University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 6, 1987
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Lottery to sell sports tickets to 30 students
Thirty unclaimed all-sports tickets will be distributed by lottery, athletic ticket manager Diana Wehmeyer announced yesterday.
Students must be enrolled in a minimum of seven credit hours to purchase tickets.
yesterday. The lottery will be open to students who haven't ordered all sports tickets for 1987-88 and those who failed to claim their tickets before the Oct. 1 deadline.
Interested students should fill out applications by Oct. 16 in the athletic ticket office at Allen Field House. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Wehmeyer said the lottery would be conducted during the following weekend. Winners will be contacted by phone Oct. 19.
K-State student arrested in Union
A 23-year-old Kansas State University student was arrested early yesterday on the sixth floor of the Kansas Union for carrying a concealed weapon. KU police reported.
The man was arrested at 12:40 a.m. and later booked. He appeared at 11 a.m. yesterday in Douglas County District Court for a bond hearing. He was released on $750 bond.
The student will be charged formally before he is scheduled to appear at 4 p.m. Oct. 23.
Workers will wait to turn up the heat
The air-conditioning is off, but the heat isn't on, said Bobby Porter, associate director for physical department of facilities operations.
Porter said heat in campus buildings wouldn't be turned on until Lawrence had several nights of 30-degree weather and days that were sunny. He felt for some buildings with special needs may be turned on sooner.
Moon to dim tonight as eclipse occurs
"Until that time, it might be cool in the mornings and warm in the afternoons, but it's been that way since the beginning of time." Porter said.
WASHINGTON - The Harvest moon will dim slightly, possibly blushing red, tonight when a penumbra eclipse occurs.
Astronomers at the U.S. Naval Observatory report that the moon will edge into the fainter part of the Earth's shadow this evening, with the dimming most likely to be the lower half of the moon's disc.
The moon will not be blocked from view.
And although penumbral eclipses such as this are often difficult to detect, one should be visible because of the brightness of the full Harvest moon, the astronomers say.
The eclipse will begin at 8:53 p.m. local time, mid-eclipse will be at 11:02 a.m. Wednesday, and the event will end at 1:10 a.m.
Correction
Because of an editor's error, Debbie Douglass' name was spelled incorrectly in yesterday's Kansan. Douglass is an office assistant in the French and Italian department.
From staff and wire reports.
Former KU student wins aviation award
By MARK TILEORD
For commercial airline pilots, split-second decisions can mean the difference between life and death.
Staff writer
But an award-winning innovation by a former KU student might make some of those decisions more reliable.
Raghavachari Srivatsan, a former KU Flight Research Laboratory scientist, and two NASA scientists recently received a 1987 IR-100 for the design of a takeoff performance monitoring system, or TOPMS.
The IR-100 awards are presented annually by Industrial Research and Development magazine. They are given to scientists and engineers who have developed the 100 most significant products for technology that year.
Srivatsan was one of several KU students to receive aerospace engineering wards in September.
Srivatsan said yesterday that the monitoring system was designed to give pilots a clear reading whether should continue or abort a takeoff.
"In our research we found that pilots were, in fact, making seat-of-the-pants type decisions." Srivatsan and Chang's rule of thumb and things like that.
About 12 percent of aircraft accidents are associated with takeoff,
Srivatsan's monitoring system is a little different than most. Downing said.
said David Downing, associate professor of aerospace engineering.
"The pilot doesn't know exactly what is wrong, just that something is wrong." Downing said.
For airplanes equipped with cathode ray tubes, the system already would be effective, requiring input by the pilot on the plane's weight, runway length, temperature conditions and other factors.
"All the commercial aircraft that are being manufactured today are equipped with CRTs," Srivatsan said.
For planes without the cathode ray
tubes, extra guidance equipment would be required.
Downing said the system could have prevented the 1982 crash of an Air Florida,飞入 the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., by warning the pilot of ice build-up and advising that the takeoff be aborted.
Srivatsan said the project was now up for testing by NASA and would require approval by the Federal Aviation Administration.
But airline pilots already have had a chance to test the system in flight.
"It is definitely a distinct help. A lot of them have extremely good comments about this." Srivatsan said.
Srivatsan began pursuing the project when he was a summer intern in 1983 with NASA-Langlegy Research in Hampton, Va. He completed his doctorate in 1985, and he is now employing an research Associates in Hampton.
Srivatsan is a native of Madras, India. He received a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, a master's degree from West Virginia University and his doctorate from KU.
Downing was Srivatsan's major adviser while Srivatsan pursued his career.
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
Home run
"He's a very bright young man. Downing said, "With all that kind of stuff available at Langley), he was able to do something outstanding."
Jim Lyons, Tulsa, Okla., junior, sizes up a pitch. Lyons' home run helped the Beta Theta Pi fraternity beat Phi Delta Theta yesterday afternoon
Lab workers test for rabies in KU skunk
By a Kansan reporter
A skunk that was found Monday in the lobby of tower D at Jayhawker Towers apartments might have been rabid, KU police reported yesterday.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police spokesman,
said a KU police officer found the skunk at 12:20 a.m. in a six-floor hallway of the building after receiving a call about a skunk on the premises. KU police then called city animal control to dispose of the animal.
An animal control officer shot the skunk. Longaker said the skunk's head was sent to a laboratory at Kansas State University to determine whether the animal was infected. Results should be back by the end of the week, Longaker said.
"We don't know how many people may have been in contact with the animal," Longaker said.
Longaker recommended that students who had contact with the animal consult a physician or contact KU police because of the possible health hazard.
JRP officials set policy for disposal of needles
Bv BEN IOHNSTON
Staff writer
Complaints from a custodial employee who collects trash at Joseph R. Pearson Hall have prompted JRP hall officials to institute a new policy for the disposal of needles used by students.
Dennis Trask, resident director at JRP, said students had been required for about two weeks to put all needles in sealed plastic containers. Containers must be strong enough and thick enough so they can resist being punctured by a needle, Trask said. An example would be a butter tube, he said.
Trask said the policy was established after he talked to Susan Bell, hall manager at JRP, who said she had received complaints from a custodial employee who removes trash from the hall.
"It is like broken glass," Trask said. "It could be cut and injure someone. And the needles can hurt."
The employee told Bell that she was afraid needles that might be in the trash she handled could cut her or cause her to contract hepatitis, Trask said.
JRP stipulates what can be put down trash chutes, but until the decision was made, students
But even with the new policy, Trask said, it was possible that needles could come out of plastic containers.
could throw needles down the chute without putting them in containers, Trask said.
Trask said he thought several residents used needles for various reasons, but he did not know the exact figure.
Before the policy was established, Trask said, he and Bell talked to JRP's resident assistants, who agreed that something should be done.
Trask said he did not know whether any custodial employees had been hurt by needles but the concerns expressed to Bell were serious enough to make Trask and Bell consider changing the policy.
Trask said he made the decision to go ahead with the policy a couple of weeks ago JRP's 385 residents were notified of the decision by letters that were put in their mailboxes.
Trask said custodial employees worked at the bottom of trash chutes, one on each end of the residence hall.
Program on AIDS planned
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Staff writer
The Student Senate Task Force on AIDS last night established tentative dates for various stages of its educational campaign.
Keeling is a physician, director of student health services at the University of Virginia and co-chairman of the Task Force on AIDS created by the American College Health Association and the American Council on Education
The task force will begin its campaign by publishing a series of advertisements in the Kansan that focus on myths about AIDS, said its chairperson. The task force also will distribute informational brochures on campus.
His visit to KU is being sponsored by the Academy of Students of Pharmacy.
Foubert said the task force planned to be especially active the week of 15 which is when Richard Keeling, co-founder of University of Kansas to speak about AIDS.
"We're going to see what the ASP is doing, and we'll work with them." Foubert said of the task force's activities that week.
The task force also plans to be especially active next January while KU students pay fees, because most of them are attending union at some point during the week.
The task force discussed setting up an informational booth somewhere in the Union that week. The task force also planned to speak with Mike Reid, assistant manager of the KU Bookstore, about the possibility of inserting informational brochures in books that students purchase.
Foubert said the task force hoped to visit fraternities, sororites, scholarship halls and dormitories sometime in February. Members also could establish an AIDS counseling service before the end of the school year.
Stacey Walsh and Ruth Lichtwardt, task force members representing the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee, said they would work with the team November that would train volunteers how to work with AIDS victims
The 10-member task force was created in August by the Student Senate Executive Committee and consists of three students at large, three representatives of the Minority Affairs Committee, and one representative each of StudEx, the Graduate Student Council, the Student Health Officers Organization and the Student Health Advisory Board.
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