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Vol. 99, No. 24 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE
Thursday September 29,1988
NASA delays shuttle launch for one hour
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The countdown for launch of space shuttle Discovery was setback an hour today while NASA weather officials studied peculiar winds that caused the plane to orbit. The space agency lapped for five days, 2 years after the Challenger accident.
If wind conditions did not improve, NASA would have to scrub the launch effort despite clear skies and a troubleless spacecraft. It is now 9:38 a.m. CDT and as late as 12:47 p.m.
Commander Frederick H. Haack and his crew of four veteran astronauts awoke early
and downed flight gear and then waited for a go-ahead to board the $13 billion craft on
Weather officers worried about brisk winds near the launch pad and light snow on the ground, since configured to expect winds in a certain range, do not have adequate data to steer the craft through the unusual weak winds at altitudes, said NASA's Ralph Hudson.
Crews pumped 528,000 gallons of liquor, hydrogen and liquid oxygen into the craft's cavernous fuel tank. The countdown was in a scheduled hold when just before dawn NASA
announced a one-hour extension pointing to liftoff at 9:58 a.m. CDT
The high altitude winds were blowing at 12 to 23 miles per hour, 20,000 feet above the launch pad. More normal winds would be in the range of 46 mph
Surface winds blew from the north at 16 knots but were expected to shift to east at 12 knots (which officials said. Launch criteria allows no more than a 12-knot crosswind, in case of an attack).
The four day mission was to be Discovery's seventh trip to space. Lanning was set for Rogers Dry Lakeed at Eddins Air Force Base.
Base in Calif.
"We'll practically be living a shakedown flight of a new spacecraft," pilot Richard O. Covey said of the 20th skatefly flight. Because of more than 430 post-Challenger modifications, he predicted, "There probably will be撞击, but overall we'll have a safer vehicle."
A 21-member launch panel, created to avoid communication failures revealed by the Challenger catastrophe, was in place to monitor the count. Robert Crippen was proxied to the command corps to examine the launch and had sole responsibility to approve the liftoff or order a scrub.
The astronauts, wearing new orange pressure suits, were to board Discovery about two hours before launch to award the capsule its name on a tense 9-minute climb into orbit.
Newly designed booster pickets will provide the initial threat. It was a failure in the attack, but the team's defense that killed the seven Challenger crewmembers, including schoolteachers
The severe thunderstorm that struck the Lawrence area about 6 p.m. yesterday sent this tree at Sixth and Elm streets crashing to the ground. The Lawrence Public Works Department later removed the tree from the street.
Please see SHUTTLE, p. 12, col. t
Trees blown down by 80-mph winds
Rain from last night's torrential thunderstorms flooded 23rd and Oudsahl streets.
By Debbie McMahon
A tree limb was in Man Mans way when he returned home from playing basketball at Robinson Gymnasium last night.
"It looked big enough to be a decent-sized tree in somebody's yard," the Silver Lake senior said.
decent-sized tree in somebody's yard. the Silver Lake senior senator, who lives at 6:45 p.m., Mississippi Street at Sixth Street was clear. But an entire fence was blocked by part of the street he returned home at 9:45 p.m.
were blown into Lawrence streets and yards yesterday by winds that the National Weather Service in Dallas had to coordinate with mph. The winds were part of a severe thunderstorm, which included gold ball size rain and storm clouds.
Several trees and tree limbs
The weather service said the storm did the most damage because it hit a populated area. The storm extended from northwestern Kansas to northern Oklahoma.
T. A. Mindrup, Lawrence district manager for KPL Gas Service.
reported about 45 small outages in town, affecting approximately 60 customers. He said all power would be restored by 2 a.m. today.
storm." Mindrup said.
"These outages were caused by the severe lightning and several gusts of wind during the thunder.
Russ Buckholz, assistant director in charge of preventive management of the department's services, said the department received 12 calls during the storm.
of Summerfield, Malott and Staunter Flint halls and a broken window at Carnirth of Leary Hall
"We knew the storm was coming so we were pretty well prepared for it." Buchholz said.
Enrollment decreasing at KU
But Otterfire Fred D. Brooke, said the Douglas County Sheriff's office was kept busy with flooded streets and stalled cars. Flooded streets Nath, and New Hampshire street Rockford Road and Iowa Street.
The breakdown
Lawrence campus enrollment 24.148
Off-campus enrollment 1,972
Enrollment at the Regents schools
2,383
Kansas                    decreased 137
K-State                     increased 892
Fort Hayes State           decreased 131
Pittsburgh State         increased 336
Emporia State             decreased 276
Washington State        increased 256
Wichita State             increased 215
Medical Center
Enrollment in the Big 8
Dave Eames/KANSAN
20th-day figures show 'stabilized' enrollment
By Laura Woodward
Kansan staff writer
Fall enrollment of the University of Kansas decreased for the first time since 1903, according to enrollment figures.
Total enrollment for all campuses this fall was 28,403, a decrease of 31TF students, of about 1 percent, from last year.
The figures, released by the office of university relations, show that enrollment has stabilized last fall (after a year of declines).
The University's last decrease, from fall 1862 to fall 1863, was 128 students.
Administrators said they weren't surprised by this year a enrollment figures because their objective was to increase.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said deadlines for admissions applications and an effort to connect prospective students on KU academic standards helped to stabilize enrollment.
When you're dealing with 26,000 students, stabilizing enrollment means not increasing or decreasing over 1.2 years.
Hamayel said that stabilizing enrollment created a better match between the number of students and the teachers.
The University has achieved its stated objective: Chancellor Gene A. Budg said in a prepared text, "For
the first time in several years, the Lawrence campus has been able to respond effectively to legitimate student
Kevin Nichter, director of business affairs at KU, said that his office must analyze the enrollment figures before he would know whether stabilization would have an effect on the University budget.
"We have to make sure our enrolment will produce as many dollars as we budgeted for." "Witness said"
Twentieth-day enrollment figures are the official numbers used for budgeting purposes. The 61st day of the
Fall enrollment at KU's Lawrence campus is 24,148,
down 235 students from last fall. Enrollment at the
College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., is 2,301,
a decrease of 31 students.
Off-campus enrollment at the Registrar's Center in Overland Park, the Capitol Complex in Topeka and the University of Kansas.
Figures for KU's Lawrence Campus indicate that the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences lost the most students in KU schools. Enrollment at the college decreased by 463 students.
Enrollment also decreased in allied health, architecture and urban design, business, engineering and law.
upper school education, for arts, graduate journalism, nursing,
pharmacy and social welfare
source: University Resations
Liberal Arts enrollment decreases
By Grace Hobson
Deb Trefter, director of institutional research and planning, said that as far back as that office's job title implied, he continued had continually increased
For the first time in recent history, enrollment in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences decreased this fall. Enrollment in the college decreased by 405 students, according to figures released yesterday by the university.
"Our goal has been to stabilize enrollment," said James Carothers, associate dean of the college. "At the
But less is not necessarily worse college officials say.
moment, we seem to have achieved that."
"If an additional 599 freshmen had enrolled here, the University would not have had an additional dollar of resources to teach them," he said.
Although some equate increased enrollment with a stronger University, Carothers said a stable enrollment was positive.
the college enrolled 13,258 students by the 20th day of classes on Monday. Last year, the figure was 13,721 from the enrollment of 894 students from the previous year.
More rigorous application deadlines and stricter admission policies for out of state students helped control enrollment. Caradars said.
To be admitted last year, out-of-state students had to have met the Regents core curriculum, or have passed a course with an average or achieved a composite ACT score of 23. After the application deadline had passed, the college assessed the applications and accepted students with a 2.9 GPA.
Stricter probation and dismissal policies also were responsible for the termination of students with attrition, or students not returning to KU, increased by 201 students from
During the 1967-88 academic year, 684 students were dismissed from the University for academic misconduct.
The previous year, 483 students had been dismissed.
"Formally," it was possible to, students who were dismissed to still attend classes, Carothers said "Now, students have to stay out a year before being admitted."
Carothers said that because of the stricter admission and dismissal policies, the quality of students was higher.
That improvement is evident by a slight increase in average CT screen resolution. The composite average was 22.1 in the tail of 488 compared with 21.9 the tail of 486.
The Associated Press
Since there is no Democratic candidate, the primary victory all but assured Tyler of being the next
TOPEKA *Toperka* Tyler, who graduated from Wash. State in spring from Washington and age 68, will not be able to become Ongate County attorney because he was on probation.
Tyler, a Quemeno resident, natively defeated incumbent county attorney Thomas O'Neill in primary, becoming the Republican nominee for the November election.
Nominee for Osage attorney fails state bar examination
county attorney in Osage County, barring the successful campaign of a write-in candidate.
But Tyler, who is retired from the U.S. Air Force and a veteran of World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, was notified last week that he did not pass the state bar because he is not intelligible to county attorney.
Tyler said he took the exam four days before he was scheduled to undergo major survery
"I was not in top shape when I took that exam," he said. "I took a gamble and lost."
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