UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 1, 1995
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Hunger banquet hopes to give the taste of starvation
By Ian Ritter Kansan staff writei
Cats in the United States eat better than children in developing countries, said Jennifer Ford, co-director of the Center for Community Outreach.
The following represents the breakdown of typical meals eaten around the world.
Food for all
The Center For Community Outreach, a Student Senate affiliated student organization, is hosting a hunger banquet at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Fellowship Room of the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., to show the poor distribution of food in the world.
Tickets are $4 for students and $7 for nonstudents and are still available at the center's office at the Organizations and Activities Center in the Kansas Union
Krista McGlohon/KANSAN
Sixty percent of the people served will eat beans and rice with water, 20 percent will eat rice with water and 20 percent will be served more extravagant meals donated by local restaurants, including Dos Hombres, Tin Pan Alley, Uptown Bagel and Herbivores.
"It's an awareness raiser of the improper food distribution in the world," said Kisa Wheaton, co-director of the center. "And it's also a fund raiser for the alternative spring break program."
This year's alternative spring break will be a trip sponsored by the center to El Paso, Texas, to perform community service.
Ford said that the banquet would finance most of the trip with the exception of a few meals on the way to El Paso.
"The whole idea of the alternative spring break is to
do community service instead of getting drunk and lying on the beach." Wheaton said.
Students preparing for the alternative spring break are taking a one-credit class that meets once a week to prepare for the trip. The class is called "Special Projects in the Community" and is offered through the department of Human Development and Family Life.
Clay Goser, Lawrence senior and a member of the center, said that more than enough food should be provided for the event.
"We'll try not to do a whole lot of cooking," he said.
"I'll just be the task of warming it on our part."
Wheaton said that in the end, everyone will eat well.
"Everybody will get their fill in the end, but they're going to suffer a little bit first," she said.
By Paul Todd
Stoplight myths get red signal from city engineer
Kansan staff writer
Jacy Farrell, Overland Park junior, hates driving on 23rd Street. She spends too much time on the brake and not enough time on the gas.
"There's a lot of stoplights and signs," she said. "It's very distracting, and it's so busy."
Farrell is one of many KU students who are unclear about some of the myths surrounding stoplight operation.
"I heard that if you go the speed limit and make the first light, then you'll make all the lights on 23rd," she said.
Myth No.1 is wrong.
David Woosley, city traffic engineer, said the city does not set the stoplights on 23rd Street so motorists can cruise down the street without stopping.
Woosley said that coordinating the signals on 23rd Street to be green all at once would not necessarily be beneficial because the large number of entrances and exits to the street cause an uneven flow.
"There is no coordination between the signals," he said. "Each intersection is isolated."
Some students think their cars have the power to change red lights to green.
"You flash your brights," said Cary Bresloff, Buffalo Grove, junior. "It works if the light has that little
The little thing on top is not for cars, though.
thing on top."
cabs, though. Ambulances and fire trucks have sophisticated strobe lights on them that signal sensors at the top of traffic signals to give a green light during emergency runs, Woosley said.
"Unless you can flash your lights at the specific frequency that the
flashing lights is not going to do it for you," he said. Woesley said that most stoplights in Lawrence do, however, have cables in the ground that send messages to the stoplight controls when they are run over by cars
He said the cables in the ground near the
"Twenty-third and Naismith," said Kevin Conard, Lenexa junior.
The reason for that and other long waits is that signals on streets with heavy traffic are timed to allow for a long traffic-flow through the intersection.
"We try for a balance by counting the number of cars during peak hours, then splitting it up percent-
crosswalk tell the light there is a car waiting and change the light from red to green to allow all the cars to go.
So what's the best stoplight in town for people who have lots of time to kill?
"it keeps adding on a few seconds for each car that hits it up to a set maximum amount of time," Woosley said.
Jacy Farrell
Overland Parkjunior
a ge- wise " Woosley said. He said that at 23rd and Louisiana, if 60 percent of the traffic during peak hours, usually between 4 and 6 p.m., was on 23rd, then 23rd would get 60 percent of the green light time. No matter what stoplight is busiest, the stoplights in Lawrence are all
in tune with a master plan.
Criteria established by the Public Highway Administration, including the number of accidents on a street, helps the city-works traffic engineers make the decision about where to put traffic signals in the first place.
"We haven't installed any because of accidents in the last two years," Woosley said.
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