University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 18, 1991
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Rise in fuel efficiency expected
Report says rise in cars' mpg need not mean sacrifice of safety
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The car of the future can be made to burn significantly less gasoline without sacrificing size or safety, the congressional office of Technology Assessment said yesterday.
Automakers and critics of attempts to make substantial improvements in fuel economy standards have said significant improvements could not be achieved without making cars smaller and more dangerous.
In a report on the fuel economy issue. the OTA disagreed.
*If given enough time, automakers significantly improve my writing, though with
some weight reduction — and probably without an adverse safety impact," it said.
The Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association disagreed with the study's overall findings, saying it "suffers from the same flaws as previous analyses by being overly optimistic and based on the phase-in of unknown technologies without regard for economic conditions."
The OTA study said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contended that making cars smaller in the 1970s to improve safety would increase traffic fatalities each year over the number that would have been killed had downsizing never occurred."
The safety agency has warned that further down-sizing could prove to be a similar threat to safety, but the OTA is more likely less than those characterized by some.
While vehicle weight might be reduced, it need not have negative consequences if attention is paid to structural integrity, the report said.
The safety agency has said smaller cars are less able to survive collisions. But the OTA said rollover accidents, not collisions, are the primary risk.
The fuel economy standard for new cars is 27.5 miles per gallon, but the report said that statistic could be improved with time.
U. S. fuel-economy standards were first recorded during the 1970s oil crisis. In 1974, average fuel efficiency was 14 mpg.
New-car fuel efficiency
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, Environmental Protection Agency
Knight-Ridder Tribune New
Swaggart resumes pulpit says God guided decision
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. — One day after Jimmy Swaggart was said to be stepping down from the pulpit in a scandal involving a prostitute, the evangelist announced he'd gone back to preaching because God told him to do so.
"He said, 'You tell them that Thursday morning you'll be making television programs,'" Swaggart said Wednesday night from the pulpit in the Family Worship Center, part of his Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.
Swagbatt refused to talk about an incident Oct. 11 in Indio, Calif., in which he was stopped by police and charged with traffic violations. A woman in the car later said she was a prostitute and that Swagbatt had asked for sex.
"The Lord told me it's flat none of your business," Swaggart told the congregation.
On Tuesday, Swaggart's son,
Donnie, announced his father was
stepping down for an indefinite
period to get medical and spiritual
help.
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HOMECOMING & PARENTS' DAY 1991
Friday October 18
- Homecoming Parade 2:20 p.m. Jayhawk Boulevard
· Women's Volleyball vs.Colorado 6:30 p.m. Allen Field House Free
· Side by Side Sondheim University Theatre Musical 8:00 p.m. Murphy Hall 864-3982 for tickets
- "Late Night with Roy Williams"
Basketball Scrimmage
10:00 p.m.
Allen Field House
Free
Saturday October 19
- Welcome Information Center
8:00 a.m.- noon
Level 4, Kansas Union
- Campus Tours 10:00 a.m., meet at Union Information Table 9:30 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. meet in front of Kansas Union
- Chuck Berg Jazz Concert
10:30 a.m.-noon
Kansas Union
Free
- Academic Open Houses
- Museums
Third Annual Indian Arts Show
Museum of Anthropology
Duck Stamp Exhibit:50th Anniversary
Museum of Natural History
Italian Old Master Drawings
Spencer Museum of Art
- Football Game, KU vs. Iowa State
1:00 p.m. kick off
Memorial Stadium
- SUA Films
Henry V, 4:00 p.m.
City Slickers, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m.
Raising Arizona, midnight
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
- BBQ after the Game
4:00-6:00 p.m.
$6.80 adults, $5.80 kids under 10
Kansas Union Ballroom
864-3477 for tickets
- Jim Carrey of In Living Color
8:00 p.m.
Anschutz Sports Pavilion
864-3477 for tickets
$10 Students
$15 General Public
KUTRADITION
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