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Thursday, October 4, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
City coordinator encourages more to join recycling effort
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Recycling in Lawrence is expanding, but the city is not ready for mandatory recycling, Pat McAuliffe recycling coordinator, said yesterday.
Marvin spoke to about 30 people at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
"People say, 'You have to make it mandatory,'" she said. "We can't make it mandatory until we can provide services to people who are already doing this on a voluntary basis."
Marvin said that she would like to have convenient drop off sites for recyclables throughout Lawrence but that the sites would not be practical until the city had a processing center for recyclables.
"Right now we would have to ship all the recyclables to Topeka or Kansas City," she said. "That would be hard, but it is trash to Topeka or Kansas City."
Marvin encouraged her audience to set an example for others.
"When you recycle, do not forget that your neighbors are watching you," she said. "They are more likely to mimic something you are doing rather than listen to you talk about something you're not doing."
Marvin said she was proud of the recycling programs the city had developed, such as the Earth Bound sites in Lawrence parks on weekends, where residents can bring their trash to be added to the city compost pile.
"I would much rather compost
something than throw it away," she said. "It seems to me that there's a certain insanity in wrapping grass and leaves in plastic bags and sending them off to the landfill to be preserved."
Marvin said she wished her title was reduction coordinator rather than recycling coordinator because one of the keys to reducing the amount of trash produced was reducing the amount of materials consumed.
"People and businesses could easily cut down on the amount of unnecessary packaging they use," she said. "When I shop, I try to count how many times everything I buy is包装. It's an interesting habit to get into. It alerts you to how much packaging you're being sold."
HOPE nominations to begin
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
KU seniors who want to recognize a favorite teacher may do so Tuesday and Wednesday when the senior class begins accepting nominations for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award.
The senior class gives the HOPE award annually to one faculty member, said Joe Panegasser, senior class president. The award recognizes outstanding teachers who go beyond teaching the basics of their field to help students develop critical thinking abilities.
"It's really a prestigious award," he said.
Usually 25 to 50 faculty members are nominated. Panegasser said.
This year, he would like for more students to nominate teachers.
"The more nominations you have, the more valid the recipient is," he said.
Seniors who want to nominate a favorite teacher may do so at bootthes that will be set up in the rotunda of the Kansas Union Hall and possibly the Kansas Union Hall and possibly the Kansas Union.
Seniors should bring their KUIDs. The only information a student needs to provide about his nominee is the name of his class. A student may notinate more than one teacher
After nominations are collected, the senior class will vote on the list of teachers. Panegaser said.
A special committee will interview the 10 to 12 teachers who receive the
most votes, he said. The committee will consist of the four senior class officers and representatives from several different campus groups.
The committee will select five finalists, but the recipient of the award will be chosen by the senior judge. The HOPE award will receive $250.
Last year's recipient was Bedri Yimer, professor of mechanical engineering. Yimer said there was some reason for about getting an award from student.
"I'd rather get an award from students than colleagues, although I'm not undermining the other," Yimer said. "It means a lot to me. They are the ones who see you day in and out. That makes it special."
Language lessons
Charles Macheers/KANSAN
Yoshiko Ueno, Tokyo graduate student, tutors Jim Wilson, St. Louis freshman, in Japanese. The two, taking advantage of cooler temperatures, sat outside the Wacores Terrace Cafeteria yesterday.
SRS offices consolidate in Lawrence
Kansan staff report
Social Rehabilitation Services in Lawrence is being rearranged so that the office can provide more personal service, SRS officials said yesterday.
"This is the one way we could get more staff at the line level," said James Wann, who was appointed director of the Lawrence-area office Monday. He was referring to positions at the social worker level.
Dennis Taylor, acting secretary of SRS, announced in August that offices in Haiwatha and Osawatomie
would be merged into a single Lawrence-area office.
Wann, who was Osawatamie area director, will be director of Brown, Donphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Achnach, and others. Parties antitrusts from the Lawrence-area office.
Wann said that by combining two area offices into one Lawrence location, SRS could focus on people in the office and reduce administrative work.
"The whole purpose is to provide services," he said. "We're an agency
that needs to be there. The people who need us are pretty desperate."
Barbara Conant, acting SHS public information director, said yesterday that the Kansas Legislatureman announced five changes during the 1990 session.
"We want to make sure we are being good stewards of the voters' money," she said.
Wann said one of his goals in the Lawrence office was to pull together the people who were combined in the new area.
Student Senate votes not to finance ROTC rifles
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
She unwrapped the M-1 rifle from a towel and passed the gun around the room for the senators to handle at the Student Senate finance committee meeting last night at the Kansas Union.
Rollie Paquin, resident-at-large senator, asked the committee members how they expected members of the Air Force ROTC drill team to throw the 25-pound rifles over their heads during drill competition.
reasons," she said.
"We need a new rifle for safety
The committee voted last night by voice vote not to pass the bill.
Troy Radakovich, finance committee co-chairperson, said he thought one reason the bill did not pass was
Rollie said the new rifles were important to the organization's existence and were needed for the safety of its members.
Rollie sponsored a bill asking Student Senate to allocate $498 to the Air Force ROTC drill team for rifles, flag harnesses and office supplies.
and senators were concerned about allocating a large amount of money to such a small group.
"It was not a question of discrimination," he said.
The drill team is a registered student organization open to all students for rifle drill and competition.
Rollie said that the team was not sponsored officially by the military but that it used its title to enter competitions.
ROTC will provide uniforms for the drill team because it is considered an honorary organization, she said.
Rollie said that the organization was governed under its own rules and regulations, received no financing from ROTC or any other organization and did not violate the University's anti-discrimination policy.
Rollie said that she would appeal the bill in Student Senate.
"We fall under the criteria for getting funding," she said. "If they are going to kill the bill they can explain why. There was no discus-
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parking lot, the fraternity members became more responsive.
"The word got around that 'Hey, don't steal in this neighborhood because people are watching.'" Bielle said.
Beilei said that if one specific fraternity or sorority was continually involved in inappropriate activities, the programming in that chapter would be scrutinized to see whether hazing was being
encouraged.
Another reason for tracking reports is to find out whether greeks are always the ones throwing people in the fountain, streaking and participating in other acts of inappropriate behavior, she said.
"The Greeks be glad for "everything that goes wrong." Bleile says. "We feel it's important the blanks don't always go to the Greeks."
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