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Something in the water Refilling and reusing plastic water bottles isn't a good idea, according to a recent study. PAGE 3A.
Up, up and away Aerospace engineering students are working on a new balloon that will test various technologies. They will launch the balloon at the end of the semester. PAGE3A
A new barbershop is betting students will pay more
Cutting a new niche
for a relaxed and comfortable environment. PAGE 5A
Ground attack improves
The Jayhawks' running game could give them a boost when they
play the Wyoming Cowboys. PAGE 12A
Hoops schedule unveiled
Coach Bill Self says this season's schedule will be challenging, including four Big Monday appearances on ESPN.PAGE6A
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KANSAN
The Student Newspaper of the University of Kansas
Tuesday September 9,2003
Sailing into the sunset
Jared Soares/Kansan
Gliding across Clinton Lake, sailors took advantage of yesterday's agreeable weather. A gentle 7 mph wind from the east southeast provided a relaxing evening ride.
ECM hosts spirituality talks
By Meghan Brune
mbrueh@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Beads of sweat gathered on Kahil Saad's forehead as he cooked butternut squash, Vietnamese noodles and eggplant for more than 100 people.
Said was putting together Veggie Lunch, a free weekly vegetarian meal for all members of the University of Kansas campus and community. Ecumenical Christian Ministries, a university community center at 1204 Oread Ave., sponsors the event. But the ECM, as it's commonly called, does more than fill the stomachs of University students and the
Lawrence community.
"We are not a church, we are an expression of the churches' extended ministries," the Rev. Thad Holcombe director of the ECM, said.
Lisa Wilkinson, Lawrence senior, is a member of the ECM Student Leadership Team.
Holcombe said the ECM was not one church, but a cooperation of four denominations — University Christian fellowship, Peace Mennonite Church, United Methodist Campus Ministry and St. Baptist Catholic Apostolic Church.
The ECM began in 1905 as a "universal household." The original building was located on the University parking lot next to the Kansas Union. The current ECM was constructed in 1960.
Lawrence The center provides a place to talk about Christian spirituality through educational programming. Visitors include a diverse group of people from around the world.
The team monitors the ECM's programs and ensures that it meets certain goals.
Holcombe said the ECM tried to project a friendly, casual atmosphere.
Wilkinson said along with Veggie Lunch, sexuality education classes and the Faith Forum — a weekly group that discusses spirituality — also drew large crowds. SEE ECM ON PAGE GA
Lab hours disrupt routine
By Zack Hemenway
zhemenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
During the spring, she would often do homework there until 2 or 3 a.m. This time, she felt a tap on her shoulder.
Kristen Reinert was hard at work, doing her online homework in the Kansas Memorial Union computer lab.
"It's 10:45," the lab technician said. "We're closing in 15 minutes."
Reinert, an Overland Park senior, remembers the moment with anger.
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"You've got to be kidding me!" she said.
Reinert and other students who use the union's computer lab and HawkShop convenience store have had to change their campus routines this year. The building, open 24 hours a day during the last school year, now closes at 11:00 p.m.each day.
Pat Beard, union building services director, said the change had always been planned.
Beard said the Union had kept its lab open with the understanding that it was a temporary solution to the need for all-hours computing services. The late-night hours were only to remain until the completion of Anschutz Library, a 24-hour facility that includes high-speed internet computers.
"We saw being open 24 hours as a way to accommodate a need," Beard said. "The opening of Anschutz ended that obligation."
Beard said the six-floor Union was not ideal for the 24-hour timetable. He said that while there weren't any major incidents, union management wasn't comfortable having students in the building — basically unsupervised — at all hours of the night.
Last year, the HawkShop had two employees on duty at all times,but students
SEE HOURS ON PAGE 6A
Late-Night Labs
LATE-NIGHT LABS
Monday through Thursday hours for the University's main public labs (other labs are controlled by respective schools, and hours vary)
■ Kansas Memorial Union
8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
■ Budig Hall
8 a.m. to midnight
■ Fraser Hall
8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
■ JRP
8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
■ Anschutz Library
open 24 hours
■ Watson Library
8 a.m. to midnight
Professor practices hands-on learning
by Zack Hemenway zhenmenway@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Bart Dean stared with apprehension at the giant vats of beer being prepared by the Urarina, the tribe of Peruvian people he was studying.
The tribe's women chewed boiled vegetables and spit them into the drink for fermentation. Bugs from the Amazonian jungle floated at the top of the mixture.
"Much of anthropology is a question of gaining confidence," he said. "If I'm going to write about people's inner beliefs, I have to gain their trust."
Dean lifted the beer to his lips and drank.
Dean, a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, has spent parts of the last 17 years in Peru studying peoples like the Urarina. His work has made him the recipient of many academic awards and grants. He returned to the
"Much of anthropology is a question of gaining confidence. If I'm going to write about people's inner beliefs, I have to gain their trust."
Bart Dean
professor of anthropology
United States this week after spending four months in Peru as a Fulbright scholar.
Dean's interest in Peru began in 1986, when he decided to study Peruvians living in poverty for his master's thesis at Oxford University. Dean went to live in the slums of Lima for the summer, and began a lifetime of hands-on scholarship.
Evidence of poverty was pervasive: Gangrene and tuberculosis were rampant, and children were dying of chol-
"They had nothing, but they were willing to give me anything they could," he said.
eric comas. But Dean found that charity was still alive in Lima.
Experiences like this brought Dean back to Peru. As an anthropologist, he gravitated away from the populated cities to the Amazonian jungle. There he found the Urarina, a people who had never been studied and lacked even a written language.
Today, he is so well-known in the region that even small children of the tribes know his name.
The evolution of this name shows that Dean has earned the Urarina's respect. Initially, natives called him a Quechua word meaning "white howler monkey" because of his skin color and loud voice. Today, Dean goes by the Peruvian name "Bartholomew Biña," his first name and an adjective meaning "wise one."
SEE DEAN ON PAGE 6A
Aaron Showalter/Kansan
Bart Dean, Professor of Anthropology, has spent time living among indigenous peoples of the Peruvian amazon. He collected many artifacts during his travels, including the items from a shaman pictured with him here.
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