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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.124
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1993
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Students find time at game time
William Alix / Special to the KANSAN
**Above.** Students gather in the lobby of the Kansas Union to watch the Kansas men's basketball team defeat Ball State. Approximately 40 students watched the game yesterday on a television temporarily set up in the Union. **Below right.** sophomore center Greg Ostertag gives senior center Eric Pauley and freshman guard Sean Pearson a high five. Kansas defeated Ball State 94-72 yesterday and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Basketball Championship.
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People on campus combine basketball classes, homework
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
Yesterday morning, the men's basketball team began its annual business at the NCAA Tournament at its first-round game against Ball State in Rosemont, Ill.
Meanwhile, on campus classes and homework made it business as usual for KU students, even though some were able to tear away from the daily routine.
Ten minutes after tip-off, Suzanne Johnson, Benton senior, rushed down an ice Mount Oread sideway toward home for a lunch of pancakes.
Johnson, who said she was too busy with an architecture project to watch the game, was out of class earlier than usual. Her class was cut short by her professor.
"I didn't even know the game was today," said Vici Godal, Great Bend senior, who was working on French homework. "I wondered why everybody was in here."
More than 50 people sat on the sofas, chairs and floor of the Kansas Union lounge to watch the game.
In the Kansas Union Bookstore, another television was tuned in to the game.
As Rex Walters sank a three-pointer late in the first half, Bill Wilson, cashier, raised his hands into the air.
wittmann, Ben Nees, Des Moines, Iowa,
junior, finished a cigarette in front of the
Union. He had a French test and chemistry
work to contend with.
"I just hope we win," Wilson said. "We gotta win. We gotta play Duke a couple games down the line."
He was not worried about missing the game. It was videotaped for him by his roommates, whom he said were more avid basketball fans. But he said their tastes were rubbing off on him.
Across the street from Bailey Hall, Tanae Sump, Randolph senior, waited for the bus and listened to the game on a radio through earphones. She hoped to make it home for part of the second half.
Stacy Hensic, St. Louis freshman, was not that lucky.
"I wish I would have had a chance to watch it, but classes are a little more important," said Hersic, who had a 1 p.m. test.
1. mean, how can you not like basketball in Kansas? Nei's said
In an architecture studio in Marvin Hall, eight students watched two televisions and listened to the game on the radio while working on projects.
Paul Kraemer, St. Louis senior, explained how the students combined work and keeping track of the game: "We listened to it on the radio. If it was a really good shot, we would get up and watch the replay."
NCAA Tournament
Kansas defeated Ball State
University yesterday to move
on in the NCAA Tournament.
Kansas meets Brigham
tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
For complete coverage see
page 7.
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
KU Space Program shoots for the stars
By Robert Allen
Special to the Kansar
In the dusty basement of Learned Hall, behind the wind tunnel in a storage-room-corner-closet, a group of students is aiming for space — and reaching it.
They are the 20 or so members of the KU Space Program, and they design and build experiments to go on the space shuttle.
"It's fun," said Kim Lowe, Colorado Springs, Colo., junior and club treasurer. "What other chances do students have to put things in space?"
The group puts things in space via NASA's Get Away Special program. This program allows anyone to buy a special canister designed by NASA to place on the shuttle. The canister resembles a huge cookie tin, and the experiments, from growing crystals to mixing chemicals, take place while orbiting the earth.
Saeed Farokhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering, is the faculty adviser for the group.
"The Get Away Special is a program of
NASA I believe to do a service to society and provide a link between the common man and the space agency," he said. "They allow space in a canister on board the shuttle, and you are allowed a number of operations in the experiment. Once it lands again, they give the canister back. They treat you as a customer."
The president of the club, Tom Miller, Leawood junior, said the group was currently working on an experiment that could be ready in less than a year. The experiment is called a Taylor vortex, and it studies the flow of fluids inside a cylinder.
"A Taylor vortex occurs when you have a fluid of known viscosity between two rotating cylinders," he said. "At certain rotation speeds, flow patterns arise which you wouldn't expect."
These flow patterns form rings in the fluid, one atop the other, from one end of the cylinders to the other. It resembles many tiny whirlpools stacked on top of each other. Understanding the behavior of Taylor vortices could be applied to many things, such as the mixing of fluids in nozzles and combustion engines.
"This experiment has never been performed in space or low gravity," Miller said.
It is important to perform the experiment in space, he said, "so you're sure that the motion is due only to the rotation of the cylinders" instead of the earth's movement.
KUSP was started in 1986 when Paul Fiesler, then a KU student, bought two canisters from NASA. The first two-and-a-half years were spent "dragging our feet in the mud," Miller said, because of a lack of money.
The first canister contained three experiments. The first attempted to grow protein crystals, which can form more perfect structures in the low gravity of space than in Earth's gravity. The second was to mix together three chemicals and form cell
The third experiment was simply a package of vegetable seeds that went along for the ride.
The group was disbanded for one and a half years; only in 1900 was any significant progress made. On Sept. 12, 1902, the first canister of experiments was launched on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
But these two experiments failed because the chemicals did not mix properly during the trip.
membrane materials.
"The purpose of the seeds wasn't to get super tomatoes, but to give the kids a chance to work on an experiment that has been in space," Miller said.
The group distributed the cabbage, corn, pea and radish seeds to Pickney and Deerfield Elementary Schools, among others, to be grown by the children. The children were supposed to tell KUSP whether the vegetables turned out strangely.
Meanwhile, work on the new canister continues. The club now is deciding on how to put the experiment together.
The canister will include two cameras to record the Taylor vortices as they occur. The club hopes that a company such as Sony will donate cameras to the experifaculty salaries.
Story continues, Page 5.
Students say testimony one-sided
Law students offer support for Tonkovich, defend selves
By Brady Prauser
Kansan staff writer
Two former students of law professor Emil Tonkovich said yesterday that sexual harassment allegations brought against the professor by other law students were untrue.
In the 22nd week of dismissal hearings for Tonkovich, Pam VonEssen and Shannon Taylor, third-year law students, said that the University's accounts of the allegations were one-sided; both said they wanted to set the record straight.
"That's why I'm here, so people will have both sides," VonEssen told Tonkovich's "lawyer, Lisa Ford, during direct examination." I know certain things about Professor Tonkovich that need to be told.
VonEssen rebutted law student Lisa Byrd's testimony given last year alleging that Tonkovich coerced female law students — including Taylor — to sit on his lap during a spring 1991 party that Tonkovich threw for his students at The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St.
VonEssen, who attended the party, said the students she witnessed sitting in Tonkovich's lap did so voluntarily and in a joking manner. She said Byrd's subsequent allegations and testimony against Tonkovich about what happened were not true.
"I can't believe she would even insinuate that happened because it was not even close," VonEssen said.
Most of Taylor's testimony centered on allegations several law students have made against Tonkovich that involve Taylor, such as a lap-sitting incident at the Yacht Club party and remarks the students alleged Tonkovich said to her.
Pete Johnson, a member of the faculty committee on tenure and related problems, asked Taylor whether Tonkovich had ever made statements to her concerning oral sex for grades, her sexual availability or sexual prowess.
"Absolutely not, and I guarantee you if he had, I would not be testifying in his behalf today," Taylor said.
Like VonEssen, she also said that the lap-sitting incidents were voluntarily initiated by her and Byrd and done in a joking manner.
Taylor said that she did not want to testify but did so to "clear her name" because the allegations concerning her had made her look worse than Tonkovich.
After she learned of the allegations by other students involving her and another law student, Luci Burlingame, Taylor said, she and Buringame met with University administrators and KU associate general counsel Rose Marino in March 1991.
Taylor told Ford during direct examination that Marino tried to pressure them to talk about the allegations without an attorney present. Taylor said she and Burlingame referred to the meeting as "the ambush."
"Luci and I said we never felt harassed until we met with the administration." Taylor said.
In April 1991, Taylor had another meeting with administrators. Taylor's father attended that meetfaculty salaries.
Taylor testified that her father told the administrators the allegations involving her were harmful and were not useful in the University's case. He requested that the administrators drop the allegations.
Taylor said Marino told the administrators, "I'm trying to build a case here."
Chancellor Gene Budig moved to dismiss Tonkovich in August 1982, saying Tonkovich violated the faculty code of conduct. Tonkovich asked for a public hearing before the faculty committee on tenure and related problems to determine whether he had violated the faculty code.
ADUI crusader
State Rep. Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, has been one of the strongest advocates for tightening laws governing driving under the influence.
Regents like new salary financing proposal
See story, Page 3.
By Dan England
Kansan staff writer
It is where the money goes that concerns them. That is why they support a new bill in the Kansas Legislature that would put 20 percent of any tuition increase into a Regents-controlled fund for faculty salaries.
TOPEKA — Even though they don't like them, members of the Kansas Board of Regents are resigned to the fact that student tuition increases are unavoidable.
The bill, introduced by State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Neodesha, creates a base budget for the state's universities and guarantees a 1 percent increase from the state general fund each year for three years. If enacted, the financing formula would begin in two years.
Shirley Palmer, a Regent from Fort Scott who heads the board, said the bill was encouraging because it addressed raising
Board of Regents
"I was hoping that we could raise faculty salaries without raising tuition, but you can't have one without the other," she said.
Palmer said that she knew many students were wary of any increase. However, she also said that she was confident students would support the bill because it guaranteed that their money was helping their instructors.
"Many times students don't see any result from a tuition increase," she said. "If they can get a quality education, many are willing to support an increase."
But Palmer said that more than a 1 per
cent increase a year was needed to raise faculty salaries to the level of those at KU's peer institutions.
Rick Harman, a Regent from Prairie Village, said the bill proposed salary increases that were considerably higher than increases of the last few years.
See related stories, Page 3.
Regents members will begin pushing for a higher increase in the bill soon, she said. The bill is now in the House Appropriations Committee after its introduction yesterday.
"I am delighted that the Legislature is thinking about faculty salaries," Harman said. "Raising faculty salaries is our No. 1 goal."
The tuition and fees committee of the board also discussed a plan Wednesday that would increase tuition every year until faculty salaries were 100 percent of their peers.
The proposed plan
A bill introduced yesterday by State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, would change the method for financing the budgets of the state six universities. If enacted, the plan would:
■ Ensure a 1 percent increase to the higher education budget from the state general fund each year for three years, beginning Fail 1994.
Allow KU and other Regents universities to request their own tuition increases, which would be approved by the Board of Regents. Each university would retain 80 percent of its tuition.
now 20 percent of each tuition increase to go into a legends-controlled fund for faculty salary increases. The fund would be used to raise faculty salaries from 87.9 to 95 percent of their peer institutions.
Source: The Associated Press