UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Monday. February 12. 1996 5A Student encourages voting KU senior delivers speech on C-SPAN to round up voters By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer When David Stevens went to Washington last week, he had planned to attend a political conference. What he hadn't planned on was giving a speech on C-SPAN. "I didn't expect it, but I was honored that they asked me," said Stevens, Wichita senior. "I knew I was going to do the press conference, but I didn't know how much time I was being given or what the format was until the day before, so I just wrote the speech that morning." Stevens, Student Legislative Awareness Board coordinator, was asked to present a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday. His speech was part of a national effort by the Youth Vote '96 Coalition to register young people to vote and encourage politicians to speak to young voters about campaign issues. "I think if we can get young people involved...and force candidates to address the concerns that I and my peers have, then great things will happen," Stevens said. "Hopefully our elected officials and candidates for office will not overlook the needs of young people or future generations." Youth Vote '96 Coalition is a group of political action organizations David Stevens working to en-courage people between the ages of 18 and 24 to vote in the coming presidential election. Thehere Heliczer, a representative of the coalition, also spoke during the conference. "We believe '96 will be a record year for young voter turnout," she said. As part of the coalitions' effort, the polling group Global Strategy Group Inc. surveyed young people about their political opinions. Stevens said most believed that young people were apathetic about politics. "The poll is very important because it explodes the knee-jerk reactions people have when dealing with young people and politics," he said. Of the 800 people surveyed, 91 percent said that they thought it was their duty to vote, and 89 percent said that they most likely would vote in the coming presidential election. Alexander Jutkowitz, a representative of the polling group, said the poll indicated that young people wanted to be politically active. "This generation is concerned about the issues," Jutkwitz said. "Young people want to have a dialogue." With the help of other board members, Stevens is trying to bring the National Student Primary to the University next month. Search revolves around Ferris wheel St. Louis archaeologist looks for ride missing since the 1904 World's Fair The Associated Press ST. LOUIS — An archaeologist hopes to put an end to a long-standing St. Louis mystery — the case of the missing Ferris wheel. What happened after that is unclear. Local legend says the Ferris wheel, or what was left, was buried with the rest of the fair's rubble in makeshift landfills at Forest Park. "The thing I want to emphasize is, this is not Geraldo Rivera looking for Al Capone's vault," Diaz-Granados said. Carol Diaz-Granados hopes to solve that mystery this summer by using ground-penetrating radar to find the resting place of the wheel's 45-foot-long axle. Diaz-Granados is not a treasure hunter. She teaches at Washington University and Maryville University and was president of the Missouri Association of Professional Archaeologists. She has a contract with the city to excavate the World's Fair landfills in Forest Park. She has directed students at the digs for 12 summers. So far, they have uncovered 7,000 objects, all of which belong to the city. Some of the best finds will go on display in a World's Fair exhibit, which opens June 22 at the history museum in the park. To the average eye, most of the objects recovered at the digs are bits and pieces, worthless in the active market of World's Fair memorabilia and souvenirs. But to Diaz-Granados, they offer an insight to a time that is still regarded as St. Louis's finest hour. In a storage area of the history museum annex, Diaz-Granados displayed some of the larger pieces. Many are fragments — legs, heads and torsos — of the 1,500 statues at the fair. Diaz-Granados said the Chicago Wrecking Co. was the low bidder — $400,000 — for dismantling the fair. The company's workers salvaged what they could and demolished the rest, burying the debris in at least three landfills. While the large statue fragments are most impressive, Diaz-Granados said, she learned more about the fair, and the 20 million people who attended during its seven-month duration, from the odds and ends uncovered in the landfills. From a tray of rusted iron pieces, Diaz-Granados pointed out a wire puzzle, bolts, a copper ornament from a horse's bridle and a bottle opener. "There was a lot of beer drunk at the fair," she said. Diaz-Granados feels her job is not complete while the fair's largest display, the Ferris wheel, remains missing. Originally built for Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the wheel was hauled to St. Louis in 175 flatbed rail cars. Instead of seats, the wheel had 36 observation cars, each the size of a bus. The cars held 60 passengers each, giving the wheel a capacity of 2,160 people, who paid 50 cents a ride. "With the high-tech equipment we have now, we'll find it if it's there," Diaz-Granados said. "We'll be able to close that chapter." INNOVEX, a leader in pharmaceutical research, is seeking men and women between the ages of 18-40 to participate in a weekend/outpatient pharmaceutical research study. How would you like to earn up to $350 while helping your fellow man? Earn Up to $350 To see if you qualify, call: (913)894-5533 Innovex, Inc. 11250 Corporate Avenue Lenexa,KS 66219 "The truth shall make you free." 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