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reducing its waste. She said the task force would solicit input from the community before making any decisions.
Alyssa Urso, a senior from Overland Park, said she felt conflicted about the issue.
"I want to see less trash go to the landfill." Urso said. "I know a lot of the stuff I throw away is probably recyclable. But I'm on a tight budget so it matters how much this would cost."
Laura Vinci, a senior from Omaha, Neb., said she and the three girls she shares her house with already recycle. They have three bins in their kitchen to sort their trash.
"The cost of living in Lawrence is high in general so anything extra would seriously add up," Vinci said.
Cromwell said the Lawrence community was pretty good about recycling now, even with limited options. According to the most recent data from Lawencerecycles.org, Lawrence recycles 35 percent of its trash. He said Lawrence has the opportunity to double or triple the amount of recycling it does in the next few years.
Charlie Sedlock, waste services manager at Hamm, said the city produced about 65,000 tons of trash per year. He said Hamm was happy to adjust its services to fit the needs of the community.
"If Lawrence wants to be a 'green'
city, we need to catch up on recycling." Cromwell said.
The discussion to change the system really started rolling when Hamm Sanitary Landfill sought a $1 per residential household increase in the fees they charge to accept Lawrence trash. Currently the rate is about $14 per household to take the trash.
However, Cromwell said problems abound when trying to figure out how a new system will work. He said hauling trash in student areas is always difficult. One of the reasons is that if students are putting their trash in a community dumpster it would be difficult to do pay-per-bag.
"This is not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution." Cromwell said. "But it's too important to ignore."
Cromwell is also trying to get more Ripple Glass receptacles set up around Lawrence. Ripple Glass asks residents to bring their glass to collection points, and then Ripple Glass takes it to a processing plant in Kansas City and recycles it.
Currently Lawrence has one Ripple Glass location in the Lawrence Recycling Center. Amy Ferguson, a representative of Ripple Glass, said the company hoped to have more location in the near future.
Crowell said he should have the task force in place within the next six to eight weeks.
- Edited by Michael Bednar
Sarah Hockel/KANSAN
Got SafeRide?
Mason Haggerty, a senior from Overland Park, looks through information at the Save A Life Tour Tuesday afternoon at the Union. The tour was on campus to educate students about the risks that come with drinking and driving and to inform them of resources, like SafeRide, that are available to them to prevent drinking and driving.
Institute promotes greater technology use
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BY STEPHEN GRAY
The University of Kansas will launch a new Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities this fall to address a growing need on campus for technology.
Resources for the institute will initially come from three sponsoring partners to support technology infrastructure. The institute will base its operations in the KU Libraries' Center for Digital Scholarship on the fourth floor of Watson Library.
The institute was the core recommendation made by the task force on digital initiatives in the humanities, formed in fall 2008 by a partnership of KU Libraries, the Hall Center for the Humanities, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"It was recognized that KU was well behind other institutions in the support for digital research in the humanities and social sciences," said Allan Hanson, anthropology professor and co-chairman of the task force. "The task force was formed to propose steps that the University might take to catch up."
One such tool is KU Scholar. Works, an online repository for work
The institute's initial goals include providing new educational opportunities for graduate students and faculty and supporting the use of technology in advancing humanistic research.
created by faculty at the University. Its use allows new electronic journals and monographs to be published online more efficiently.
Arienne Dwyer, associate professor of linguistic anthropology and co-director of the institute, said the institute would encourage better digital practices on campus and promote collaboration in humanistic research, which is typically a lone-ranger activity.
In addition to its support to University researchers, students will also reap the benefits of this institute as new digital technologies are brought into the classroom.
"A history or archaeology class might include some sort of 3D visualization of a site that would be a lot more exciting than looking at a slide or PowerPoint," Dwyer said.
Brian Rosenblum, digital initiatives librarian and co-director of the institute, said that the greater use of technology would lead to increased association between researchers, both inside the University and with other institutions.
"We hope to make the research more accessible to the community and work with other digital humanities centers, especially on grant-funded projects," Rosenblum said.
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Edited by Michael Bednar
Naming of AD search committee postponed
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor.kansan.com
Despite an announcement last week that the search committee for athletics director would be unveiled by the end of this week, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little is not expected to make an announcement until next week.
director.
A committee of that size would differ from the search committee in 2003 that named Perkins athletics
After Lew Perkins' early retirement was announced last week, Gray-Little released a statement indicating she would name a search committee of five to six members by the end of this week.
At that time, only Robert Hemenway and A. Drue Jennings
Heinheim and A. Drue Jennings then chancellor and interim athletics director respectively — conducted the search.
Jennings also headed the search committee for chancellor after Hemenway retired in 2008 and could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
If the past is any indicator of the future, one could look to Chapel Hill, N.C., for ideas as to Gray-Little's approach to the search committee.
Before becoming chancellor at the University, Gray-Little worked for six years with Holden Thorp, now chancellor at University of North Carolina.
Thorp is no stranger to having an athletics department dominate headlines outside of box scores. North Carolina's football program is under investigation by the NCAA
for academic impropriety and allegations of illegal contact between agents and football players. Thorps handling of the situation was lauded by North Carolina faculty in a Wednesday Daily Tar Heel article.
"Here, as we've been saying, our academic values come ahead of winning." Thorp said. "That's why we've been so focused in a detailed way on the situation that we have here now."
Thorp expects his former colleague to set up a process that is fair to all candidates and an environment where all have an equal chance.
Then North Carolina's chair of psychology, Gray-Little worked on the search committee that selected Jerry Moeser as chancellor in 2000. Moeser said he was impressed with her style of interviewing.
"They were insightful and penetrating questions," Moeser said. "But even more important was the way
she listened to my answers."
Moeser said he would imagine Gray-Little taking the same approach toward the search committee as he did.
"I always told search committees to take their title seriously." Moeser said. "Their job was to search not just to screen."
To Moeser this means not limiting candidates to one region.
"The danger is if one limits a search to a local search or even just a regional search, you don't have the benefit of measuring candidates against a wide and diverse pool," Moeser said.
Gray-Little will be in Topeka Thursday to give the Board of Regents an update on the University's handling of the ticket scandal uncovered in May.
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When Christian told his parents of the award, he initially told them they didn't need to attend the ceremony. It was no big deal, he said. But after learning more, they quickly adjusted their schedule for a trip to Lawrence.
"I's always new to us," said Bonnie lensen, Christian's mother. "With this award I had to get online and look it up to see what it was and who Col. Donlon was."
Donlon was the first American soldier to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam. He volunteered to present Christian his award, added a personal coin from his collection and stayed long after the presentation to take part in training, often intericting.
"For someone to sacrifice so much willing to show me some measure of respect, it's pretty humbling. I would say," Christian said.
Nominations for the award are submitted by commanding officers nationwide. Jensen's nomination
was reviewed by the Navy Service Training Command in Pensacola, Fla., before receiving validation from Legion of Valor Headquarters.
Growing up in Paola, Christian often took part in baseball and swimming. He said he still enjoys hiking and swimming in his spare time.
However, it came as a surprise when Christian told his parents of his career and college plans. Aside from Steve's father serving in the Korean war, the lensens have never been a military family.
"He and I have gone round and round about it," Bonnie said. "It doesn't go away."
Before law school and politics, the Marine Corps awaits Christian after walking down the hill in May. For his parents, their responsibilities also continue.
"He has two younger brothers," Bonnie said. "So they've got big shoes to fill."
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