2D • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY,AUG.19,2002
Laurie Sisk/Kansan
Clinton Lake Marina offers ski boats, personal watercrafts, pontoon boats, fishing boats, canoes and kayak rentals. Hiking, camping and golfing are also available at the state park.
Students cool off at Clinton Lake
By Jay Pilgreen Kansan staff writer
Students who want to go outdoors this summer and early fall will find the parks and facilities surrounding Clinton Lake have a variety of activities available.
Hiking, camping, fishing, hunting and relaxing on the water are all things to do around the lake area.
For those with access to boats and who enjoy water sports, the marina offers boat ramps and designated ski areas within the lake. Customers can also rent boats from the marina.
the marina offers ski boats, personal watercrafts, pontoon boats, fishing boats, canoes and kayaks.
Jennie McDonald, Lawrence junior,
said the ski boat was the most popular. It
costs $60 per hour or $300 per day.
McDonald said she liked the atmosphere.
phere at the marina.
"I like the people that come out here,
and there's always fun stuff to do," she said.
The Eagle Bend Golf Course, open to the public, offers another option. The course is located just east of the lake, on the other side of the dam.
Green fees are $10.50 for nine holes
Monday through Thursday and $16 for 18
holes. Fees are $12.50 for nine holes and
$18.50 for 18 holes Friday through Sunday
and holidays. A golf cart is $10 per person
for nine holes and $15 for 18 holes.
for three times and Bruce Rist, assistant golf professional at the course, said students regularly played the course.
Students would have to call early in the week to get a weekend tee time, but if they wanted to play during the week, a couple of days was usually enough, he said.
"They can't call Friday afternoon for a Saturday morning time." Rist said. "That's too much."
Forstudents on a budget, the parks have trails for hiking.
are gone by Monday."
Students who like to hike and camp will find four clearly-marked trails surrounding the lake with different landscapes and camping facilities.
The shortest trail is the Backwoods Nature Trail, located behind the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Visitors Center at Overlook Park. The trail is a 5/8- mile loop that has unique features marked at 14 locations
Students with more experience can venture on the South Shore/Rockhaven Trails. These trails start in Rockhaven Park and run a total of 50 miles in both directions, all near the southern shoreline of the lake.
All parks are open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
every day.
Camping with a tent is allowed 100 feet off each trail in designated areas. Woodridge and Rockhaven Parks also
have parking and campground areas.
For students who own campers, Bloomington. Park has about 400 campsites, as well as a beach swimming area, sand volleyball courts, playgrounds, smaller camping areas and the Clinton Museum.
The museum is open 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday.
Students can fish off-shore in small lakeshore coves and designated areas. The Kansas Department of Wildlife stocking program increases the population of some species, Crappie, walleye, white bass, channel catfish, large-mouth bass, smallmouth bass and bluegill can all be found in the lake.
Hunting and fishing licenses can be purchased in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers office in Clinton State Park, 872 N. 1402 Rd
Contact Pilgren at editor@kansan.com.
This story was edited by Mandy Miller.
Writer wants Hollywood to cut cigarettes from films
By Joe Milicia
Associated Press Writer
Eszterhas, whose credits include "Basic Instinct" and "Showgirls", accused the rest of the film industry, too, of promoting smoking, and urged it to quit.
CLEVELAND — Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, a lifelong smoker, said Friday that he has been treated for throat cancer and apologized for glamorizing cigarettes in his movies.
"My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood's," he wrote in an emotional op-ed piece in The New York Times.
Eszaterz, 57, said he was diagnosed with cancer 18 months ago. Much of his larynx is gone, he wrote, and he has difficult speaking and being understood.
Smoking was an integral part of many of my screenplays because I was a militant smoker. It was part of a bad boy image I'd cultivated for a long time — smoking, drinking, partying, rock 'n' roll," he said.
"Smoking. I once believed, was every person's right. ... I don't think smoking is every person's right anymore. I think smoking should be as illegal as heroin."
Eszterha, who grew up in Cleveland, is being treated at the Cleveland Clinic, where he had surgery, hospital spokeswoman Angela Calman said.
"At this time there is no evidence of cancer remaining," she said Friday.
She said Eszterhas was spending the day with family and was unavailable for comment. His agent referred calls to the clinic.
"I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did."
In the newspaper piece. Esfjerhas said he has trouble forgiving himself for the rampant cigarette use in his films.
In 1992's "Basic Instinct," Eszterhas
"Smoking, I once believed, was every person's right. ... I don't think smoking is every person's right anymore. I think smoking should be as illegal as burgar."
heroin.'
Joe Eszterhaus screenwriter
"Sharon Stone's character smokes; Michael Douglas" is trying to quit. She seduces him with literal and figurative smoke that she blows in his face," he said. "In the movie's most famous and controversial scene, she even has a cigarette in her hand."
wrote, smoking was part of the sexual sub- text.
Eszterhaer said he has stopped smoking and drinking since his cancer was diagnosed, and he now walks five miles a day and attends church on Sunday.
"I'm no longer such a bad boy," he wrote. "I want to do everything I can to undo the damage I have done with my own big-screen words and images."
He concluded; "I don't wish my fate upon anyone in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood stop imposing it upon millions of others."
Larry Deutchman, an executive with Entertainment Industries Council, a group founded by film and TV companies to monitor social issues, applauded Eszterhay's remarks but said he didn't think Hollywood in general was guilty of glamorizing smoking.
"If he looks at his work and wishes he had done otherwise, I respect that and think it's terrific," Deutchman said. "But to blame the industry as if there's a conspiracy to promote tobacco use, I think might be a little unfair."
Mike Campbell Special to the Kansan
Student earns fellowship, develops polar radar
He recieved an Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowship in July from NASA. It will finance his work developing radar that can see to the bottom of massive sheets of ice.
Some cool research means cold cash for Lawrence electrical engineering graduate student John Paden.
sieve sheets of ice.
Paden's research is part of a National Science Foundation-funded project called Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements, or PRISM
The fellowship is one of 52 given nationwide this year,
it will pay Paden's tuition and give him a stipend.
"This fellowship is a clear indicator of John's ability to contribute to the state-of-the-art research in his field," said Victor Frost, director of the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center where Paden works.
Paden will look at enormous chunks of ice that cover most of the land in Antarctica and Greenland. They can be over two miles thick and hold 77 percent of the world's fresh water.
Paden wants his radar to see how much of a sheet is fourier the ground and.
Paden wants...
frozen to the ground and
how much rides on water
melted from the sheet. He
also wants to know
whether the area skating
on water is growing or
shrinking.
Ice sheets gliding on slippery water move much faster than those scraping the bedrock, said Prasad Gogineni, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and PRISM's lead investigator.
Because icebergs continually break off the front of ice sheets, faster sheets add more water to the oceans that do slow ones.
The vast amount of water frozen in the sheets means the ice has a huge potential impact on global
"If sea level rose just three feet, it would flood the homes of 100 million people. Studying changes in the ice sheets like we're doing on this project can help us predict such rises ahead of time and prepare for them."
John Paden
Electrical engineering graduate
student
sea levels, Paden said. For instance, if the entire Greenland ice sheet melted it would raise the world's oceans by 20 feet.
Such a rise would have catastrophic consequences, according to Paden.
Paden will combine his work with other PRISM researchers looking at things like the thickness of the ice sheets and how fast ice accumulates on top. All this information will allow the development of a computer simulation to reveal whether the ice sheets are growing or shrinking.
according to Fades.
"If sea level rose just three feet, it would flood the homes of 100 million people. Studying changes in the ice sheets like we're doing on this project can help us predict such rises ahead of time and prepare for them," he said.
Fears of global warming have spurred interest in PRISM. However, Paden noted that ice sheet research was important even if humans were not heating up the planet.
"There is lots of natural variation in sea level. Sea levels can change over periods as short as 20 to 50 years. Ice sheets probably play a big role in those changes." he said.
A key advantage of Paden's radar is its speed and mobility. Currently procedures require researchers to drill through an entire sheet to tell what lies at the bottom.
Drilling takes years and is often hampered by the extreme weather. Scientists have only bored a few holes all the way to the bottom of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
Paden hopes his radar will get the same information in a matter of minutes. He can also mount his radar in a specially designed all-terrain vehicle, making it easy to use in many locations.
Paden hopes to take his radar to Greenland next summer.
Campbell is a journalism intern with the PRISM program. Contact him at shamsoup@hotmail.com.
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