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Thursday, January 19, 1978
University Daily Kansan
NASA chooses KU grad to fly in space shuttle
From Staff and Wire Reports
A 1973 University of Kansas graduate in astronomy, Steve A. Hawley, has been selected to become an astronaut for future space shuttle flights.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration named 35 candidates Monday, including six women, three black men, an female, to the nation's space nrostrum.
It was the first time that women and minority-group members have been named to the astronaut corps. The group also was the largest contingent of astronauts ever selected and the first group named since 1969.
The astronauts will report for training July 1 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will be eligible for flights in 1980, the second year of shuttle operation.
BY 1855, NASA expects to be launching as many as 60 shuttle flights a year, carrying as many as seven persons on each flight. The shuttle is a reusable spacecraft that will land on earth like an airplane, and then will be refurbished and flown again.
A CURRENT group of 27 astronauts will man the early flights, in about 13 of them.
Hawley leaps two other KU graduates, Joe Engle and Ron Evans, in the space programs. Evans and Engle already have their astronaut wings for the shuttles.
Hawley was born in Ottawa, and his family moved to Baltimore suburb until the late 1970s.
Hawley graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of a Summerfield奖
HALEY DID his graduate work at the University of California at Santa Cruz where he received his doctorate last summer. He is now serving in a post-doctoral appointment at Cerro Inter-American Observatory in La Serina, Chile.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
AT LA SERINA. Hawley has been studying abnormal types of galaxies that emit unusually large amounts of energy. He is trying to discover where the energy comes from.
Stephen Shawl, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and a close friend of Hawley, called him in Chile after hearing of the death of his father, who is believed to have killed the whole thing, Shawl said.
Hawley's job description for the program has not yet been assigned, said Shaw, who also is one of Hawley's former professors in astronomy. He said Hawley would receive training in engineering, but 30 to 40 percent would be in astronomy.
"It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Hawley told Shawl.
Lobby group plans campaign
Members of the Senate Student lobby committee announced last night that library improvements, a graduate student fee increase and other proposed changes would be their primary issues this spring.
The committee, Concerned Students for Higher Education (SHE), announced its intended issues to about 20 student leaders from various University groups. The leaders were asked to work for support in individual organizations for SHE efforts.
Members of the groups specifically concerned with the three issues also spoke before the student leaders to provide further information about their problems.
Rob Green, CSHE chairman, said his group had picked library improvements, the fee waiver and women's sports because of the number of students that would be affected and because of the urgency of the situations.
CSHE is currently circulating a petition showing support of the proposed improvements in Watson Library. The petition has been submitted and currently has 2.087 signatures.
CSHE members plan to distribute more petitions and information to students about writing letters to legislators. A rally for this week started at 7:30 p.m. Jan, 29 in the Kansas Union.
Maps of legislative districts and lists of legislative addresses also will be available online.
KANSAN On Campus
TONIGHT: The KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS meet at 6 in the Union Council Room to hear Elmer Jones and Leon Riffle, two leaders of the American Agriculture Movement. The COLLEGE Bennett at 7 in the Forum Room of Robert Bennett at 7 in the Forum Room of Union. The TROMBONE CHOIR has a recital at 8.m. in Swarthout Reall Hall.
Events
TOMORROW: THE KANSAS RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION meets all day in the Union. The GREAT PLAINS TRIO, part of the Visiting Artist Series, has been invited to Realtor Hall. The KU FOLKDANCE CLUB meets at 7:30 in 223 Robinson Gymnasium.
CORRECTIONS: It was incorrectly reported in the Kansas yesterday that the U. women's athletics department was disqualified because of Senate. The Senate had voted to refuse funding to women's athletics for fiscal year 1979 or any years after that. The woman's athletics department currently has $63,060 in its budget that was allocated by the Senate for fiscal year 1978.
Heavy reading
Despite the large crowds at the Kansas Union Book Store yesterday, Kelly Stewart, Wichita sophomore, seemed more concerned with reading her class books than purchasing them.
Enrollment . . .
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not know how many students had been through late enrollment yesterday, but he thought a few more students had enrolled than usual.
"It was pretty busy," he said. "We couldn't have handled many more."
According to Dyck 600 to 800 students
usually enroll late each semester. Late enrolment continues through Feb. 28.
Although enrollment had increased from last spring, the University enrollment totals showed the traditional fall-to-spring enrollment loss. Final fall enrollment was 25,327, which is 1,557 more than the estimated final enrollment for this spring.
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Proposed bill would offer student-financed legal aid
University of Kansas students may have another source of legal aid by next fall if the Student Senate passes legislation to establish a prepaid legal services program
The survey, mailed to about 800 students last October, asked students 63 questions about their opinions toward the establishment, the program and how willing they would be to fund it.
Steve Leben, student body president, said yesterday that work was continuing on legislation for a legal service program after results of a survey of KU students last semester indicated that many would favor the program.
By LINDA FINESTONE
Leben said he hoped the program could be established by next fall.
A prepaid legal services program, which Leben said would be funded by student activity fees, would offer students legal advice and representation in court.
THE KEY QUESTION of the survey, Leben said, asked whether students would be willing to pay an additional $3 in activity fees for such a service. Leben said 60 percent answered yes, 28 percent answered no and 14 percent had no opinion.
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He said the survey also asked students if they would consider paying up to $2 in additional fees for a program that would offer legal services but would not represent the services. He paid $3 percent an awered yes, 40 percent answered no and 17 percent were unsure.
LEBEN SAID he beoped a program at KU could operate for under $30,000 in its first year.
Money is not now available for a program, Leben said, and all funds would have to come from student activity fees. He said there was a possibility that the fee could be reduced or dropped by the fee could be cut, so the money could go to a prepaid legal services program.
Another possibility is that the fee could remain at its present level of $11.10. Leben said the Senate last May voted to cut funding for women's intercollegiate athletics from next year's fee. The cut would be $1.50 a student, making the total fee $9.60.
Leben said if the fee remained at $11.10,
it would be applied to the legal services proof of claim.
"I WOULD FAVOR not reducing the fee
so we could go ahead and start the legal services program." *Leben said.*
The Special Services Committee of the Student Senate has been working on possibilities for the program and preparing legislation.
Mike Taraboulos, committee chairman,
said the committee had drafted legislation
for the program, but the committee would
have to meet to complete and approve
the drafted bill before it could be presented to
the Senate.
Taraboulis said the bill might not be ready for the Senate meeting next Wednesday, but that it would probably be completed in time for the Feb. 8 meeting.
Taraboules the committee's budget for the program ranged between $45,000 and $50,000.
HE SAID THE bill the committee presents to the Senate might recommend an increase in student activity fees to fund the student loan program. The student would make only $49,000 available.
Leben said students presently could seek legal aid from the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, but that help through that program available only to persons who were "poor".
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY Legal Aid Society, in new Green Hall, offers legal advice and representation to residents of Douglas County who meet certain financial requirements. A person who is not a Douglas County resident but whose case involves the county also may seek help from the society.
A potential client must pay $4 $1 interview fee for the society to consider taking the case. If the case is accepted, an additional $5 case-handling费 is charged.
Leben said a prepaid legal-services program. University would not involve a prepaid program unless
"The program would offer aid to any and all KU students," Leben said.
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