THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE WARMER
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Monday, November 13, 1978
Tigers trounce Jayhawks 48-0
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Vol. 89, No.56
Lawrence, Kansas
Topeka rally protests death of Silkwood
Staff Writer
TOPEKA--About 300 nuclear power opponentsailed in Tupelo Saturday to commemorate the death of Karen Silkwood, who died while attempting to deliver information about the hazards of an Oklahoma nuclear power plant.
The Topeka rally was one of many held in 48 states Saturday to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Silkwool and Gold Jewelry Museum to the dangers of nuclear power.
Silkwood died in a one-car wreck on Nov. 13, 1974 while on her way to meet at New York Times reporter. She was expected to give him evidence of safety hazards at a Kerr-McGee nuclear power plant in Cimmarton, Okla.
During the rally, members of the Sunflower Alliance, a Kansas group opposed to nuclear power, presented an anti-nuclear power petition with 4,000 signatures to State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wollentown.
The Sunflower Alliance represents several groups opposed to the Wolf Creek nuclear generation station, which is under construction near Burlington.
MILLER TOLD the rally that nuclear power opponents should become more politically involved and should begin lobbying on issues of construction of a nuclear plant in Kansas.
Bill Beems, spokesman for Lawrence Residents for a Radioactive Free Kansas, said that by presenting the petition to Miller the group had made the Legislature aware of Kansans' growing concern about nuclear power.
Beeams said members of the Kansas Natural Guard and Lawrence Residents for a Radioactive Free Kansas, splinter groups of the Sunflower Alliance, planned to block the path of a train near Burlington to deliver a reactor vessel to Burington.
He said the reactor vessel, one of the main components of a nuclear plant, originally was scheduled to arrive at Burlington in October. The delay, he said, may have been caused by the Alliance's nuclear power protests.
IN ADDITION to the anti-nuclear power groups, other movements have pushed for a congressional investigation into the nuclear weapons include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization of Women and the Women's International Society.
Silkwood was employed at the KerrMcGee Nuclear Corp. plutonium facility at Cimmarron when she died.
A lawsuit on behalf of the Silkwod estate has been filed against Kerr-McGee. The suit charges the company with conspiring to violate Silkwod's rights as a union activist and with covering up facts about her death.
attorneys for the Silkwood estate have alleged that documentation of health hazards and quality control violations from Silkwood from Silkwood the car the night her dead.
sunkwood's parents spoke at a rally Saturday in Oklahoma City in a park across the street from the Kerr-MeGee Corp. headquarters.
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
No nukes
Thomas CHIT, Lawrence sophomore, was one of 300 protesters at a nuclear power demonstration on the south steps of the Skokane in Tupaia North. The demonstrators held signs and waved a hammer.
Band members heckled at KU-MU football game
By BARB KOENIG Staff Reporter
The man, Tom Kanatzar, 23, was released Saturday night after posting $500 bond, but he still will have to face charges in Columbia, according to Maj. Mick Deaver, assistant chief of police for the University of Missouri.
A Kansas City, Kan., firefighter was arrested Saturday in Columbia, Mo., on eight counts relating to the interruption of the University of Kansas Marching Band balltion show at the KU-Missouri football game.
Kanatzar was arrested on five counts of common assault, one count of interfering with normal use of property, one count of trespassing and one count of affray, or fighting, Deaver said last night.
Deaver would not comment on the possible penalties Kanatzar might face from the charges. He said he did not know when the trial was set.
MU police recorded the disturbance on video tape equipment, and the tape may be used as evidence in a trial, Deaver said.
Kanazat apparently was part of a group of 30 people who traveled from Kansas City for the game, Deaver said.
KU BAND DIRECTOR Robert E. Foster said last night that three men ran onto the field during the halftime performance. Two of the men ran off, but the third stayed on the field and reportedly harassed four or five KU band members.
The band members were unhappy about the incident, Foster said.
ONE AD that appeared in the paper read, "MARCHING MIZ-ZOU. Now we know what the big M in the Midwest stands for . . . Medocritty." The ad was signed, "The band with pride, Kansas University."
Foster speculated that the incident was a result of five advertisements placed in a Columbia newspaper, the Campus Digest, which contained several derogatory remarks about the MU band. The ads were signed to make it appear that KU band members had
Brian Shepard, KU band president, said, "I was extremely upset about it. It's a sad state of affairs when you have to take away arms."
"Most of them were just really disgusted," Foster said. "Most of them were not ready for that."
KU and Lawrence police had accompanied the band on the trip.
But Beaver said he did not think the two incidents were related because Kanzatara was not from Colombia and would not have had a
KANAS CITY, Kan- Many Kansas communities and the University of Kansas Medical Center are working together to equalize the distribution of health care professionals throughout the state.
Outreach works to fulfill Kansas health care needs
Staff Reporter
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Foster said Alex Pickard, MU band director, told him he thought the ads had been placed by someone in the MU band.
The communities are becoming very sophisticated, "Meek said. First, they can better define their health needs. They know in
They are working through a series of programs called Health Care Outreach, designed to educate the communities so they can provide support.
Joseph Meek, director of Health Care Outreach, said last week that the community educational programs were successful.
"Second, they have better support services to take care of patients."
Outreach also recruits doctors and nurses for the various communities, particularly those in which one doctor serves more than one hospital.
"WE ACT strictly as a broker." Meek said. "We don't directly place a physician within a community."
Jeff Gluck, publisher of the Campus Digest, refused to release the idea identified in his book because it had been denied. But the information he kept confidential
He said there were regional recruiters throughout the state who coordinated community needs with available physicians.
But Pickard said he did not know, and would not comment on the identity of the person placing the ad.
"We're going to look into it as soon as the week starts," Pickard said.
"If someone asked it to be kept confidential, we would keep it confidential." "Gluck said.
the paycancers have the final decision on where they are placed, and many choose to居 of its small communities, he said.
"I don't think there are parts of the state that you can call isolated, or no-man's land for physicians." Meek said. "The myth that western Kansas can't recruit scientists is something we have to dispel."
Specialists can find practices more easily in small communities that have only a general practitioner, he said. In several hospital publications, at the Med Center and in other areas of the country, communities advertise for physicians in specialized fields.
"A LOT OF DOCTORS want to return to their hometowns to practice," Meehan said. "Also, there are a lot of physicians who want to practice."
Personal contact between the Med Center and the communities is important, Meek said, and is the basis of some programs, such as
During Kansas Health Days, community leaders from across the state go to Kansas City and Wichita to meet with students.
In another such program, students spend a weekend in a rural community and assist in its health care program.
The state recently bought a small plane to help with a physicians consultation clinic. Med Center faculty use the plane to fly to a community to help treat a group of patients. That provides contact between the faculty and the physicians.
Computers aid in teaching
Meek said, "We are able to help these communities in ways that were not possible several years ago."
By CORIE BROWN
Computers are used to teach courses such as English, biology, psychology and business.
Through self-teaching computer programs, students learn to apply the basic theories of computer science to class work.
The world of computers is opening up for KU students.
It would take just an hour to teach someone how to use the programs," Larry Sherr, professor of business, said. "In fact, I could leave someone in a room and let the computer tell him how to use it."
Sherr was the first professor at KU to use computers in a class other than a computer science course. His statistics course included
"STUDENTS HAVE unlimited use of the terminals and are encouraged to go on their own. Shera said." The terminals at
Steve Anderson, who took Sherr's statistics class two years ago, said he thought the computers added to the class.
"It was fun," Anderson, Overland Park law student, said. "You're play a little game like could to figure probability odds. You can see
Paul Wolfe, director of the computer center, said Sherb began using the computer in his classes in 1971. Since then, many other students have used it.
"Many different disciplines have used the computers," Wolfe said. "How they are used depends on the individual faculty member. There are as many ways to use it as there are innovative people developing methods to present."
THERE ARE 460 courses at KU that use the computer and an overall enrollment of 12,342 students. Computer science, psychology and the physical sciences involve the greatest number of students.
"Generally, the computer is used with simulated activities that require students to respond," Wolfe said. "This includes everything from drills to detailed problem-solving. The core of the idea is to use the computer to help supplement the classroom."
Bob Moyer, associate professor of mathematics, said he had been using the computer in his advanced calculus class more than a year ago. "It's really hard to do," he said.
"When a child plays with a hand calculator he's not learning his multiplication tables, but he sees what happens when he multiplies strange numbers," Moyer said. "That the theory behind using the computer 1234567890 is the mathematical procedures, and they fund the underlying theories."
Alfred Lata, chemistry lecturer, said he thought instruction by computer would change the way students learn by decreasing the need for physical interaction.
"THE CLASS response has been extremely rewarding; they are enthusiastic."
"Instead of buying books, students will be buying cassette tapes of computer programs," he said. "A lot of testing has to go on."
Lata said that he was not using the computers in his class now, but that he had run tests with small groups of beginning chemistry
students to see what their attitudes would be toward programmed learning.
He said he was not using computer work in the course because KU did not have enough hands to handle the 760 students in his class.
KU professors are also doing research on applying the computer in music reproduction.
Edward Mattila, professor of music theory, said computers were being used to help musicians make clearer recordings. Computer programmed music has a higher level of precision because it goes directly from the computer to a readout tape to sound. This eliminates some static-producing steps needed to record in a tape studio.
"KU has the ability to run music programs, and we hope we will have a class in the near future," Mattila said. "But right now there
In an effort to assist faculty members in developing supplemental computer work to be used in their classes, a seminar will be held on Tuesday, November 16th at 2:30pm.
CHARLES EKLUND, the research associate directing the series, said, "There is a large group of people who use the computers in their classrooms. The lectures are a time for them to get together to talk about common problems."
There have been three lectures this fall, covering computers in business and chemistry classes and a computer tutoring program. There will be three more lectures showing the uses of computer instruction in mathematics, psychology and music classes.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, will be leading the next lecture on Nov. 14. He uses the computer to teach his class how to handle problems that students would encounter if they were managing a mental health clinic.
The computer, programmed to simulate a clinic, allows the students to feed in different variables and get a report on how their symptoms change.
Rila Nelson, Lawrence junior, said the course was the most interesting and valuable course she had taken in college.
"IT WAS A tremendous course that gave you a complete overview of running a clinic," she said. "It couldn't have been given to me."
A new use for computer assisted instruction is being researched by KU's Institute for Social and Environmental Studies. This program would let students run their own statistical tests, frequencies and correlations. Although still in its infancy, the program should soon be ready for student participation, Rose Winters, head computer programmer for the project, said.
"You won't need to have any understanding of computers because the computer teaches you everything you need to know."
ACCORDING TO Wolfe, students spend an average of $1 of the University's money for each half hour at a computer terminal. Of the $74,357 budgeted by the University for student use of the computer, the highest cost is by graduate students working on doctor's degrees.
More than 50 percent of the University's computer time is used for computer instruction and the rest is used for faculty research.
Chris Golub
KU student dies in car wreck north of Olathe
A KU student and former Jayhawk
a player died Friday night in a traffic
accident.
The student, Cristol Gholub, 23, 3090 W. 49th Place, was killed when his car veered into the path of a semi-trailer truck near the internet 69th Street and K-7 Highway at 10:40 p.m.
The driver of the truck, Thomas Holmes,
57. Garnett, was slightly injured.
Golub was a senior in engineering. His last year with the football team was the 1976 season. As a safety, he led the defensive secondary in tackles that year.
Services will be at 8:15 a.m. tomorrow at the Gibson-Butter Family Funeral Home, 19th and Minnesota, Kansas City, Kan. A mass will be at 9:30 a.m. in St. Angela. A burial will be at 10:25 a.m. in Kan. and burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, 1150 N. 38th, Kansas City, Kan.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. The family has suggested that contributions be made to the St. Agnes Church or the Williams Educational Fund at KU.