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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 2, 1991
Museum exhibit gets facelift
Birds of prey exhibit renovated at Museum of Natural History
By Michael Graham Special to the Kansan
Behind the glass, a retailed hawk packs to catch a jack rabbit, while a mouse dangles from a barn owl's mouth.
Those are just two scenes in the Museum of Natural History's birds of prey exhibit, which has been renovated from window-sized displays to full-length, floor to ceiling ones.
"The window exhibits are unnatural," said Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits. "They are like being in a ditch. I want something that you are standing on the same plane with."
The museum plans to cut away the wall above and below two-thirds of the sixth-floor exhibit to create a full view.
Once completed, the full-sized displays will include birds, mammals, fish, snakes, and endangered species and amphibians.
The museum plans to divide the bird category into wetlands, grasslands and woodlands. Each of the sections will have a head-to-toe photograph showing life in every season.
Because some birds are only in Kansas for one season, they will be mounted in the section
that contains a picture of their habitat during that season, Swearingen said.
The museum is using black and white pictures for the backdrop so that the natural colors of the birds will stand out, he said.
"We are trying to put them in an interesting and educational manner, something that will tell students in cases." Swaringen said.
The museum also plans to add exhibits that show other animals in their natural habitats. One exhibit will show a winter hibernation scene in which a fox is sleeping under a brush pile above ground. A ground hog will be depicted hibernating below ground.
Swearingen, 55, has been exhibits director since 1978. He said that he believed museum exhibited needs to change to accommodate the desires of viewers.
"We need to have the philosophy that everybody should walk up and see everything in an exhibit at the first glance." Swearingen said. "I have the opinion that if people have to work and hunt for things it is more interesting and more fun for them."
The struggle for survival is now shown in large-as-life settings.
Gunfire continues in Haiti; ousted leader warns of further bloodshed
The Associated Press
PORT-AU8PRINCE, Haiti — Gunfire reverberated throughout the Haitian capital yesterday, a day after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in a coup. The impassioned appeals from exile to his country, warning of an impending blood bath.
The military imposed a 6 p.m. to 6a. m. curfew, announcing it over one of four operating radio stations in the capital. The capital's busiest downtown area was nearly deserted.
Small groups huddled in the streets, talking. Occasionally, some would scamper out to rebuild barricades of burning tires in protest of Monday's coup led by Brig. Gen. Raoul Cedras, who had been Aristide's interim army commander.
Aristide, the first democratically elected president in Haiti's nearly two centuries as a nation, was with his family yesterday in Caracas, Venezuela, en route to France.
The death toll from the uprising, staged by
rebel soldiers opposing Ariels' sidefist policemen.
The Caribbean Human Rights Network, based in Barbados, said preliminary counts indicated more than 100 people died. Frantz LAmothe, a photographer who visited the malaria morgue in central Port-au-Prince, said additional reports reported 42 bodies at that facility alone.
"The military is in full control," Lamothe said. "They are driving all over town, 15 to 20 in pickup trucks."
Richard Morse, manager of the oratee Olafsson, Hotel on a hill overlooking the Port-
au-Prince harbor, said, "Most of the shooting today is in the air. Yesterday, they were shooting at people."
U. S. tourists staying at the hotel, the setting for Graham Greene's famous Haitian novel "The Comedians," said they feared for their lives.
Cathy Zimmerman, 30, of Berkeley, Calif., said she arrived Saturday for what she hoped would be a unique two-week vacation with her companion, Brad Adams.
"Just now there was a shot very close to where we are," she said, her voice trembling in a telephone interview "The military is shooting at them." She at the attack at. They just shoot to scare people.
She said she and her companion were wanting to get on the first plane out of Haiti.
The international airport has been closed since Monday afternoon, when rebel soldiers
Aristide, 38, was a parish priest who mobilized Haitians to vote him the country's first freely elected president since the former president gained independence from France in 1904.
Yesterday, in a message to the Haitian people, the exiled president accused Cedrus of mounting the coup and warned of worse ahead.
"They have a very long list of people they plan to kill still," Arisdike said in a statement dictated to the Haitian Embassy in Washington. "They know everything possible to stop people from dying."
it's Gen. Raoul Cedras who mounted this coup. He started killing everyone they're going to kill.
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