Friday, August 25, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Car hits house; driver booked, room damaged
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Add sports cars to the list of things that go bump in the night.
A sleeping Lawrence resident was awakened at 2 a.m. yesterday when a 1989 Ford Mustang struck her house at 2419 Yale St,
"I heard a loud boom, and the house shook," said homeowner C.R. Wiley. "Of course, I was sound asleep. I thought there had been an explosion somewhere, but then my little doggie started barking. I peered out the window and saw a man sitting outside under a tree in my front yard, which scared me to death."
Wiley called the police, but her neighbor had already reported the accident.
Lawrence Police Det. M.T. Brown said that Lawrence resident Aaron William Catloth, 22, was speeding and turning when he struck a stone wall on Wiley's house.
"He came barreling down Rockledge, and my house is right at the corner," Wiley said. "If I hadn't had that stone half way up the front of the house, it would have been in my house."
Wiley said the car pushed in the wall of a bedroom and damaged the window but did not damage furniture.
Wiley said she would not know any damage estimates until a professional contractor came to examine it.
Catloth was arrested and booked into the Douglas County jail on charges of operating under the influence, no proof of insurance and reckless driving. He was released yesterday on $850 bond.
A neighbor saw a passenger in Catloth's car flee the scene.
Edited by John Auldholm
Senate Outreach Week aims at recruiting
— Edited by John Audelhelm
By Kursten Phelps
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Don't be fooled. Student Senate elections aren't next week, but Senate officials and senators will be camped out at Wescoe Beach.
Kim Fuchs, Student Executive Committee chairwoman, said the main motivation behind Senate Outreach Week was to recruit new members for Senate standing committees.
"Committees are the main way to get involved at first in Senate." Fuchs said. "We want to give Student Senate some exposure to the student body."
Information tables will provide information and applications for the Finance, Graduate
Affairs, Multicultural Affairs, Student Rights and University Affairs committees at Wescoe Beach from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. all next week
Outreach Week wraps up on Tuesday, Sept. 5, before the first committee meetings and orientation on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
"We'll be out there answering questions about what Senate is doing and not doing," Fuchs said. "We're going all the way with it
Board will also be available.
this year. There's always the image of Student Senate getting out there at election time, but now is the time to serve the students."
Fuchs said she hoped that Senate's presence on campus would give Senate positive exposure to students and encourage more committee participation.
"It would be ideal if we could be out there every day all year," Fuchs said. "I would love to see record numbers of people joining committees and keeping those numbers high throughout the semester."
Fuchs said that although committee recruitment would be a big part of Outreach Week, keeping new committee members involved would be an important issue this year.
"we want to keep them engaged in what we're doing. If someone realizes Student Senate's not for them, it's not for them," Fuchs said. "But we don't want them quitting committees because they're bored or because there's nothing for them to do."
Erin Day, St. Francis junior and Nunemaker senator, said she thought Outreach Week was a great way to start off the year.
— Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
"One of the main concerns of the student body is that senators aren't doing enough for the students," Day said. "It's a great way to get the campus in touch with us and us in touch with the campus to hear what issues are really important to students."
The 3,000 year old Egyptian scroll is made from papyrus plants which were common along the Nile River during the time of its creation. This rare Egyptian scroll, donated to the University of Kansas by Jake Ballard, Overland Park senior, previously hung in the Ballard family's dining room. Photos by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
Egyptian manuscript donated by student's family
Bv Matt Merkel-Hess
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A rare, 3,000 year-old papyrus scroll took another step on its historical journey when it was donated to the University of Kansas last Friday.
John Ballard, a 1973 KU alumnus, and his wife Cindy donated the Egyptian scroll, which they bought three years ago at a Kansas City, Mo., public library auction. The scroll hung on the Ballards' Overland Park dining room wall and was a conversation piece until their son, Jake, took the class Understanding the Bible, taught by Paul Mirecki, associate professor of religious studies. After a lecture on manuscripts, Jake asked Mirecki if he would take a look at the scroll.
Ballard, Overland Park senior, said. "I won-
dered if he could tell us."
"We'd always thought it was fake," Jake
Mirecki didn't expect an ancient Egyptian scroll to pop up in Kansas.
"I knew this wasn't a counterfeit," said Mirecki, who has extensive experience studying ancient manuscripts. "It was a genuine, old scroll."
Mireck's further study of the style of writing and drawings dated the manuscript at about 950 B.C. The scroll is a guide to the after-life, known as the "Amduat," which is similar to the book of the dead. Mireck said a new, unstudied scroll like this only turns up every couple of decades.
Mirecki has been studying the scroll and using it as a classroom example for more than a year now, ever since Jake Ballard brought it in. After talking with the Ballards, they decided to donate the scroll to the University.
"They can put it to better use and value it more than we can," Cindy Ballard said.
That makes Mirecki and other professors harry.
"Undergraduates taking a 100 level class will not only hear about ancient Egypt but can go into the library and actually see a manuscript," Mirecki said.
The scroll will be
Richard Clement, special collections librarian. This is the first complete scroll in the collections.
"It's something that I've only been able to talk about or show pictures," said Clement, who also teaches a class on the history of the book. "Now we have the real thing. It makes such a difference."
Clement said the library would move the manuscript to a casing appropriate to preserving ancient documents. While there are no plans to add more ancient scrolls to the collection, the Ballards are keeping their eyes open.
"We're not collectors of antiquities or anything," Cindy Ballard said. "It's just something that caught our eye. But we'll keep looking."
Businesses to accept local currency
— Edited by John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Bv Matt Merkel-Hess
Hold on to your pocketbooks — a new currency is coming to town.
Known as REAL money, which stands for Realizing Economic Alternatives in Lawrence, the bucks are already rolling with a $3 Burroughs bill featuring pictures of the late writer and Lawrence resident William S. Burroughs.
The Lawrence Trade Organization introduces REAL money to keep Lawrence money in local businesses. Photo by Selena Jabara / KANSAN
Made by the Lawrence Trade Organization, the bill is worth three U.S. dollars and can be used at participating Lawrence businesses.
The idea is to keep local money circulating through local businesses and service providers, said Kris Olsen, trade organization member.
"Everyone who sees or uses the dollars will benefit," Olsen said. "Businesses will benefit because REAL dollars are more likely to be returned to them because they will be spent and used locally."
Currently Amazing Grains Bakery,
518 E. Eighth St.; Liberty Hall, 642
Massachusetts St.; and Lawrence
attorney Bruce Plenk have agreed to take the money. Anyone can trade federal money for the Lawrence cash at Liberty Hall and beginning Friday,
Sept. 1, at the Free State Credit Union located in the Community Mercantile Co-Op, 901 Mississippi St. The REAL money can also be purchased from the organization's Web site — www.lto.lawrence.ks.us.
Although Amazing Grains has yet to have a transaction with any of the new bills, Honna Veerkamp, a partner with the bakery, said supporting Lawrence was a priority for the business.
"It keeps the economy local rather than supporting big corporate chains or the money going somewhere else," Veerkamp said. "It keeps it in the community."
The organization is working to expand the number of businesses offering the cash and in September will print bills in $1 and $10 denominations. The new bills will feature Pelathe, a Native American who warned abolitionist citizens of Lawrence about William Quantrill's raid in the 1800s, and Langston Hughes, an American poet who was born in Lawrence.
The U.S. dollars earned by selling
the REAL dollars will be used to print more money and to produce a semiannual listing of members, Olsen said.
The REAL dollars were printed at Kansas Key Press in Lawrence on denim paper donated by Crane and Co. of Dalton, Mass. The denim paper is made of cotton blue jeans scraps and white-cotton underwear trimmings. Crane and Co. also produces the paper used for U.S. currency.
The organization will have an educational forum to present the currency to the public at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9, in the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
For more information, contact the organization at 841-8796,
boog59@juno.com or write to P.O.
Box 1542, Lawrence, KS 66044.
Award distribution ongoing tradition
Continued from page 1A
Provost David Shulenburger.
Before more than 150 students,
Strikwerda learned that he was
one of this year's winners of the
$5,000 W.T. Kemper Fellowships
for Teaching Excellence.
“It’s a privilege to teach at KU.” Strikwerda told his audience at the lecture room in Summerfield Hall. “It’s wonderful to get paid for something you love to do.”
Cara Nether, Denver sophomore, was excited about Strikwerda's honor.
"It's kind of cool that our teacher is recognized by the entire school as a good teacher," she said. "It makes you want to learn all you can from him."
Strikwerda said he would use the money to take his wife out to dinner and pay some bills.
During a break in the classroom visits. Hemenway expressed his enthusiasm for the tradition of distributing the awards at the beginning of the fall semester.
"This is one of the most enjoyable tasks that the chancellor has the privilege to perform every year," he said.
Hemenway and the group also visited Mary Lee Hummert's class yesterday morning in Malot Hall.
Hummert, associate professor of communication studies, said she felt honored to be selected for the award.
"Actually, it's very humbling when you think about how many faculty are deserving of an award like this," she said. "I'm indebted to my department and my students for their support."
Paul Friedman, associate professor of communication studies, said he wasn't surprised that his colleague had won the award because she was an outstanding educator.
"She's a very dedicated, caring, understanding teacher about whom many students speak very highly," Friedman said. "So the award certainly is well-denured."
Ten other faculty members received awards yesterday. Eight more winners will be announced in classroom visits today and early next week for a total of 20 winners.
The awards, which began in 1996 as a five-year program, are funded by the W.T. Kemper Foundation- Commerce Bank, Trustee and the Endowment Association. Hemenway said yesterday that the University would have enough money and support to continue the Kemper program.
KEMPER RECIPIENTS
Yesterday's winners of the W.T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence
Edited by J. R. Mendoza
Walter A. Clark, associate professor of music and dance
Diane R. Foury, associate professor of French and Italian and humanities and Western civilization
Estela A. Gavosto, associate professor of mathematics
Mary Lee Hummert, associate professor of communication studies
Edwin W. Hecker Jr., professor of law
V. Parker Lessig, professor of business
- Richard S. Musser, professor of journalism
Garth A. Myers, assistant professor of geography and African and African-American studies
Anton Rosenthal, associate professor of history
Carl J. Strikwerda, professor of history and associate dean of liberal arts and sciences
Thomas W. Volek, associate professor of journalism
Mary K. Zimmerman, associate professor of health policy and management
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