University Daily Kansan, September 8. 1982
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Receipts beneficial for women athletes
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
KU women athletics received financial aid for textbooks this fall for the first time in the history of women's athletics at the University of Kansas. But the KU athletic department did not buy the books.
The athletes' books were paid for by Kansas Union bookstore customers, who deposited their bookstore receipts in red boxes found on campus. Paid assistant manager of the Kansas Union bookstore, said yesterday.
said yesterday.
In November of last year, Reid shattered collecting the receipts at bookstore sales counters because he did not think women athletes at KU were getting the same benefits that the men athletes were receiving.
Since last year, the receipts have netted $2.837. Reid said.
As a sales strategy, the bookstores offer customers refunds each semester, based on a percentage of how much a customer spent the previous semester.
CASTER
CUSTOMER may save his receipts to take to the bookstore for a refund, or he may put the receipts in one of the red boxes.
boxes.
Reid turns in the receipts he collects and puts the money into an account for women's athletics.
since his program began, six percent of the receipts turned in at the bookstore for refunds came from his program, Reid said.
The fund is primarily for textbooks,
Reid said, because women athletes 41
KU have not received textbooks with their scholarships in the past.
Pat Colliison, who handles the fund at the athletic department and is administrative assistant to the athletic director, said former athletic director Bob Marcum did not think women could have books because of an Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women rule.
THE RULES of the AIAW and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, are the same, Collinson said, and women could have had books in the past.
This year the problem is money, she said, and there is not enough money in each sport's budget to fund all expenses for all athletes.
for all the athletes.
"Not all of the men get funds for books," Collinson said. "And some athletes only get books."
Only 14 or 15 women athletes in basketball, track and field, swimming and softball, received book aid through Reid's fund. Collinson said.
THE COACHES decided that it would be better to help a few of the women by paying for all of their books than to let the women only get $5 each.
Marian Washington, women's basketball coach, agreed that the fund was not yet big enough to help all women athletes.
"It we tried to spread it around, it would not be of any benefit," she said.
Reid said he got the idea to collect receipts to benefit women's athletics after talking to Washington and others involved with women's sports.
CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 4 p.m. at the Eucumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread.
Sierra Club will sponsor a BACK-
WORKING at 7 p.m. in the Pigeon
Park.
TODAY
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will speak on "Ways to Keep Higher Education Vible" at the UNIVERSITY FORUM at 11:45 a.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
Moslem Iranian Students Society will sponsor a PHOTO EXHIBITION and information table at noon at the Satellite Union.
On campus
Orthodox Christians on Campus will
LIFE COPING SKILLS WORKSHOP will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Adult Life Center.
sponsor a LIFE IN CHRIST speech, featuring the Rev. Bogdan Ddjurdjulov at 8 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Union.
TOMORROW
CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
KU WORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
EPISCOPAL EUCHARIST will be at noon in Danforth Chapel.
noon in Danfortown CO.
AD ASTRA FL5- SOCIETY will have an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
By BONAR MENNINGER Staff Reporter
Jerry Stannard's exuberance about the natural world spills over from his scholarly work as a KU professor of history and into the garden of herbs he
Professor unites hobby with scholarship
Stannard's garden contains more than 40 types of herbs and spices that he uses for cooking and the treatment of occasional ailments.
Stannard, a specialist in the history of science and medicine, which includes medical botany and the history of pharmacy, said these interests came together with his hobby of gardening about 15 years ago.
love.
"I SPEND countless hours sitting at a desk, and on weekends and holidays I like to get out into the garden and get all dirty and do a lot of hard work," said the stocky, white-beared professor recently.
"the net result was, I began writing about what I was growing and growing what I was writing about," be said.
But the garden at his house on West Campus Road is primarily a labor of love.
The professor has written 90 articles dealing with herbs and medical
botany and has edited several books on the subject, including an updated version of a book about North America flora that was written in 1653.
THE SPICES and herbs in his garden range from oregano and horseradish to betony, horehound and joe-pey weed.
With his Shetland collie, Inspector, leading the way, Stannard pointed out the various herbs that grow along the perimeter of his yard.
"That's horseradish," he exclaimed, pointing to a leafy, weed-like plant, "and every two years I grind my own horseradish.
nourishes on the roots.
The plant looks much like a sunflower and is of the same family,
be said.
before the 20th century, Stannard said, many of the types of herbs in his collection were used to treat sicknesses like gout and worms.
"This is a Jerusalem artichoke. The American Indians ate the large nodules on the roots."
"Often it was better than nothing," he said of the Old World cures, "but not much."
Pausing on his tour of the herb beds,
Stannard picked a sprig off a spindly,
gray-blue plant.
"This is rue," he said, holding the specimen aloft. "Just take a whiff of that one. In a gun and tonite, you can detect it in the lime. Boy, I tell you that's my recipe."
STANNARD, who speaks five languages, said his interest in herbs increased dramatically while he was in Western Europe, where he spent several years as a visiting professor in Marburg and Bonn, West Germany, and Cambridge, England.
"I'd go hiking a great bit and see my favorite plants growing in the wild, and sometimes a pear or apple tree too," he said. Most of the herbs in his garden are native to Europe.
"We don't have mashed potatoes every night. In fact, if we never have them again, it will be too soon," he said. "One doesn't need a Kansas City steak every night. Now, I would like them, but it wouldn't be good for me, and furthermore, it would be frightfully expensive."
Stannard does the evening cooking for his wife and himself, and said that, for the most part, he had forgone traditional American foods in favor of fresh vegetables spiced with various taste treats from the garden.
Stannard said he and his wife preferred fresh carrots, celery, and
tomatoes, spiced with basil, marjo ram, thyme and chives from the garden.
garden:
"I like to flavor my leeks with a little cheese and some flax seed," he said.
"The back to nature movement has brought a renewed interest in health, and one manifestation of that has been a change in diet, at least for some people," said "younger people really eat any better is quite another matter."
STANNARD SAID increased, interest in herbs among young people was an offshoot of the return to nature ideals of the 1960s.
He said there had been a tremendous explosion of what he termed "paperback herbals" in the past 15 years. He said so or so such books had been published.
books had been published.
"I think it is splendid," Stannard said.
members in law have "A lot of people seem puzzled about how you start an herb garden," he said.
In addition to working on his own garden, Stannard has designed four other herb beds for fellow faculty members in Lawrence.
"It's really very simple. You get some plants and you start growing them."
Representatives from the Nebraska Dental School will hold an information meeting
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