Monday, October 31, 1977
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Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENEF
Supported by a rope held by fellow ROTC cadets, Lori Amereine, Harrison, Ark., sophomore, worked her way down a 75-degree incline during Saturday's ROTC rappelling exercise at Hamm Quarries north of Lawrence. About 75 cadets practiced rappelling on three slopes.
Rappelling generates tight guts
By ERIC MORGENSTERN
Rappelling is like a free fell from an airplane with rappellers hanging onto a rope instead of a parachute, according to one member of the Army ROTC program, which practices at the Hamm quarries north of Lawrence.
Rappelling is climbing down a steep incline by means of a nonmoving, double rope secured around the body.
The members of the Army ROTC squad practiced maneuvers Saturday, Rappelling down a slope and rappelling over a wall.
More than 70 people rappelled down a 100-ft embankment that was at an angle of 72 degrees.
In order to rappel, a "swiss seat" is tied around the torso. This seat is a 14-foot rope that is first tied around the waist. Then the rope is twisted between the legs and tied at the middle.
After the passing, a 4-inch steel ring is fastened around the waist loop and the loop around the legs. The double ropes pass through the ring twice, forming a loop inside the ring.
AS A PERSON starts down the mountain, the ropes side on through the ring at the rate at which he loosens and tightens the slack. If he starts to fall, the belay, the person standing at the bottom of the cliff holding the ropes, takes one step backward.
The friction in the ring is so great that further fall is impossible. If the belay held the rope taut, he could leave a rappeller on the cliff indefinitely.
Paul W.S. Joslin, Parsons sophomore,
said, "You feel like your life is on that rope.
You have to pay strict attention to what
you're doing."
Fred Geiger, Lawrence junior, said rappelling gives "a good, tight feeling in your gut, but you're still suspended in space."
Most of the people were rappelling for the first time, but all said they would do it
Mai. Richard Braddock, one of the faculty supervisors, said rappelling is used for safety during high-speed races.
It is an old military tactic and has less value now than in previous wars, he added.
"Because both rappelling ropes are teste at 4000 pounds and they are each tied around two trees, the most serious accident we've had was a twisted ankle." Braddock said.
An experienced rappeller can bound down in 20-to-30-foot jumps and reach the bottom of a mountain.
SAFETY IS OF great importance in the exercise, he said.
Monica Scheibmeir, Salina junior, said the exercise was "physically tiring and really scary. You look at those cliffs all the time when you feel great once you touch the ground."
City's park funds grant chopped
Fred DeVictor, director of parks and recreation, said Friday that the $3.85 was paid to a senior at Lawrence High School, the smallest of two park projects for which money was requested. The second project was a master plan for Lyons Park in north Lawrence.
City officials received a letdown Friday when they learned they would get only $38,555 of a requested $191,513 in federal funds for city park improvements.
Some money was better than none, DeVictor said, although he added that he had hoped to get the full request for at least one of the projects.
DeVictor said the city requested the money from the Kansas Joint Council on Recreation, met with Friday to allocate $2.4 million in U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation fees and generated from such things as offshore drilling rights and national park entrance fees.
HE SAID that the city asked for about $90,000 for the tennis center and $102,358 for development of Lyons Street Park in northwest Lyon. He also ordered one half-of the total costs of the projects.
The other half of the costs for the park would be shouldered by the city, he said. But the city and the school district would evenly share the second half for the tennis
Devictor said that with only $7,710 available, compared with an originally priced product, it was $5,960.
project would involve renovation of the four existing courts, a parking area and possibly court lighting. Earlier plans had included four new courts.
Mayor Marinie Argersinger, after hearing the news, said, "It's not all good, yet it's not all bad. I did hope for some help with the Lyons Park Street."
DeVictor said that the tennis center would be constructed next spring and that Lyons Street Park might have to be built part by part, in order to meet 20 council meeting allocated more money.
This fantasy can be fulfilled on the University of Kansas' computer system in Southern California.
Zapping Klingon warships into starcus, while commanding the starship Enterprise through interplanetary space doesn't require a trip to the Star Trek studios in Hollywood.
Staff Writer
Gamesters play with computers
Bv DAVE TOPLIKAR
"Star Trek" is the most popular of the computer games available, Russ Williams, student assistant at the Computation Center, said yesterday.
Williams said there were many games on tape that were used for demonstrations and oral presentations.
"One purpose is to relax people and get them used to working with the machine," he said. "Once they're used to the machine it's a lot easier to learn."
WILLIAMS SAID the games have been accumulating for years on the computer
"Some of them came from Dartmouth (University), but a lot of them were made up by bored students in their spare time," he said.
"Pootball" is a computer football game where one player selects an offense, another player selects a defense and the computer decides the outcome of each play.
In "Lalan," the player tries to land a spacecraft on the moon's surface, taking into account gravitational pull and fuel consumption.
"A lot of the games teach you a lot about
Triarte and his cousin, Juan Jose Rodriguez, Caracas senior, were charged with importation of and possession with the cocaine value at $190.000. Miller said.
Federal charges in drug crimes dropped Friday
Two felony drug charges filed in September against Ignacio Blanco Iriarte, Caracas senator, by the U.S. attorney's office for Texas and Louisiana, said Friday Miller, assistant U.S. attorney, said Friday
The cousins were arrested in Lawrence after Rodriguez claimed a travel bag from Mexico that was sent to the international Airport and brought it to Lawrence. Most of the cocaine, which had been flown in from the Dominican Republic, was later confiscated by officials before Rodriguez claimed the bag.
Miller said the charges against Iriarte were dropped because a recently concluded investigation cleared Iriarte of any involvement in the crime.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty in October to both charges and was sentenced Nov. 11,
angles, mathematics and gravitational pull," he said. "But many of the games are
"BLACKJACK," "Craps," and "Tictac," a three-dimensional game of lick-ack-lock.
A psychiatric game, "Eliza," allows the player to ask the computer for advice in his personal problems. The computer supplies stock answers to the player's questions, using phrases stored in its data banks, Williams said.
"It can't really answer your questions, but it's a lot of fun," he said.
Although there are many games on the tapes, Williams said, not everyone can come and play them. Only computer science teachers will be allowed to differ from their teacher can play the games.
Williams said this was because it cost money to run the computer and most of the programs should be run for educational purposes.
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