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Wednesday, May 2, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Students offered information aid at KU Center for Public Affairs
By LOIS PRESS
Staff Reporter
The Center for Public Affairs, on the sixth floor of Blake Hall, provides information to students, government agencies, local officials and the community, Dennis J. Palumbo, director of the center, said recently.
For example, if a student wanted to know how effective the Lawrence Police Department was, he could find that information from public information, or in writing, and印记. Palmoa said.
Besides evaluating the performance of local agencies, he said, public service includes improving communications between city officials and providing consultation for
THE CENTER also has studies on the environment.
Palumbo said that if someone wanted to know what was the best site for a nuclear power plant or where there was a groundwater supply, he could find it out by looking in the information compiled on the environment.
However, he said, even though there is a variety of information offered, not many students come to the center to take advantage of the available data.
"More people need to be aware of the organization," he said.
Paula Wright, assistant director of the center agreed with Palumbo.
"We're open to any contact for assistance, but we can anticipate needs," she said.
Community needs are part of the job handled by Stephen Fawcett, assistant professor of human development, who heads the center's community development program.
FAWCETT WORKS at Penn House, which
is a branch of the center's community development program.
Penn House, 10th and Pennsylvania streets, assists adults in the community and gives particular attention to those with low incomes, he said.
Assistance may include learning how to handle a job interview or getting a job, he
Penn House also provides emergency food and clothing when necessary. Fawett said.
The staff at Penn House includes graduate students in Human Development and
Other students who work at the center are research assistants.
Janet Barber, Phoenix, Ariz., graduate student, said her job as a research assistant helped with college expenses and aided in developing her research skills.
Janet Price, a former research assistant who recently took a job with the government doing research, said that although she was paid for her work as an assistant, she had
worked to gain experience in research techniques.
The Center was formed in January as a merger of three KU agencies.
THIS PREVENTED the overlap of similar research. Palumbo said.
The center's staff includes people with a variety of expertise in areas such as sociology, economics and political science, he said.
Although the three agencies, the Institute for Economic and Business Research, the Institute for Social and Environmental Studies and the Institute for Public Affairs, no longer exist as separate agencies, the Institute will are employed by the University, he said.
The center's main function is to provide information to the community. Palumbo said, but he said he would welcome students use of the organization's resources.
The office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Police find woman's body
Lawrence police said the body of Cheryl L. Hefner, 29, 233 Arkansas St., was found in a room at the Travellodge Motel, 801 Iowa St., yesterday morning.
Alan Sanders, Douglas County deputy coroner, said autopsy reports were not completed last night.
Lawrence police yesterday said the body of Shaikh Ahmad, Lahore, Pakistan, graduate student, was found in his room vesterday afternoon.
The body was found by his roommate, Aamer Lateri, Lahore, Pakistan senior, who told police that Ahmad had complained of being tortured and killed at Watkins Memorial Hospital Monday.
Although an autopsy had not been performed last night, Carol Moddrell, Douglas County assistant coroner, said the death resulted to have resulted from natural causes.
Ahmad, 39, had been in the United States 10 years, and was working on a doctorate in political science at the University of Kansas.
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KANSAS JUNIOR COLLEGE
COURSE CREDITS GRADE
Fall 1976
English 101 3 A
Math 126 3 B
History 135 4 B
Speech 180 3 C
Phys. Ed. 111 2 B
Spring 1977
Biology 206 4 C
English 102 3
Poli. Sci. 156 3
Spanish 115 4
Fall 1977
Sociology 123
Business Admin. 275
Spanish 116
Psychology 211
Accounting 152
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Rollerskating fad offers exercise, new disco style
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Joggers beware- roller-skating has arrived in town and skaters are taking to the
Staff Reporter
KU students are being caught up in the latest California craze of rollerskating and are finding it is good exercise and a lot of fun.
"I go everywhere on skates," Tracy Warren, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said recently. "I go to classes and to the store on them."
Because rollerskating is a relatively new fat, Warren said, most people just laughed when they saw him skating and he wasn't on the streets as were many longers.
"A lot of shoppers downtown are scared to death and jump over to the nearest store window because they think we're out of control." Warren said.
ROLLERSKATING could be the heir to juggling as the No.1 boy,久 to keep
As far as promoting personal health, it is better than running, said Wayne Osness, professor of health, physical education and recreation.
"It's an excellent acerobic activity," Ouess said, and "there is no jirrion effect to it."
Warren said he was leery of running because he had heard about its harmful effects.
The skates that people are buying these days are a far cry from those of grade school days when skates were just pieces of metal that clamped onto shoes, and the skate key was always worn on a string around the skater's neck.
Jogger skates are very much in demand,
according to Dolores Werner, office manager at First Server, 212D-W 28th St., a tennis and ski shop. The skates, priced at one or low-cut tennis shoes mounted on wheels.
ROLLERSKATE manufacturers have learned a lot from making skateboards, Warren said. The new wheels are an improvement over old-fashioned metal wheels because they are about two and one-half inches made and made of a soft synthetic material.
"It makes it difficult to fall down," warren said, "and you can go through mud and stones."
Some Lawrence shoe stores are selling a novelty type of skate called Pop Wheels. The wheels are made of rubber and retractable wheels for those who don't care to roll everywhere. The wheels are smaller than regular rollerskates wheels. Howard Plenett, manager of McCall's Shoes, 829
PLEENERT he ordered the skates for the Christmas sales, but they were still selling.
Passing rollerskating off as just another dad, some merchants said they probably would not stock any skates. A limited market for skates and the cost, from $30 to $100, doesn't make it worthwhile, a big reason Shoe Store, 813 Massachusetts St, said.
"It's a fad thing," a salesman at Royal College Shop 837 Massachusetts St., said, "If people are really into it they can buy a good pair at a sporting goods store."
But rollerskating rink owners said rollerskating in back to stay and they are "ready."
A NEW skating rink south of town, Wheels of Fun, will have one of the most elaborate
disco sound systems in *Lawrence*, Jim Evans, one of its owners, said. The rink, which also will have disco lighting and will require patrons to follow a casual dress code, is being improved with no ragged clothing will be allowed. Bill Probst, the other owner of the rink, said.
"Disco skating rinks are the big thing now," Protak said. "In about five years the city will have them."
Probst said a study they had conducted showed that Lawrence was a great potential teacher.
Gary Smith, manager of the Lawrence
State Center, 1003 E. 25. St., he said he had
been "very happy" with the program.
"A lot more college kids are coming in to
acol. Smith said, 'rather, than the
school system.'"
SMITH SAID the rink played Top 40 hits, disco music and country and western.
Warren said that he never went to the skating rink and that he preferred to skate outdoors. Skaters should watch out for large objects stuck up in the wheels, and hepoles, he said.
Also rollerskaters should avoid brick walls because they are totally impossible to walk on.
"I have this fantasy about skaters going out and skating in packs," he said. "We'd love to be in the middle of it."
Rollerskaters should be aware of a city ordinance that prohibits rollerskating on streets in Lawrence. Warren said that last summer he and a friend were pulled over by a Lawrence police officer for skating on the street.
"I thought it was hysterical," Warren said. "He turned on his siren and everything. He even put us up against the car and checked our identification."
Vintage bugs collected in Snow
Some of the oldest bugs in Kansas "live" in Snow Hall.
"We're just old as old as the University," said Beyer, who also is professor of entomology and insect ecology at UC Davis.
The bugs are dead, though, pinned and mounted in glass cases and filed in metal cabinets on the third floor of Snow in the Museum of Entomology.
The bug collection, which has more than 2.5 million specimens, was started in the mid-1800s by one of KU's first professors and its fifth chancellor, Frances Huntington Snow, according to George Byers, the museum's curator.
SNOW, ONE of the first three professors to teach at the University, donated his private bug collection to KU in 1870, and it became the ontology museum.
Parts of the collection are actually older than the University, Byers said, because Snow started the collection as a hobby in the 1860s. He was then the University of Kansas was constructed in 1865.
By 1877, the insect collection had more than 40,000 specimens. In 1883, it had more than 100,000 specimens, mostly as a result of insect-gathering field trips that Snow sponsored throughout Kansas, Colorado and the Southwest.
In 1884, Snow proved the Board of Regents to request $50,000 from the Kansas Legislature for constructing a natural sciences building. The metal cabinets full of pinned bugs had become too numerous to be maintained in University Hall, which no longer exists.
Snow chose the site for the first natural sciences building, near where Watson
Library now stands. The building, named after Snow by the Regents, was completed.
BYERS, WHO became curator of the museum in 1956, said the collection had grown so fast, 20,000 to 30,000 specimens a day that he had not been able to keep up with it.
"Because of the extremely crowded conditions," he said, "we can't prepare and mount the thousands and thousands of uncataloged specimens we already have.
"We loan out about 40,000 specimens a year, but we can't keep track of each individual specimen. We have to loan them in out lots."
The bugs are loaned to other universities and to natural history museums for display.
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