KU deals with pollutants
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Kansan Staff Writer
Key Kansas legislators, most of whom are members of the Ways and Means Committee, attended a symposium on pollution and ecology at KU Tuesday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
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Photo by Greg Sorber
The speakers on pollution and ecology were Robert Smith, director of the Water Resources Institute; Ross McKinney, professor of civil engineering; Kenneth Armitage, professor of biology; and Robert Aangeenbrug, director of the Center for Regional Studies.
Smith, an expert in water resources, said pollution is a problem all governments must face. The challenge of increasing population is to get maximum use of our natural resources. Smith said the people must have a common bond for environmental solutions. The state of Kansas is less polluted and crowded than most states.
After the symposium, the legislators were guests of the Endowment Association for dinner and the Athletic Association for Tuesday's Kansas - Nebraska game.
Smith also said that the University can contribute to solving Ecology problems. Pollution affects society as a whole, and if the University would work for reform much could be done to improve the present situation.
McKinney, an expert in the technology of pollution, said KU has done much research and has had much success in improving our environment. He said waste is a growing problem, and KU has a patent on a sewage treatment process which has enjoyed success.
With animal waste treatment, McKinney said he has created an oderless process of controlling the smell.
McKinney also said we need to find places to dispose of trash. He said that research must continue on pollution, which will take time, so people must be patient.
Armitage said that KU was doing its part in the pollution and
A specialist in the biological sciences, Armitage spoke about plant and animal life. The wide scope of biology includes the study of climate in relation to plants and animals, the relation of agriculture and pests, the effect of pesticides and the effects of flooding on fish. He also said the effect of urbanization on the environment should be studied further.
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Robert Aangeenbrug, director of the Center for Regional Studies, tacked up a simplified diagram which explained the relationship between ecology and government during a symposium on pollution and ecology for Kansas legislators of the Ways and Means committee Tuesday afternoon in the Kansas Union. He said the University should do research on pollution and educate the people on the problem.
ecology crisis. He cited the biology department for adding a new curriculum in environmental biology. He also said elementary teachers of the future should be taught the problems of man and environment in relation to human survival.
Aangeenbrug, director of the Center for Regional Studies, said the control of available living space is a major problem. He said
we must evaluate our current resources and decide how to best use them. He said that while Kansas is relatively spacious for its population and has basically clean air, that the polluted and densely populated world environment does effect Kansas. He said the minor pollution problems of Kansas can be managed if they are attacked now.
Aangeenbrug, said the consensus of the people must decide, through their elected representatives, on how to solve these problems. The problem must be defined and then solved. The people must decide where the problem exists and then what can be done to remedy it.
Aangeenbrug said the University should do two things: research on pollution and to educate the people on the problem. Politically, what is needed is vision, leadership, and unity to control the problem.
State Sen. Tom Van Sickle, R-Ft. Scott, one of the guests at the symposium, said the most serious pollution problems in Kansas were the sewage problems in the cities, industrial pollution and car exhaust pollution.
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