University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 15, 1988
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Campus post office may change service
Rv Michael Shunk
Kansan staff writer
Letter carriers have delivered through snow, rain, heat or gloom of night, but for the branch of the U.S. Postal Service in the basement of Strong Hall, federal budget cuts have proven to be the most challenging obstacle. The station is likely to shut down within the next three months.
"The federal budget cuts forced us to look at every service and determine if it is going in the direction that we originally intended," said William P. Reynolds, Lawrence postmaster.
That does not mean that the University would be without postal services. Reynolds said that he still would provide postal service on campus.
"We're not talking about taking retail postal services away from campus, we're talking about differing ways of providing services," he said.
Some of the alternative methods he mentioned were stamp-vending machines and more collection boxes. However, Reynolds said that his office was not proposing these things to customers for the services provided in Strong.
4. realize that the post office provides important services on campus that cannot be carried out by vending machines," he said. "We hope that we can continue to provide the same types of services that we are providing now."
- William P. Reynolds
Lawrence postmaster
I realize that the post office provides important services on campus that cannot be carried out by vending machines. We hope that we can continue to provide the same types of services that we are providing now.'
Reynolds said that it was possible the office in Strong would be replaced by a contract station, which is an individually managed post office contracted out by the Lawrence office. That would be similar to the postal stations in grocery stores.
"A contract station would be the best alternative." Reynolds said.
He said that a time schedule for the change was still uncertain, but that he was working with people in the chancellor's office to clear up the situation as soon as possible.
"We're not just sure at this point about what is going to happen," he said. "We'd like to have something done before the fall semester."
Reynolds said removing all postal services from campus was not his intention.
"We get a lot of our business from the University," he said.
First phase of Sixth Street construction already started
By a Kansan reporter
Patience
That is what University of Kansas students and local residents must have if they plan to travel on Sixth Street during the next several months, said assistant city manager Mike Wildden.
"There is going to be dust, dirt and heavy enouff." he said.
Tony Marianue, department construction engineer, said there would be two phases of construction on Sixth Street.
The Kansas Department of Transportation began widening Sixth Street from Iowa Street to Monterey Way on Monday.
Phase One will close Sixth Street to traffic between Monterey Way and Sierra Drive, and between Fireside Court and Lawrence Avenue for
"These two areas are to be completely redone in Phase One, but local traffic will have access to sheloy detours (temporary roads that run alongside construction)," Marienau said.
three months.
Phase Two, which will allow traffic, eventually will add a center turning lane and make the entire 1.5 mile section of Sixth Street five lanes wide.
Wildgen said the city was contributing $689,000 to the $2.1 million project. The state is paying for the rest. Julias Kaaz Construction Co. of Leavenworth is in charge of the project.
"Depending upon the weather, the project should be completed by the middle of next summer," Marienau said.
Jeffrey Johnston/KANSAN
Wavin' in the wind
Dave Drewry of Lawrence windsurfs at Clinton Reservoir. A small crowd attended a free windsurfing clinic sponsored by
Natural Way Wind Surfing on Monday. The clinic was to encourage people to participate in the sport.
Environmental groups to protest incinerator
Bv Paula Messbarger
Kansan staff writer
can intends to burn.
They're after the Vulcan in Kansas.
Greenpeace, a worldwide environmental organization, and Plains Keepers, a Wichita environmental group, will meet with Gov. Mike Hayden and then rally on the steps of the Statehouse today in Topeka to protest against the Vulcan Materials Co.
The company, which has operated for more than 30 years in Wichita, plans to build an incinerator near the city and continue to produce pentachlorophenol (penta), a dioxin-contaminated wood preservative, which Vul-
Helen Perivier, the campaign coordinator of Greenpeace, said representatives from the two groups would meet with the governor to discuss Vulcan's intentions. After the governor's news conference this week the groups plan a protest rally for the steps of the Capitol building.
The group is asking for a ban on construction of the incinerator and a ban on penta.
Perivier said penta was a chlorinated hydrocarbon with strong chlorine bonds that resist being broken down by nature. Accumulating through the food chain, these toxins
threaten long-term damage for future generations.
“Vulcan is the last remaining U.S. producer of penta,” she said. “It can be found everywhere: on telephone poles, picnic tables, residential decks, bridges and railroad ties.”
Periver said the Environmental Protection Agency had classified penta as acutely hazardous and listed it as a potential human carcinogen.
Vulcan needs to build the incinerator if it is to continue producing penta because the agency is expected to ban the burial of penta wastes. If built, the incinerator would accept contaminated sawdust from lumber mills and wood chips, along with
leftover chemicals from its customers. If built, it would be the country's first private incinerator to burn dioxin-contaminated wastes.
Greenpeace and Plains Keepers are trying to gather public support to stop Vulcan's project. They have been successful in gaining public attention in the Wichita area after having several information meetings.
The two groups will have a public information meeting in Lawrence at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Speakers will include members of the environmental groups, a chemistry professor and an aquatic ecologist.
Summer study abroad students find experiences can be life-changing
Bv Linda Gaumnitz
Kansan staff writer
The summer study abroad programs at the University of Kansas offer students a chance to gain practical job experience as well as a chance to practice a foreign language.
This summer, 15 of the 189 students abroad are fine arts majors, 26 are business majors and 26 are journalism majors.
ing their lives, sometimes their professional goals."
"The students who go abroad come from all disciplines," said Janis Perkins, assistant director of the office of Study Abroad. "Most of the summer students are humanities students, but there are also business and journalism students who take part in the programs.
She said many programs required students to be independent. "Students that have gone abroad have done something that is a challenge." she said. "It usually ends up chang-
KU sponsors summer abroad programs in France, Great Britain, Italy, Costa Rica, Spain and Germany. The office also provides information about and coordinates programs from several other countries.
"If KU doesn't offer the program that interests a student, we could find him one," Perkins said. "We send students to just about every country in the world."
Perkins said 189 students went abroad this summer through the KU programs or programs channeled through the office. Fifty students went to France, 27 to Germany, 10 went to Great Britain, 19 to Italy, one to South Korea, 21 to Mexico, and 41 to Spain.
Perkins said the office provided financial aid, and the participating departments offered scholarships.
Program requirements depend on the school the student is interested in going to, Perkins said, but most programs require a 2.75 grade point average and two to four semesters of the given language.
Besides the foreign language departments, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Business and the School of Journalism offer programs for students who want to do more than practice a second language.
Roger Henry, a fine arts graduate from Garnett who has never taken French, studied in Peyresque, last summer under Allen's program.
"I went over with a group of
Tom Allen, professor of design, has taken students to France and Belgium for the past four years. In Allen's summer program, students earn credit by completing a self-paced project.
illustrators," Henry said. "It wasn't really a classroom situation. The students and teacher would talk over the assignments that we were to fulfill over the course of the stay, then we'd show our progress in the final critiques. It was a good, positive experience, and I earned three credits for it."
Doug Houston, associate professor of business, said the business school sponsored a program in England, in which students follow international business courses. This summer, about 12 students are in England to spend five weeks in class and two weeks traveling.
"The program gives business students a chance to see how business is conducted in another country." Houston said. It exposes them to different people and gives them a chance to work with them, he said. "Being in the program is different from being a
tourist."
Houston said the school has considered starting a similar program in another country where English is commonly spoken, such as in the Netherlands or Denmark.
Perkins said, "Students study abroad for a number of reasons, but a lot of students say, 'It's always something I've wanted to do.' They go to live and learn in a different culture, to improve their language skills. They want to have the experience of meeting people, getting a chance to travel and feeling a part of a different culture."
Henry stayed in a village of about 80 people, with rock houses, a well for water, and one phone. "We had to hook up the propane tanks for heat and for cooking," he said. "Some houses had carpets, others just a cement slab or dirt floor. We had the necessities like indoor toilets, but
"Whenever the mailman came to the village, everyone would run out to greet him, just like on M"A*S*H*, and give him letters." he said.
Henry said his stay at Peyresque exceeded his expectations for a good time.
"There was that language barrier for me," he said, "but I was just so intrigued and interested in the French students, and they were just as curious and afraid as I was. Once we made the initial effort to break the ice, we could communicate and express what we liked, disliked, what we were interested in.
"It's really a learning experience about yourself and what's important to you.
"I learned to be assertive, how to
get along on my own. I would recom-
mend you."
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