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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 29, 1992
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Senate to support clubs
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Student Senate's finance committee approved every bill that was brought to the floor last night, including more than $2,000 to support three foreign student clubs and $550 to finance two engineering projects.
The Chinese Student Association's request for $209 drew the most debate from the committee members. They questioned whether the association duplicated the services of the Chinese Student Scholar and Friendship Association to which Senate already allocated $1,557.75 for the year.
"They think that the Taiwanese and Chinese can get along in one group, and that's just not so," said Margaret Hu, Manhattan senior, who defended the
bill. "They come from the same country, but they represent two different ideologies. There really is a lot of bad sentiment."
Hu said that the difference between the two groups was as vast as the difference between Americans and American Indians. Chinese history was not taught well in U.S. schools, which was the main reason the committee members were not receptive to the bill at first. Hu said.
The Pakistan Club, which works to teach KU students about Pakistani culture and helps students from Pakistan to adjust to U.S. lifestyles, requested the largest allocation. The $1,154 would be used to put on a Pakistani Culture Night and an Asian Culture Night, which would make KU students more aware of Pakistani culture.
finance the Malaysian Student Association's Malaysian Night. Their free festival would include native dances, music and songs.
The committee also approved $710 to help
The Engineering Student Council's request for $750 was cut to $250 because about $500 would have been used to recruit students for the School of Engineering. Lance Wright, student body vice president, said that recruiting for any reason violated Senate rules and regulations.
The final bill approved by the committee last night was for $300 to purchase equipment for a project being designed by the KU Space Program. According to Senate rules and regulations, the project must be marked with the Senate logo. Tom Miller, KUSP president, said that the project would travel abroad the next space shuttle flight.
KU sponsors engineering contest
By Kristi Fogler
Kansan staff writer
Kansas and Missouri high school students interested in pursuing a career in engineering got some hands-on experience yesterday at the Kansas Union.
More than 500 high school students participated in the Sixth Annual High School Scholastic Tournament and Design Competition, sponsored by KU's School of Engineering.
Thomas Mulinazzi, associate dean of engineering, said that the competition was held to encourage students to become engineers. Mulinazzi said that he had anticipated about 300 students, but Leavenworth High School sent 250 students.
Mark Siebke, Oak Park High senior, watches his rubber band-powered machine attempt to travel up a pole. Siebke was involved in a competition sponsored by the School of Engineering yesterday morning where area high school students were required to design a machine powered by rubber bands to traverse a 1.2-foot pole.
Students competed in four areas chemistry, physics, math and design. Written physics and chemistry tests were give to students in their high schools on Monday and Tuesday. A math test was given yesterday afternoon. The tests were graded and awards for the best high school in each division were handed out.
The highlight of the competition was yesterday morning's design competition where students tried to propel a small vehicle up a 12-foot wooden pole using rubber bands. Students constructed their pole climbers out of wood, construction paper and Styrofoam. Thirty-two designs came from 23 schools.
"I was interested in coming because I like math," said Lancer Brayton, Leavenworth High School junior. "It sparked an interest in engineering, it sounded like a fun field."
Students from Van Horn Engineering and Technical High School, a Kansas City, Mo., magnet school, entered 12 designs in the contest. For Jim Graczyk, Van Horn science teacher, the contest was a class project. He said that this would be one of 10 to 15 competitions in which the class would participate.
Curran Mitchell, Van Horn High School junior, said he wanted to become a chemical engineer and that the competition was an opportunity for high school students to share
ideas.
"I feel the combination of all the design ideas coming together in one event is a good thing." he said
Jason Jundt, Minot, N.D., senior.
who represented the School of Engineering, said that the competition was a great opportunity for high school students to explore a career in engineering.
"As a high school student you don't know what engineers are all about," he said. "As engineers at KU, we need to help them decide whether they would like to become an engineer."
Candidates combat environment issues
By Laurie Hudson
Special to the Kansan
Candidates for state offices discussed a variety of environmental issues in a "Vote Smart" forum presented by Enviros last night in the Kansas Union
About 20 KU students he representatives from the Republic, Democratic, Libertarian and independent parties speak about the environment in Kansas.
Water pollution and distribution, prairie preservation, a bill on recycling bottles and toxic waste storage were some of the issues the state candidates discussed.
Barbara Ballard, a Democratic candidate for the 44th district state house of Representatives race.
Her concern was that a money-back policy would not be an incentive for businesses such as grocery stores, which would pose as collection sites for the recyclables.
talked about a bill in the legislature that would give money back for recyclables such as glass or plastic bottles.
"We have to make it marketable," said Ballard, who is also the director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. "You have to make it profitable for people to really do it."
The topic of Kansas pollution sparked a lively debate between independent state House of Representatives candidate Richard Small and Libertarian state Senate candidate Roger Woods.
Also speaking at the forum were Betty Jo Charlton, Democratic candidate for state House of Representatives; Brian Kubota, Republican candidate for state House of Representatives; Jay Germano, Libertarian running for the state House of Representatives; Joyce Wolf, an independent running for state Senate; Sandy Praeger, Republican candidate for state Senate; and Richard Small, independent candidate for state House of Representatives.
thinking."
The largest polluter in the U.S. is the U.S. government," Woods said. "There needs to be a major re-
But Small said that the pollution was caused by the Department of Defense, not independent governmental agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.
See related stories, Pages 9,10.
But the future of his running is uncertain, at best. Doctors say it will be six months to a year before they know what will be possible. During another surgery on Monday, doctors will replace the rod with a permanent one, re-align the bone fragments and insert cadaver bone to fill in the gaps. The surgery is necessary because doctors, in their haste, used the wrong-sized rod, McClain said.
His lung problems have cleared up now, although his lungs are not as strong as they once were.
After the surgery, McClain will be on crutches for two and a half to three months.
"I've heard of athletes who still perform with a rod in their leg," he says. "I've never heard of runners having a similar accident, but I definitely want to get my strength."
In the meantime, he rests at home, nulling over what happens when an OWN comes to town.
"It's devastating," he says. "After my accident, and really my whole stay in the hospital, it really hadn't dawned upon me yet.
"Now that I have so much time to think, it's pretty depressing at times to think about it.
"But it's just a situation you can't control."
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He recently watched his alma mater, Shawnee Mission West High School, compete in a cross country meet.
Kansas runner battles back
McClain, who disenrolled from the University until next semester, has been at home since he was released from the hospital. He is considering taking a correspondence course through the University.
"It's kind of tough being on your own for a year, be at school and all of a sudden being at home again," he says. "Luckily, I've got pretty good parents. They spoil me."
"it's pretty hard to watch a race," he says. "You kind of think about all your great glory days and your great races at a time like that."
And all his time is not spent thinking about his lost cross country and track seasons.
"I watch a lot of movies," he says.
"I've played keyboard for a long time.
I have to play piano now, but I'm getting my keyboard fixed."
For someone as active as McClain was before the accident, near immobility is tough to take. One of his greatest pleasures is simply riding in a car, a chance to get out of the house and experience the outdoors, he says.
"My car's a clutch, so I don't drive that much," he says, looking meufely at his scarred left leg. "I never realized how important my legs were until now."
There seems to be no doubt about Jeremy's desire, either. His expressions of his athletic future are usually prefaced by "definitely."
"I definitely want to get back to running," he said. "I've got to give my bones time to heal, but when the time is right, I definitely want to give it a shot."
Shane said that the competition between the brothers became heated at times.
candidates with disappointment now.
"It's like I already had Jeremy there to
within, and I never felt lonely, but
sometimes now I feel lonely when I
running," he said.
"It appeared early on that Jeremy had a chance to make the nine nine." Schwartz said. The Big Eight conference only allows nine cross country athletes on each school's traveling squad.
While Jeremy's physical future may be still anybody's guess, none of those close to him have any doubt about his ability to meet the mental challenge that would be a part of any comeback rehabilitation.
All three brothers spent the summer in Boulder, Colo., working temporary jobs and running 60 to 65 miles a week in the lung-building mountain air.
Jeremy's older brother, Ladd McClain, is a senior and currently ranked third on the Kansas cross country team.
And the work seemed to be paying off early in the cross country season
"Running, sometimes, we kind of have to cool it, or we'd run ourselves to death," he said. "But I think we keep the competition in perspective. Of course, we want to beat each other."
That competition is augmented by the fact that Jeremy is his twin.
In high school, Jeremy and Shane ran on a 4800-meter relay team that won the Kansas 6A state championship three consecutive years.
But he is not without other options.
"I couldn't run," he says, smiling. "I threw the ball back."
"No," he replies.
And Shane McClain, Jeremy's identical twin, has been his running partner since the two began running "just for fun" in the third grade.
"This is a family that goes on running vacations in Colorado," said Gary Schwartz, Kansas cross country and track coach. Schwartz has known Jeremy's father, Gene McClain, since they were track teammates at Kansas in the late '60s.
He misses that companionship now.
"If you have somebody running with you who genetically is the same, if you know that physically you're about equal, they can push you harder." Shane said.
Shirley Braunlich, Lawrence senior, tallies up the number of whistle blows by members of the Women's Student Union. Members of the organization blew a whistle every 15 seconds yesterday in front of Strong Hall to remind people how often a woman is a victim of domestic violence.
Kathteen Driscoll / Special to the KANSAN Whistling for awareness
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Lets that can run have carried two generations of McClain men through Kansas cross country and track seasons.
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