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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 19, 1991
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Environs sponsors carnival for kids
Earth Day activities begin on campus today
By Katie Chipman Kansan staff writer
Environs, a KU environmental group, is kicking off the weekend Earth Day celebrations today by sponsoring several activities for students and Lawrence community members.
Community businesses, campus groups and representatives from environmental organizations will be on hand for the Kansas Union. 3 p.m. in front of the Kansas Union.
'The kids will go to seven different stations. Each has an activity which is tied to learning about the environment.'
- Margy Redford Environs member
Redford said that 700 students were expected to attend the carnival, which will be from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today.
Margy Redford, Environs member, said 29 groups would be present to answer students' questions about the environment and how they could become more environmentally aware.
The campus group also is sponsoring an Earth Day carnival in the grassy area behind Spencer Art Center for local elementary students.
"The kids will go to seven different stations." Each has an activity which is tied to learning about the environment," she said.
Also today, members of JKHW will sponsor a contest from noon to 1 p.m. at the Kansas Union to encourage student awareness.
Earth Day celebrations will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets.
The park activities are sponsored by the Obiji Farm School Players, a group of performers who will perform a play at the event.
Joy Eckertson, coordinator, said park activities would include dance sing-alongs, face-painting informational hobbies and live music by several bands.
Eckertson said that at the end of the afternoon the crowd would participate in an earth-healing circle.
Students build concrete canoes
Water races will start tomorrow
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
It might sound like a crazy idea, but the department of civil engineering has built two canoes out of concrete.
The KU chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers once again is entering the Mid-West Concrete Canoe Rage.
The series of races will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the spillway lagoon of the Tuttle Creek Lake near Manhattan. Kansas State University, as well as 10 other schools, is entering the race.
However, Anschutz said designing and building the canoes was a valuable teaching lesson because they provided knowledge from the classroom.
Michelle Anschutz, Topeka senior and president of the KU chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, said that most of those who participated made the canoes and entered the race for fun.
"We were all told in our first materials class that concrete was heavier than water," she said. "I问了 you did ever see a building float?"
The two types of canoes weigh about 170 and 200 pounds and are about $ \frac{1}{4} $ an inch thick.
They are made by placing two layers of galvanized steel mesh in a mold made from a racing canoe and filling the concrete through the mesh.
The special high strength concrete contains small styrofoam and glass beads that are sometimes called ecto-spheres or micro-balloons. The beads add strength and reduce the weight of the concrete.
"This is pretty much asking us to be creative." he said.
The canoes are light enough so they when they are full of water they float.
The University of Kansas will field six men's teams, six women's teams, two coed teams and two faculty teams.
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Steve Baalman, Grinnell senior, helped build the canoes and said it was an unusual project.
The course is a straight 200 yards out and back. Two KU graduate students set the regional men's record for the race last year.
Financing for the canoes was provided by engineering alumni.
Earthbound plan will reduce waste
LEFT: Michelle Anschutz, president of the KU Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers and co-chairperson of the concrete canoe project, paints a Jayhawk onto the bow of one of the canoes to be raced tomorrow.
ABOVE: KU engineering students put the finishing touches on a concrete canoe. Their boat will be entered in the Mid-West Concrete Canoe Competition tomorrow at Tuttle Creek Lake near Manhattan. Since 1978, KU has won nine of the past 13 races.
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
Patricia Marvin, recycling coordinator for Lawrence, said the Earthbound 91 program that began this month could save 25,000 cubic yards of landfill space every year.
Earthbound '91 is a pilot program that provides curbside pickup and drop-off sites to collect resources that are reusable or biodegradable.
The drop-off sites are known by the acronym GLOBE because grass, leaves, oil and batteries may be taken to the site area. The 'E' stands for Earthbound '91.
GLOBE drop-off times and sites are 10
a. m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays at Centenial Park, Ninth Street and Rockledge Road, and from no. 4 to p.m. on Sundays at Holcom Park, 2700 W. 27th St.
"The drop-off system was a logical way to meet the needs of the people," she said. "But we'll probably have to extend the drop-off site times to an additional afternoon."
Becca Green, Lawrence senior and a recycling intern for the city of Lawrence, Sarah and curb-side collection in two pilot areas in Lawrence for the collection of grass and leaves.
"About 35 percent of our landfills is yard waste," she said.
Although the city started a pilot program last year, this year's program has been expanded to include more residents.
Marvin said that the collection of yard waste was made into compost that was used in city landscapes instead of wasting space in a landfill.
"We have 10,000 tons of yard wastes every year. Why shouldn't we use it for something," she said.
"We collect grass, leaves, sod and bedding plants to be composted — no food or tree limbs, because they compost at a different rate."
Regents chair rushed to hospital during tuition meeting at K-State
Kansan staff report
MANHATTAN — Robert Creighton, chairperson of the Board of Regents, was transported in an ambulance from an airport to Kansas State University yesterday.
Creighton was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in Manhattan at 9:15 a.m. At 12:35 p.m. he was released and transferred to a Topeka physician's office.
Martine Hammond Paludan, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said that at last word, physicians were determining
whether Creighton needed treatment or admittance to a hospital.
Bok Krause, vice president for institutional advancement at Kansas State, said Creighton became ill about 8:15 a.m. during a break between meetings.
He said Creighton was resting and waiting for testing equipment to become available.
"Beyond that we haven't had any word," he said. "We're all thinking of him."
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