KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, November 12, 1981 Vol. 92. No.58 USPS 650-640
Off schedule, Columbia reset for second launch Borrowed computer solves shuttle's latest delay Kansas flags fly
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--With the cliff-hanger countdown back on track after last-minute repairs, Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly boarded the space shuttle Columbia for launch 2½ hours late today for its second orbital test flight.
The revised countdown aimed toward a 9 a.m. CST blast for the 83-brt mission designed to meet the plan.
The astronauts, in high spirits and ready to go, began their day as a full moon hung in the clear sky over the oceanside launchpad. They went to the firing site after sunrise, giving the thumbs-up signal and climbed aboard the shuttle at 6:35 a.m. CST.
Engle, a native of Chapman, is a KU graduate; his son, son, is a freshman at KU, majoring in Econ.
Never before has a used spaceship been prepared for a return to orbit. Columbia's countdown problems showed that technical problems can be expect'd even in a flight-proven
THE PLOTS TOOK advantage of the launch delay and slept later than planned this morning. The delay meant that the entire flight plan for the journey included a million-mile journey would be set back 2½ hours.
Truly turned 44 today, but said he would wait until California glides to a landing Tuesday in California before celebrating. It was the first orchid flight for him and 49-year-old Engle.
deserve proving the reusability of the flagship of a fleet at least four shuttles, the mission was designed to demonstrate the ship can serve as a stable platform for earth-scanning instruments.
foot "cherrypicker" arm that is designed to
attach satellites from the spacecraft.
The shuttle will also test a Canadian-built, 50-
Columbia, which is now 24,400 pounds heavier than it was on its first flight, carried an $11.6 million assembly of natural resource hunting instruments in the cargo bay. It is the shuttle's new cargo ship.
TODAY'S LAUNCH attempt was in doubt until a last-ditch effort produced a 36-pound electronic data translator that worked. The original one in the Columbia shuttle failed late Tuesday night and a replacement installed yesterday morning developed even worse difficulties.
That prompted an emergency call for two additional units, known technically as multiplexer-demultiplexers, from Challenger, the second shuttle that is nearing completion at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, Calif.
The two units were rushed to the Cape in a Rockwell jet, landing at the new Kennedy Space Center runway built for shuttle landings beginning next year. It took about 30 minutes to install the computer in an instrument rack on Columbia's lower deck.
"An extensive check of the system has shown the replacement unit to be working properly," the space agency said in an early morning status report.
The unit helped process instrument readings from throughout the ship so they could be understood by the ship's on-board computers and the computers at the Mission Control Center in
Astronauts Richard Truly and Joe Engle
The shuttle is scheduled to stay up three days longer than the maiden 54-hour flight of John Young and Robert Crippen in April to give its flight system a tougher test in space.
See SHUTTLE page 3
Kansas flags fly aboard Columbia
Who says Jayhawks can't fly?
Astronaut Joe Engle, a KU alumnus, was scheduled to be shot into space this morning on the Columbia space shuttle. Also aboard were astronaut Richard Truly and several Kansas flags, one of which KU will receive after the shuttle returns to Earth Monday.
Some of the flags going along for the ride have flown from the top of the State Capitol in Topeka, from KU, and from Chapman High School in Engle's hometown.
Dick Wintermate, executive director of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said yesterday he had dashed off a telegram last Sunday to Engle's home in Houston.
KU will receive one of the space flags when Engle comes to the KU-Missouri football game Nov. 21. Another flag will be displayed in the Capitol.
"I just wished him well and reminded him that he has 140,000 Jayhawks behind him," said Wintermite, who has known Engle since he became active in the Alumni Association.
Wintermann said he hoped Eagle would come to a reunion of the Flying Jayhawks, an alumni group that had been at Wintershore.
"We were going to initiate him as a 'Super-
flying Jawhawk.' Wintermote said.
Engle and Truly will return to the planet that day in California and later begin making official visits.
Wintermute said he last talked to Engle by phone about three weeks ago.
their schectures really won't be their own for awhile," he said. "We'll probably hear something from Joe after he gets back to Earth."
Moonrise
The moon rises above the flags of Fraser Hall last night.
Senate passes endorsement resolution
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate last night approved 23-3 resolution allowing student publications to endorse candidates for Senate elections—against the wishes of Bert Coleman, student body
COLEMAN SAID the Kansan's editorial page endorsed of Loren Busy and David Cannatella for president and vice president was not 'entirely an effort by the Kansan's editorial
F Scott Faust, Kansan editor, and Bob Schaad, managing editor, both denied that anyone but members of the Kansan editorial board were involved in the drafting of the endorsement.
But Coleman said he would veto the resolution and charged that the University Daily Kansan was the cause of undue influence in its student body president endorsement.
"Some people on Loren Busy's campaign might hawk in drafts in drafting that en-
lance a Colleague."
"The board consisted entirely of Kansan members and only members of the board were involved in the formulating and writing of the endorsement." Faust said.
"Any statement to the contrary is totally ridiculous."
Busby also denied the charge.
Buko,
be BolaCelman had heard "through
source" that non-Kansas members were
involved in the drafting of the document, but he did
not elaborate.
FROM THE OUTSET, Coleman had opposed
the resolution and the endorsement. He said the endorsement violated the University Senate
Tom Berger, a member of the Graduate Student Council executive committee, said last week that the Graduate Student Newspaper would also endorse candidates this week.
"The people who wrote the rules and regulations were afraid of manipulation by the Kansan," Coleman said. "I say that this (the law) has a balant violation of our rules and regulations."
Coleman has not filed any charges against the Kansan, but said that he would do so later today.
The Code states, "No funds shall be allocated for the campaign expenses of any type for the purpose of promoting a specific candidate or for a campaign or slate of issues in any election or referendum."
Coleman said last night that the Graduate Student Newspaper went ahead with its plans, he said. "It had been a good day."
THE RESOLUTION, written by Bren Abbott,
student body vice president, said the en-
dorsements by the Kansan and a forthcoming
Student Newspaper would not violate the Code.
"I don't think that's the case," Abbott said, and "I'm asking Senate to interpret it that way." Abbott also said that preventing student punishment would be candidates would be a violation of the Constitution.
"We're getting into a fundamental right of the press and that's freedom of the press," Abbott
Coleman, however, said that endorsements were an improper influence on student voters.
"I don't think that's the case," Abbott said, and I'm sending Senate to internet it that way.
"Violation of the First Amendment is ludicrous," he said. "They're not entitled to our money if they don't follow our rules and regulations."
"I plan on vetting this resolution," Coleman said after the meeting. "I feel like that is my goal."
David Adkins, former Senate executive committee chairman and Perspective Coalition candidate for president, said he could not agree with Coleman's planned veto.
"I think it not only too bad but also a shame that a student body president can't take a stand against the government."
BUT ABBOTT sharply criticized Coleman's decision.
"Ithink the format of the endorsements was fair," he said. "I don't understand Bert's motivation. It disturbs me each year when Senate tries to pull the rug out from under the
Both predicted that the veto would be overridden, if necessary, in a special Senate
Last night was the last scheduled Senate meeting before the elections next Wednesday.
IN OTHER ACTION, the Senate amended the budget subcommittee to make the membership of the committee responsible.
When the subcommittee was originally created in September, the non-Senate member was not a voting member.
The budget subcommittee will conduct budget hearings for Student Senate all spring.
1e Senate also approved funding for the Pakistan and Palestinian student associations
Student in Naismith arrested for threats
Lawrence police arrested an 18-year-old, Naismith Hall resident early yesterday morning after he allegedly told a group of KU students he had set last Friday's fire at Naismith and was going to it again, Fire Chief Jim McSwain said yesterday.
Police charged John Lee McMillan, Parsons freshman, with making terroristic threats. But McWaill said there was no indication that McMillan had set the fire.
Arson squad officials said they learned of the threats when an anonymous caller told officials about 2:30 a.m. yesterday that he was meeting in the room during a conversation in a study lounge.
McSwain refused to give any information about the caller.
After receiving the call, arson and fire officials immediately begin an investigation.
See related stories, page 9
Naismith for possible fires, with a fire truck on standby outside.
Because no arson charges have been filed, the five-member arson squad will continue to investigate last week's fire, which caused
However, Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said that although there was yet no charge of arson against McMillan, he was in the process of reviewing the case.
$80,000 worth of damage to several pieces of furniture set on fire in a side elevator, McSwain said.
Malone also said McMillan could receive up to five years in prison on the Class E felony for assaulting a police officer.
McMillan posted a $1,500 bond at 8 a.m. yesterday, two hours after he was arrested, police said. He is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow.
By JOE REBEIN Staff Reporter
Commission won't fight ruling; man compensated for building
Bryan Anderson won a battle against City Hall Tuesday, but he lost the war.
Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission voted 6-1 not to appeal a recent $190,000 district court judgment awarded to Anderson. The money was compensation for his building that the city condemned and raided for a parking lot at 600 Massachusetts St. last year.
"When you take out the lawyer's fee and loans I have taken out, I will be lucky to end up with $30,000," he said. "That means I am back to square one in finding a new building."
ANDERSON, WHO bought the building in 1977 for $35,000 said he was anxious to resume his toy-making trade, but that the austere economy would make it difficult for him to get started
again.
"If I could go back in time, I would settle for the building I had," he said. "It had everything I needed and it will be hard to duplicate that."
He said he had not decided whether he would stay in Lawrence.
"The next few months will tell the tale," he said. "I'm going to wait until I see what kind of direction the downtown is going in before I commit an investment in a new building."
Anderson said he had stored all his tools since the building was demolished. He has been doing this for 18 years.
THE SETTLEMENT WAS $88,000 more than the city's estimate of the building's worth and brought the city's total investment in the 28-unit complex ($88,183), Vera Mercer, city clerk said yesterday.
Mercer said that figure included the new settlement and the costs of demolishing the building, paving the parking lot and the traffic studies to d termine its safety.
Commissioner Pecald Bians said yesterday that he voted against City Attorney Gerald Cooley's recommendation not to appeal the case, that building was not worth that kind of money.
"We should have made every effort to appeal the decision," Binns said. "A decision like that will have a bad impact on downtown development.
"If we have to condemn buildings for demanding they will be taking us to destroying to get more money."
See ANDERSON page 5
Weather
The forecast from the National Weather Service in Topeka is for more sunshine and mild temperatures, with today's high in the low 60s and the low tonight near 30. Winds will be south-easterly, at 5 to 15 mph. Tomorrow will be fair and clear, with the high again about 60.
The extended forecast Friday through Monday is for continued sunny skies and mild temperatures, ranging from midnight to daytime highs in the 60s and 80s.