Monday, April 9, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Active sleepers
Sleepout raises money, awareness
Event helps students grasp homelessness
From left to right, Joe Aelford, campus minister for Canterbury House, Donnell Turner and Leo B. Carlton, Women's Transitional Care Services outreach coordinator, spoke to students who attended the Homeless Sleepout Friday night in Burcham Park. Turner, a former houseless resident of Lawrence, challenged students to reach out to members of their community who were houseless. Photo by Katie Moore/KANSAN.
By Sarah Warren
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Ignoring the threat of rain, a tornado watch and brisk 20-mile-per-hour winds, about 75 people attended the Homeless Sleepout Friday night at Burcham Park, at Second and Indiana streets. More than 20 people spent the night in the park, huddling in sleeping bags to guard from wind and debris.
The third annual event, part of the Center for Community Outreach's Into the Streets Week, raised about $700 for Jubilee Cafe, 1011 Vermont St. said Melissa Cline, Wichita senior and one of the event's organizers. Cline said the event was planned not only to raise money, but also to make students aware of the plight of the homeless.
"The point was to bring people who were homeless together with students and to exchange experiences." Cline said. "As students, we can be very removed from the community, so one of the major ideas was to let students know that homelessness is something that is zooning on in our community."
Participants began arriving at 8 p.m. to listen to several speakers, including homeless people and those involved in organizations aimed at helping the homeless.
Nora Bielat, Chicago junior, said that the Sleepout was the first fundraiser she had attended for the homeless and that she was very removed from the issues of homelessness in Lawrence. She was especially concerned when she learned that Lawrence didn't have a permanent homeless shelter.
"It made me sad that our city is pretty economically stable but we can't have a year-long shelter." Bielat said.
"Some politicians around town don't
want one because they think it'll be a magnet," for homeless people from other areas, she said. "But if it does become one, it shouldn't matter as long as it helps people."
Julie Merz, St. Louis senior, said the idea that a permanent shelter might attract too many homeless people wasn't the only concern in the fight for a shelter.
"Part of the issue is where you will locate it, and part of it is that people don't want to admit that there's a problem with homelessness in their own community," Merz said. "The idea
She said the push for a shelter would be a major step in changing the way Lawrence deals with its homeless.
"A lot of the talk was about the cracks in the system and about how we can fix the cracks so people don't fall through them," Merz said.
Peter Gogol, Cranston, R.I., freshman, said that he was interested in getting involved with opening a shelter
after listening to the speakers and spending all night in the park. However, he said that the words of the homeless affected him the most when he went home to his residence hall.
"Going home and thinking that these people don't have a place to go," Gogol said. "That's when it really got to me."
Bielat said the event made her more grateful for the little things.
"Students complain about the size of their dorm rooms," she said. "But now I'm really thankful to have a bed and a roof over my head."
Edited by Sydney Wallace
Service award to remember Shyra McGee
By Cassio Funtado
writer @kanans.com
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas will remember Shyra McGee in a different way starting next year.
Graham said the award in McGee's name would recognize students who tried to impact the lives of those around them.
McGee, a former student senator and resident assistant who was killed in a car accident in February, will be remembered every year at the Black Faculty and Staff Council awards ceremony when a student receives an award in her name. Maryemma Graham, professor of English, who organized Saturday's ceremony, said the award would be given to "an outstanding student who shares the beliefs Shyra had."
This year's eighth annual ceremony recognized African-American students, faculty and staff at a banquet Saturday at the Kansas Union.
Florence Boldridge, director of diversity programs at the School of Engineering, won a Hobart Jackson Award for her service to African-American students.
Graham said the ceremony tried to focus on issues that particularly affect the African-American community. Eight KU students each received $500 for their contributions to the University and the African-American community.
"I felt very good in being bestowed that honor," she said.
Boldridge said she favored an award in McGee's name.
"Shewasaveryactivestudentoncampus," Boldridge said. "She will not be forgotten."
AWARD WINNERS
Edited by Sydney Wallace
Four students received the National Panhellenic Council's LaTina Sullivan Leadership Award: Temiday Ajayi, Lawrence freshman in computer engineering, Daniel Dallahassee, flairst, first-year law student, Marcus McLaughlin, Kansas City, Kan., senior in graphic design, and Marlon Marshall, student body vice president and St. Louis, Mo., junior in communication studies.
Four KU students won the Black Faculty and Staff Council Student Achievement Award: Jamel Bell, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student in communication studies, Keith Wright, Lawrence doctoral student in musical arts, Lisa Tinn, Kansas City, Kan., graduate student in nursing, and Hope Richardson, Indianola, Miss, graduate student in health services administration.
Three University staff members received the Hobart Jackson Award: Florence Boldridge, director of diversity programs at the School of Engineering, Renate Mal-Datton, associate professor of business, and Robert Sanders, molecular biosciences professor. Each student award-winner will receive a $500 scholarship award.
--willing to be woken at any hour to ride with a hall mate to parking lots or street parking — and then walk back to the hall.
Schol hall residents wary of walk to cars
By Erin Adamson
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Walking home through dark streets worries some scholarship hall residents who have to park blocks away from their halls at night.
Sarah Hill. Sellards Scholarship Hall resident and public relations coordinator for the All Scholarship Hall Council, said that only one street light lit the KU parking lot at 12th and Louisiana streets and that residents in her hall were afraid to walk home from the lot.
Sellards developed a buddy system for its residents so they would not have to walk from their cars through poorly lit streets. Hill said the hall posted a list of residents who were
Hill, Hutchinson senior, said that many scholarship hall residents parked on city streets or in the parking lot at 12th and Louisiana streets because they could not find nighttime parking in the parking lots near their scholarship halls.
Hill said the problem of poor lighting was made worse because the scholarship hall parking lots are usually full.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing, said that the Campus Safety Board had approved funding for an emergency phone with a blue light in the parking lot so that if a student was attacked the police could be contacted.
"It just makes us all feel more comfortable," Hill said.
Stoner said that the University leased the one street light at the parking lot from the city.
Alisia Ellingson, Denton, Neb., junior and president of Douthart Scholarship Hall, said that Douthart didn't keep a formal list of willing walkers, but she said it was understood that women could call their roommates when they didn't want to walk alone.
Ellingson said that women in Douthart worried most about the walk between 12th and 13th streets along Louisiana Street because the street was unlit, was lined on both sides with bushes and had narrow sidewalks.
"I personally feel safer walking in the street." Ellington
"We can't put any lights in the lot because it's not on the University's electrical grid," Stoner said.
"We'd like to have a much better-lit street."
Alisia Ellingson
Denton, Neb., junior and president of Douth Scholarship hall
said. "We'd like to have a much better-lit street."
Ellingson said that because the street was owned by the city, scholarship hall residents couldn't go to the University to ask for street lights on that street.
Joe Bickford, 946 Ohio St.. said that residents of the Oread neighborhood had been concerned with the lack of lighting along Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Louisiana streets and that improved street lighting was included in the neighborhood's wish list to the city.
"There are definitely some dark areas that are a concern to people," Bickford said. "The city has made some small steps toward improving."
Bickford said that the 1000 block of Ohio was well lit from lights around Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, but that further south, toward the scholarship halls, there was almost no lighting.
- Edited by Doug Pacey
Robots to battle for students' final grades
By Andrew Davies
Kansan staff writer
The students designed their
Six teams—made up of 31 students who have been working on the robots since the fall — will enter their robots in a competition, which will be held at 12:30 p.m. in 1016 Learned Hall.
Kansan staff writer
The students, part of an engineering design class, will hold a competition to see who designed the best robot.
A group of engineering students will see the payoff of two semesters of work Tuesday.
The competition will determine which robot, without being controlled by team members, can put the most pingong balls into goals.
Orange and white pingpong balls will be used in the competition. Orange balls will be placed in one goal and white balls in another. Arvin Agah, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said the competition would take place in an 8-by-6-foot arena. The robot that scores the most goals will win.
robots, which could have a maximum height of 18 inches, from scratch, using materials ranging from wood to metal and aluminum, Agah said.
The computer program is sent to Handyboard by a small processor. Handyboard then controls the decisions of the robot, said Micah Catlin, Salina junior.
Aagh said the emphasis of the project was to design robots that could tell the difference between the colors of the balls.
He said students wrote programs to build the robots and used Handyboard, a design program, to connect motors and sensors to the robots.
Michael Turvey, Lawrence senior, said his group designed a round-shaped robot. He said the team, which initially designed the robot out of Legos, decided to use plexglass and plastic with Lego motors to complete the robot, which has two front sides instead of a front and back
Turvey said he was satisfied with the outcome of his robot.
"For the most part, I'm really happy how it turned out," he said.
"This idea is to make sure people have fun taking the final exam."
The winning team receives a $500
Arvin Agah
assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science
The competition, which is worth 20 percent of the students' final grades, is meant to be a more exciting way of taking a final. Agah said.
prize, which will be divided equally among team members.
"The idea is to make sure people have fun taking the final exam," he said.
Catlin, who estimated that his group had put in more than 1,000 hours this semester, said that although the project had been stressful at times, he had enjoyed doing it more than taking a traditional final exam.
The public can watch the competition, but space is limited.
"It's definitely the best way to do it," he said.
—Edited by Melinda Weaver
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2001 Holy Week Schedule
Only one man could turn three days of intrigue, betrayal and murder into the holiest week of the year...
Monday, April 9
8:00 AM - Morning Prayer
12:30 PM - Mass at Danforth Chapel
4:30 PM - Mass at St. Lawrence
7:00 PM - Penance Service
Tuesday, April 10 8:00 AM - Morning Prayer
4:30 PM - Mass at St. Lawrence
Wednesday, April 11 8:00 AM - Morning Prayer 12:30 PM - Mass at Danforth Chapel 4:30 PM - Mass at St. Lawrence
Holy Thursday, April 12 8:00 AM - Morning Prayer
7:30 PM - Mass of the Lord's Supper
9:00 - 11:30 PM Solemn Adoration
11:30 PM Night Prayer
Good Friday, April 13 8:00 AM - Solemn Morning Prayer 3:00 PM - Stations of the Cross 7:30 PM - Solemn Celebration of the
Holy Saturday, April 14 8:00 AM - Solemn Morning Prayer 9:00 PM - The Vigil of the Lord's
Easter Sunday, April 15 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM - Mass
No 5:00 PM or 10:00 PM Masses on Easter Sunday
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center
1631 Crescent Road, Lawrence, KS 6044 * (785)843-0357 * www.st-lawrence.org
The Bicycle Thief
April 11, 7 pm
April 12 and 14, 9:30 pm
What Women Want
April 11 and 13, 9:30 pm
April 12 and 14, 7 pm
Ralph Nader
Sandcastle Tournament
Wednesday, April 11, 12-5 pm
Wescoe Beach
Register at the SUA Box Office
Halp Nader "The Corporationization of America" Monday, April 16, 8 pm Lied Center, FREE student vouchers available on April 10. general public vouchers available on April 12.
Craig Karges Tuesday, April 17, 8 pm Union Ballroom, FREE vouchers, available on April 11
Bruce Humphries
Everything I learned in Graduate School Resulted In a Big Head
Mar 26 to April 12,
Kansas Union Gallery.
4th floor, Kansas Union
All movies at Woodruff Auditorium, 5th floor of the Kansas Union. Tickets/Move passes sold half an hour before movie times, in front of Woodruff. Event vouchers are available at the SUA Box Office.
The SUA Box Office is located at the 4th floor of the Kansas Union. Please call 864-SHOW for more information, or visit www.ukans.edu/~sua.
other events at the Kansas Union
The International Film Series
La Patinoire
Monday, April 9, 7 pm
Woodruff Auditorium, $ 2.00
Brown Bag Classics
Wednesday, April 11, 12:30 pm
Alderson Auditorium
Featuring Paul Stevens, Prof. of Horn
Bring your lunch, drinks are provided by the Union
Afternoon Tea Thursday, April 12, 3-5 pm, Traditions Area Free tea, sweets and conversation
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