University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 13, 1987
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Local Briefs Slattery to give talk on peace outline today
Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan, is scheduled to speak about peace in Central America at 7:30 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church, 949 Vermont St.
Slattery spent 10 days in Central America in January. A delegation of 18 Kansans, including a KU instructor and a KU professor, accompanied Slattery on the fact-finding trip.
When he returned, Slattery sponsored a letter, signed by 110 members of Congress, that was submitted to President Reagan. The letter called for bilateral negotiations between the United States and Nicaragua and an end to all outside military aid in that region. Slattery also has been supportive of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez's Guatemalan Peace Initiative.
Ex-KU fine arts dean will perform in KC
James Moeser, former KU organist, will perform at 8 p.m. today in the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral at 13th Street and Broadway in Kansas City, Mo.
Moeser, Carl and Ruth Althaus distinguished professor of organ and former KU dean of fine arts, will play works by Buxtehue, Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Dupre in the recital sponsored by the Cathedral Concert Associates.
Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for students. People 65 and older are admitted free.
DuPont fund-raiser set for today in KC
Former Delaware Gov. Pierre S.
"Pete" DuPont, a candidate for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, will be in Kansas City, Mo., at noon today for a $500-a-couple fund-raiser.
The luncheon fund-r raise will be at the Allis Plaza Hotel in Kansas City. Singles under 35 may attend for $250.
Lawrence NAACI to make awards
The Lawrence chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will have its second annual Freedom Fund and awards banquet at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at South Park Center, Massachusetts St. The year's growth is "Economic Growth and Development in Lawrence; Responsibilities for a Viable Future."
Tickets may be obtained by calling Marian Brown at 843-3010 or K. Ann Newman at 843-3615.
Leonard W. Clark, director of the Kansas State Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, will speak at the meeting. The KU Inspirational Gospel Voices will provide music.
Economist to speak on South Africa
Charles Becker, professor of economics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will speak today on the impact of sanctions against South Africa at 2 p.m. in the Room at the Kansas Union.
Becker, a specialist in economic development in Asia and Africa, will present a more economiesic approach at 8:30 p.m. in 493 Summitfield.
The speeches are sponsored by the departments of economics and african studies.
From staff and wire reports.
KU scientists head south to study ice in Antarctica
Edward Zeller, professor of geology, physics and astronomy, will head south to Antarctica
Staton Breidenthal/Special to the KANSAN
Staff writer
Two professors and two students from the University of Kansas are going south this weekend, but it won't be to get away from the cold.
They referred Nights
Academy National Science
Foundation project, the four will
leave Saturday for six weeks in
Antarctica, where they will use radar
equipment designed at KU to measure
ice thickness.
Edward Zeller, professor of geology and physics and astronomy, said the group would rendezvous with scientists from three other universities at a glacier about 400 miles from the South Pole, along the Ross Ice Shelf, to take advantage of the Antarctic summer.
Zeller and the others, including Raju Garudachar, Bangalore, India, graduate student on leave from the Indian Space Research Organization, and Curt Davis, Prairie Village senior, will spend their days driving tractors and flying over the ice.
Zeller said learning better ways of probing the ice was important for two reasons. First, it will help scientists
learn what lies under the 2-mile-thick ice.
Second, the radar equipment will also make possible more accurate measurements of the volume of ice in Antarctica, he said.
Dale Rummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the expedition's other faculty member, said the group would develop the tools during the expedition so that others could do the experiments Zeller described.
This will be Rummer's first trip to Antarctica. He said he didn't expect any problems from working in the rugged climate. Zeller, who had worked for Rummer as a spokist as if a summer there was as ordinary as a summer anywhere else.
Zeller said matter-of-factly that the group would be working in temperatures ranging from about zero to 10 degrees Fahrenheit. That's balmy compared to the South Pole, where 20 below zero is a warm summer's day.
Group members will have around-the-clock sunlight to keep them warm. Zeller said that means their temperatures should be on the higher temperatures soaring to near freez-
Freezing is about as warm as it will get for the scientists.
"It if it gets too warm, things melt," Zeller said. "The floor titts and things get all wet and the tent collapses and all sorts of terrible things."
"Essentially, we're sleeping on two miles of ice," he said.
"I've had it happen where you start eating and the gravy burns your lips" he said, "and halfway through you get ice crystals forming."
Zeller said temperatures could be a problem, no matter how cool he was after.
"When we get back, everything seems hot," he said. "The difference is, here, nobody is dressed for the cold, and we will be all the time."
Zeller said the Antarctic terrain was as bleak as most people probably in the world.
"It's mostly flat snow fields," he said, "like western Kansas without any fences."
KU vigil crowd remembers missing U.S. servicemen
Staff writer
The group comprised about 10 KU students, 50 members of the Air Force, Navy, Marine and Army ROTC programs and 15 other people. They came to the memorial for a candlelight vigil for MIAs and POWs of all U.S. wars.
As cars sped past on the streets near the KU Vietnam Memorial and students strolled on the sidewalk, a group of people gathered for a quiet period of reflection.
By BEN JOHNSTON
The Arnold Air Society, a national military society, sponsored the vigil as part of a week of activities to commemorate MIAs and POWs. This week each of the 150 society chapters at universities throughout the United States will have a similar vigil.
Several members of the Arnold Air Society lit the candles of people who attended the vigil. After the candles were lit, they were morated those Americans who were
'A lot of people do need a ceremony like this.'
Michael Mastin Lake Quivira senior
Among the speakers were Deborah Heard, Colorado Springs, Colo., sophomore and director of operations for the KU chapter of the society; Chris Kirk, Gardner junior and commander of the chapter; Col. John Rademacher, a professor in the Air Force ROTC, and Joe Nemeth, Universal City, Texas, senior and chaplain for the chapter.
prisoners or were still missing in action. The speakers read a prayer and a list of the names of all 2,413 U.S. servicemen missing in action in the Vietnam War.
Michael Mastin, Lake Quivira
senior, attended the vigil. Mastin said he attended because his father, an Air Force leutnant, was missing in action for six years after he was shot down over Vietnam in 1966. He was released by the North Vietnamese in 1972.
Women gain in job market
Other students came to the ceremony even though they did not know anyone who was a MIA or POW. Jennifer Dole, Los Angeles freshman, said she was interested in the War and the suffering it caused.
"It was a very confusing period." Mastin said. "I am just trying to figure it out for myself. There was a huge void in my life at that time."
"A lot of people do need a cereemony like this," he said. "They need the relief they can get from a cereemony like this and acknowledge what happened, being with others who have had the same experience."
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
"It's people that keep the memory alive in a healthy way," Dole said.
Sixty percent of the 21 million jobs generated by the year 2000 will employ women, an official from the U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday at the Holiday Inn Holidome.
Jill Houghton Emery, national deputy director of the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, citing departmental statistics, told about 100 Kansas employers, educators, economic development agencies and women's organization members that by the year 2000, 80 percent of new jobs will go to women, immigrants and minorities.
— Jill Houghton Emery deputy director, U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau
It used to be that work life and ome life did not meet until the wife kissed her husband when he came home from work that day. The 'Leave it to Beaver' days are over.'
"Women today have many choices," Emery said. "It's up to you. Whatever you want to do, you can do it."
She said that in the future, as women become more educated and the pool of workers in the work force becomes smaller, employers will have to bend to accommodate working mothers.
"Today there are 53 million women in the work force. We are the majori'y, not the minority," Emery said.
In the 1920s, Emery said, there were 8 million women employees, and the average working woman was 28 years old and single. Today, the average working woman is 35 years old and has been married, Emery said.
In dual-income families, 18 percent
of women in the work force bring home a larger paycheck than their spouses, and 28 percent of small businesses in the United States are owned by women, she said.
"These have been good years for women in the labor force," she said.
Currently, one in seven state legislators are women, Emery said, and women are mayors of some of the nation's largest cities.
Emery also said that women earned half of the bachelor's and master's degrees awarded at universities and one third of doctorates.
Today more than half of the mothers with children younger than the age of 15 are
Emery, who previously worked for the U.S. Small Business Administration as director of the Office of Women's Business Ownership, said traditional roles of women as housewives have changed.
"It ited to be that work life and home life did not meet until the wife kissed her husband when he came home from work that day," she said.
"They call women my age the sandwich generation," she said. "The 'Leave it to Beaver' days are over," she said to a laughing audi-
Emery said after the speech that there was a rise predicted in the average age of women in the work force, and a decline in the number of younger workers.
Rose Kemp, regional administrator of the women's bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Women need to know that the universe of careers. They need to know that options are available."
Kemp said the socialization of women had been a factor in keeping women in low paying jobs.
Connie Hubbell, a member of the Kansas State Board of Education, said before the meeting that in Kansas, women were not in many administrative roles. She said there were only two women superintendents in the 304 school districts in Kansas.
Staff writer
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Ticket sales steady, lottery outlets report
Statewide, no sales figures have been tallied yet. But Nancy Zogleman, director of public information for the Kansas Lottery, said the fact that five $5,000 prizes, the lottery's top prize, had been won across the state was a good indication that people everywhere were buying tickets.
The first day of state lottery ticket sales yesterday gave Kansans the chance to scratch themselves rich. But although Lawrence ticket outlets reported steady sales, some said there weren't as many people itching to play as they had expected.
Shortly after midnight Wednesday, Bill Muggy, owner and manager of the Jayhawk Book Store, 1420 Crescent Road, sold 985 tickets at a special promotion. By yesterday afternoon he'd sold about 700 more.
Muggy said he had been prepared to sell up to 6,000 tickets at the promoter's place.
The lottery has helped lure more Lawrence residents who are not students to the store, Muggy said.
"I thought there might be greater interest in the opening than what I expected."
Students seemed to be buying tickets one to three at a time, he said. He said he also had noticed that many
people who won $2 or $10 prizes were
not keeping cash, but buy
their gifts well ahead.
Stephanie Stephens, manager of the Kwik Shop at 3440 W. 6th St. said sales had been steady.
"Not great, but steady," she said.
Her store had sold more than 1,300 items since last fall.
Stephens said she thought people had been expecting larger prizes. That might have kept them from buying more tickets, she said.
"We were expecting quite a bit more," she said.
Susan Barnhart, manager of Kuehn Liquors, 3032 Iowa St., said sales were brisk yesterday, but not as brisk as she would have liked
Barnhart had sold about 450 tickets by yesterday afternoon. She said many tickets had been sold to people she hadn't seen in the store before.
Barnhart said she was excited about the lottery. But she was concerned that customers might use money they would have spent on purchases to buy lottery tickets. The tickets earn her less profit, she said.
Junior Carlton, manager of Food Barn, 1900 W. 23rd St., also said that sales had been steady and reported no problems other than that a few people weren't sure how to play.
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