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Thursday, September 21, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Ming Wang, Taiwan senior, takes advantage of time between classes to practice her clarinet. Ming played yesterday in Bailey Hall.
Aerospace students capture top honors
Bv Beth Behrens
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas aerospace engineers have soared to new heights for the fourth consecutive year, capturing top awards in a national competition for aircraft design.
KU designs won first and second place in the AIAA/General Dynamics Team Aircraft Design Competition, and a KU design also took first place in individual design, the AIAA/United Technologies Senior Design Competition, said Norman Ng, director of AIAA.
AIAA is the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a professional aerospace engineering society.
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Ng said that 36 designs were submitted from 15 schools, including Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; and the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering, said first place awards earned $1,000 and second place awards earned $500. The prize money will be divided among team members, he said.
Roskam, faculty adviser to the teams, said the department would receive a $20,000 research grant resulting from the team victory.
We designed a supersonic low-cost export fighter.
The designs were evaluated by professional engineers.
He said students designed entries for the competition during the second half of a year-long design course. All
Prairie Village graduate student
aerospace students are required to take the course during their senior year.
The requirement for the course is to design an airplane to meet the specifications for the contest. Students could work alone or with a team to develop the design. The deadline for entries was June 15.
Paul Borchers, Prairie Village graduate student, was one of the team leaders for the first-place team.
"Every year the AIAA comes up with a different set of specifications," he said. "We designed a supersonic low-cost export fighter. The specifications we were given were for a plane the U.S. would sell to other countries that have the capabilities to create planes but wouldn't want to come up with their own design."
Borchers said the team had determined cost, stratagies for exporting, and possible methods of design modifications that would keep the plane up-to-date.
A KU team also entered a design in the AIAA/Airbreathing Propulsion Engine Design Competition, but those results have not been announced.
Business position still vacant Money shortage freezes hiring process for new associate dean
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
The School of Business associate dean for academic affairs could become a permanently unfilled position because of a lack of money, said John Tolleffson, dean of business.
The position was open Jan. 1 when Dave Shulenburger left it to become associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
An internal search was conducted between Dec. 1, 1888 and Jan. 4, 1889, but Tollefson said no candidate was willing to fill the position on an indefinite basis.
Two faculty members, William Beedle, professor of business, and Parker Lessig, Pinet distinguished professor of business, were appointed by Tollelfon on Feb. 10 to jointly take over the responsibilities of the position. They filled the position until June 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Tollefson said the school also had
people move into newly defined director roles at the time of the vacancy. Bruce Bublitz, director of the accounting division, and Doug Houston, director of the markets division in the masters of business program, took their positions in August 1988. John Garland, director of the management division of the undergraduate program, took his position in January.
"As we moved through the spring semester, we used some available money to hire some replacement faculty and also to make some adjustments in faculty salaries." Collison said. "And it became clear that we were going to be pretty tight during the '98-'99 academic year.
"One of the ways we could reallocate some money was by not appointing an associate dean for academic affairs during the current year."
He said that leaving the position open left $30,000 to $35,000 to be reallocated into the instructional program.
Hiring someone for the position through an external search would have cost $60,000 to $80,000 a year. Tollison said the cost was too high to warrant an external search. No further internal search was corded.
The duties for the position were divided among the dean, the associate deans and the division directors
Bublitz said he was given the responsibility of budgets, a responsibility that he said had demanded a lot of his attention.
"We are so broke," he said. "We can move the players around in the boxes, but we can't afford to hire another administrator. We got no new money within the state. If we don't get an allocation or rob a bank, we're going to have to take some pretty drastic measures."
Bublitz said the administration was considering all possible ways to cut corners in the department, such as removing some of the faculty telephones.
'Whether we need the position is debatable,' he said. "We have so many problems now that we don't have time to worry about it."
"The nature of the job has changed greatly in that many of the details have been taken over by division directors and split up by them," Tollefson said.
Tollefson said the position, if it were to be filled, would be different than the one left open two years ago.
He said he was not sure if the position would be filled. But one of the first items to be on the faculty agenda, either this year or the beginning of next year, will be determining how the duties will be distributed.
"I don't see any problem in getting things done that need to be done," Tollefson said.
"We may find at the end of the year, that things are not being done or things that are not receiving attention because everybody is fully occupied with other things."
Airport security bill passes house
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House approved legislation yesterday authorizing the federal government to pay for $270 million in modern security equipment at many U.S. and foreign airports.
Approved 392-31 by the House, the measure also orders an array of security measures. The Senate has not yet taken up the bill, which would separate legislation to provide the money for security improvements.
The bill got its impetus from the Dec. 21 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
For the first time, commuter airlines would be required to screen passengers and their carry-on luggage. In addition, the Federal Aviation Administration would have to publish lists at least four times a year of incidents that pose security procedures comparable to those used by American carriers.
The House acted the same day the FAA announced it was firing Pan Am $630,000 for security violations found after the downing of Flight 103, which the airline said was likely caused by a bomb.
The airline said the violations cited were "administrative rather than substantive." The FAA said Pan Am
has since corrected the problems, which included lapses in passenger and cargo inspections.
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On Tuesday, a French jetliner carrying 171 people exploded over Northern Africa. French authorities believe that blast was also caused by a bomb.
U.S. sends help in crash investigation
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A U.S. team will help investigate the downing of a DC-10 that French UTA airline officials say exploded over northern Africa, killing all 171 people on board.
Airline officials said the plane apparently was brought down Tuesday by a bomb, but they didn't rule out possibility of a mechanical failure.
Seven U.S. citizens were aboard, including Bonnie Pugh, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Chad, Robert L. Pugh. The wreckage was scattered over a wide area in a rugged part of Niger.
Representatives of the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and builders of the plane and engines, McDonnell Douglas and General Electric, were to leave late yesterday for Niger, said NTSB spokesman Ted Lotatkiewich.
U. S. investigators are routinely sent to assist in the investigation of crashes in other countries when they built jetliners, Lopakiewicz said.
In separate telephone calls to the airline and to a Western news agency, a caller claiming to represent the Muslim extremist group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for downing the plane.
Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the government had offered its assistance to France and Chad.
"The obvious wide-spread nature of the debris suggested it blew up in the sky and not on the ground." Fitzwater said, adding that President Bush had been briefed on the explosion.
The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday announced $830,000 in fines against Pan American World Airways for security violations related to another flight downed by a bomb: Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded Dec. 21 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
The FAA accused the airline of failing to properly screen passengers and cargo before the flight's departure from airports in Frankfurt, West Germany, and London.
The legislation, approved 392-31,
orders an array of security measures
and would require commuter airlines
to screen passengers and their
carry-on luggage for the first time.
Med Center studies new Parkinson's drug
Also yesterday, the House authorized $270 million for modern security equipment at many U.S. and foreign airports.
Kansan staff writer
By Melanie Matthes
Karen Davis, coordinator of the Med Center study, said the drug, BHT-920, would be administered to 15 people with Parkinson's disease for three months. Each patient will be evaluated on a weekly basis.
The University of Kansas Medical Center is one of three universities that will study the effects of a new drug on victims of Parkinson's disease.
Med Center appoints official
William Koller, chairman of the department, said that BHT-920 was not a cure for the disease. Med Center officials will study the effects
She said that the department of neurology had begun looking for patients who were newly diagnosed and had not received treatment for the disease. All medications and examinations will be free to the patient.
"We are ready to start as soon as we find the patients." Davis said.
By a Kansan reporter
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Randy Attwood, a former associate director of news and public issues at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus, was appointed to the post by Chancellor Gene A.
The University of Kansas Medical Center has a new director of University relations.
Attwood was selected for the post after a national search committee had reviewed more than 80 applicants, said Robin Eversole, director of the Office of University Relations and a member of the search committee.
The position had been vacant since April, she said.
of the drug on the disease's symptoms.
Parkinson's disease affects the brain and causes movement disorders. The most common symptoms are tremors, slowness of movement, rigidity and poor postural reflexes, which lead to a loss of balance.
Davis said BHT-920 helped to restore levels of dopamine in the
brain. Dopamine causes electrical impulses in the brain that control movement.
Nearly 500,000 Americans suffer from the disease. The mean age of the disease's onset is 55 years, Koller said.
The cause and the cure of the disease are unknown, but he said that Med Center officials conducted studies that indicate environmental toxins could be a cause.
"It is a different type of drug," Koller said. "I think it holds a lot of promise. We are all very excited."
He said that BHT-920 had been tested in other clinics and looked promising.
BHT-920 also will be tested at the University of South Florida in Tampa and the University of Rhode Island in Providence.
Koller said the best drug for Parkinson's symptoms currently on the market is e-dopa, which could have bad side effects. E-dopa often loses its effectiveness in patients who have taken it for a long period of time.
Koller said the information collected in these studies would be submitted to the Federal Drug Administration.
BHT-320 will be available for widespread use in about five years, he said.
Two KU seniors establish ad agency
By Steve Buckner
Kenan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
They started with a firecracker stand the summer of their freshman year in high school.
They said the experience was fun and profitable.
Today, Clay Romeiser and Mark Sloo, both salina seniors, have their own company, Clark Advertising, and a success on their hands with the marketing team. They are calendar-listing and advertising device called "Campus Consultant."
Then they painted houses and buildings, including the governor's barn, the summer they graduated from high school.
Although they said they enjoyed developing their product, the first thing they admitted was that it did not come easy.
They said they stayed busy and did quite well.
"We had the basic idea in December, then in February we made preparations to start selling advertising." Shoo said.
In between those dates, Romeiser said, they went to Legal Services at the University of Kansas for
assistance with sales contracts, filed the paperwork to become a partnership and made a mock version of their product to show clients. They also met with Rick Bryant of the Small Business Development Center for advice on how to set competitive ad rates, Sloo said.
For the next three weeks they didn't sell any ads, he said.
The soul searching took the form of re-evaluating their product and getting client feedback on their methods, they said.
The partners, whose company name is a merging of their first names, got off to a fast start before hitting a brick wall.
"We had to do some serious soul searching." Sloe said.
"We would re-do everything we did; a combination redesign and app- tition at homeomer said. If something did happen, one word try something else the next day."
"We sold over $1,000 in ads in the first couple of days," Romeiser said. "Then we ran into anathex."
Things turned around gradually for the pair. The Campus Consultant shaped up as a categorized "flip chart" that grouped by type of
services and offered information about KU on each of its seven pages. Sloo said the format evolved by listening to a client's suggestion and by taking the best features from similar products at other universities.
Sloo and Romeiser worked daily on the project during the semester and finished it in two intense weeks after finals, they said. In mid-June they received 10,000 copies of the consultant from the printers, of which 3,500 went for new student orientation, Romeiser said.
"All we had to do was talk to people and they were willing to help," Romelser said.
Most of the other copies were distributed to students during enrollment, he said. The remaining copies are available at the student assistance center, Sloo said.
Romeiser and Sloo, who are both majoring in business administration with concentrations in advertising, said they earned a modest profit and learned a great deal in their first advertising venture.
"You can do it," Sloo said. "You just need to have the motivation and persistence."
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