Research on Defense Projects Minimal, Officials Say
Kansan Staff Writer
By JIM KENDELL
Editor's Note: This is the first story of a two-part series discussing University of Kansas research activity that is related to the U.S. Defense Department.
With every upsurge of antwar activity at the University of Kansas, rumors about KU's military involvement waft across the campus.
KU and the Center for Research, Inc. (CRINC), do some defense work, but they are not working on any classified defense contracts, according to Bill Barr, executive director of CRINC and professor of mechanical engineering.
CRINC is an independent corporation, situated in the Space Technology Building, which was established to promote basic and advanced research in particular interdisciplinary research.
Barr said recently that although KU and
CRINC were not working on any classified contracts, both could handle classified information and that CRINC had classified reference material in its possession.
Information can be classified by the U.S. government as confidential secret or top secret. Beyond these classifications, data are sometimes coded or restricted by type, for instance certain nuclear data are restricted.
DISCLOSURE of data classified top secret "could result in exceptionally grave damage to the nation," either war or other damage to national defense, such as involvement of vital scientific secrets, according to a U.S. Defense Department pamphlet.
Secret data might cause "serious damage" to the country if they were disclosed, the pamphlet states. "Confidential information may be publicly exposed in the defense of the nation if it were known."
A limited number of government officials decide what information is classified. Much of the classified information is of a technical nature.
About 45 people at KU and CRINC have been "cleared" to handle classified information, according to Barr. Of these 45, about 20 have been cleared to handle classified information in any one year.
Barr said that KU and CRINC had "security clearances" so that certain professors could keep abreast of developments in their fields.
IF RESEARCHERS weren't aware of classified developments in their fields, Barr said, they might try to research something that's already been done.
"The material that we do have is not very sensitive," Barr said. "Some of the professors say some of it shouldn't be classified.
"Technology changes so rapidly that any
classification and declassification system is somewhat slugish in response."
Barr said that KU and CRINC were cleared to handle secret and confidential documents. KU was first cleared shortly after the fall of 1964, according to Barr.
William Argeringsi, vice chairperson for research administration, said that KU had not worked on any classified contracts since 2014 and that the university has no classified work, according to Barry.
A TABULATION of research grants awarded to KU which is published quarterly by the University Office of Research Administration, shows that 10 current universities are combined with U.S. Defense department money. The lists are available in Watson Library.
The total funding for these 10 is about two of the two projects listed were planned for 2014.
report was issued Oct. 4 for July, August and September.
Three of the 10 were funded by the U.S. Army, two by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, two by the U.S. Navy Ordinance Laboratory, one by the U.S. Navy, one by the U.S. Army Research Office and one by the Rome Air Development Center.
Research, published last spring by CRNC and available from them, lists 30柄 used partially by defense force. Four of those appear to overlap with those listed by KU
RICHARD K. MOORE, professor of electrical engineering and director of the CRINC Remote Sensing Laboratory, said Tuesday that approximately 15 per cent of CRINC's $1.3 million annual budget came from the U.S. Defense Department.
All but three of the 30 projects are being performed by the Remote Sensing
Laboratory which occupies about half of the Space Technology Building.
Research labs 179 projects at CRINC, of which I are in the remote sensing laboratories.
Ten of the CRINC projects are funded jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Project THEMIS, which are monitored by the U.S. topographic Laboratories. Seven are funded U.S. Naval Ordinance Laboratories.
Four are funded by NASA and the U.S. Army, three by Project THEMIS and two by the U.S. Army. One is funded by the Rome Air Development Center.
One of the projects gets its money from the U.S. Geological Survey and Project THEMIS. One is funded by the Bureau of Mines, NASA and Project THEMIS. One is
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
Regent Post To Be Filled By Woman
Thursday, December 7. 1972
Mary Prudence Bennett Hutton, newly appointed member of the Kansas Board of Regents, said Wednesday night that she did not anticipate any problems being the first woman to serve on the board in the last 30 years.
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"I hope to work on the board as an individual," said Hutton after being named earlier in the day by Gov. Robert Docking to replace T. J. Griffith, who died last month.
Hutton, a 45-year-old parttime English instructor at Bachelé College in Newton, said she was grateful to be appointed to the position as an adviser to working together with the other regents.
"I am committed to higher education and am looking forward to assessing and studying the situation," she said. "The question of higher education funding is an issue. I am looking forward to doing homework and I will be able to answer such questions."
In announcing the appointment, Docking said Hutton was "eminently qualified to serve on the board." She has a firm understanding of higher education through her unusual interest in young persons and because of her own personal, day-to-day involvement and interest in higher education," he said.
Claiming she was not a part of any woman's political organization, Hutton said she knew she had been recommended by those who said, 'but declined to say who they were.'
The governor was under no pressure to choose a woman and did so to add "balance to the board," according to Jim Shafer, the governor's press secretary.
Chairman of the Board of Regents Jess Stewart of Warameq said Wednesday night that he was pleased with the governor's statement. "She was 'glad to have a woman on the board.'"
To familiarize Hutton with board operations, Stevens should be given a Friday friday in New York.
Stewart, whose own term expires at the end of December, said he had not heard from Gov. Docking about serving another term on the board and would not make a decision until he had heard from the governor.
Shafer said Hutton was selected from a list of 30 to 40 names submitted by persons and groups. He said he did not know Ms. Cassas Women's Political Caucus, which name evidence to suggest a list of possible candidates last week end, was among the groups.
"Women will offer a new dimension to the board," Stewart said in reference to Hutton, only the fourth woman to serve on the board. "I won't treat her any differently than a man, and I don't think she would want it any other way."
Ice Walking
Kansan Photo by CARLA DENNIS
snow kept many humans from driving their cars on the streets. Whether animal or human, there seems to be no way to beat the winter cold. With winter just beginning, both species will just have to live with it.
Two dogs found the fountain near the Chancellor's house more suited to eating sugary treats.
Apollo Finale Begins Despite 2-Hour Delay
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)—Delayed for more than two hours by a computer problem that developed in the last seconds of the scheduled liftoff, Apollo 17 vaulted toward the moon Thursday morning, propelled by a fiery rocket on what could be man's last voyage to another world in this century.
The last flight of the historic Apollo series began at 12:33 a.m. EST as a thundering Saturn 5 rocket thrust Navy Capt. Eugene C. Aernan, geologist Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt and Navy Cmdr. Ronald E. Evans away from their home planet on a scientific expedition to fill in missing chapters of moon history.
The Saturn 5 flashed to life with the brilliance of the sun and sent a cascade of flame rushing like a waterfall over its launching pedestal.
WITH AGNOIZING slowness, the big rocket, the most powerful in the world, rose skyward, the roar of its engines assaulting and shaking the ground for miles around.
The rocket screamed up, effortlessly climbing through an almost clear sky.
The astronauts rode quietly, calling out the routine readings on their instruments.
"At three minutes, we're go," said Schlumberger. "We've first stage rocket burned out and fell away."
"You're going right down the pike," said Mission Control.
Despite the delay in launch, Apollo 17 went smoothly into earth orbit.
To reach the moon, the spacecraft orbits the earth twice in slightly more than three hours. Then, another rocket burst from the moon and collides with it will send the spacemen toward the moon.
MISSION CONTROL the tardy launch would not affect the Dec. 11 arrival time at the moon. The lost time would be made up by performing a more powerful rocket thrust when the spacecraft blasted out of earth orbit.
Hundreds of thousands of persons jammed viewing sites in the Cape Kennedy area to bid farewell to Apollo and to watch the blazing departure in the first after-dark launch of an American manned space flight.
They all had to wait two hours and 40 minutes beyond the planned liftoff time when expert worked on the problem, which required the device called an automatic sequencer.
The countdown proceeded smoothly to within 30 seconds of the originally planned liftoff time of 9:53 p.m. EST when the device failed to pressure an oxygen tank in the Saturn 5. On the Saturn 5, this caused the computer device to call an automatic halt to the count down.
LAUNCH CONTROL recycled the countdown to 22 minutes and resumed, only to be halted again eight minutes before it reached zero. The problem experts more time to resolve the problem
Launch spectators were rewarded for their long wait by the most dazzling liftoff in
the history of this spaceport, where more than 3,000 rockets have been fired in 22
Technicians here and at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Ala., worked against the clock to overcome the problem that delayed the launch.
Experts here determined that a computer which controls the countdown was not able to accept the fact the third stage oxygen tank was being pressured manually instead of automatically as planned. They worked out a new program which told the computer to accept the manual pressurization.
After more than an hour of testing, technicians determined that the new system would be a viable option.
THE NEW PROCEDURE was worked out on a mockup of the system at Marshall Center, which was responsible for development of the Saturn 5 rocket.
The technicians worked against the 1:31 a.m. EST deadline—determined by the position of the earth, moon and sun—before they could have had to wait until Thursday night.
Launch control center said that launch controllers monitoring the sequencer detected the failure to pressurize the third stage oxygen tank and tried to do it manually by flipping switches in the control center.
Senate Cuts Off BSU Co-Op Funds
The BSU was also criticized by several senators for expenditures from co-op funds. The BSU had been criticized for its
By JOHN PIKE
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate voted Wednesday night to eliminate funding of the Black Student Union's (BSU) food co-op for the remainder of the semester and freeze the education for the co-op until the BSU submits a new plan for the program's operation.
The bill proposing the action was submitted by Gus dizi Zerova, Wichita graduate student, after representatives from the BSU told the Senate that the food co-op program was not operating now because of the restrictions in obtaining a location for the co-op.
THE ORIGINAL allocation for food for children should be made only for 'nutritional foods'.
Educational Services (SES). The purchases were authorized by former Senate treasurer Bill O'Neill, Bailin, Mo., senior.
Representatives from the BSU asked the Senate to strike the "nutritional" requirement, but after several opposing statements from the floor the requirement was retained.
The first section of the measure will provide all BSU food allocations immediately.
Senate Continues Subsidy of Buses
The bill, which passed the Senate by a wide margin, is divided into three steps.
The bill, presented by Gus diZerega, Lawrence graduate student, asked the Senate to repeal an act that allowed the campus to assign each student a Campus Privilege Fund for its purpose of supporting the campus bus company provided by the Lawrence Bus Company.
By PATTY JOHNSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate voted to retain the campus bus service Wednesday night by that would have discontinued the Senate subsidy to the Lawrence Bus Company.
"We have a cutoff," mission control said, announcing the halt.
Under the present system the bus service is losing over a $1,000 each week because few students ride the bus.
"I think we should give serious consideration to repealing the bus system and the expenses it involves", *dizEmerge* said.
He said alternative methods of providing transportation should be considered more seriously. He suggested that apartment complex managers, resident hall governments and individual students organize car pools to get students without transportation to campus. He said this was currently done in some fraternities.
The astronauts, working from the memory of years of training, quickly disarmed pyrotechnic systems aboard their craft as a safety measure.
According to diterga, continuing the bus service undermines pressure that could be caused by a lack of traffic.
David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and student body president, opposed the bill. He said that it would be unfortunate to stop the service when the bus was about to make money, and that the bus could run on the $1 annual Privilege fee for the rest of the team.
He said the zoning in Lawrence prevented construction of large apartments close to campus, forcing many students to seek housing and perpetuating a need for the bus service.
making a long term effect of continuing the bus service harmful.
Dillon asked that the transportation committee work on a contract to set bus routes, and to determine possible cuts in the fares.
Several senators argued that the bus system was needed by many students particularly in the winter months. There were also arguments on the feasibility of using buses because of the possibility of increased traffic problems around the campus.
The second part of the bill states that the BSU must submit to the Senate a plan for operation of the BSU food co-op that would make the program self-supporting within the campus on checkfund years. The plan must pass examination by professors in the business school.
The launch halt was the first to occur so close to loftoff in the 11-mission, manned Apollo 11.
THE THIRD section states that $3,000, the remainder of this semester's BSU food allocation, be subtracted from the BSU's total budget allocation. The food allocation for next semester would be frozen until the operations plan was submitted, with each week a portion being submitted at the end of each month which passes without a plan being submitted.
The Senate passed a bill submitted by John House, Lawrence special student, which decreased the Campus Privilege Fee used to subsidize the campus bus system. A bill submitted by diZerega to eliminate the campus bus service was defeated.
DAVID DILLON, Hutchinson senior and body student president, announced the appointment of Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Kan., junior, as the new chairman of the Student Senate (StudEx). Steineger succeeds House, who is leaving school at the end of the semester.
The Senate elected three new members of the University Council. They were John Remark and Zane Lewis, Lawrence Lawrence, and Paul Rankin, Lawrence junior.
Louis Scott, vice chairman of the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx), announced his resignation during the meeting. Scott will graduate in December.
In other business, the Senate allocated $1,444.80 to keep the KU libraries open for
longer hours during finals this semester and next
The Senate also passed a bill providing for the selection of a Student Senate Secretary.
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Former president Hary S Truman, battling lung congestion and bronchitis, remained on the critical list early today, but hospital officials said he had been through an ultra-critical period."
Truman's condition was downgraded from serious to critical late Wednesday, and John Drewes, spokesman for Research Hospital, said he had received a "temporary relapse." He said Tillman's condition later stabilized, however.
A spokesman at Research Hospital and Medical Center, where the 88-year-old Truman was taken Tuesday to the hospital, said remains remained critical as of 12:15 p.m.
But the hospital's hourly bulletin reported "he is not in a coma and is becoming more responsive to stimuli." An hour earlier, the spokesman had said Truman was in a "deep stupor but responsive to painful stimuli as differentiated from a coma—when the patient is unresponsive."
Truman Still Critical But Condition Stable
At Truman's bedside were his wife Bess and her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Wallace, the hospital said.
Truman's temperature was 102.8 degrees, the hospital said, indicating 'he is not responding to antibiotics administered intramuscularly, necessitating the administration of the antibiotics intravenously.
"This administration is being performed with extreme care to prevent adverse reactions because of his known allergies," a hospital spokesman said.
An hour earlier, the hospital said Truman's condition was in a "very delicate and critical balance."
Dr. Wallace Graham, Truman's long-time personal physician, was also at his bedside, the statement said, and he said that he had been in attendance since early evening.
in a jet provided by the White House.
Dreves said reports on Truman's
condition would continue to be issued
hourly.
Truman was taken by ambulance to the hospital late Tuesday. His condition at first was termed fair, but deteriorated to serious during the night.