University Daily Kansan
Monday, June 18.1973
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Above Reproach...
... but unable to give Caesar a child, Capurpa hears her husband tell her she must participate in the Feast of Lupercalia, ancient Rome's answer to infertility. The scene, in Elizabethan play "Caesar," which opened Saturday night at the University Theatre.
Labor Market's Statistics Omit 200.000 'Invisible' Black Men
By WILLIAM CHAPMAN
WASHINGTON—A couple of decades ago, Ralph Ellison wrote his memorable novel, "The Invisible Man," about a black who had been seen as a monster, one ever looked at him. In defense, he illuminated his basement room with 1,369 light bulbs to assure himself that he really knew what he was.
As so often happens these days, fiction has a way of showing up as fact. The economists and statisticians continue to turn up a startling and depressing fact: the invisibility, in an economic sense, of literally tens of thousands of black men.
They aren't seen in the ranks of the unemployment or the employed. They simply aren't there in the columns of numbers that purport to show how well the employer has performed. And the latest evidence is that they are becoming invisible at an ever-increasing rate.
WE ARE BEING submerged these days with statistics telling us that blacks never had it so good in terms of jobs, education, housing and employment that reckoning ignores the invisible men.
The evidence comes from the Bureau of Labor statistics' most recent report on labor force participation, a measure of the number of people who either are employed or are looking for work. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, the participation rate for white men was relatively stable, declining slightly in 12 years—principally because the base began retiring earlier. For blacks, the base increased downward steadily during the 60's, though good times and bad, and by 1972 it was a full 10 percentage points lower than in
Consider what happened in the latest
period of "Good Times." In 1970, 76.5 per cent of black men 16 years of age and over were officially in the labor force. By 1972, it was 73.7 per cent. In percentage terms, it may seem small. But had the rate of employment there would have been, officially at least, about 200,000 black men either employed or actively looking for work last
analysis
year, in other words, during one of our times recent periods of prosperity, about 200,000 black males became economically invisible.
in which the blacks made astronomical gains in levels of education and Federal agencies pumped out millions for remedial education and job training. But these apparently accomplished little or nothing for a large slice of the population at the bottom.
IF A NUMBER that large referred to soldiers missing in action during the war, it would prompt an investigation of monumental proportions. But no one seems to know just where the 200,000 have gone. They are presumed alive and as well as could be expected of someone who hasn't a real number. The statistician calls it the "Mystery of our Times" and economists can offer speculative guesswork only.
IT IS A condition that Charles C. Kollingwsorth, professor at Michigan State, describes as the "spit-level job market." For those with skills and education, the job market is not all that offers those without those advantages, there is nothing. The jobs at the bottom—for floor-washers, elevator operators, material handlers—the jobs most easily mechanized, and they are fast disaspousing. They can also them, Killingsworth says, "After looking for work and not finding it, they just give up."
This would seem improbable for a period
By CAROL GWINN
Kansas Staff Writer
KU Physicists Study Matter, Seek New Elusive 'Elementary Particles'
Science
Kansan Staff Writer
The discovery and identification of an invisible particle which decays within .00000000000000000010f of a second and moves rapidly enough to travel around the earth seven times in one second (if it would live long enough) has been the goal of a research experiment begun five years ago in the physics department.
The K- 3-meson particle is being studied now. A beam of this particle is shot through a bubble chamber, an oval cylinder 30 in diameter and soaked with superheated liquid deuterium. Deuterium is a heavy form of hydrogen, the simplest atom, and has one proton, one electron, and one neutron.
Protons, neutrons and electrons are particles which have been known since the 1900s; physicists are now studying newly formed elementary particles such as pi meson.
GHAF'OORI said that filling the bubble chamber was very expensive because the hydrogen used must be very pure, and pure hydrogen was expensive.
The research is an overall study of "what matter is," said Chuck Ekund, McPherson graduate student who is studying the particle "K+."
The group of physicists, led by Raymond Amurar, professor of physics, is searching and studying the properties of elementary particles needed to be the building blocks of all matter.
AMMAR said that the study of the particles "may be considered roughly analogous to the studies of chemical elements at the time of their discovery."
The processes involved in the research are expensive, according to Ghafori, and are principally funded by the federal government. The University of Kansas physics department received $120,000 this year from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and National Science Foundation. The university's computer work and is also distributed by Amaru to the students and faculty studying the particles.
HASSAN GHAFOORI, Iranian graduate student, said that in his experiments he was looking for the unstable particle "delta" to try to prove that it exists, discover how often it is produced, and find its quantum number (the identification of a particle based on its mass, charge, spin, parity, strangeness, and ionism).
Students Happy with Program As Music, Art Camps Continue
250 of the 320 participants are involved with the music division. The remainder are enrolled in the visual art camp. The students all come from the midwest.
The junior high program of the Midwest Music and Art Camp, which started last Wednesday is promising to continue as a worthwhile experience, according to most
Gretchen Kenner, an eight grader from Maryville, Mo., plays flute in the concert band and sings also in the concert choir. She says the band material is hard and the
instructors good. The concert band is working on marches and on a version of "Fiddler on the Roof" among other things, according to Kenner. The concert choir is working on a Latin piece and three Norwegian folk songs.
Mitch Landreth of Lawrence, another eighth grade camp veteran, says the band direction is not as personal as in his school and he doesn't work hard and work music are worthwhile.
Junkyard Zoning Creates Controversy
Landreth, a baritone player, says he is considering a music major. He believes the camp directors are a little too stringent with the rules.
A proposal to allow salvage yards and similar operations into less restrictive industrial zones is creating a controversy in the Lawrence City Commission.
By NANCY COOK
Kansas Staff Writer
BY NANCY COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
McClanahan said Friday he had no comment to make on either matter.
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission has recommended the city commission turn down the proposal in its meeting Tuesday.
THE FIRST PROPOSAL actually an
The planning commission has also recommended that an ordinance that could shut down such operations if they don't comply with city zoning regulations be enforced. But Lawrence-Douglas County would Richard McClanathan, who was director, to make a list of violations, says the ordinance is unenforceable.
amendment of an ordinance, would change the classification of automobile, bus and truck dismantling, salvage or wrecking from "industrial–high nusance" to "industrial–medium nuisance." This reclassification would mean that such vehicles as salvage yards could be in general industrial rather than intensive industrial areas.
The planning commission recommended
Two stipulations would be placed on salvage vards in the less restrictive areas:*
All exterior storage and processing areas within 100 feet of any thoroughfare or any residential, commercial or limited industrial districts would have to be screened. The storage area must be least six feet tall so that the storage and processing areas are not visible.
THERE COULD BE no burning of junked, salvaged or discard materials and materials could not be stacked above eight feet.
Instead of endorsing the proposal, the planning commission voted to enforce the ordinance that would discontinue salvage dumps if they violated city zoning ordinances.
denial of the proposal largely on environmental grounds. Local environmentalists have recommended that salvage yards be classified in a newly-created district so that better control could be placed over them.
Neither McClanathan's office nor the city attorney's office would indicate Friday which state statutes McClanathan was sent to or how they would apply to the ordinance.
The amendment proposal was on the agenda for the city commission last week, but was deferred until Tuesday. McClanathan is expected to present a list of cards and other operations in the category which now violate city zoning ordinances.
SINCE THAT ORDINANCE was passed in 1966, it has not been enforced.
According to McClanathan, under Kansas statutes it is unenforceable.
"The time we have to be in is about more than I can take." We landreth said. Light out of the house was a concern.
"We never covered filmmaking and things like that, just pottery and watercolor," Williams said in speaking of her junior high school experience. She had but one recommendation for the camp: "more parties."
Marsha Williams of Lawrence, a member of the visual arts division, likes the camp for kids.
While most students in the music division are participating in both a band and choir, Jennifer Lewis of Oxford, Neb., is working exclusively on vocals. One of the main advantages of the camp for this particular student is that she can play a music major, is to sing in a "big choir."
"I like it better than Nebraka," Lewis replied when asked of her impression of KU.
A suit filed last month in Douglas County District Court charging the University of Kansas with discrimination against persons because of sex has resulted in the establishment of non-discriminatory interviewing sessions.
Jim Wiley, an eight grade obsofist from Lawrence, says the quality of the musicians in the camp is better than that of those in his Junior high music department. Wiley's description of the food being offered in the Ham Hall, home for the campers, was "fair."
Discrimination Suit Settlement Leads to Interviewing Lessons
The settlement also called for the treatment of "any and all applicants for employment in the same manner, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or sex." The settlement also included that "questions posed at personal interviews and the evaluation of responses shall be non-discriminatory, and
The Kansas Commission on Civil Rights filed the suit on behalf of Lizabeth Jabran Smith, 665 Avalon Road, on May 11. The suit was dismissed on June 7 the final journal was accepted.
The settlement stated that KU had agreed to pay $1,065.34 to Smith because she had been denied a job on campus because she was a woman.
According to Deborah Barker, assistant director of personnel services, the interviewing sessions have been established to train interviewers not to ask questionnaires or interviews. The sessions will be held in July and August and the results will be published.
Two pilot sessions held in May, included talks on the legal do's and don'ts of interviewing, videotapes of bad interviewing and interviews in which sessions were led by Barker and Phillip Rinkan, director of personnel services. Speakers included Tom Moore, from the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, and John Gilman, director of Affirmative Action.
Jeff Weaver of North Platte, Neb., was a
millionaire causing the food "was all
right" to be frozen.
Participants' critiques from the May sessions have resulted in revisions for the book.
that maximum feasible effort shall be made to elicit information susceptible of objective
Excepting a possible academic overburden, it seems as if the campers are being allowed to stay at the campsite.
--measuring machines. The results of the measurements are sent through the computer. The computer produces information with which the experimenters can determine the energy and momentum from the particles produced by the scattering of particle is determined from the kind of particle.
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The bubble chamber is located at Argonne National Laboratories in Chicago, which serves 20 to 30 other American universities as well as some European research groups.
Four cameras take pictures of the chamber as the particle interacts with the hydrogen, and these pictures are then used to create a series of per camera were taken in this experiment.
The pictures taken from the bubble chamber show the path of the incoming particle $ \mathrm{K}+ $ before and after it scatters or interacts with the deuterium.
THESE paths are called tracks. The tracks, after some extensive measuring and computation, give the momentum (mass energy) of the particles producing these tracks.
The physicists are studying the manner in which the particle interacts with the deuterium. This information will provide basis for the identification of the particle.
THE TRACKS are measured in the physics department labs on three Vanguard
Ghafoori said that once a computer program he was using had some errors for several days before he became aware that something was wrong.
Ghafoori said that experimenters at other universities had sometimes discovered particles and also had had seemingly perfect data and identification for them, but when other experimenters began to work on the particle, the data fell apart and the ground could not exist after all or not to have the quantum number they had assigned it.
Nevertheless, Murphy's laws are still posted in the physics department; can go wrong will go wrong and if everything works you have obviously overlooked something."
New Comet to Appear Here in Early December
By JOHN KING
A giant mass of ice with a brilliant tail of
and debris hovers over a dramatic aquatic
surface. December 16, 2015
The observatory at the University of Kansas will have an open house "in early December before the comet becomes a naked eye object," Armstrong said, adding that there would be lectures on the topic of the comet's general when the new one neared the sun.
The spectacle is a new comet that is still only visible as a speck of light in telescopes. The comet will be able to observe Lawrence will be able to see the comet without the aid of telescopes and will be able to photograph it, according to Thomas A. Burke, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
ARMSTRONG SAID the observatory would photograph the new comet and conduct experiments related to its appearance.
"The main problem will be interference
e sunlight, but it is a 30mm camera and
it's quite clear."
According to Armstrong, anyone will be able to photograph the comet, especially when it reaches the part of its orbit that will take it behind the sun.
DAVID BEARD, professor of physics and astronomy, said last week. "Most comets are essentially puff balls of ice impregnated with carbon dioxide one thousand of an inch in diameter."
In an article Beard wrote, published for "The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences and Astrogeology," copyrighted in 2012, some of the characteristics of a comet.
'The character of the light from comets depends critically on whether the comet is
periotic or parabolic, on the solar distance of the cornet, and on whether the light is red, green, blue, or white.
Beard said in his article the comet's tail was the product of "solar wind," the streams of electrically-charged particles that continually emanate from the sun. The material from the nucleus of the comet, which is composed of water, methane and ammonia, as well as dust particles, usually creates a comet's tail.
"ONLY PARABOLIC comets are observed to evolve dust, which is ascertained by X-ray observations."
Armstrong verified research stating the tail reacted with the charged particles from the sun and usually began to glow brightly. It is believed the comet could be visible to the naked eye in daylight just before its close approach to the sun.
THE NEW COMET was discovered in March by Czechoslovakian-born astronomer Petr Zmuthosek while looking for asteroids with the servator's 31-in. Schmidt telescope. At the time of discovery, reports said the comet was about 480 million miles away from the sun.
Armstrong said various experiments would be conducted by countries everywhere, and all observations would try to examine the structure and the origin of the comet.
Board said most comets were seen only once, as their orbits take from 100,000 to 400,000.
"Halley's comet is exceptional," stated Beard, because it return every 76 years."
"Comets are most often seen while looking for asteroids," Beard said. "It's a big game; if you see a comet it gets named after you."
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