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Friday, October 6, 1989 / University Dally Kansan
Satellite's plutonium core disturbs student coalition
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
Next week will be a time of merriment, madness and protest for KU students who said they hoped the week wouldn't end with the termination of mankind.
Members of the Academic Freedom Action Coalition and Environs, a student environmental-awareness group, will present "Phutonium is Forever Week" from the program the planned launch of Gallup's disposal plant.
On or after Oct. 12, the Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to carry Project Gallileo into orbit. Gallileo is a satellite that will be powered by plutonium on its way to Jupiter.
Lee Manloff, AFAC member and organizer of the KU protest, said his group was sponsored by Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies. Miller kept it open, Manloff said, as a forum for students to act on important matters.
"Technically, the group exists just as a front," he said. "It's sort of like a coalition of non-affiliated students and community members."
Mannloff said he wanted to increase what he saw as a minimal awareness of the launch of the radioactive plutonium 238.
"It's a very serious issue and it's been ignored by the media," be said. "Plutonium should never be lifted into space and it should be put into orbit around the earth."
Maniloff said he and other protesters were concerned
that a Challenger-like explosion will sprinkle the planet with radioactive particles and contaminate people the world over. Such a contamination, he said, would give innumerable people terminal lung cancer.
Steven Cater, environmental health and safety officer for KU environmental health and safety research, said news reports he had seen were mostly positive in regard to the launch.
"From what I've read, if the space shuttle explodes, it's a matter of whether the cannisters are ruptured or not," he said. "If they're not ruptured, then there's no problem."
Later said that environmental groups protesting the launch were concerned that the testing of the containers was insufficient. Personally, he said, he had heard of no faults in the testing.
Stephanie Ring, AFAC member, said she saw several problems with the container testing.
"They've shot bullets at it and that sort of thing," she said. "That's nothing compared with a shuttle explosion."
"Plutonium is Forever Week" is a five-day event running under the slogams "No Chernobyls in the sky!" and "One pound of plutonium can ruin your whole day!" Protests are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday.
Tonganoxie attorney Robert Eye is scheduled to speak Monday, Maniloo said. On Thursday, all protesters will act out what they would do if the earth were about to be destroyed. After they fulfill their last wishes, he said, the group will stage a "die-in."
Army band trumpets to herald KU, Marching Jayhawks at homecoming
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
During Homecoming Day festivities tomorrow, Kansas football fans may notice a band marching to the best of a different drummer.
This band will be the U.S. Army Band Herald Trumpets, which will perform at KU in honor of homecoming and the presentation of the Suder Award to the KU Marching Jawhaws.
Three former Marching Jayhawks, John Carper, David Reynolds and Chuck Seipp, now perform with the prestigious Herald Trumpets.
Also appearing will be the KU Alumni Band, which plays at homecoming each year.
Robert Foster, KU band director, contacted the U.S. Army Band in July with the hope that the Herald Trumpets could perform for homecoming.
Although Herald Trumpets' performances usually are reserved for events such as the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games and the 1986 relighting of the Statue of Liberty.
Foster's request was granted in September.
He said that the Herald Trumpets was scheduled to play at KU in 1893, but that the trip was preempted by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's visit to the United States.
Seip, who arrived in Lawrence on Wednesday with Reynolds, said members of the Herald Trumpets were happy to travel to KU.
"We wanted to play here before John Carrier retires, which is probably next spring," Seipp said of the current Herald Trumpet leader. "We talked to Bob Foster about it, and it just worked out perfectly with homecoming and the Sudler Award."
Reynolds said the Herald Trumpets was under a category of the U.S. Army Band but was a separate group used to augment the rest of the band. It plays at national events about once a month.
The KU Alumni Band traditionally has participated in homecoming. John Weatherwax, a Lawrence accountant who graduated from KU in 1942 and helped
form the Alumni band in 1973, said he played every year.
"I always try to be supportive of the band," said Wenternetwax, a trombone player. "It adds an element to your events that nothing else does."
Weatherwax said that renewing old acquaintances was another reason he enjoyed homecoming, but that just playing with the band again kept him coming back for more.
Another highlight of this year's homecoming will be the presentation of the Sudler Award to the KU Marching Jayhawks. The award is given annually to a band program that consistently produces outstanding bands.
band directors from universities that have major college football programs vote on the award. Sponsored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, the award can be presented to a band program only once. The KU Band is the eighth band to receive it.
Seipp and Reynolds expressed pride that their alma mater was this year's recipient of the Sudler Award.
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