Tuesday, January 19, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 9
Historic Hymn
Rep. Barbara Ballard sings a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Ballard, a KU administrator, impressed her fellow speakers with a hymn dedicated to King at the Lied Center event honoring his birthday yesterday. Photo by Graham K.
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KU student living life on the Internet
Contest restricts winners to only online purchases
By Jennifer Roush
Kansas staff writer
Scott Raymond won't be setting foot inside a grocery store this semester. He won't need to grab a bar of soap at the corner drugstore, and if he calls out for pizza, it'll be with a mouse and a modem.
This is because Raymond, Belton, Mo., sophomore, is one of the winners of the levi.com Semester Online contest. Raymond is one of three college students who won the chance to participate in an experiment to see whether it is possible to purchase everything necessary to survive an entire semester online.
The contest was announced in November of last year to coincide with the launch of Levi's Online Store. The winners, who will each receive $500 a week for the duration of the experiment, were selected in December.
The experiment officially begins Feb. 1, said Daniel Gennaoui, representative for Ketchum Public Relations. After that date, the winners must buy all of their daily necessities via the Internet
Gennaoui said that by the end of January, visitors will be able to log on to Levi's Web site to monitor the winners' progress and participate in live web chats. Beginning Feb. 7, and every Sunday thereafter, levi.com will broadcast live Netcasts at 9 p.m. Eastern. Visitors will be able to chat with the winners and see what they have been buying.
"It might present a challenge, but I really want to see how close I can stav to their rules," he said.
Raymond said that finding all of his necessities — especially groceries — online might be tough. But for $500 a week, he wasn't complaining.
"This will probably just be my 15 minutes." Raymond said.
Raymond said he doesn't expect to become permanently famous, although he hasn't ruled out the possibility of putting this experience on a resume in the future.
He also said that Ketchum Public Relations, the firm which is promoting the experiment, has been trying to book appearances for the winners on late-night television programs such as Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Late Show with David Letterman.
Raymond said that one thing he hoped to learn was how to be a better and smarter Web consumer.
"I find the contest exciting because I'll learn the best places to find daily necessities, and maybe some places that aren't so good," Raymond said. "I'm just glad I won't be learning with my own money."
Finding clears understanding of universe's origin
Researchers at KU think that 'superwinds' shaped the stars
University of Kansas researchers have discovered that "superwinds"
By Jennifer Roush Kansan staff writer
— about one hundred million light years long — have helped to sculpt the universe.
For more information http://kusmos.phos.xukans.edu.com Jason Benavides/KANSAN
Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, announced the findings of the research team's year-long project at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society Jan. 7, in Austin, Texas.
said.
The superwinds, which contain dust and gases, move at incredibly high rates of speed and follow the long axes of superclusters. Melott
Seven KU students worked on the research team, including Michael Kaufman, McPherson senior, and Brian Wilhite, KU graduate.
He said that superclusters were made up of thousands of smaller clusters from galaxies and vast stretches of nearly empty space.
Until the mid-1980s there were two differing theories concerning the formation of the universe's structure. Melott said that the research project showed that both theories could apply to the real universe.
"It looks like we are beginning to develop a good understanding of the formation of structure in the universe," Melott said.
Melott said that superwinds appeared to be generated during the formation of superclusters.
The team based its discovery in part on the analysis of the direction of local galactic winds, which distort gas jets in 12 different clusters.
The group also relied on information gathered from the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array and data from other astronomers about distances to various galactic clusters.
Melott said that the group found that nearby clusters were aligned with the wind direction inside the central cluster. He said that chances for this alignment, based
"We've had no evidence until now of the particular kinds of flows that bring about the structures we're looking at." Melott said.
on coincidence, were only about one in 50. These odds left room for the superwind explanation that the researchers found.
Although the research took nearly a year to complete, Kaufman said that he was pleased with how the project finished
Delancy Smith, of Clayton, Mo. uses a high-pressure wash to remove some of the salt and grime from his car in West St. Louis County on Jan. 16. Winter weather has been a hazard to many travelers this winter. KRT photo
Recent winter weather delays students' trips back
By Chris Hopkins
Kansan staff writer
Winter weather has hit the nation hard since New Year's Day, freezing travel at some of the nation's major airports and forcing some out-of-state KU students to change their plans.
Gary Lezak, chief meteorologist at KSH-1B in Kansas City, Mo., said that the Kansas City area narrowly missed getting large amounts of precipitation.
"The weather pattern has been dominated by an upper-level trough, which is just east of Kansas City." Lezak said.
This trough keeps moisture and storm systems to the north of Lawrence, which has seen little precipitation since New Year's.
Combined with Arctic air, which until recently dominated the Northeast, the storms dumped snow on Chicago, freezing rain on St. Louis and equally woeful weather on states from New York to North Carolina to Arkansas.
"It goes hand in hand with what La Niña was supposed to do." Lezak said.
La Nina is an oceanic phenomenon that generally causes a cooler, wetter winter in the Northwest and a warmer, dryer winter in the Southeast.
Nate Brinson, Edwardsville, Ill., junior, said that although the freezing rain didn't affect his everyday life, it kept him from enjoying his vacation to the fullest
Brinson said that he had missed several St. Louis Blues hockey games because frozen patches remained on the highway for so long. The last freezing rain storm, which hit St. Louis
"Basically, I couldn't do everything I wanted to because of the weather." Brinson said.
WHAT IS LA NIÑA?
La Niña is caused by an up welling of cold water in the central and eastern tropics of the Pacific, lowering the surface temperature by up to seven degrees Fahrenheit.
Effects are generally the opposite of El Niño.
During a La Niña year, the Northwest is cooler and wetter, while the Southeast is warmer and driver.
A La Niña substantially
A La Nina substantially increases hurricane activity in the Atlantic and the Caribbean
Jan. 14, also delayed his return to Lawrence by a day.
Barri Forkos, Chicago some more, also had weather-related problems. Chicago was the worst hit area of the nation.
Although Forkos was sick at the time and didn't try to leave the house, she said that if she had tried to leave, she would not have been able to.
"We would've been snowed in because there was two feet of snow on the driveway." Forkos said.
Her flight to Kansas City, one of a significant number of planes delayed or grounded by weather, took off one hour behind schedule.
Lezak said that the arctic air had left the country for the time being but could return in two weeks. Because the winter weather is on a cycle, this may bring more misery to northern states.
In the meantime, Kansas may get January's average precipitation in a storm that will hit Wednesday and leave early Saturday. Lezak said.
Lezak expects one to one-and-a-half inches of rain, with possible snow toward the end of the storm.
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