UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Monday, September 23, 1996 5A Cigarette butts litter Wescoe Beach Cleaning staff can't keep up with trash By Cameron Heeg Kansan staff reporter It is fun, sun, sand and surf at the beach. Oh, and don't forget the cigarette butts. Wescoe Beach is no exception. Last year 800,358 cigarette butts were picked off American beaches by volunteers, according to a report done by the Center for Marine Conservation. The Center reports that many beaches are victims to the wave of butts. "It gets to the point to when you want to sit down, you have to clear a spot so you won't end up on any of them," said Brendan Allen, Phoenix, Ariz., freshman, regarding the cigarette butts that litter the front of Wescoe Hall. "It is sick and people need to learn how to clean up their own messes." That sentiment was echoed by Richard Tedlock, day manager for Campus Housekeeping. Caroline Lewis / KANSAN Housekeeping has one person assigned to Wescoe every day for six hours. The worker is responsible for keeping the inside and outside of the The steps in front of Wescoe Hall are collecting a large number of cigarette butts and other garbage. building clean and free of debris, including cigarette butts, Tedlock said. "I hope students that smoke and don't smoke understand that it is a daily clean up process, and they should start disposing of their cigarettes properly," he said. "To keep the place continually clean, the University would have to be like Disneyland, where people follow you around and pick up everything." Most students who sit on Wescoe Beach smoke and are too lazy to do something about their trash, Jamie LaLonde, Overland Park junior, said. "I can see how it looks disgusting, she said. "But since I'm a smoker it doesn't really bother me." Other Wesco smokers agreed that the butts weren't a big problem because it is part of the smoking habit. because it is part of the sharing kindness. "It is just something you have to get used to and expect," said Chad Rau, Lenexa junior. In a nationwide effort to help reduces the butt littering problem, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco set up the Smokers For A Clean America campaign. Since 1991 the company has distributed 5 million portable foil-lined bags to be used as ashtrays. Not many, if any, of those disposable ash bags have reached the smokers at the University of Kansas. the University of Kansas. Current removal plans will stay in place for now. "We are short-staffed at housekeeping, so the best we can do is what is being done right now," Tedlock said. "I just want to call on smokers to take a look at how big of a problem it really is." Students caught littering cigarette butts face a mandatory court appearance. A fine of up to $100 can be assessed, said John Powell, municipal court manager. Pam Dishman / KANSAN Lab additions make learning less foreign Visitors examine the new computers at the language lab in the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center. 4069 Wescoe Hall. The lab held an open house on Friday. By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer Learning to speak a foreign language at the University of Kansas may become easier than uno dos, tres with the new technological advances in the foreign languages lab. The new additions were unveiled Friday in an open house for faculty. John Huy, director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center in 4069 Wescoe Hall, said he was confident that the more than $48,000 improvements of the lab made by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences would aid students' education. The lab has purchased more than 100 software titles in almost every language taught at the University. Many of the software programs use movie-like presentations that require a student to "It provides access to authentic materials and puts you in control. You become an active participant in your own learning," Huy said. react to situations presented in scenarios. "It gives access to sound and video — it is much more interesting than just an audio tape," Huy said. The lab made several hardware purchases as well. A new six-station computer room is now in place at the lab. For now, it is only available to specific language classes, but Huy said he hoped to allow open access to the room by spring. A mobile multi-media unit that includes a Power Mac computer, a laser disc player, and a LCD projector that will display the computer's monitor on a overhead screen, is one of the more popular purchases among language instructors. Huy said. A new TV room in 4072 Wescoe Hall will provide students with news and an TV programs from 35 different countries. "It is a very popular thing. We have faculty who watch the news from their country daily," Huy said. A schedule of the times and the different countries that can be viewed on the satellite TV are available at the lab. Sally Frost-Mason, dean of the college, said she was impressed with the innovations of the lab. "I couldn't be more pleased with how this has turned out," Frost-Mason said. "It is a resource that should enhance both the access to and the learning of a foreign language. I hope students and faculty take full advantage of this." Steve Maceli, a graduate teaching assistant of Polish, said that his class was one of the first to use some of the lab's new features, and that he saw a marked improvement in his student's speaking abilities. "For the MTV generation, we need all the help we can get to keep their attention," Maceli Huy said that all of the updates made to the lab were aimed at giving students a more realistic view of the language and the culture that they were studying. said. Student opens exotic maid, butler service Housekeepers do household chores in revealing outfits By Liz Musser Kansan staff writer Cleaning the house in your underwear may not sound appealing, but when someone from Dauntless Domestic Service is doing the cleaning, it's exotic. The "dauntless" in Dauntless Domestic Service, a new exotic housekeeping service in Lawrence, refers to the company's dress code — skimpy. Dauntless provides house cleaning by scantily-clad maids and butlers. "We're exotic because we've taken a household chore that nobody likes to do and made it fun," said Sean Noel, co-owner of the company. Noel said there were no specific guidelines about what the employees wore, but it had to be provocative and sexy. He said one of the female employees wore a cream-colored silk slip. The males usually wear skimpy bathing suits, but have been toying with the idea of cowboy outfits. Noel, a Parsons junior, opened Daultless Domestic Service in late July with his friend, Bill Hawkins. He said that he was tired of working for other people and wanted to try starting a business. He had seen a segment on exotic house cleaning on a news program and liked the idea because it required low investment and had the potential for high profit. "This isn't a career option for me," he said. "It's more something I'm doing to support myself during school." Noel said that if the business took off, he would continue to run it after he graduated but would eventually let a manger take control. Dauntless has three male and three female employees who do light housecleaning like dusting and vacuuming. Noel said target customers are older men and students. "Say if a group of students have a party, then they could have somebody come over and pick up the beer cans," he said. 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