UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 5, 1994
Documentary to depict former KU professor
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
A documentary about a 19th-century Kansas explorer who was once a KU professor will premiere tonight on Topeka's channel 11, KTWU.
The documentary is about the life and times of Lewis Lindsay Dyche, for whom Dyche Hall is named. The show was directed and produced by Bill Shaffer of KTUW and will premiere at 7 tonight.
Shauner said that he got many of the ideas for the documentary from the book "The Dashing Kansan," which was written by William Sharp, Prairie Village graduate student, and Peggy Sullivan, Lawrence resident.
Shaffer produces a program called "The Sunflower Journey," which runs weekly on KTWU. The half-hour program contains three eight-minute segments profiling famous Kansans. But Shaffer decided to devote an entire program to profiling Dyche.
"Dyche is too interesting to squeeze every success of his life into eight minutes," Shaffer said. "So I decided to do a longer version, but I still don't think 30 minutes gives him justice."
The segment discusses the explorations of Dyche.
After Dyche joined the University of Kansas as a student he became a collector of mammals, birds and fish. He taught anatomy and physiology at KU in the 1800s. But his passion was with taxidermy, and he became a master taxidermist.
Shaffer said the documentary contained re-enactments of Dyche's explorations and voice narration.
Additional footage came from older documentaries about Dyche and interviews with Dyche's co-workers and friends, he said.
Peggy Sullivan, co-author of the book that inspired the documentary, said that she was inspired to write the book because she had a love for animals.
Sullivan moved from a farm in Texas to Lawrence in 1974. Because she missed the wildlife she left behind, she visited the panorama in the Natural History Museum, she said.
"I discovered the exhibit was mainly collected by one person," she said. "And I wanted to know all about him."
After Sullivan researched scrapbooks and slides about Dyche at the University Archives, she became determined to write a book about him and his life.
A year later, Sharp joined Sullivan on the project.
Sharp said that his goal was to let people know what Dyche left the University and the community.
"I wanted to join the project because Dyche was such an intriguing man," he said.
"He was both a legacy and a mystery," he said. "People knew about him, but there were a lot of unanswered questions about his life."
Sharp said that he wanted to fill in the gaps of Dyche's life.
Tom Swearingen, director of operations at KU's Natural History Museum, said that he wanted to see the documentary about the man who filled the museum.
He said Dyche's work was the reason the museum existed.
"In 1803, Dyche mounted mammals for the Kansas Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and it gave him national fame," he said. "The state legislature wanted a permanent home for the exhibit so they financed the museum."
Swearingen said that he wanted to see the documentary, but he thought the "Dashing Kansan" deserved more.
"I hope his story turns into a movie," he said. "Dyche was a colorful man with a full life."
COURTESY
Lewis Lindsay Dyche, an explorer and former KU professor for whom Dyche Hall was named, will be the subject of a documentary that will air tonight on KTWU, Channel 11.
Hemp could solve many problems, advocate says
Marijuana plant's many uses could help daily living, environment
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
With visual aids that included a hay-like bunch of hemp fiber and plastic green marijuana plants, Chris Conrad portrayed the marijuana plant as environmental and therapeutic mother's milk last night.
Conrad, an advocate of legalized marijuana, spoke to about 60 KU students and Lawrence residents at the Kansas Union. The talk was sponsored by the KU chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Conrad, founder of an organization called the Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp, told the audience that the cultivation, production and consumption of the marijuana plant should be legalized to prevent deforestation and the waste of fossil fuels.
Students should pay attention to the issue, Conrad said.
"Whatever your majors may be, somehow hemp is going to tie in," he said. "You have a stake in the restoration of hemp to society."
Conrad explained that among advocates of legal marijuana, the word "hemp" was preferred to the word "marijuana" because marijuana had a negative connotation. Also, hemp more accurately describes the entire plant, not just the smokable leaves, he said. "The word is somewhat misleading," he said. "We have to regain control of the language."
Conrad said the marijuana plant had a prominent role in world history as a source for paper, clothing fiber and recreation. He said George Washington wrote about a form of marijuana that yielded a particularly potent high when smoked.
"We've lost track of our place place in world history," he said, adding that human beings had survived for thousands of years before marijuana prohibition.
To prove his point about the environmental advantages of the marijana plant, Conrad held up a five-foot long marijuana plant stalk and a foot-long bunch of roots.
The roots, he said, can go as deep as seven feet and are long enough to prevent soil erosion. The fibers outside the stalk can yield three times more fiber per acre than cotton, he said. And unlike nylon, hemp fiber production does not require fossil fuels.
"Yield per acre isn't that great, but if you're in a pinch, you can do it," he said.
oil. Conrad said.
The marijuana plant can even produce its own
Conrad told the audience that in addition to its environmental benefits, marijuana made life a better experience.
Marijuana even has a revolutionary effect, Conrad said, because it scatters linear thinking and causes users to question why they should spend their lives working for someone else and not enjoying a beautiful day.
"It intensifies existence," he said. "You'll be eating chocolate cake and say, 'Hey, I can taste the chocolate and the butter and the frosting all at the same time."
After hearing that, one woman was moved to whisper to her friend. "Let's go smoke!"
Will Bruchmann, Barrington junior, said the talk was educational. "It was a nice counterview of what we seem to be inundated with."
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