Monday, November 3, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Students scare up household goods
Campus groups spent Halloween finding items
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Julian Stevenson, St. Louis junior, checks in objects while Carrie Nelson, Salina sophomore, Michelle Brown, Salina junior, and Sara Cameron, Ulysses sophomore, await the results of a Halloween scavenger hunt sponsored by the Black Student Union. Eleven teams of five searched Lawrence for household items Friday evening. Photo by Jay Sheperd/KANSAN
More than 50 students took to the Lawrence streets Friday, but they weren't trick-or-treating. Instead, the students asked businesses for toothbrushes, magazines and canned goods.
The Black Student Union programs committee organized a city-wide Halloween scavenger hunt. Eleven teams of five searched Lawrence Friday evening for household items.
"We thought we would do something different and fun for Halloween," said Sandé Beaoubouf, St. Louis junior and BSU corresponding secretary. "We wanted to involve the whole campus and still do something for a good cause."
Beauboeuf said that BSU would donate the canned goods to a local agency but that the committee hadn't decided which agency.
In addition to BSU, Student Senate, the department of African and African-American Studies, the Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council sponsored the event.
Students from more than six campus organizations participated in the hunt.
"This was good to get lots of different people out to do something fun with each other instead of sitting at home and socializing," said Julian Stevenson, St. Louis junior.
Students had to sign up at the Kansas Union Friday to participate. There was $5 entry fee for each team.
Participants met at the Union at 6 p.m. to get instructions and lists of items.
"When we sent them off at 6, they all ran in all sorts of different directions." Beguboeuf said.
"Some people came back really, really early because they were on a rampage. There was some good competition. It was a lot of fun and fun to watch."
Each item on the list was worth a different number of points.
The most points were awarded for the most difficult items, said Vincent McKamie, Kansas City junior.
"There were 63 items on each list." McKamie
said. "That includes the canned goods. Each team had to bring back a canned good to be eligible for the prize."
The prize for the most items was $200.
McKamie said that none of the teams brought back all 63 items, but one team did collect 61 items.
"There was a lot of tedious stuff,"McKamie said. "We wanted them to have to get stuff in every direction of Lawrence."
digging up dirt
Members of the fund-raising committee for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity shovel dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony Saturday morning at 1301 West Campus Road. Current members of the fraternity, as well as parents and fraternity alumni, attended. The house is scheduled to be finished by August 1998, and its cost will exceed $3 million. The money was raised through alumni funds. Photo by Marc Shank/KANSAN
NASA grant fuels satellite research
By Mike Perryman
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has received a $360,000 grant from NASA to purchase new, state-of-the-art computer equipment that will be used to analyze data obtained from U.S. satellites.
The grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will help finance a new computer lab to be used by the University's Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program and the geography department. The program's staff will be able to use the new computers to analyze satellite data, and students in the geography department will be able to gain experience through the use of the computers, said Ed Martinko, associate professor of systematics and ecology and director of the program.
"The grant we received from NASA was good-sized," he said. "NASA is planning to launch new, advanced satellites in 1998, and with this money we'll be able to purchase the
equipment we need to process the data from those satellites."
The grant will help finance the purchase of field instruments such as spectroradiometers and fluorometers, both of which are used to study wildlife and atmospheric conditions on land and water. The money also will pay for a series of supercomputers and graphic printers to be housed in a new geography computer lab on the second floor of Lindley Hall, said Steve Egbert, assistant research scientist for the program.
The program was created in 1972 when the first U.S. land-observing satellite was launched. It extracts and analyzes data from U.S. satellites, then applies the data in the form of a "Green Report," which studies the conditions of Kansas wildlife, forests, vegetation and crops, Martinko said.
"The satellites show locations of forests, crops and all sorts of wildlife," Martinko said. "We analyze the data gathered by these satellites, and, compared with the field studies we do, we are able to provide agricultural-
ists with information on vegetation and crop health, and we are also able to study the progression of the land in Kansas."
"It will also give geography students hands-on experience with the same hardware and computers they'd use if they were working for the government or a private agency," he said.
Egbert said the new equipment would allow the University to remain at the forefront of satellite-data analysis.
Robert McColl, professor of geography, said the new computer lab would benefit graduate students as well as the department as a whole.
"It will provide a technological base for graduate students so they don't have to compete with undergraduates for equipment in general training labs," he said. "The lab will also help us attract outstanding faculty. They will look at the new facility and say: 'This is where I want to work. Everyone else may be behind in this area, but here I can instruct students who have the equipment they need to learn in these areas.'"
Five recycling bins for old campus phone books will be installed today. In December, they will be used to collect Southwestern Bell phone books. The bins can be found:
Recycle your phonebooks:
- Between Wescoe and Budig halls
*South of Dyche Hall
*McCollum Hall
*North side of Carruth O'Leary Hall
The bins will be for collecting phone books only.
*West side of burge onion
- West side of Burge Union
Where to recycle your phone books
Andrew Rohrback / KANSAN
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To the Women of $ \Delta\Gamma $
We would like to thank you for all of your hard work and help last week during homecoming.
We had a great time and are looking forward to Mismatch.
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Love,
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