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Tuesday morning, February 7, 1984
Second satellite is in errant orbit
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The $75 million Indonesian satellite launched by Challenger yesterday apparently sputtered into a useless orbit because of the same rocket flameout that doomed a nearly identical satellite deployed by the shuttle last week, project officials said.
Mission Control said last night the astronauts had not been told yet that the Palapa B2 satellite had joined the Westar 6 relay station and Challenger's busted target balloon on the list of mission failures that totaled more than $150 million.
The Challenger crew — Wance Brand, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, Bruce McCandless, Robert Stewart and Ronald McNair — had turned in for the night before the Palana was written off.
THE SATELLITE FAILURES did not threaten today's spacewalk spectacular to test the $10 million jet backpacks aboard Challenger, NASA said.
While many Americans are sitting down to breakfast, McCandless and Stewart will step into Challenger's cargo bay, don the backpacks, unhook their lifelines and become free-flying human satellites circling the Earth at 17,500 mph.
Like Westar, the Palapa was insured for up to $100 million and NASA will receive $20 million in launch fees from the owners of the satellites because Challenger's performance was not at
Tracking stations found the Palapa six hours after it had been lost in an orbit almost identical to the one taken last week by the Westar VI satellite, said Richard Brandes, a vice president for Hughes Aircraft Co., the manufacturer of both satellites.
"**The attempt to inject the Palapa spacecraft into a geosynchronous orbit was an apparent mistake.** Brandt said."
OFFICIALS SAID THE Palapa and Westar satellites posed no threat to Challenger in their egg-shaped orbits ranging up to 747 miles high,
but there was no way to move them to a proper park spot 23,300 miles above Earth.
Brandes said the Palapa's onboard rocket motor, called a payload assist module, did not fire for the full 85 seconds to push the satellite toward a geosynchronous orbit. He said the flameout apparently occurred because of a spark with the rocket's nozzle.
A similar problem is believed to have occurred on the Westar VI satellite Friday.
"Some qualification of the problem would have to develop before we could recommend further use of the payload assist module motor," said Brandes.
THE ROCKET MOTOR is built by McDonnell Douglas Corp. Charles Ondahl, a vice president for McDonnell Douglas, said speculation about the cause of the problem centered on the rocket nozzles because both motors "essentially snuffed" early.
Besides the two satellite failures, the astro-
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 1
Streaks of light form as cars and buses travel down Jayhawk Boulevard in this time exposure photograph.
KIPPS test results arrived too late for KU
By JENNY BARKER Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas was already committed to the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System when it received test results indicating that the system would not properly handle KU paychecks, the KU comprroller said yesterday.
John Patterson, the comptroller, said that last fall the University had chosen to enter KIPPS in October rather than November or December because KU had its lowest employee transactions in October. Because KU was committed
in October, Patterson said. University officials have time to properly review the test results.
THE UNIVERSITY DID not receive the test results until Oct. 12, only 15 days before KU went on hiatus.
KU sent two mock payrolls to the Department of Administration to Topeka to test KIPPS. The results from the first test, which included only 80 employees, were inconclusive, Patterson said. However the results of the second test, which included the full KU employee, indicated problems, he said.
Patterson said the University couldn't have delayed entering KIPPS because in its prepara-
"WE DIDN'T HAVE the staffing or the resources to keep four systems on-line." Patterson said.
to enter KIPPS it was effectively operating in four separate payroll systems — the old state system and its supplemental program, and KIPPS and its supplemental program.
Patterson said University officials would have delayed entering KIPPS if the system's capacity had been known. KIPPS is now operating at 94 percent to 98 percent of its capacity.
"The only prudent thing to have done would have been to say 'We're not going to come up on this system until it gets more resources.' " Patterson said.
Voting-machine plan wins elections panel's approval
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Students will use voting machines supervised by representatives of the Lawrence chapter of the League of Women Voters during the student body presidential election on February 24 and March 1, the Student Senate nowows a proposal to the newly formed Elections Committee.
The Elections Committee decided last night to recommend that the Senate borrow four to six voting machines from the Shawnee County Elections Commission.
Goldberg will meet today with members of the Shawnee commission to learn how to operate the machines and to finalize any details.
ROY GOLDBERG, chairman of the committee, said that Kathy Berkowitz, a member of the league, had agreed to provide poll workers in exchange for a donation from the Student Senate to the state chapter of the league.
The Senate will vote on the proposal at its 7 p.m. meeting tomorrow in the Big Eight
He said the Student Senate would have to obtain the machines from Shawnee County schools.
THE COMMITTEE WILL place voting machines at the Kansas Union, the Frank R. Burge Union and Strong Hall, he said. The committee hopes to acquire a back-up machine for each machine in case of power outages during overloading. The machines have a capacity of 1,000 votes.
The committee also voted to have the
makes programmed to accept write in votes, but valid votes would have to include both the first and last name of the candidate. spelled correctly.
Goldberg said the committee would post signs at the polls to explain the write-in policy.
The machines, which will be locked when not in use, will tabulate the votes when the poll close on March 1, he said. Poll workers will determine the outcome of the election.
Goldberg said that Mary Hope, chairman of the commission, had quoted a $150 shipping cost and $100 programming cost for the machines.
THE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT for a donation to the league is $59, which is based on a minimum wage payment for the hours that volunteers will work, he said.
The total cost of the election will be about $600. Goldberg said.
Last week, the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee voted to allot $2,000 out of the Senate unallocated fund for the election.
Elections Committee members will supervise the polling stations and answer questions but will not be involved in the voting process, Goldberg said.
League volunteers will check students' identification cards, ensure proper voter registration and help run the machines, he said.
The committee is also considering an extension of the polling time to 7 p.m. to allow more students to vote. In previous elections, polls have been open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Smith, dean of student life, said the extension would allow students in night classes to vote.
Muslim rebels storm Beirut, take areas near Marine base
By United Press International
Three Marines were reported wounded in the wiest and most intense fighting in the capital since the 1975-76 civil war. The renewed fighting came less than a day after the resignation of Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan, a Muslim, and his Cabinet.
BEIRUT. Lebanon - Thousands of Muslim rebels stormed into the heart of the capital yesterday, seizing large portions of west Beirut and overrunning army positions adjacent to the U.S. Marine base. U.S. forces retaliated with naval and air fire.
"Who is in control of the country tonight?" "one key Marine officer asked a reporter." "Is Amal (the Shite militia) in control? Is Gemayel still president? Is he in control?"
ELSEWHERE IN THE MIDEast, Israel staged a wartime mobilization test yesterday for the second time in three months but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not get involved in Lebanon's factional fighting.
"There is no relation between what is currently happening in Beirut and Israel's position in Lebanon," Shamir told the Ma'ariv newspaper.
Shamir's comments coincided with Israeli news reports indicating that his government had nearly written off Lebanese President Amin al-Sarwani, a major rival, and may require Israeli positions near Sidon.
President Reagan, declaring during a visit to
Dixon, III., that U.S. support for Gemayel was "firm and unwavering," blamed Syria for the new outbreak of violence and called on the government "to cease this activity."
A MARINE SPOKESMAN said the American base at Beirut Airport was surrounded by hostile forces and an adjacent Lebanese army position near Beirut. The attack had left much of west Beirut in rebel control.
The Marine spokesman said that gunmen shooting from cars fired on Marine positions and that small arms fire was being directed at their base from a position that had been held by the enemy.
One Marine was wounded in an attack on the airport base earlier in the day, prompting U.S. air and naval strikes against Druse Muslim University. The Marine base on the city's southern outskirts
Two other Marines were reported wounded at the U.S. Embassy.
A ship from the U.S. 6th Fleet fired a 5-inch gun and an A-6E bomber from the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy staged a bombing mission over the antitank and military sources in Washington said.
It was the first use of U.S. air power since a Dec. 4 raid against Syrian targets in which a helicopter struck a city.
IN WASHINGTON, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Pentagon had contingency plans to protect U.S. Marines in Beirut if the military situation in Lebanon deteriorated.
Student contracts rare, contagious meningitis strain
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
A member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, who felt ill Sunday when he left for his home in Overland Park, was diagnosed this weekend as having a rare strain of spinal meningitis, which is sometimes fatal.
THE AFFECTED STUDENT, Chris Dillman, Overland Park freshman, is being treated at Shawne Mission Medical Center in Merriam. A shawnee mission said that Dillman was listed in a condition.
Haymond Schwegler, chief of staff at Watkins Hospital, said yesterday that members of the fraternity had been offered antibiotics to prevent them from contracting the infection.
$ ^{*} $No other cases have been reported at the University.
A team from Watkins Hospital visited the fraternity last night and explained to members how the infection was contracted and what the symptoms were.
The infection is highly contagious, Schwegler said.
Almost all of the fraternity's 72 members have taken the antibiotic as a precautionary measure, said Alan Kindswater, Dodge City junior and president of Delta Tau Dale fraternity.
"This is the only case I can remember at KU in the last two or three years," he said.
Dillman went home Sunday complaining of
See ILLNESS, p. 5, col. 1
Brown's letter calls Katzman biased
In a previously undisclosed letter that stirred a grade dispute between basketball coach Larry Brown and a KU professor, Brown accused the professor of being "so prejudiced against athletes that it was almost embarrassing."
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
The letter concerned a Jan. 8 meeting with Brown, point guard Cedric Hunter and David Katzman, professor of history. Brown said that Katzman had been too harsh in giving Hunter an American history class.
Staff Reporter
"It is also obvious to me, based on our conversation, that you have little regard for athletics and what they can do for a young man." the letter said.
BROWN WAS OUT of town recruiting and could not be reached for comment. Katzman, who is also an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, confirmed that the letter was a copy of the one Brown sent to him, but he declined further comment.
In the letter, Brown also said Hunter was not to blame for being unprepared to take an exam in the class. Brown said Katzman should have discussed the problems with Hunter before the semester ended.
Last night the Kansan obtained a source of the letter from an anonymous source.
THE DAY AFTER the Jan. 8 meeting, Brown sent the letter to Katzman, charging that the professor is compassion in dealing with Hunter.
ineligible this semester after failing to pass the eight hours required of freshmen athletes in their first semester.
Hunter was declared academically
"From our meeting and from your letter, I would infer that in this case compassion has only one interpretation: award the student a passing grade." Katzman wrote. "Unlike you, I am concerned about the integrity of our academic standards at the University of Kansas."
Angered by the remarks, Katzman responded with a letter that said Brown had asked him to raise Hunter's grade. Katzman sent copies of both letters to six administrators and professors.
Katzman later said that along with the request to raise the grade, Brown had asked that Hunter be allowed to take the class over. Hunter had taken the first month of classes, which Brown said justified Hunter's appeal.
Tomorrow the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors will meet to discuss the possibility of a forum on athletics and university sports in Kansas. Both Brown and Katzman have voiced support for the forum.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson has said he did not endure the forum as much as he did for the sport.
"same kind of garbage" that had been reported about the incident.
LONNY ROSE, KU's assistant athletic director for NCAA interpretations, is the first member of the athletic department to comment on a decision incident by said Brown did nothing wrong by attending the meeting.
Rose said all students could appeal grades and could take anyone to meetings with professors.
Caryl Smith, the dean of student life, said the University didn't need to establish guidelines defining the boundaries that coaches should maintain in dealing with instructors and students.
The present system is adequate and allows an outsider to be present in settling disputes between professors and students, she said.
See LETTER, p. 5, col. 2
A grade can be changed only because of a clerical error, according to University regulations.
"I don't think it's a policy question," she said. "It's up to the individual instructor. The policy is that it's the instructor's choice."
VICKIE THOMAS, general counsel for the University, said regulations would not have prohibited Brown from attending the meeting or from asking for the grade to be changed. She also said she knew of no deficiencies for determining when professor was being unfairly pressured.
Dear David:
January 9. 1984
David Katman
Professor
History Department
3043 Wescow
Cannus
I appreciate your taking the time to visit with me and myself concerning your history course.
After visiting with you, it is obvious to me that many of the things that you said to me would have been better said during his time in your class and I remember that he was not prepared to take a college examination of his I think that learning that fact from you on January 8 was a little late.
it is also obvious to me, based on our conversation, that you have little regard for athletics and what they can do for a young man. You talked about treating students all the same yet you are so prejudiced against athletes that it was almost embarrassing. I would never have been able to tell you not been for his scholarship and it is a gift for him to achieve so many of the advantages that so many of your other students have already had.
I don't completely side with, but hearing you only review his exam and not show any compassion for the individual makes me wonder whether you have compassion for anybody. You told that maybe it was a lesson for him. That is a harsh lesson! Maybe this letter
There are a lot of fine student-atheletes around and if you take the time to visit with them, you would see that. Their commitment toward athletics is certainly great but they are also committed to getting an education.
Sincerely,
Brian Brown
Larry Brown
Head篮球 Coach
Above is a copy of the first letter that head basketball coach Larry Brown wrote to David Katzman, an associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, after their Jan. 8 meeting. The image shows a student in a black Hunter before he sent the letter to University administrators.