Monday, Sept. 16, 1985
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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KU educates Chinese Petroleum is discussed
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
China — a virtually self-sufficient communist country — does not have a self-sufficient petroleum industry, as proved by the help it recently received from the University of Kansas.
Lymn Watney, chief of geological investigation at the Kansas Geological Survey, and Paul Enos, professor of geology, recently gave lectures and short courses in China to help the country speed the technological development of its petroleum industry.
The two KU geologists visited the country during back-to-back stints. Enos spent $3^{\frac{1}{2}}$ weeks in China and returned Aug. 16. He spent two of those weeks teaching a short course on petroleum exploration and limestone at the Dakin Petroleum Institute
Watney, who returned Wednesday, was in the country for a month. He lectured to 30 geologists over a 12-day period about applying current technology such as
computers in the search for petroleum. Those lectures included an integration of geochemical, geophysical and geological studies.
"The Chinese have a long way to go in the acquisition of the current technology available in the U.S." Watney said yesterday. "They have the ideas and the capability, but they are looking for the technology."
Even if they gain this technology, Enos said the Chinese would lag behind the United States for years in petroleum production techniques.
"It will be a long time before they are technologically ahead of us," he said. "If they ever do get ahead of us, we could stand to learn from them."
"Their petroleum production will exceed ours in the not-to-distant future. If we help them increase petroleum production, it increases the world supply, making petroleum cost less. The major oil companies would be hurt by
that, but the American consumer would gain."
Despite the fact that China is a communist country with unstable U.S. relations, neither Wateny nor Eosn saw the development of China's petroleum industry as a threat to the United States.
"I can't see a strategic problem with helping China," Enos said. "If we were rattling sabres or threatening to go to war, then there would be a problem. This is not unimaginable. However, this is more of an educational mission and not a real conflict of interest."
In disseminating their knowledge to the Chinese, Watney and Enos said they noticed the Chinese were not as open as Americans.
"They asked fewer questions, but the questions they did ask were detailed," Watney said. "They were hesitant to discuss their own research, but on an individual basis they shared experiences."
Enos agreed that the Chinese were more reticent than Americans.
Two injured in collision Sunday
By a Kansan reporter
A motorcycle-pedestrian collision on Kentucky Street near 16th Street critically injured the cyclist and fractured the pedestrian's leg yesterday about 1:50 a.m., Lawrence police said.
The cyclist, James Spitzer, 1509 Vermont St., a former KU student, was in critical condition yesterday afternoon at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. and is reying upon a ventilating
machine for breathing, a Med Center spokesman said yesterday.
Randall M. Hughes, a respiratory therapy student at the College of Health Sciences, was reported in satisfactory condition yesterday afternoon at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Police said Spitzer was driving his Honda motorcycle north on Kentucky Street when he struck Hughes, who was crossing the street about 150 feet south of 16th Street.
Greg Ring, 1310 Tennessee St., was
driving north on Kentucky and told police Spitzer passed him traveling at about 45 mph, just before the collision.
Ring said he was too far away to see Hughes, but he said he saw the sparks as Spitzer's motorcycle skidded across the pavement, police said.
Both men were taken by the Douglas County Ambulance Service to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Prof still sings in opera
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Although maintaining a professional opera career while teaching at the University of Kansas can be hectic, the benefits personally and to KU make it worthwhile, a professor of voice said yesterday.
John Stephens, the professor, will travel to Texas next week to rehearse with the Grand Houston Opera and continue his career as an opera singer.
Stephens will perform two supporting roles in Puccini's "La Bohème." He calls it a great opportunity to perform in one of the most famous and best operas ever composed.
"It's exciting for me because I get to work with two of the greatest tenor and soprano leads, Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni," Stephens said yesterday.
"The challenging part is playing two roles that require makeup and
costume changes and a change in attitude and voice coloring all during the same performance."
The Houston performance, which runs Oct. 17-25, is a reworking of a production that Jean Pierre Ponele conceived several years ago.
"It's good for the school and good for me if I remain professionally active," Stephens said. He had a significant national career for eight years before joining the KU faculty in 1891.
Stephens' contacts range from faculty at Northwestern University in Evanston, III., and the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where he earned master's and doctoral degrees, to professional companies such as the New York Metropolitan Opera.
His national debut as a professional bass singer was with the Lake George Opera Festival in Glens Falls, N.Y., in 1973. He went on to perform as a free-lance opera singer with opera companies in many cities,
including Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis and Houston.
But Stephens said a performing career required practically year-round traveling and little time for a family life, so KU's teaching offer appealed to him.
Stephens said he juggled performances with classes by scheduling extra work for his students before he left and after he got back.
"He is a very personable performer and a good friend of mine," Paige said. "It is difficult for me to have the opportunity to voice faculty rates him very high."
Norman Paige, former director of the voice department and chairman of the committee that hired Stephens, said he was impressed with Stephen's talent.
Stephens said teaching had been good for his professional career.
Stephens said every musician dreamed of becoming a great international star.
Carnival plans may change
By Mike Snider Of the Kansan staff
Shaky ground is no place for a carnival, but that's where a carnival that the Lawrence Jaycees had planned as a benefit this month is sitting.
Jaycees will have to wait until spring to have the carnival.
The carnival was to be from Sept.
28 to Oct. 5 as a benefit for Youth
Sports Inc., a group that plans to
build a sports complex in Lawrence
for youth sports activities.
C. L. Maurer, Lawrence Jaycees vice president for community development, said yesterday that the Jaycees had planned to raise about $4,000 for Youth Sports through the carnival. Now, it looks as if the
At Tuesday's Lawrence City Commission meeting, the Jaycees were told that an ordinance allowing carnivals only in specific commercially zoned areas could not be varied for the carnival.
Maurer said he checked about having the carnival next to Gibson's Discount Center, 2525 Iowa St., two weeks ago with the city planning office and thought that the ordinance didn't apply to the carnival.
He said the zoning problem wasn't brought to his attention until last Monday, a day before the City Commission meeting.
wade Rider, Jaycees president, said. "It's kind of a slap in the face." But he said the carnival would be conducted next spring.
"It was just a misunderstanding." Maurer said.
Cliff Hadd, Youth Sports president, said construction of the complex wouldn't be slowed if the carnival were canceled.
Hadl said the complex, which would be $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles south of Clinton Parkway on Dragstrip Road, would have 15 soccer fields, five football fields and four baseball diamonds.
The first phase of the Youth Sports project will cost $450,000. Hadl said. The group has raised $200,000 from corporate sponsors.
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