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Fridav. November 16, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Survev Reveals Election Ignorance
Nearly half a group of University of Kansas students surveyed this week didn't know there will be an election in Lawrence Dec. 11, according to a poll taken by the
The election will be on a $644,000 bond to help finance improvements to the Lawrence
The survey of 415 students indicated that more than four-fifths of the polled student hadn't heard enough about the bond project and make a decision on how they would respond.
The students were selected at random from a list of students registered at the Lawrence campus. They represented about 2.2 per cent of the student body and included members of all classes, schools and types of residence.
The students were asked six questions concerning their familiarity with the bond between the two people.
14.TY-FOR PER CENT of the students
they had heard of the election.
The poll indicated that about one-fourth of the students questioned were registered to vote in Lawrence and that six per cent were registered before registration closed next Tuesday.
Of those who were registered, half said they hadn't decided how they would vote.
Those who had heard about the election were asked if they believed they had heard enough to make a decision on how they would vote. Nearly two-thirds said they weren't sufficiently familiar with the details of the proposal to know. Only 38 per
The Consumer Protection Association (CPA) and the Student Senate Housing Committee will begin a survey of offenders beginning to landa Triplette, director of the CPA.
The purpose of the survey is to determine whether the off-campus housing the area of Vermont to Ohio streets from 9th to 18th streets and the housing north of the campus meet the requirements of the minimum housing code.
CPA to Check Student Housing
Triplett said the survey would be conducted by members of the Student Senate Housing Committee, the CPA grievance committee, students from a Liberal Arts and Science consumer education class and CPA board members.
The survey contains twenty questions about housing facilities, cost, safety and landlords, as well as several questions added by the senate transportation committee dealing with the desire for bus service.
Volunteers will question tenants at 560 houses.
Triplett said she hoped that other on and off campus organizations such as the Volunteer Clearing House, the League of Women Voters and various fraternities and sororites would provide volunteers to help conduct the survey.
Volunteers are asked to meet at 9:00 a.m. Saturday in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union to pick up their survey packets and instructions, Triplett said.
cent said they had decided how they would vote.
Including those who hadn't heard of the election, 81 per cent of those interviewed said they hadn't heard enough about the bond proposal to make a decision.
STUDENTS WERE ALSO asked if they were registered to register in Lawrence. Of those polled, 20 per cent said they were registered to register before the books closed. planned to register before the books closed.
Applied proportionately to the entire campus enrollment, these figures indicate that nearly 6,000 students would be eligible for Wichita State and Wichita senior and student body president, said yesterday be thought only a small percent of eligible students would vote.
He said most students don't think they have any reason to vote. According to Buckley, many students either don't think the candidates are right or think the candidates will pass easily anyway.
"Historically, bond elections have a small turnout," he said. "Those who are concerned about the bond will turn out, but many registered voters won't show up."
OF THOSE WHO PLANNED to vote in the election, 52 per cent said they hadn't decided how they would vote, 31 per cent said they would vote in the election and 17 per cent said they would vote.
Of those students not registered in Lawrence, less than a fifth expressed favor (12 per cent) or opposition (7 per cent) to the bond.
Buckley said he was not surprised that so many students weren't familiar with the material.
Kansas City and Topeka satisfied Lawrence's needs. One student said the airport should charge a fee for all aircraft using its facilities. Another said the improvement would bring unwanted industrial polluters to Lawrence.
Students who opposed the bond gave several reasons for their opposition. Most said they thought that Lawrence didn't need a larger airport and that the airports in
"My personal feeling is that if they looked at both sides of the question, there would be one clear-cut side—in favor of the improvements," he said.
Comet Kohoutek Not Yet Visible
By ALICE COSTELLO
By ALICE COSTELO
Kansan Staff Reporter
Amateur and professional astronomers in the Midwest who have been eagerly awaiting the day when Comet Kohoutek will have to wake up a little longer.
The recently discovered comet was expected to be visible to the naked eye beginning yesterday but it hasn't yet come into view.
"I am quite certain that the comet isn't visible yet," Ron Gilliland, Osage City senior and teaching assistant in physics and astronomy, said yesterday. "It will be another week or so before the comet is visible."
Gilland and Gary Westergren, teaching assistant in physics and astronomy, have been attempting to photograph the comet through the 27-inch telescope atop Lindley Hall for the past month. So far they have obtained only one fuzzy photograph, Gilland said. Kohoutek hasn't been as bright as originally expected, he said.
kohoutek, designated 1973F in astronomical terms, was discovered last March by Lubos Kohoutek of the Hamburg Observatory. Kohoutek had re-examined a photographic plate shot in January and pinpointed the comet.
At the time of discovery Comet Kohoutek was approximately 500 million miles from the sun. Comets are usually discovered at the 200 million mile range.
The early discovery led astronomers to speculate, that Kohoutek would be the first object to have been detected.
In case you were late to a class yesterday morning because you didn't hear the whistle blow and are wondering why, it was because of a blown fuse in the whistle's power box, according to a worker at the power plant.
Class Calls Silenced By Blown Fuse
The fuse apparently blew after the whistle was sounded at 7:20 yesterday morning. The problem wasn't discovered until 11 a.m. The fuse that the whistle was resumed at 11:20 a.m.
A creative film on comets has been put together by Robert Bearse, associate professor of physics and astronomy, Eleanor DuQoin, assistant professor of design, Edward C. Mattila, associate professor of music theory, and 14 KU students.
The film, "Kohoutek - Visitor From Afar," will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Monday over Sunflower Cablevision. It represents the first multidisciplinary program to be produced by the KU Division of Continuing Education and KU Instructional Television. (ITV)
The film will include historical material on comets, artistic renderings of Kohoutek's path and an original soundtrack.
observations have revealed that it won't be as bright as the famous Halley's Comet.
Cynthia Lingle, operations manager for ITV, said production of the film gave students practical experience in designing a program for actual use.
It can be used, she said, not only in the classroom but also for television entertainment because of the general audience appeal.
Design students of DuQuoin created two-
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"I was thoroughly impressed with the cooperation of the physics and astronomy, the music and the design departments," Lingle said.
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