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NEWS / THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Robert Frost
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FACT OF THE DAY
Man is the only mammal that will ingly delays sleep.
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Congratulations, graduates! The University has about 7,000 candidates to degrees this spring. An estimated 245,000 Jayhaws have graduated from the University in its history.
STUDENT SENATE
Officers discuss summer agenda
After most students leave for the summer, Student Body President Michael Wade Smith, Vice President Megan Ritter and several members of the Student Senate Executive Committee will continue working on campus issues.
Smith said one of the first issues he had already started on was his graduate campaign platform to create a position on the executive staff for a graduate student. He said that he met with the Graduate & Professional Association and the Graduate Student Executive Committee and that he thought the platform could be completed during the summer.
form will also be addressed this summer. Smith said one of the coalition's specific goals was for Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to sign the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment.
KUnited's sustainability plat-
He said he wasn't sure whether it would happen this summer, but if it did, a formal signing ceremony would be in the fall.
"I think that could be something big and a statement we make publicly as senate and as a university," Smith said.
Smith said other issues he and the executive staff would be working on were the Wescoe Underground expansion and a more comprehensive plan for new senator training.
— Annie Vangsnes
CAMPUS
Tour explores KU architecture
"Over the years in my different French classes and humanity classes, I used campus as
part of my teaching," Johnson said. "They had a chance to talk about real works and real space, and the kids loved it."
Ted Johnson, a professor of French and humanities, will lead his annual Stop Day tour of campus, which he has conducted since the early 1990s. Johnson said campus offers wonders in art and architecture that some might overlook.
Johnson said the free walking tour was a way to experience how the campus interrelated with art and culture.
The tour will begin tomorrow at 9 a.m. in front of the Natural History Museum, located just to the south of the Kansas Union on Jayhawk Boulevard.
— Zach Getz
THE PLAN FOR THE TOUR IS AS FOLLOWS:
10 a.m.: Lippincott Hall
11 a.m.: Twente Hall
Noon: Watson Library
1 p.m.: The Crimson Café
in the Burge Union for lunch
2 p.m.: Green Hall
3 p.m.: Chi Omega
Fountain
4 p.m.: World War II Memorial Carillon and Campanile
5 p.m.: Arthur D. Weaver Court (next to Spooner Hall)
CLARIFICATION
Cinco de Mayo strikeout
The asterisks after names in the Graduation Guide denote a degree received since May 17, 2009.
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Andrew Vohs, a sophomore from Paola, swings at a pinata on the lawn of Stauffer-Flint Wednesday afternoon. The pinata was a promotion for a Cinco de Mavo event at the Granada.
LAWRENCE
Students to hand out local food brochure
BY JENNY TERRELL jterrell@kansan.com
Starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, KU Environs' local food committee will be in front of Checkers Food, 2300 Louisiana St., to test out a brochure designed to help customers locate local foods in grocery stores.
Kim Sherman, a sopphomore from Eudora, started the project about three months ago when she noticed how much local food Checkers stocks but doesn't promote.
Other stores in Lawrence already have local foods labeled and have noticed it made a difference in customers' product choice.
"I was really surprised and glad that they had these options," Sherman said.
She said the goal of the group was to introduce the community to local foods.
The brochure lists all of the local
foods Checkers offers and lists what aisle they can be found on. Sherman said she also created a label for Checkers to mark the local items.
The Community Mercantile, 901 Iowa St., began labeling the local foods about four years ago.
David Smith, communications coordinator at The Merc, said many of The Merc's customers were curious where their food came from and how far it traveled. He said labels helped customers identify local products.
Smith said that The Merc carried more than 600 local food items
and that last year more $2 million worth of local food was sold.
Hy-Vee also labels its local foods. Andrew Yochum, store director for the location at 3504 Clinton Parkway, said he began putting a sign up to mark the local foods from the Kansas City area to Manhattan three months ago. Yochum said he noticed people were more likely to buy a product when they knew it was local.
Bailey Olsen, a sophomore from Overland Park, said she tried to buy local food whenever possible. She began searching places for local food after reading Michael Pollan's book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat," in her "Introduction to Sociology"
class last spring.
Olsen said the book opened her eyes to how the food she was eating wasn't economically or environmentally sustainable.
"So I started looking for local foods, and in Lawrence, it's really great because they are really all over the place," Olsen said. "It's an important part of being a member of the community."
Mike Smith, manager of Checkers, said that he was excited about this project and that he was looking forward to Saturday's trial run of the brochure.
"I think it's a good avenue of advertising local growers and local merchants," Smith said.
— Edited by Kate Larrabee
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