University Daily Kansan
Fridav. April 25. 1980
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Emergency center to stage dry run
By GREG RICHARDS
Staff Reporter
At precisely 2 p.m., May 16, a tornado will strike Douglas County—a "pretend" tornado, that is.
The exercise will test the decision to deploy Emergency Operating Center or Judicial Center, according to Travis Brann. emergency preparedness center
The EOC, in the center's protected building, serves as a center where community leaders can convene and coordinate emergency activities in the event of a natural or public灾难.
The EOC includes a communications room, with radio communications equipment for monitoring law enforcement and radios tuned to hospitals, local government, and county works; a planning room with several telephones in numerous local officials' offices; and emergency water and a power generator.
A NEW MOBILE command post v also is available to provide a communications center at the scene of an emergency and enforcement and fire department effort.
But the center can provide only the place for effective emergency leadership.
"Response to a disaster is a community response, not an EOC response," Bram said. He called local efforts during the earthquake. Aniktra train wreck "magnificent."
"Working within the limits of what we have, in terms of money and manpower,
we're able to maintain a posture from which we could react in a respectable length of time to a perceived nuclear attack," Bram said.
THE GOALS for reaction during that encounter would include educating the public as to how to prevent and gather the food and emergency support supplies for surviving for up to 3 weeks, he said.
Bram said that a major problem was an imbalance in emergency preparedness funding.
"We spend literally billions of dollars to recruit and train our staff, silos, that sort of thing-whole-currently, we're able to spend only a piddling amount for helping the majority of our staff."
"And people are our major resource. In my mind that constitutes something of an irony."
DESPITE THE IRONY, Braan's office attempts to balance the goals of nuclear survival with what resources it has.
He rated Douglas County's ability to cope with disaster as typical.
"In an out nuclear conflict, with a possible adversary, we would lose 60 percent of our population, while their loss would be 6 to 8 percent," Brann said.
"We are no better or no worse than any other community. None of us are as good or prepared for disaster as perhaps we should be." he said.
The EOC, opened in 1976, is funded equally by county and federal funds. Bramsa unit. The problem of inflation, which had bad effects on spending power over the last three years.
Particle theory advances foreseen
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
Despite remarkable discoveries and theories developed in recent years, man's universe is still very much incomplete, the 1979 winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Sheldon Lee Glashow, a Harvard physicist who won the award, told about 150 persons in Woodruff Auditorium that in the last two weeks alone there have been two discoveries in physics, both involving the electron. A subatomic particle known as the neutrino.
"I'm pleased to say that the subject is not quite closed, that new, important things will be happening faster and faster in the future," Glashow said.
"We're learning with some difficulty that it's sort of like sex in Sweden—anything not officially prohibited by law is legal," he said.
IN FACT, he said, anything not specifically prohibited by a law of physics can be expected.
Given a short course in particle physics which he called from Albercon to Alberts, he believed that the four basic forces believed to be the four basic forces in electromagnetism. The gravitational theory dates back to Isaac Newton and electronmagnetium accounts for such things as gravity.
The other two basic forces are known as the "strong" interactive force and the "weak" interactive force. They help explain
"THE STRONG FORCE has to be because the protons in the nucleus would have equal, and thus repellant, charges," he said. "We't they stay vapour. Who?"
Wait, looking at the first word of line 2, it's "because". Then the second word is "protons". The third word is "nucleus". The fourth word is "have equal, and thus repellant, charges". The fifth word is "he said". The sixth word is "we't they stay vapour. Who?"
Let's re-read line 1 again:
"The strong force has to be because the protons in the nucleus would have equal, and thus repellent, charges."
the behavior of protons, the positively charged particles in the nuclei of atoms.
"And what induces the nuclei to change, such as when a neutron changes into a proton? That's the weak force."
Glassow shared the Nobel Prize with two other physicists for their work in explaining the relationships between electromagnetism and the "weak" force.
Some theories treat those four basic forces, however, as only three and those three, someday he said, may be thought of as just one.
"It it would be The Theory, 'Glassah said, "which is like a cake my bake that has no shortening, no flour, no butter, but which is awfully good. It would unite the four."
"We're not on the way of having it, as I see it at the moment, but many are trying desperately to come up with one."
Such a unified theory would show the relationship between more than 98 natural elements and 61 elementary particles, he said.
"Ultimately, a completely unified theory is the dream, but at the moment it's just that—a dream," he said.
GLASHOW SAID THAT the work being done is understanding subatomic particles was important for all aspects of science.
"If you understand how the smallest things work, then you can begin to understand how the bigger things work, such
Understanding the "strong" and "weak"
forces was important, he said, because
without them the universe would be very
different for several reasons.
First of all, he said, without those two forces, the only element would be hydrogen, which has only one proton. The other would be oxygen, which could not exist without the "strong" force.
as rabbits," he said. "And I don't think anyone really knows how they work."
ANOTHER PROBLEM without the "strong" and "weak" forces, he said, would be that there could be no nuclear reactions.
meaning there could be no stars. Stars
"burn" by a process of nuclear reactions
"The earth--if it existed at all--would be a cold, cold place, a solid ball of hydrogen," he said.
In the 1908s, Gashow gained prominence for his work in the theory of quarks, which he said were particles smaller than protons.
"For many years, nucleons (neutrons and protons in the atoms) were thought of as fundamental particles," he said. "Now we know they're not. They are made of quarks, which we have been we attached. They may well be that fundamental particle, but we don't know."
Both are KU students, but police would not release their names at the scene.
crash into a concrete wall near her balcony support.
The road was heading south on Emery Road at midnight, police said, when the driver stopped to check whether he is brakes locked and the car flow off the embankment, landing on an inclined drive slope.
Car jumps embankment; none hurt
A 1970 Caramaro dived off an embankment early this morning near West Hills Apartment complex, 1012 Emery Road, but the driver and passenger were not injured.
"I thought I would have a Camara on my balcony," said the resident, Mary Bibb of her home. "Park sophomore." "Just two days ago, a Mountain" said off the road and on the grass.
Officer Dave Davis said that unarmored car was the driver lost control of his vehicle. Another officer said that Emery Road was notorious for attracting speedcars on the road.
One resident of West Hills said she heard the car's brakes squeal and then heard it
Police said the car was destroyed in the accident.
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