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Homeless Continued from p.1
It is such a different reality. These people have no support system, no resources and no education.'
- Jo Anne Gibson shelter volunteerer
ment. Until then, he does not want her to know he is homeless; she would worry too much.
Another resident, in his early 20s, has been in the army and was recently released from jail.
"I hit bottom, and I am trying to pull myself up." he said.
His father owns a company, and his mother is a computer operator in New Mexico. He misses his family and knows that he has a job if he goes home. But he wants to prove that he can make it on his own.
Shelter volunteer Mike Scully, a priest at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1229 Vermont St., said, "I see a lot of lack of motivation." Without motivation, life is at a standstill for them, he said.
Motivation is a problem, but fear is one of their worst enemies. Scully said. On the streets, they are afraid all the time. They wonder what people will do to them.
"It is such a different reality," said Jo Anne Gibson, teacher and volunteer at the shelter. "These people have no support system, no resources and no education."
The shelter helps provide some support, but volunteers say more is needed. The residents would like to see a new facility built with chess boards and other games so the homeless could interact more with each other.
They would also like to see the people of Lawrence get involved. As one shelter resident put it, "If they've got a heart, they will help."
AMHERST, Mass. — Leaders of a group of 100 minority students occupying a Hampshire College building handed the school's president a list of demands Wednesday and settled in for what they predicted would be a long siege.
Massachusetts students occupy building
The Associated Press
Anita Fearman, a student from Los Angeles and a protest leader, responded that "We felt that they needed to take time to look at the demands." Another meeting was scheduled for yesterday.
"We're a little disappointed. They wouldn't even talk to us," said Dean of Students Trey Williams after a morning meeting with the protesters was cut short.
About 50 black, Hispanic, Asian, Indian and other students, or nearly half the minority student population at the 1,100-student private liberal arts college, took over Dakin House on Tuesday to protest what they described as the administration's indifference to their longstanding complaints.
Another 50 minority students from nearby Smith, Amherst, and Mount Holyoke colleges and the University of Massachusetts joined the protesters Wednesday, said Fearman. UMass was the site of a similar protest that ended last week.
About 300 sympatizers, most of them white, accompanied the negotiators to the meeting with administrators Wednesday in a library building, where the demands were given to
President Adele Simmons.
The crowd marched through classroom and administration buildings on the way, chanting, "Racism has got to go."
A protest leader, Penny Predas, predicted,
"This is going to take a while."
Among the dozen demands of the group were calls for money for Third World speakers and publications, the hiring of a racial harassment officer and the drafting of a racial harassment policy.
Ponds provide real environment for pesticide tests
The Kansas Biological Survey Research Project is using 12 ponds to test various pesticides for the EPA.
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
The real thing - its what researchers are attempting to simulate by performing their pesticide research at 12 ponds north of Lawrence.
Laboratory tests can provide researchers some information about pesticides, but tests in the environment are even better, said Frank deNoyelles, chairman of environmental studies.
DeNoyelles is the principal investigator for a Kansas Biological Survey research project at the University of Kansas that will evaluate pesticides produced by Mobay, a large chemical manufacturer based in Kansas City, Mo.
The ecosystem-level testing is part of Environmental Protection Agency requirements that certain pesticides must meet before they go on the market.
The testing at KU will be done at 12 identified constructs ponds. Various concentrations of a pesticide will be added to each pond so researchers can monitor the chemical's effects on the ponds, plants and animal life. Then the data will be evaluated to determine whether the chemical has a harmful effect on the environment.
KU has done work for the EPA in the past, experimenting with the herbicide atrazine, deNoyelles said.
"From research like that, EPA developed this test," he said.
DeNoyelles said KU was participating in the project to further develop the testing method.
"Our main interest is not testing chemicals for manufacturers but to develop this testing method," he said. "But in order to develop the testing method, it is a good plan actually to be involved in performing the test."
The project, which began in November and will last one year, also allows students to be trained in this kind of testing procedure.
"It really has both research and teaching involved," deNoyelles said.
Mobay hired Springborn Life Sciences, a consulting firm in Massachusetts, to do some of its testing. Springborn then asked KU to be part of the project.
Springborn will pay KU about $300,000 for its work, deNoyelles said.
DeNoyelles said eight people from KU were working on the project, in addition to people from Springborn. Five to 10 more people, including undergraduate students, will be hired to work on the project during the summer.
The new testing requirement is quite a change for the EPA, deNoyelles said. Most previous testing has been done in the laboratory, usually on a single organism, such as a fish in an aquarium.
Researchers exposed the organism to a chemical and saw its effects.
"EPA is really refining its ability to assess the environmental hazards of a chemical before it goes on the market," deNoyelles said. "You can only find out so much in a laboratory. At some point in time, you need to go to the environment, and in a controlled, experimental way, add the chemical and see what's going to happen."
EPA occasionally used to require field testing, but that just involved placing chemicals in a couple of farm ponds to examine their effects, deNovelles said.
"That really wasn't t very sophisticated," he said. "This is really an upgrading of that."
Les Touart, a fisheries biologist in the pesticides program office of the EPA, said 1978 guidelines for registering pesticides established several tiers of testing. If data from lab testing indicate that the
chemical still may cause environmental problems, the manufacturer must conduct field experiments to demonstrate a sufficient level of
Touart said the ecosystem-level testing was a promising approach.
"Within the next five years, it will be the design of choice," he said.
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