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University Daily Kansan, March 27.1981
KU crew season starting
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
The KU football team hasn't been the only squad preparing for its upcoming season by running and lifting weights.
Cliff Elliott, KU crew coach, said both his men's and women's teams had been conditioning since 1987. It is now possible to practice on-water rowing.
"When we began our practices the Kansas River was frozen solid," Elliott said. "The team ran steps, crossed a river and runs arms and practiced rowing on shore."
Crew captain, Brian McKinney,
Topeka senior, said KU's training
program was common to many
midwestern schools.
*Most schools here in the Midwest or up north are forced to practice off water during the winter because the lakes and lakes are unavailable.* he said.
"The running and weight training pays off because of the increased strength and stamina they provide. Their attributes are essential to rowing."
Elliott said the crew had practiced
everyday on water since Feb. 25 regardless of weather conditions.
"Sometimes it rains or gets pretty cold out there, but we still go ahead and practice," he said.
THIRTEEN WOMEN and 28 men make up the crew team, which opens its fourth season tomorrow against Washburn University. The match will be played on the Kansas River. Men's and women's teams will compete.
The squad's only other home match will be the State Regatta April 18. Competing then against KU will be Washburn, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
"We're really looking forward to the State Regatta," Elliott said. "That will be a big weekend for us and hopefully we'll be able to excel."
KU crew is a member of the Midwest Association of Rowing Colleges. The United States Rowing Association sanctions all collegiate and amateur races. There are no professional rowing teams.
ELLIOTT SAID sanctioned rowing matches were 2,000 meters, but that sometimes they were longer.
"During spring and summer, matches are the usual 2,000 meters which is roughly 14 miles," he said. "We race up to lengths of three miles."
Elliott said that KU had never placed in a national event, but that the crew would send representatives to the regional finals in Madison, Wis., and the nationals in Syracuse, N.Y.
"This crew team has never placed nationally, but I'm sure we can go to these matches and perform well," he said.
"Being with crew is a lot of hard work, and takes up a big chunk of your time because of practice hydration. But we're always looking for new crew if anyone doesn't mind giving up the time we'd be glad to have them."
McKinney said that crew took a lot of time, but that it was worth it.
Elliott said anyone interested in the team should contact him and spectators were welcome at the team's match and the State Regatta.
"Rowing is an exciting form of competition, and I'm sure many more people would enjoy the sport if they gave it a try," he said.
Airport hangar to be multi-purpose building
Aerospace engineering students will soon have a new $561,000 home at Lawrence Municipal Airport.
The home, a 14,000-square-foot hanger, will contain four offices, one classroom reception area and two shopping shops. Construction began early this month.
The new hangar will replace a wooden hangar built in the late 1940s and will be attached to a second hangar, which houses University
airplanes. It will be used as a propulsion laboratory.
The School of Engineering is paying $200,000 of the total expense with donations from aircraft industries and alumni.
Vincent Maurithe, director of the aerospace department, said the department's program would be upended. The facility was completed in September.
The new hangar also will have a reinforced concrete floor to put test apparatus on.
"We needed facilities for our undergraduate program, and we will have
The aerospace department owns two Cessna airplanes, one for transportation and the other for research. The airplanes are for general University use.
additional opportunities for the graduates," he said.
There are now two KU hangars at the airport but in June one will be torn down and converted into a parking lot.
Aug, 6, 1945, a U.S.-made atom bomb hit Bihiroshima, Japan.
By ANNIKA NILSSON Staff Reporter
The same day, Clark Bricker, KU professor of chemistry, realized the purpose of the project he had been working on for several years.
Prof unknowingly worked on bomb
In a recent interview, Bricker said that his involvement in the research for the first atom bomb started in late December 1941.
Bricker was working on his doctoral dissertation at Princeton University when his research advisor asked him to accompany a visiting physicist and the adviser to a Westinghouse plant in Bloomfield, N.J.
"I had no idea what we were going to Bloomsfield, NJ., for," he said.
AT THE PLANT his adviser, the physicist and the plant superintendent discussed uranium production. Bricker said the physicist asked whether the technology to produce 1,000 pounds (99.99 percent pearce uranium a day).
"In 1941, no metal had ever been made that pure." Bricker said.
He added that the plant superintendent said there was no way they could even analyze for that kind of purity.
"From that day I never touched my doctoral research again," he said. "I finished my doctoral research on an entirely new problem."
He and his adviser were to work on the analysis of the uranium throughout the production process.
Bricker said that in the final oral defense for his doctoral degree, he could not address questions related to his research.
"In fact, I did two research projects. The second one was classified as secret until 1952." he said.
"Then I suddenly realized why I was sitting there." Bricker said.
"Everyone knew I had been working on a classified project," he said. "Nobody even raised the question what my dissertation was about."
BRICKER'S RESEARCH advisor was the only person who saw the dissertation, "The Analysis of Strategic Materials for Trace Components," and Bricker said the adviser had to certify that his dissertation met the requirements.
Bricker said that at the time he did not realize his research was part of an atomic bomb project.
"I knew we were working on some super source of energy," he said. "I was so naive, I thought we were on some fuel for airplanes and shuts."
Kansan Staff
He said he should have understood, but that he was more concerned about
doing the job he had to do than asking why.
"I realized what I was doing when I came home from work and heard that the bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima." Bricker said.
He said that when his wife told him a very special bomb was dropped over Japan he said, "Now I know what I have been doing."
He said that even though he had ambivalent feelings about the work he had done, he did not regret it.
"I felt that what I had done probably shortened the time of World War II," he said. "I think in the long run, we saved lives."
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In the spring of 1977 the National Socialist (Nazi) Party decided to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois. Of this Chicago suburb's 70,000 residents some 40,000 are Jews, 7,000 of whom are survivors of Hitler's holocaust. Eventually the judicial conclusion that this parade, with its participants wearing military-style uniforms and flaunting the hated swastika, was a form of expression protected by the First Amendment. Please bear with me when I note that recently a 79-year-old widow was strangled to death in her Salina, Kansas home. If a few individuals were to congregate here in the central business district and praise the murder of this virtually defenseless woman would such behavior be an expression of free speech or an incitement to riot. The misanthropy and violence of World War II found expression in killing someone. The practice of wanton murder is such a breach of the social contract that even its advocacy is obscene and therefore an act of license unlawful. The ACU, in what was admittedly a courteous decision, agreed to defend the敢脱 free speech rights of the Nazis despite some 15 to 20 percent of its (the ACU) membership leaving the organization in furious protest.
A RESPONSE TO MR. CARDARELLA
A recent effort by Arthur Brisane, Kansas City Times columnist, features an interview with Phil Cardarella, local attorney and president of the Kansas City chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACU). Mr. Brisane opens by asking if the activities of the ACU have it open to the charge of being "a . . . a knee-jerk institution that spends its time defending Nazis, Klansmen, and other anti-social types." Mr. Cardarella, after searching "thoughtfully for an answer," says that he considers it "the hily to duty support the rights of . . . all criminal defendants." One of these "rights" which Mr. Cardarella feels duty-bound to support is a lower bail for criminal defendants. Mr. Cardarella completely ignores the possibility of a high bail resulting from the accumulated evidence of the defendant's conduct, indicating that the individual in custody is indeed guilty. He's evidently also unwary of posting of bail for a suspect has resulted in the intimidation or disappearance of a cooperative witness. Mr. Cardarella's and the ACU's unqualified commitment to lower bail for criminal defendants is a conditioned response, a learned form of behavior that one would expect of a "knee-jerk institution."
Mr. Cardarella, onetime secretary of the local National Organization of Women, is also a proponent of abortion-on-demand which he views, in Mr. Brisbane's words, as "... a woman's right to choose whether she wants to have a child." The ACLU was founded in 1920 to champion "the rights of man set forth in the Constitution and the Constitution" with itself being the most prominent of these protected rights as it is that of women. She argues that the right of woman to make the Court abortion decision, the ACLU discovered a "right", which could be gained only by the "total repeat" of all laws prohibiting abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. This metanavia *i*. fundamental change of mind, was a sympathetic response to the outpourings of the burgeoning women' s liberation movement and was inspired by neither a legal nor a scientific insight. The ACLU, by turning its back on the most helpless member of the scientific community, the assumption of 'a' etro and the collective knowledge of the scientific community. The assumption of just another display of organizational philanthropy by a "knee-jerk institution".
Mr. Cardarella concludes the interview by describing law enforcement as "a criminal industry which in order to perpetuate itself has to convince people they have something to be afraid of. If crime in fact is rising as fast as they say it is one simply could not get through a day without being Murdered." Obviously the ivy tower in which Mr. Cardarella lives is the city's most dangerous place. "They know any information. Otherwise he'd be at least aware of the nationwide increase in crime which, according to Newsweek magazine, '...exploded... in 1980... (with) New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Dallas (showing) record levels of murder, robbery and burglary.' As Mr. Cardarella has already categorized all such pronouncements as the self-serving propagations of a "criminal industry" one can only wonder if he'll ever tire of them. In fact, in which, for instance, a unilateral undertaking becomes the embodiment of freedom.
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