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University Daily Kansan/Monday, November 4, 1991
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International cuisine flavors Lawrence
Jubie Denosha (KANSAN)
The group Las Cuatro performed Latin American folk songs at the Taste of Culture fund-raiser Saturday night.
Too many cooks sometimes do make a delicious broth.
By Susan Loyacono Special to the Kansan
Lawrence cooks representing more than 25 cultures prepared ethnic dishes for a gourmet buffet at the second annual Taste of Cultures on Saturday.
More than 250 people sampled dishes such as vegetgie sandwiches from Australia, Bul-Go-Gi (Korean barbecue) and Puerto Rican beans and rice at the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St.
Taste of Cultures was the second fund-raiser for the Celebration of Cultures Corp., a non-profit organization dedicated to the celebration of ethnic and cultural diversity in Douglas County. A larger festival is held each April on the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
The food was displayed in the church's basement in large glass tables, with huge metal pans on long tables where you can select spoonfuls of foreign cuisine.
Saturday's event and grants from
the Kansas City Arts Commission support the April festival, now in it's fourth year. Tickets ranged from $5 to $20 for taste of Culture.
Nancy Bjorge, president of the organization, said she expected the group to earn $2,000 from the event.
Chandra Russo and Paula Chrzanowski, Kansas City, Kan., freshmen, attended the event after heather asked it in their classology.
"This was probably the best-tasting thing on the whole table," Russo said, pointing to an oval-shaped, flaky paste stuffed with meat and vegetables. Her plate was piled high with a rice and lobster mixture and 1-inch square pieces of Hong Kong shrimp toast.
Nine-year-old Brady Flannery of Lawrence picked up a small, round, deep-fried morsel from his plate and said it tasted really good.
"But I don't know what it is," he said. His hae-kwon-do instructor suggested that he experience the multicultural event.
Flannery's grandmother, Dorothy
Flannery of Lawrence, sampled all the delicacies at the dessert table. Her favorites were the Egyptian Baklava (a nutty pastry) and a Venezuelan flan called quesillo. Brady preferred the "whipped cream stuff" and the juicy, bright orange hiananges.
Fatma Mohammed, a Lawrence resident of 10 years from Egypt, made three of items on the buffet; rice-stuffed zucchini, kushari (pasta, rice, lentils and onions in a tomato sauce) and cream of wheat (a mild sweet dessert made with wheat and coconut).
Entertainment for the afternoon included a performance by the Welsh Folkdance Society of greater Kansas City. The group square-danced to bounce fiddle and flute music.
New procedure to simplify travel for KU faculty
A small table at one end of the room was piled with memorabilia for sale from the Soviet Union. Margaret Menning, a Lawrence resident who used to live in the Soviet Union, explained the legend of the firebird who stole applies from the czar's tree, a scene depicted on a delicate hand-painted pin.
Committee requests streamlined process
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
Since Friday, it has become easier for KU employees to leave the state.
The office of the compromil has reduced the process for out-of-state travel requests from three to two Dana Goble, assistant compromil.
Goble said out-of-state travel requests used to come to the comptroller's office first before being sent to the chancellor for approval. The requests then were sent back to the comptroller's office.
But since Nov. 1, requests are sent directly to the chancellor's office before they come to the comptroller's office.
Ben Tillman, acting compriller, said the change had been recommended by the travel study committee, which was formed more than a year ago by former compriller John Patterson.
The committee members had talked to KU employees to find out whether they had complaints about the request forms and process. They recommended that the process be streamlined, Tillman said.
"It's just going to save us some time,"he said.
Tillman said his office also would have new payment forms as soon as the old forms were used.
The comptroller's office handled all requests by employees traveling on state money. The office does not handle expenditures that are financed through endowments or private funding, Goble said.
"Things our office does not handle are what is funded through endowment and other sources."
In fiscal 1991, out-of-state travel by KU officials, faculty and staff cost more than $1.5 million, according to cities from the controller's office.
But only one-fifth of that money came from state funds. About $1.2 million went to local projects.
money, mostly federal grants for research projects.
Goble said out-of-state travel included professional research seminars and meetings for national associations.
Another change in out-of-state-travel has been initiated by the Department of Administration in Topeka, which is working to increase the use of the governor's airplane, a Beech King Air, by state employees.
If three or more employees travel to the same out-of-state destination at the same time, they must use the executive aircraft if it is available and if its use is cheaper than chartering a commercial plane, said Pat Higgins, fiscal officer at the secretary of administration's office in Topeka.
But Mike Keeble, director of business affairs at the University of Chicago, said center said KU employees seldom use a non airplane for out-of-state travel.
"We use the University's airplane, private aircraft and the governor's airplane for in-state travel," Keeble said. "We use commercial aircraft, we usually use commercial aircraft."
he said faculty and staff members from the Med Care Center, $43,000 on loan.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said KU had three pilots and two airplanes, a Beech King and a Cessna 421 and a Cadma 423 for the Med Center.
He said that the twin-engine Beech King Air had room for at least five passengers and that KU representatives were there. The board of the Board of Regents in Pittsburgh
"I'm not aware that we take it very, very far," Nitcher said. "We basically in-state operations and occasionally for trips to Dallas or St. Louis."
He said they were used by many departments but mainly for in-state travel.
"That's a 30-minute flight instead of a two-and-a-half hour drive," Nitcher said.
Spreading the yuletide
Music drifted down Campanile Hill as a group of KU students and Lawrence residents got an early start on their Christmas carols. The group practiced yesterday afternoon at the Campanile to avoid the wind and cold.
Students look for clues to the dark side
Kansan staff writer
By Jennifer Bach Kansan staff writer
Hidden in the basement of Malott Hall, three KU undergraduate students' cosmology research has gone unnoticed by much of the University
"Most people would not consider it universally significant," said Kurt Dominik, Lawrence senior. "But it's a quest for knowledge."
"If you don't have any idea about 90 percent of the question, how can you find the answer?"
"It's a big stumbling point for everybody," said Dominik, who is majoring in physics, math and astronomy. "If
Butregardless of the lack of recognition, Dominik and two other students, Marian Shearan, Overland Park junior, and Todd Pellman, Leavenworth sophomore, have been diligently studying the universe, trying to learn about a mysterious substance known to scientists as dark matter.
But scientists cannot see 90 percent of dark matter in the universe because it does not radiate enough energy to be seen or detected.
Kurt Dominik Lawrence senior
you don't have any idea about 90 percent of the question, how can you find
"So far I've figured out that it's much more confusing than I thought it was."
For almost two years now, Dominik has been trying to find some answers.
In January of last year, Adrian Melott, associate professor of physics, told his cosmology class that the had an undergraduate research assistant.
Dominik applied and was hired by Melott in January 1990.
For years, Melott has studied models of the universe to determine how dark matter from 10 billion to 15 billion years ago moves and forms clumps.
Dominik and the two other undergraduates analyze Melott's simulations to determine what the early uni-
vial had to do to tally in the billions to 15 billion years ago, he said.
Since the start of his research Dominik has co-written two research
papers about the subject, one which has been published in Aestrophysical Journal, a leading scientific journal in the United States, he said.
Dominik said his second paper would be published in the same journal soon.
"Progress is made in small steps in this topic," he said. "I consider a published research paper a step."
Sergei Shandarin, professor of astronomy and physics, is helping direct the cosmology students with their research.
He said the students had made progress with their research.
"It's good for students to publish their papers in journals," he said.
However, the unanswered questions of dark matter will not be solved easily.
"It's a really difficult scientific problem," he said. "This is a problem that has been around for two decades, and it's not going to be solved by the end of the century."
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