University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1982
Officials hope council raises sports attendance
By DARRELL PRESTON Staff Reporter
*Student leaders and athletic department officials hope a new student sports council will help the athletic department expand student attendance at athletic events, spokesmen for both groups said recently.
Organizers of the sports council are advertising this week for five interested students to be at large members of the group.
Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant for athletics, said he wanted the group to be having weekly meetings by the second week of next semester.
THE COMMITTEE, which is to be composed of living group, Student Senators and at-large representatives, will help the athletic department with athletics and will advise the athletic department on issues affecting students.
“It’s obvious that student attendance is not what it has been in the past,” Hamrick said. “We had only 2,800 players on game Monday against Bowling Green.
Newly appointed athletic director Monti Johnson said he supported
anything that could be done to increase student enthusiasm.
"Students are the ones that create interest for others. They yell the loudest, and they're the ones coaches want in the stands at games," he said. "Having a strong student section is like having a sixth man on the basketball court or a 12th man on the football field."
ALTHOUGH JOHNSON said he was not yet up to date on the details of the sports council — which was established this fall before Jim Lessig resigned as athletic director — but he would be in building in on what Lessig started.
Hamrick said students had never had a voice in the athletic department
Anne Stucker, co-chairman of the Student Senate Sports Committee, said the time was right for establishing the sports council.
"I think this is the first time in a long time that we have people in the athletic department who have enough foresight to foster the spirit and interest of our staff. Sucker, who lobbied in the Senate for the bill to establish the council.
Stucker and Hamrick will work together in deciding how the five invite
On campus
TODAY
GERMAN CLUB will have lunch at the Cottonwood Room of the Kauai Hotel.
ARMY ROTC will give basic camp
information at 12:30 p.m. in 4046
Hwy. 59
C. A.R.P. will have an organizational meeting for a New Thoughts Club at 1:20 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
C. A.R.P. will sponsor a speech, "Liberation Theology and the Decline of Christianity," at 3:20 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
COMPUTER SCIENCE Colloquium,
*Fixed Points and Infinite Words*, "will be
presented in the Fall 2014 meeting."
KU SWORD AND SHELD will meet at p.m. in the Orread Room of the Union
PRE-PHYSICAL THERAPY CLUB
will meet at 7 p.m. in Watkins Memorial Hospital Cafeteria.
ECKANKAR will have a discussion,
"Health and Well-Being," at 7:30 p.m.
in the Governor's Room of the Union.
OFFICE OF STUDY ABROAD and A.I.F.O. will have a lunch meeting in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at 130 a.m. in Cork Room I of the Union.
ARMY ROTC will give basic camp information at 12:30 p.m. in 4046 Wescoe.
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TWA layoffs to hit Kansas City hardest
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo—Trans World Airlines said yesterday that Kansas City would be hit hardest by its plans to up to 1,000 workers nationwide.
The systemwide furloughs, announced last month, are an effort by the airline to deal with mounting financial troubles.
A TWA spokesman said 613 Kansas City employees would lose their jobs between Dec. 13 and Jan. 1. The figure represents 400 machinists and 213 management and other employees in such areas as data processing, accounting, clerical work and engineering.
The airline lost $110 million in the first quarter of 1982 and expects another loss at the end of this year.
JERRY COSLEY, A TWA spokesman in New York, said as many as 1,000 jobs would be eliminated throughout the nation because of seasonal reductions and flight backups due to the depressed economy.
The airline also will ground 14 of its 34 flights from Kansas City International Airport by Jan. 10.
Cossey said it would be next week before firm numbers were available for the systemmile layoffs. He said about 50 pilots could be burgundy nationwide but no flight attendants would be laid off.
Kansas City, where TWA's main maintenance base is located, is home to about 7,600 of the airline's 30,000 workers.
absolutely necessary" for the airline to make cutbacks, in personnel as well as in number of flights.
TWA is the city's largest private employer.
Meanwhile, the president of the International Association of Machinists Lodge 1650 in Kansas City said yesterday that the attention of the union is focused more on the planned strike than the TWA lawoffs.
BERKLEY SAID 200 of 613 being laid off are retiring employees, and their spots would not be filled.
After a meeting with the airline's president, Mayor Richard Berkley said last night TWA "is going through very difficult times" and "it is
The union has voted to strike TWA Dec. 9 unless contract disputes are resolved.
New stations help study of earthquakes
Rv RRET WALLACE
Staff Reporter
Because of the recent installation of recording stations in Nebraska, the Kansas Geological Survey now can begin research on a seismic pattern that has surfaced in the past five years, and begs for the survey said yesterday.
Seismologist Done Steplews said the geological survey had installed six new recording stations in Nebraska, the last to be installed expected to become operable soon.
Information from two of the six recorders began coming in Tuesday, he
surprise if they are not running by sunset today."
"OUR EQUIPMENT is functioning.
We are just waiting for the phone company to send a man up to finish the hookups," he said. "I would be really
Steeples has been watching earthquakes in Nebraska since the geological survey set up recording stations in Kansas five and a half years ago, he said. Until now he measured the earthquakes on Kansas stations, including some temporary stations set up in 1979.
The stations in Nebraska will enable the survey to more accurately record ground truth.
Earthquakes recorded in the last five
The survey noticed a pattern in the location of earthquakes in Nebraska that did not correspond with known fault lines, Steepsie said. But because it was measured by stations in Kansas, he said, they were not sure of its location.
"OUR LOCATION ACCURACY in Nebraska is no better than 10 miles, whereas in Kansas it is one or two miles," he said.
"When there is a pattern like this it usually means there is something to learn about the geology," he said.
Steeples said that not enough research had been conducted to determine the cause of the pattern but that it instinctively that a fault line was there.
years formed a line running northeast from Sleepy Hollow, Neb., where the department of geology has a seismology station, he said.
The survey has contracted with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do the studies in Nebraska, Steeples said.
IT CAN RECORD more earthquakes with stations in Nebraska because it will measure smaller earthquakes. The locations will measure only earthquake sites. It will measure Richter Scale, whereas Nebraska sites will measure those of magnitude 1.5.
"This will record 10 times as many
earthquakes as we now can," he said.
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Earthquakes recorded by the area in Kansas and Nebraska are usually of a magnitude ranging from 1.5 to 3.0 on the Richer Scale, Steeples said.
DAVID EVANS, San Carlos, Cau-
graduate student in geology, said another reason for suspicion of a trend was a large number of earthquakes in a spot where the trend would intersect with the Central Kansas uplift, a similar pattern running northwest across northeastern Canaveral.
Evans is working on a master's thesis on the reason for the large number of earthquakes at Sleepy Hollow, the intersection point.
Steeples said about 60 earthquakes had been recorded in the Sleepy Hollow area.
Evans echoed Steeples' sentiment that not enough information had been gathered to assume the pattern was true.
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