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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, Oct. 11, 1985
Research vegetation mothered
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Far in the remote corner of West Campus sits a place that Mother Nature forgot.
Despite sizzling summers and wicked winters, the KU botany greenhouse serves as a year-round, 4,000-square-foot home to a herbaceous smorgasbord.
Martha West, University florist,
said Tuesday that the greenhouse
grew plants for research and
teaching at the University. She said
she had received calls from people
wanting to purchase flowers but had
to turn them down.
"These aren't the kind of plants you would want on your desk," she said. "We don't specialize in the beautiful out here."
West said the greenhouse, which is behind Foley Hall, housed more than 6,000 plants including cactuses, avocados, citrus trees and poke weeds. She said none of the plants were grown just for their beauty.
Instead, she said, the plants were studied for genetic research and even medicinal reasons. One such plant that is used is the poke weed. West said its poisonous berry was used by the University for cancer research.
Plants such as the cactus, West said, are used to study how plants adapt to their environment. Her collection of cactuses are a sticky part of her work. She wields her sieve and revealed scars from watering the prickly d.ert dwellers.
Despite living in the guarded environment of the greenhouse, West said, the plants were still at the mercy of outdoor temperatures.
"If it gets cold out there, let's say 20 degrees, then the best temperature I can hope for in here is 38 degrees," she said.
West said she could leave her work at the office but unlike most jobs, she had to come back each night to make sure the heat was still on.
Temperature is important, West said, because many of the plants couldn't withstand even a night of cold.
"The year before last the heat went out," she said. "The temperature went down to 20 degrees and I lost a third of my plants."
West said summertime also posed problems for growing. The glass roof and walls often made the greenhouse umbearable.
"I have seen the temperature get as high as 130 during the summer," she said.
West said her plants might have a new home in the future. Four new greenhouses atop the Haworth Hall would also providelocation for West and her green friends.
West said she loved to grow plants but she only tended a small garden at her home. She likes to leave most of her work at the office, she said.
Working seven days a week with the plants, West said, built a bond between grower and plant.
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The environment of scholarship halls can make students feel right at home. But living at home also means doing chores.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Chores included in hall life
In addition to classes, studying and their social lives, students in KU's eight scholarship halls are responsible for preparing and serving food, cleaning up, doing dishes, and cleaning the bathrooms, living rooms and recreation rooms. They also have shifts to answer the phone.
Each hall has its own guidelines on how the work will be done and to ensure that it is completed to keep the hall running efficiently, Chris Dallagher, resident director of Stephenson Hall, said yesterday.
"It works best if people think of the place as their home, not just a place to live," Dallager said. "People do try to take care of the place. People do care quite a bit."
But, he said, the system isn't perfect and sometimes students may not be motivated to put in extra effort to help.
On the whole, he said, the close, cooperative living of scholarship halls works successfully.
Kenneth Stoner, director of University housing, said scholarship halls gave students the chance to build a good living environment.
"The students chip in and work
Although working in a scholarship hall takes time, several students don't think the work disrupts their college schedules.
He said about 400 students lived in the scholarship halls and all the halls were filled, except for about 10 vacancies in Battelfield.
"The work is a part of your schedule," said Melinda Eisenhour, Bushton freshman and resident of Sellards Hall.
together to achieve common goals. " Stoner said.
Students who live in Sellards work set shifts to cook for breakfast, lunch and dinner, she said. But cleaning shifts can be done whenever the student has time, as long as the work gets done, she said.
Eisenbuehner said she liked the atmosphere of the scholarship hall.
"We're here to go to school," she said, referring to other people who are studying.
Michelle Wilson, Maple Hill freshman and a resident of Douthart Hall, said living in a scholarship hall was more like a family environment because students worked together.
You work with other people so you flow close to them," she said. "You should talk to them."
Wilson said meals weren't hard to prepare. at Douthart. Two people prepare lunch and two prepare dinner for everyone.
"Things aren't done for you," she said. "You have to put time into the system to make it work."
John Corvin, Fairway junior and proctor at Battenfeld Hall, said he was responsible for scheduling students to work.
Work in the hall is part of the residents' regular schedule, he said. They have to schedule around it. The hall usually doesn't have problems with students being irresponsible about their work, he said.
The hall serves dinner Monday through Thursday evenings, she said, and students plan and prepare those meals.
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If someone can't work, he will find someone else to work for him, Corvin said.
Anita Barter, Shawne senior and a resident of Watkins Hall, said she enjoyed living in Watkins.
Barter said, "If you eat lunch at the hall, you're expected to clean up and put your dishes in the dishwasher.
"I was expected to do things around the house at home. People care for the place when they are responsible for it."
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Scott Phol, Hastings, Neb., senior, prepared the cuckle for a quiche in the kid chen of Battenell Hall for last night's dinner. At KU's eight scholarship halls, the residents prepare their own meals.
Crane deaths prompt fines from OSHA
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration yesterday proposed $10,000 in fines against a company operating a crane that buckled atop the 38-story AT&T Town Pavilion, killing two workers in August.
OSHA announced the alleged violations against American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel Corp. in connection with the Aug. 9 accident at the construction site.
Artist releases prayer album
Two ironworkers, Norman E. Gaines Jr., 37, of Liberty, and Mark Mallett, 27, of Kansas City, died in the accident. Two others were injured.
Three of the men, including the two who died, were in a bucket attached to one of two cranes operating on top of the building. A boom on a stifffell derrick buckled, and the bucket fell between 100 and 120 feet to the 13th floor of the building.
The alleged violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act involved willfully failing to follow safe operating procedures before and while the workers were being hoisted, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Labor office in Kansas City.
Bv Jill White
Of the Kansan staff
A developing artist's goal was realized when his album of prayer music for congregational services was released in September, the artist said Tuesday.
Steven Farney, director of music at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, said his album, "Alive in His Love," was most appropriate for Lent and Holy Week but could be used in other ways.
Farney said Resource Publications Inc., San Jose, Calif., released 5,000 copies of the cassette tape throughout the United States and in France, England and Australia. About 1,500 cassette tapes have been taped. The tapes are available at the Catholic Center, 1831 Crescent Road, for $9.88 each.
"Its primary purpose is to involve musicians and the congregation," he said of the album. "But it could be used in meetings or in individual meditation."
The album includes music based on Scripture with a contemporary religious musical style and one traditional hymn, "The Lord's Prayer."
Voices in four-part harmonies are accompanied by various combinations of violins, guitars, cellos, brass instruments and strings. In the lute Farnes composed all the songs.
Father Vincent Krische, campus minister of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, said, "I think it's really a profound religious experience listening to his music. I think Steve really captures the meaning and substance of the Scriptures he sings, but offers a new insight when you listen to them."
Farney said good music in church now involved many styles and expressions, even within the same Mass. And as a music director, he said he felt a responsibility to incorporate these styles in a coherent manner involving instrumentalists and choirs.
“There is all this latent talent out there in the community,” he said. “This music is to be used by musicians and congregations.”
Farney, a native of Wilson, took piano lessons for seven years during grade school and learned to play guitar in classes at Kansas State University. He also took several music theory classes at the University of Kansas.
To compose religious music, Farney said, he first wrote melodies and then picked Scripture to match. He said the readings for Lent attracted him because they were so
Musical scores are available for all the songs on "Alive in His Love," and many of the choir pieces recorded have two to three different arrangements available so that choirs and musicians of different abilities can perform the pieces.
powerful and portrayed emotional feelings of doubt, betrayal, confusion, sorrow, guilt and finally joy. He tried to capture those feelings in the music.
"We recorded them exactly as we would see them being done," he said. "But the music is not easy. It's not something you could just work up in 20 minutes. It meant to be challenging for church musicians."
Farney said his favorite piece on the album was "In the Winter" because he wrote everything on it without help from the other musicians. It is a melancholic interpretation of Peter's denial of Christ.
Another song, "Your Dwelling Place," carries additional significance because in April it will be used as a dedication to the Catholic Center's new church.
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An apartment in Jayhawker Towers was robbed Wednesday night while the occupants slept, KU police said. Two KU students and their two overnight guests were sleeping in the apartment at about 1 a.m. when two of the people heard the door slam, police said. They told police they thought it was one of the guests leaving and went back to sleep.
When they awoke the next morning, four boxes of silverware and cutlery, valued together at $150, a woman's denim jacket, valued at $25, and a cassette radio with four speakers, valued at $96, were missing from the apartment. Police have no suspects.
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A 23-year-old KU student reported that a diamond necklace valued at $1,000, was stolen Wednesday from the front desk of Naismith Hall. Lawrence police said yesterday. The necklace had been turned in to the hall's front desk after the student had left it near a pay phone in the lobby. When the student went to the desk to claim it, the necklace was missing from the drawer a clerk had put it in.
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