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Community Outreach goes global
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The Center for Community Outreach co-directors, Aliz Zeigler, Manila, Philippines, junior and Mandy Shrive, Overland Park senior, broaden the center's outreach to the Philippines. They travelled to this tondo reion dumpe site, above during the summer.
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BY MICOLE ARONOWITZ
The Center for Community Outreach is extending its reach all the way to the Philippines.
The University organization, which is a nonprofit, student volunteer organization, is raising awareness and funds to support the building of a school to help impoverished children living on a dump site in the Tondo region of the Southeast Asian nation.
This is the first time the CCO, which generally provides service within the Lawrence community, has helped with an overseas program. Co-directors All Zeigler, Manila, Philippines, junior, and Mandy Shrwise, Overland Park senior, have identified their first goal.
"We want the organization to be responsible for a biology classroom," Zeigler said. "We want them to receive the same caliber of education as in the U.S."
Zeigler and Shrisw are trying to raise between $5,000 and $12,000 for the project.
Although the CCO is involved in several local programs, the students said they wanted its grasp to be global.
"We are looking to broaden students' view of community in the midst of globalization." Shriwiase said. "We need to be aware of other places, not just Lawrence, that exist and have need."
Both Zeigler and Shriwise traveled to the Philippines in July and spent a day at the site. They said they saw school-aged children walking around barefoot. The children were working instead of going to school.
They said the site was a stark contrast to the nicer, much wealthier part of town, which was a 5-minute drive away. They said what they saw inspired them and they brought their efforts home.
"There was a community of several thousand people living on this dump site, making their living off of it," Zeigler said. "The poorest of
the poor make 60 cents a day."
The Philippine Community Fund, founded by British woman Jane Walker, is the main source of funding for the school. The nonprofit organization receives donations from private donors and philanthropic organizations. A goal of the organization is to educate the children living in the Tondo region.
The construction of the school will begin this fall and continue throughout the school year.
meals a day at school. If they attend school everyday for a week they will be able to bring home a few kilos of rice and some canned goods."
Student involvement is crucial for the continued construction of the school. Though the specifics of fund raising are not yet finalized, ideas the CCO have include a letter-writing campaign, monetary donations and benefit concerts.
Edited by Ramsey Cox
SCIENCE
Hospital helps research group's equipment needs
BY DEVIN LOWELL editor@kansan.com
A deal with a local hospital has given a second life to a research project that could change the way scientists view radio waves.
Students working on research with the KU physics department recently received permission from Lawrence Memorial Hospital to use its magnetic resonance imaging machine, or MRI, to conduct their experiments.
The students are researching the effects of strong magnetic fields on radio waves as those waves pass through ice, similar to what may be happening at the Earth's poles. Originally, the experiment was going to be conducted using a particle detector in Ithaca, N.Y., but that would have been too costly. Using the hospital's MRI allows the researchers to perform the experiment repeatedly.
When cosmic rays pass through the Earth's atmosphere and strike the ice at the poles, they release radio waves. A strong magnetic field like the Earth's could distort
The outcome of this experiment could have consequences for prior research conducted in Antarctica, which began in 1995.
these radio waves. The Antarctic experiments have been measuring the waves assuming there is no such distortion.
Ryan Keast, Olathe junior, who wrote the research proposal, said the experiment used a stronger magnetic field to compensate for the shorter distance the radio waves traveled compared with those in Antarctica. Keast won an undergraduate research award for his proposal.
David Besson, professor of physics, compares the measuring devices the experiment uses to rabbit-ears on old televisions.
"Our rabbit ears are adjusted in a particular orientation," Besson said. "If the waves are rotating, we have to reorient the rabbit-ears."
The students' experiments have also suffered other setbacks.
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During the summer, the freezer in Malott Hall that had been storing the nonmagnetic icebox used in the experiment broke. Until it could be repaired, the students stored the apparatus at Checkers grocery. While in the freezer, the box was accidentally crushed. Since then, the researchers built a new box, and the experiments continue.
Edited bv Adam Mowder
Mandatory evacuation ordered for Keys
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KEY WEST, Fla. - With powerful Hurricane Ike on an uncertain course toward the Gulf of Mexico, many on these low-lying islands took a wait-and-see approach to evacuation orders Sunday, perhaps a harbinger of the attitudes to come from Louisiana and Texas residents returning from an arduous evacuation and already showing signs of "hurricane fatigue."
Forecasts show Ike crossing Cuba and skirting Key West by Tuesday on a trek to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, slowly strengthening to perhaps Category 3 strength on its way to a landfall late in the week somewhere between the Florida Panhandle and the Texas coast.
And once again, New Orleans
— still recovering from the weaker-than-expected Gustav — is squarely in the crosshairs.
In Key West, evacuation orders became mandatory Sunday for tourists and the approximately 25,000 residents alike, but traffic off the lone highway from the island was steady rather than jammed.
Mike Tilson, 24, was preparing to ride Ike out in his houseboat, only planning to evacuate if the storm takes a sudden turn to the north.
"I got tarps and champagne," he said as he pushed a wheelbarrow of supplies including Heineken beer,
ice and a loaf of bread down the dock.
"It's just a good party.I'll stay."
"It's just a good party, I'll stay."
At 5 p.m. Sunday, Ike was a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds near 120 mph, located about 75 miles northeast of Guantanamo, Cuba, and moving west at 13 mph. It was forecast to track over Cuba, re-emerging over the island's western coast Tuesday morning about 100 miles south of Key West as a Category 1.
Ike was a dangerous Category 4 hurricane packing 135-mph winds earlier, but the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it had weakened "a little" in recent hours.
President Bush declared a state of emergency for Florida because of Ike on Sunday and ordered federal money to supplement state and local response efforts.
Key West Mayor Morgan McPherson said 15,000 tourists had already evacuated the region, and the Key West airport was set
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