A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2005
TUESDAY top10
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
TOP 10 QUIET
PLACES TO STUDY
10. Potter Lake
9. Fourth floor of Dole Human Development Center
8. Wilcox Museum in Lippincott Hall
4. Sixth floor of Kansas Union
5. Learning Resource Center (LRC) in JRP
7. Spahr Engineering Library
6. Lobby of Snow Hall
1. First floor of Kansas Union
2. First floor of Anchorage Library
2. First hour of Prentice Library
1. Watson Library stacks
Source: Kansan Survey
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Board of Education debates sex ed
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TOPEKA - State Board of Education members are debating whether students should have to bring a signed note from home before hearing about the birds and bees in public school classrooms.
Conservative board members have suggested that schools keep students out of sex education discussions unless a parent signs a form giving permission. Currently, most schools have students receive the information unless a parent objects.
The issue stems from the board's consideration of health curriculum standards, which cover sex education. The board planned to review proposed standards at 11 a.m. today, during its regular monthly meeting
Kelly Lothteros, Orlando, Fla., graduate student; Lamace, a Tanzanian guide, and Sandrine, a French climber, rest at the Uhuru peak of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, early in the summer of 2005. Lot terros and two Florida State University friends started the six-day climb, but only Lothteros made it all the way to the summit
The standards would be only recommendations to local school boards because the state doesn't test students on health, unlike reading, math or science. But board conservatives — who hold a 6-4 majority — want to encourage school boards to adopt their "opt-in" proposal on sex education.
But less conservative state board members contend there's no need to push for change, and question whether local boards would follow the state board's recommendation
ON THE BOULEVARD
"This is all built upon scare tactics to create the illusion that there is no trust between schools and parents — and to encourage that," said board member Sue Gamble, a Shawnee Republican.
Piqued by the African mountain
- The Associated Press
A suggestion then reality: climbing Kilimanjaro
BY FRANK TANKARD
flankard@kansan.com
KANSAST STAFF WRITE
At about 15,000 feet, things got tough.
All signs of animal and plant life disappeared, and she was left with the rain and the wind and her exhaustion.
Spring semester had just ended, and while most students were bathing in the summer sun, Kelly Lotterhoes was in Tanzania, battling Mount Kilimanjaro.
Lotterhos' journey from Mount Oread to the peak of highest mountain in Africa began two years ago the same way so many college endeavors are born; the crazy plan of a friend.
Lotterhos, a 23-year-old Orlando, Fla., graduate student, was a senior at Florida State University when one of her buddies, Jon Fry, got the idea to climb Kilimanjaro in his head. She had her doubts at first.
"I just kind of laughed and thought, 'That's crazy. That's halfway around the world. If you want to climb a mountain,
there's plenty of mountains here." she said.
But Lotterhos, Fry and another college buddy, Greg Pierce, decided to go for it. The idea lost some of its spontaneity in the process of scheduling a flight and booking a guide a year in advance.
Rain and tundra
It was May 24, a good day to climb a mountain.
Lotterhos had read Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "Green Hills of Africa." As a kid, she'd lived near Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
But Lotterhos had never done anything like this. Not that you have to be Sir Edmund Hillary — the first man to scale Mount Everest — to climb Kilimanjaro; local guides make money off the scores of non-professional climbers they guide successfully to the peak every year. The trail Lotterhos took was not a very technical hike. It's the altitude hikers have to worry about.
A French woman named Sandrine joined them, and the group began the six-day journey at 6.400 feet.
The first day in the green, warm forest was an easy ascent. The guides pointed out animals the hikers had only seen in zoos.
They trudged on, all lightheaded tired and cold, until reaching the peak There was a sign: "Congratulations, you are now at Uhuru Peak, Tanzania." There Lotterhos stood, 19,340 feet high, with her head throbbing.
The next day, Lotterhos and Sandrine tramped ahead as Fry and Pierce measured their pace, stopping regularly for Powerbars and water.
One of the guides, Lamace, kept repeating "polepole" (pronounced "polee polee") to the girls, the Swahili word for "slowly."
The third day, the group took a day hike to Zebra rock to help their bodies acclimate.
Resumed their ascent the next day, the climbers were soaked by cold rain, and exotic plants were replaced with scrubs and tall grass as rainforest morphed to tundra.
"No sign of any life. Not a bird, not an ant, not a blade of grass." Pierce said.
As Lotterhos passed Kilimanjaro's secondary peak, Mawenzi, Lamace told her of the climbers who had died there.
The guides said it would be dangerous to sleep long at that altitude.
They reached the last set of huts and caught a little sleep.
Final ascent
At 12:30 a.m. on the fifth day, in the dark, the guides, Pierce, Fry, Lotterhos and Sandrine started toward the peak.
Soon, Pierce's Florida blood wasn't getting enough oxygen, and a guide escorted him down. Then Fry, a swimmer for two years at Florida State, started to lean hard on his walking stick, afraid his knees would buckle, and he turned back.
"You just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other," she told herself.
Lotterhos dealt with her own exhaustion.
"Polepole," Lamace reassured, staying with her and Sandrine, the last of their party.
in altitude, and reached it as the sun rose.
They zigzagged their way up to Gilman's Point, 18,652 feet
Next stop: Uhuru. the peak
They trudged on, all lightheaded, tired and cold, until reaching the peak.
There was a sign: "Congratulations, you are now at Uhuru Peak, Tanzania." There Lotterhos stood, 19,340 feet high, with her head throbbing.
"By then, the altitude's really getting to you," she said.
Lotterhos and Sandrine headed down and met up with Pierce and Fry in one of the huts below. They spent the night on the mountain, then made a quick descent the next day.
"The guys weren't slowpokes anymore," Lotterhos said.
The three friends said goodbye to Sandrine, and finished their trip with a safari.
Lotterhos was soon off to her next endeavor: boot camp with the Army Reserves, which she joined in February.
"The climb was definitely a lot harder." she said.
Though she's no expert climber, she said she would like to climb Mount Everest next. But just to base camp.
"I don't think I want to tackle the whole mountain yet," she said.
- Edited by Theresa Montaño
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