Thursday, November 1. 1979
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Worms are new breed of garbage disposal
By TED LICKTEIG Staff Reporter
The earthworm's image might be changed from a slimy creature to a tireless garbage processor as soon as homeowners begin installing worm beds.
That idea may not be very far-fetched.
There are four garbage processing plants in Japan, one in Canada and two in Germany. The earthworms are used as the processors.
Homeowners can use the excretions from the worms as fertilizer in their gardens—another reason to raise worms, instead of using an amateur vermiculist, said last week.
Vermiculturists study the eating habits of worms.
Bridges said the worm wastes would be especially effective on tomato plants.
rically effective to tomato plants. A worm bed in a family's backyard could eventually replace the kitchen garbage disposal, Bridges said.
HE SAID he processed his garbage by hoeing a row down the middle of the bed and then dumping his garbage into the row.
"This allows the worms to consume the garbage from all angles and allows them to eat at their leisure," he said.
Bridges said the worms had no problem consuming the garbage because they could eat 72 percent of their weight in one day and because they quickly
excrete the garbage in a fertilizer form called castings.
The plant in Canada has been in operation since 1970 and is processing 75 tons of garbage a week. The plants in India are processing 10 tons of garbage a week.
BRIDGES, who has written several books on the use of biodegradable garbage could be fed to the worms, because they couldn't consume non-biodegradable items like paper.
Biodegradable garbage can be broken down by bacteria in the environment or by other living organisms.
Bridges said a family could start with 5,000 worms and let them reproduce until there were 20,000.
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Bridges said that the worms would double in number in about three months.
Once there were 20,000 worms, they would have to be split into another 5 feet by 5 feet by 1 foot worm bed, he said.
He said the worms' waste could be used as fertilizer for a family garden.
The worm bed should be placed in nonadhesive dirt, he said, because the worms are able to survive under Gunny sacks should be used to insulate the worms in winter to prevent them from overheating.
Bridges said people must use use worms or certain types of manure worms, which can be purchased at worm ranches, to get positive results.
Council to weigh exigency report
By DAVE LEWIS Staff Reporter
The University Council will discuss the financial exigency of the Kansas Board of Regents differentiate between financial exigency and a financial problem that could be rectified without further action.
Some KU faculty members have con-
vince that the exigency policy could be limited by a recently approved Regents policy that did not specify what constituted financial
The University Senate executive committee's ad hoc committee on financial exigency released Friday the report that highlights possible changes in the Regents府議.
Financial exigency is a state of financial crisis and would be declared by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes if budgetary difficulties persist, the faculty members was necessary
If the Council approves the report, it could be forwarded to the Regents.
William Kauffman, legal counsel for the Regents, wrote a letter to Dykes Oct. 11, saying that the more general Regents policy required that an exigency exigency would not conflict with KU's policy.
The Regents policy, approved Sept. 21,
says, "It will be the responsibility of the
chief executive officer of each Regents
Some faculty members, however,
questioned the role of the committees in
determining termination of tenured
faculty; others argued that the amendment needed more discussion.
The committee also requested that the Regents policy provide at least a year's notice to instructors being released.
Richard Cole, professor of philosophy and a member of the American Association of University Professors, said earlier that the elected committees would make the procedure political and would create factions among faculty members.
In related business, the Council will reconsider an amendment to KU's financial exigency policy that authorizes election committees from each department to recommend tenured faculty members that received financial exigency were declared
sities as quality institutions of higher learning have been explored."
Cole said that the implications of such a committee had not been analyzed sufficiently before the amendment was passed.
The amendment was passed last spring and forwarded to the University Council Sept. 6 for its approval.
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Gay Awareness Week Nov. 5-8
The SenEx committee recommended in a report that the Regents policy be changed so that new legislation declared only as a last resort after all possible alternatives calculated to preserve the existing law.
Monday: Causal Theories of Homosexuality By Prof. Michael Storms 7:30 JAYHAWK ROOM, KANSAS UNION question period to follow
institution, in consultation with appropriate groups, to develop a plan for reductions in personnel as necessitated by conditions of financial exigency."
Tuesday: Feminism / Lesbianism How do they relate?
Panel discussion
7:30 PINE ROOM, KANSAS UNION question period to follow
KU's policy, approved in 1976, states that the faculty of tenured faculty be to use "only as a last resort . . . after all possible problems have been examined, and utilized or rejected."
Wednesday: Legal Rights of Gays informal luncheon with local attorney 12:00-1:30 CORK#1, KANSAS UNION
Video-tape / Gay Lifestyles, KANSAS ROOM UNION, 7:30-9:00 discussion to follow
Thursday: SPEAKER'S BUREAU Panel / discussion with members of Gay Services of Kansas. 7:30, COUNCIL ROOM, HASHINGER HALL
Sponsors: KU-Y.Gay Services of Kansas, Women's Coalition, CSW
question period to follow
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DATE: Thursday, November 1
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
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