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Tuesday, October 25, 1977
University Daily Kansan
SUA's entertainers selected by prices, popularity
Popularity, promotion and prices are involved when deciding what groups and speakers appear at the University of Kentucky KU. The new SUA program adviser, said yesterday.
"If a group or speaker is not passing through our area, or if they're too expensive, we don't have to touch them," Vicidomine, 28, said.
He said that SUA did not book a group that was playing in Kansas or nearby cities because people could travel there easily.
Vicidomine also said that SUA often
waited for the promoters of speakers and groups to call them.
1r, for example, a promoter calls and tells us his performer will be passing through town and wants to know if we can use him, then we'll talk it over," he said.
VICIDOMINE SAID that programs were offered to attract different people.
"But numbers don't always mean a successful program. I feel these students
He said that he thought a student ticket
Maybe if the price of the Bella Lewizky ballet was $3 instead of $4, people might have thought twice about coming to see them."
price to forums might help audience turn-ups.
Vicidomeine an the SUA program advertiser at KU Oct. 14 after moving here from Michigan to New York in December of Dayton three years as an assistant director of student activities. He also worked one year as manager of a dinner and two years as manager of a country club.
"THE IDEA of the board is so great."
Students win plane design contest
Staff Writer
By HENRY LOCKARD
Twice in the last two years, University of Kansas students have won first place in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics design competition.
This year, six KU students won a $1,000 first prize in the national competition, which was sponsored last month by the Bendix Corporation.
Two of the six—Hamid Massall, Pittsburg senior, and Steve Ericson, Lawrence senior—are still KU students. The four alumni are Don Young, Lawrence; Weldon Wainright, Russellville, Ark.; Gary James, Mo.; City, Mo., and Edward Baker, Chanute.
Young and Wainright now work for Beechurch in Wichita, James, who was a Navy ROTC student, is now in Corpus Christi, Tex., taking his flight training. Baker now works for Boeing aircraft in Seattle, Wash.
JAN ROSKAM, professor of aeronautics engineering, taught the design class that morning.
Roskam said that in the fall semester of the two-semester course, students divided into groups of from two to four students and competed with each other to design the best airplane. In the spring semester they worked together building the airplane design that Roskam had chosen.
He said this year's contest required that each design be for a two-seat airplane that could be built cheaply from a kit. Some of the things they had to consider were factory space needed for production, kinds of tools and materials, safety and performance of the plane while in the air—cruising speed and mileage range per tank of gas.
Young was appointed chief engineer.
TO GET the plane built in one semester, Roskam said he appointed one student as chief engineer to oversee the production. The other students were divided into groups to work on different parts of the production such as aerodynamics and structure.
Young said yesterday in Wichita that he had thought seriously about carrying the project one step further on his own and sometimes building a plane based on the design.
He said the original design was for a plane with a wingspan of 30 feet and a weight of about 1,500 pounds. An aluminum alloy would be used for constructing the frame and body and a product similar to fiber glass for the fuselage.
ONE OF the design's weaknesses, he said,
was in its landing distance because the wing
flaps were not as good as those on factory-
built planes.
However, Roskam said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was not as strict with its air-worthiness requirements on experimental planes.
He said the FAA had two types of certified planes--factory and experimental. Factor planes are classified as either high-performance or not high-performance
depending on whether they fly faster than 200 miles an hour.
Roskam said that developing the design so that it could be built from a kit and be certified as an experimental plane was the hardest requirement his students had to learn.
per cent of the work necessary to complete the kit. He said it was difficult to design a kit that somebody with a minimum of knowledge about airplanes could build.
To be certified as experimental a plane must be one that an individual could build at home in his own garage, he said. Some experienced planes fly faster than 200 miles per hour.
BEFORE THE FAA would certify their plane as experimental it had to be proved that the aircraft was capable of flight.
Roskam's part in the refining of the design was small because he was on sabbatical. Ross, visiting associate professor of aeronautics engineering, supervised in Roskam's place. Ross is now doing con- ditioning at Miml, Miml, and was not available for comment.
Young said Ross would be in kansas in November and the six students were placed there.
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Vicdomine said. The people on the board are extremely knowledgeable in what they're doing. They want to get things done."
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However, he said he thought that board members needed to listen to each other more and to be more concerned about what their fellow board members felt.
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"I'd like to see the board take an interest in areas that aren't their own," Vicidomine said. "I'd like them to work more closely as a unified whole."
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Vicidomine bea an SUA program adviser at KU Oct. 14 after moving here from Dayton, Ohio. He worked at the University of Dayton three years as an assistant student of student activities. He also worked one year as manager of a country club.
The public relations and business experiences on the later jobs were invaluable.
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Vicidimone said one of his main goals was to touch the life of each student at least once during the semester with a program that the student was interested in.
Vicidomine said that his first love was
student activities. He said that for a long time, student activities had been thought to be all fun and games and of little real help for students.
"I want people to know that what I do is not a hobby," he said. "This is my life's work. The future of activities departments is that they have to complement the current department. The board members I work with put into practice what they learn in the classroom."
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