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Monday, November 9, 1992
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Rachel G. Thompson / Special to the KANSAN
Hitting the trails
Tony Stanislav, Omaha, Neb., freshman, trained racers Lynn Miller (left) and Steve Cain yesterday at Hastie Hill, a mountain bike circuit located southwest of Lawrence, during the Kansas Mountain Bike Championships. Mountain BIK Lawrence played host to the two-day event.
Forums address gay issue
James J. Reece Kansas Staff Writer
Victor Young said Monday that several years ago he told his parents he was gay to prevent them from discovering it on the nightly news.
Young, a KU sophomore, speaking as part of the 1992 Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas speakers bureau said plans to participate in a gay rights parade led him to reveal his sexuality to his parents.
The GLSOK said 22 of the speakers bureaus were held on campus the week of Oct. 19-25 with an attendance estimated at between 500 and 700 students.
In the bureau, gay and lesbian speakers tell personal stories of how
they came to accept, their homosexuality or tell family and friends about it. The personal accounts, what Young calls their "coming out," is followed by the speakers fielding questions from the audience.
In Young's unusual case, he said that revelation did not harm his relationship with his parents.
"Now my mother is one of the greatest supporters of gay and lesbianism."
Young and KU junior Gordon Lyon were speaking Monday to a human sexuality class in Fraser Hall. The two men gave a partial representation of the standard GLSOK speakers bureau. They lacked the help of two lesbians, that complete the regular bureau, because no women could
make the 9:30am speaking engagement.
The Monday morning bureau was one of six scheduled at KU this week. The forums are held in psychology, sociology, religion and western civilization classes at KU and other area colleges. The Indian Junior College, Baker and Washington Universities and Johnson County Community College.
Patrick Dilley, a graduate student senator and GLOSK member said Nov. 2 that the bureaues were second only to the University Daily Kansan in terms of the number of students each can reach.
The bureauus usually reach between 2000 and 4000 students per semester, Young said.
Architecture students attempt to locate part of KU's history
By Muneera Naseer Kansan staff writer
It is a mystery that beckons for Sherlock Holmes.
And some KU students are trying to crack the case of the missing heliodon, last seen 10 years ago in Robinson Center, where the School of Architecture & Urban Design was temporarily housed.
Betsy Wilson, Lawrence graduate student in architecture, started the search after she learned that the architecture professor she was writing her paper on had invented a device called the Inside-Outside Heliodon.
The device has not been seen since Marvin Hall was renovated in the early 1980s. Wilson said.
So she recruited some of her fellow students in her historic preservation class to help locate the heliodon.
"It's a historical object for KU, "she said. "It's something that KU should never have allowed to get lost. It was important when it was built and that it
The heliodon was invented in 1939 by professor George Beal as a device that would allow architects and students to study natural light in relation to architectural forms at any latitude, hour, or season.
was built here."
If the observed lighting did not meet the architect's satisfaction, he or she could redesign the structure.
So far the 15 to 20 students have not been able to locate the helodon but have managed to find the person who has a small piece of the invention.
Thomas McCoy, associate professor of architecture and urban design, picked up a small piece of aluminum that was lying near the heliond while it was at Robinson. He thought that someone might need it in the future.
McCoy, who saw the heliodon when he was a KU student in the 1950s, said that the invention could be used again by students but major repair work might be needed.
And students think it would be a good device to work with
Eric Zabilka, Lawrence senior, said
that the device will enable architecture students to observe the casting of shadows on their building models.
He said that students currently had to observe their models outdoors and that the heliodon would enable them to make indoor observations at any time.
The students also use computers, which Zabilka said gave them a fixed image that did not show the shadow change.
Students and faculty in the school think that the heliodon should have been safeguarded by the University.
"Given the relative significance of it to KU, I'm surprised that it wasn't maintained by the architecture department," said Don Holloway, Shawnee, Okla., graduate student in museum studies, who volunteered in the search. "It is a valuable artifact and George Beal was at least a locally significant architect."
Beal was head of the architecture department from 1946 to 1962.
By Mark Martin
Perot's success inspires volunteers
Kansan staff writer
Although Ross Perot finished a distant third in last week's election, the Texas billionaire's United We Stand, America campaign group is still standing, especially in Kansas.
Throughout the country, Perot's numerous volunteer armies are meeting to form political action groups that will try to influence government at all levels. And in Kansas, where Perot got 27 percent of the popular vote, United We Stand, America is already organizing.
"We are going to become a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that will work on all levels of Perot," said Darrell King, who coordinated Perot's Shawnee County campaign. "We will work with both parties to support legislation we feel will benefit the people."
King said United We Stand, America would first focus on controlling the deficit and pressuring the government to pass balanced-budget requirements. He said the state groups would be financed by Ross Perot until the groups became financially stable through donations.
Meetings of Perot's campanners will take place across the state this week to organize their coalitions. King said that Perot's state steering committee had met yesterday afternoon and decided to remain together to influence state and national politics. He said that the group would work with current elected officials and was not planning to sponsor candidates in the future.
"We feel that this Kansas chapter will be very strong" King said. "We already had lots of people working very hard during the campaign, and now we have people calling all the time to tell us how important we were during the election. And a lot of the callers want to help in the future."
Perot's success in Kansas was impressive. He won three of the 105 counties in Kansas – Anderson, Jefferson and Wabuaneuse – and finished second in 63. Perot did better in Kansas than in every other state except Maine and Utah.
Populism, a movement which was particularly successful at the turn of the century, united farmers groups, labor groups and other working class groups who felt they weren't being represented in government. Populist candidates were extremely successful in Kansas, even having a majority in the state House of Representatives in 1890.
"I think around the country there has been a budding movement of conservative populism," Getter said. "And Kansas has always been historically a large part of the populist movement."
"Perot was a power-to-the-people kind of candidate." Getter said. "And Kansans might have liked that."
Getter said that because of Perot's straightforward speaking and honesty, he had a lot of appeal for small, rural states like Kansas.
Russell Getter, associate professor of political science, said Perot's success in Kansas could be attributed to several factors.
"Part of Kansas culture is to tend to not blame individuals for government problems," he said. "Instead, they blame political parties, or institutions. People who voted for Perot were voting against the system."
Jack Deines, Jefferson County coordinator for United We Stand, America, said his group would now try to keep the public better informed about government at all levels.
"We'll sponsor letter-writing campaigns, letters to the editor and other things like that," he said. "Our goal in the next four years will be simple. We want to make sure politicians will do what they promised."
City will collect cardboard in new recycling campaign
Program to check for potential costs
The pilot program ends with the collection Saturday with drop-off sites at Centennial Park, off
By Christine Laue Kansan staff writer
Cardboard boxes are friends of KU students who pack up their belongings several times a year for trips between their hometowns and the University. So don't betray those boxes by sending them to the landfill.
People in Lawrence can take their corrugated cardboard boxes to drop-off sites in Lawrence from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The city kicks off a trial run of a cardboard recycling program today by collecting boxes from some Lawrence businesses.
Rockledge Road, and the east entrance of the North Lawrence train denat at North Third Street
The city is running the weeklong program to practice collection techniques and analyze the cost of a full-scale program it wants to implement within the next year, said Patricia Marvin, recycling coordinator for the city. In October, the city ran a preliminary program that showed a need for recycling the boxes.
"Just plucking boxes out of the Dumpsters, we picked up six tons in just one week," Marvin said.
She said a large portion of the waste in Lawrence consisted of paper, largely because of the University, one of the biggest users of paper in Kansas.
Sue Ask, KU associate environmental ombudsman, said the University did not have a cardboard recycling program. She said that
the university would like to implement such a program but that she was uncertain when a program might begin.
When the city will begin its fullscale program also is uncertain. Marvin said that city officials wanted the program to start with in the next year but that the city first must find a building to serve as a recycling center. The city then would purchase a baler, which compresses and ties cardboard boxes — making transporting the boxes to recycling companies easier and cheaper.
For now, the boxes are going to Packaging Corporation of America in Topeka. The company recycles the boxes into more boxes and paper products.
"It would not be feasible to collect cardboard unless you had a baler," Marvin said.
can reduce cardboard sent to the landfill by giving boxes to other businesses.
"That's a better system than recycling it," Marvin said. "Reduction always is. Obviously the less material we have, the better."
But people and businesses also
Maxine Bruns, general manager of Hardee's, 2030 W. 23rd St., said fewer boxes would be better for Hardee's.
"It will help me by not having to throw my boxes in the trash dumpster," Bruns said. "I'll save me money in the long-run."
Fewer boxes in the train bin means Bruns might pay the city less for fewer trash collections. She estimated that Hardee's received more than 100 boxes every week.
Bruns said the city's collection of boxes at businesses was the
The city's Earthbound drop-off sites will take only corrugated cardboard boxes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Corrugated cardboard is mainly used in shipping and has a grooved, reinforced center. Flat cardboard, like box shoes or cereal boxes, is a one-ply cardboard and cannot be accepted for the city's pilot recycling program.
Box drop off
best place to start a city-wide curb-side cardboard recycling program.
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"I think they're going to be surprised at how much they're going to get from all the businesses," she said.
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Highlighting the issue
Barcia Wilson, Winfield sophomore, lights the candle of Brian Trigg, Lee Summit, Mo., sophomore, during a candlelight vigil in front of Wescoe High School. It was part of KU's Homeless Awareness Week.
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