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University Daily Kansan
Cobb efficient but affable
By JAMES EISELE
Korean Staff Reporter
If there is a good-guy club—a place where men of good humor gather once a year to smoke cigars and joke about politics, then there is a liberal liberal Arts and Sciences, should belong.
Cobb is one of those rare people who works hard to achieve his objectives, and at the same time he maintains his sense of humor.
There is the time he was discussing the length of term papers with Gerhard Zuther, acting chairman of the English department. He also met and conversed with a fellow University of Michigan graduate
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student who wrote an 80-page term paper.
When the student got his paper back, there wasn't a single mark anywhere but at the bottom of the page. Read you: You used the colon well -B+us.
"I know he has a very good sense of humor." Zuther said. "He's soft spoken and has a rather subdued delivery. He's a very艰责 reacteur.
"He used to be my first office mate 17 years ago in 1988 when I first came here. He'd just been here a year. We became close. He's very patient. He's extremely patient and considerate."
Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was one of Cobb's childhood friends in Salina.
"He was just enough older to be like a hero figure," Lewis said, referring to Carrie.
Lewis said Cobb was selected as outstanding boy of Salina—an award given by high school officials to the all-round outstanding person in each graduating class. Cobb was accomplished at sports as well as academics. Lewis said.
"He's an all-night good-natured guy. He's always been respected by his colleagues and friends."
Summing up his 12 years of professional experiences with Cobb. Colew said:
"He's done a little of everything we do in the College office. I was very pleased, as were all my colleagues, that he was chosen to be dean."
Cobb isn't resting on this vote of confidence. He said he wanted to maintain a high level of morale and inspiration within the department.
When he finds the time, Cobb enjoys fishing, back packing, golf and playing an out of practice flute, but he devotes most of his time to administrative duties, he said.
He was born in Arkansas and spent most of his youth in Salina. He completed his Ph.D. in English from the University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan. He taught at Baylor University for two years before receiving a degree to be an assistant professor of English.
Cobb said he wasn't worried about falling into the administrative stereotype of being a victim. "I think I was really wrong."
"But in any bureaucracy," he said, "one runs a constant danger that people may feel that the bureaucracy is unconcerned and might be working against them."
Cobb said there was nothing very personal built into the Lincoln-Mercury assembly line he worked on one summer in Wayne, Michigan.
"Sometimes people are intimidated by an enterprise of great size," Cobb said. "Institutions this size must guard against being unconcerned about the welfare of individuals, an institution demands total involvement in the institution will eventually die."
Optimistic, patient and empathetic, Cobb is taking his new job in stride. He is by all appearances a good guy who defies the maxim that says nice guys never win.
"I'd like this to be the best university that can students, faculty, and administration can build."
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Editorial satirical
To the Kansan editor:
I started to object to object Penner Fens's comments on "Monty Python's Flying Curcus" but after reading her statement that "Monty Python" was so horid and lewd that she watched every show, I commented that the whole article was a satire on prudishness.
Paul Bylaska Lawrence junior
Bike crash data scarce
By KEN STONE
Almost everyone who has ever ridden an accident is now accused in which he was involved.
But it's hard to determine the exact number of bicycle accidents in Lawrence each year because few people keep count and results very.
The Lawrence Police Department can say how many bicycle accidents involving cars occur each year. The local hospitals can give a rough estimate of emergency entrances each week. And a buke mechanic will examine rims and forks he sees within a month.
But the number of bike accidents in Lincroft this year is an indeterminant reality.
Miguel Garcia, head of the Lawrence Police Department's traffic bureau, said yesterday that most bike collisions with drivers of riders and drivers to obey, traffic laws.
He said he was surprised that no more than 25 or 30 Lawrence bicyclists were reported as having accidents with cars each year.
"We're lucky we don't have more, the people drive and disregard basic driving rules."
From 1970 through 1974 120 bile accidents involving cars were reported, according to police records. Thus far in 1975, 14 bile accidents of this nature have occurred. The year with the most accidents was 1974, with and the year with the least was 1973, with 20.
Many bike accidents don't involve car crashes.
Peggy Reed, head nurse at Lawrence Memorial Hospital's emergency room, said the hospital received two or three bikers a day, injured in accidents not involving cars.
"Most accidents involve injuries to the extremities; acessions, abrasions or cuts."
That statistic would increase the number of bike injuries recorded to more than 100 a year. However, that isn't a true estimate of the number of bike accidents.
Although police records indicate that the number of bicycle accidents has been
The most injury prone age group is children between the ages of 9 and 13, Reed said. One fatality has occurred this year. A car accident when he rode his tricycle into a car's path.
But most bicycle accidents involving children are much less severe.
constant in the past few years, Wes Jackson, a bike mechanic at Gran Sport, said he thought there had been a definite increase in the number of bike accidents during the four years he had worked at Gran Sport.
Repair work on bike rims and forks,
one indicator of a bike's being involved in a
safety issue.
"People are becoming aware of the value of their bikes," he said. "When people become aware of their bike as a piece of equipment, they toy, they'll take better care of their bike."
aware of everything around him at all times, he said.
He said this was why people have been bringing their bikes in for repairs.
The kind of bicycle helps determine the number of accidents, Jackson said.
To avoid accidents, a bicyclist must be
Ten-speed, racing style bikes with hand brakes that are easy to grasp and control, are usually as safe as other kinds of bicycles. Jackson said.
The common Stingray bicycle, a small,
durable device, encourages children to ride numerous
As modern technology advances, more and more people are becoming concerned about the delicate balance between the need to develop and the need to preserve natural resources.
"It's designed and sold as a piece of equipment that is supposed to be abused, but that's not what it's meant to do."
But the most dangerous thing about the kids that operate them, Jackson said, is
Although it may seem that bird watchers and birth controllers have little in common, these organizations share many goals and objectives.
All of the organizations have pledged support to one another. The walls of the Jayhawk Audubon Society headquarters in the reading room of Dyce Hall are filled with photographs of birds and wildlife, but with Zoo Population Growth stickers as well
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The organizations work cooperatively on several projects. They put out a joint newsletter six times a year and have con- tinued sending it to the Douglas County Fair each summer.
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Zero Population Growth is an organizational member of the DCEIC and the two organizations often work hand-in-hand on conservation projects.
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According to a pamphlet, the purpose of the Jayhawk Audubon Society is to promote the conservation of wildlife and the natural environment by providing a relationship to the environment.
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Jayhawk Audubon publicity chairman Kerren Albendr, Lawrence senior, said yesterday that the group supported local environmental preservation projects; the group also sponsored such as the channelization of Mud Creek by the Army Corps of Engineers, he said.
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Jayhawk Aukubu activities include field trips, bird watching, lectures and films,
He said the local chapter, founded in 1970, named him the president. The president is Jeffrey Cox, Wichita, Ksia.
Although the Lawrence chapter of Zero Population Growth is still in existence, it is less active than it has been in the past. Mr. Robinson, who joined Robinson, Lawrence graduate student.
Robinson said the chapter had been active from 1969 to 1971 and had gotten Paul Ehrlich, author of 'The Population Bomb' and 'Population, Resources, Environment':
Issues in Human Ecology," to speak in Lawrence.
The number of active student members decreased sharply, however, when student dues were raised to $8 a year, according to Robinson.
He said that at last count, there were 260-300 members, but they were from all parts of northeastern Kansas, so general meetings were infrequent.
Robinson said that, in general, his organization supported the stand of the National Board of Directors of Zero Population Growth.
The Board favors the right to safe and legal abortion, the elimination of illegal immigration, the perfection and increased availability of birth control methods and the development of U.S. growth, land use and population distribution policies.
The board encourages publicizing the consequences of population growth, advocating small or childless families, promoting understanding of U.S. resource consumption and promoting equal rights and job opportunities for both sexes.
The Sierra Club is another active Lawrence environmentalist group.
A Sierra Club spokesman, Tom Snyer, Lawrence graduate student, said his organization was involved in several local activities, including mapping and blazing trails for the proposed Riverfront Park and sponsoring an outdoor conference, complete with bluegrass music, to support the proposed Prairie National Park.
Snyder said the local chapter had about 70 members.
A recent Sierra Club newsletter announced the group's support of the People's Energy Project in the fight against the nuclear power plant at Burlington.
The Council is divided into four committees, according to Robert Umholtz, associate professor of mechanical engineering, a DCEI member.
The Douglas County Environmental Improvement Council (DCEIC) is a broad, multistrict group concerned with the environmental assets in Douglas County.
KU to show fossil find
The bones of old—very old, very old—de-
veloped over time, coming to the
Natural History Museum.
a stratified history of animal life since the latter years of the most recent ice age.
The curator of the museum, Robert Hoffman, has visited the discovery site of the fossils, which are 13,000 years old, and helped in scheduling their exhibition.
The sinkhole was 20 feet in diameter and about 80 feet deep, he said. The animals that entered the sinkhole were wild.
Hoffmann said the specimens had been found in a sinkhole cave, 35 miles northeast of Lovell, Wyo., in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains.
Sinkholes are created when the roof of a cave collapses, leaving a cylindrical pit.
The chief organizer and scientist of the expedition was B. Milne, from the University of Columbia.
Gilbert, Robert Patterson, a vertebrate
cologist in the museum, and several other
practitioners.
The group had had trouble excavating and identifying the fossils they had found and had requested that a second group be involved. A museum administrator assistant at the museum said
A second group of about five KU instu-
tors and graduate students in palestine
in paleolithic age left July.
Spencer readied for records
"We'll probably start bring them over to end up on our backs, Griffin, paragon," she said, gesturing.
The staff of Spencer Research Library is rearranging its stacks for the transfer of a collection of old county documents from Douglas County Courthouse.
Griffin had requested that the records be moved from the courthouse attic to the controlled atmosphere of Spencer Library to preserve them better. A legal agreement authorizing the transfer was drawn up between the county and the University.
The records, which include tax rolls, criminal trial dockets, records of indictment, district court journals, civil appearance documents, real estate mortgages, county commissioners' journals and indexes to deeds, date from 1858 to 1939.
Griffin said the staff had inspected the collection and expected to clean and dispose of it.
He said the records should be read for public use in the two weeks after they are used. Spend some time with them.
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