Monday, August 30,1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Organization raises funds to help earthquake victims
Turkish students hear from friends
By Lesley Simmons writer @kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Members of the Turkish International Association are collecting money to help victims of the earthquake that devastated western Turkey two weeks ago.
Yanki Cobanoglu, graduate student in electrical engineering from Kyrenia, North Cyprus, said members of the student organization would continue to collect donations at a table on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union today through Thursday.
Thursday. The group began raising funds from students, faculty and staff Aug. 27, and has already collected about $200. Donations will be forwarded to the American Red Cross or the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C.
According to a statement on the Turkish Embassy's Web site, monetary donations are more useful than donations of goods at this stage in the relief effort.
According to the American Red Cross, survivors of the earthquake have enough food and water, and most have access to
portable toilets. Finding shelter remains one of the survivors' biggest concerns.
one of the Red Cross, also, according to the Red Cross, the number of people left homeless is estimated to be greater than 500,000. Homeless are crowded into tents, but sturdier shelters are needed to protect survivors from rain and the harsh winter weather to come.
come.
Cobanoglu said even small donations would add up to help survivors in Turkey. He said many of his friends from Cyprus, an island 40 miles south of Turkey, went to school in Istanbul, but that all of his friends had e-mailed him since the earthquake. His best friend left the area a week before the earthquake.
before the earthquake.
Aydin Orge, graduate student in business from Ankara, Turkey, said it had been difficult for him to conceptualize the earthquake because the numbers of people killed or left homeless were so high. His family in Ankara was not involved in the earthquake.
"My family is fine, my wife's family is fine." Orge said.
line," Orge said.
Burc Barin, Nicosia, Cyprus, junior, said some of his relatives had felt the earthquake, but that no one in his family was hurt. He said he hoped that building code requirements in Turkey would become more stringent.
Earthquake Update
Maybe if the buildings were designed
differently, fewer people would have died," Barin said.
Hilary Van Patten, Almena junior, said she hadn't heard from her e-mail pen pal in Turkey since the day before the earthquake.
She had been corresponding with a 17-year-old Turkish boy named Cenk for most of the summer, receiving e-mail from him almost every other day and discussing things such as Stephen King novels.
Van Patten said she still hoped to hear from Cenk. She said she thought he might be busy or unable to send e-mail because of damage to infrastructure.
Edited by Kelly Clasen
The Associated Press
ADAPAZARI, Turkey Once a bustling industrial center, this quake-flattened community more closely resembles a war zone than a cityscape: helicopters buzzing overhead, mountains of crumbled concrete, dazed-looking citizens wandering the rubble-strewn streets.
consider leaving city
strewn streets.
With three-quarters of Adapazari's buildings left uninhabitable by Turkey's devastating Aug. 17, earthquake, and with tens of thousands of its people camped out in tents and shelters, authorities are considering a radical solution: simply pulling up stakes and abandoning this northwestern city of 180,000 people.
Other ravaged Turkish towns — such as the Sea of Marmara port of Golcu, where a naval base that was the town's lifeblood was destroyed and won't be rebuilt — may face the same fate: that of being literally wiped off the map.
in these towns, the destruction is so widespread and the danger from future quakes is so great that officials are slowly acknowledging that relocation may make more sense than reconstruction.
"Maybe we just can't fix it," said Adapazari provincial governor Ahmet Vefik Tekerek, interviewed at the quake-damaged municipal offices. "It's possible we will choose to leave this city."
Even if moving turns out to be the most pragmatic solution, the idea of mass displacement is a wrenching one for the people of Adapazari, a bitter new loss atop the death and damage caused by the quake.
"My house is ruined, but this city is my home, and it was my father's home," said vegetable vendor Heyrettin Heybet, 24. "If we all go to another place and call它 Adapazari, how can it be the same?"
Almost no family in the city escaped the loss of life or property. The local death toll stands at 2,621 — accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total toll of 13,479 — but hundreds more bodies are believed still entoured in mountains of rubble so high they dwarf the heavy equipment only now beginning to clear them away.
beginning Another 5,084 people were hurt in Adapazari, according to official figures, but unless
their injuries were life-threatening, many simply treated themselves. Across the city, people limp and hobble along, with knotted rags and dirty bandages covering iodine-streaked wounds.
stretched wounded. Adapazar, 100 miles east of Istanbul, lies directly along the North Anatolian fault line. Hundreds of afterschocks have shaken the town since the main earthquake, and on Friday evening it was hit by two sharp new tremors, one of them with a magnitude of 4.1
Some wonder whether it was a mistake to rebuild the town after it was nearly leveled by a powerful 7.2-magnitude quake in 1867.
10. 2.25 mag. "Adapazari was much smaller then, so maybe the idea of staying made sense at the time," said Murat Kilic, 27, whose apartment building collapsed in this quake. Part of his family lore is the destruction of his grandfather's house in the 1967 quake, and how the family lived for two months afterward in a tent.
"Now here we are again," he said, gesturing at the tents clustered around him on a muddy soccer field. "I think this city has a curse on it."
Local association works to increase area's population of bluebirds
By Todd Halsted
writer@kansan.com
Kansas
Thoreau may have written, "The bluebird carries the sky on his back," but it is the Kaw Valley Bluebird Association that carries the bluebird on its back.
the Duke of York,
L. Martin Jones, association president and former Lawrence campus director of business and fiscal affairs,
said the association wanted to educate students and residents about bluebirds
"Many people have not seen an eastern bluebird." Jones said. "Their number has got so low that a lot of people think we're talking about blue jays. The bluebird is a wonderful bird, so we want to educate people about it — especially young people."
Fourteen residents formed the Kaw Valley Bluebird Association in March 1999 to propagate the eastern bluebird habitat, monitor nesting sites, report data to national and state ornithological organizations and to educate people about the bluebird and its activities, but some members have been working to help the bluebirds for more than 20 years.
The bluebird, which nests from about April 1 to about Sept. 1, is a small bird with blue on its head, back and tail; orange on the upper half of its breast and white on the lower half. Its austere nest is cushaped. It is found in all parts of the United States east of the Rockies
The association has placed nesting boxes at several locations in
Lawrence and the vicinity. Clinton State Park and the Corps of Engineers property at the lake is home to 65 boxes, with 20 at Rim Rock Farm in Jefferson County, 20 at Eagle Bend Golf Course, 60 at Perry Lake and others scattered throughout the area.
Chuck Pachella, an employee of Eagle Bend Golf Course, said, "There are a lot of the golfers who really seem to enjoy the birds."
This has been an especially good year for the bluebird lovers.
"From the 65 nesting boxes at Clinton State Park we have fledged, that is baby birds have grown up and flown away. 355 bluebirds." Jones said. "It's rather a significant number and it's the most
we've fledged in one year."
Jones said in recent years they had fledged an average of 320.
The University of Kansas' west campus formerly was a home for some nesting boxes.
something "we had 10 boxes on the west campus, but we have not really attended to them this past year." Jones said. "We fledged probably no more than 10 bluebirds."
more than 10 students. Jones said it would help to have interested students volunteer time and assist in monitoring the nest boxes on campus and in other parts of the area.
Richard Prum, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said the bluebird was one the few bird species in the area that
nested exclusively in cavities and in the wild they were limited to natural cavities. These cavities included holes in dead trees, branches, old barns and woodpecker holes.
"The population is limited to the number of opportunities they have to nest." Prum said. "In the old days, with the old style of farming practices and gardening standards, there were more dead trees and orchards. Changes in how people use the environment have really hurt the bluebird population quite a bit."
Insects, the bluebird's main food source, were vastly depleted by DDT. Consumption of the dead insects infected the bluebird. If the bluebird did not die, often their fledglings did, or egg walls were too
"Since DDT, along with other pesticides, has been banned, except in special cases, the bluebird has made a comeback," Jones said.
Wes Seyler and Tom Rodhouse, Lawrence residents, were among the first people to create artificial nests for bluebirds in the area 22 years ago. When Jones retired from the University, he began helping Seyler with his nesting projects.
Jones said the Kaw Valley Bluebird Association, which has about 25 members, was created to secure funds to help people wanting to create artificial nesting sites. Funds come in the form of $10 membership fees and modest donations from people interested in the project.
Edited by Allan Davis
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