Monday, February 26, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
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Mike Mercer, Wichita senior, displays the 2000 edition of the KU Formula SAE race car at the Engineering Expo Friday at Learned Hall. Mike is the co-captain of this year's design team, which is now in the production phase of its project. The KU team is the first and only team to use the full carbon fiber mono cape technology.
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"Each year it certainly gets larger, and the KU students' exhibits are more detailed and more interesting," he said. "It's certainly great for those of us who are working with the engineering students of the future."
— Edited by Jason McKee
Peterson said the expo had improved throughout the years.
Harry Peterson, gifted education facilitator at Topeka High School, has brought students to the expo for the past decade. Peterson said 18 students interested in a career in engineering made the trip this year.
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Students came to enter the contests and to look at the exhibits and talk to University students and professors, Peterson said.
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Marge Franklin a 1956 graduate of the school's aerospace department, brought her grandchildren to the expo. She said she took them to the expo to expose them to engineering and to try to get them interested in the field.
Expo lures graduates potential students
By Andrew Davies
writer @kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
to visit with University professors and students to gain a perspective of what it's like on campus.
The expo began at 9:30 a.m. with a keynote address by school alumnus Milt Stills, senior vice president of product engineering for the Cessna Aircraft Corporation. Displays were shown until 4 p.m. A "Mr. Engineering" contest started at 4:30 in the Burge Union.
The 2001 engineering expo brought together former students, current students and potential students to admire projects at Learned Hall Saturday.
The displays were presented by the different departments of the school. Displays ranged from a pasta-bridge-building contest, in which contestants built their own bridges out of pasta, to a flight simulator. Other displays included a quicksand pit, a drill rig exhibit and a demonstration of how environmental engineers perform floc-
The expo attracted a wide variety of visitors, including students from Kansas high schools, middle schools and grade schools. Alumni and interested people from the community also attended.
culation, the process of removing solids during water treatment.
Liz Riggs, Bellevue, Neb., senior and vice president for the engineering expo, said the expo wasn't meant to be a recruiting tool for the school's engineering program, but to promote awareness of engineering.
Chris Hullman, a high school senior from St. John, visited campus on Friday.
The expo also gave visiting students a chance to learn about the school.
"It's mostly to promote engineering, in general, as a degree program to high school students who are going into engineering," she said. "Since it's held at KU, ultimately it becomes a recruiting tool, but we really do try to stress that it's promoting engineering."
he said he would either go to KU or Wichita State. He also said the expo had given him an opportunity
Senior sheds threads and repeats victory at Mr. Engineer contest
Special to the Kansan
Chad Gustin began his successful attempt at defending his Mr. Engineer title as soon as a female in the audience started stuffing money down his boxers.
In fact, most of the audience would have put money on Gustin, Overland Park senior, repeating his victory as Mr. Engineer.
The Mr. Engineer contest which was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers, capped off Friday's Engineering Expo. Seven men competed for the title in front of an audience of about 50.
The contest consisted of four events — business suit, geek factor, boxers and talent — and each contestant chose three in which to compete. There were winners for each event and an overall winner.
The boxer competition elicited catcalls from the audience, but the real fun began with the talent competition. The engineers proved their prowesses extended beyond the lab and classroom.
Mek Nuanual, Bangkok, Thailand, senior, won the talent competition when he moved the audience to silence with his violin rendition of "Ave Maria." Nuanual has been playing the violin for 11 years.
"I took lessons for six years, but now I play for my own pleasure and relaxation," Nuanual said.
Other talents included juggling, stand-up comedy and a tongue-in-cheek country-western style line dance.
Amanda Holly Smith, Lenexa senior, was in the audience for the contest.
"The talent part was my favorite because everyone added a personal touch and a
Chad Gustin, Overland Park senior, struts his stuff for the five judges of the Mr. Engineer competition. Seven male engineering students competed Friday in Burge Union for the title, with Gustin winning for a second year. The event, sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers, coincided with the Engineering Expo. Photo by Joshua Richards/KANSAN
bit of humor." Smith said.
Gustin successfully defended his Mr. Engineer crown. He won the individual boxer competition and was the overall
winner for the second year.
Other winners were: Tom Moss, Sedalia, Mo., junior, in the business suit competition and Scott Kynner, Topeka
senior, in the geek factor competition.
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Group to educate students about death penalty
By Sarah Warren
Amnesty International has deemed this week "Death Penalty Week" and has planned events to broaden student awareness and support for the abolition of the death penalty.
"We wanted to set aside some time to educate about the death penalty," said Karen Keith, Tulsa sophomore and Amnesty International president. "Thursday is International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, so we wanted to do something for it."
The group will be showing the 1995 film, *Dead Man Walking*, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Alderson Auditorium. The film is about a
nun who establishes a friendship with a death-row inmate. The group is also posting information about the death penalty and working tables in the union in an effort to get students talking about capital punishment.
Keith said that Amnesty International was opposed to capital punishment in all cases.
"We're really wanting to raise awareness about the death penalty and let people see how unjust it is," said Kyle Browning, Overland Park senior and Amnesty vice president.
Browning said that the use of the punishment didn't fit with the United States' typical views of human rights.
"People assume because of political rhetoric we're always right about human rights," Browning
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Armesty International will show Dead Man Walking, a 1995 film about a nun who befriends a death row inmate, at 7:30 tonight at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
■ Amnesty International will have informational tables in the Kansas Union lobby Wednesday and Thursday to raise death penalty awareness. Thursday is International Day for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
said. "But that's not true in the case of the death penalty."
Keith said that, in the eyes of some countries, the United States was considered primitive for still using the death penalty.
Paul D'Anieri, associate dean of International Programs, said that European countries tended to see countries that use the death penalty as uncivilized.
"All the countries in Western Europe have gotten rid of the death penalty," D'Anieri said. "In fact, the Council of Europe had threatened to kick Ukraine out of that group because they had still used the death penalty. The Ukraine finally buckled and got rid of it, but if we were a European nation we might have been threatened too."
Keith said he hoped the events would get people thinking about the death penalty.
"We think capital punishment is something that people just accept," he said.
—Edited by Melissa Cooley
American food a change for international students
By Michelle Ward
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Jen VanRuyven's mom adds a special treat to packages she sends the University of Kansas sophomore — a jar of Bics dill pickles. The St. Catharines, Canada, native enjoys the crunchy delicacy she can't find in the United State.
Although the differences between Canada and the United States are subtle, they are present.
For international students from even greater distances, differences in food pose greater challenges. These students must try to merge their own preferences with what is available.
At the same time, they find a new array of food to sample. "I think we have a wider range of food, but America has a wider range of clothes. I miss my food."
VanRuyven said Canada was home to at least 20 different kinds of chocolate, along a with greater variety of chips, including ketchup-flavored. She misses the vinegar that Canadians put on
their french fries and poutine — french fries with white cheese covered with brown gravy.
“It’s the best thing ever.” VanRuyen said of poutine. “A few things here and there, people are like, 'How can you eat that?' But I love them."
Thais Brandao, a Recife, Brazil, sophomore, found the transition much more difficult, starting with the meal schedule.
She said she had always had her big meal in the middle of the day, not at night. It's reversed in her new country, which Brandao wonders about.
"You have a lot of the day left," she said. "It's good to eat a big meal in the afternoon. At night, when you eat a lot, you're full and just go to bed."
Brazilians use fresher ingredi
With Americans' dependence on fast food, it is harder to eat healthy. Brandao said.
She said it's possible with many good vegetables here. She said there were alternatives to fast food culture, but they were harder to find.
Jen VanRuyven
"I think we have a wider range of food,but America has a wider range of clothes. I miss my food."
St. Catharines, Canada, sophomore
Living in the scholarship halls,
she was introduced to Frito pie
"It's not something that you have never tasted before," Brandao said. "It just reminds me of home."
ents and cook more salty food than spicy, she said. She got a taste of her native food this weekend and friends prepared a Brazilian meal. It was a special treat for Brandao who greatly misses it.
However, she has taken a liking to some American classics and even a few fast food joints. She spent her first Thanksgiving in America this November and fell in love with cranberry sauce.
and barbecue sauce, which she enjoys. She also has found a weakness for Taco John's and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
"I try not to eat fast food," she said. "When I do, I try to eat healthy."
Panikos Ecohomides, a Limassol,
Cyprus, senior, does eat fast food
but has mixed emotions about it.
OK for college students," he said.
"The good thing about living in America is the variety it offers, Ecohomides said.
Although he enjoys Mexican food restaurants and the Mad Greek, a local restaurant that serves Italian and Greek cuisine, he said they put an American spin on their food.
"The Mad Greek is kind of Americanized," he said. "It's good food, but it's not what I'd find at home."
Although he has adapted to American cuisine, he still misses his native food, especially gyros.
"I miss it," he said. "I really miss it."
— Edited by Matt Daugherty