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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009
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and honeydew - all on a plot of land no bigger than a two-car garage.
"The garden serves as a symbol of sustainability on our campus." Tran said.
Not only are the plants grown naturally, but the older seeds are also donated from local businesses that would have thrown them away otherwise. Tran said some of the businesses that donated seeds included Sunrise Garden Center and Cottins Hardware and Rental.
The Campus Garden donates its produce to Douglas County's East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corporation, or ECKAN, a distribution center for food pantries and other organizations that provide food to the hungry.
"We appreciate each and every donation we receive because we are seeing far more households than we can serve," Collier said.
Jeanette Collier, human services coordinator for ECKAN, said the Campus Garden donated items the center didn't receive otherwise, such as herbs like parsley and basil.
She said the center served 30,000 individuals in 2008.
Between 60 and 80 students vol.
unteered throughout a semester, Tran said, about 15 of whom were fairly regular.
"It's a great way to meet people, learn how to grow your own food and help the community" she said.
Volunteers with the garden said they were always in need of more helping hands.
"If you know how to pick a blade of grass, you can add something to the garden," Omaha, Neb., senior Katelyn McGill said.
McGill has volunteered with the garden for two years and said she often watered and weeded the garden between classes. She said the garden reminded her of home, where she had helped her father with the family garden since she was little.
"It's nice to have some ownership in that — feeling like you really accomplished something by growing your own food," she said.
Working with the garden, she said, taught her that anyone could have a garden, even college students.
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control other human urges."
Though Ramadan is an Islamic celebration, some non-Muslim students are fasting for personal growth.
Ognyan Chervenkov, Bulgaria
senior, said that he fasted for Ramadan because he wanted to experience what his Muslim roommate was going through. He said among the benefits, fasting gave him increased time management skills
"When I fast,
I know when
food comes."
Chervenko said.
"It's harder to focus late in the
helped him manage day-to-day routines. He said he became increasingly tired throughout the day, which forced him to focus on staying on top of schoolwork and obligations.
"Putting food in a designated time helps me put other things in their proper time too."
"When I fast, I know when food comes. Putting food in a designated time helps me put other things in their porper time too."
His roommate, Shehryar Rana,
Pakistan senior, agreed that Ramadan
OGNYAN CHERVENKOV Bulgaria senior
less shelter
afternoon", Rana said.
"You can't keep things to the last moment because you won't have the energy"
The Muslim Student Association will conclude Ramadan with its annual Fast a-Thon on Sept. 10, in the Kansas Union. The event is open to the public and is expected to raise hundreds of dollars for the Lawrence home-
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figures in their respective parties and worked together closely"
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute, said the serators served together for 30 years and had extraordinarily good relations.
"We wanted to point back to two guys, one a Democrat, or one a Republican, one aliberal and one a Conservative, who always had time to chat and be great friends," Lacysaid.
Sen. Dole's last day as a senator before resigning to focus on the 1996 presidential campaign. Lacy points to this photograph to show how close the friendship between Kennedy and Dole was.
Included in the display is a photograph of the two together from
"You can see, even on Sen. Dole's last day, they are sill laughing and goofing off." Lacy said.
Two major pieces of legislation the senators worked together on were the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination illegal, and the Voting Rights Act of
1965, which lowered the voting age to 18 years old.
One of their most famous joint-efforts was a two-minute daily radio program called "Face-Off", which both senators recorded from 1984-1987. Lacy said the senators would get together and debate an issue of the day. At one point, "Face-Off" was syndicated to 88 radio stations across the country.
Margarita Caulfield, Russell sophomore and member of the
NASA
Dole Institute's student advisory board, said Kennedy was important because, among other things, he was a member of one of America's great political power families.
"I'm saddened by Sen. Kennedy's passing because he stood for great integrity and strong bipartisan-ship," Cauffain said. "Sen. Dole stood for the same things."
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Space Shuttle Discovery will launch after setbacks due to weather delayed takeoff. The shuttle will deliver supplies to the space station.
One of the items is named after cornetian Stephen Colbert.
Shuttle set to launch after delays
BYMARCIA DUNN
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will try to launch space shuttle Discovery to the international space station late Friday night, after back-to-back delays caused by bad weather and fuel valve trouble.
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It will be the third try for NASA, which is still struggling to understand why a critical shuttle fuel valve appeared to malfunction Tuesday midway through the fueling process.
The valve was tested Wednesday night, and all indications were that it was a problem with a sensor rather than the valve itself. The hydrogen fuel valve, a big 8-inch device, is located in Discovery's engine compartment.
After meeting Thursday, mission managers decided they needed more time to settle on a plan if the problem reappears, and aimed for a liftoff late Friday night.
"The better part of valor here is to take a day, let us go polish that (plan) off, really make sure we understand what's going on" said Mike Moses, chairman of the mission management team. "The team was 80, 90 percent of the way there already" in the analysis.
Another potential issue popped up Thursday when a mechanical failure cancelled the test firing of a
new moon rocket in Utah. The problem was a faulty valve in a power unit nearly identical to a system used in the shuttle. Shuttle managers said they'd take a look at what went wrong in Utah to see if there's any potential implication for the shuttle.
In an unusual lineup of events, NASA had two launch opportunities for Friday, in the early wee hours and just before midnight. Liftoff time will be 11:59 p.m.
Friday. So that's good," he said at a news conference,
Thunderstorms ruined the first launch attempt early Tuesday morning; the valve problem canceled an early Wednesday attempt.
Forecasters put the odds of good launch weather at just 60 percent. Thunderstorms are a concern for both fueling and launch.
NASA has until Sunday to launch Discovery, otherwise the shuttle will have to get in line behind a Japanese cargo ship and a Russian spacecraft set to go to the space station in September. That would push the shuttle mission into mid-October.
Moses joked about bypassing Friday's first opportunity. "Just to put the right spin on it, we're here to not talk about a scrub. In fact, we'll still go to launch on
Seven astronauts are assigned to the 13-day flight. They will deliver a full load of space station supplies, including a treadmill named for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert.
Colbert won the online vote earlier this year for naming rights to a yet-to-be-launched space station room. NASA went with the name Tranquility, however, in honor of this summer's 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.
"Yeah, that will scare the aliens," Colbert said of the name Tranquility.