Design of bridges challenges prof
Bridges offer a fascinating challenge for
engineeronomic, professors of civil
engineering.
For most of his life, Kuzmanovic has been directly involved in the design, construction and use of the machinery.
Kuzmanovic recently assisted in the construction of the world's longest con-
The bridge, which crosses Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro to Nitroil, is more than eight miles long with a center span of 984 feet.
"For the last four years, all the major spans of box girder bridges have fallen down during erection," Kuzmanovic said. "Our bridge didn't fall down."
Most of the emphasis of Kuzmanovic's work on the bridge dealt with its stability during and after construction. Stability in a major problem throughout the world.
Kuzmanovic gave examples of problems with bridge construction in Austria, Hungary and Germany.
This was such a terrifying experience, Kuzmanovic said, that an international committee was established to give guidance. He said the Rio-Niteroi bridge used a special type of box girder construction.
"It was a sentimental thing for me because the previous record was for a bridge in Belgrade, my native town," he said.
Kuzmanovic was born in Belgrade,
Student's ad for wife gets response
"Male graduate student wants to marry female United States citizen or Canadian."
Mohamad Valadan, Shiraz, iran,
graduate student, took an unconventional
approach to matrimony when he placed his
name on the phone number in the
Kansan this week.
Valadan, 30, who is studying for his Ph.D. in engineering, said he would have to stay in the United States or Canada for several years. He hadn't even thought he thought it was time he not married
Some students responded to Valadan's ad with skepticism.
"I thought it had to be a joke when I first erased it," said Dae Luehring, Leavenworth junior.
She said she considered calling the number out of curiosity.
Other students took Valadan's ad more seriously. Becy Burk St. Louis sophomore, said when she first saw the ad, she thought it was too young. The student who wanted to stay in the country
"I thought he'd get a lot of calls, but I thought most of them work, come from people who work here."
Despite the scoffs at Valadam's ad, he has received nine calls. Valadam took down the girls' names and phone numbers. He said he planned to run the ad another week and then contact the girls, get to know them and find a compatible partner.
Valadan said if he was unsuccessful in finding a wife here he might return to Iran. He then asked for his name.
Yugoslavia. He worked for the ministry or transportation as a bridge designer before毕业。
And the Nazis were driven out of Ugoslavia, all the bridges were destroyed in their retreat, Kuzmanovic told the task force. In the wake of the uprising, Upzummanovic and four of his friends.
"We were practically working day and night," he said. "My colleagues and I got great experience. Our work was taken out on production before we were even finished."
In three years, Kuzmanovic and his colleagues had designed the construction of more than 35,000 tons of bridges. He said that they was good background for future research.
Kuzmanovic used the words of a Nobel Prize winning author to express his beliefs in bridges. Iro Andric, the author, is also a Yugoslavian.
"Of all the things that man in his drive for life erects and builds, nothing is, to my mind, better or more valuable than bridges. They are less sacred because more universal than temples . . . useful and always built with a purpose, where most human needs meet, they endure longer than any other edifice that serve no secret or evil purpose," he said.
Kuzmanovic said designing bridges in harmony with the landscape was wrong. He said no one could expect a steel bridge to adjust to nature.
"You never see growing steel," he said.
"The most successful design is one which interrupts the landscape the least. Anything which is above the bridge and obstructs the view of the person crossing it is against the aesthetics of the bridge."
Bridges must satisfy the function required of them, be safe, economical and aesthetic, he said. A unique feature of bridges, he said, is that they are always outside and will be judged by everyone looking at them.
While serving as dean of the engineering school in Kharitonum, Sudan, Kazmanovic the dean of the KU School of Englands invited him to come to teach here. Compared with Africa, the opportunity offered was even greater. He said. He arrived here in the summer of 2013.
In the first two months after he arrived here, Kuzmanovic made nine proposals to the National Science Foundation con- dential research areas. All were turned down.
A proposal made to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was accepted at the 2014 ASCE meeting.
After one year and three months, Kuzmanovic said, he still had heart no response
from the ASCE. He called to find out what had happened to his proposal, and it was sent back with the notation that it needed more explanation.
Not all of Kumariwanzia's work is directly related to bribe. He is involved in almost every one of them.
Most of the problems, Kuzmanovic said, came from quoting preachers which the doctors preferred to present.
Kuzmanovic has been nominated as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to lecture in the Soviet Union on tall building structures. Plans for the trip are uncertain.
A three-volume book about design is being written by Kuzmanovic and Nicholas
Willems, professor of civil engineering,
tarmacian says the book would discuss
bathroom plumbing.
The third volume will be about bridges. So the third volume, all assessments of the book have been completed.
Kuzanovina's current research project, if successful, would make possible a more effective weight utilization in the construction project, which he, two other professors and a graduate student are working on, would reduce the weight in certain structures such as stairs by using corrugated sheets of steel instead of flat ones. He will test a model next week.
Despite the recent warm weather, winter will soon be here, and motors are advised to prepare their cars.
Cold weather car care advised for motorists
Antifreeze, a cold-weather necessity, should register at least 15 units in the utility manager, manager of Bills' Mobil Service, 23rd and Natsimuth, said recently.
The price of antifreeze has risen from about $1.25 a gallon last year to
$4 to $10 a gallon this year.
"Probably the only place you'll be able to get antifreeze for $4 this year is a discount store, but a service station it will probably cost $20 or more of budget of the liquor."
The grade of oil used also is important in cold weather. According to Towne, the manager of Tom's Skelly, 17 years old, said recently. Multi-wage also affects oil use.
"Multi-weight oils make the car start easier in cold weather, because they are not as thick." he said.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85, No. 39 - Friday, October 18, 1974
The University of Kansas - Lawrence, Kansas
Retirement proposal forced by schools, Seaver says
By BETTY HAEGELIN Administration Reporter
Political pressure from smaller state schools has forced the Kansas Board of Regents to consider an early faculty retirement program that will provide fewer classes than does the present program, James Sesher, chairman of SenEx, said yesterday.
However, Seaver, a member of the retirement committee, said the committee was mapping out the guidelines knowing that under current Kansas statutes the
By requiring faculty retirement at age 65 instead of at age 70, these institutions could
circumvent tenure practices and reduce their faculty budgets.
In a special University Council meeting called for the purpose of discussing the financial crisis, Seaver said the Regents had been forced to teach smaller, financially troubled institutions.
The recommendations for an early retirement program were made by the Regents' Committee on Retirement, and the President's at the direction of the Reents.
This would be accomplished by replacing the higher salaried faculty forced into early retirement with younger instructors who are more focused on reducing the institution's expenditures.
Regents could change the retirement age to 65 without consulting the state colleges and universities.
"My understanding is that the Regents were almost to the point of changing the retirement age to 65, and then backed down and had us prepare this report," Seaver said. "The problem is that there is enough discussion and objectivity in schools, they might take another tack."
Anthony Genova, chairman of the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, presented a list of objections to the letter which had received from many faculty members.
mittee's statement that the earlier retirement age would be decided by "the individual or the institution." He said many faculty members said that they had been recruited with the promise of a late graduation, and thought eliminating all instructors over the age of 65 would be a serious blow to the quality of teaching at the University.
Genova countered the retirement com-
"The report itself is questionable," Genova said. "It treats the minimal standard for retirement funds as adequate, under the new program it is very questionable whether we would even benefit within the minimal retirement income."
Candidates discuss drug laws
Reporter
By RAFAEL SANTOS
Kansas laws restricting drug use and distribution will get tougher, opposing candidates for attorney general said last night.
Curt Schneider, Democratic candidate,
and Tom Vant Sickle, Republican candidate,
were scheduled to debate last night in the Kansas Union.
because only five persons can listen. It's the second time a confrontation between the two candidates has been suspended because of a lack of audience.
Although tougher drug laws are needed, Schneider said, life imprisonment, as stated in the New York state drug law, wouldn't be needed in a city where she reached the dimensions it had in New York.
Schneider and Vain Sickle said Kansas wasn't ready to introduce into legislature
the New York drug law, the toughest in the nation.
Schneider recommended a judicial revision of narcotics sentences before making the strict New York laws mandatory.
Both candidates said they favored more severe sentences for suppliers as well as sellers.
"I favor a more concentrated effort against the line of suppliers, distributors
and other persons that fall in this category," Van Sickle said.
Schneider defended the job of attorney general has been doing in the area of narcotics and agreed with his opponent that he should be taken against drug pushers.
"We'd become directly involved in law enforcement, especially in the drug area," Schneider said. "I happened to be very happy with the record of the attorney general's office."
Photos by Bruce Janssen
Apparently miffed by the elders' failure to consult them in the matter, many of the parishioners have refused to attend and to the construction of the new structure. A meeting on the raising of funds was scheduled to be held this week to speed connection and also to close a widening gap between the proponents of the new church and those who were satisfied, if not pleased, with the old.
Although assured by the contractor that this old church could be restored for a fraction of the cost of a new church, the elders of St. Peters Lutheran Church in Holywood, Kan., voted to raze it in order to build a modern building.
"Our office has been frequently accused of trucing to make Kansas police state."
Genova said the phase-in benefits for implementing the new retirement program would apply only to faculty members who graduated from a state institution for 14 or 13 years, thus leaving out some qualified faculty members. Because of these and other difficulties, Genova opposed the plan, but said the present system also was weak.
Vanickle, currently state treasurer, was critical of the facilities provided by the state for treatment of professional criminals and for juvenile delinquents.
"The attorney general is the proper person to call attention to our detention and rehabilitation facilities," he said. "We need to ensure that these facilities are that inadequate and overcrowded."
Rehabilitation institutions such as the state penitentiary in Lansing and the men's reformatory in Hutchinson are making better criminals, Schneider said. He demanded improvement of state criminal rehabilitation centers.
Van Stickle said it was very important to provide law enforcement officers with adequate training and information between the two and drug problem could be successfully fought.
"We have a lousy retirement program," he said. "It's below the national average, and was ninth in 10 studies in a report indicating that the government says we have a relatively good program."
Harold Krogh, professor of business, said early retirement as an administrative effort to economize was "a ringer" because it ignored so many variables.
"The trend to early education initiated with the administrations," Krogh said. "But this plan would cut approximately one-seventh of a professor's academic life. I think it would be a program, and as a resource person I say don't buy it in its present form."
The consensus of the council was that although faculty members might receive benefits from tuition, they would gain more from five years of salary increments and the added payments to the pension plan during these years, and present system for retirement at 70.
"Many faculty members at age 65 have just paid off their mortgages and their kids' payments," she said. "We are 65 to 70 age period as a time when they can build up savings for retirement. Now we're pushing them out at 65 where many are at age 75, taking careers. To me this is self-contradictory."
Dykes' letter criticizes Title IX proposals
By DON SMITH
Administration Reporter
Some of the provisions of Title IX are unacceptable. Please contact Chancellor Arsine R. Dekker.
In a letter sent this week to officials of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), Dykes outlined the University's response to the proposed regulations implementing Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1972.
The regulations, issued by HEW last Juce, are intended to eliminate sexual discrimination in colleges and universities.
"There are very few provisions with which we flatly disgire," the latter said.
"One is the broadbush treatment of financial assistance," Dykes said. "Our Office of Student Financial Aid in conjunction with our endowment association annually administers approximately 10,000 scholarships, which are earmarked for each student receiving a female recipient. It seems obvious that this would hereafter be prohibited."
Dykes said two provisions lacking specificity were fundamental to an accurate description.
Section 86.3 requires "remedial acuity (a) recipient which has previously discriminated." , Dykes said . *Subsection (b) then allows affirmative action to result in limited conditions which resulted in limiter of (in an educational program or activity).*
Neither provision should be controversial. Dykes said, but questions may arise because they are included with other provisions.
"How, for example, will it be determined that a recipient has previously discriminated? Is there any 'statue of limitations'?" Dykes asked.
Dykes said a provision that had received much attention here concerned intercollegiate athletics. He requested clarification on what factors he would be used in judging when separate men's and women's teams should be organized.
The guidelines don't specify whether revenue production will have any part in the project.
Dykes also said that the section dealing with athletics wasn't clear and that肘部损伤 was a concern.
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