University Daily Kansan, October 1, 1982
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Profs to deliver 'last' lectures
Several professors next month will give lectures that could be the last ones of their lives, the director of the office of residential programs said recently. "It's not as morbid as it sounds," said Fred McElhenie, ORP director. "Faculty members will be asked to give a lecture as though it were the last one they could ever give to a group of students."
Residents of Ellsworth Hall, where the lectures will be given, will decide by Sunday which professors they want to participate, said Tom Coombs, Ellsworth resident director. Coombs said he hoped to have a different person lecture at Ellsworth every week as part of the Last Lecture Series.
Participants may discuss their own area of expertise or other topics of interest to them, Coombs said.
McElhenie said, "People will probably tend to shy away from their field of study and delve into philosophy. It will give students a different kind of perspective than they would get in a classroom."
ANYONE MAY attend the lectures, although most audience members probably will be Ellsworth residents because of the location, Coombs said.
He said he expected the lecture series to be enlightening because of the challenge the theme presented to the speakers.
Museum offers outings
The Museum of Natural History will hold a series of adult field trips for middle room and wildlife enthusiasts this month, Ruth Gennrich, director of public education at the museum, said yesterday.
The trips, the first of which is scheduled for Sunday, include sessions on invertebrate fossils and a day at the Squawk Creek Wildlife area near St. Joseph, Mo. Participants will have a chance to view and in some cases collect wild plants and animals, she said.
Stephen Peterson, research assistant in botany, will start the series with a workshop on how to identify edible wild mushrooms.
The workshop will start with a slide show that reviews characteristics used in identifying the various species, followed by a trip to several habitats to search for and collect mushrooms, Gennrich said.
THE COST will be $6 for the trips offered Sunday and Oct. 24, and the Oct. 17 "Squaw Creek Quest" will cost $18. The cost is the membership members of the Museums Associates.
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The Squaw Creek excursion will be split into two groups, Genrich said. While one group hikes to rattlesnake and reptile habitats, the other group will travel around the refuge by bus to view the various species of birds native to the area.
Workshops to offer career aid
By DAN PARELMAN
Staff Reporter
Some college graduates who based their education on dreams of finding lucrative jobs now are dissatisfied with their jobs, a counselor at KU's Adult Life Resource Center said yesterday.
The counselor, Dan Jones, said many people entered career fields only because they were told that jobs were abundant and money was good in that field. Some of these people later find out that though they are receiving large salaries, their jobs do not interest them, he said.
Jones said he helped these people match their interests and values with jobs they would like, while giving them information about the job market.
"In a sense, some people get into careers because they follow the path of least resistance," Jones said.
The Career Counseling Workshop Series for Adults, which begins Oct. 16, will help adults seeking jobs or career changes determine their interests, values, skills and strengths, Jones said.
THE WORKSHOP will explore such things as whether a person prefers structure and predictability to creating a working with others or alone, or working within the bounds of family responsibility to climbing the success fader on his own, he said.
Jones said unemployed people and those unhappy with their present jobs were the two groups of people that sought counseling.
"Most people have some sense of what their values are, but they come to us to sort them out and get a better focus." he said.
some adults, such as those in the computer field, never considered their interests when they chose their careers and now have come to the center for counseling because they were bored with their jobs. Others, such as journalists, have said they were abused by their employers because they were easy to replace with the large supply of journalism applicants, Jones said.
Lawyers and engineers have come to the center because they are not satisfied in their jobs, or because their career progress has reached a dead end.
MANY OF THESE disgruntled professionals, as well as others who are unemployed, seek private counseling in addition to that provided in the workshops. The course does not require therapy or provide job placement, he said.
Jones said the occupations that were growing the most were ones that would still need employees in five to 10 years, such as the computer industry, medicine, and engineering. He was also unemployed engineers have used the center's services, he said.
He said that since the recession started he had not noticed an increase in the number of unemployed people using the center's services, although he had noticed a sense of urgency in people. He said people were more cautious now about devoting time to education in pursuit of a career.
There will be three more workshops in the series, to be held Oct. 21 and Oct. 28, for $20; Nov. 4 and 11; $20; and Nov. 18, $10.
18. $60 The fee for private counseling at the center is based on the income of each individual.
Researchers say harvest moon won't affect human behavior
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The quiet night is broken by a sudden howl from the old house on the hill. Everyone in the town looks at the full moon, and they must lock up their windows in their houses.
Hollywood producers have made millions of dollars using the full moon in werewolf movies to transform a normal man into a terrifying monster.
Tomorrow night will be the first full moon after the autumn equinum, traditionally known as the half moon. Mr. Barrasso is a professor of astronomy, said yesterday.
Although all 12 full moons have names, the harvest moon has become the most famous because it always occurs around corn harvest time. This allows farmers to harvest through the night, she said.
DAVID SMITH, Douglas County
extension agent, said the full moon was no longer a factor because farmers who harvested at night had lights on their equipment.
Not many farmers are harvesting at night during corn harvest, Smith said.
But for some people, a full moon signifies the oncoming of horrible physical reactions.
Some scientists have tried to prove the existence of psychological and biological changes in humans as the result of full moons.
Ralph Morris, professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois in Chicago, said he had researched statistics on bleeding ulcers that had proven a monthly pattern corresponding to the lunar cycle. Ulcerations were more likely to bleed during the week of a fall moon, he said.
DAVID CAMPBELL, former professor of psychology at KU who is now
at Humboldt State University, Arcata, Cal., said in some ways the moon affected behavior, but in other ways it did not.
ways it does not.
The gravitational pull and the amount of light from the moon do not have an effect, he said.
"But if you believe the full moon will make you act weird, you might act weird," he said.
Another study on the effects of the full moon on epileptic patients showed no correlation between the number of seizures and the lunar phases, he said.
"Although you can find plenty of evidence from police dispatchers about increased crime rate, hardness is very elusive," Campbeli said.
ROIN OLN, assistant Lawrence police chief, said crime did not increase in Lawrence during a full moon.
White House wants vote on balanced budget
By By United Press International
WASHINGTON—Congress rushed through last-minute legislation yesterday in hopes of hitting the campaign trail before the weekend. But White House demands for a vote on a constitutional amendment for a balanced budget threatened well-oiled adjournment plans.
Less than 48 hours before Congress planned to begin its pre-election recess, the White House said it wanted a House vote on the Senate-passed amendment and raised the possibility that Reagan would ask an extension of the session.
Accusing Reagan of a "blatantly political act," Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., began maneuvering to get a bill that would force the form of balanced budget legislation.
Congress was surprised by Reagan's last-minute call for a vote and his mid-afternoon journey to the Capitol, a rarity, to congratulate supporters for freeing the constitutional amendment from the House Judiciary Committee.
THE HOUSE Rules Committee, meeting in an unusual evening session, unanimously agreed that the conservative coalition should be allowed to offer its balanced budget amendment and the Democrats would offer a substitute.
budget each year except in a national emergency, would be the first vote
Even if the Democratic plan passed on a simple majority vote, the Republican plan would be up next. If approved, it would prevail. The last remaining proposal would be subject to a two-thirds vote for final passage, which even ardent supporters doubt they could muster.
Negotiators from the Senate and House worked on a compromise resolution to keep the federal government solvent after the fiscal year expires.
The Democratic alternative, requiring the president to submit a balanced
THE SO-CALLED continuing resolution, which would provide funds until Congress returns for a lame-duck session, is the one piece of legislation that must pass and be signed by Reagan before Congress can leave.
House-Senate conferees adopted a compromise funding bill needed to keep the government operating, but not in enough time to prevent federal agencies from technically running out of money at midnight.
Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Mark Haffield, R-Ove., said at the conclusion of the conference the
full Senate and House would have to vote on the agreement today.
The brief delay was not expected to affect any departments or agencies.
THE SENATE also approved compromise versions of two major bills dealing with job training and banking.
The job bill, first resisted and then embraced by the administration, would provide job training for about 1 million Americans at a cost of $3.8 billion. The vote was 95-0.
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The House approved a compromise bill to extend once hotly contested legislation designed to protect animal species that are considered endangered.
The woman told police she was walking from her car to her home when a suspect grabbed her and threw her to the ground. The victim told police that a man hit her in the mouth when she started laughing and stormed out as the woman's mother was also screaming and flashing the porch light, police said.
police said. The victim told police that the man left in a gold Plymouth Duster, police said.
THEIVES STOLE A 1978 composite picture worth $300 Tuesday night from the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house, 1625 Edgehill Road, police said. The theft was not reported until Wednesday.
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Police said they arrested Jerry Lee Parmer, 122 E. Glenn Drive, after they were called to the scene. Parmer is being held on $15,000 bond in the Douglas County Jail on charges of aggravated battery.
THEVEES STOLE $2,750 worth of pipe and wire sometime between Tuesday and Wednesday from an oil drilling site two miles east of Baldwin, a Douglas County sheriff's official said yesterday.
Lawrence police arrested a 20-year-old Lawrence man about 12:45 a.m. yesterday for allegedly attacking a student and one of the men was a KU student.
Forty-four pieces of pipe and 1,000 feet of aluminum electrical wire were taken from a field, the official said. The company is building an energy a. St. Joseph, Mo, oil company.
Six one-frequency hand radios that were attached to a charger on the wall were taken from the office, police said. Because no force was used to get into the office, police said a key might have been used.
THIEVES STOLE $6,000 worth of radio equipment sometime early Wednesday morning from a facilities operations office, KU police said yesterday.
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