Page 2 University Daily Kansan, August 20, 1981
MARTI FRUMHOFF/Kansan Staff
Nichols Hall (Space Technology Center)
West Campus is a center of research for University, state and professions
By JULIA SANDERS Staff Reporter
There is more to the KU campus than meets the eye on either side of Jayhawk Boulevard.
Just west of the main campus across Iowa Street and between 15th and 23rd streets lies the appropriately named West Campus.
It is here in 10 main buildings, a greenhouse and numerous lab buildings that professionals from chemists to space engineers work in their fields.
UNLKE THE MAIN campus, little classroom instruction takes place on West Campus, which is more of a research center.
However many KU students gain practical experience in their fields as laboratory and research assistants, according to Rex C. Buchanan, director of information and education at the Kansas Geological Survey.
At the Foley Geohydrology Center, hydrologists create mathematical models of underground water-bearing localities and localities manage their water supply.
In addition, the Water Resources Division in Gleem L. Parker Hall works to collect data on surface and underground water* resources.
Energy research at the Survey is maintained for, and in cooperation with, the Kanass oil and gas industry, according to Buchanan.
Information such as maps, drillers' logs and data on wells and fields is made available on request.
"This is especially helpful for smaller companies lacking the equipment and expertise to gather necessary information," Buchanan said.
OTHER ENERGY RESEARCH involves studying mineral deposits and the possibility of economic exploitation, the possibility of new uses of common Kansas rangelands.
General land use research deals mostly with hazards created by subsurface structures, such as sinkholes. More recently, scientists have begun monitoring earthquake activity in Kansas, Buchanan said.
Even though most Kansans are unaware of any runnings beneath them, the studies began at the request of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The request was made by the NRC as an aid in avoiding possible hazards at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant project, Buchanan said.
In the last research category, computer geology, modern computers are used to draw detailed geological maps. According to Buchanan, the Survey is well known for its advances in computerized map making.
ANOTHER FEATURE of the West Campus area is the Space Technology Center in Nichols Hall.
The center was established in 1972 as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration plan to establish a research facility at the University ofarch facilities across the United States.
The KU center is the last of 27 centers built as part of NASA's $44 million investment program, according to the organization's A Space Technology Center brochure.
In the Center's lobby, the Larry Winn Jr. Congressional Space Exhibit has been on display for visitors since 1977. The exhibit includes such things as a NASA space suit, pre-packaged food used on space flights and pictures of
crews and equipment in the U.S. space orogram since 1960.
Nine separate research programs within the Center conduct studies ranging from energy research to designing a radar system to be used aboard the space shuttle during the mid-1980s.
The Center is open to the public to view its scientific and engineering equipment and the space exhibit. From 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
ALSO LOCATED ON West Campus are the McColum Laboratories, where pharmaceutical, physiology and cell biology research is conducted and the University Electron Microscope is housed.
In addition, fisheries labs, botanical research labs and a thermodynamics lab.
Although not affiliated with KU, the privately owned pharmaceutical corporation Interx is also located on West Campus.
President of Interx is Takeru Higuchi, KU professor and chairman of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Interex leases its property from the KU Endowment Association, which has its office building on West Campus
THE ENDOWMENT Association owns both the main and West campuses, covering more than 1,000 acres of land.
According to Jim Mathes, Facility Maintenance engineer, the main campus is about 600 acres, and West campus covers nearly 480 acres.
On the outer edges of West Campus she the Shenks Sports Complex playing fields, a reservoir used by the fisheries and the KU Printing Services building.
Campus liberalism
By TIM ELMER Staff Reporter
Liberal, leftist, civil rights and college campus crusades of the early '70s have given way to the conservative, rightist, Moral Majority and Reagan majority campaigns that advocate the political mood of today.
The consensus seems to be that liberalism is out and conservatism is in.
However, there are signs of a resurgence of interest in liberal, leftist causes on college campuses and among minorities.
"I think the issue of racism is going to become more much of a conscious issue again because people are realizing that we are taking some giant steps backward in the fight against racism," she said.
BECAUSE REAGAN's budget cuts in social services have hit minorities the hardest, the cuts represent a return to racist policies that are attracting increasing public attention, Jane Dugge, chairperson of the International Committee of the International Committee Against Racism, said recently.
One indication of increased interest in racism is an increase of ICAR's membership on college campuses where organization has been active, she said.
A couple of months ago, InCA-
staged a demonstration against the Ku Klux Klan in Meriden, Conn., said. About 123 people at a housing project in Meriden joined the demonstration. After the demon-
stration, two people at the AR in one day. That happens a lot where INCAR has been active, she said.
INCAR HAS A special connection with college campuses because it was originally founded in 1973 by college of Compass in St. Louis. Compass is compartmentalized in St. Louis.
InCAR has about 2,000 members and is striving to increase its membership to 5,000 in a couple years, she said.
"On campuses where we have faculty and students who are experienced in leadership, INCAR has grown substantially," she said.
InCAR has been active on the KU campus at different times, she said. Last winter inCAR passed out leaflets about Iranian students to deport Iranian students, she said.
IN THE SPRING of 1980, InCAR registered with the KU office of student organizations and activities. It did not renew its registration because of the absence of INCAR leadership on campus, Dugan said.
"If we could send someone to KU on a regular basis for a semester to provide the necessary leadership, I am sure you will very quickly on campus," she said.
INCAR WELCOMES members of any group, organization or political party as long as they believe in the values and work ethic to effort wipe out racism, she said.
InCAR is a multi-racial organization dedicated to fighting racism in all its economic, social, and cultural forms, Duangan said.
"We think that the unity of blacks, whites, Latinas, Asians, Mexican Americans and people or all ages are part of us," she said to the fighter against racism." she said.
"The only point of unity between INCAR and the Democratic Party or PLP is our fight against racism," she said.
However, InCAR has no political affiliation with the Democratic Party or the PLP. she said.
"We have members from the Democratic Party who vote a straight Democratic ticket," she said. "We vote for a candidate. We labor Party, which is a leftist party."
Jane Martin, Kansas City, Mo,
PLP and InCAR member, said some
members of PLP were members of
growing
"Anyone who ever attended any kind of INCAR function whether it was a dance, a party, a major demonstration or our meetings has always been pressed by our multi-racial unity," she said. "They judge us on our merits."
"That is ridiculous," Martin said. "If the Nazis heard that, they would laugh because we marched against them for party in Chicago about three years ago."
InCAR because they believed in the fight against racism.
InCAR has been the target of criticism that characterized it as a violent organization committed to the destruction of life, liberty and property, and likened it to Hitler's brown shirts.
Even though inCAR members have been threatened with death, Martin said, they continue their fight against racism.
"InCAR is the only anti-racist on the left that really believes in multi-racialism in not only defeating racism but also unifying the working class, which we also believe in." Martin said.
People who had been around left-wing parties and some members of the old Communist Party U.S.A. eliminated PLP in the early 80s, she said.
PLP IS A revolutionary communist party having the goal of establishing socialism in the United States and abroad. Martin said.
However, she said, "PLP is not affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party or any other communist party politically. We are our own party and we are not affiliated with any foreign power."
PLP is a Marxist-Leninist party which has conversations with other communist parties around the world. Discuss political theory, Martin said.
Martin said PLP did not give out information on the number of members who belonged to the party.
See related story section 4.
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