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NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2001
Athlete earns award at meet
Tate earns All American status for NCAA performance
By Matt Norton Special to the Kansan
The senior finished fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:43.28,
earning All-American status.
Arkansas' Daniel Lincoln won the event in 8:42.31 as the top six finishers battled during the last lap and finished within 1.3 seconds of one another.
Distance coach Doug Clark said he expected a tight battle and was pleased with Tate's performance.
Andy Tate's dream season continued June 2 at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore.
"All things considered, I felt like there was a good chance he could win the race, with as many as eight people in contention at the end, and that's pretty much how it turned out," Clark said. "I wanted
Andy to be in position to win the race in the last two laps, and that's what he did."
Tate added the All-American award to one he earned during the indoor season in the distance medley relay. He also achieved personal best times in the 1,500 meters, mile, 3,000 meters and 3,000 steenlechase. He currently ranks third all-
time at Kansas in the steeplechase with his 8:38.11 at the Mt. Sac Relays in April.
Tate led the steeplechase 600 meters from the finish but couldn't hold off a charge by Lincoln, Weber State's Jeremy Tolman and Colorado's Steve Slattery.
Tate, a newcomer to the national scene in track and field, learned a great deal about the
pressure of a major national competition and what it takes to compete.
Tate: Won All-American honors in the 3000-meter steeple chase
Just a season ago, Tate said he worried about placing in the top six in the Big 12 conference. Now he joins teammate Charlie Gruber this weekend at the U.S. Track and Field Championships.
In his final Championships appearance as a collegian, Tate has more at stake than fast times and high places. National coaches and various sponsors will be looking for athletes to support on the way to the 2004 Olympics; if Tate performs well, he might get an opportunity to run professionally. But he isn't concerned with that now.
"I'm going to go in with the same mental game plan as I had for the NCAA final," Tate said. "I need to keep my composure. It's not the world championship trials in my eyes. The worst I've placed all year is fourth. I just have to be confident in what I'm doing and not stargaze."
Junior Andrea Bulat also earned All- American honors in her third straight NCAA Championship in the javelin.
Norton can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
Institute replaces myth with truth
By Dawn North Kansan staff writer
Camels—the brown furry kind—are big business in Africa. More hundred camels can carry more cargo than Christopher Columbus' three ships combined.
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This was just one of many facts presented by Garth Myers, KU professor of geography, during a presentation Monday that kicked off a two-week institute, "People of Africa: A Source of Knowledge and Learning."
Dr. Khalid El-hassen, left and Dianne Schmidt share stories about their travels to Africa. Schmidt, a teacher from the Blue Springs School District, is one of 15 participants in a two-week class called, "Peoples of Africa." Sponsored by the African Studies Resource Center, the class teaches elementary and high school teachers about the African continent so they can change the way students see the world.
In his opening remarks, John Janzen, Director of the ASRC, said the KU resource centers were making a greater effort to bring a greater level of expertise to elementary and secondary teachers.
"We don't want to get too lost in academics, but want to focus on what teachers can use in their classrooms," she said.
Kelly Barker, geography teacher at Southwest Junior High in Lawrence,
Lyne Tumilinson has worked as the International and Area Studies Outreach Coordinator for 10 years. She said the outreach centers served as a liaison between faculty members who specialize in certain parts of the world to people in the outside world who were involved in teaching, community work, government, business and the media.
said one reason teaching about Africa was different now than it was 10 or 20 years ago was because we have become more involved with Africa from societal standpoints. One thing he does with his students is to focus on African solutions to African problems.
"I want them to see the culture from an African perspective instead of a U.S. viewpoint," he said.
Art Sloan, world literature and humanities teacher at Lawrence High School, wanted to understand more aspects of the culture so he could teach things that were important to the development of Africa, such as apartheid and the effect of European culture.
"Ultimately, what I want to teach is tolerance and acceptance of cultural diversity," he said.
Upcoming sessions in the institute will focus on values and traditional religions of African people, languages and culture and media stereotypes.
By Brandy Straw
Kansan staff writer
North can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kanasa.com
KU on fast track with new cable
A new fiber-optic connection, made possible by Sunflower Cablevision, will increase the number of cable TV channels in the residence halls from 36 to 72 within the next couple of years.
"It's about time," said Brad Baker, St. Louis senior.
Baker said he thought other universities already had a better selection of cable TV channels than the University of Kansas.
The new connection was up and running on parts of the main campus in March and the rest of campus will be upgraded in the future.
The connection provides faster access to campus network resources from faculty, staff, students and community members' homes that have Sunflower's Datavision cable modem service.
John Louis, director of networking and telecommunications services for the University, said the connection did not make the channels immediately available to the residence halls because the wiring needed to be upgraded, which would cost a few million dollars.
On Thursday, Sunflower Cablevision and the University celebrated their partnership. Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Dolph Simons, Jr., president of the World Company, which owns Sunflower Cablevision, joined two cables to symbolize the connection at the telecommunications control center in Elsworth annex.
"We have to be a university for the 21st century." Hemenway said on Friday. "Quality telecommunications are a central part."
Louis said the connection would substantially improve the speed of the Internet connection and quality of the cable TV system.
"It simply improves the quality and quantity of telecommunications applications between the institutions," Louis said. "It also allows us to take advantage of their technical expertise and vice versa."
The connection also permits live broadcasting through Sunflower's cable channel 66.
Dick Nelson, newsroom supervisor for KJHK and KUJH, said that KUJH benefited from the connection because the fiber-optic cable allowed Sunflower Cablevision to pick up a clearer signal of the programs. This would overcome any reception problems that might have existed in the past.
Straw can be reached at 864-4810 or writer@kansan.com
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