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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 10, 1994
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KU students help with Fall Fling
Julianne Peter/ KANSAN
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Amanda Long, Hutchinson junior, paints a face on Anrai Richards, 2, during the Hillcrest Elementary School Fall Fling.
Hillcrest Elementary School students bounced off the walls Friday night as Janet Matto made sure no one got hurt.
Matto, an Oliver Hall resident assistant, helped kids as they climbed in and out of the moon walk ride, a wild, walled-in, trampoline-like contraption.
Matto is one of about 100 volunteers from several KU sororities, fraternities and residence halls helping with the annual Hillcrest Elementary School Fall Fling. The event is the major fund raiser of the year for the 350-student school. The money will help pay for instructional supplies, such as computers, for the school.
Situated throughout the elementary school, located at 1045 Hilltop Drive, were games, such as the cake walk and the balloon pop, and a variety of food and rides like the moon walk. Each game or ride cost two or three 20 cent tickets.
Last year Matto volunteered to work at the carnival with residents from her floor at Oliver Hall. She said she was happy to help again at the carnival.
"It's a real chance to interact with the community," Matto said. "It's real easy to stay locked up in the hall and isolate yourself from the community."
Ed Foley, coordinator for Omicron Delta Kappa's volunteer support, said he thought it was important that the 15 members of his Senior Honors Society fraternity helped with the carnival.
some of their time on Friday night to help out," Foley said.
"I think it's great that they're giving up
Volunteering for the carnival was a nostalgic experience, Foley said.
"I haven't been in a grade school in heaven knows how many years" Fahrenheit
He said he never participated in a carnival at his elementary school.
"The students that are helping out represent the University very well." Arebalo said. He said KU had been a great source of volunteer support for Hillcrest for the annual Fall Fling in the past.
ciated and needed to run the carnival.
Bob Arebala, principal of Hillcrest, said the volunteer support from KU was appre-
Cyndi Rood, a 1994 graduate of KU and a new sixth-grade teacher at Hillcrest, said it was a great opportunity for Hillcrest when KU students came to the school.
Advocates preach medical textile uses for hemp plant
By Novelda Sommers
Kansan Correspondent
Hemp group rallies on campus
Elvy Musikka had a microphone in one hand and a marijuana cigarette in the other as she spoke Friday on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Musikka said her marijuana is supplied by the federal government. It is grown in Mexico and rolled by a tobacco company.
Clad in jeans made of 50 percent cancissis, a 100 percent cannabis hat and a T-shirt advocating the legalization of marijuana, Musikka spoke about marijuana's medicinal benefits. She said marjuana had more than 400 components that helped with various illnesses, including alleviating pressure on the optical nerve for glaucoma.
Musikka, from Hollywood, Fla., was speaking at the University of Kansas as part of the national "Planting Seeds" tour of the Cannabis Action Network.
Diagnosed with glaucoma in 1975, Musikka said she lost nearly all of the sight in her right eye to brutal conventional treatments. In 1988 she was granted the right to use marijuana legally. Her sight has not deteriorated since, she said.
Musikla, who has traveled with CAN for five years, is one of eight people in the United States who can legally smoke marijuana because of an illness.
The KU chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws sponsored the Berkeley, Calif., based organization's campus visit. They erected a tepee and set up information tables on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint.
Throughout the day, CAN and NORML members spoke about the benefits and uses of cannabis through a loud speaker. They displayed products made from cannabis and distributed information about the plant.
"In the United States there are 10 million seriously ill patients who everyday have to go into a dangerous and illegal market," she said.
David Almquist, Lawrence NORMel member, said he worked with KUNORML to bring CAN to campus so "students could have a first-hand look at the uses for cannabis."
"But NORMAL will be around until hemp is legalized for all of its uses," Almuist said.
Alquist said NORML wanted hemp legalized "to eliminate the need for trees for paper and eliminate the need for fossil fuels."
"People have been very curious," said Nicole Lightburn, KU NORML president. "We have been taught propaganda. If that's all you know, then of course you're going to think marijuana is bad."
"We want to educate the unenlightened about the overall aspects of hemp," Almquist said.
CAN's tour of the United States will culminate in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15 at a demonstration for Medical Marijuana Day.
"I normally don't get drawn into things like this," said Kara Wittman, Topeka sophomore, as she signed up for NORML membership. "This is one of my biggest political interests. Right now our courts are clogged by people arrested for the petty crime of possession of a plant." she said.
Ed Cote, Lawrence sophomore, said he was a little bit skeptical of the activists.
"But if you can't have free speech on campus, where can you," Cote said.