University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 23, 1986
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News Briefs
Student assaulted on Mississippi Street
An 18-year-old student was assaulted around midnight Tuesday on Mississippi Street near the Continuing Education Building, KU police reported.
Sgt John Brothers, KU police spokesman, said an unidentified man grabbed the woman from behind and cut her with a broken bottle.
The woman called friends who took her to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she was treated and released for cuts to her forearms, face and abdomen.
Brothers said that the police had no suspects and that the case was under investigation.
AAUP meets tonight
The American Association of University Professors will sponsor a dinner and meeting on collective bargaining beginning at 6 p.m. tonight in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Three speakers are scheduled to discuss collective bargaining in the academic context. Their programs are scheduled to begin at 7:15 p.m.
Meeting canceled
The Classified Senate meeting scheduled for Oct. 29 has been canceled, an official said yesterday.
Neva Entrikin, Classified Senate president, said the meeting was canceled so classified personnel could attend a speech by Kansas House Speaker Mike Hayden. Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Hayden will speak at 4 p.m. on Oct. 29 in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. His speech is sponsored by the University Senate Executive Committee.
The next Classified Senate meeting is scheduled for Nov. 25.
Classified Senate is the governing body for classified employees on campus.
Sub named 'Topeka'
'TOPEKA — One of the Navy's new "fast attack" submarines now under construction will be christened the USS Topeka, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, announced yesterday.
Lowe said he had been informed by Navy Secretary John Lehman that the Topeka moniker would be carried on a nuclear-powered vessel referred to by the Navy as a "Los Angeles-class fast attack" submarine.
A spokesman for Dole said fast-attack submarines were designed to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.
The vessel is under construction in Groton, Conn. Work began in April and is scheduled for completion in 1988. No launch date has been set, Dole said.
Dole said the new submarine would be the third Navy vessel to carry the Topeka name.
Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy with a high temperature in the low 60s and northerly winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of light rain and a low temperature around 50. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of light rain and a high temperature around 60.
From staff and wire reports.
KU students build rocket of the future
Eddie Terrell, president of the Cheap Rocket Club and Texarkana, Texas, senior, prepares an experimental rocket engine for testing. The group of KU aerospace engineering students is trying to develop an inexpensive rocket engine that can be mass-produced. Terrell was working yesterday in Learned Hall.
By PAMELA SPINGLER
With the noise from the wind tunnels thundering in their ears, four aerospace engineering students tinker on the Mars 2000 Rocket, or the beginnings of it.
Staff writer
The rocket sits on a wooden table in the basement of Learned Hall and consists of a cylinder connected to valves, tubes and wires. The room is plastered with plans and posters of projects to come.
The rocket is the braincloth of the Cheap Rocket Club, a student group that was formed at the beginning of the semester. The club officially has six members, but other students occasionally drop by to help.
After completing a practice and final 3-foot model of the rocket, they plan to build a full-size rocket. The club hopes someday to launch their final creation into space.
Eddie Terrell, Texarkana,
Texas, senior, said he and two
friends had started the club
because they were interested in
creating a working rocket, without
much expense.
Many small, private aerospace companies are searching for designs to transport large materials into space, he said, adding that the company has been too long and its launches too expensive for some companies.
"Being engineers and liking to build things, we decided to get started on our 'great design' now." Terrell said.
oexpensive for some companies NASA has to deal with a lot of bureaucracy and red tape, he said.
Because the rocket will be unmanned, costs will be cut because some precautions that are essential for manned space flight aren't needed for unmanned flight.
And the practice model the group is building won't cost anything, because everything has been donated from different
departments in the School of Engineering, Terrell said.
Engineering business. "Everything is scrap metal." Terrrell said. "We get a lot from the engineering machine shop."
So far, the group has made only one important purchase for the final model. With money allocated from the aerospace engineering department budget, the group spent $100 for a block of copper.
Terrell said he thought of the design for the rocket engine when he wrote a paper for a college journal. The actual building started this summer.
The model that is being tested will never fly, Terrell said. The dimensions and the weight aren't aerodynamic.
"It's like building a car engine that weighs 8,000 pounds to study the pistons," he said. "We know it is never going to fly, but it's just to study the engine."
Dave Dibble, Lakeland, Fla., sophomore and a charter member of the group, said he got involved in building the rocket because he liked space and exploring the unknown.
"Space is a field that has inter-
est me for years," Dibble said.
"It may have started with
'Star Trek.'
Kris Teaford, Valley Falls senior and another charter member of the club, said he always had been interested in rockets.
"There is a real need for designs of cheap, workable rockets," Teaford said. "They put reusable motors in unreuseable rockets and that costs a lot of money."
The group meets every Friday afternoon and whenever else it can find the time. It is open to anyone interested in rocketry.
The club will put the engine on display at the Engineering Exposition. Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 in Learned Hall.
Concert selling well, organizers say
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Tickets are selling well for what the organizers of a Vietnam veterans benefit concert are calling "our Woodstock," the organizers said at a news conference yesterday.
also yesterday.
Also at the Brown conference, head basketball coach Brown expressed his support for the concert, and said he had been helping the concert's organizers since the spring. The news conference took place in Brown's office in Parrott Athletic Center.
The concert will feature John Fogerty, Stephen Stills and George Thorgood and the Destroyers, and is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Nov 11 in Allen Field House.
With seating on the floor, the field house can hold more than 16,000 people, but as many as 3,000 of those seats may be eliminated by the stage
House. The concert is being organized by Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa graduate student, and Regine Estell, Overland Park law student
Krueger said all 500-600 seats on the floor of the field house had sold out by Friday. But he said he couldn't say how many tickets total had been sold.
those seats may be reserved.
Proceeds from the concert will go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a non-profit organization, to set up a scholarship fund for the children of Vietnam veterans who were killed or disabled in action or who are MIAs or POWs.
but "I've had limited experience with concerts," Brown said. "But I've had lots of experience with these two guys. I've talked with them more than with any recruit."
in any recruit.
"This is a wonderful thing they they're doing."
"This is a wonderful thing they be doing."
Krueger said Brown had helped by making a few telephone calls to people in the entertainment industry, such as Stills.
Krueger said Brown also had given them the name of Barry Fey, a Denver promoter who has agreed to promote the concert.
agreed to promote the team. Brown said he and Fey had known one another since Brown coached the Denver Nuggets in the 1970s.
Brown said he was proud to have helped with the concert because it would demonstrate KU students want to help others. But he emphasized his help had been minimal and praised the work Krueger and Estell had done.
and Esten also took.
"I think it's amazing that these two kids could pull this off and get these three great names here."
Brown said.
Brown said.
Kruger said the contract for the use of the field house Nov. 11 was being completed between the concert's organizers and the University.
Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said the contract still was being revised but he expected it to be signed by the end of the week.
to be signed by the men's and women's basketball teams would be in Salina on Nov. 11 playing a scrimmage game for the Special Olympics. The teams would have given up their practice time in the field house in any case, he said.
the field house in Iowa. Tickets are $17.50 and are available at all CATS outlets in Topeka and the Kansas City area, and at Liberty Hall and the field house in Lawrence.
Emergency phones abused, police say
By RIC ANDERSON
Staff writer
The blue light on campus signals a direct line to help from the KU police, not a pizza delivery phone or an object of entertainment.
The call boxes placed around campus are important to the police even though they are more often misused than used correctly, a police spokesman said yesterday.
Sgt. John Brothers, the spokesman, said the most common abuse of the telephones, which are marked by a frosted, blue light, is for someone to pick up the phone and not say anything.
Brothers said he thought that half of the silent calls were from people who wanted to irritate the police. The other half, he said, were people who picked up the phones out of curiosity.
said, was to call police and order pizza. One of the oldest and most overpruned pranks was calling from the phone by Potter Lake and making quacking noises, he said.
Brothers said he did not know exactly how many prank calls the police received but the majority of the calls on the phones were prank calls.
Since police respond to the boxes quickly and have to search the area to make sure everything is OK, the prank calls take up a great deal of the department's time and effort, he said.
Pranks aside, Brothers said the phones generated enough serious calls to be important campus
The department paid $6,000, plus maintenance costs for the phones, which were used almost 6,000 times last year. Brothers said.
Another common abuse, Brothers
fixtures.
Brothers said KU had installed the phones in the mid-1970s as a result of several sexual assault incidents. Therefore, he said, the phones have a reputation as "rape phones."
However, he said, he would encourage students to disregard the reputation and use the phones to call in any suspicious activity.
Students should use the phones if they saw something out of the ordinary, felt they were being followed, or simply felt uncomfortable about something, he said.
"Anything you feel the police department needs to be contacted for, go ahead and use them," he said. "We won't criticize you for capricious use of the phones."
Brothers said students who pick up the phones out of curiosity should remain by the phone until police arrive.
ed. This would save the police from searching the area, he said.
Elizabeth Phillips, KU police communication officer, said officers could arrive any of the phones in two minutes. A button containing the location of the phone lights up on the dispatcher's console if the receiver is lifted.
Therefore, lifting the receiver or knocking it off of the hook is enough to get a response. Brothers said.
to get a response The campus contains 12 phones.
The campus contains:
They are at Irving Hill Road; the parking lot between Green Hall and Naismith Drive; Sunnyside and Sunflower streets; 13th and Oread streets; 14th Street and Alumni Place; on the rim of Porter Lake; the Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall parking garage; the Pearson Place fountain; between Malott and Wescoe Halls; and Watkins Service and Naismith drives.
Carlin says 'no' vote threatens economy
TOPEKA — Gov John Carlson said yesterday that economic development in Kansas would stop cold if voters did not approve a proposed property classification amendment to the Kansas Constitution on Nov. 4.
The Associated Press
Carlin said economic development was threatened because the size of the tax burden on business was not known.
The governor spoke at a recognition luncheon which closed the third annual Main Street conference.
The proposed amendment would scrap the state's present constitutional mandate, which says all property be taxed on a "uniform and equal" basis, in favor of a classification system under which residential and agricultural property would be appraised — and thus taxed — at lesser rates than commercial, utility and personal property.
Jamie Schwartz, state secretary of economic development, cited some of the cities in the program the past year.
- Lawrence: 21 businesses have renovation projects underway at an investment of more than $300,000—with 17 new or expanded businesses creating 46 jobs.
■ Hutchinson: 22 businesses have renovated their facades or completed renovation projects at an investment of $597,000—with 22 new or expanded businesses creating 86 jobs.
**Manhattan:** 11 new or expanded businesses have created 59 jobs.
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University of Kansas' 1/2-priced Comedy House.
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This week's featured comic is Gary Richardson of Dallas. Join us for dinner after the show and you'll discover why KU frequents Stanford & Sons.