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University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 4. 1991
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KU group promotes eco-treaty
By Katie Chipman
Kansan staff writer
The KU Environmental Law Society is asking law schools from around the country to support an internship needed to protect the global environment.
The treaty, called the American Bar Inter-Generational Accords on the International Law of the Environment (ABIGAILE), will be submitted for approval to the American Bar Association in 1992, said Randall Patterson, president of the environmental law society.
it will then go to the United Nations for approval.
The treaty addresses six issues of international concern: ozone depletion, global warming, acid rain, mercury, ocean degradation and waste.
The treaty originated when academicians and industrialists from around the world saw that environmental problems needed to be addressed.
Teams of scientists and environmental law experts collaborated to prepare the draft, Patterson said.
The treaty will be international and intergenerational, he said.
"It's got to be a worldwide effort." Patterson said. "It's not going to work if only a few countries participate."
The treaty states that all nations must join to preserve Earth's natural environment and that each generation obligation to care for the environment.
Patterson said KU was leading the project of gathering support from law schools and keeping them abreast of the project's progress.
The KU Environmental Law Society serves as a resource group for those interested in environmental projects.
This week the law society will circulate the prepared draft of the treaty to other schools that are interested in suggestions and reactions, he said.
Patterson said the student endorsements would be used when the project was presented to the American Association for Library Science at the level of support from law students.
David Summers, student chairperson of ABIGAILA at KU, said that the project had been endorsed by 30 law schools in the United States.
Because many sides of the issues were represented when the treaty was formed, the draft represent a complete view of the situation, and the delegates must remain more acceptable to the bar association and the United Nations, he said.
Teresa Salinas, Lawrence resident, looks at a plaster sculpture by Michael Ryon at the senior art show in the Art and Design Building. The show was conducted yesterday from 3 to 5 p.m.
Show displays many types of art by seniors
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
From oil and acrylic paintings to sculpture and videotaped performance art, the works exhibited at the Exhibition show display a wide range of media.
The show, which will be on exhibit until Friday at the Art and Design Building, consists of work done by senior art majors.
Lisa Purdon, Topeka senior and one of the artists displaying work in the show, said the show was to students to broaden their experiences.
"College is not just about getting through four years and getting a degree," she said. "It's about living and gaining experiences.
"There are so many things to take advantage of at a university I'm hard to believe.
Derrick Gomez, Topea senor,
said the performance art he created
always dealt with experiences common
to people.
The piece's main characters are filmed driving a truck through a landscape with strong visual images
He said his piece, "Driven," examined a kind of waiting all people experience in times of change.
of fall and the passage of day into night.
Gomez said people should ask the same questions about performance art as they do about other media to understand it.
"The difficulty with performance art is that you have to wait," he said. With performance art, you have to follow the beginning to end to understand it.
Gomez said the show reflected the vitality of ideas of today's student artists.
"I think in order to follow the ideas of a university, a place of learning, in some ways we should experience this environment as much as we can," he
Karen Matheis, Overland Park senior and organizer of the show, said the art was primarily the product students in independent study classes.
Matheis said that the show provided art students with an opportunity to see each other's work and that they would develop ideas and growth in their own work.
Worried faculty to discuss college budget
"For seniors, there is a lot less structure," she said. "You just kind of work all the time."
"It makes your art that much stronger." she said.
CLAS wants problems answered
Rv Eric Nelson
Kansan staff writer
Three chairpersons in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences would like answers to the current budgetary problems facing KU, but the University administration would prefer solutions.
In a letter to Chancellor Gene A. Budig, Robert Spires, chairperson of Spanish and Portuguese, Richard Givens, chairperson of chemistry, and Elaine Kearn, chairperson of financial concerns about the college.
Budig already has contacted the three about a meeting with Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, James Musykens, dekan of liberal arts and sciences, and various charparks from the college. Sorres said.
Spires said he understood the diffi.
culties of the situation.
"I think the three of us are very aware that there are no simplistic answers," he said.
Shankel said the budgetary problem was easily defined.
"When you put together the data, which we have done, it's clear that the real problem is a University wide resource from the state," he said.
'When you put together the data, which we have done, it's clear that the real problem is a University-wide problem of not having enough resources from the state.'
- Del Shanke
Shankel said past decreases in KU's base budget and increases in enrolment accounted for the current situation.
Other institutions have areas available for cuts, he said. That is not true at KU. He said KU was financed at 64 percent in the institutions for operating expenses.
"When our enrollment went up, we didn't receive the additional resources that we needed to accompany that increase in enrollment, so
interim executive vice chancellor
the student-faculty ratio went up some throughout the University," he said.
Spires said the system filtered down, leading to faculty with large classes and students who need classes but cannot enroll in them.
Brinkman said that after budget conferences and formal written proposals by the different schools, the governor's affairs was given money to address.
He said allocations were based on
quality programming and relative deprivation.
One of the arguments in the letter is that enrollment in the college has increased from 12,877 to 15,487 in the last nine years
Brinkman said that although enrollment was up in the college, no other school had declined enough to lose financing.
"There are no resources freed up that we can move from one unit to another." he said.
47. 36 percent of the money given to the office of academic affairs. This year's total was an increase of 2 percent from last year's total.
"The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has received slightly more than what its proposed share should be." he said.
Brinkman said the college received
Shankel said that both the financing for the Margin of Excellence and the base budget were important and necessary for KU's future.
Brinkman said qualified admissions could be an answer to KU's permission.
He said peer schools with admissions standards did not experience the same financial problems.
But Brinkman said the question of qualified admissions was a political problem that was out of the University's hands.
Shankel said a University push for qualified admissions would be a possibility if KU's financing problems continued.
Carver's innovations came from hard work and creativity
Bv Amv Francis
Kansan staff writer
A mixture of chemistry, creativity and what some people called garbage all added up to success for a man who born a slave in Diamond Grove, Moe.
George Washington Carver used items most people considered worthless, broke them down into their chemical components and created bases. In the process, he helped free the South of its dependency on cotton
He helped end that dependency with what he is probably most widely known for: his work with the peanut. People first laughed at him for his ideas, but most changed their reuinds to accept what they saw the results of his work.
the nut's skin and made paper from the shells. Peanut butter, face powder, axe grease and peanut oil are used to make products he made from the nut itself
But he did not limit his creativity to the peanut. He used sweet potatoes to create 118 products, including molasses, vinegar and shoe blacking. He added elements in common clay to make house paint that resisted fading.
George Washington Carver
Three years later, Carver went to work at the Tuskegee Institute in central Alabama. He joined the staff there at the request of its founder and
He put the paint to a different use with his paintings. He created more than 71 paintings, one of which was of a yucca plant that received honorable mention at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
He extracted 30 different dyes from
president, Booker T. Washington.
Carver arrived to what many would consider a less-than-adequate working situation. There was no money for the laboratory or equipment for the research Carver wanted to do.
He was given a school farm for a lab. He used a barn lantern for heat, a heavy kitchen cup for a mortar and pestle, and a mortar and pestle solved the problem of not having
beakers by cutting off the tops of old bottles found in the school dump.
He was given the use of a sandy field instead of the grass he wanted. He turned it into a field that yielded a pile of sweet potatoes twice in one year.
He made his students haul pairs of muck and leaf mold from nearby swamps to cover the area and make it usable for harvesting.
Carver was once quoted as having said, "Start where you are, with what you have, make something of it, never be satisfied."
He worked at the institute for 46 years. During that time he used his own savings to have the George Washington Carver Museum built. It was one of his inventions. He never applied for a patent for any of his inventions.
He also never knew who his parents were. He was born a slave about 1864. He was stolen at infancy and later sold for a race horse and returned to his former home in Missouri.
Carver later worked his way through school. He opened a small laundry to earn money for entrance into Simpson College. He had been admitted to the University of Iowa by mall, but he was not allowed to enter the school when he arrived there because he was African-American.
He paid his way through four years at Iowa State College by cleaning houses. He received a faculty position in 1952, and he became because of his agricultural studies..
Carver continued his studies until he died Jan. 5,1943, in his home in Tuskegee, Ala.
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