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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 20.1996
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Students to let it fly at Engineering Expo '96
Contests used as a recruiting tool for School
Eggs will fly Friday in Learned Hall. And so will many other objects during Engineering Expo '96.
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Students and faculty at the School of Engineering are gearing up for the 85th exposition Friday and Saturday.
Glosemeer said when she came to Engineering Expo 94, she already had an interest in architectural engineering. What she saw made her decide not to attend Kansas State University.
The school holds the exposition each year to attract high school and grade school students to careers in engineering, said Robin Glosemeyer, Washington, M., sohomore.
"That's the reason I came to the KU," she said.
"It'll be bigger, better, faster, more," he said.
variety of exhibits.
Brad Spickert, Columbia, Mo., junior, organized this year's exposition and said it would be even better than past expositions because of the
Spickert said he expected more than 20 high schools and more than 1,000 students to compete in the contests scheduled to take place on Friday. Contests include speaker design, a mousetrap-powered airplane, bridge building and the eggcarrying glider contest.
The exposition's lead event is a presentation by Dave G. Ruf Jr., a 1960 KU graduate and chairman, president and chief executive officer of Burns and McDonnell Engineering Co., Inc., a Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering consulting firm.
There also will be exhibits such as a darkened room where students can put on night-vision goggles, a flight simulator and a display that shows how oil is refined from crude to gasoline.
Tom Hermann, Lake of the Ozarks, Mo., senior, said the department of aerospace engineering had several displays designed to heighten student awareness about the programs in the department, including a supersonic wind tunnel, which tests airplanes that fly faster than the speed of sound, and a shock tube.
would use pressure to cause a shock wave to move through a tube, resulting in a loud bang as the wave breaks the sound barrier.
Hermann said the shock tube
In addition to attracting high school students to engineering, the Society of Women Engineers will have its 10th-annual Outreach Day to foster interest in engineering among high school women.
"We're trying to bring in as many high school women as we can," said Angela Jones, Wheatland, Wyo., senior and president of the society's KU chapter.
Spickert said another goal of the exposition was to inform and educate the student population at the University about what engineers do and how they make an impact on society.
Engineering Info
When: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday; 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Saturday
Where: Learned Hall
Most competitions will take place between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.Friday
Debate competition draws a crowd
"It'll be a lot of fun, too." he said.
Bv Sarah Morrison
Kansan staff writer
More than 72 debate teams from 30 colleges and universities competed in the Heart of America debate tournament held Friday through Monday at the Kansas Union.
The large turnout was no surprise to tournament organizer Kelly McDonald, who said the event helped teams prepare for the national championship competition later this year.
"It is one of the most competitive tournaments on the academic tournament calendar," said McDonald, a graduate student and KU debate team assistant. The tournament is held annually at the University of Kansas during the third week of February.
Among the universities represented in the tournament were Cornell University, Michigan State University, University of Oregon, Kansas State University, and Baylor University.
The tournament consisted of the national debate tournament division and the cross examination debate association division.
Elizabeth Repko of Michigan State was named the top speaker in the cross examination debate association division. Greg Hopper of Southwest Missouri State University received the award for top speaker in the national debate tournament division. Both winners received a basketball signed by the University men's basketball team.
The KU debate team, which competed in the national debate tournament division, did not advance teams into the elimination rounds of the competition, McDonald said.
Michael Korsok, Cornell debate coach, agreed
Jeff Jarman, tournament co-director, said the exposure to judges and competition from other regions made the tournament a valuable event for participating teams. Michael Kernach, Consultant at it
"I have been here almost every year for the past seven years," Korsok said. "It is the most competitive and highest quality tournament with the possible exception of the national championship tournament."
Will Brewer, a student at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., makes his point at the Heart of America debate tournament. More than 72 debate teams competed in the tournament which is held annually at the University of Kansas.
Dating services aid students seeking love
People who are shy or hesitant can join a service or run an ad
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Finding love is hard to do
Dating services make it easier for unmarried students without a criminal record to find love, said Bruce Ellington, an owner of the Friendship Exchange, 4036 Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo., and 3129 Huntington, Topeka.
Ellington said his clients don't have the time or the inclination to go to bars, or are shy about the dating game.
The HIV-positive boxer and the Valentine's Day holiday have helped business, he said.
The service costs $200 a year. Clients come to the center and select other members after looking at photographs, a write up, and videos of the other person. Members can contact a maximum of six people at a time.
Ellington said about 20 KU students currently use the service.
Those who don't have the money to join a dating serv
The catch is that it costs $1.99 a minute to respond by phone or $3 to respond by mail to an ad, Gruenenfelder said.
But what young woman could resist a single man's desire for a "cool-haired, nose ringed, Doc wearing, 'different-yet-confident' female for great fun, great music, great everything under the sun" from an "Agassi-looking, college degreeed, stable in all aspects single white professional male?"
ice can put an advertisement in the *Pitch Weekly* for free. The ad can be a maximum of 40 words with a three word headline, said Michael Gruenefelder, *Pitch Weekly* classified ad manager.
Illustration by Ross Sit
Pitch Weekly offers all ranges of interest from men seeking women and women seeking men, to women seeking women, men seeking men and the not-so-standard diversions.
The Together Dating Service offers a more thoroughly researched matching process, said Pam Robinson, a counselor at the dating service.
Applicants must pass an interview designed to determine their availability and screen out those who abuse drugs and alcohol or have inadequate mental health, Robinson said.
Robinson said they have more than 3,000 18- to 30-yearold members. She didn't know how many of these were college students or students at KU.
Staci Johnson, Salina junior, said she had thought about responding to a singles ad when she was in Salina, but never had.
"I'm leery about going out with anyone I don't know," Johnson said.
Group claims powow venue not big enough
By Susanna Lööf Kansan staff writer
The Native American Student's Association is trying to change the venue of its April 13 powwow from the Kansas Union Ballroom to the Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Bessie James, president of the Native American Student's Association, thinks that the powwow's audience and the dancers will not have enough space in the ballroom.
"We expect a big turnout, and if they stick us in the Union, it's just going to be sorry," James, Carnegie, Olda, junior said.
The dancers will not have enough space to perform the right way in the ballroom, James said. Because they will need so much room, the crowd is going to be crunched together.
Lori Huxwell, treasurer of the organization,
said other ballroom disadvantages were that the large crowd made the room hot and that the slick floor was not good for dancing.
Hauxwell, Lame Deer, Mont., junior, has been trying to reserve Anschutz for the powwow since the beginning of November. But because athletics have priority for the use of athletic buildings, the organization was not allowed to make a reservation until the athletic schedule was set.
The powwow usually attracts about 300 people, Hauxwell said. James said that this year would attract more people than usual because several groups in the Lawrence community were invited to participate in a friendship dance. In addition, the organization plans to have voter registration at the powwow.
When Hauxwell tried again at the beginning of this semester, she was told that the powwow could not be held in Anschutz because a football coaches' clinic was taking place that day.
However, Hauxwell called the office of football coaches and found out that the clinic would be finished in the afternoon. Because the powwow is not planned to begin until 6 p.m., she hopes that it still can be held in Anschutz.
Darren Cook, director of athletic facilities and maintenance, said he was working on finding out whether the coach clinic would be done early enough for the powwow to be in Anchutz.
"There is a possibility that the powwow can be held there," he said.
Cook said that he was not told that the Native American Student's Association wanted to use Anschutz only in the evening until yesterday.
The organization is determined to keep trying to get more space for their pwow.
"We don't want to settle for the Union at all," James said. "It's going to be real hard for (Anschutz) to turn us down."