University Daily Kansan, November 29, 1983
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had caused a two-month delay in the flight
"it was real excited about the launch," Ulary said "everything's fine — everything's moving beautifully."
ULAYB SAID CRAIG Dobson, project manager at the remote sensing lab, sent a telegram to him from West Germany shortly after he received the report. In the experiments we proceed amphibiously.
American customers officials almost prevented Dobson and two KU assistants from traveling to West Germany because of the radar equipment they had installed. But customer finally approved the trip Thursday.
The three scientists now are near Munich at West Germany's equivalent of NASA Ulaby said. They will stay there until Wednesday, when they will travel to a site near Bonn to set up the radar and other equipment they will use for the KU experiments.
The KU team will conduct its experiments when the space shuttle passes over the West German experiment site, Ulaby said. The shuttle is scheduled to make this crossover at 11:30 a.m. Sunday West German time, which is 5:30 a.m. CST.
The team will have one second to do the experiments. Ulaby said.
The pulses returned by the transponders will create bright dots on black and white photographs taken on the space lab. This experiment will help determine how well the equipment will provide a uniform reference scale for scientists to use in future calibrations of radar.
DURING THAT ONE second, the space shuttle will beam 10,000 high-frequency radar pulses at radar receiving equipment, or transponders, on the ground set up by Dobson and his crew. After receiving the radar pulses, the transponders will beam the radar pulses back to the space shuttle.
Another experiment will use high-frequency radar to map vegetation in the area around Bonn. High-frequency radar is useful for mapping crops and monitoring off-living matter and does not penetrate it.
A third experiment will use radar to determine the amount of water in soil at the experiment site.
WHILE INTERNATIONAL INTEREST was high, there were indications the launch was not successful.
"There was a relatively small crowd." Florida Highway Patrol LB. Bill Stringfield said of viewing sites of the space center. "I doubt if there were 100,000."
The crowd for the Aug. 30 night launch was estimated at 250,000.
Media interest also was down, with just 867 media representatives, 114 from other countries.
Their day was divided into 12-hour shifts for around-the-clock research in Spacelab, a 23-foot-long cylinder mounted in Columbia's cargo bay.
Columbia flight commander John Young, co-plot Brewer Shaw and four other shuttle crew members had little time to admire the view as they circled the world at 17.900 mph.
HUNDREDS OF GUESTS gathered at the West German space center in Cologne to applaud Columbia and physicist Ulf Mertold, the first West German to fly in space and first foreign to ride in an American space vehicle. Millions of West Germans gathered before television screens in bars, homes and offices to watch a live transmission of the shuttle launch.
"It was a picture-book take off," said Science and Technology Minister Heinz Riesenhuber. "Europe has entered the area of manned space flight for the first time."
Spacelab was developed by European Space Agency at a cost of $1 billion and donated to NASA as Western Europe's contribution to the U.S. space program.
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In contrast, students at Pittsburg State University will pay about $100 more than most KU students for similar residence hall room and board plans, according to rate furnished by the Repsents. Students at Winston State University will pay up to $200 more.
At Pittsburgh State, a double room and 18 meals a week — a similar plan to the one used in KU residence halls — will cost $2.124. At Wichita State, a double room in an air-conditioned apartment will cost $2.240. All KU residence hall contracts include payment for 20 meals a week.
KU'S MOST EXPENSIVE residence hall will be Hashinger Hall, which will cost $2,100, according to the Office of Residential Programs. McCollum Hall will cost $2,010; Oliver Hall will cost $2,025; GSP, Corbin, Lewis and Ellsworth halls will cost $2,000; and Joseph R. Pearson and Templin halls will cost $1,989.
But only 390 students live in Hashinger, which means that about 4,100, or more than 90 percent of the students living in KU residence centers, live in McColum houses about 900 students, and
Ellsworth and Oliver house about 650 each.
Ellsworth and Oliver house about 650 each. KU men's scholarship halls will cost $1,626. Douthart and Sellards halls, the two women's scholarship halls providing both room and board, will cost $1,519. About 400 students live in KU scholarship halls.
ALL OF K-STATE's housing, including its one scholarship hall, will cost $1,820 next year. Double rooms at Fort Hays State, with 20 meals a week, will cost $1,966.
Comparable to KU's costs are those of Emporia State University, where a double room and 18 meals a week will cost $2,010 for next year. At Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, a double room and 19 meals a week will cost $1,995.
At Wichita State, where a double room and 19 meals a week in the school's two air-conditioned residence halls will cost $2.240 next year, the variety of services offered to students adds to the cost, said Randy Alexander, director of housing.
a non-air-conditioned double room and 19 meals a week at Wichita State will cost $245.
"At KU," Alexander said, "You have no seconds on meals. We have unlimited
“And the students don't want to give up the extras that they get. We could easily knock $30,000 out of our budget if we eliminated, say, the seconds in the meals. But we wouldn't want them, and so did they didn't want us to stop doing those things. So, not coincidentally, they pay more.”
seconds. We have four meal plans, which adds to the amount of work that goes into preparing meals. One of our halls has a swimming pool. We also have a smaller operation — 900 students as compared to your unit — but suffer the same administrative costs.
EVENT THOUGH A room and 10 or 15 meals can cost as little as $1,933 at Wichita State, he said, such limited meal plans are available only five days a week.
Fred McElhenean, director of the KU Office of Residential Programs, agreed with Alexander, saying that having only one meal plan probably helped hold down costs.
"It probably does mean less work for the cafeteria people in each hall, even though I'm no expert on food." McEllenbie said. "It's a little far away. Less to prepare, I would imagine."
IN NORTH-CENTRAL, Kansas, a snow-skidened highway about five miles north of Alta Vista caused an automobile to slide into an abandoned lane Sunday and collide with a pickup truck.
wouldn't be back for classes until tomorrow
"I need to get back for school but I also need to
work on my math."
The occupants of the car, Otis E. Cross, 63, and his wife Ida, 59, of Lincoln, Neb., were pronounced dead at the scene, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.
wouldn't be back for classes until tomorrow
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A blizzard warning was issued in northwest Kansas early yesterday as northwest winds of 25 to 30 mph occurred.
SNOW ENDED IN THE Goodland area about 4 a.m. yesterday, and skies began clearing and wind tapered off. Visibility was improving, but it was still foggy and closed. Drifts up to 6 feet deep were common.
At 3 a.m. yesterday, 19 inches of snow had accumulated at Goodland and 3 inches at Dodge City. As of midnight, Garden City had 8 inches and Concordia 6 inches.
Predawn temperatures ranged from around 10 degrees in the northwest corner to the lower 30s
In north-central Kansas, ice on power lines and trees created power outages in a number of
In northwest Kansas, Sherman County Deputy Kevin Armstrong said snowfall and high winds prevented workers from clearing roads Sunday night.
"You can' even see your fingers stretched out in front of your face." Armstrong said. "The town (Goodland) is at a complete standstill. Nothing is going on."
IN GOODLAND, NATIONAL Weather Service meteorologist Ernie Workman said that winds had been gisting to 44 mph and that drifts had piled high along roadside.
"I guess you could call it a full-fledged
blizzard." he said.
A similar situation existed in southwest Kansas where a Finney County sheriff's dispatcher said many business plans planned to be completed in the district districts in northwest Kansas canceled classes.
The one police car in Rawlins County was stuck in the snow Sunday and sheriff's dispatcher Joyce Parker said she would stay in the office "for the duration" of the snowstorm. All roads in and out of Atwood were closed, she said, and power failures were reported.
Roads were closed in all directions out of Tribune in Greely County, which borders Colorado, where snow drifts were as high as 8 feet.
“四 wheel drive drives won't last very long.” Greeley dispatcher Cindy Miller said Sunday. “DOT (Department of Transportation) crews are trying to open the roads, but they are closing up right behind them as fast as they get them open.”
FREEZING RAIN AND sleet coated tree limbs and power lines with ice a quarter to a half inch thick in north-central and northeast Kansas Sunday.
The Marshall County sheriff's office was without power at least three times Sunday, dispatcher Sam White said. Other parts of town were quiet, with no activity, as were Waterville and Astell, she said.
"The trees are terrible." White said. "Things are falling like crazy, My TV antenna fell on the roof. Fences are lagging over, almost touching the ground."
She said she had received 102 calls about the weather in six hours Sunday from worried parents.
POWER OUTMES WERE "off and on" in Nemaha County on the Nebraska border in northeast Kansas, Undersheriff Frank Gray said.
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In Damascus, Arab peacemakers hoping to end the Palestinian civil war yesterday ordered Yasser Arafat's men and the opposing Syrian forces to leave Tripoli and return to their refugee camps.
DAMASCUS RADIO SAID former Lebanese Prime Minister Rishad Karmani announced plans for the dispersal of the warring PLO factions in settings in the Syrian capital with Tripoli officials.
There was no immediate response from Arafat or the Syrian backed rebels to the plan — part of the Syrian Saudi cease-fire agreement reached last week. The rebel leader Col Abu Muosa said
Sunday, however that his men would not
surd the berdiere of the Nahr or Nahr of refugee
tribes in Germany.
"As for the dissident fighters, they must return to the camps, not precisely Bedawi or Nahr e Bared, but to whatever regions where they are continuing their national obligations." Karami said.
Karami said the 4,000 to 5,000 men who traveled to Tripoli with Arafat in September and the guerrilla leader's local PLO forces must leave the city within two weeks. But he said they could return to their homes in the nearby refugee camps.
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