University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 5, 1990
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Campbell-Cline picks up support
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Bv David Roach
Christina Campbell Cline, independent gubernatorial candidate, is the big gainer in the latest poll, which was published yesterday by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Campbell-Cline may be drawing support away from Democratic candidate Joan Finney, said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science. He also five points behind Republican Gov Mike Hayden.
Campbell-Cline has more than doubled her support since an Oct. 21 poll published by the Wichita Eagle, which showed her favored by 3 percent of the respondents.
The poll shows Hayden leading Finney, 38 percent to 33 percent, while Campbell-Cline has 7 percent.
Finney and Hayden were tied at 37 percent in a capital Journal poll taken in early October and December.
The pot shows that Finney has lost more than 15 percentage points of support since a Wichita Eagle survey conducted during the second week of September.
Hayden, however, has not capitalized on Finney's decreasing popularity. His support has remained about 38 percent since a Kansas City Star poll was conducted Sept 21-23.
The Capital Journal's Kansas Poll was conducted Oct. 27-29 and canvassed 1,000 registered Kansas voters who said they planned to vote. The survey, which was conducted by the Central Research Corp. of Topeka, has a 3 percent margin of error.
Loomis said the election was not a foregone conclusion.
"If you're Hayden you're reasonably happy, but you
would be overconfident," he said.
Loomis said that Campbell-Cllone probably had gained ground at Finney's expense.
"What Finney needs to do now is pull people from the undecided into her camp," he said. "Looking at the inflating figures for Campbell and Doyle, they are much of the movement in Finney's direction."
Campbell-Cline has said that she expects to capture about 10 percent of the vote.
Loomis said that Finney's chances at this point deserved to an extent on voter turnout and that
"The real poll on Tuesday," he said, "Will people realize the vote for the third party candidate or people who want to run?"
Campbell-Cline's support may shift to Finney
Loomis predicted a low voter turnout and said it probably would help Hayden because the Republican party machine would squeeze out more votes than the Democratic party would.
In other statewide races, the insurance commissioner's and the treasurer's contests are close.
Republican candidate for insurance commissioner Ron Todd leads his Democratic opponent, former Rep. John Kasich, in a debate.
Democrat Sally Thompson leads her Republican opponent. Eric Rucker, 36 percent to 33 percent, in
The poll shows incumbents with comfortable leads in the other races.
Incumbent Republican Bob Stephan leads Democrat Bert Cantwell in the attorney general's contest, and incumbent Republican Bill Gravys leads J. D. Dickens in the race for secretary of state.
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Gov. Mike Hayden has a slight lead over Joan Finney in the race for governor according to the Kansas Poll published yesterday in the Topeka Capital Journal. A month ago, a similar poll showed Finney leading Hayden. The margin of error is 3 percent.
Source: Topeka Capital Journal
KANSAN
Legislation would benefit foreign students needing to work
By Yvonne Guzman
Jalai Alasadi, Memen sophomore, decided he needed to earn money after Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait cut off his financing from the Kuwait government. About a month ago, he was charged with a special permit to work off-campus.
Like any student who is not a U.S. citizen, Alasadi had to prove to the Immigration and Naturalization Services that he had a financial need that had arisen since he entered the United States so that he could get a work permit.
Kansan staff writer
But Alasadi was luckier than many foreign students.
The law would allow them to work off-campus without having to prove financial need, said Gerald Harris, a professor of Foreign Student Services.
Now, foreign students who want to work off-campus must apply for a permit through the U.S. Immigration
"For other people who were not affected by the crisis, it's not easy for them," he said. "They have a big problem getting a work permit."
A new federal law may change part of that process, which has frustrated foreign students at KU who have not been able to document the extent of their financial need to the satisfaction of the U.S. government.
"We're just waiting for information about that," Harris said regarding passage of the legislation. "It might come very soon."
Harris said his office usually knows immediately if Congress passes legislation that will affect foreign students, but because the final weeks
and Naturalization Services by demonstrating that they have some financial need, he said.
But if Congress passed the legislation before its recess, foreign students would be granted blanket work approval. Harris said. They would still have to acquire a work permit, and some states have to demonstrate financial need.
of this session were so confusing, he had not heard yet.
If the legislation did not pass, it probably was because there was not enough time. Harris said.
"I think it was favorably reviewed by both the House and the Senate," he said.
Harris said the provisions for foreign students were part of a larger legislative package designed to make colleges more attractive to citizens to work in the United States.
The legislation is necessary because it has become too difficult for U.S. businesses to satisfy their customers in the pool of U.S. workers from the pool of U.S. workers,
Harris said.
"They're looking to the pool of international people to take up the slack," he said.
About 50 percent of those who graduate in the United States with doctorates in math and science are foreign students, Harris said.
There are 1,870 foreign students at the University of Kansas as well as about 200 foreign researchers, teachers and specialists, Harris said.
One factor that makes it difficult is that the process is subjective, he said. Immigration employees have to
judge what is sufficient proof of financial need.
In addition, students must provide documentation of their need, such as bank statements and tax returns; much of which is in the student's same county.
Malki said changing the law would benefit students who needed to work but did not need the hassle of proving financial need.
"It is the most difficult thing." Malik said. "Gong to the immigration service leaves one with a very sad picture of the system."
Bridge builders test balsawood's mettle
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Union Ballroom echoed with the sound of falling metal and splintering wood as the model bridges collapsed under the weight of hanging stacks of 10-pound weights.
"The main objective is to have the lightest possible bridge that holds the most amount," said Dana Shipley, Leavenworth High School junior. "The bridges all need to be made with balsa wood and Elmer's wood glue so that no one has an advantage."
About 400 students from 31 high schools in Kansas and Missouri attended the fourth Engineering High School Stolastic Tournament Competition on Friday sponsored by the School of Engineering
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said the competition was intended to attract high school students to the KU School of Engineering.
Students competed in physics, math, chemistry and a bridge designing competition where students constructed bridges against ones from other schools
"I think they enjoy the competition and the contests against each other." Locke said.
John Pretz, a physics teacher from Leavenworth, said the engineering competition allowed high school students to compete with competitors from other schools.
"For some of them, it is an eye opener to be competing with
equally talented people. Pretz said. "The competition also gives them a chance to do work that is different from the other problems at the end of a chapter."
Tom Mulinazzi, professor of civil engineering, said 59 bridges were entered in the contest. The heaviest bridge weighed 13.5 ounces, and the hardest bridge needed to be around 24 inches long and no more than 6 inches high.
Three of the bridges collapsed under the initial 25-pound weights in the first round. During the second round, weights were added in 10-pound increments to a maximum of 175 pounds.
Eighteen bridges advanced to the third round. Because the weights used in the Ballroom only reached a maximum of 175 pounds, the 18 remaining bridges will be tested this week with the 16 bridges from the previous testing machines, which measure up to 100,000 pounds.
Jeff McKineey, Leavenworth High School senior, whose bridge advanced to the final round of competition, said, "We have known about the competition for about a month, known of our groups for a few weeks and stayed up all last night to work on our
Abyl Walsh, Lawrence High School senior, said that groups in her advanced physics class brainstormed ideas for their bridge. The competition gave them a chance to test their engineering abilities.
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Glyn Day, Odessa, Texas, junior, stacks weights onto a balance to test a model bridge design.
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KU grad opens store for art made from recyclable goods
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Hayman's purpose is to provide environmentally concerned consumers with a place where they can buy and sell recyclable products.
"I think if the access is there for them they will take advantage of it possible," he said. "But right now we are trying to find something that I am going to try and provide."
By Patricia Rojas
Art pieces made from trash will be some of the many products Earth Tones will carry. Hayman already has found some suppliers.
A 1989 KU business graduate, Hayman is opening a new kind of store. Earth Tones, an environmental stores店 today at 1025 Massaiah Street.
Bryan Hayman is looking for people who make crafts out of disposable products for his business.
"I want it to serve as an information center," Hayman said. "It will basically be a retail outlet."
Trashy art is hard to sell. Trash made into art may not be.
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Hayman said he hoped to increase the public's awareness of the environment by providing this type of service.
One of them, Beth O'Malley, said she was happy to get involved in the business. She contacted Hayman through a classified ad.
A Lawrence housewife with a bachelor's degree in home economics and a master's degree in nutrition, O'Malley is interested in educating the public about the importance of recycling.
"I think the average American is brought up just tossing everything away," O'Malley said.
"I think people — maybe it is the affluence, they just don't care, whatever — people will throw away things that somebody else can use," she said. "And they don't take the time to call the Salvation Army or they don't want to take the time to have a garage sale or whatever," she said.
After graduating from college, Hayman worked at the Kansas Union Bookstore until August, when he started planning his own business. He said this project would allow him to fulfill his entrepreneurial dreams while contributing to the world environment.
"I have always wanted to run my own business," Hayman said. "I felt I was the best way to go into business for myself and still have morals and values."
O Malley tries to make the most of her disposable products.
Besides crafts, Hayman plans to include cloth garments that carry messages promoting a cleaner environment, household cleaners that are non-corrosive and non-flammable and include recycled paper such as stationery.
For example, using a tin punch, O'Malley draws various figures onto juice can lids and then ties a ribbon around the edge.
Like O'Malley, Brenda Rhoades, a Lawrence resident and another of Hayman's prospective suppliers, is the only person in the company usually end up in the garbage can.
Rhoades collects glass jars from food products such as jelly to make candle holders. She decorates the jars with mosaics she has made out of broken pieces of glass that she also collects.
"I like the idea of taking things that are going to be thrown away and making something nice of them," she said.
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