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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 29, 1994
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The 4th in Lawrence
Downtown
The parade will begin at 10:00 a.m. and travel from 7th street to 13th street on Massachusetts street. All streets will be opened following the parade.
Activities in South Park will take place between 10:30 and 3:30. Concession stands will be available as well.
Music at the south park Gazeebo:
Excalibur (country and rock) 10:30
So What? (Jazz) 12:00
Az One (Reggae) 1:30
Activities are sponsored by the United Veterans Organizations of Douglas County
Daisy the Wonder Dog 1:00 to 2:30
Closings
Most campus buildings
Federal and State
buildings (except police and
hospitals)
Wescoe, Robinson and all libraries are closed on Monday only.
Liquor stores
Watkins will be open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Bones bare history's mysteries
Fireworks
- Sponsored by the Lawrence Jaycees
- Burcham park, (North of 6th street on Indiana) will open at 6:00 p.m. Fireworks will begin at dusk.
Concession stands will be available
KU professor discovers oldest bird's behaviors
By Lulsa Flores Special to the Kansan
Larry Martin sits in his office in the Natural History Museum surrounded by thousands of bones and books. He holds up and carefully examines several copies of bones that belong to the oldest fossil bird ever found: Archaeopteryx.
Martin, a paleontologist, recently constructed the world's first three-dimensional model of the Archaeopteryx's skeleton. His theories about the primitive creature's behavior have been a revolutionary contribution to the international scientific community.
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Martin squinted his eyes and examined the delicate skull. He had copied the bones from a London cast of the fossil and built the skeleton from it. When Archaeopterys the thighs fitted to its hip, Martin discovered that the bird had a more upright, bipedal posture than was thought previously. Martin said that the posture was like that of a tree-dwelling creature.
Martin said that the Archaeopteryx climbed and jumped from tree to tree. Its long tail helped it keep its balance during jumping and flying, he said.
But Martin's classes have been grounded in his own research, and his office has been the core of that work.
His bookshelves hold 15,000 books. Hundreds of black, cardboard boxes contain fossils, and Martin is the only one who knows their contents because
they have not been labeled. With just a quick glance, Martin could identify every bone that he has seen in his life. The yellow newspaper clips in an old scrapbook album show that he began his collection and academic pursuits during his childhood.
Research: Brian Whitburn / KANSAN
"He is the first one to take fossils and plot where they are found, across all North America, and to try to find out where were all the distinct communities." said T.J. Meehan, a graduate student in paleontology who has worked with Martin.
Larry Martin, professor of systematics and ecology, poses with his latest model of a archeoptryx, the world's oldest known bird. The model will be on display at the Natural History Museum in a couple of weeks.
After receiving a master's degree in geology at the University of Nebraska, Martin came
to Kansas and completed his Ph.D.
His interest has been cyclical climates in the past and their relationship to animal extinctions.
Martin said that the period we live in was the coldest the climate had been in 350 million years and that he was studying what forces caused the earth to cool. Fossils could provide the answer, he said.
"Fossils have the same relationship to biology that history has to political science," he said. "You
would be very skeptical of political scientists if there were not history. You would be very skeptical of biologists if there were not paleontology because paleontology is a history of how things got to be the way they are.
"Everything in the world today is the result of a series of historical events. If we don't understand those events, we don't understand the things in the modern world."
Officials attempt to throw the book at library thieves
By Michael Breen Special to the Kansan
The August 1993 issue of Vanity Fair, which featured suggestive, lesbian poses by country singer k.d. lang and model Cindy Crawford, was so provocative that someone ripped a page out of the copy in Watson Library.
Such destruction was just one example of the theft and damage of the library's materials, an ongoing problem which has inconvenienced natrons and cost the library time and money.
Twenty-one people were charged with stealing library materials and two were charged with criminal damage to library property during the 1993-94 school year, said Cindy Alliss of KU police.
The library's policy defining a theft from a failure to return checked-out materials centers
around Intent, said Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries. When the individual attempted to remove security measures, date-due slips and other marks identifying the material as library property or attempted to smuggle the material past security devices, it was considered theft, she said.
Hawkins said the theft problem was minor compared to such issues as material's natural deterioration.
magazines for reasons other than class work, said Lawrence senior Vickie Mann, who works at the periodicals desk at Watson. Many European titles such as Der Spiegel were at risk because they contained more nudity than most American magazines, she said. One notable exception was Playboy, which was so abused that it is only available in the more expensive and inconvenient microfilm form.
Exact monetary costs of these crimes have not been kept, and they have been spread throughout the library.
But the problem wasn't limited to magazines with nude pictures. Mann said a copy of the Kansas City Star, which the periodicals department had possessed for only three hours, lost its classified section to a job-hunting patron. And since so many people used it before the loss was reported, it was impossible to determine who the culprit was, she said.
Bill Noelay
Head of Watson Library reference department
"The good news is the book is still there. The bad news is the information isn't."
"But it is a continuing problem being addressed through existing systems and technology," she said.
All types of books and periodicals have been taken from the libraries, she said. The only pattern she has seen was that individuals thought stealing the material was more convenient than checking it out.
Neeley said some patrons ripped out pages instead of photocopying them. The crime often wasn't discovered until later when another patron needed the same information.
"Theft is not primarily cover-to-cover," said Bill Neeley, head of the reference department. "The good news is the book is still there," he said. "The bad news is the information isn't."
"They honestly believe they are the only ones looking at the topic," he said.
In addition to materials needed for research or articles assigned by professors, thieves targeted
However, one areadirectly affected was the Interlibrary Loan department. Patrons and library staff must request material that is no longer available due to theft or get copies of ripped out pages to be rebound into the material, said Carole Dibben, library assistant. Interlibrary Loan itself lost only two or three items a year, but it was possible that KU would get a
reputation for not returning materials and would be less likely to have their requests filled, she said.
For the patron, inconvenience and frustration were the main costs. These crimes have resulted in critical research material being unavailable to patrons with deadlines who cannot afford the unavoidable delays of Interlibrary Loan.
In many cases, replacing damaged or stolen materials was not as simple as reordering them. If a back issue of a periodical was not in stock, the library could get only aphotocopy of the lost material or be forced to purchase an entire set of microfilm, Mann said. Money spent on replacements was money not available for new materials.
The security alarm system at the main door and firm policies have been the main defenses against these crimes.
Finding focus
Martin Alstaedten/ KANSAN
Suzanne Collins, assistant to the dean of the school of education, takes a photo of Rita Norton and Jason Carter. Norton and Carter are from Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park and are participating in the Kansas Governor's Academy at KU.
Athletic director to return after accident
By Jamie Munn Kansan staff writer
KU's athletic director will soon be back in the game after a serious injury forced him to take some time out.
Bob Frederick may return to work today after his recovery from a bicycle accident June 18.
Frederick was released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital Friday after treatment for three cracked ribs, a punctured right lung and a broken right shoulder blade. He had been listed in fair condition in the hospital's intensive care unit last week.
Frederick said he was feeling better and had attended a luncheon at the Adams Alumni Center yesterday. It was his first trip back to campus since the accident.
Frederick was hospitalized after he hit some rocks and fell into a ditch during a bike ride back from Lone Star Lake. He had dragged himself up to the road.
He had been biking for two hours and was dehydrated before the wreck. Frederick was found and treated by a member of the Lawrence First Response team before an ambulance arrived.
Bob Frederick said his doctors had told him he could return to work as long as he
Margye Frederick, his wife, said that although her husband was still weak while walking around the house, she was glad that he had attended the lunch.
"He put on a coat and tie," she said. "He decided that that would make him feel like a normal human being."
"I'm glad to be back and grateful to be in one piece," he said.
Margey Frederick said the Bob Frederick had seen his surgeon Monday. Doctors had told him that his lung may take a month to heal while his cracked ribs and broken shoulder blade could take several months.
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