University Daily Kansan, November 5, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Clerk candidates differ on experience
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of a series of stories about local and area candidates for elective office.
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
While Republican Patty Jaimes counts her 17 years of experience in the county clerk's as an asset, her Democratic rival says they are a liability.
Jaimes, vying for her second term as county clerk, said last week that she had worked 13 years in the county and was being elected county clerk in 1980.
Sampson said yesterday that Jaimes' years in the office were a good reason for voters to choose Sampson on Nov. 6.
"I HAVEN'T WORKED in there
for 17 years," Sampson said. "But, I don't see that as any kind of disadvantage.
"I think I could pick up on what could be done with that office, not just what is done or what has been done the same way for years."
Sampson, who is married and has no children, was the director of public relations and adult development for the Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council. She said she left the job to campaign. She also has been involved in several volunteer groups and on several boards in Lawrence.
But Jaimes said that her experience in the county clerk's office versus her opponent's inexperience of the key issues of the campaign.
"I have the knowledge it takes to do this right," Jaimes said. "I have been employed in all phases of the
county clerk's office. And that does make a difference."
James points to this year's record number of registered voters in Douglas County as one of her main accomplishments as county clerk.
Sampson said the number of outposts was not what was important.
"I WENT ALL out in extending voter registration." Jaimes said. "We had more outposts stations for voters to get registered at than ever."
"Sure, there were 47 outposts, but they were not well-supported and not open at convenient hours," Sampson said. "They didn't cover the entire county, and there needed to be some open late."
sampson also said Jaimes had failed to have a voter registration booth set up on campus when
Deborah Sampson
students were registering and paying fees in August.
"I don't know why there wasn't one set up then," Sampson said. "That's the most convenient time of all. Here's all of these students with pen in hand and registering to vote would just be one more form to fill out that day."
Project to improve forecasts
By KIP MCCORMICK Staff Reporter
The storms that blew through the area last week were a violent reminder of unpredictable Kansas weather.
Such storms may be easier to foresee after the completion of a $190 million national project designed to make severe storm forecasting more accurate, said Joe Eagleman, professor of atmospheric sciences, one of three KU professors participating in the project.
Eagleman along with Robert Stump, professor of physics and astronomy, and Thomas Armstrong, professor of physics and astronomy, will use their research to aid the National Weather Service in forecasting severe weather. The weather service and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the project.
"THE MAIN GOAL of the entire project is to greatly improve the quality of forecasting in our region," Armstrong said.
The project still is in the formative
stages, during which the preliminary projects are being financed and numerical models — math equations that describe the atmosphere — are being constructed. Planning for the placement of atmospheric measuring instruments also is being conducted.
"The summer of 1988 will be the intensive measurement period." Eagleman said. "Once the field work is completed and the major data is collected, it will take another year to analyze it."
He said a large part of the project was to obtain extremely detailed data on a small area. The National Forest Service will use the data as a forecasting aid.
"WE HOPE THAT IT will give us more information on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, flash floods and lightning," he said. "We can develop mathematical equations that will be useful to predict the impact than they've had in the past. It will be a time to get types of measurements we've never gotten before."
Stump said the high cost of the project was due to its size and the large amount of sophisticated
equipment necessary for accurate atmospheric measurements. In instruments being used include wind profilers, which measure wind consistency; doppler radar, which allows an air current to be seen inside a thunderstorm; and automatic sound devices.
Armstrong said. "This is not only an opportunity to do some important science, but it fits the mission of the company. The students are the main line of business."
THE PROJECT WILL provide an excellent opportunity to involve undergraduate and graduate students in research, he said.
The students would assist in collecting and interpreting data, running computers, forecasting and analyzing the results of challenges in the project, Armstrong said.
Other universities, such as the University of Oklahoma and Colorado State University, also are participating in the project, he said.
Armstrong said he hoped that the resources would provide better measurements on how storms defend and aid in predicting thunderstorms.
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