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Pauline Gracik, Lenexa senior, leads 5- and 6-year-old children in a gymnastics exercise that strengthens back and leg muscles.
Student teachers flip over teaching
KU instructors teach tumbling to local youth
Kansan staff writer
By Amy Zamierowski
Kenneth stall writer
Five-year-old Christina Clement stood poised on the end of the balance beam, her arms straight out from her sides.
"OK, now walk backwards, slowly," said her student instructor, Michelle Hepler.
A look of panic came over Christina's face, but then she began to move, calculating each slow, wobbly
step. When she reached the end of the beam, she grinned in satisfaction.
cristina is the more than 500 students, ages 3-18, who participate in the Kansas School of Gymnastics, which has about 25 KU student
Connie Stutz, head coach for the school, said children gained confidence from their achievements in the class.
"The kids that are coming here want to be here," she said. "They are jumping up and down waiting for class to start."
The program, which started in 1986 with 275 students, is sponsored by the KU department of health, physical education and recreation and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation department.
Bob Lockwood, gymnastics director, said he thought the program was successful because of the quality of the equipment used by the team, which meets Olympics standards.
The program, in Robinson Center,
gives students hands-on teaching
experience. They receive course
credit by helping paid instructors
Lockwood said the program also provided experienced gymnasts a job opportunity and a chance to return to a gymnasium.
Kelly Glauer, student instructor, said she enjoyed seeing the improvements the children made in the classes.
Instructors are paid $6 to $8 an hour, he said.
work, it makes you feel good," Glauser said.
Lockwood said his goal for the program was to expose as many children to gymnastics as possible.
"When they come in and want to
"People are starting to understand more the real value of gymnastics," he said. "For flexibility, balance and strength, they need to beat gymnastics in these areas."
A recent study by the Athletic Research Institute showed that 90 percent of a person's athletic potential was derived from the ages of two to five, he said.
"Sometimes we think that if a child is not good at physical activities, they will get better when they are older." Lockwood said. "But this isn't always true. We need to start them early with physical activity."
Speaker: Control population growth
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
The world's rapidly growing population will be the greatest challenge facing today's college generation, the new generation. Population Institute said yesterday.
Forms spoke to about 150 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon. His speech, titled "Gaining People, Losing Ground," was sponsored by the department of environmental studies and the Center for East Asian Studies.
The world's 5.4 billion population will double in the next 40 years, Forns said. Ninety percent of that growth will occur in developing countries that will not have the resources to support those people, he said.
“If we don't solve these problems by ourselves, nature will intervene, and nature is never kind when it has an oman saint's work for him,” he said.
Fornos said that despite the bleak statistics, he was confident that family-planning programs could help limit population growth. The birth rate has gone down in 30 countries he have adopted such programs, he said.
Because education is needed to inform people about birth control, eliminating female illiteracy would help avoid many pregnancies. For
A reduction of infant mortality in Third World countries would reduce
the population growth rate in those countries, he said. Many women in the developing world have nine or 10 children because they know only three or four will survive. Reducing the number of pregnancies will reduce the number of pregnancies.
"An effective family-planning program for the world would cost $2.5 billion. That's a lot of money," he said. "But $2.5 billion is the amount the United States spent on cigarette advertising last year. That's the amount the world spent on military spending yesterday."
Fornos passed a contraceptive called Norplant around the auditorium. The contraceptive, used in 45 countries in the United States by Christmas.
Norplant, which is inserted into a woman's body, prevents pregnancy for five years and can be removed if a woman wishes to have a child, he said.
Formos said that the United States once the leader in international population assistance, has reversed its course in the past six years by refusing to contribute to the United Nations Population Fund and making its contribution to the international Planned Parenthood Foundation.
"We gave China $6 million worth of nuclear materials," he said. "We gave them F-4ighter planes. But we not willing to give them condoms."
retix Moss, professor of anthropology who attended the speech, said. "I think this should be the number one issue in the world today. The population is going to double in 40 years, but we aren't even handling the world very well with the amount of people we have now."
Another Soviet republic declares independence from Moscow
Kazakh legislature's first autonomous act is to ban nuclear testing in the republic
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Kazakh republic declared sovereignty from the Soviet government yesterday and factional fighting threatened to break out in the Moldavian republic, accelerating the country's political fragmenta-
As its first act of defiance, the Kazakh legislature banned nuclear explosions anywhere in the republic, including Sempalatinsk, one of the Soviet Union's main sites for testing workplaces.
Kazakhstan, a poor, grain-growing republic that stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Chinese border, is the
republics showed no intention of complying.
14th of the 15 Soviet republics to declare sovereignty from Moscow. Now, only the neighbouring Central Republic of Kirkega has yet to take the step.
that could happen soon. The Kirkiz parliament is debating the issue, according to Chungiz Atmatov, an independent Gorbach's presidential council
The breaking away of the republics has plunged the Soviet government into a constitutional crisis. The national legislative parliament has passed a law that its laws take precedence over decisions by parliaments in each republic. But the
Gerbacheh has been trying to persuade the republics to negotiate a new treaty that would redefine and preserve the union as a confederation of sovereign states. But few republic leaders ever eager to participate in such talks.
Even as they push for autonomy from Moscow, some of the republics are trying to stop separatist movements within their own borders.
Konstantin Rabu, a member of the
In Moldavia, police and busloads of college-age volunteers headed last night toward the Gagauz region, a tiny corner of the republic where an ethnic minority has declared independence and began holding elections.
Moldavian People's Front, said in a telephone interview from the Moldavian capital of Kishinev that the volunteers were unarmed and would try to end the Gagauz independence drive peacefully.
"We want to talk them out of this craziness," he said.
President Mikail Kishai Gorbachev made a telephone call to Moldavia's president, Mircha Snegru, to warn him of the impending impermissible. Tasa said
Authorities evidently feared an outbreak of fighting. The Moldavian Parliament, meeting in emergency session, debated whether to declare a state of emergency, the official news agency Tass reported.
"It was emphasized that only peaceful means should be used to
preserve the republic's territorial integrity," the agency said.
Moldavia faces independence movements not only by the 100,000 Gagaur people, who are of Turkish descent, but also by a smaller number of Ukrainians in another corner of the republic, the so-called Dneister republic.
The Russian Federation, the largest of the Soviet republics with about two-thirds of the Soviet land mass and half its population, faces separatist movements from Finnish-speaking people in the northern Kumi region. The Ukrainian-Chuvash, a region of 1.3 million people along the Volga River.
On Wednesday, the Chuvish parliament declared itself a full Soviet republic, equal in status to the other
15. The central government and other republics have not recognized the claim.
In Georgia, fighting has broken out between the most Christian majority and the Muslim minority in Abha. The governor is asking 500,000 people along the Black Sea.
Ossetta, which has a population of about 400,000 people descended from a Scythic tribe, also is trying to split from Georgia.
Azerbaijan has been fighting two years to retain control of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave of ethnic Armenians. Yesterday, Tass reported that three thousand Soviet Internment犯人 were taken hostage by people demanding the release of Armenians detained in a passport check.
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