University Daily Kansan / Fridav. September 19. 1986
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News Briefs
SAMS rescheduled hot air balloon event
The hot air balloon exhibition originally scheduled for today has been postponed until September 26.
Team joins MS drive
Steve Vogel, alumni/community events chairman for Students Against Multiple Sclerosis (SAMS), said bad weather forced the organization to postpone its 1986-87 campaign kickoff event.
Larry Brown, Kansas men's basketball head coach, will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. today at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Brown will talk about Jayhawk basketball and announce his involvement in the Diddy Wa Diddy National Barbecue Sauce tasting contest scheduled for Oct. 11 at Crown Center Square in Kansas City, Mo.
Brown and the KU men's basketball team will join the Multiple Sclerosis Society Mid America Chapter to judge the best barbecue sauces in the United States.
Proceeds from the event will help provide programs and services for people with MS in the Greater Kansas City area. Funds also will support research into the cause and cure of MS.
Watermelon feed
Members of the KU sorority Alpha Gamma Delta will have a watermelon feed tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Potter Lake to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
This is the first year for the Alpha Gamma Delta watermelon feed, said Leah Gautier, philanthropy chairman.
Sorority members have invited their parents to the watermelon feed. This also is the first time parents will be involved in the sorority's philanthropy, Gautier said.
Seventy watermelons, most of them donated by area grocery stores, have been collected for the feed. The event is open to the public. Tickets will be available at the feed for $1.
Nature hike planned
A nature hike, featuring bird watching and plant identification, will be tomorrow morning at Clinton Lake.
The three-mile hike, which is sponsored by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, will start at Woodridge, a trail head off U.S. 40 at the lake.
Hikers should meet at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Massachusetts St., and will carpool to the trail head. They should dress comfortably and bring a sack lunch.
The hike is free and open to the public. For more information call 841-7777.
Correction
Because of incorrect information in a Douglas County District court file, a story in the Sept. 12 Kansas listed incorrect information about Dennis Barritt, a Lawrence resident facing cocaine-related charges. Barritt was charged with aiding and abetting the delivery of cocaine, delivery of cocaine and possession of cocaine
Weather
Today will be partly sunny, with a high temperature between 85 and 90. The winds will come from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms and a low temperature around 70. Tomorrow will bring a 30 percent chance for more rain with a high temperature in the mid-80s.
From staff and wire reports
Fumes draw complaints, despite repairs
By KIRK KAHLER
Fumes in the halls and rooms of the Art and Design building still draw complaints from students, in spite of several years' work on the building's ventilation system.
Staff writer
On the second and fourth floors of the building, a strong odor resembling turpentine can sting some noses, although people who frequent the hall say they've gotten used to the smell.
"The vents don't provide much air at all." Leigh Caspari, St. Louis
The adequacy of the ventilation system in the building has been questioned for years by students and faculty.
When the building opened in 1977, many students and faculty members complained of headaches and skin irritations from using some art materials.
In 1984, at the request of faculty members, Joe Waters, associate director of facilities planning, completed an investigation revealing an error in planning. Classrooms that required a heavy air flow to rid fumes had not received the needed flow.
Since then, Waters said, facilities planning had spent about $140,000 to correct the ventilation problem in the building.
However, fumes still can cause some minor health problems.
Mary Shares, Lawrence sophomore, said that she has had minor headaches because of the fumes and that additional ventilation work was needed.
"It seems the windows are too small," she said. "With all the chemicals, it still affects you."
Caspari also said that she was concerned about the health hazards, but
that there was no other building she could use.
During mid-terms and at the end of semesters, the problem is worse because more people are using the building's studios to finish projects, she said.
Caspari said she thought the problem might be a lack of windows that lead directly to the outside. She said opening the building to the outside probably would help considerably.
But Rhett Miller, Topea senior, said the problem had improved since the work was done. He said the only areas of the building that still bothered people were the second and fourth floors, where some odorous materials were used in painting and silkscreening.
Miller agreed that ventilation still was a problem in the studios when many students were finishing projects at the same time.
"I won't even go in the room," he said.
But Miller added, "It all goes with the art field."
Waters said the building wasn't designed with ventilation in mind.
As a part of Waters' investigation, Energy Masters Corp., an energy efficiency company in Overland Park, evaluated the building.
The results of the company's study indicated three main problem areas: extreme changes in temperature from room to room, air flow fluctuation and odor control.
Waters said the problem of temperature variation was solved simply by replacing broken thermostats.
Mark Porter/KANSAN
He said that on the fifth floor of the building, the air used to ventilate the rooms went through another room where students used solvents to clean their projects and supplies.
This caused the odor to spread throughout the building, Waters said.
To solve that problem, the ceiling in the room was lowered to isolate the odor.
"The distribution of the air is the key." Waters said.
When repairs were made, Waters said, many of the inadequate vents were moved and split up to provide a more efficient system by circulating air to areas of the building that needed it.
State and federal guidelines recommend that 10 percent of the ventilation in a structure such as the Art and Design building should come from outside the building, Waters said.
Now. 22 to 23 percent of the air in the building comes from outside, Waters said. He said this was because of the high exhaust needs of the building.
Late night practice
Karla McGaugh, member of the KU Flag Corps and Lawrence junior, puts in some overtime in preparation for tomorrow's football game against Utah State. The KU Flag Corps practiced last night in front of Wescoe Hall.
Downpour in area brings flash floods
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
If thunder, lightning and rain got you out of bed yesterday morning, you weren't alone.
A flash-flood warning was in effect in parts of Johnson and Wyandotte counties and Jackson County in Missouri until 8 a.m. yesterday.
Thunderstorms covered northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri and dumped between 5 and 6 inches of rain in some areas. The deluge caused flash floods early yesterday.
However, the downpour didn't set any records. Lawrence received only 82 inches of rain.
Bill Reilly, forecaster for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said the storms were caused by low-level air flowing through Texas across the Central Plains. That air
Local rivers surged to as high as 19 feet above flood level. The Big Blue River in Kansas City, Mo., was 15 feet above flood level.
At 6 p.m., Stranger Creek was four feet above flood level at Easton, about 25 miles northwest of Lawrence.
met unstable moist air caused by the changing seasons.
"Anytime we have 5 or 6 inches of rain, it's unusual," Reilly said.
The thunderstorms dissipated yesterday afternoon. New storms developed over northeast Kansas last night, but moved northeast into Nebraska and Iowa.
The forecast for today is mostly to partly cloudy, with a chance of thunderstorms that should dissipate in the early afternoon. The high temperature will be around 85 degrees, and the low temperature tonight will be 88 degrees.
Staff writer
Tomorrow, football fans may need to bring their umbrellas to the game. The sky will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the middle to low 90s.
Sunday will be partly cloudy and warm, with a chance of showers. The high will be around 85.
By BILL RAYNOLDS
Family's ties make them a Jayhawk tradition
Memorial Stadium.
A Salina family whose ties to the University of Kansas date back to 1875 will be recognized tomorrow as the 1986 KU honorary Parents Day family.
Milo G. Sloo III and Ginny Sloo of Salina; their son, Mark Sloo, a KU freshman; and their 16-year-old daughter, Suzanne Sloo, will be introduced before the 1:30 p.m. kickoff for the KU-Utah State Parents Day football game at
The Sloos are a fifth generation Jayhawk family.
"Our family is honored to be a proud part of the KU tradition," Milo said. "KU gave me the tools I needed to succeed in life."
Mark said he came to Mount Oread not because of the family tradition but because of KU's excellent academic reputation. He hopes to major in business.
Mark's great-great-grandfather, Frank
Dinsmoor, started the Jayhawk tradition when he received a bachelor's degree in 1875 and a master's degree in 1878.
Staff writer
Loren Taylor, Alumni Association director of membership development and a member of the Parents Day Committee, said that the honorary family was selected on information received from KU alumni who filled out applications in the Kansas Alumni magazine.
Each year the University of Kansas Alumni Association and the Parents Day committee select a family whose ties to KU are among the oldest and strongest.
Former hostage tells of crisis in Iran
By BRIAN SNYDER
BALDWIN — Moorhead Kennedy was hustled from his room by masked men with guns. The late fall air fall the hallway frigid. The date was Nov 4, 1979, the beginning of the Iranian hostage crisis, which would last 444 days.
Applicants must be at least a second generation KU family to be considered for the KU honorary family award.
Kennedy was one of 52 U.S. citizens taken hostage by Iranian students at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. At the time, he was the acting economic counselor for the U.S. Foreign Service.
Now he speaks about terrorism and what he thinks should be the United States' course in dealing with terrorism. Kennedy is executive director of the Council for International Understanding. He was in the Owens Musical Arts building at Baker University yesterday offering his views.
Taylor said that the Sloos were the only fifth generation KU family to return an application for the award but that there might be other fifth generation KU families.
He told the audience of about 100 people his experiences on the day the U.S. Embassy was seized.
"We were stripped to our undershorts." Kennedy said, "and told to assume the frisk position against the wall. We could hear the
students chamber their weapons next to our ears."
He said the students told them that they would be put on trial and that some would be executed
After the confusion of the first day, Kennedy said he was able to speak with his captors. He said he had an understanding of what the terrorists wanted and where U.S. terrorist policy fell short.
"There is a two-fold problem," Kennedy said. "First of all, we have not found the tools to resist terrorism. An example is the bombing of Libya. It didn't work. Secondly, we must first understand terrorists."
One of the captors told Kennedy that when he had gone to school in the United States, none of his classmates knew where Iran was. Every American knew Iran existed after the hostages were taken, the captor said.
He said that terrorists had identity crises. They want to find their niches and be taken seriously by the world, Kennedy said.
Many terrorist activities are motivated by strong ideological beliefs and resistance to colonial rule. Kennedy said.
Although the United States doesn't have colonial ties in the Middle East, it is commercially and psychologically involved in the area. The United States has a strong influence on other countries, he said.
The people of Iran wanted their country to have its own identity while their former ruler, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was trying to Westernize the nation. The nation found its identity in fundamental religion, he said.
"They want the fruits of developed countries, but they want to keep their values," Kennedy said.
He said his captors were both embarrassed and apologetic after the seizure of the embassy. They were, at the same time, capable of inhuman activity and cruelty, such as performing mock executions. Kennedy was told that Americans were liked and that the U.S. government was hated.
After learning who the terrorists are, Kennedy said, the United States should reach out and make an attempt to understand the grievances of the terrorists.
Paul Karnaze/KANSAN
BALDWIN — Moorhead Kennedy, executive director of the Council for International Understanding, tells an audience at Baker University about his days as a captive during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.
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