Vol. 99, No. 8 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1869 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday September 7,1988
Fountain of fun
Sara Cark, 9. Heather Clark, 10 and Ein Erin Case, 1. take a swim in the Chi Omega fountain on Labor Day. The girls also took a dip outside Murphy Hall in Monday's fountain-hopping expedition.
Prof finds 'greener' pastures
By Grace Hobsor Kansan staff writer
Last year's presiding officer of the University Council and professor of public administration, Mr. Dubuhn, has said that "the college should be more student-oriented."
Dubnick left KU at the close of last semester to become the chairman of the department of public administration and the vice president.
An active force in University governance, Dubnick led the Council, the governing body of the University Senate, last year through the controversy over the invitation for the Ku Kluu Klan to speak on campus, the intense faculty union debate and budget pressures from the faculty and the administration.
Before heading the Council, Dubnick was the chairman of the Senate Executive Committee from 1986 to 1987. For three years prior, he was a member of the Council. He had been a professor at KU since 1980.
Dubnick said he chose New York over Kansas for a simple reason - a 100 percent pay increase.
Despite the Margin of Excellence program, which will increase faculty salaries over the next three years, Mr. Browne's salary has increased by 50 percent offered by other schools. Although KU offered him a 20 percent pay increase, he said, his salary was doubled by the college's new financial aid program.
it was very difficult to leave," he said. "I really liked KU and would have liked to stay, but Kansas was no longer competitive. And there was no effort to regain competitiveness."
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Dubnick attributed KU's inability to compete with
other universities to salary compression. This occurs when a school tries to attract a professor fresh out of school. To be successful in getting the young professor, the school must pay a competitive salary. The salary is often within close range of professors' salaries who have been with the university for as many as ten years.
Dubuack despite his grievances with faculty salaries at KU, his criticism did not spread to the entire University. Because his academic specialty is in bureaucracy, Dubuack said he would work in the governance of the University, he said.
Salary compression hits middle-aged professors hardest, Dubnick said.
"We have kids in high school and college now. We have to rv college tuition", he said.
"It was a great experience," he said. "I'm not a bureaucratic basher. I believe that people in administration are for the most part seriously trying to do their jobs."
"There are many pressures," he said. "You can't please everyone, but you must make equitable choices. I have been critical, but the fact is they are doing their jobs."
He said he understood the demands on the administration to please many different factions.
As head of the Council, Dubnick said he acted as a mediator between differing groups, such as faculty, staff and students.
"I just tried to keep open the lines of communication while using those lines," he said.
Two cosmonauts safe after ship malfunction
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Two cosmonauts landed safely on Earth early today after guidance system malfunctions twice forced them to abert their descent, trapping them in orbit as food and oxygen supplies dwindled, Tass said.
Twenty-six tense hours after separating from the space station Mir, Abdul Ahab Mohmad, the first Afghan in space, and Soviet crewmate Vladimir Lykashov touched Central Asia, the official News agency said.
"Both cosmonauts feel fine after the landing." Tass said.
Soviets awoke this morning to a television announcer who said: "We'll begin this newcastish with a report we've all been waiting for with great impatience." He then read the "Pass dimentach on the landing"
In a tape from mission control near Moscow, Soviet television showed a red star flashing on a map where it said the Soyuz TM-5 capsule parachuted to the ground at the site of the explosion in the town of Dhedekazhan in the republic of Nakazhkan.
Officials gathered in the center applauded after an announcer pronounced the landing a success.
About 50 minutes before landing, the guidance system's computer automatically started an engine that braked the capsule, pull it out of orbit and bringing it safely through the atmosphere. Tass said
the Situation Soon could occur there.
The reports said life support systems aboard the
Soviet news reports said earlier that neither Mohmand, a 29-year Afghan pilot, nor Lykabov, a 47-year Soviet military pilot, was in immediate danger but that the situation soop could become critical.
capsule would last just two days, which would have put the cosmonauts in danger tomorrow morning.
"If they cannot make the burn tonight to push them back into the atmosphere, they will probably only live another 24 to 48 hours before the carbon dioxide building in the capsule will kill them," James Oberg, a U.S. expert on the Soviet space program, told The Associated Press in Houston.
The Soyuz capsule is designed for a resupply of cosmonauts to and from space, and carries few supplies. A Soviet space official said the cosmonauts could have stretched supplies of oxygen, water and food for up to a week, after which the Soyuz capsule would have become like "a lone boat in the ocean."
NASA officials said they had volunteered help but the Soviets declined, saying no assistance was needed.
The capsule's problems began after it unlocked from the Soviet orbiting space station Mir, where Lyakhov and Mohmand had spent six days with three other cosmonauts.
The capsule's guidance system malfunctioned several times during reentry attempts, in one case putting the capsule into an orbit.
"Accident! The engine worked 60 seconds and shut off a violation of the stabilization regime." Lyakhov told mission control in an exchange reported by the government newspaper Ixvestia.
In an article headlined "Axious Hours in Space," Investia also reported this exchange:
"How are things with food?" a mission controller asked.
Club awaits shuttle flight Members hopes to send experiments to space
"There is no food," said Lvakhov.
By Debbie McMahon Kansan staff writer
Members of the KU Space Program club hope to be in orbit on one of the next space shuttle flights.
Actually, the club itself won't be aboard. But the group hopes to have five experiments ready to go up by fall of 1987, said the club's president, Maryar Rathbarrud. Olathe senior, when the experiment was launched, led packages on the shuttle schedule and available cargo space, he said.
The results of the experiments could gain the club, as well as KU, world recognition in science, said club advisor Saeed Farokhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering.
Last February, the Student Senate
The club had to pay $800 initially to the contract with NASA, and will have to pay another $220. Rabbi Harper gave the department gave the club $1,000.
"These are experiments that would be performed at near zero gravity environments." Farokhi said. "If they obtain new, unknown scientific results, KU would report that to the science world."
The club was formed in the fall of 1968 in response to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's interest in aircraft manufacturers, which industries, universities and other organizations can purchase a special camister and priority number kit for the aircraft board one of the shuttle flights. Farohi said. The camister, which will house all five of the experiments, is cylindrical with only five cubic feet of space.
When the experiments will be launched depends on the shuttle schedule and available cargo space.
allocated $7.73. However, the fund's had spent about $1,400 of the funds at the end of the fiscal year June, and had to forfeit that money. Rahrad said other than the $4 million from the club has no other source of revenue.
Rubbarrad said other universities that have participated in the GAS program received corporate sponsor grants from the Formula Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. He said the club had received corporate technical advice.
He said the club's goal is to keep the costs to less than $5,000.
Huffman said that although the work he does for the club isn't getting him any college credit, it is highly related to the technical side of aerospace engineering. Employees like the hands-on experience, he said.
The club's treasurer, Daniel Huffman, newport Beach, Calif. junior, said, "Right now we're in the design phase, and we want to invest money until we get to the construction stage. It's a Catch--22 since NASA can't have a definite date as to when our project will go up, but we need it soon with the Student Senate to get funds."
The experiments must be fully automated with the shuttle's astronauts participating only by turning
switches on and off. Rbarrard said.
One experiment, a vapor deposition experiment, will involve sending liquid nitrogen into space to space. Since plastic in space deteriorates when exposed to radiation, the experiment will determine how much metal-coated plastic slips the process of decay. Rbarrard said we can use plastic in space since it is a light weight, requires less energy to send.
the second experiment, the building of composites, or joining materials in a construction project; if there are any big differences between building composites in
The third, an oil and water mix is a biological experiment. The oil and water will simulate red blood cells interaction with membranes. It should give insight into the weakens in *horses' horn marrow* while in sauce.
The fourth, a chemical mix experiment, involves sending about 250 small capsules into a chamber. Photographs will be taken of the color changes, reactions and precipitates, or solids that form when they react with water. What will be analyzed to see if any changes occur in the mix during entry or and if anything is different than if the mixture was not mixed.
The fifth, the space seed experiment involves sending seeds and germination in a space radiation. Then the seeds will be analyzed to see if they still can form.
Rahbarrad said that the club may send some sunflower seeds from Kansas for fun.
Studying minorities KU to release minority task force report
By Laura Woodward Kansan staff writer
The executive vice chancellor's office plans to release the Minority Issues Task Force report sometimes in late September or early
The Minority Issues Task Force, proposed last Feb. 17 by Chancellor Gene A. Budig in response to concerns of community leaders about a scheduled campaign by the Ku Klux Klan, was created to the actions that campus organizations were taking on minority issues.
The 22-member force, which met for the first time April 7, has spent the intervening months in four subcommittees studying the effectiveness of minority programs on campus.
"I've been on a subcommittee and our group has met several times over the last several months." Edward Zamaripa, associate director of the administration of child research, said
"We've edited our report and our subcommittee will be meeting this week to look over it."
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor and chairman of the task force, said that she would look at the situation sometime at the end of September.
Discussions with student groups that deal with minority concerns
Examination of recruitment and retention of minority faculty
The subcommittees focused on four areas:
- Discussions with heads of departments and governance committees that deal with minority concerns.
Reviews of previous task forces and committees
"What I intend to do is lay out all the recommendations," Tamara said. "I may hold some of them, but the ones with budget implications
Both Zamarripa and Marshall Jackson, assistant director of
"Our group has made great progress and I think we've come up with some great ideas to introduce," said Zamarrapi, who is on the subcommittee examining the recruitment and retention of new faculty.
admissions and member of the task force, expressed optimism for the report.
Jackson's hopes for the report were more cautious.
"I'm pretty positive about the task force," he said. "I've been here a long time and I've seen opportunities come and go. I have a guarded optimism about what the future holds." He is not putting up an down
Ramalay说 that a big issue is the way the University encourages the support and involvement of all of its employees.
"Universities are asked to play so many different roles," she said. "We have to think about what we want to do in our classes, women of different backgrounds
can learn to work together.
"Too often, we tend to focus on the specifics of the process, such as exactly how many people have been working with us. We're trying to do what we're doing."
Task force members were reticent about the report.
"I really wouldn't want to say anything until the report is released," said Sady Lugan, associate professor of social welfare.
Jackson said the task force also spent time talking to students to discuss some of their concerns.
Rosita Dorsey, director of the office of minority affairs, declined to comment on the task force.
"The committee is very much committed to looking at the campus and coming up with responses." "We feel we've got some good information to implement some ideas and progress and to get the machinery
Census shows Hispanic population up one-third
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Hispaniacs have increased by more than one-third in this decade, growing nearly five times faster than the rest of the population, the Census Bureau said yesterday.
That is 34 percent more than the 14.5 million people who listed themselves as Hispanics in the 1980 census. By comparison the nation's non-Hispanic population increased by about 7 percent in the same period.
And more than half of all Hispanics in this country reside in just two states, California and Texas, the bureau said.
It estimated that there were 194 million people in the U.S. of Hispanic background as of last March. They represent 8.1 percent of the nation's
About half the Hispanic increase was a result of immigration and half from the excess of births over deaths, the bureau said.
While people of Spanish ancestry made up a growing share of the nation's residents, they were extremely concentrated geographically, the bureau found. About one-third of Hispanics, 33.9 percent, reside in California, and 21.3 percent live in Texas.
While the study did not estimate the Hispanic population of every state, it said that almost 90 percent lived in nine states.
Those are California, 6.6 million.
Toronto, a 4.1 million; New York, 2.1
million.
Boston, a 801,000; Arizona, 648,000;
New Jersey, 946,000; New Mexico, 845,000.
Other findings of the report on Hispanics include:
More than half of Hispanics have completed high school, and 10 percent have completed four years of college.
■ People of Mexican heritage were the largest Hispanic group at 12.1 million. They were followed by Puerto Rican risers on the U.S. mainland, 2.5 million, Central and South America, 1.2 million, and Catholics, 1.2 million.
The unemployment rate among Hispanics was 8.5 percent, compared with 5.8 percent for non-Hispanics
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