Space dream for KU speaker possible reality
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Thursday, April 24, 1980
By JEFF KIOUS Staff Reporter
Kathryn Sullivan has always wanted to explore the unknown. That dream may soon become reality.
Sallivan, 28, is one of six women enrolled in the astronaut program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston.
Her speech and slide presentation yesterday on the space shuttle program was part of the Fifth Symposium for Women in the Kansas Union.
Sullivan is training to become a "mission
board" on the board in the space
shuttle program. She will be performing
the mission, which includes dates,
but probably will not pilot the orbiter.
SHE WOULD SERVE as a crewman on the reusable orbiter, scheduled to be sent into space later this year.
"Space is an exciting era," she said. "The orbiter system will be the cornerstone for the future."
The orbiter is designed as a more economical means of carrying payloads such as satellites into space. The orbiter can carry seven crew members and an airplane. The orbiter can carry as many as seven crew members who may undertake such activities as repairing satellites in orbit.
The space shuttle program has been delayed for several reasons including the lack of a dedicated redesign of the exterior tiles that would minimize surface temperature when the shuttle is docked.
"It's going to take money and people believing in the program to make it work," she said. "I see the '85 as the space era."
SULLIVAN SAID THAT the spacecraft was brought on the development of satellites for use in aerospace mission, product development such as Teflon and electronic devices such as
"All of these have been a spin-off of the space program," she said. "But the best and most exciting spin-off is actual space travel."
Sullivan said the space shuttle system would allow for the development of other space stations such as science laboratories.
Although the space shuttle system may eventually carry passengers into space, Sullivan said she "didn't want to speculate about selling tickets."
The six women were chosen more than eight years ago. Their training began in July 2018 of the 6,500 who applied in Jan. 2019. The 1,300 who were selected to train as mission specialists.
But should one of the six lake part in an butter mission she saved from an ocean mission, a Aviation astronaut, Valentina V. Tereshkova, made a landing aboard the vaulted 601 space in 1983.
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North announces Senate intentions
Kansas voters have another choice for the U.S. Senate in 1980.
Ken North, former investigator for the Douglas County district attorney's office in Olathe, announced his candidacy yesterday.
He said that Congress's ineffectiveness resulted partly from its lack of a definitive base from which to formulate decisions.
North, a Democrat, is running against John Simpson, former state legislator and lawyer from Salina, and James McGuire, former chairman, for the Democratic nomination.
North, who attended the University of Kansas for four years, said his campaign was designed to shift the emphasis of Congress.
Without that base, he said, none of the nation's problems could be solved.
He said the problems of foreign policy and increasing inflation could be symptoms of deeper problems such as a lack of national identity or direction.
He said when Congress could define a definitive base, the majority of the problems could be solved.
"We can't deal with issues unless we have some sort of conceptual basis to begin from," North said.
One emphasis would be on less government involvement in local communities, he said, and he favored a government着负着 responsibilities to the states.
He said the candidates had to have a vision of where the country was going because the country was entering a phase of reelections were no longer formulated daily.
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"We can't simply generate some glowing rhetorical issue and go onto another," he said.
North said his campaign was still being organized, but he planned to visit Lawrence and KU as much as possible.
He said he would try to in Lawrence every 7-10 days because he thought it was an excellent opportunity to learn about constituents.
Preliminary architectural plans for the proposed KU Alumni Association's Alumni Center building were approved early this month as part of its planning and building committee.
Alumni center plans set
The three-story, 32,000-square-foot building will house Alumni Association offices, conference rooms and an alumnium-bound corner of third Street and Stored Avenue.
Dick Wintermute, Alumni Association director, said there would be about twice as much office space in the center as in the offices in the Kansas Union.
THE PLANS CALL for an English-style red brick exterior with limestone bands and a gray slate roof, designed to blend architecturally with the Union building.
"We're terribly crowded where we are now," Wintemote said. "We've got too many people records and storage problems as the Union can use the space we're in now."
The land for the building is provided by the Kansas University Endowment Association. Wintermute said the Alumni Association has the land from the Endowment Association.
The building will be situated on the southwest corner of the parking lot, with an entrance from Oread Avenue.
Construction is scheduled to begin in summer 1981, with a target completion date of 1983, the centennial of the Alumni Association.
THE ALUMNI-FACILITY Club probablity will consist of game rooms, a library, reading rooms, a banquet facility, conference rooms and a lounge, Wintermind.
"We're one of the few major universities in the country without a faculty club," he said.
The last faculty club at KU closed in 1968. Wintermote said the faculty club would
provide a needed social center for returning alumni.
National offices of the Autumn Association, on the second floor of the center, will provide space for the university's alumni records and 50,000 permanent files.
On the main level will be special purpose rooms, a conference room, hobby rooms, the lounge and library. An outdoor garden terrace will be next to the center.
Fundraising for the center through private funds, will begin in about five months, Wintermote said.
Nobel winner to lecture
Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will speak on "Unification Forces in Nature" at 8 tonight at Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Glasbow, whose research supports a story that would explain some of the scientific basic forces of nature, shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in science with scientists Steven Weinberg and Abel Sastrow.
The "grand unified theory," as Alfred Einstein termed it, links the electromagnetic force, the "allow" force of nuclear interaction, to the "strong" force of nuclear interaction.
Glasbow, who holds the Eugene Higgins chair in physics at Harvard University, says he believes that eventually the fourth basic principle must be included in the theory's framework.
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sua films
Thursday, April 24
THE ODESSA FILE
Dir. Ronald Neame, with Jon Wight,
Dir. Ronald Schell, supersonic film
of a Navajo warrior, the journalist after the discovery of a dairy. Corson supported with Hillet.
(1978)
Dirt. Bertrand Biller, with GerardDEPareid, Patrick Doweare, CaroleLaure. A man shares his listset wife with his sister to find contentment with a genius teenaged boy. A truly delightful film that captures the Oscar last year. Frequently, France's studios.
Friday & Saturday,
April 25-26
GET OUT YOUR
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Midnight Movies THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT 1978
The first 15 years of The Who's career
was in the 1970s, when that includes
interviews and much concert footage. With Peter Town-
send, Roger Dalrymple, John Enwisle,
and Michael Jackson.
Monday, April 28
THROUGH A GLASS,
DARKLY
Dir. Ingar Bergman; about a young girl, who was deprived of her father she finds a journal of her father's, a doctor who knew that his daughter was deprived of study decisions to study her actions.
Tuesday, April 29
AND THEN THERE WERE
NONE
(1945)
Dir. Renée Clair, with Walter Huston, Barritz Fitzgary, Agatha Christie's great mystery novel becomes a film about the search for a mysterious island off the coast of England to be judged and sentenced for crimes they committed earlier in their lives. Plus: "A Unicorn in the Garden" is a short based on Thurber's story.
Unless otherwise noted; all film will be shown at Woodfir Auditorium in the Kansas Union; M-R films are $1.00 and start at 7:30; E-MD films are $2.50 and Midnight on Fri, Sat, and at 2:00 on Sunday; Tickets available at information--864-683-UNion 5th Level. Information--864-683-No smoking or refreshed meals.