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Thursday, February 15, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Education may aid restoration efforts
Local bridge saved as historic landmark
By Sandra Moran Kansan staff writer
The United States is a throwaway society that prefers to destroy old architectural structures instead of trying to restore them, the associate dean of architecture and urban design said yesterday.
Dennis Domer spoke to about 30 people at the University Forum at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. He discussed the attitude U.S. citizens had about restoration of historic monuments.
He said a lack of political interest often prevented restoration.
"In relation to historic buildings, it is essential to evaluate whether or not people with the legal authority to destroy the building would actually be liable," Domer said.
As an example, Domer discussed the actions taken to save the Chicken Creek Bridge from destruction. The bridge, built in 1913, is about two miles west of U.S. Highway 59 near Lone Star Lake.
He said he was showing the stone bridge to a friend when he saw red survey flags stuck in the ground in the area. When he contacted state officials, he learned that the bridge
was to be destroyed and replaced by one made of concrete.
Domer said that officials believed that the old bridge was unsafe and that they did not want to be held liable for injuries if it collapsed.
In addition, farmers could not drive their combines over the bridge because it was too narrow.
"I wanted to buy time for this bridge because time was in this bridge's favor," he said.
Domer said that he and a group of supporters succeeded in getting the bridge listed on the Register of Historical Places, which protects historic landmarks. It is expected to go on the national register in March.
Domer said he and other concerned people worked to preserve historic monuments through education of the public, political savvy and persistence.
Martha Hagedorn-Krass, architectural historian for the Kansas State Historical Society, said she thought Domer was correct in his belief about restoration.
"In general, society's understanding is to build new buildings." Hagen-dorn-Krass said. "Preservation, for the most part, isn't well financed."
The most serious environmental problems are international in scope and can only be effectively addressed by multilateral action, a U.S. Department of State official said last night.
State official: World must address environment
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
s. Ahmed Meer, senior science adviser for the Department of State Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, spoke to an audience of about 150 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
S. Ahmed Meer fields questions after a presentation about the state of the environment.
Meer said that the United States was the dominant country in environmental research and that sharing knowledge was advantageous to the international community.
"The threat to the ozone layer, for example, cannot be effectively addressed by one or a small group of countries," Meer said. "It will require concerted and comprehensive action by the full world community."
Meer said he was encouraged by international environmental conferences in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in the past two years.
Meer's speech was the second of the five-lecture "Environment in Crisis" series, a joint effort between Student Union Activities and the Environmental Studies program.
Steven Hamburg, assistant professor of environmental studies, said Meer's views provided a contrast to the opinions of the series' first speaker, Greenpeace spokesman Christopher Childs.
Childs spoke at the Kansas Union Feb. 6.
Childs spoke at the Kansas Union Feb. 6. "Greenpeace has a legitimate message, but so does the government," Hamburg said. "The whole series is about creating such a dialogue." Meer said the most significant environmental problem was the destruction of rain
forests in tropical areas. Along with destroying the ecology, deforestation reduces the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by trees, contributing to global warming.
The government should pressure South American industries to stop deforestation, Meer said.
He said a division, however, existed between the environmentally sound stance and the economically sound stance.
An estimated $400 million would be needed for
U. S. industries to convert from chlorofluorocarbons, which are emitted from chemical plants, to a more environmentally safe substitute, Meer said. CFCs have been found to damage the ozone layer.
Immediately abandoning the use of CFCs would hurt the economy. Meer said a gradual phase-out was preferable.
Moving too fast to solve environmental problems is just as dangerous as moving slowly, Meer said.
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