The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Maine Campus Archives University of Maine Publications Spring 2-23-1987 Maine Campus February 23 1987 Maine Campus Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus Repository Citation Staff, Maine Campus, "Maine Campus February 23 1987" (1987). Maine Campus Archives. 1943. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainecampus/1943 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Campus Archives by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. an 20, 1987 said DiMillo rrested by the The Daily Maine out at his THE UNIVERSITY Of MAINE NEWSPAPER SINCE 1875 11 know him Monday, February 23, 1987 vol. 100 na iny indicated at DiMillo's ate 1960's for Leakey speaks on origin t with Ven- of man him out to by Linda McGivern the others as apes." Staff Writer supervise the Leakey said opponents of the evolu- td Wednesday tionist belief frequently ask why evolu- Humans are genetically closer to ed or misled" tion had to take place in Africa and not chimpanzees than horses are to donkeys, ierv ice. someplace further north. said Richard Leakey, a prominent "Whether we like it or not, we are cited "ir- paleoanthropologist. from Africa," he said. n its handling Leakey began his Sunday afternoon There are two things, Leakey said, that )the criminal lecture, titled "The Origin of lead people to think evolution is "com- Mankind," to a capacity crowd in the pletely counter" to Christianity. Hutchins Concert Hall of the Maine He said that people are raised from d not take the Center for the Arts with a discussion of early childhood with a sense that a god - evolution. created them in his image. "If there are people who came ac- "Well, that's all right until you change cidentally, this is the time to ship that image," he said. Out," Leakey said, referring to people Another reason for this anti- attending the trout) has sup- lecture who might be of- evolutionary sentiment is that human be- fended by evolutionist ach state who belief. ings believe they are different from apes He said there is enators about sufficient evidence to because they have souls, he said. speak of evolution i aid. In addi- as fact Humans are aware of their own men- "There is the fact rom each state of evolution," tality, have an interest in their destiny, Leakey said, "and there are angton to lob- theories to and a self-awareness that the apes do not explain how it works." to face." have, he added. Leakey said Acquired Immune 3-Conn., who Defi- He said common portrayals of human ciency Syndrome exemplified this evolu- the House to ancestors as savage and violent tionary process because of its ras, welcomed ability to characters who clubbed women over the evolve and change. head and dragged them off are false. "Its ability to change is quite strik- Leakey said, "This is vant to say no a make-believe ing," he said. "That is evolution, world. elp of groups there's no question on that point." "There's no ncies to speak evidence to suggest that When speaking of human evolution, our ancestors behaved that way." Leakey said he thinks humans have not He said violence of that scale didn't separated the link with their primate she via exist until the last tens of thousands of • ancestors yet. years. "We haven't separated yet,- if indeed As a last point before he began a slide we ever will," he said. "We classified show President Dale Lick (left) fields questions with Richard Leakey, an expert on early to demonstrate his works and ourselves as human, and we classified humans, after Leakey's lecture at the Maine tenter for the Arts Sunda) night. (see LEAKEY page 2) Nursing building Maine Day'87 bigger floods Saturday by Mike Laberge He said the basic plans are in place for this Staff Writer year's event. hs MOS-MCCivern "What we need to do now is to work out Staff Writer Last year's Maine Day was so successful that some of the details." the only problem was finding enough projects A meeting to work out these details will be The basement of the School of Nursing building on College for all the participants. held Wednesday at 5 p.m. in Crossland Hall. Avenue filled with about eight feet of water Saturday night after This year, organizers hope to make Maine Organizations such as Alpha Phi Omega, a pipe in the building's sprinkler system blew. Day '87 even better. ,Gamma Sigma Sigma, Circle-K, and the Stu- Peter Noddin, of the University of Maine fire department, Wayne Lobley, chairperson for Maine Day dent Alumni Association, which helped plan said frost in the ground mcwed the main sprinkler line so that '87, said, "We're hoping it will go as smoothly last year's event are invited to attend, as well a coupling in the line was pulled apart. and maybe better than last year." He said damage to the building was limited to the basement. (see MAINE page 3) The fire department received a report from a passing motorist -sometime around 6 p.m. that water from the building was flow- ing onto College .Avenue, Noddin said. "I don't think it had been broken that long," he said, ad- ding that 15 minutes would have been long enough for the base- ment to have been completely filled with water. Terry Randall, UMaine fire department chief, said by 6:45 10 the basement of the building was filled with water. "When we arrived on the scene, there was water running out the cellar windows onto the road," Randall said. He said the UMaine plumbing shop got the water shut off around 10 p.m. .. According to Randall, there was relatively little danger in- volved in the incident because power to the building was out. - "There could have been a problem but the power was out." he said. Ray Thomas of the fire department said he estimated that there was about 40,000 gallons of water in the basement of the I! building before the draining process began. Noddin said further damage to the building was prevented because heat was restored to the building before the water could freeze. "Once we got the water out, the furnace repairmattwas able to get the furnace fired up again." he said. The Orono Fire Department and various plumbers and elec- tricians assisted in the draining and maintenance to the building. Rosa the poisareader reveals the future to Cliff Noyes at Friday's Vegas Night at the Union. (More on page 3) a.ustafson photot Awe. S Monday February 23, 198" The Daily Marne Campus, 1 he Du BLOOM COUNTY byBerke Breathed Clowning 57,0", A xx- tea lute aPf7.-' 41 fri"- e!- 04 TZIk" ne, around 44P m' m mar PERS+, we:" 45e MI4V- Amixts reA}VNE EXPIXtf oniffi$ V5,1ffle, ANA VrtfICAt by Anne-Marie Smith YET WFWMATtle NillfrAtolVtISt, PEFERPiCES HUY 377eW_ Volunteer Vgriter iv 6C46441, REAVINfP HGOAEYER Clowning around is going to be accep- table in at least one class this semester. Raeann Sirois, better known as Alpha Betty the clown, is holding a "Clowning — How and Where to " workshop for 1 I University of Maine students and anyone else who is interested. Siroi& is w non-traditional student, clown, and storyteller. She said she got Met &Er BIE trER. into clowning just by-shance about five biEK7TIVY 1#rif tar5 years ago as a Catholic youth counselor IN CAPIMON. ftrr, clowning since. .50644E 0/1£ and has enjoyed 109P77.4•30 LOT fOR BEEN She said the course will cover basic RAWER BRANS SWF,* clowning skills and strategies, plus girt 7RIBCV115." 'SCAT' Th makeup and wardrobe techniques. The Waif workshop will include a clowning ex- Negas N perience held on March 7. ssith "ft The workshops will be held Feb. 24 and mu and March 3, 7 — 9 p.m. and March 7, I — 4 p.m. in 201 Shibles Hall. There is a $42 course fee which must Ar - submitted by Feb. 23. by Jeff MacNelly NEW ' SHOE ages of • Leakey Wart TA NOT ALL 11'4 cOntag TUE "AIR underge INTIMIVAIW liAT WORRIES ME.. jUN61.E. JIM (continued from page 11 him. GUY; 1415CAtt/FF.5' Slend AZTWEAg7 evolutionary theory, Leakey said, "We abandot are here because we evolved. fame as "We often like to think of ourselves at Hess the apex of this evolution." monpla He then presented the slide show in as the e which various fossil artifacts and occava- Wart [ion sites demonstrated his works. art, soe One of the slides depicted the fossil re- catalog, mains of a 12-year-old Australopithacus Wart Doonesbury BY GARRY TRUDEAU boy which Leakey and some of his col- creatior leagues had discovered. It was con- glamor( sfireet sidered a major breakthough in the "1 I &r' Huvt-RA :can/ study of early man. 913111517 tie NEVER Leakey and his team have also recent- Paler ie7 REMEM&R ly discovered two new species of ape which were shown during the slide show. Also included among the slides were ci a 1.2 milfion-year-old handaxe,- ancient bone harpoon heads, a 100-120 thousand-year-old skull, some slides of .‘frican animals and the African terrain. "It is quite clear that substantial pro- gress has been made in the study of origins," Leakey said.