students will sort tables at a rally in front of Wescow.
A panel discussion on recycling will be at 7:30 tonight at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
The panel will include Kathy
Parker, Kansas recycling coordi-
nator; Steve Hambug, assistant pro-
fessor of environmental studies at
KU; George Baggett, representative of Kansas Citizens for Recycling; Pat Marvin, Lawrence recycling coordi-
nator; and Chiquita Cornelius,
representative of the Beverage
Industry Recycling Program.
Phil Endacott, associate director
of facilities operations, said the large blue bin used for recycling newspapers would be moved this morning from its usual location between Wescoe and Stauffer-Flint Hall to the front of Wescoe.
Endacott said the blue bin would be joined by a large yellow bin, which will be for the collection of aluminum. The bins will remain in front of Wesco until Friday. After that, the yellow bin will remain, but it is unknown at this time where the blue bin will be placed.
A recycling rally will be at 12:20 pm. Friday in front of Wescoc, he said. Members of the task force will speak, and all the recyclables collected during the week will be so
d during the week will be sorted.
The recycling task force is financed by Student Senate. The group manages facilities, Senate, facilities operations and Environs, a student environmental group.
The task force also will distribute recycling information, buttons and bumpers sticker and will sell T shirts to their customers. In addition, the Kansas Union, Diffenforder said.
"We want to show support for recycling in general and let the administration know that the student is not involved in or recycling on campus," he said.
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HALO brings school children to KU
Day-long session teaches elementary students from KC importance of education
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
In an attempt to teach children the importance of staying in school and going to college, Hispanic American Leadership Organization invited more than 30 elementary students from a city for a day-long introduction to KU.
Angela Cervantes, HALO president, said the day was called, "Cultural Education Day." Most of the children were from the Gaudeamau Center, a Kansas City City, Mo., school. The group primarily serves Blacks and Hispanics in western Kansas City. The youngest child was 4 years old,
Cervantes said.
"It fits into the National Call for Action and non-racist education," Cervantes said. "These kids don't always hear the best about young Hispanics. We want to show them a different view of Hispanics."
National Day of Action was sponsored by Students' Coalition Against Aparthid and Racism, a group in Washington, D.C., called John Lewis, executive board member of Black Men of Today.
College students across the country demanded a non-racist education that reflected the diversity of college students.
The children arrived at 10 a.m.
"We asked them what they wanted to be when they grow up." Cervantes said. "With kids, you really can't lecture them. We asked them how to achieve what they wanted to do."
Friday and were greeted by HALO members, who talked with them about their college majors and about the importance of studying.
The children's favorite parts of the day were tours of the Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Anthropology, Cervantes said. They also enjoyed meeting the Baby Jayhawk.
"I thought they might be bored in the museums," she said. "But they
instruments and fun snacks; the same
A local band, Los Quartzos, performs
for the children and taught
them Latin American songs in
Spanish.
weren't." They loved looking at the dinosaurs and the snakes, she said.
Cervantes said HALO would like to invite children from Lawrence and Topeka to visit the campus next semester. In addition, the group would also to invite the same students back home to track their progress through school.
"Even though the kids might change and HALO members won't always be the same, it keeps installers safe." (The writer wants you to want it.) "Cervantes said."
ASK chooses base budget as top issue for state's students
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The Associated Students of Kansas policy council met this weekend in Lawrence to rank ASK priorities and the results of the Nov. 6 elections.
Greg Hughes, ASK director, said the council reviewed its issues and ranked the Margin of Excellence and base budget requests as top ASK priorities. The Board of Regents is asking the Legislature for $19.9 million for the Margin of Excellence and $30 million for base budget improvements.
Regents schools will use the base budget for maintenance and basic improvements to each of the universities.
Following in importance were the graduate teaching assistant fee waiver, the Youth Educational Services program and all student financial aid packages proposed by the Regents.
Hughes said that although the base budget and the Margin were equally important, the base budget was ranked above the Margin because Regents schools could be hurt if they receive the base budget requested.
"We can't really have one without the other." Hughes said. "But we need the base budget to keep the universities functioning at their current level. The Margin will let us take a step forward."
The Margin was the Board. Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Hughes said the council broke into task force groups to discuss topics including graduate issues, campus finance and minority scholarships.
The council also discussed the results of the Nov. 6 elections.
Hughes said he was optimistic about the election of Joan Finney as governor.
"I think she is a populist," he said.
"A populist governor is much more likely to listen to grassroots lobbying from students."
Carl Ring. ASK voter registration coordinator, said ASK would have to deal with political reality.
He said he thought there would not be enough money in the budget again this year to finance higher education's needs.
"Last year higher education took budget cuts on the chin," he said.
"the chin," he said. He said Adam would become more effective by coordinating efforts and by becoming more of a presence in Topeka.
Bush offers Hayden an administration position
The Associated Press
MOUNDRIDGE — Gov Mike Hakey has been contacted about a possible job in the Bush administration, but he remains unsure for the future still are unsettled.
Hayden said Saturday that President Bush and his chief of staff, John Summa, had placed telephone calls to Cedar Crest on Wednesday, the day prior. Emmy's 40,000-plus-victory demonstration Republican governor a second time.
"He said that he was really disappointed and that he knew it was going to be a very difficult year for incumbents, particularly with what has been going on in Washington," Hayes said of the president's telephone call.
"I told them that I appreciated their support and that if there was any way I could help them, I'd at least be in talking to them about something."
According to Hayden, the president and Sununu talked only about the possibility of a job. No specifics were discussed, but Hayden said he made it clear he was not interested in just any political appointment.
"I have indicated that I'm only interested in something where I can really make a difference. I'm not just looking for a job," Hayden said. "I've suggested some area in the environment. They wanted to know if I had any interest in the area of agriculture."
Hayden, who has two degrees in environmental sciences, said that no matter what job he ended up with, he probably wouldn't stray far from the office. He says, say whether he would like to run as a candidate for public office again.
"I'm sure that I'll always be involved in politics in one way or another," he said.
Hayden blamed his defeat in large part on the uproar over property taxes caused by the first statewide law of property since the mid-1960s.
"From the day the tax protesters stormed the Statehouse last December, I knew that it was going to take a miracle to win. I knew that it was going to take everything we had, plus some luck to win," he said.
Misinformed teams forced to forfeit in intramural tourney
By Courtney Eblen
Kansan staff writer
The Urban Death Squad arrived at the normal meeting place shortly before noon yesterday, intending to pound its opponents into the rain-saturated football field at 23rd and Iowa streets.
But the game already was over for the Death Squad, Templin Hall's second-floor flag football team. It was one of 14 misinformed KU intramural teams forced to forfeit games during yesterday's tournament play because they had not been told that their games were rescheduled.
Ryan Sciara, captain of the Death
Squad, said his team arrived yesterday 20 minutes before it thought it was supposed to play. Its game, like every other intramural flag football game, had been rescheduled for yesterday after rainouts last week.
But as the Death Squad was warming up to play another team, the TKBs, a refee told the players that both teams had lost in the tournament by forfeit. The game had been rescheduled again late last week, this time slotting the Death Squad to play at 11 a.m. yesterday.
"After they told us we couldn't
we went, w off," Sciara said. "We
were going, 'Why the hell did you not
tell us?' And they said, 'It's not our problem.'
Times for the intramural games normally are posted Wednesdays. But after rainstorms Wednesday and Thursday, the team rescheduled, each one for an earlier time yesterday. A revised list was posted Thursday afternoon, but seven of the eight men's teams had played Thursday did not know about the new list.
The Stephenson Scholarship Hall team, Plan B, won the tournament by forfeit.
Jeff Pierce, captain of Plan B, said the team learned of the new playing
time when it checked the football schedule after a volleyball game at Robinson late last week.
He said he did not receive a telephone call from Recreational Services regarding the change of plans.
Players of losing teams were especially outraged after being told by officials that the games probably were a result of their team's poor play, then paid $25 to enter the tournament.
Jim Schmidt, intramural director, refused to comment yesterday.
Mike Happe, who works in the recreational services department, said that the final list had been posted Thursday afternoon and that
"Because of the weather, we've had to push the tournament back," Happe said.
Flag football normally does not last into mid-November, he said, and matters are complicated because of other sports needing to be squeezed together. And the team outside combine scheduling for flag football, soccer, rugby and lacrosse.
it was the responsibility of each team manager or captain to check times.
But Kevin Kennedy, a member of another ill-fated team, the Pearson Scholarship Hall Battentfield Swalows, has other theory.
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to get out of some scheduling problems by canceling the whole thing for good due to the weather," Kennedy said.
Kennedy said members of his team called Robinson to make sure of their game time and were told in a recorded message as late as Satur- day the next week. Yesterday's message told of the new time schedule, but it said specifics had to be obtained from the game schedule board outside the Recreation Services Department in Robin- ion where does not open until 1 p.m. Sundays.
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