Monday, Oct. 7, 1963
University Daily Kansan
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NASA Official's Speech Heads KU Science Day
An official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in an interview here Saturday that the proposed moon shot cooperation between the United States and Russia was "an interesting possibility," but would definitely not speed up the U.S. effort to land a man on the moon.
John Eggleston, assistant chief of the Space Environment Division of the Manned Spacecraft Center of NASA, Houston, Tex., was the key speaker at the 12th annual KU Science and Mathematics Day.
Eggleston told about 300 high school students from Kansas and Missouri of the knowledge scientists must accumulate about the moon and its atmosphere before the objective of the Apollo Project can be achieved.
"I see of no technical avenue through which this project can be speeded up." Eggleston said when asked about the proposed American-Russian cooperation. He said there might be some plan of cooperation that could keep the project from being slowed down, but repeated his assertion that there is no way to accelerate the moonshot program.
"As director (James E.) Webb has said, even more money won't speed up the program. The target date remains, at 1970."
Eggleston, who illustrated his talks in Hoch Auditorium with slides, told the high school students the areas in which scientists still seek information about the moon are lighting, heating, launch window, navigation, landing orbit selection, earth re-entry lighting, earth-moon communications, meteoroids and radiation.
"THESE EARTH shine (the reflection of the sun off the earth) on the moon, just as there's moon shine on the earth." Eggleston said. "And, I might add, earth shine is seven times as strong. But, is this enough light for a landing on the moon? This is something we must find out."
"It will be extremely bleak," he said of the lunar surface. "To non- geologists, it may seem a rather boring place."
About 3,000 students were on the KU campus for the day of lectures. tours of KU science buildings and inspection of exhibits and demonstrations.
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DR. E.B. BROWN, chairman of the department of physiology at the KU Medical Center, spoke on "Some Physiological Aspects of Space Flight."
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The little fallen leaf hardly has a chance at KU. Before it has time to blow around a little bit, the building and grounds crew rake it up and cart it off.
To some people the idea of raking leaves before they have all fallen is a little senseless.
Fall Just Isn't Fall Without Leaves and the KU Buildings and Grounds
Raking leaves will continue for about two weeks after the first frost next comes snow shoveling.
for raking the leaves as they fall. One reason is the swirling leaves present an untidy campus to visitors.
Another reason for raking the leaves so soon is safety. Gene Blitch, landscape architect, said the leaves blow up around buildings and are a fire hazard.
KU BUILDING and grounds department has several good reasons
down into the drains and clog up the drainage system.
Also, if the Lawrence area should ever get rain, the leaves again would present a problem. The leaves wash
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--today, foregoing levity, let us turn our keen young minds to the principal problem facing American colleges today: the population explosion. Only last week four people exploded in Cleveland, Ohio—one of them while carrying a plate of soup. In case you're thinking such a thing couldn't happen anywhere but in Cleveland, let me tell you about two other cases last week—a 45-year-old man in Provo, Utah, and a 19-year-old girl in Northfield, Minnesota. And, in addition, there was a near miss in High Point, North Carolina—an eight-year-old boy who was saved only by the quick thinking of his cat, Fred, who pushed the phone off the hook with his muzzle and dialed the department of weights and measures. (It would, perhaps, have been more logical for Fred to dial the fire department, but one can hardly expect a cat to summon a fire engine which is followed by a Dalmatian, can one?)
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But I digress. The population explosion, I say, is upon us. It is, of course, cause for concern but not for alarm, because I feel sure that science will ultimately find an answer. After all,
has not science in recent years brought us such marvels as the maser, the bevatron, and the Marlboro filter? Oh, what a saga of science was the discovery of the Marlboro filter! Oh, what a heart-rending epic of trial and error, of dedication and perseverance! And, in the end, what a triumph it was when the Marlboro research team, after years of testing and discarding one filter material after another—iron, nickel, tin, antimony, obsidian, poundcake—finally emerged, tired but happy, from their laboratory, carrying in their hands the perfect filter cigarette! Indeed, what rejoicing there still is whenever we light up a Marlboro which comes to us in soft pack and Flip-Top Box in all fifty states and Cleveland!
Yes, science will ultimately solve the problems arising from the population explosion, but meanwhile America's colleges are in dire straits. Where can we find classrooms and teachers for today's gigantic influx of students?
Well sir, some say the solution is to adopt the trimester system. This system, already in use at many colleges, eliminates summer vacations, has three semesters per annum instead of two, and compresses a four-year-course into three years.
This is, of course, good, but is it good enough? Even under the trimester system the student has occasional days off. Moreover, his nights are utterly wasted in sleeping. Is this the kind of all-out attack that is indicated?
I say no. I say desperate situations call for desperate remedies. I say that partial measures will not solve this crisis. I say we must do no less than go to school every single day of the year. But that is not all. I say we must go to school 24 hours of every day!
The benefits of such a program are, as you can see, obvious. First of all, the classroom shortage will disappear because all the dormitories can be converted into classrooms. Second, the teacher shortage will disappear because all the night watchmen can be put to work teaching solid state physics and Restoration drama. And finally, overerowding will disappear because everybody will quit school.
Any further questions?
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© 1963 Max Shulman
Yes, one further question: the makers of Marlboro, who sponsor this column, would like to know whether you have tried a Marlboro lately. It's the filter cigarette with a man's world of flavor. Settle back and enjoy one soon.