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KU Space Center aids aviation
Bv CHRIS RIGGS
Staff Writer
As sunlight streams through the plexiglass dome atop a spiraling staircase that surrounds an elevator, Nichols Hall looks very much like a modern shopping center.
But it isn't a mall at all. It's a west campus building that houses the University of Kansas Space Technology Center, a four-story facility with 160 rooms. former Chancellor Raymond Nichols.
In front of the hall is a bronze statue of the falling Icarus. Icarus, a Greek mythological figure, melted his wings as he flew near the sun and plummed to his death in the sea. The same symbol was evolved from modern interpretation of Greek mythology representing the willingness of mankind to experiment and to venture into unpredictable things though guests may be dangerous."
Two KU sophomores are spending this part of the Washington Biometrical Semester.
Laura Stevena, Galesburg, III, and Chris Caldwell, Overland Park, are two of 90 students across the United States taking honors courses at UNC Honors Council (NCHC), sponsored program.
One or the many experiments in Nichols uses an airplane that will never venture. The nose of the plane is used as a flight simulator, part of the Flight Research Laboratory, managed by Jerry Jenks and isn't used to teach people to fly.
A PROBLEM IS solved by a computer connected to the simulator and the answer is viewed on meters in the simulator. The meters register an increase in altitude, a change in direction or whatever the computer directs, Jenks said.
"The simulator is used as an engineering tool as opposed to a training device." Jenka
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"We're in-between projects now," he said. "We're now looking at methods to measure aircraft noise. Aircraft have to comply with federal regulations and
The program is designed to involve the students in the culture, life and politics of Washington, D.C., during the Bicentennial and Presidential election year, according to Jack Weller, who programs director for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Stevens is a journalism major and Caldwell is a political science major with career plans in government service, he said.
Jerry Jenks, Nichols flight research lab manager
The course will run in intensive three-week sessions and will encourage the students to become involved in political activities, volunteer work and writing for publications.
present methods of measuring aircraft noise levels leave something to be desired."
Another project, the Attitude Command Control System (ACCS), was completed in August. It aids a pilot by automatically correcting minor directional changes.
'IT'S NOT AN automatic pilot,' jens said, saying that the pilot飞 his airplane with high-gibbon engines.
The project, which was begun in February 1974, was funded by $883,000 from the U.S. government.
*Prior to the funding, we had been working on the concept of attitude communication. Jenkins
Also on the first floor is a KU flag on a display plaque, a miniature of the flag atop Fraser. The major difference in the two flags is that the miniature has orbited the spaceship America on Apollo XVII which went to the moon in December 1972.
RON EVANS, a KU graduate, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, the crewmembers of Apollo XVII, presented the plaque to the University.
It reads: "Presented to the men and women of The University of Kansas. Where I took my first step toward the moon. With the aid of the astronauts, German and Schmitt also signed the nage."
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On the second floor, Louis Dellwig,
professor of geology, works on one of the
projects of the Remote Sensing Laboratory
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"WE ARE LOOKING at what radar would do under military conditions," Delwig said. "We're working on a project on the salt flats of the Great Salt Lake to determine what the saline content of the ground does to radar images."
RSL personnel are engaged in determining conditions on earth by using radar, cameras and other instruments carried on aircraft and spacecraft.
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Vera Sehon and Janet Shabaugh are two that do.
They are graphic artists who design graphs, flow charts and displays used by professors and students in all the departments.
Also in the building is the Atmospheric Science Laboratory, which analyzes satellite imagery and data for precipitation patterns and soil moisture content, and the Earth observation team helps local, regional and state agencies make management decisions on resources.
THE PROJECTS in Nichols Hall are diverse, and there aren't many people who interact with all of the departments in Nichols.
An RSL team will go to Colorado this winter to see whether the depth and water content of snow can be determined by using radar, which can detect floods when the snow melts, he said.
But even so, Sehon said, "We still don't know everything that goes on in here."
The second floor of Nichols also houses two computers that are used by the Flight Research Lab, the Remote Sensing Lab, and the Nichols who wants to run computer programs.
Kevin Fullerton, Lawrence graduate
at the Regents School and finished a project at the
Regents School.
Fullerton, along with Robert Onstot,
Wichita graduate student, and Arora
Gigam, Chandigash, India, graduate
student, have finished modifying the side-
looking airborne radar unit (S.L.A.R.),
will be tested at Point Barrow,
Alaska.
THE UNIT WILL be used to detect ice above and below the water to determine whether ships can enter the naval station at Point Barrow.
The radar unit will be shipped to Point Barrow and mounted on a Super DC3. Later, Fullerton will follow to help in the testing.
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The evolution versus creation controversy, brought to a fiery climax in the 1925 Scopes monkey trial, be rekindled tonight at 7 in Hoch Auditorium.
Two representatives of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), San Diego, will debate two opponents from KU on whether God created life by something or evolved from nothing.
Evolution debate tonight
Arguing for creationism will be Henry Morris, ICR director, and Diane Gull, ICR
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Morris said yesterday that the creatinist theory dealt with scientific evidence.
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"The creationist theory holds that the universe, earth and life itself are all the result of a special supernatural creation, not something no longer going on on the earth," he said.
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PUBLIC NOTICE -
From: Student Senate - Office of the Treasurer Applications for supplemental funding are available in the Student Senate Offices, Suite 105, Level 3, Kansas Union. All applications are due in this office by 5:00 p.m. on September 24, 1976. Please include your phone number on the request form, as you will be contacted as to the time of your Request Hearing. Hearings will commence about the 27th of September.
To: All recognized student organizations who would like to request supplemental funding for fiscal 1977.
The Student Senate is funded by the Student Activity Fee.
THANKS STUDENTS
For the great support of the fighting Jayhawks in their victory over Washington State. Join the fun this Saturday as the Jayhawks battle the Wildcats of Kentucky.
Please remember to bring your I.D. and Season Ticket with you to the stadium for admittance at the gate.
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Show, Friday, September 24 8:00 p.m. Hoch Aud.
Tickets on sale Monday, September 12 SUA Office
General Admission $6.00 advance,
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