University Daily Kansan/Friday, January 20, 1989
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Anthropology museum to open exhibit about Hopewell Indians
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The two cracked clay pots in the middle of the room and the bones and rocks in the display cases may look just old to some people, but to the Hopewell Indians who immigrated to the Kansas City area between A.D. 1 to 500, they were the tools of their survival.
The Hopewell Indians are the subject of an exhibit, "Kansas City Locality: A Prehistoric Frontier," at the Museum of Anthropology. The exhibit opens Sunday and runs through March 3.
The exhibit presents prehistoric Hopewell Indian items that R.B. Aker, Parkville, Mo., resident, recently donated to the museum. Aker is an amateur archaeologist who has been collecting Hopewell artifacts since the 1920s.
facts since the 1020s. The collection contains more than 10,000 artifacts,
many from the Hopewell people.
my from the Hopewell people. "This is the best collection of that time period in the area," said Anta Montet-White, professor of anthropology.
Montet-White said she and her anthropology students developed the exhibit after Aker gave it to KU. They got the collection, unpacked it, put things together, and cataloged and indexed it before preparing background research for the exhibit.
ing background research for the museum. "When we go and excavate, we work very slowly and get things like seeds and small bones — a lot of information, in a small area," Monet-White said. "People like Mr. Aker are serving bigger areas, so they can get things that we can't get."
things that we can do. Aker donated the collection to KU because he knew
that the museum studied Hopewell Indian artifacts, said Alfred E. Johnson, museum director.
Johnson said that although Aker was an amateur archaeologist, he collected in a very professional manner.
"He labeled and cataloged the pieces and recorded where he found them," Johnson said. "A lot of people collect arrowshead, but they just put them all in a jar. They're no good historically that way. This will be a valuable research and scientific collection."
The Hopewell and Seaside town originally lived in the Illinois River Valley, Johnson said. They followed the Missouri River to north Kansas City and then went north to St. Joseph.
The oak bickery forests stopped and the plains began in Kansas City, Johnson said. The Hopewells were woodland people. They lived on nuts, berries and deer meat and did not hunt buffalo.
meat and did not help the combined environment was a big burger in the Hope Indian's lives.
"We set up the exhibit to show the importance of environment in people's lives — how it shapes, and in some cases controls the way people live," Montet-White said. "The Hopewell lived in balance with their environment."
environment.
"During the Hopewell period, agriculture was introduced. The corn and squash that was used in the highland of Mexico was adapted to the Midwest and influence on corn and squash changed peoples' lives. They stayed in the same spot, developed villages and became farmers. During the Hopewell period, they went from hunting and gathering wild plants to cultivating plants."
Watkins receives accreditation
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
Watkins Memorial Health Center has received a certificate of accreditation for providing exceptional medical care to its community.
The three-year accreditation,
received Tuesday, was given by the
Accreditation Association for Ambulance
Services in Chicago to a dependent
organization in Chicago.
"Of the estimated 1,500 colleges with health care services, KU is among 31 in the country that had a doctor of medicine, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff of Watkins.
Yockey, chief of staff at Watford.
The accreditation certifies that
KU's health center has met nationally recognized standards of quality for health care set by the AAHC, and an assistant director of student services.
or students in the three-member team studied all aspects of patient care and hospi-
Boyle said that KU's health services had been accredited in the 1970s by the Institute of Hospitals but that the accreditation was allowed to lapse.
"The inpatient volume had dwindled so much that it was not cost efficient to operate as a hospital anymore." Boyle said.
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Yokey said that the health center
now averaged one inpatient every five days and 300 to 350 outpatients a day.
Within the past five years, the emphasis on ambulatory care has meant the expansion of some services at Watkins, including the addition of gynecology, sports medicine and a health-education department. Other areas of care include tuberculosis, injection, and diabetes treatment; dental and cholesterol screening; allergy injections; wart removal; nutrition counseling; physical therapy; radiology; and mental health.
Studv abroad applications due Jan.25
by Christine Winner Kansan staff writer
Time is running out for students who want to study abroad.
The deadline for study abroad applications is Jan. 25 for the International Student Exchange Program and Feb. 15 for the Great Britain
An informational meeting for students interested in studying in Great Britain will be at 4 p.m. Jan. 25 in 3 Lippincott Hall.
of KU's Study Abroad program, said that the addition of four new sites to the Great Britain program helped keep fees down. Tuition and room and board for a KU student studying for a year in Great Britain is approximately $6,000.
Costa Rica, France and Great Britain are the three most popular programs among KU students, Debicki said.
Dentzel said.
Academic-year, semester, and summer programs are available in 45 countries to qualified students
from KU and other U.S. institutions. Students must have a minimum grade point average of 2.7.
Approximately 500 KU students study abroad annually. Jane McCarthy, who spent last semester studying at the University of Seville, Spain, was one of them.
CmCarthy, Chicago junior, said she experienced some culture shock when she arrived in Spain.
"I realized that this is the world of convenience compared to Spain," she said.
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