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Friday, April 19, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Senate to begin recycling program
Staff will be hired to start, coordinate campuswide effort
By Scott MacWilliams
Kansan staff writer
Monday marks the 26th anniversary of Earth Day, and the University of Kansas still has no recycling plan for the entire campus.
But things could change after Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday calling for the University to create a comprehensive waste reduction and recycling plan for the campus.
The resolution takes the administration to task for failing to create a campuswide recycling plan. Five years earlier, the administration had promised to coordinate recycling efforts rather than having students initiate their own policy.
Mike Russell, director of the Environmental Health and Safety Office, said that a new environmental specialist position was being created.
"It will be a full-time professional staff position," Russell said. "If everything goes as planned, we'll advertise for applicants the end of April, and the position will start on July 1."
Russell said that the position eventually might include student interns,depending upon funding and that the position would coordinate recycling for the entire campus.
"I would guess that less than one-third of the paper on campus is recycled now," said Dianna Beebe, assistant director of housekeeping for facilities operations. "There is a
pending state contract for green bar and computer paper recycling though."
Newspapers can be recycled at the blue dumpster north of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said that approximately 72 tons of newsprint were recycled annually through the dumpster.
Ralph Gage, general manager of the Lawrence Journal-World, said that the University Daily Kansan alone used 197 tons of newsprint annually.
Newsprint from the campus goes to Central Fiber in Wellsville, where it is used to make various fiber products. But it is not recycled into paper.
"We make cellulose insulation, wet spray insulation, hydro seeding for the highway department and industrial fibers for asphalt mix," said Jim Herlin, general manager for Central Fiber.
"This Senate resolution is a step in the right direction," said Terry Huerter, Lake Quivira junior and KU Environers member. "It's important because the administration has basically said that recycling is not their business."
Huerta said that the University of Colorado in Boulder was one campus that he would consider as a role model for a campuswide recycling program.
Richardson also cited the Boulden campus as a good model for recycling.
"The difference there is that they have support for recycling from the top down," he said. "Another one is Notre Dame, where they have eight full-time recycling staff members."
ON CAMPUS
Community Support Services is sponsoring a support group for people with schizophrenia at 10:30 a.m. today at Vermont Towers Community Room, 1101 Vermont St.Call the CSS for more information.
The Office of Study Abroad is sponsoring an informational meeting on Summer 1996 in Rome at 10:30 a.m. today and tomorrow in 203 Lippincott. For more information call Elizabeth Debicki at 864-3742.
The Office of International Studies and Phi Beta Delta are sponsoring a world view lecture by Beverly Muck, professor of African and African-American studies, called Nigeria: Muslim Women's Activism in Nigeria, at noon today at the International Room in the Kansas Union. For more information call Hoggie Brick at 864-4141.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will celebrate mass at 12:30 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel. Call 843-0357 for more information.
Recovery Medicine Wheel Support Group will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at the Multicultural Resource Center. For more information call Samantha at 842-4797.
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road, will celebrate mass at 4:30 p.m. today at the center. Call 843-0357 for more information.
The German and French and Italian departments are sponsoring "Swiss Fest" at 7 tonight at the house of Ted Johnson, professor of French and Italian. Call Elizabeth at 864-4803 for more information and directions.
Lawrence Apple Users Group is sponsoring a swap meet at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the Lawrence Community Building, 11th and Vermont streets. For more information call Shawna Rosen at 749-2168.
There will be a live classical music concert at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 200 W. Ninth St. The event is free, but donations will be accepted.
■ KU Ki-Aikido will meet at 6 p.m. on tomorrow at 207 Robinson Center. Call Matt Stumpe at 864-6552 for more information.
■ KU Dance Club will meet at 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. Call Sonia Ratzell at 864-1581 for more information.
Train victim's identity known
Kansan staff report
Lawrence police think they may know the identity of the man killed Wednesday night by a train in North Lawrence.
Lawrence police Sgt. Susan Hadl said that police would release the name after family members had been notified.
Two railroad personnel told police that they saw the man step onto the tracks behind the Tanger Factory Outlet Center, 1035 North Third St., about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. The conductor's attempt to stop the train was unsuccessful, and the train hit and killed the man.
Hadl said police did not know why the man was on the tracks.
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Police warn students against celebrating in birthday suits
Kansas staff report
A 21-year-old KU student celebrated his birthday in the buff Wednesday evening by streaking across campus.
KU police spotted the man with three of his friends around 6:45 p.m., all running naked, south-bound in the 1500 block of Naismith Drive.
When the officer spotted the unclothed men, he flashed his lights, and the birthday-suited celebrator stopped. His three friends ran.
The officer explained the ramifications of running naked through campus and took the man back to his fraternity house in the 2000 block of Stewart Ave.
KU police officer Gayle Reece said that there was a difference between streaking and birthday pranks and that there was a difference in how each is prosecuted.
No charges will be filed against him or his three friends, KU police reported.
She said someone willfully exposing himself was different from someone being disrobed and hauled down to a fountain by a half dozen people.
"If we see them, we immediately make contact with them and tell them they need to get themselves covered up," Reece said.
Sgt. Chris Keary said that if somebody was caught naked as part of a birthday or initiation prank, then he usually wasn't charged with indecent exposure.
"We let them sit in the back of the car and try to drop them off as close to their door as possible," he said.