University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, August 25, 1987
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KU succeeds in recruiting merit scholar
Thirty-four freshman National Merit Scholars are attending the University of Kansas this fall, a 30 percent increase over last fall, KU officials said yesterday.
Of the 34 scholars enrolled, 28 graduated from Kansas high schools, said Sally Bryant, assistant dean of educational services. Last fall, 26 National Merit Scholars attended KU, 18 of them from Kansas.
Bryant said KU made recruiting National Merit Scholars a high priority by increasing scholars' stipends from $500 a year to $1,300 a year, inviting scholars and their families to visit the campus, sending letters and making phone calls.
Tavern to request private club status
The Lawrence City Commission will review a request tonight to change the status of the Jayhawk from a beer tavern to a private club.
The commission also will proclaim the week of September 7-13 to be "Briver City Reunion Week."
The commission meeting is at 7 p.m. at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets.
A Lawrence resident has formed an organization designed to promote energy awareness in Lawrence.
Group to promote energy awareness
The organization, Everyone Needs an Energy Responsive Government Yesterday or ENERGY, will try to promote the need for independence from foreign energy sources, said its founder, Leslie W. Blevins. Blevins wants to gain enough local support to lobby state and federal governments for changes in energy policies.
ENERGY will work for a comprehensive government energy policy that would include the use of alternative sources of energy such as solar, wind and solid waste. Blevin plans an organizational meeting in the next 30 to 60 days. The cost of membership, which includes the cost of a planned monthly newsletter, will be $8 to $10.
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From staff and wire reports.
Reactor considered for hazardous wastes
Because of an editor's error, the address of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority was incorrectly reported in yesterday's Kansan. The sorority's address is 1625 Edgehill Road.
Correction
By BRAD ADDINGTON Staff writer
The University of Kansas is seeking to remodel the nuclear reactor building on campus as a temporary storage area for hazardous wastes.
Harold Rosson, associate dean of engineering, wrote the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission in June asking for permission to remodel the reactor building. The NRC replied but did not give final approval.
"We're going to have to supply for them a safety analysis, which we have not done yet." Rosson said. The research health and safety department, which is in the division of research, graduate studies and public services, will do the study, he said.
Although the School of Engine riring and the department of radiation physics no longer use the building for nuclear reactor facilities, it is still under NRC regulation.
The building was built in 1961. The University shut it down in 1984 and had the fuel rods removed in January and February of 1986.
Steven Cater, KU environmental health and safety officer, said the proposed storage area would house equipment along with some poisons and oxidizers.
The reactor building is across the street from Jayhawker Towers, 1603 W. 15th St., and just east of the Phi Kappa Psifraternity, 1602 W. 15th St.
We're encouraging people to call their legislators and ask that it be discussed during the special session.
W.
- Laura Menhusen
— Laura Menhusen
President of Kansas Coalition
on Nuclear Weapons
John Montgomery, Junction City junior and vice president of the fraternity, said, "My understanding was that the type of chemicals they
were going to store there were not particularly dangerous, but we'd like to know more about it before they did."
Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering, said, "I don't think it presents a risk, but it's a question of whether it's the optimum use of the space."
Cater said the University had two additional options. The first is to fix up the semitrailer west of campus where the University's hazardous wastes now are stored. The second is to build a new building to store the waste.
Waste is transferred from the trailer every four months to out-of-state storage areas.
Cater said the trailer was in adequate condition, but it could use more partitions and shelves and perhaps heating for certain chemicals in the winter. He said a renovated trailer could serve for a limited time as a waste storage site.
Last year the federal government denied the University's request for money to build a new storage building.
Cater said remodeling the reactor building would cost from $30,000 to $40,000 and would involve two large operations: removing material belonging to the engineering department and partitioning off two new rooms with concrete walls.
Reagan to hear KU band Performance set for Landon party
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
The University of Kansas Marching Jayhaws will play for President Ronald Reagan on Sept. 6 when he is in Topeka for former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon's 100th birthday celebration.
Robert Foster, band director, said the performance was confirmed Monday afternoon. He said he was excited about the opportunity.
"This is probably the only chance these kids will have to perform for the president," he said.
This is probably the only chance these kids will have to perform for the president.'
- Robert Foster Band director
Foster said he also was excited about the band's upcoming year.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, there were 212 band members. Some of the sections are larger than they have been in years, Foster said. The largest section is 100 years and the percussion section also is strong, he said.
"The quality is really, really good," Foster said. "I think this could be the best band we've ever had."
"Everyone has a real good time," said Rick Brandt, Lawrence sophomore and percussionist in the band.
"It's just time-consuming, that's the only problem," said Mark Bushouse, Lawrence sophomore who was in the band last year.
Foster also is optimistic about the band's finances. He said the Student Senate and alumni had been supportive in the past year.
"The money is getting better. We're better off than we've ever been before." he said.
The sections that are down this year are the piccolo section and the colorguard, which usually are mostly composed of women. Foster said fall sorority rush might have discouraged some from trying out for marching band.
Foster said he had hoped more women who had gone through rush would come to rehearsal Monday. But it's still not too late for interested people to join, he said.
The band started practicing for its fall marching season Thursday. It performed that night for the Beach of the Boulevard Hawk Week activity.
Wall to wall
Students line the walls in a Psychology 300 class taught by Bruce Warner, a psychology teaching assistant. Nearly 50 students managed to exceed
the capacity of a double-wide classroom yesterday morning at Wescoe Hall.
Staff writer
Minister lauds Salvadorans' courage
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
As tears welled in his eyes, the Rev. Jack Bremer recalled a woman he had met several weeks ago in El Salvador, an example of why he went to that war-ravaged part of the world.
"There was a woman named Emerita, and both of her sons had been killed in battle," he said. "She had been through a lot and suffered a lot yet she said to me. We have been through a lot but so was our Lord Jesus Christ. They killed our sons, but I can only look to Mary, whose son was killed. We must forgive those who killed our sons." As she said that I put my arm around her, and she began to cry."
Bremer, pastor at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread St., was in El Salvador from July 3 to Aug. 20 as part of a group of eight people coordinated by the Central American Refugee Company of Houston. During that time he gave many sermons at camps for people displaced by the civil war there.
The need to serve God by providing spiritual comfort has never been
more evident than in El Salvador today, he said.
The political oppression is severe and there is a great deal of povert
'El Salvador gets about $700 million a year from the United States, and as far as I could see, all that is happening is that the military people are getting rich. None of the aid seems to be going to the people who need it.'
Pastor
Jack Bremer
and suffering. I saw a lot of people with arms and legs blown off. I also saw a man who had been shot five
times."
Bremer said El Salvador was suf- fering from the civil war between the military government and guerilla rebels, who the government contends are Marxists.
Bremer said that about 75 percent of El Salvador was a war zone and that the fighting had created a large group of homeless people, many of whom are now in relocation camps. In those camps, people uprooted by the war can attend Mass and get medical care before returning to their homes. He said about 100 people returned to their homes while he was at one camp.
Bremer said he also met people at those camps who were the victims of brutal acts committed by the military.
"There was a woman who cooke,
at one of the camps. One day she was
taken by the security police. They
strung her in the air and battered
her. She broke most of them, but
bears in said. "Also a man
old me he was blindfolded and taken
to a shed where he was kicked and
beaten.
"The military beats these people because they are suspicious of anyone from 18 to 35 and anyone who works with the poor. They even have a blacklist they print in newspapers."
Even though the military government is brutal to its citizens, it continues to give massive military resources from the United States, Bremer said.
"El Salvador gets about $700 million a year from the United States, and as far as I could see, all that is happening is that the military people are getting rich. None of the aid seems to be going to the people who need it."
Bremer said that the refugees, who he said seemed to be getting no help from foreign governments, needed to establish private individuals and organizations.
He said he spoke at Masses where the refugees sang joyously while mortar fire echoed in the distance.
"I believe we have a lot to learn from the Salvadoran people," Bremer said. "They know something I think Americans often lose sight of—the they know happiness does not come from material possessions. I think I learned a lot from them."
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