THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 19, 1987
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"When I got home, Harold's coat and hat were gone, his worries were on the doorstep, and Gladys Mitchell, my neighbor, says she saw him heading west on the sunny side of the street."
Kansas high school students will have a chance to stretch their imagination at the School of Engineering's first High School Scholastic Tournament and Design competition Friday.
The competition, sponsored by the school and the KU Engineering Student Council, is part of the school's Engineering Expo and Open House on Friday and Saturday at Learned Hall.
"OU has had the competition for about 12 years," said Tim Mulinazzi, associate dean of engineering. "We thought it would be a good idea."
The idea comes courtesy of the University of Oklahoma.
High school students living within 80 miles of KU have been invited to compete in math, physics and chemistry exams.
Bicyclist collides with car
Bv a Kansan reporter
Students will design and build vehicles powered solely by rubber bands and see how far they will travel up a wooden vertical track 12 feet high.
The only rules are that the power mechanism be inside the vehicle and be no more than 12 inches high and 30 inches. Kit vehicles will not be allowed.
petition, though, may be the rubber hand powered vehicle decr
North struck the left front corner of Hein's car, tumbled over the hood, and landed on the roadway. The incident happened about 7:20 p.m. Saturday.
According to police reports, Robin North, 27, 918 W. Fourth St., was riding her bicycle north on the east side of Kentucky Street when she collided on West 16th Street with a westbound car driven by Ronald Hein, 37, Topeka.
A Lawrence resident was injured in a car-bicycle collision Saturday night at the intersection of 16th and Kentucky streets.
The most unusual part of the com-
North was issued a citation for riding without a headlamp. The driver of the car was not cited.
Nark was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she was treated for abrasions to her head and face, and released.
By a Kansan reporter
Exhibit shows past alien invasions
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL
Staff writer
Aliens contacting humans is a topic science fiction writers have speculated about for years. And a new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology uses history to show how humans react when they are contacted by alien cultures.
The exhibit, "First Contact," opened yesterday with a speech by James Gunn, professor of English and science fiction writer.
Gum's spoke to about 40 people at the museum on "First Contact in Science Fiction." He described links between anthropology and science fiction and told how different books and movies portrayed what would humans were in contact with a technologically advanced alien culture.
The exhibit shows, mostly through photographs, what has happened in encounters with advanced alien cultures.
The first part of the exhibit tells of the first contacts the South and Central American natived had with Europeanians who were sent to conquer them.
Robert Smith, professor of anthropology and curator of the museum, said he wanted the exhibit to show contact through the eyes of those being contacted, instead of the traditional view from the conquerors.
Smith said there were many parallels between how the Incas and Aztecs reacted when they were contacted and how science fiction writers perceived what might happen if the humans were contacted today.
Aztecs first saw the Europeans, the natives were awestruck by European technology.
"They asked, 'Are these people, or are they gods?' Smith said. "They decided they were gods, and that was their big mistake."
The rest of the exhibit deals with a more recent example of a culture being contacted by an alien civilization, the Ayoreo Indians of Paraguay, who avoided outside contact until 1960.
After offering gifts, the natives were eventually completely overrun by the Europeans.
The story of their meeting a mission through photographs and descriptions.
For example, when the Incas and
whether the groups were really better off after contact with the aliens
Gunn, whose book "The Listeners" deals with contacting extraterrestrial aliens, said after his talk that a more advanced alien culture probably would not be as devastating to us as it was to the Aztecs and Incas.
The end of the exhibit shows the technology the Ayoreo have adopted, such as radios and bicycles, and asks
Gunn said the fact that people were aware that civilizations could exist beyond earth meant that people were prepared, at a least little bit, for the coming aliens. Many people actually look forward to meeting them, he said.
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