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Wednesday, November 15, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Exhibit highlights Black education
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
An exhibit that highlights Black history in Kansas public education is on display at the Lawrence Public Library.
Twelve panels of texts and photos are entitled "Kansas and the African-American Public School Experience, 1855-1955" at the library, 707 Vermont St. The panels are from a larger exhibit, "Brown v. Board of Education, in Pursuit of Freedom and Equality," which toured across the country.
"The case settled the issue
whether segregated schools were permitted to be interracial," said Paul Wilson, professor emeritus of law.
Wilson represented the State of Kansas for the Topeka Board of Education, which lost the case in 1954 after a three-year legal battle. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
The exhibit covers Black history in public education until 1955, but Wilson said that the Brown vs. Board of Education case didn't end in 1955; there are issues that are still not settled.
One of the issues concerned
The focus of the Lawrence Public Library exhibit is not only the national significance of Brown vs. Board of Education, said Sandra Wiechert, community relations coordinator for the Lawrence Public Library.
busing Black students to newly-integrated schools, he said.
Wiechert said that few people realized that African Americans had been fighting segregation in Kansas public schools since about 1880.
The exhibit shows photos and explains how African Americans lived and went to school in Kansas throughout its history,
The exhibit was popular everywhere it had traveled in Kansas and across the country, Wiechert said.
Wiechert said.
"We've had to wait over two years to get it." she said.
Deborah Dandridge, field researcher for regional history at the Spencer Research Library, said that she helped put the exhibit together. Dandridge assisted in writing the text for the exhibit and gathering photos from the regional history collections at the museum.
The exhibit will be at the library until Dec. 1.
Tropical storms strike interest of Kansas meteorologists
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
Hurricanes and typhoons usually aren't a problem for Kansas, but it's been a rough year for coastal states.
It has been a banner year for tropical activity in the Atlantic Ocean — 19 tropical storms and 11 hurricanes, said Lixion Avila, hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Fla.
Although Kansas is not a coastal state, professors and students at the University of Kansas do study hurricanes and typhoons.
Donna Tucker, assistant professor of meteorology, said that she
kept up with hurricane activity through computer data in the meteorology department and by watching the Weather Channel.
She said hurricanes and typhoons differed in name only and are caused by the same atmospheric circumstances.
A disturbance forms in the upper levels of the atmosphere, grows and begins to rotate above warm waters. If nothing stops the developing storm, it can become a tropical cyclone — a hurricane or typhoon.
Hurricane and typhoon activity might have increased this year because of an El Niño — a weather phenomena causing warming in
ocean waters. Tucker said
Phil Larsen, Indianapolis junior who studies meteorology, said there was a special interest in hurricanes when they seem to be moving toward Kansas. Hurricane Opal was one such storm, he said.
Extratropical depressions can be the remnants of more organized and powerful storms, and they have struck Kansas.
Opal struck Florida and traveled along the Appalachian Mountains as an extratropical low pressure system to New England, Larsen said. At one point, the storm appeared to be moving west toward Kansas.
Larsen said that in 1961, Hurricane Carla made landfall in the Gulf of
Mexico and caused flooding in Kansas. He said that when hurricanes struck land, they lost a lot of intensity.
Avila said the yearly average of activity in the Atlantic Ocean was about six hurricanes and 10 tropical storms. The hurricane season lasts from about late June to early November.
Gulf coast states and Mexico were rocked by hurricanes Allison, Dean, Erin, Jerry and Opal, Avila said.
In the Pacific Ocean, Typhoon Angela ripped through the Philippines last Saturday. The Associated Press reported that 250 people were killed by the worst typhoon since 1984.
Increasing population decreases food supply
By Craig Lang Kansan staff writer
Food producers worldwide are finding it harder and harder to keep up with the increasing population.
Signs that the world is facing a food crisis are beginning to appear, according to a new study released earlier this month by the Worldwatch Institute, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that monitors global environmental trends. The report, written by Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch, said grain stocks had fallen to their lowest level in two decades.
Brown said the effects of these statistics were apparent.
T. J. Byrom, state statistician for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said the amount of wheat and feed grains left in reserve worldwide at the end of the year were at a historical low.
"For those who spend most of their income on food, the rise in grain prices is becoming life-threatening," he said.
Factors influencing this trend are fertilizer ineffectiveness, land use, fishing capacity and water supplies.
"As countries begin to press against the limits of their water supplies, continuing growth in urban water use comes at expense of the farmer," the report said.
Loreen McMillan, marketing specialist for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said that although she
had seen a trend in the decrease of reserve stocks of grain, she was not sure the study by the Worldwatch Institute was accurate. She said some groups simply issued reports like that to increase their exposure.
Val Smith, acting director of the KU environmental studies program, said he thought the people of the Worldwatch Institute were reasonably level-headed and usually were accurate in their studies.
Smith said he believed that increasing world population had made it harder for farmers to meet grain production demands. He said the problem also was heightened by the American overindulgence trend.
"In general, many — but not all — Americans well-fed," he said. "I have had continuing concern that our ability of food-stuffing will be outstripped by the demand of overpopulation."
Brown said he had convinced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow farmers to use land left idle under set-aside programs every year, which would slow the decrease in grain supply.
Smith said that although he believed the Worldwatch Institute report was accurate, he was not sure the U.S. government would look at this issue as carefully as it should.
"I think that this administration would take it under advisement," he said. "But I'm not certain that either house of Congress will take it as seriously as they should."
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