University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 14. 1974
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End of Skylab to Have Little Effect at KU, Dean Says
By S. J. WOHLRABE
and ANN GARDNER Kansan Staff Reporters
The phasing out of the Skylab program won't drastically affect the University of Kansas, William P. Smith, in the School of Engineering, said yesterday.
"That particular aspect may be plaused out but we have many other NASA research programs still going," said Smith, who is also director of the Engineering Science Division of the Center for Research, Inc. (CRINC).
B, G. Barr, assistant dean of research administrator and executive director of CRINC, said yesterday that the Skyla space program at KU wouldn't entirely end. He said KU would continue to analyze the data from the Skyla project.
Barr said he thought Skylab comprised
only about 20 per cent of the total research grant funding from the Nation Aeronautics
Smith and Barr said the Skylab program constituted such a small part of the KU—NASA cooperative budget that the cut in funds didn't hurt KU.
"THIS PHASING OUT of research programs is nothing new," said Smith. "The pattern of funding is constantly changing. For example, the energy crisis will be the new thing these days in funding and we are developing those interests."
"The individual projects go up and down. We have to have new money coming into different projects at different times. It's part of the game."
would bring in an estimated $600,000 during the next three years.
CHINC is in the process of negotiating an advanced airspace program involving KU and three Wichita-based aircraft companies, said Barr. He said the contract
KU receives an average of about $500,000,
yearly in NASA contracts, said Barr.
BARR SAID KU ALSO had a new KU NASA research grant for Earth Resource Technology Satellites (ERTS). He said KU was the first to have an ERTS univariate satellite next year.
KU receives substantial aerospace contracts from NASA, said Smith. Prospects of more funds from NASA are in place for this research. NASA contracts is on this year, he said.
Although the Skylab space program involved five departments at KU, Barr and Smith said the plasing out of the program wouldn't seriously affect faculty working on it.
Smith said that the faculty affected by the end of Skylab would have to look for new research funds but that their jobs weren't in jeopardy.
THOSE MOST SERIOUSLY affected by the end of Skylab are graduate students,
"We will have to start developing new contract proposals and resaign displaced customers."
Barr said it was much easier to phase out students in research grant programs because they were usually at KU for only two or three years.
dean of Research Administration, said professors were very concerned with the effect on students of the end of federal programs.
Barbara Etzel, professor of human development and family life and associate
"Professor are very loyal to students and concerned about the poor monetary悬崖," she said. "The university grants," she said. "Some professors go out and literally farm students out of their own money."
Whether the fund would be a loan or money that need not be repaid was also questioned.
JIM YOUNG, LAWRENCE GRADUATE STUDENT in oceanography, said, "two or three professors work together to try to find a way for other projects when one contract runs out."
The future of research grants from NASA is relatively secure, said Smith.
ATTENTION FRESHMAN
WOMEN
*Attempts to work out proposals and to work out the money situation have been made.*
Legal Fund for Profs Discussed by AAUP
"I just can't see that all money for KU projects would be cut by NASA," he said.
CWENS (honorary Sophomore women's organization) is now accepting applications for 1974-75 membership.
Selection based on activities, scholarship and leadership qualities.
confident we will be successful on NASA project funding in the future."
Contact Linda Jones at the Dean of Women office. Deadline—Thurs., Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.
The establishment of a legal defense fund for University of Kansas faculty members whose tenure rights or academic freedom are threatened was discussed yesterday by executive committee of the KU chapter of Association of University Professors (AUA)
*Research grant proposals are con-
tinuously being developed so when we get
a grant, they will be updated.*
Smith said KU probably did more work for NASA than most of the other schools.
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Marilyn Stokstad, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and a member of the committee, said such a fund could be used by a faculty member who needed a lawyer at a grievance hearing on tenure rights or academic freedom.
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