wednesday, January 18, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Jimmy Green Statue
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KU astronomer is invited to join search for planets
By ROB HAGAN Staff Writer
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Astronomers have been unable to detect planets outside of our solar system. However, that might change this summer when a group of astronomers, possibly including one from the University of Kansas, scan the sky in search of new planets.
Stephen Shaw, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been invited to participate in the experiment, which will be conducted at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson. He is asking the University to pay his expenses.
Shaw said the discovery of new planets would help scientists to better understand the universe.
"Mostly we will understand the evolution of stars themselves," Shawi said.
"It also would give reasonable ways to listen for radio signals if there are other life sources."
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Shawn said, "by Keystone Serkowski, an
author of the book 'How to Reach
Heaven'."
"He developed an instrument called a radial velocity meter that will detect
balance points between the star and the revolving planets," shawl said.
The balance point between a star and a planet, he said, is like the balance point of a teeter-tetter. If a heavier person, who represents the star, is on one side, and a lighter person, who represents the planet, is on the other the balance point will be closer to the heavier person.
If there is a balance point near the star, Shaul said, the muster will indicate a planet within 50 light-years.
However, the planet has to be the size of Jupiter to be detected, Shawl said. That means that the experiment could last up to 10 years because Jupiter takes 14 years to orbit.
IF SHAW'S funding is approved, he will go to Arizona for the summer to learn about the program.
Although the other astronomers expect to find planets, Shawl also personally hopes to find asteroids.
"Right now it is science fiction, with 'Star Wars' and 'Close Encounters', but in a few years it might not be," Shawl said. "I for one, hope so."
Ford schedules KU lecture visit for day of Green Hall dedication
Former President Gerald Ferdal will visit the University of Kansas Feb. 21 to speak at the dedication of new Green Hall, James Chapel, an assistant to the chancellor, said Monday.
Seany said Ford would arrive in Lawrence after attending the governor's prayer breakfast, an annual breakfast for elected officials across the state, at 7:30 in Topeka, and would leave Lawrence late in the afternoon.
The dedication speech at 11:45 a.m. will be Ford's only public appearance, Scaly said, and Ford will spend the rest of the day speaking to classes.
THE CLASSES Ford will visit have not been determined but the administration
will try to choose as broad a sample of classes as possible, Sally said.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said that Ford would attend a luncheon at 1 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom for the celebration of dating dignitaries, law students and faculty.
The dedication ceremony will be in front of Green Hall if the weather is good, Dickinson said, but the ceremony will be held at the theatre in Murphy Hall if the weather is bad.
Governor Robert Bennett also will attend the dedication, he said.
Ford will go to Kansas State University Feb. 20 to deliver a lecture.
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Although the statue of Jimmy Green will not be in place outside the new School of Law for the Feb. 21 dedication of the new building, the statue will be moved to its new site by the fall semester, DeanNella Tacha, associate dean of law, said Monday.
The statue commemorates James Green, founder of the law school and dean from 1878.
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Tacha said the decision to move the statue was made four years ago when plans for the new Green Hall were held. He said that the school has been waiting for the results of a study of the statue to determine whether it could be moved and how best to do it before making the decision.
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TACHA SAID that Phoebe Wilde, an expert in archaeological materials at Washington University in St. Louis, had studied the statue. Wilde used X-rays to help determine the condition of the statue and how it could be moved.
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The bronze figure of Green, his arm resting on the shoulder of an unidentified student, has stood outside old Green Hall for more than 33 years.
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RECORDS INDICATE that French selected the present site of the statue and also suggested that "Uncle Jimmy" be depicted there. The large bergese tense is close relationship with students.
DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH, sculptor of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was commissioned to do the statue.
In order to move the statue, Tacha said, the bronze figures probably would have to be moved.
Tacha said she has now received the
The sculpture was dedicated in May 1924. After Green's death in 1919, about 1,300 students, faculty members and friends of the school received $35,000 to establish the memorial to Green.
Because special procedures will be necessary, professional statue movers will move the sculpture, Tacha said. Bid for the project will be made through the law school.
Eldon Tefft, professor of art who has consulted with the law school about the move, emphasized that caution would be needed to avoid the capture because of the importance of the work.
Bergland predicted that exports in the current 1977-78 marketing year would top the government's original estimate of 1.1 billion bushels.
results of the study, and plans to move the statue are underway.
"It requires a great deal of expertise to move such a piece of art," Tacha said. "Ware now at the point of having technical conferences with the bidders. We don't know yet what techniques will be used."
"And we are taking steps to do just that," Bergland told the National Wheat Growers Association yesterday. "Wheat exports could even exceed this level. I am aware that the trade is projecting considerably more."
Bergland sees export rise
The record for wheat exports was 1.173 billion bushels in the 1975-76 season. The export market is important in shaping wheat prices which slumped to about $2 a bushel last summer while farmers were earning a near-record 2 billion bushel wheat crop.
Depression of prices touched off the nationwide farmers' strike against low prices last Dec. 14. Prices have recovered somewhat since the summer, and although still far below the $0.56 a bushel "full party" goal of the American farmer, they had reached $2.47 by mid-December, compared with $2.39 a year earlier.
Bergland noted that in addition to the cash market price, farmers also received a 65-cent a bushel support payment on 1977 wheat.
The agriculture secretary said that 1977 wheat production "shortfalls" in many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, prompted his agency's experts to predict that American wheat exports in 1977-78 year, which began last June 1, would reach 1.1 billion bushels, compared with 960 million in the previous year.
Bergland said his department was working with one wheat industry association to promote sales in Malaysia and other Asian markets, and with another group to promote sales in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Administration moves to promote larger exports have already included an increase in funding of commercial farm export credits to a record $1.7 billion, and a $325,000 increase in cooperative foreign market development programs, he said.
While Bergland spoke in Kansas, farm strike leaders prepared for a rally in Washington tomorrow and meetings with tomorow will be lobbied by lobby for action to raise farm prices.
"we are not gearing our export program to massive one-shot sales every few years. But, rather, we are building permanent and ongoing demand for producers can rarely year after year," he said.
A cooperative government-industry export program also is increasing efforts to expand sales to Eastern Europe and the Middle East, to those areas will be higher this year.
TEFFT SAID the Wilde study showed that the sculpture was in good condition and that various techniques could be used to move the statue.
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The first step in the move will be to separate the bronze figures from the granite base. Tefft said. This could be done in one of three ways.
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TACHA SAID the statue would be moved to a site northeast of the main entrance of the new Green Hall. Special lighting and a 7-ft concrete pad for the statue already are installed.
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Tacha said she hoped the statue would be in place by September. Last November she had predicted the move would be made within three months.
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