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University Daily Kansan/Friday, October 18, 1991
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KU and Lawrence police prepare for busy homecoming
Festivities could cause traffic congestion
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
Lawrence and KU police are prepar ing for a hectic homecoming weekend
This year's homecoming coincides with Parents' Day and high school seniors day. Late Night with Roy Williams also will be at 9 tonight in Allen Field House.
The street will be closed from the Chi Omega Fountain to 13th Street.
Buses will wait at the residence halls near 15th Street and Eagle Road and in parking lot 91 next to Spencer Art Museum to access Jayhawk Boulevard quickly when the parade is finished, he said.
A12:15 p.m. today, the Homecoming parade on Jayhawk Boulevard will kick off this weekend's festivities. The event begins at 10 a.m., homecoming in eight years.
The KU police bike patrol, McGriff, the crime-fighting dog and police crash-titles dummies also are slated to be taken homecoming parade, KU police士
KU police representative Lt. John Mullens said that between 2:15 and 2:45 p.m today, Jayhawk Boulevard will be closed to all traffic.
Last night, KU police and Morrill conducted safety inspections of the 13 homecoming floats scheduled for today's parade.
Sure Morrell, homecoming committee chairperson and manager of Student Union programs, said that in the past, the parade had been downtown Lawrence because of noise complaints on campus.
About 40,000 people are expected to attend the football game tomorrow, said Scott McMichael, assistant coach of the Kansas City team and sigdary Kasas Ahelet Corargorip
KU police are expecting heavy traffic congestion around Memorial Stadium tomorrow.
They will have uniformed and plain-clothed officers in and around the stadium during the game. Mullens said
The officers are there for public safety, he said. They will watch for medical emergencies, fights and peacocks in the alcohol in the stadium, which is illegal.
About eight Lawrence police officers will be on standby at the stadium in case KU police need assistance, said Michael Reeves of the Lawrence police.
Most game-day problems for the Lawrence police occur after the game and are caused by people who are drinking, he said.
After the game, Lawrence police will watch particularly the area around Ohio and 14th streets, Reeves said.
Officers will ticket people who are seen taking alcohol into the street, he said.
Reeves said police may conduct bar checks tonight and tomorrow and patrol the Oread neighborhood for loud or unruly parties.
*Bar checks are highly likely, especially on game weekends.* he said.
Sgt. Mark Warren of Lawrence police said drunken-driver check lanes also may be set up this weekend on certain streets.
Streets where police may have checkpoints this weekend are the southbound lane of the Kansas River bridge, the 1200 block of Massachusetts Street, the 2100 block of Massachusetts streets, the 6th and Mississippi streets, the 1800 and 1900 blocks of Haskell Avenue and the 1400 block of Wakarua Drive and Clinton Parkway.
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Parade encourages participation
Vehicles, billboards to be included in annual homecoming event this afternoon
By Svala Jonsdottin Special to the Kansan
Billboards, beauty pageant winners, African costumes and decorated trucks are some of the sights that will appear on Jayhawk Boulevard this summer.
"The whole point of bringing the parade back to campus was to involve students more," Morrell said. "What we tried to do is to create a smaller category for those groups who didn't have money to make the traditional floats."
This year's homecoming parade will feature three new categories in addition to the traditional floats and marching bands.
For the first time, decorated vehicles, billboards and non-musical marching groups will compete for awards and the crowd's attention.
Ten vehicles, ranging from convertibles to trucks, will be in the parade, which will start at 2:20 p.m. at the Chi Omega fountain. Among the entries are a Red Cross bus, a pickup decorated in an Octoberfest theme and a wrecked car towed by a salvage truck to promote alcohol awareness.
Sue Murrell, chairperson for the Homecoming committee, said the new categories were created to enable students to participate in the parade.
Voice, a student organization for peace and justice, has a decorated farm truck in the competition. The truck will carry a 7-foot long replica of a missile and signs that protest military spending.
"It is meant to be humorous and at the same time make people think," said Scott MacWilliams, Voice member.
MacWilliams said the organization would not have been able to make a traditional float because of the cost and time involved.
Deltasigma Phi the business fraternity, and the Student Alumni Association are the only two groups to enter billboards.
Morrell said the committee did not have enough time to promote new categories. Thus, fewer groups entered the competition.
The Student Alumni Association's billboard features the six historical Jayhawks and this year's homecomings. Keeps on Going, and Going, and
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Jodi Breckenridge, adviser to the association, said that the billboard was something the group could afford.
"We are not like a fraternity or a sorority. We don't have a front yard where we can leave a float for a week while we are making it." Breckenridge said.
Two groups will march in the parade.
All three ROTC divisions will have uniformed color guards, and the Black Student Union will march under African flags.
The African-American students will dress in what they feel "expresses the Black experience," said Tiffany Hurt, a member of the BSU.
Environmental panel will let students 'adopt' recycling bins
By Blaine Kimrey Kansan staff writer
Senate's brainchild is up for adoption.
The task force will have adoption tables set up at the Union and on Wesco Beach starting Oct. 28.
As part of Recycling Awareness Week, the Recycling Task Force and the Senate Environmental Awareness Subcommittee will sponsor a program to put aluminum recycling boxes up for adoption.
Anyone can "adopt" an aluminum recycling box for about $4. The cost will pay for the box and a sticker dislikes the "foster parent" s' name on the box.
The boxes will be placed in various campus buildings. The task force wants at least 300 people to adopt boxes.
Liz Smith, chairperson of the task force, said the adoption program served as a compromise between environmental ambassador's office.
Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping for facilities operations, said Tuesday that he supported the idea of private businesses paying for the boxes because he did not want students to pay for them indirectly
through a Student Senate allocation.
On the other hand, Sue Ask, associate environmental ambudsman, said that having private businesses pay for the boxes would create an undesirable University obligation to the businesses.
Smith said, "The reason why this is a compromise is you're not making students pay for the boxes, and at the University we're outside the University for financing."
However, Paul Bajaj, co-chairperson of the Senate Environmental Awareness Subcommittee, said the subcommittee would work with Ask to get her approval of private business financing.
Nevertheless, the adopt-a-box program could solve the immediate problem of buying boxes, Smith said.
"It will also give us some information about what we need to be doing," she said.
Part of the adoption process will, include filling out a questionnaire. It will ask "foster parents" how much they recycle and in what ways the University could improve its recycling programs.
The adopt-a-box program will last for a month, starting the first day of Recycling Awareness Week.
During the week, the Recycling
Benefits of recycling aluminum
These figures show the percent decrease in negative yields when aluminum derived from recycling aluminum instead of mining it.
Energy use- 97% less
Air pollution- 97% less
Water pollution- 37% less
Water Use- 97% less
Task Force also will sponsor information tables featuring guests from the recycling industry.
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Source. Patricia Marvin, Waste Reduction and Recycling Coordinator for the City of Lawrence.
Smith said the task force would try to pique students' interest during the month in which people try to guess the number of cans or newspapers in a barrel.
Board promotes minority discussions
By Andy Taylor
Special to the Kansan
The KU administration and minority students need to meet to discuss the importance of multi-cultural issues, members of the Minority Affairs Advisory Board said at a meeting last night.
"The student organizations on the board have asked for advocacy, increased services, recruitment and retention of minority students," said Sherwood Thompson, director of the office of minority affairs.
"What has been missing is this type of forum where students, executives from Haskell (Indian Junior College) and KU, deans of departments and community leaders can articulate the urgency of minority issues in the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
The goals and recommendations of student organizations need to be heard by the administration, he said.
Thompson added that though the administration had made efforts in the last decade to solve minority issues, it came time to correct the current situations.
The board consists of civic leaders from Lawrence, presidents of various campus organizations, members of Student Senate, KU' faculty and leaders from Haskell.
"The biggest thing a minority student has to have is a person who understands and cares about the student."
Robyn Smoot
President of Minority Business
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Robyn Smoot, president of the Minority Business Student Council, said the University needed to create work to retain minority students.
"the biggest thing a minority student has to have is a person who understands and cares about the student," said Smoot, East SL Louis.
Ill., senior. "I think if the University were to make an office like this, it would have a better chance of retaining minorities."
Though campus groups have written reports about campus minority problems, they need to see action, some members said.
Rod Bremley, Lawrence assistant city manager, said, "There are a lot of groups studying this issue, but there have been reports since 1982, 1980 and even before that time."
Another of the advisory board's concerns is the relationship between Haskell and the University of Kansas.
"I'm optimistic in our relationship improving," said Bob Martin, Haskell president and an advisory board member. "We have created an institutionalized task force between KU and Haskell which establishes priorities between campuses."
The task force, which will meet later this month, is considering creating an exchange program between KU and Haskell faculty members and wants greater student involvement between the institutions, he said.