University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 26, 1987
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Organizations honored for parade floats
Four floats took top honors at Saturday morning's homecoming parade downtown.
First place in the moving category went to the Theta Chi-Chi Omega float, which depicted several Mount Oread sites such as the Campanile and several famous alumni.
The Phi Kappa Theta-Tri Delt float won second place in the moving category.
First place in the non-mov-
category went to the Sigma Nu-
Kappa Kappa Gamma float, which
featured a Jayhawk, wearing a
crown and a robe, walking down
the hill.
Union renovation behind schedule
Students and faculty will have to wait about an extra month before they will be able to eat in the renovated food service area on level 3 at the Kansas Union, said director Jim Long.
The projected date for completion has been set back from Jan. 1 to about Feb. 17, Long said. Part of the project will be completed on Jan. 25.
"We had hoped that the renovation of the food service areas would have been completed by the time students were to return to campus," Long said. "We are missing that date by a few days."
Long said a strike by local sheet metal workers had delayed construction about 20 days. Also, construction workers unexpectedly had to add some new water lines to the building.
After the completion of the food service area, workers will begin to finish work on student offices and the bookstores. Long cold.
House committee chairman to speak
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ilinois, will deliver a speech at 7:30 p.m. today at the Kansas Expo. Center in Ames and for the Community Financial Series.
Rostenkowski will speak on "Business and Financial Issues Facing the United States Congress."
Rostenkowski is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Strut Levi's stuff for photo contest
Denim lovers can pose in their favorite Levi's jeans or jackets during a picture contest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday on Wesco Beach.
The contest is sponsored by the KU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America as part of the Levi's Campus Challenge. Jodel Wicham, PRSSA president, will club members would take the pictures but that it was up to students to come up with creative poses.
Wickham said eight winners would be chosen for the best poses. Each winner will receive a free pair of Levi's 501 denim jeans or a free Levi's denim jacket. The pictures will be judged Nov. 6.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, Kelly Donohoe's name was misspelled in Friday's Kansan. Donohoe quarterback on the KU football team.
Expo features 20 engineering displays
Chris Duval/KANSAN
Greg Dakter, Silver Lake senior, lowers a rubber band—powered vehicle. Dakter assisted high school students from throughout Kansas during the competition, which took place Friday outside Learned Hall.
From staff and wire reports.
The square section of sand began to rise with the twist of a lever.
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
A young man in brown plastic hip boots held onto a railing as water began to appear in the sand and the sand began to crumble. Suddenly the man went straight down, until the sand and sand mixture reached his thighs.
Luckily, though, the American Society of Civil Engineers did not lose anybody at its quicksand display, which was part of the School of Math Engineering Exposition on Friday and Saturday at Learned Hall.
The theme for the exposition was "From a Dream to Reality." More than 20 displays presented by professional engineering societies were scattered throughout Learned. They ranged from a working oil rig to a between rubber band-powered vehicles built by high school students.
The quicksand display was, like many others, designed to give the public an idea of how the world works, on a smaller scale.
"It's not like in the movies," said Shawn Turner, Baxter Springs senior, as he manned the quicksand display. "You have to work to drown in quicksand. You can swim in it like water."
The display consisted of sand-filled pits in a wood platform. Water filtered up from the bottom of the pits at the turn of a handle.
"There's water in all sand. That's what makes it stick together." Turner explained. "Once you get enough
water in it, the sand loses its cohesion."
The temporary display was successful for exhibition, Turner said. But testing for quicksand often is important construction begins on land, he said.
"You don't want to build a building on ground that is too weak, especially next to another building."
Quicksand also rarely occurs in isolated rocks as depicted in the movies. Turner said. In Kansas, it is always along river and lake banks.
Not all the displays had educational purposes, though.
But then, there's not much else anyone could do with a cement canoe.
"It's not for a class or anything," said Joel Foderberg, Overland Park senior. "It's strictly for fun."
The canoe, which is being built by civil engineering students, will be used for the 15th annual Concrete Canoe Race in Manhattan in April.
The only requirement is that the canoes be made entirely of concrete and be able to float when filled with water.
And, according to Brian Heck, Lawrence junior, when the cane is complete, the students will work on their project for the other part of the cane race weekend, a concrete frisbee competition.
"We use a very specified mix that has glass fibers instead of rock as a cement-like material."
"They're more like discus," Heck said. "We don't have anyone catch them. I think that would be like catching a javelin."
Regents seek aid of Kansas editors
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
the chairman of the Board of Regents asked Kansas newspaper editors Saturday to help gain support for the Margin of Excellence propos-
"We need your help. As purveyors of information to the Kansas public, you can assist in carrying a message of vital importance." Regents chairman Donald Slawson, told about 150 editors, students and faculty of the School of Journalism who attended the school's annual Editors Day.
Many editors and publishers said they strongly supported the Regents request to increase money for higher education, but they doubted the program's promises.
Slawson told the group that failure to support higher education now could seriously harm the state's quality of education.
Slawson used a 1896 editorial by Emporia Gazette editor William Allen White to say the state had lost progress, leadership and intelligence.
The best way to return to that commitment would be for the Legislature to properly finance the state's universities, he said, and Margin of Excellence, a three-year, $47 million program, would be a start.
Strong support in the 1950s and 60s created quality schools and attracted excellent faculty, he said. He also told the group that support for universities could be an essential part of building a better state economy.
"Newspapers have been hollering about the need to spend money for higher education for years," said Center Dispatch editor of the Clay Center Dispatch.
Many editors agreed.
"If we don't support this now, I believe we're not doing a service to either ourselves or the universities or
our own communities."
Valentine said he thought Kansans would be willing to pay for the program because they knew someone needed to be done to spark the economy.
"It it seems more like they're asking for seed money to help the state grow," he said. "When you cut out expenditures, you don't start with the seed, you start with the air conditioning on the tractor."
Mike Harris, editor of the Chanute Tribune, said, "I hope it gets excellent support from the Legislature and everybody else," he said.
But H.B. and Marcella Bruce, publishers of the Hillsboro Star-Journal, said Slawson hadn't convinced them the program was feasible.
H. B. Bruce said he didn't see where the money could come from when the state already was strapped financially.
"I think everybody is in favor of higher education and wants to put in as much money as we can," he said. "What's the cost of money? That's what we stand for."
H. B. Bruce also said that support for higher education didn't lead directly to a stronger economy
"You don't know which comes first," he said.
Web Hawkins, publisher of the Osatawatic graphic, said that if the state's commitment to education in the 1980s and '60s had been strong, he believed there was an opportunity in poor economic health if education helped as much as Slawson said.
"I don't feel that education neces-
sarily attracts industry," he said.
"In Kansas it has not happened."
Also at the event, Leonard McCalla Jr., editor of the Anderson Countyian in Garnett until his death in 1984, was a member of the paper Editors Hall of Fame at KU.
Activities, movies scheduled to promote alcohol awareness
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Students will get a taste of the alternatives to drinking alcohol today through Friday during Alcohol Awareness Week, sponsored by KU organizations and Haskell Indian Junior College.
The week's theme is "Drinking . . .
Just Like in the Movies?" and will
kick off today at 11:15 a.m. to
12:45 p.m. on Wescoe Beach with
members of the KU men's basketball
team and the Jayhawk and Baby Jay
ages will be served and balloons and
literature will be distributed.
Randi Schneider, Lewis Hall residence director and a member of the residence hall alcohol awareness committee, said she hoped the boys' activities would enlighten students about alternatives to drinking.
"I believe that in order for people to make choices you need to know what the alternatives are," Schneider said.
During the week, free movies including "The Verdict," "Hoosiers-
"""Running Brave,"""The Morning
""""Back to School" will be shown at residence halls and greec
living groups. Discussions about how alcohol is portrayed in the films will be afterward
A lecture and panel discussion on alcohol abuse will be from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Residence halls also will sponsor "mocktail" bars this week, serving free non-alcoholic drinks to residents.
Sue Sadee, Kansas City, Kan,
senior and a member of a university-
wide alcohole awareness committee,
said she joined the committee as part
of a class project, but decided to continue to help plan the week's
"I'm not screaming protest," she said. "You just can't go out and have 12 beers and think you can drive around."
"If we can change one person's life by doing this alcohol awareness week, we've made a difference," she said.
A non-alcoholic party from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday at Gammons, 1601 W. 23rd St., will wrap up the week's activities. An ID is not required and there will be no cover charge.
"I feel it is an issue that needs to be considered heavily by a lot of people," Lee said.
Shane Lee, owner of Gammons, said this was the first year he had been asked to sponsor a non-alcoholic afternoon at the club.
Retail Christmas too early for some
Staff writer
By JULIE McMAHON
A 5-foot tall, glowing plastic replica of the nativity scene sits on the shell waiting for a buyer, and the three wise men are on sale.
Mechanical Santa Clauses, fake poinsettias and plastic Jesus, Mary and Joseph are waiting to be bought. The Christmas tree at Halloween hasn't even come yet.
"Personally, I don't think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving," said Roland Maddrey, Kansas City, Mo., resident.
Christmas decorations have been in stores for two or three weeks. Some shoppers who were downtown Saturday thought it was too early.
Jean Martin, a Kansas State University junior from Howard, said she hadn't thought about Christmas
shopping yet because she preferred to wait until after Thanksgiving.
Norm McClendon, Lawrence junior, said, "It's too early. Christmas is too commercial."
One reason that stores put their merchandise out before Thanksgiving is because it is imported early, in order to have room for it in their storeroom.
Bok Carr, store manager at Gibson s., 225a Iowa St. said that producers in Taiwan and Korea sent the cargo as soon as they were ready to ship.
"We have to take it when it's ready," he said.
He said putting Christmas items out early was convenient for the store because when it gets closer to Christmas, employees would be too busy helping customers.
Another reason stores put out Christmas merchandise early is because other stores are doing it and customers will buy it.
Woolworth's, 911 Massachusetts St., has sold many of its Christmas products, especially bows and Christmas cards, since it started putting out the merchandise three weeks ago. It will be on display, employees said.
Employees said it was important to have Christmas items out when other stores did to compete.
Karr wondered how early the Christmas season would arrive in the city.
"We used to wait for Thanksgiving, but now everything comes in so easily," she said. "One of these days maybe we'll be putting it out with the back-to-school."
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