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University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1987
Graduate senator 'cool' about ice research, soccer games
By LISA A. MALONEY
Soccer and sea ice
Those are two of Glenn Shirtliffe's main interests, when he isn't serving as a graduate senator in the Student Senate.
He's working on his geography
dissertation on sea ice, and this sum-
mer, he will work with a professional
in soccer team, the National
Capitals.
His duties will include helping to manage the team on road trips, but Shirtlite hopes to do some coaching on well.
"I'm going to fit in wherever I'm needed." Shirtliffe said.
Shirtlife, of Gloucester, Ontario, has been coaching collegiate soccer teams in both the United States and Canada since 1981. He said he became interested in the game because "soccer is just something you grow up with in Canada."
He played soccer and ice hockey while an undergraduate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, but had to give up playing because of several knee injuries.
He received his worst knee injury in a hockey game.
"The baby gorilla that really messed up my right knee is now playing in the National Hockey League for the Winnipeg Jets. But there are no hard feelings."
Shirliffe has had five knee operations, including one reconstructive operation and four arthroscopic operations, in which a 5-millimeter section of tendon was removed from the front of the knee and grafted to another part of the knee to serve as a
ligament
He has had arthroscopies performed three times on his right knee and once on his left.
It was also at Carleton that he became interested in geography. Originally, Shirtliffe had decided to move to Soviet and East European studies.
He decided that he enjoyed his geography courses more, changed his major, took an extra year to finish his degree and began part-time work in 1981 on a masters degree in geography at Carleton.
"But somewhere in the middle of the third Russian course, I realized that I just wasn't meant to speak Russian, which was a major part of the degree requirements." he said.
Shirtlife also took on a part-time coaching job with the Carleton Ravens soccer team, where he met Bill Thomson, the Raven's head coach. Thomson will be coaching the National Capitals this summer, and it was he who hired Shirtlife for the position.
In the fall 1984, Shirtliffe came to KU to work on a doctorate in geography.
"One of the reasons I picked KU was because it didn't have a hockey team, it didn't have a soccer team; I figured I'd be safe here," he said.
But Shirtliffe found that he could still play hockey with friends in Kansas City, Kan., and the University did have the KU soccer club, which Shirtliffe has helped coach since that fall. It was the soccer club that got him involved with the Senate.
Originally, Shirtlife got involved with the Senate to help get more
"Senate's" sort of like an addictive process, he said. "Once you're in there, there are all sorts of windmills you can tilt at."
money for the soccer club.
He has been a graduate senator since the fall 1984 and has served on the Minority Affairs and Student Rights committees, in addition to serving as last semester's Elections Committee chairman.
Shirlte failed in his bid for Student Senate vice president on April 9.
Despite his passion for soccer and student government, Shirtlife said his main reason for coming to KU was the geography program. As a research assistant in the radar systems and remote sensing lab on West Campus, Shirtlife spends a lot of time in the cold room of Nichols Hall.
There, at temperatures of thirty to forty degrees below zero, in a 1,300-gallon tank, sea ice is grown," the right in the middle of Kansas," he said. Seven or eight other students also work on the sea ice project. Their field work has taken them and Shirtlife to New Hampshire, Mould Bay in Canada and areas of the North Atlantic near the Greenland Sea.
"Glenn is the kind of guy who won't say very much at all, but what he has to say is very important," said Pete Blanchard, Emporia graduate student, who works with Shirliffe on the sea ice project.
Shirtlife isn't sure what he wants to do after he finishes school next fall, he said, but teaching college geography and coaching soccer part-time, either in the United States or in Canada, is one possibility.
Glenn Shirtliffe, Gloucester, Ontario, graduate student, stands with a 1,300-gallon tank of sea ice. Shirtliffe said the temperature in the freezer ranges from 30 to 40 degrees below zero.
Amy Rhoads/KANSAN Shirtliffe said the
Waffles unite students
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
Staff writer
Walking up the creaky wooden stairs to the second-floor apartment at 1006 Mississippi St. on a Sunday, visitors smell the sweet aroma of a waffle hot off the iron.
An ancient waffle iron, weak orange juice, and an elusive recipe for biscuits and gravy are part of what has become a tradition called "Sunday Waffle Sunday!" for a group of KU students.
Waffle Sunday is a college version of a family gathering, the students said. Every Sunday, students meet to eat waffles. The group has grown as the original creators have brought friends into the Waffle Sunday family.
Waffle Sunday creators have designated this weekend as Wafflestock, a Waffle Sunday grand finale and two-day celebration of waffle love, whiffle ball and beer.
Steve Fitzgerald, Kansas City, Mo., senior, started Waffle Sunday in September with a waffle iron that he had bought in the summer for $3 from the Salvation Army. As word spread about the Sunday gathering and as Fitzgerald perfected his waffle batter, more people dropped in, he said.
The $3 waffle iron wasn't the latest in waffle technology, but with Fitzgerald's expertise, it can turn out about 30 waffles in one afternoon, he
Fitzgerald once tried to vary his waffle recipe with blueberries, but the response wasn't good, he said.
"It it looked like a pen exploded in the batter," said Roger Smith, Overland Park senior and a Waffle Sunday regular.
Brennan Connor, Kansas City, Mo,
senior, and Paul Moylan, Roeland
Park senior, are Fitzgerald's room-
mates.
At a typical Waffle Sunday celebration, Connor can be found making four or five pitchers of orange juice from one can of frozen concentrate. The pale yellow of Connor's orange juice is made of Waffle Sunday cuisine, he said.
Moylan and several other Waffle Sunday participants have tried to come up with a good batch of biscuits that haven't baked had much luck, they said
"I've seen my mom do it a million times, but these just don't taste the same." Moylan said.
"It lasts longer this way, and besides, it still tastes good," Connor said. "Mom always watered it."
Waffle Sunday has flourished as guests have begun to bring their own breakfast specialities. Coffee cakes, fruits and casseroiles made with eggs and potatoes can be seen on any given Sunday.
Fitzgerald, Moylan and Connor provide the waffles. It is up to the chef to bring them to life.
After eating, many of the guests are not quite ready to leave, knowing that their books appear at them home. Games of touch football, whiffle ball and spud keep the group busy for hours. And more often than not, a keg of beer, left over from an earlier weekend party, is finished during the afternoon, Waffle Sunday participants said.
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