8 Friday, October 5, 1990 / University Daily Kansan ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT AIDS? - Student Senate is now accepting applications for the AIDS Task Force - Applications may be picked up in the Student Senate Office. 410 Kansas Union For more information, call 864-3710 Is Working Only Occasionally & Still Earning $6.00/hr. + Appealing To You Are you interested in becoming a member of our pool on on-call, standby employees? Local students, available for the holidays, are encouraged to apply. The tails of jobs and apprenticeship hour. Money through Titary, a rite Those selected will be trained and listed as available to supplement our regular crew on an 'as needed' basis, to cover for absence and provide additional assistance for the crew. 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She is one of 25 KU students working on experiments that will be conducted on a future campus. The students are members of the Kansas University Space Program, a program open to those interested in space exploration. The experiments are part of NASA's Getaway Special Program. The KU Space Program purchased a canister from NASA for $3,000 that will be used to carry the spacecraft into orbit. The experiments will be placed in the canister. "As a kid, you think about doing everything, and what I was particularly interested in was space," said Zimmerman, who plans to get a medical degree. "There is always the possibility that I can do something as a doctor working with physiology in space." Mike Peck, project manager for the program, said anyone who paid for a canister and followed NASA's procedures and regulations could place experiments on the shuttle. "It's a relatively cheap project to do," said Peck, Oladime the student. "It comes out to about $50 a pound. For companies to launch satellites, they usually have to pay about $1,800 a pound." Peek said the KU Space Program was started five years ago to allow students to participate in the Getaway project, but a lack of financing was a result. Experiments had not been sent into space yet. The experiments were chosen by KU Space Program members four years ago and have undergone revisions. All the experiments examine fundamental principles of zero gravity, he said. The experiments must be completely automated, he said. When the shuttle is in orbit, the astronauts will turn a switch that activates a control system which has $2^{1/2}$ cubic feet of space and holds 60 pounds. "The canister will have its own power from batteries, and computer chips are used for running the four experiments," Peck said. "Once it is up there, we have no control." Peck said that in the next month, members should finalize the designs of the projects and decide which chemicals and materials to use. Then they start assembling the experiments into the canister. Peck said he thought the canister could be on a shuttle mission in the spring. The purpose of one of the four experiments is to investigate properties of composite structures manufactured in the space environment. Composite structures have applications in aircraft, automobiles and medical supplies. Other experiments will investigate how crystals are grown in the absence of gravity and test several types of seeds exposed to the space environment. Zimmerman, KU Space Program treasurer and the only biology major in the group, has beenwen with the department. She said she wanted to analyze the effects zero gravity had on cell membrane formation. She is trying to form a liposome, an empty cell, to test the integrity of the cell wall. Understanding cell membranes' strength is an area of pharmaceutical research. Zimmerman "Anytime we are ready, the experiments can go" she said. We are trying to get them up as soon as possible. Once the experiments come back from space, members will analyze the results. Zimmerman "If the results are really good, I might make a formal paper and try to publish the results in a journal." KBI reports crime down at Med Center By Courtney Eblen Kansan staff writer A beefed up University police force and increased citizen involvement in reporting crimes has succeeded in reducing the rate of crime at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Maj. Rick Johnson, assistant director of the Med Center's police. There were 122 major crimes reported at the Med Center between January and June this year, accorded to a survey of the same time last year, there were 144 The KHI reported that the number of major crimes at the Med Center had dropped more than 15 percent in the last six months. The KHI defines major crimes as murder, rape, robbery, or graffitied assault, burglary and theft. major crimes reported. Four years ago, skrokyctoring crime rates in the Kansas City area began closing in on the Med Center. Between 1986 and 1988, the number of major crimes at the Med Center jumped 18 percent, according to Bureau of Investigation statistics. The Med Center, located between Kansas City, Kan., and the Westport area in Missouri, is very much like a small town in itself, Johnson said. Its 28 miles of hallways are frequented by more than 5,500 employees, more than 2,000 students and hundreds of patients and visitors every day. "I think that's the appealing part of working here." Johnson said working here, Johnson said. Johnson stressed that the Med Center police is not a group of hospital security officers. It is a police force that deals with many of the same problems a metropolitan squad does, he said. The Med Center began converting from hospital security guards to a full-fledged police force during the late 1960s, Johnson said. Now, the Med Center police has 25 uniformed officers, five investigators and seven administrative personnel. Like police officers on the Lawrence campus, Med Center officers also are trained to respond in some same duties as metropolitan police. Johnson said. But their duties are unique because of the setting. Johnson said police officers working at the Med Center had to have "an additional degree of compassion," especially when they were dealing with relatives of someone who had just been carted into the emergency room. The Med Center's emergency room is outfitted with security precautions to prevent another incident like one that occurred in 1982, when an armed man with a history of mental illness entered the emergency room and killed a physician and a visitor, Johnson said. Now there is a station at the emergency room that is manned 24-hours a day. Cameras mounted high on walls peer down long hallways and relay the picture into the emergency room control room. 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