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Museum lets visitors in on action
BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
Amateur archeologists in Kansas got the opportunity to display their finds Sunday at the Natural History Museum.
"What on Earth? Rocks, Fossils and Meteorites" opened the museum doors to the public to have their found fossils examined by experts.
Discoveries ranged from bison fossils and worthless rocks to the remains of an extinct moose and a piece of a mastodon.
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Mike and Malcolm Maude explore the skull fragment of a saber-toothed tiger in Dyche Hall. The Natural History Museum presented the exhibit "What on Earth? Fossils, Rocks and Meteorites" on Sunday afternoon.
A fire in southern California forced the evacuation of Pepperdine University.
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LEARNING TO FIGHT
Practice makes perfect
Tanner Popp, Hoxie sophomore, contemplates how he would treat the wounds that the Field Training Preparation commander assigned to John Sebes, Lansing freshman, at an ROTC leadership training exercise Saturday afternoon near Clinton Lake. The commanders assigned wounds after each battle based on the technique and position of the cadets during the practice combat.
Fake exercises, weapons pose real leadership challenges for AFROTC
BY COURTNEY CONDRON
ccondron@kansan.com
Crawling through the woods, the blue faction crouched to the ground, ready to fire, when the group noticed three members of the black faction approaching.
"BANG BANG BANG," they shouted as the black faction charged toward them. The black faction shouted back and threw a grenade.
Of course, their M-16s were only rubber, and the grenade was a sock filled with flour, but this was an opportunity for the Air Force ROTC to practice a combat situation in their field leadership exercise Saturday at Clinton Lake.
the freshmen and sophomores split into two teams — the blue faction and the red faction — each with the goal of reaching the nuclear weapon (a cardboard box spray
painted orange, containing a few rocks) from a plane that was shot down. The juniors and seniors made up the black faction, which attempted to attack the two teams on their way to the weapon.
"The Air Force is seeing a more combat-oriented role," said Ben Martin, Topeka senior and athletics officer. "We basically put a semester's worth of work into putting this together."
The main goal of the exercise was to help the freshmen and sophomores develop leadership skills.
"The underclassmen don't know what's going on, but we give them a job to do, and they go out and do it." Olathe senior Garrett Kohl said. Kohl was one of the combat assistant management officers, or CAMOs, who are upperclassmen who went along with each team to assist them.
The teams each received a briefing before they left for Clinton Lake. They received
their mission, a map of the area, information about the weather and safety precautions regarding spiders and poison ivy. They also had trained for one day with the Army ROTC to help them with land navigation.
After each encounter with the black faction, the CAMOs gave the factions a little guidance and told them which teammates were injured.
In the blue faction's first battle, two team members received shrapnel wounds in their arms and another had a bullet wound to the abdomen because he wasn't close enough to the ground. Each wounded person lay down and the team's medics told the CAMOs how to treat the wound. If they did so correctly, the wounded team member was instantly revitalized.
The teams, wearing camouflage and face paint, crawled most of the half mile to the weapon, trying to be silent and using hand motions to signal each other.
In the final battle at the site of the nuclear weapon, the blue faction defeated the red faction, and one blue team member had to solve a sudoku to disarm the bomb.
The sudoku was one of the ways the CAMOs tried to make the training day fun. The code names of the CAMOs were types of bears, including papa bear, yogi, bear shaker and Kodiak bear.
"The leadership aspect we take seriously, but as far as running around in the woods on a Saturday, we want them to have fun," said Evan Bergstrom, Apple Valley, Minn., junior and CAMO for the blue faction.
In the end, the blue faction had a few fatalities after being attacked by the red faction on its way back, but the blue team successfully carried the nuclear weapon all the way back to where the training started.
HEALTH
— Edited by Tara Smith
Program provides treatment, training
BY DYLAN SANDS
dsands@kansan.com
A program at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare is giving people with mental illnesses the chance to counsel others with the same problems.
The Consumers as Providers Training Program selects patients from statewide mental health facilities to become certified counselors. Once the trainees complete their training, they work in some of the very same types of mental health facilities in which they were treated.
The program will receive a 2007 EH Lily Reintegration Award on Friday. The award recognizes their extraordinary contribution to social welfare.
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BY SASHA ROE
sroe@kansan.com
》 DOLE INSTITUTE
Institute honors congressman
U. S. Congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis was honored with the Dole Leadership Prize Sunday.
Lewis was recognized for his work during the Civil Rights Movement in which he is known as one of the "Big Six" leaders. At a young age, he organized sit-ins and participated in marches and Freedom Rides. During the "Bloody Sunday" march from Selma to Montgomery, Lewis was attacked by an Alabama state troopers yet Lewis told the audience he never became bitter or hostile in his experiences.
Senator Dole would be extremely proud of this year's recipient.
Barbara Ballard, Dole Institute associate director of outreach, said she knew
Lewis said the Dole Leadership Prize was a great honor.
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Congressman John Lewis shares a laugh with his audience at the award ceremony Sunday.
ACTIVISM
Lawrence Gulu Walk benefits Ugandans
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
Saturday night, more than 50 students and Lawrence residents made a four-mile trek from the Kansas Union to Massachusetts Street and back, mimicking the walk many children in northern Uganda make each night to hide from the country's rebel army.
KU for Uganda sponsored the Guu Walk and raised almost $1,200. Students from Free State High School joined KU students in the walk.
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Uganda has suffered through a civil war that has lasted more than twenty years. The Lord's Resistance Army abducts children to make them child soldiers. Groups in cities around the world walked Saturday to bring attention to the situation in Uganda and to raise money for programs to help the children.
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