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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
quote of the day
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
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During fiscal year (FY) 2007, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will produce approximately 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $750 million.
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1. College basketball referee at the top of his game
2. Student splits time between basketball and music
3. For the love of the game
4. Basketball great Maurice
King dies
5. Carter: Kansas basketball bevond definition
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The end of World War II had an extreme impact on KU enrollment. There were just under 4,000 students enrolled in 1945. The numbers ballooned to just over 9,000 in 1946. Imagine KU doubling its enrollment next year...
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The public event "When Hate Speech Hurts, Our Whole Community Hurts" will begin at noon in the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
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Professor Rick Hale Aerospace Engineering
BY ABBY OLCESE
aolcese@kansan.com
Q: How long have you taught at KU?
A: This is my 10th year here.
A: This is my fourth year here.
Q: What first attracted you to Aerospace Engineering?
A. I grew up near a strategic air command base, and there were always planes flying around. I wanted to know how so much metal could stay up in the air. I'm a bit of an airplane junkie.
Q: What's your favorite part of your job?
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A: I love working with the students. I came here from working 10 years in the industry and I think that was a good move. It's energizing to work with students on projects. I worked on military aircraft with McDonald-Douglas in St. Louis.
Q: What is the project you're working on now, and how long have you been working on it?
A: We're working on an uninhabited aircraft for the National Science Foundation (NSF). We're three years in. The NSF Science and Technology Center are putting sensors at the bottom of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland. The sensors are providing data that will help scientists predict how long it will take for that glacial ice to melt, which will cause
climate change and water levels to rise. The NSF team wants to be able to get the data to the aircraft in a cost-effective way. Since they're working between Antarctica and Greenland, it's not a safe mission for a pilot. That's why the aircraft has to be uninhabited. We're trying to develop a smart airborne system that works for a transportation goal and a science goal. Hopefully we can have the plane out by the end of the semester for a flight test.
Q: How did you get the chance to work on this project?
A: KU has actually been doing polar research for 100 years, and doing sensor research for about 50 years. In projects like this, sensors are usually towed by robots, but using an airplane will get more coverage of all the data. We'd been working on small-scale aircraft, and the NSF needed one, so this was a good fit.
Rick Hale, professor of aerospace engineering, works on his current project. The project is an uninhabited aircraft for the NSF, who is putting sensors at the bottom of glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
Q: How big is the plane?
A: It's 1,100 pounds and 47 feet from wingtip to wingtip. It'll be carrying about 150 pounds. We're using fiber-reinforced plastics to make the plane, which are lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel. Maybe in ten years you'll be seeing a fleet of planes like this. Right now the data-gathering process is very labor-intensive. They're using big planes now that
aren't well-designed, or wellsuited for the work that they're doing. The manned vehicle that's flying this year uses about 1,000 pounds of fuel in two hours. Ours uses 40 pounds in the same amount of time.
A: Almost everyone in our program is involved. It's their capstone project. We've got lots
Q: How many students are working on this project?
of smart students doing lots of interesting work.
Q: Do you have any future projects planned?
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A: I'm writing a paper over fiber-reinforced plastics, and working on some software development tools for aircraft. The goal is to get more of these kinds of vehicles out there (planes made from fiber-reinforced plastic) and safer.
School of Journalism receives Hearst awards
BY JESSICA WICKS jwicks@kansan.com
The William Allen White School of Journalism was awarded the Hearst Award for intercollegiate writing again this year.
David Guth, associate dean for the School of Journalism, said that the award was to journalism students as the NCAA championship was to the basketball players.
The school has, for the second year in a row, received the most cumulative points in the national competition.
"We didn't get welcomed back at the stadium," Guth said, "but it is a clear sign that we are the best at what we do."
The trophy and a $10,000 prize will be presented to Dean Ann Brill in June in San Francisco.
The individual student winners received a total of $5,000, and the school received matching amounts.
Nathan Gill won 10th place for his spot news story about the flooding in the Osawatomie when he interned at the Osawatomie Graphic in Summer 2007. He said that he had to interview old people without medication and low income families without flood insurance.
"It was very easy to bring out the humanity," Gill said, "because in the course of a day, I watched people lose everything they owned."
He credited the School of Journalism for preparing him to write the story.
He said with that professionalism came the attitude it took to handle stories that were sensitive and deal with tragedy.
"KU journalism teaches not just how to be a reporter, but how to be a professional reporter."
He said that the story got so
much circulation that they had to reprint copies, but he credited much of its success to the team atmosphere of the paper.
"We all were out there, and we did it together." Gill said.
Malcolm Gibson, general manager and news advisor of The University Daily Kansan, said that the award was just a reflection of the quality work that the students do on a daily basis.
"We don't put out the paper to win awards," Gibson said. "First and foremost we put out the best paper and Web site we can everyday, and the awards follow."
Gibson said that the Hearst award was just another indicator of the University's overall quality. He said that when a student became a journalist, they had a lot less faculty involvement in the actual process. He said, as a result, the teachers had to set the foundation early before the students.
"We spend a lot more time early on," Gibson said, "so that students can feel comfortable doing it on their own."
Gibson said that the University was superior compared to Missouri and Northwestern, the second and third place winners, because the University's publication was completely student run.
"Even beyond the journalism school, beyond The Kansan," Gibson said. "Liberal Arts plays such a huge part of becoming a journalist."
Guth said, "Mizzou has a very excellent school of journalism. That being said, it always feels good to beat our neighbors to the east."
Guth said he would like to say something nice about Kansas State, but they didn't even make the list.
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Jumping for joy
Pi Beta Phi members Megan Geenens, Overland Park sophomore, left, Ashley Robb, Liberty, Mo. freshman, middle, and Sarah Heider, Lawrence sophomore, jump rope Monday on Wesco Beach as a part of their fundraising campaign. Jump for Joy, promoting ovarian cancer awareness. The sorority name the campaign Jump for Joy in honor of Joy Noyce, a former Pi Beta Phi and mother to a recent chapter graduate, who passed away from ovarian cancer. Members of the sorority sold Mother's Day cards on campus for S2 with all money going to the National Ovarian Cancer Alliance.
He said that while much of the credit should go to the students, someone had to drive the sled, and Ted Frederickson, the teacher of the Kansan reporting class, was the one velling "Mush."
Frederickson just received the Budig Teaching Professorship for Writing. Guth said that this showed the quality of teaching that is at the helm of Kansan reporting.
"Ted is a dogged champion of his students and gets the best out of them." Guth said, "and that is what makes a Hearst winner."
Hearst Intercollegiate Writing Competition results
Guth said that there is not a way to know who is the absolute best Journalism school in the nation, but one can use a series of indicators. He mentioned The Kansan advertising staff won the best in the nation for the Cimba Awards, and
Spot News
8th Place: Jonathan Kealing
10th Place: Nathan Gill
Opinion
3rd Place: Travis Robinett
6th Place: Elizabeth McLeod
Sports
Sports
3rd Place: Thor Nystrom
7th Place: Brian Lewis-Jones
In-depth
7th Place: Matt Lindberg
19th Place: Courtney Condron
Personality Profile 14th Place:Sarah Neff, 14th personality profile Jack Weinstein, 16th, feature writing. Northwestern University placed second and Missouri third.
the Hearst award was just another sign of the quality of education coming out of the University
"It ites good," Guth said, "but fame is fifeeting and we have to preserve it. We are at the highest point and we want to stay there."
—Edited by Nick Mangiaracina
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