August 31, 1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Reagan leads in Kansas according to Gov. Carlin
TOPEKA - Gov John Carlin yesterday described Walter Mondale's chances of winning Kansas this fall as a long shot and said there was little to indicate so far that Mondale's showing in the state was improving.
He said President Reagan undoubtedly commanded a strong lead in the presidential race in Kansas, but Mondale would probably gain on Reagan as voters began to concentrate on issues rather than personalities.
"I would be surprised if he (Reagan)
didn't stay ahead until mid-October."
He also said he doubted that Mondale would visit Kansas during the fall campaign.
Lutheran minister sentenced
EMPORIA — A Lutheran minister convicted of soliciting the murder of his former secretary's husband was sentenced to two and one-half to seven years in prison yesterday.
The Rev Thomas Bird. 34, was taken immediately into custody after Lyon County Judge Gary Rubin imposed the sentence. He will remain in the county's prison until February 25, Kansas Department of Corrections, District Attorney Rod Symmonds said.
Bird was found guilty Aug. 1 of plotting in May 1983 with his secretary, Lorna Anderson, and another Emporia man to kill her husband, Martin. Anderson died of three gunshot wounds to the head in November 1983 along a dark Geary County highway where he and his wife had stopped after she complained of being ill.
Members of Bird's former church, Faith
Watson's book sale planned
The annual Watson Library book sale will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the library's courtyard.
The books to be sold are extras or copies that the library does not keep, said Susan Hamilton, library exchange and gifts supervisor.
The library received all of the books through exchanges or as gifts, she said.
Graduate wins writing contest
Between 3,000 and 4,000 books will be sold, and most will cost 50 cents. Hamilton said the library would use the money from the sale to purchase new books.
A KU graduate's short story about the dying relationship between two lovers has won first place in Madernoisele magazine's annual fiction-writing contest.
The story, titled "One-Way Ticket," was written by Antonya Nelson, who graduated in 1983. It will appear in this month's issue of Mademoiselle.
Nelson, 23. is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
As a KU student, Nelson won several campus writing contests and had a story in Cottonwood Review, published by the KU Department of English.
Weather
Today will be sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear, and the low will be around 70. Tomorrow will be hot and partly sunny, with a high in the low 100s.
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Students study effects of thermonuclear war
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
The 16 students sitting quietly in a Snow Hall classroom Wednesday afternoon appeared to be a typical KU class.
picked up at Room 222.
About 2:30 p.m., John O'Brien, professor of
systematics and ecology, strode into Room
"This is the course where you're going to
learn everything you never wanted to know about
the Internet."
The course was Biology 429, a seminar on the effects of thermonuclear war.
Before class, students talked about why they were interested in studying nuclear war.
"IT JUST HIT HOME since the 'Daily Mail' published Jean Burmeister, Harlan, Iowa, senior.
Burmierne said she wanted to see how accurate the movie had been.
Sue BERNes, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said she was thinking of adding the class.
it used to be taboo to talk about it," she said, referring to nuclear war. "Now it's on the tip of everybody's tongue."
After handing out syllabuses, O'Brien explained what he hoped to accomplish in the class.
"It's not intended to frighten you, but it will," he said.
O'Brien said the class would be a scientific analysis of nuclear war. After an introduction to nuclear weapons and the history of the arms race, the students will study the long-term biological effects of nuclear war, including a nuclear winter.
IN 1883, FIVE SCIENTISTS reported that their studies showed a nuclear war would spew large amounts of ash and dust into the atmosphere, blocking most of the sun's rays.
Without the sunlight, temperatures on Earth would plunge below zero for several months, the scientists said.
O'Brien told the students they would study science in the class, not politics.
"I hope it's not to be a radical or politically motivated course," he said.
The class will not deal with solutions to the arms race. O'Brien said.
"Basically it's intended to make you nuclear literate," he said. "I don't care which side of the fence you sit on, know what the hell you're talking about."
O'BRIEN FOLLOWED HIS introduction to the course with a lecture on the first topic listed on the syllabus, an explanation of how nuclear weapons work. He finished the lecture by explaining how a neutron bomb differed from other nuclear weapons.
Burmeister said, "I liked it but I think it's going to be really intense."
After the class, O'Brien said that the course was non-technical and had no prerequisite.
'OBRIEN DREW UP PLANS for the course after he decided that nuclear war was the greatest threat to his children's future, he said. As a teacher, he thought that the best thing he could do to prevent nuclear war was to educate people about it.
Engineering school expands computer center
Following the showing of the television movie "The Day After," O'Brien and Paul Ehrlich, a prominent ecologist, were interviewed by ABC.
taught a course on the subject before
"I said I thought it (the movie) was quite accurate but probably underestimated the biological and societal problems," he said.
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
Staff Reporter
The School of Engineering at the University of Kansas is making a "fantastic leap into the future," an engineering professor said yesterday.
The installation of two large computer systems will allow more engineering students to have access to the computer center at Learned Hall, said Ken Bishop, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering. He added that the new systems for engineering design.
We will be providing our students with the
kind of knowledge that will help them a great deal in the real world." Bishop said. "Computers are used all of the time now in engineering design work."
THE FIRST OF THE computer systems, the Harris 800, will be operating next week After the second system, the Harris 1000, is installed in January, the new computer center will have tripped its capacity and will be worth almost $1 million. Bishop said
"The system must be checked to make sure everything is working and performing as it should be before we can formally accept it," Bishop said. "Once we do, it will be available to students, and we are very near to that now."
When both systems are available, he said, the facility will accommodate up to 90 students at its 30 stations. The present system has a capacity of 21 students.
Because the engineering school's computer center has grown, the management of the center has been shifted to KU's Academic Computer Center, said Bishop, who had served as director of the school's center for the last five years.
"WE SIGNED A CONTRACT *w* with them because the project had become so big and complicated we felt we needed professional management." Bishop said.
More than half of the financing for the new computers came from private sources.
including the manufacturer of the computer systems, Harris Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Bishop said.
F. Bart Bishop said, "It is hard to give figures on the cost of the systems because Harris Corp gave us equipment, not dollars." Bishop said, "Over the next year and a half, our system will grow tremendously."
The school already has received $48,400 in new equipment from Harris, Bishop said, and an additional $90,000 in computer software will be installed in the next 18 months.
BISHOP SAID THE systems would have more power and memory than the one now used by the school.
Gas supplier sought KU meeting with bidders
Staff Reporter
Bv BRENDA STOCKMAN
The University of Kansas continued to meet with representatives of potential natural gas suppliers yesterday, said Rodger Oroke, director of support services for facilities operations.
Yesterday's meeting included talks with the low bidder, Petro-D Corp. of Tulsa, Okla. Oroke said.
Three companies submitted bids earlier this summer. Since then, KU officials have been examining the suppliers capabilities.
'A tow bid doesn't mean the best gas,' said Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations.
Two other companies, Bogina Petroleum Engineers, Lenexa, and Specified Energy Services Ltd., Bonner Springs, registered individual and joint bids with the University, Oroke said.
ANDERSON AND OTHER KU officials will continue to meet with Petro-D and the other two companies that submitted bids. The primary concerns are a sufficient quantity of quality gas and its transportation to KU, Anderson said.
Petro-D will provide KU with additional information about its ability to meet the bid requirements, Oroke said. The information was requested in yesterday's meeting.
"They understand what we need; they felt they could supply it. That doesn't mean it will be acceptable." Oroke said of the necessary information
BRIAN MOLINE, THE Kansas Corporation Commission's chief legal counsel, said the KCC probably would not be involved in the negotiations for a new natural gas supplier for KU. He said the matter was not under the jurisdiction of the KCC, because the supplier, the line and KU are not concerns of the KCC.
KU may have to build a pipeline to connect with one of those lines, because Kansas Public Service Co., the University's current gas supplier, owns the line that serves the University. KPS is not willing to lease the line, Oroke said.
The KCC would have jurisdiction only if the line was longer than 15 miles or used to supply gas to another user, Moline said.
The main natural gas pipelines in the area all pass within five miles of KU.
Chancellor gets authority to discontinue programs
By the Kansan Staff
The University Council voted yesterday to explicitly state that the Chancellor would make the final decisions about discontinuing programs at the University of Kansas.
The Board of Regents requested last spring that the University amend its proposed program discontinuance policy. The commissioners also appointed Chairman Knox Na萌 told the council.
"The Board of Regents referred the discontinuance document back to the faculty because it was concerned about how clearly it was spelled out that the Chancellor indeed was the final authority." he said.
THE COUNCIL, WHICH is the executive group of the University Senate, passed the discontinuance policy in January after more than a year of debate. The policy outlines the procedure the University must follow when eliminating an academic program.
The Chancellor's authority was imprint in the original document but not explicitly stated, he said.
"There was never any doubt, in the minds of SenEx anyway, and I presume in the minds of the Committee on Program Discontinuance, that the Chancellor was indeed the final authority." Knapper said.
"By law, he is. But nonetheless, the Board of Regents would feel more comfortable with the amendment to the document."
The University Senate comprises faculty, administration and Student Senate
JAMES CAROTHERS, PRESIDING officer of the council, also announced that the University Core Curriculum Committee soon would distribute initial proposals for the English and mathematics sections of a core curriculum to deans and department chairman.
the proposals will be discussed within academic units and re-submitted to the Core Curriculum Committee for review before presentation to the University Senate.
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