University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1981 Page 9
Scientist lauds Reagan for technology support
By BOB MOEN Staff Reporter
The Reagan administration is providing U.S. science and technology much needed support and leadership, the minority staff director of the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives said yesterday.
The staff director, Gerald Jenks, who is a graduate of the KU School of Engineering, said that Reagan recognized the importance of science and technology and had acted to support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration since he became president.
Jenks, who has been on the House committee since 1976, spake as part of a seminar series sponsored by the KU Space Technology Center.
Addressing about 30 people in the Apollo Auditorium of Raymond Nichols Hall, Jenks said that next year's budget for NASA would increase 10 percent over this year's and that Reagan had followed most recommendations of the NASA transition team. Jenks is a member of that team.
he said that before Reagan became president, NASA was "in·limbo." NASA had not sent a man into space for six years until the space shuttle launching.
But Jenks said, "The state of the science and technology enterprise of the nation is not good."
He said the science community was not communicating with the public, and society did not understand science and technology.
For example, Jens said, when people read an article in the paper that stated that microbes live in cockroaches, they imagine a perverted scientist conducting the
Gerald Jenks
research. But in reality, the scientist is trying to discover a way to control a major health problem without using such chemicals as DDT.
This is why people like Jane Fonda are winning "battles" against science technology by stopping nuclear technology and genetic engineering, Jenks said.
He said the solution to the problem was leadership.
"It takes leadership, and that is why I
encourage students. Reagan ad-
minal emphasized this."
And with the successful journey of the snuffle, he said, the problems of science and technology
Jenks also said there was a remote possibility that one of the maiden Right's pilots, John Young or Bob might speak at KU sometime next fall.
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