UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday,November 6,1992
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Children help KU project
Kansan staff writer
By Muneera Naseer
Kansas staff writer
Irene Lanier / KANSAN
Seeds that were aboard the space shuttle Endeavor as part of the Kansas University Space Program experiment will be planted by elementary and junior high students in Lawrence schools.
After retrieving their experiment from NASA last month, students from the space program distributed the seeds to Pinckney, Deerfield and Hillcrest elementary schools and South Junior High School. The goal of the experiment is to study the effects of weightlessness on seed growth.
Brandon Butter, 8, left, Bjial Jones, 8, center, and Jovin Marvin, 10, third grade students at Pinckney Elementary School, 810 W. Sixth St., plant radish seeds that were on board the space shuttle Endeavor.
Nelda Mayse, a third grade teacher at Pinckney Elementary School, helped 18 of her students plant about 100 red and brown radish seeds Tuesday in coffee cans, juice cans and flowerpots.
The students, each of whom has his or her own pot, will collect data and provide it to KUSP.
Mayse said that within five to six days the seeds would germinate and the students would measure seed growth from the top of the soil. After 25 days, they will look under the soil to see if the radishes have grown.
Other experiments on board the shuttle, including cell membrane formation and protein crystallization, both of which required a mixing of chemicals, did not work.
Chris Whittenburg, Tulsa senior and
a member of KUSP, said that a threemonth waiting period at the Kennedy Space Center before the shuttle's flight might have caused the plungers on two chemical-filled syringes to jam. When a motor tried to push the syringes together to mix the chemicals, it drew excess current and blew a fuse.
The container built by KUSP members to hold the experiments endured the shuttle's liftoff and landing. Whittenburg said.
Tom Miller, KUSP president and Leawood junior, said KUSP members planned to rebuild the container and display it at Nichols Hall on West Campus.
"The fact that we actually designed and built an experiment that satisfied NASA's stringent requirements and flew aboard the shuttle is quite an accomplishment," he said.
Miller said that KUSP members planned to build experiments to study fluid motion in space for a future shuttle voyage.
Students plan to bring the music of Birdland to Lawrence
By J.R. Clairborne Kansan staff writer
The lower lobby of Tempelin Hall will be transformed into a time tunnel when the music and history of Birdland come to the University of Kansas on Sunday.
Kicking off at 6:30 p.m., the Second Annual Tempin Jazz Seminar will bring Kansas City jazz to life and will feature a lecture by Dick Wright, associate professor of music history, and musical performances by the Marquel Jordan Quintet.
The free seminar is the result of efforts by Richard Prince Jr., Wichita junior, and Marvin Heinbach, a resident assistant at Templin.
Prince, a longtime lover of jazz who has a special
interest in the Kansas City era, said the seminar was a sequel to a directed study project last year by Brandon Sanders, Kansas City, Kan., junior. Sanders' version covered the full history of jazz with the assistance of jazz musicians.
Prince said Sunday's seminar would be different because it would focus only on Kansas City jazz, which revolutionized jazz beginning in 1930.
"The city of Lawrence has had a rich history of jazz," he said. "I want to inject that interest back into the Lawrence community."
Wright said he would deliver an anthology of Kansas City — also known as Birdland in jazz circles — that would end with the contemporary jazz of the present day and the musicians who play it.
"The lecture will be given with the idea of introducing people to jazz or giving them a better idea that this is an American art form," he said. "They should treat it as such and it should be appreciated with other types of music."
"A jazz player will go where he thinks his audience is." he said. "Once an audience is created, he will come.
Prince said that if the interest in jazz that was once prevalent in Lawrence was rekindled, jazz musicians would want to play in Lawrence as well as Kansas City.
"We hope to make Lawrence, at the very least, a lit the jazz substation for Kansas City and all jazz players to stop at."
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