University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 20, 1988
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Contaminated material to be removed soon
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
A pile of material contaminated from a hazardous chemical spill last month near the Kansas Turnpike will be removed today or tomorrow, according to an official with the company responsible for the cleanup.
Michael Hagen, of Environmental Specialists, Inc., said yesterday that his company had applied for permits from the turnipke authority to begin removal of the contaminated material. He said those permits would be issued today.
The contaminated material, which consists of broken chemical bottles, cardboard boxes and wooden pallets that were soaked with the chemical thalurinal, as well as contaminated dirt from a nearby creek bed, will be transported to U.S. Pollution Control, Inc., a Kansas City, Kan., company that will dispose of it, Hagen said.
Company to begin cleanup of items soaked in chemical
Hagen said he thought the material, which has been stored under plastic sheeting next to the eastbound lane of the turnpike since the second week of March, would be burned. He
Last month, the Wyandotte and Johnson county landfills refused to accept the contaminated materials.
said he doubted that any of it would be placed in a landfill.
Yesterday, a spokesman at U.S. Pollution Control, Inc., said that he did not know what would be done with the waste.
The spill occurred March 2 about seven miles east of Lawrence after a
truck that was carrying 40,000 pounds of ethalfuralin went into a ditch and overturned.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said the driver of the truck had fallen asleep.
It was only after an investigator who was photographing the scene of the accident became dizzy and started having headaches that officials realized that the chemical was leaking from the truck. That was 14 hours after the accident.
Officials estimated that about 125
gallons of the chemical spilled onto the ground and into Pony Creek.
Ethalfluralin, also known as Sonolan, is a pre-emergent herbicide for the control of weeds in soybeans.
The chemical is shipped and sold in a concentrate form. In this form, the chemical is toxic and can be harmful to humans if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin.
Hopi speaker shares vision of the future
The chemical will explode if exposed to temperatures higher than 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
An interpreter for the Hopi Indian Nation warned last night that the world was on a destructive course and that people needed to come together to achieve world peace.
"We are the children of this mother Earth, and we need to get together," Thomas Banyaya told the audience in a packed Alderson Auditorium last night. "I know there will be a gathering of many people to bring peace."
Banyaca, one of four young men chosen by the Hopi elders in 1948 to carry the Hopi message to the world, said that Hopi predictions often came true. The Hopi had spoken of a small gourd of ashes that, if allowed to fall to the ground, would destroy and burn everything around it.
"The they described exactly what happened in Hirshima and Nagasaki," Banyacya said. "Those people knew something that impressed me when I heard them."
Banayacy said that after he had studied comparative religions, he saw that much of the ancient wisdom of the Hopis was also in the Old Testament.
In the New York Post, Banyacay, who just returned from a
global forum of spiritual and parliamentary leaders on human survival at Oxford University in England, said that the Hopi predicted purification by an upheaval of natural forces such as earthquakes, floods and storms if the current destructive forces continued.
"Today, there are only a handful of our elders hanging on," he said. "I told them I'd do all I can to bring this message and warn the people. We need to pray to keep this land in balance."
The Hopi, whose name means peace, do not believe in fighting wars, and their religion bars them from service in the Army. Banyaca said that they were not told during World War II that they could apply to be conscientious objectors. He was jailed for refusing to be drafted.
"I spent almost seven years in prison for
trying to be a peaceful Honi," he said.
But he said. "You must be true to your spiritual ways; eventually, something will happen and maybe the people will survive."
The world is in danger now, he said.
"I made my commitment to do all that I can," he said. "I'm the only one left of the four that were selected."
Thomas Banyacya, the spiritual leader of the Hopi Indian nation, speaks to about 225 people in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Banyacya is from Flagstaff, Ariz.
University gets extension plan for smokestacks
By a Kansan reporter
Toppa. The plan will extend the smokestacks by joining them to a third stack, about 43 feet taller. The new stack would comply with state environmental standards.
comp. Bob Moody, public information officer for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said that the two current smokestacks did not pose an immediate health threat but that they needed to be extended to a total of 109 feet to meet state health standards.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said that to have the third stack combine the two existing stacks from the roof of the power plant would be easier to install than building a new stack or extending both of the stacks individually.
"As soon as we get the specifications drafted, we will begin taking bills for construction." Anderson said.
James Modig, director of facilities planning, has to approve corrections and specifications on the plans before bids are taken.
Construction costs for the addition are estimated at $100,000. Anderson said.
Plans for the addition were originally expected in March, but Anderson said the plans had to fit into a priority schedule at the state architectural firm in Topeka
Topka.
"In a couple of weeks, we should have them," he said.
"We also wanted to take enough time to make sure we know where we are going."
Daniel Starling/Special to the KANSAN
Rear view
An unidentified member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity streaks toward his house yesterday after jumping into the Chi Omega fountain. The streaking was a spontaneous act aimed at having fun and is not a tradition with the house, said Trent Wagner, president of the fraternity.
Anthropologists' cultural art shows personal side of work
Exhibit at Museum of Anthropology runs through June 1
By Brenda Finnell
By Brenda Finnell Kansan staff writer
The girl in the painting is 19 and has been married five years. The baby in her arms wears around his neck an amulet that contains prayer papers to protect him.
The images on the canvas represent an artistic endeavor, but they also reflect the science of anthropology. Viewers of the painting can not only appreciate the creative work, but also can begin to better understand the culture of the Dominican Republic.
That cultural understanding is one reason an exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall is so unique, said Ciael Daniels, public education coordinator for the museum.
the painting of the girl and her baby, by Ann Kuckelman Cobb, is just one part of the "Visual Ethnography: Art by Anthropologists" exhibit, which opened April 10 and lasts until June 1.
The exhibit includes art by five anthropologists. In addition to Cobb's paintings, there are acrylics of Guatemala, poetry, hand-drawn film and batkins.
Lobb, associate professor of community health nursing in the College
It is a good introduction to the idea of anthropology and to what we try to do to find out about other cultures.
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— Celia Daniels
public education coordinator,
Museum of Anthropology
of Health Sciences, was guest curator at the museum and organized the exhibit, which was designed by Ann Schlager, exhibits associate at the museum.
"It is a good introduction to the idea of anthropology and to what we try to do to find out about other cultures," Daniels said.
Daniels said the art was highly personal and allowed anthropologists to show their feelings about experiences in other cultures. Often, anthropologists are confined to speaking only about their research and not about how their lives are affected by their work, she said.
A man waters a garden in a hand-drawn film by Robert Ascher of Cornell University. To make the film, Ascher had to sketch images on 35mm film. Each second of such film
required 24 frames; a single minute of film required 1,440 individual drawings.
In the acrylic paintings by Carol Hendrickson of the University of Chicago, Guatemalan women move about in brightly colored skirts and blouses.
The batiks, or designs on cloth, made by Loy Neff of Wichita State University bring the Mayan Culture to life. In one, a warrior wearing a bird suit carries a stone ax.
Daniels wrote poems to accompany the visual art. She said that she produced her poetry from observing her environment and that the museum and anthropologists had provided her with ideas for her poems.
"It was special because I got to see the exhibit just as the public did, but I had the advantage of talking with the anthropologists, too," Daniels said.
Next to the artists' work are examples of artifacts from the cultures the artists depict. Near Cobb's paintings is a glass display case with a goatskin chair and a saddle blanket from the Dominican Republic.
Displays on the walls explain the backgrounds of the countries and cultures featured in the art.
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KU Welcomes Mrs. Murphy-
It has been learned that Paddy Murphy's wife arrived in Lawrence today. The members of Kansas Alpha SAE were shocked and dismayed to learn of Paddy's secret marriage to Mrs. Murphy.
Paddy's last sighting was reported by Farmer Delbart Delbart just outside of Manhattan, Kansas. When asked about the precarious sighting Singer Delbart Delbart screamed in horror, "I done seen this short
Mrs. Murphy, when reached for comment, was as she put it, "extremely" hungover. She did inquire about her husband, then mentioned something about a bottle of tequila and passed out.
wild eyed drunk chasin' around my 4-H prize winnin' ewe. My wife Ethel Delbart was over there feedin' the chickens just 'bout the time that city slicker done caught my prize ewe.'
As far as we know Paddy does not know his wife is in town. At a later time today we plan to meet with Mrs. Murphy at a local mexican bar on New Hampshire. She heard they had margaritas.
The members of the fraternity are not concerned about brother Murphy yet, but are concerned about the bar tabs he has ran up in their name. They are concerned that their creditability in the local bars will be ruined.
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