University Daily Kansan, June 8, 1983
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KU to conduct summer computer camps
By GUELMA ANDERSON Staff Reporter
The increased number of college students across the country who are scrambling for courses in Pascal and Fortran are not alone.
The wave of computer fever has hit the college-bound as well as those already in the work force. Camps for the young and training sessions for professionals are offered everywhere, at the University of Kansas is no exception.
The School of Business conducted its second microcomputer seminar last fall in New York.
the country and Mexico participated.
Beginning next week, the first of six week-long computer camps to be conducted at KU will begin for junior and senior high school students from Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma; Illinois and Kansas.
Gordon Fitch, program director for last week's business seminar, said the response to the first program was so great that he decided to offer another one this month.
one this moment." "Microcomputers are almost like wildlife in management today," he said.
patrons took care of their needs and gave managers more time to work with people.
Lawrence A. Sherr, professor of business administration and one of the instructors of the seminar, said com-
Some of the tasks taught at the seminar included how to use microcomputers in product development and forecasting sales, he said.
Experience among the participants varied, but the outcome was successful, Scherr said.
Kim Moreland, a recruiter for the high school students' computer camp, said, "Learning to use a computer is going to be as important as learning to use a pen and pencil.
"We're going to entertain as well as educate."
Moreland said that the lectures would last about five minutes and that the rest of the session would allow the students to independent work on computer terminals.
The students will be instructed at the Academic Computer Center.
"I find that the kids do not regard the computers as something they have to do," she said. "I have had to coax them out of the terminals so they could eat lunch."
For students will stay in Oliver Hall for the one-week camp, however, evening activities will be free of computers. Students can attend ice cream socials, play pingpong and take trips to Worlds of Fun, she said.
MX-less energy and water bill passed by House
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Democratic-led House Tuesday killed
$20 million in construction money for
facilities to produce MX nuclear
reactor and water production in
MX-less $1.2 billion energy and water
spending bill for 1984.
The House voted 379-39 to approve and send the Senate the third of 13 regular appropriations bill for fiscal 1984, which begins Oct. 1.
without any Republican opposition
REP. JOHN MYERS, R-Ind., said President Reagan would sign the House bill
Rep. Tom Bevill, D-Ala., offered the amendment to defer the $20 million included in the bill for MX warhead production buildings until Congress actually authorizes legislation to produce the MX missile.
"What we're saying is leave the $20 million here, don't spend it until this issue is decided by the Congress," Bevill said.
million for further development and flight testing of the huge missile.
The administration plans to deploy 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos in Nebraska and Wyoming beginning in 1986.
THE $14.2 billion energy and water bill is $330.5 million below this year’s level and $405 million below President Reagan's request.
The measure is $1 billion below the House-passed budget resolution, with the totals reflecting a general 3 percent reduction in nuclear weapons programs.
new money for construction of the controversial Clinch River breeder nuclear reactor in Tennessee, the Tennessee-Tompkins Water project and the Watsonville Division project in North Dakota or the O'Neill unit water project in Nebraska.
The bill, however, allows the Army Corps of Engineers to use $180 million in deferred money from last year to continue building the $1.6 billion Tennessee-Tomigbee Waterway, expected to be finished in 1985.
Campus will stay cool if costs are controlled
By JUDITH HINDMAN Staff Reporter
University air conditioners will operate all summer as long as utility costs remain within the budget, according to Bob Porter, assistant director of KU Facilities Operations.
Porter said Thursday that conservation measures by students and employees, the use of heating oil during the winter and the recent cool weather had all combined to lower energy costs and keep them within the budget.
"Right now it looks like we will be able to run into September with the air conditioning." Porter said.
"We normally shut down about Oct. 15, but this year we may shut down earlier if we run short of energy or much better shape than last year."
This is in contrast to last summer when KU students and employees endured hot, stuffy classrooms and offices because of cutbacks in air conditioning.
According to William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, the University's energy savings this summer are in all areas being used this summer.
The rooms scheduled to be shut off include the top east half of Wescoe Hall; Summerfield 116, 123B, and 306B; Bullein 401, 407 and 409; Snow 304; and Nichols 116. Two auditoriums in Wescoe, 312C and 3140, would also be only by reservation and would be only during those times.
He said, however, that rooms not in use would not be cooled if this could be done without affecting areas in use.
The air conditioning was cut back last summer because of a $189,379 defect in the University's utility package from the Kansas agriculture.
Porter also said that other energy-saving measures for this summer included putting time clocks on blowers and air conditioners, turning off window units not in use and cycling off blower fans during the night.
Staff Reporter