University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 2. 1987
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Local groups having contest for banner ideas
Local Briefs
The Downtown Lawrence Association and the Lawrence Arts Commission are sponsoring a design contest for seasonal banners in the downtown area. The deadline for submitting designs is Feb. 25.
Four different designs, each representing a season, will be chosen for awards in the competition. Each winner will receive $250
The contest is limited to Lawrence residents, and persons may submit no more than two designs for each season.
Registration to end for teacher exams
Registration for the National Teacher Examination Core Battery tests end today. The tests are scheduled for March 7. Late registration ends Feb. 9.
The two-hour specialty area tests measure knowledge and skills required in specific fields.
The core battery test is composed of three two-hour exams on communication skills, profes-
tions knowledge and general knowledge.
Registration for the 28 specialty area tests ends Feb. 23. Tests are scheduled for March 28. Late registration ends March 2.
Persons who register late must pay an additional fee.
For more information, contact Denis J. Kelly at (609) 734-5511.
Committee to search for museum director
A 12-member committee is searching for a new director for the Spencer Museum of Art.
The new director will replace Jay Gates, who leaves March 1 to become director of the Seattle Art Museum.
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The committee, appointed by Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, includes art and art and design instructors.
Also on the committee are Alfred E. Johnson, director of the Museum of Anthropology; Martin Henry, Kansas University Endowment Association vice president for property; George Wooydard, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs; Bobby Gould, representative of Friends of the Art Museum; and Douglas C. Tilghman, museum assistant director.
Tilghman will be the museum's acting director starting March 1.
Mrs. Kansas pageant takes applications
Cash, a fur, jewelry and a trip are among the prizes that will be awarded to the new Mrs. Kansas
Officials for the Mrs. Kansas Pageant, which will be May 16 at the Airport Hilton in Wichita, to en-
gage their applications to get their applications in soon.
Mrs. Kansas candidates are judged in personality, swimsuit and evening gown competitions. To qualify, a woman must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, married at least one year when she enters the pageant and a resident for at least six months of the state she will represent.
From staff and wire reports
Mixed reviews greet tutoring program pay plan
By LISA A. MALONEY
The fact that some students are willing to pay $6.25 an hour for an experimental tutoring program by Supportive Educational Service tutors is proof of its value, a KU official said recently.
Staff writer
But Jason Krakow, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said he was critical of the new program, which requires students to pay $6.25 an hour for the service's tutoring in math and English classes.
Krakow said Friday that the going rate for private tutoring with one-to-one sessions was only $4 to $5 an hour
"It seems to me that there might
The experimental tutoring program started this semester and the University formed an advisory committee to monitor it.
Krakow said he would serve as the advisory committee's student representative.
be some profiteering going on here," he said.
Robert D. Adams, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said student concern was formed by the university formed the advisory committee.
Lorna Zimmer, director of the Student Assistance Center, said the center kept a list of other students,
"If people buy the service, that's sufficient evaluation," he said.
directive than individual sessions because other students in the group ask questions that the individual student might not think of.
The experimental tutoring program divides the semester into four quarterly sections of about a month and a half. Lee said.
anyone who pays $6.25 for group tutoring when they can get individual tutoring for less than that is a fool. I don't know if they believe they can get anybody to pay for this sort of thing or not."
Krakow, however, said group ses
sions were too much like being in
a town.
"That's why they're going to a tutor, to get that special attention. I think that's hindered by group tutoring."
Students may sign up for group or individual tutoring, based on availability, and pay $50 each quarterly session. To ensure that they stay with the program, students' quarterly fees are not refunded if they decide to drop the sessions.
The service's tutors are paid $4 an hour for individual tutoring, and $8 for group sessions with three to five students, he said. The rest of the hourly $6.25 fee that students are charged pays for administrative costs, he said.
Richard T. Lee, director of Supportive Educational Service, said private tutors' fees ranged from $4 to as much as $12 an hour.
Lee said, "Some people misunderstand what tutoring is all about. Tutoring is a systematic approach to becoming familiar with certain types of material. We're not a drop-in agency, and we're not miracle workers."
"If one were to realistically look at the cost of other tutorial services, they'd find that our cost is minimal." Lee said.
Lee said many students consider group tutoring sessions to be more
Speaker promotes courage
not associated with the service, who were interested in tutoring.
Gordon Woods, Senate Executive Committee member, said, "I think
Staff writer
She starts companies for a living and is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this month.
Sandra Adair is an entrepreneur, a teacher and a mountain climber.
"I live my passions," she said.
"I was incredibly poor." she said.
She drove a school bus twice a day and attended classes in between. "I made $75 a month."
"There is no difference between my work, my play and my life. I love it."
The trip to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, is part of Human Potential Resources, Inc., a company Adair helped found.
The conference had more than 50 workshops on issues from health to networking and cost $375.
She taught math and statistics before a colleague at Metropolitan State College in Denver urged her to try a job in the private sector.
Adair, 39, was a junior in college when she married. She said she led a traditional life before divorcing and returning to school at age 27.
Adair spoke Sunday to about 80 women at the Woman's Empowering and Nurturing Conference. The three-day conference was held at the Lawrence Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
"Once I was that poor, I knew I could survive anything. I wouldn't be afraid."
Her lack of fear allowed her to take risks. She applied for jobs in which she had no experience.
"we call it the Global Family," she said. The 12-member group is making the trip to raise money for a children's hospital.
"I had lunch with a friend who was starting a pasta business." Adair said. "I told him, 'you need me,' and I put up all $10,000 of my savings."
Adair's new company, Human Potential Resources, recently produced a 400-page resource network catalog. The company also has retail stores selling self-improvement and growth products, and a telemarketing division. Plans include a new-age music magazine.
"I was on the phone Christmas Eve with a man from Tanzania." Adair said. He told her to raise $20,000 in pledges, buy an airline ticket and take off three weeks from her new company.
"I just sold myself and talked my way in."
Pasta Via, a chain of fresh pasta take-out stores, has since had several private stock offerings and a $1.8 million public stock offering.
"I leave Friday " she said
Women laughed and groaned during Adair's speech.
The joy of tofu cooking is hailed at contest
by JENNIFER WYRICK
Staff writer
It was a tofu-rrific afternoon.
The Community Mercantile Coop, 700 Maine St., and Central Soyfoods, W. 14th St., teamed up yesterday to sponsor the Second Annual Tofu Recipe Contest in honor of the Chinese New Year, which was Jan. 24.
The guest of honor, tofu, was used in every dish. Tofu, or soybean curd, is a rich source of calcium, potassium and iron. It can be simmered, baked, sauteed, grilled or eaten fresh.
As was indicated by the contest, tofu can be added successfully to a number of dishes.
Entries were divided into appetizers, main dishes, smoked, traditional oriental, dessert and people's choice.
The contest had few rules, except that all contestants have fun and all entries contain tofu. After each dish was served, a written recipe with their dish.
Spicy tofu balls were declared the winner of the appetizer category, and tofu noodle lasagne was the favorite main dish.
Judges at the Second Annual Tofu Recipe Contest begin tasting creations in the main dish category. Katie Morrow, left, owner of the Glass Onion; Steve Coffee, owner of the Paradise Cafe; and Sandy Bodge, Glass Onion employee, were three of the five judges.
In the smoked category, tofu gumbo was the judges' pick, and lemon walnut cake was a sweet hit in the dessert category.
Chinese sweet and sour balls swept the traditional oriental category.
Linda Gwaltney, manager of Community Mercantile Coop, said more contestants had entered this year's contest.
"Hopefully, it's a tradition that will grow," she said.
All judges agreed no unappetizing dishes were entered.
The people's choice award.
which was decided after the general public sampled the dishes, went to Bill Remmers, 501 Mississippi St., for his rendition of edu gumbo. Remmers narrowly edged out to utfo
pot pie.
Remmers walked away with the award for the second consecutive year.
Reagan to support nuclear accelerator
Staff writer
By TODD COHEN
It's up to Congress whether a $4.4 billion "superconducting super-collider" becomes a reality now that Reagan has endorsed the proposal.
Energy Secretary John S. Herrington announced Friday in Washington, D.C., that Reagan would seek congressional approval of funds to build the world's largest nuclear accelerator, which several states including Kansas have been working to attract.
"We're alive. That's what we've been waiting for." Frank Wilson, a geoscientist at the Kansas Geological Survey, said of Reagan's decision.
Wilson said the survey had been working more than a year to find potential sites for the SSC in Kansas, including one 20 miles southwest of Lawrence in Osage County. Kansas Congress approves the plan and Kansas is selected as the SSC site, he said.
it," he said.
Others at KU involved in the pro-
ject, though, are more reserved.
William Hambleton, who recently
retired as director of the survey, said
competition between states would be
fierce.
"Kansas got in a little late." Hambleton said. "Other states, Illinois in particular, have spent much time and date on the project than Kansas."
"I think we've got a good shot at
Robert C. Bearse, associate vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said the leading contenders at this time were Illinois and Texas.
"Our feeling is the Kansas sites are technically defensible. We hope, on that basis, to be in the top five," he said.
The final decision will be political, Bearse said. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, Kansas' senior senator and a potential 1988 presidential candidate, may play a pivotal role in whether Kansas is selected, he said.
Wilson said the largest nuclear accelerator now in use. Fermilab, was built in Illinois because then-
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said that politics would play a role in the decision, but that it was too early to speculate what the political situation would be when a site was selected.
Bearse said the decision probably wouldn't be made for at least one week.
Kansas has been preparing for more than a year and has already made a presentation to the Energy Department. Bearse said. The people involved in Kansas' effort will probably be given back their trust to decide how to proceed, he said.
More money above the $50,000 spent by the state so far will be needed, and private funds may be raised, he said.
Bearse said Gov. Mike Hayden's support was also needed. Hayden was supportive of the SSC when he was house speaker last year, he said.
The proposed SSC is designed to recreate the proton particles that
existed milliseconds after the "big bang" that some scientists think started the expansion of the universe, Wilson said. Some scientists think the information generated could spark a cosmic revolution in technology and higher energy physics, he said.
The SSC, which would take four to five years to build, would have 5,000 scientist and technician jobs and a $200 million annual budget.
The top two Kansas sites are in Osage County and near the Wolf Creek Nuclear Plant in Coffey County, Bearse said.
Pres. Lyndon Johnson wanted a fel-
lover, and Douglass de-
veloped as that state's leader.
The SSC would be housed in an underground circular tunnel 52 miles in circumference. Two beams of proton particles would be swept in opposite directions around the tunnel and accelerated, using powerful magnets, to near the speed of light. The beam would pass several 123- to 300-foot interaction halls where scientists would analyze the reaction.
The Associated Press supplied some information for this story.
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