CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 21, 1993
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MIGRATING MONARCHS
Doug Hesse/ KANSAN
Students trace butterfly travels
By Chesley Dohl
By Chesley Doh
Kansan staff writer
Doug Hesse/KANSAN
Fluttering about the Baker Wetlands, many Monarch butterflies innocently tease and elude their pursuers. But hundreds of these butterflies, known for their distinct black and orange wings, will not leave Lawrence without a red tag affixed to their brilliant wings.
On Friday, Lawrence grade-school and high-school students celebrated the annual fall migration of the monarch butterfly through Kansas by catching and tagging the delicate insects south of Lawrence.
Kristine Eck and Tama Suderman, 15-year-old Lawrence high-school sophomores, walked through the wetlands Friday evening, armed with nets, insect repellent and a supply of clear wax envelopes.
"If I were a monarch I'd land right in my net," Eck said, swinging at a hovering butterfly.
"Hey, you got him," Suderman said, gently taking the butterfly out of the net and placing it inside an envelope for safe keeping.
After catching as many as 50 butterflies, students returned to the classroom where they tagged the butterflies, identified their sex and entered the information into a computer.
Above: Lori Custer, West Junior High School student, prepares a monarch butterfly for identification at the Baker Wettands by placing a red tag on the underside of its right wing with one-third of a drop of high sealant glue. Above left: a tagged monarch gets nectar from a sunflower. Above right: Brooke Wilson, Lawrence High School junior, left, and Sudhir Allada, Lawrence High School senior, look for butterflies before sunrise when the insects are cold and move slowly.
The red tags are affixed underneath the butterflies' right wings with high-sealant glue. The butterfly tags identify Orley Taylor, professor of entomology, who hopes that people who find the butterflies will contact him.
A computer modem has linked schools across the Midwest to advance communications, the key to the monarch-tracking process, said Ken Highfill, Lawrence High School biology teacher.
Highfill said the butterfly tracking project was unique because it brought together all age groups, from kindergartners to college professors.
Taylor recruited people in Lawrence to help catch and tag hundreds of butterflies last year.
"We've already learned a lot about the arrival dates for major flights of monarchs in each region of the country," Taylor said. "Now we're beginning to learn about their travel patterns and roosting areas because of the observations of Kansans last year."
Doug Hesse / KANSAN
Duck race to aid foundation
By Tracl Carl
Kansan staff writer
Ernie would be proud.
An expected 10,000 yellow rubber duckies will be set afoot shortly after noon Saturday at the Clinton Reservoir Spillway, east of Clinton Dam. People who adopted the first ten ducks that make it across the river will win prizes. The first-place prize is a 1993 Toyota Tercel.
The Great American Duck Race is a fund raiser for the Cottonwood Foundation, a non-profit organization that coordinates residential employment, work support and life enrichment for people with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities, said Carolyn Church, director of community relations for the foundation.
It provides support for people such as Arie Tillman, who has earned his living as a dishwasher for almost three years at the Deli Shop in the Burge Union.
When asked how to spell his name, Tillman, who has Down syndrome, crinkled his forehead and bit his lip in concentration.
Then he reached into his fanny pack and pulled out his driver's license, which had his name spelled correctly.
Tillman said he liked the work at the deli. But there was something he liked even more.
He usually spends his money on trips that Cottonwood organizes, he said, and pointed to his shirt from Branson. Mo.
Jason Olds, manager of the deli, said Tillman was a hard worker.
"He's clever," Ohlids said. "He's a fast learner and he'll work as hard as you want him to."
Tim Burton, Annandale, Va., senior, is campus coordinator for Natural Ties, a non-profit organization that pairs students with developmentally disabled individuals, most of whom are from Cottonwood. Burdon said.
"I was kind of surprised at how much these people have going on in their lives," Burton said.
and of surprise at how much these people have going on in their lives," Burton said. Students from 24 sororities and fraternities visit their friends about once a week to play sports or bring them to their parties, he said.
The duck race is a neat way to get the community involved in Cottonwood, Church said.
Adoption costs are a minimum $5 donation,
but the ducks in the race cannot be kept.
Last year was the first year for the race, and 7,338 ducks were adopted, raising $16,000, Church said. So far this year 2,000 ducks have been adopted, she said, and more ducks are expected to be adopted than last year.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Ducks can be adopted today at Kief's Audio and Video, 2429 Iowa; tomorrow at Dillons, 3000 W. Sixth St.; Thursday at Dillons, 1740 Massachusetts Street and in front of Mercantile Bank, 900 Massachusetts; and Friday at Dillons, 1015 W. 23rd St. They also can be adopted until the race at the spillway or by calling 842-DUCK.
Teen to be tried as adult in killing
One of four teenagers arrested Saturday in the death of a Lawrence man will be tried as an adult.
Abraham Orr, 17, has been charged with murder and attempted carjacking. Police said they had confessions from the four teenagers that identified Orr as the one who shot Edward Lees, 29, in Riverfront Park on Saturday.
Orr made his first appearance in district court yesterday. Judge Jean Sheppard set his bond at $500,000 based on two prior felony convictions — one for robbery and one for attempted robbery.
Lees was shot in the face through the driver's side window of his car, according to police reports. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman and two children who were in the car were uninjured.
Orr's next appearance is scheduled for Monday.
The other three teens were charged Saturday with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They are being held in Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention Center.
Drayton is 'Most Wanted'
Law enforcement officials are seeking the nation's help to find three escaped convicts, including former KU football player, Kenny Dravton.
The television program "America's Most Wanted" will open tonight with a 5-minute segment on the escapees.
"This falls under the breaking news category of our program," Anthony Batson said. "We have three dangerous men who have been at large for 10 days. We're hoping viewers' tips can help lead to their capture."
He said the program's operators would relay calls on the Drayton case to U.S. Marshals. The marshals then would note trends in tips to determine which ones were worth pursuing, Batson said.
Drayton and three other convicts escaped from an Arizona prison on Sept. 12. One of the men was recaptured Sept. 14 in Arizona, but the other three are still at large, according to authorities.
Drayton was sentenced to 305 years in the Arizona State Penitentiary after being convicted on 14 felony charges, including rape, sodomy, kidnapping and armed robbery. Lawrence and KU police officials think Drayton may return to Lawrence.
"America's Most Wanted" is at 8 tonight on channel 41.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports
Palestinian students seek unity Group offers social political platforms
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Officially, no Palestinian students attend the University of Kansas.
So KU considers Saeh a citizen of Israel.
Jamal Saah, president of the General Union, of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at KU, said he told the University his home was Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But he said KU considered the occupied territories part of Israel.
"I could be happy just putting 'West Bank, Jordan.' he said.
Events after World War II left Israel in control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where large numbers of Palestinians live. Saah said groups such as GUPS helped keep the Palestinian people together.
But the group is more than political, he said. Begun in the late '60s as an international organization, the group formed its KU contingent in the mid-70s, Saeh said. The goal was to unite the Palestinian students and help them share their culture with other nations.
Currently, the group is studying the recent peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeh said. He said the group could not reach a consensus on the accord because the terms were vague.
"There is very little indication of what the exact details of the accords are," Saeh said.
The group traditionally has been small, Saeh said. Ironically, it was uprisings in the occupied territories against Israeli forces that caused KU's Palestinian population to rise, he said. Israel closed the schools in the occupied territories in response, which sent more Palestinians overseas for college.
"There are so many oppressive factors in the universities that it's very difficult to live in the universities at home," Saah said.
Saeh said the group tried to hold events and bring speakers to KU who would interest a wide variety of people. Though the speakers may not be Palestinians, he said, they speak on issues that affect Palestinian affairs.
"Most of them are peace activists and human rights activists, so all those people do have something to do with Palestine," Saeh said.
But not everybody agrees. The group's request for funding to bring author Noam Chomsky to speak passed Student Senate two weeks ago with protests. Some senators cited a book that claimed Chomsky denied that the Holocaust ever happened.
Bassam Elkhatib, a junior from occupied east Jerusalem, said many Americans confuse Palestinians with Arabs.
"Americans over here don't know the Palestinians," he said. "They think the whole area is Arab. But we have different cultures."
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