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Wednesdav. October 5,1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wetlands viewed ecologically, fiscally, emotionally at forum
By Nathan Olsor
Kansan staff writer
By Nathan Olson
| Spirituality is sacred — and so is congestion-free traffic.
Those were the messages last night at an open forum about the wetlands at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. About 50 people attended the forum, which included a panel of six people.
KU Environers and the Student Political Awareness Task Force co-sponsored the event.
Roger Boyd, professor of biology at Baker University, began with a short slide show about the wetlands, which are located south of Haskell Indian Nations University. Boyd showed pictures of the vegetation, insects and animals that depend on the delicate ecosystem for survival.
The proposed South Lawrence Trafficway could have a profound effect on the wetlands.
Three options for the trafficway, which is being built to ease traffic congestion on Clinton Parkway, are being considered. The first, places the trafficway on 31st Street and would cut 11.89 acres of the wetlands. The second, places the trafficway on 35th Street, which would bisect the wetlands. And the third, places the trafficway south of Wakarusa River and would have little impact on the wetlands.
Dan Watkins, member of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, told the audience that the third option was considered the least attractive
to the city because it would cost too much and its location, so far from Lawrence, would not ease Clinton Parkway congestion.
The cost of going south of the Wakarusa River is being estimated at $4 million to $6 million more than the other two options.
"What we would like to do is come up with a plan that mitigates the impact," Watkins said.
But, Boyd said that when 31st Street was being proposed, most people probably would have said they wouldn't travel on it because it was far from the city.
"Now on 31st Street, we've seen a 1,500-car-a-day increase in the last year," Boyd said.
Another member of the panel, Josephine Fire Lame Deer, Haskell sophomore, said that the wetlands held historical value for her and other Haskell students. Years ago, she said, when Haskell first was established. Native American children were sometimes taken by force out of their homes to be educated at Haskell. The wetlands provided the children with the only place they could go and be alone.
Sometimes, she said, parents would come to the wetlands to wait for their children.
"For Haskell students, the wetlands mean a lot more than just a chunk of land we might lose," she said.
Other members of the panel were Chuck Haines, professor of biology at Haskell; Mark Buhler, Douglas County commissioner; and Gerry Shimek, Environmental Protection Agency representative.
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AEROSMITH: Students may be in video
"It's great, especially since I'm the one in the middle," he said.
He was confident about his performance and chances of earning a spot in the video.
"If not, I'd kind of be upset in a way, but I could still say I was there. I have a strong feeling it's going to be on anyway."
Roche portrayed a passenger on a red wagon in the video.
"I felt like an idiot, but I didn't care," he said. "I was like, 'Hell, I'm going to be on T.V.' Just thinking that you could be in the spotlight for the whole world, just thinking everyone could see you, it's probably not going to happen."
"I knew it would be a controversial video, and it'd be happy to be a part of
The students had mixed views on the video's subject matter.
Both Bartels and Jetter performed in a scene where they portrayed blind men reading pornographic magazines printed in braille.
something that creates controversy," Coleman said.
Schobert, however, expressed strong reservations. She said she didn't know what the video was about when she decided to participate in the filming.
"I'm not too proud," she said. "I think I'd be glad if I was on television and in an Aerosmith video, but I don't know how I'll feel about people seeing me up there, knowing what it's about."
Schobert was involved in one scene shot in a meat shop in which she picked flowers as a butcher beat on meat and choked chickens.
Schobert and several other women involved in the video received free passes to the Aerosmith concert. When the crew filmed concert footage for "Blind Man," Schobert and the other women went on stage.
"I was ecstatic," she said. "I wanted to go to that concert so bad. I love Aerosmith, and I had been looking for tickets or a ride there or something, and I couldn't get them. And then they told us we were going to go across the stage. It was awesome."
Jetter shook his head in disgust when he
found out about the preferential treatment the women received. The crew did not offer tickets to any of the men in the video.
"I understand it," he said sourly. "It doesn't surprise me at all."
"I felt a little discriminated against," Bar-tels said.
Though each cited some negative experiences, the students felt the positives overwhelmed those feelings.
"It's not everyday that you get to be involved with something as big as a major label, international band," Jetter said. "This is big time."
"Td skip class again to do it," Bartels said. "It was in the name of the rock 'n' roll."
Along with the Kansas City area locations, Aerosmil filmed segments in St. Louis and will film scenes in Houston with popular video star Alicia Silverstone, who appeared in the band's videos "Cryin," "Amazing" and "Crazy."
"Blind Man" will be released as part of an Aerosmith greatest hits compilation. Callner said he thought the video would air near the end of this month.
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