Technology group offers services
Thursday, November 1, 1979 1
By ANN LANGENFELD Staff Reporter
In a yellow room lined with book shelves and file cabinets that is above a downtown store at 101%1 Massachusetts St. is the Appropriate Technology Resource Center.
The center was begun in September by a group that calls itself the Appropriate Technology Resource College. The center will have an open house from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Books, periodicals, cassettes, slides and files of information are available at the center to help persons self-relance in energy, food and health. Ken Lassman, a member of the collective, said, Members of the collective are involved in these areas, Lassman said.
Dan Bentley, a member of the collective, said, "Technology looks at how man meets his basic needs for food, health and shelter. Technology is today at a level too high for our needs."
All the materials in the center, which is funded by private donations, have been donated, he said. Therefore, the books are used at the center rather than checked out.
The book shelves are labeled by topic and include materials on conservation, agriculture, solar energy, architecture and recycling.
Dee Tolar, another member of the group, said, "we want to look at compatibility with the laws of nature, rather than to be against nature. We take a holistic approach to life."
Bentley said, "You talk about energy and conservation and that leads to recycling. That leads to composts and organic gardening and food. Food takes us to health. We have become too compartmentalized. We believe in a systems approach."
In addition to the resource center, the collective is building a solar greenhouse in North Lawrence. The greenhouse was the $70,000 grant from the Department of Energy.
The collective is conducting a continuing education course on appropriate technology at Lawrence High School this semester. Some of the topics that have been covered in the past year include weatherization, wood heating, solar greenhouse, conservation and recycling.
The group hopes to have the greenhouse completed by winter and then will begin organic gardening in it.
Next semester the group is planning to conduct a health course at the resource center. Food and nutrition and their health are important, so the main focus of the course, Bentley said.
Tolar said, "We want to educate people about keeping well, rather than treating symptoms when they get sick."
The group will soon be conducting an energy-use study in Douglas County. Tolar said it was a grassroots effort to convince teachers that they can implement zoning ordinances so that the development
of renewable energy forms could be undertaken.
The group also hopes to coordinate grant proposals from the area on energy, health and food
technology. The class members, now members of the collective, wanted to continue what the course had begun.
The collective began as an outgrowth of a 1978 Free University class on appropriate
"our goal is to educate people about the alternatives available and to work with other people who have similar interests," Lassman said.
Glover . . .
Glover said he had waited to pass out the literature until students came back in August.
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over. They were late in being processed, and the first time I had a chance to distribute them was in the summer when the students were gone," Glover said. "
An insert in the pamphlet showed a map of the reapportioned districts in Lawrence and described issues that affected the area.
On the back of the insert, voters could check a box that said, "I would like to help on Mike Glover's 1980 re-election campaign for State Representative."
Halvorsen, a Lawrence senior who campaigned for Glover's opponent, Willie Amison, in the 1978 election, claimed that he would insert the insert was campaign literature.
He cited the section of the Campaign Finance Act, which defines "candidate" as
someone who "makes a public announcement of her or his intention to seek nomination or election to state office"; or "makes an expenditure or accepts any distribution for the purpose of influencing his or her nomination or election to any state office."
Halversen also cited another section of the act that states that a candidate must appoint a treasurer no later than 10 days after becoming a candidate.
Glover said, "It sounds to me like he is telling him to go to Congress and Republican president committeeman and that he campaigned for my opponent lists his motives are less than what he says."
Glover's new treasurer, Radcliffe, a local certified public accountant. Glover said, "I picked Dean because we get along well with him and he should be able to keep good records."
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