University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 2, 1975
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KU concrete canoe to be tested in race
By ROBERT A. GAVIN Kansan Staff Reporter
About a dozen civil engineering students and faculty will race a concrete cove near
The race will be below the Tuttle Creek Reservoir near Manhattan. About a dozen schools from Texas, South Dakota and Iowa will participate in the American Concrete Institute, sponsored race.
"I's getting to be a big thing at civil engineering schools across the country to build and race concrete canes," Michael McClure said, of the project structuring committee, said.
According to David Darwin, assistant professor of civil engineering, the canoe is made from a mix of styrofoam, cement and water and placed on a racing designed frame of wire mesh and electrical conduit tubing.
The race will be a quarter-mile long and the school will be allowed to enter four students.
Prizes will be awarded for the racing activities and a picnic will be held at the event.
Darwin said the class project began about six weeks ago. Two committees were formed to develop the proper concrete mix and racing design. The canoe project is a first, he said, and made a great learning task for the students.
Darwin said, "It won't fall apart in the water if reasonable care is taken. The steel itself is adequately strong. We're going to take very good care of it."
"It's kind of a strange thing," Mulcahy said. "One of the race rules stipulates that the canoe must float when filled with water. The main criteria, in building, was that the concrete would float. The first thing people knew was not to float or not. Now, we know for sure it will."
"We've been working on this since back in March when we actually started fabrication." Darwin said. "Everyone had their own ideas on how to build it. This is the first time we've done this at KU. We were there all over the line. The students have done a fine job."
The design of the concrete canoe is aerodynamic, Mulcahy said.
The round bottom gives the craft stability and presents a rocking side motion, Mucalyah said. The keel prevents wind motion and makes it easier to paddle front and rear with wide middle allows the canoe to work like a racing shell, he said.
Construction of the canoe took weeks, he said. After shaping electrical conduit tubing
for the frame, the students spread mesh wire over it.
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The floating concrete was plastered outside and inside the frame, he said. The wall of the concrete is very thin.
Body filler putty was used to fill up holes, be said. The cannon was coated with epoxy for this purpose.
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He has also taken a great interest in the stage and film productions of "The Front Page," a play by Ben Hect and Charles Herald, who won the California Herald and Examiner of the 1920s.
"I am the last living man of editor rank at that period," he said. "It was written about the city room of my paper, I knew Charles MacArthur."
"We're going to paint it blue and red, the school colors, and add a little white for the fall."
Editor reminisces ...
Johnson, contained many distortions and overdramatizations.
a twin-engine bomber crashed into the 76th floor of the Empire State Building in New York, exactly one floor above his own office, he said.
Still, he said, the basic plot is true.
"It was a very foggy day, and I could hear an airplane buzzing outside," he said. "I wondered what the bell it was doing out there. Suddenly the buzzing got louder, and the plane crashed into the headquarters of Catholic Relief Society one floor above me.
"Aviation fuel ran down into my office
and caught fire. One of the engines smashed in the elevator, and exhaled."
He said he managed to run out of the office and began phoning in the story to the major wire services and newspapers. Using a credential card from the National Press Club, he gained entrance to the crash area on the 76th floor and continued sending out calls to the disaster, even though he was trapped in the building burning 758 feet above the ground.
"I still have the front pages of many of the largest newspapers in the world, with that volume not being able to get it."
The play has been produced in one
weekend in the United States and the
newest of which was released last fall.
Irwin said the new version, which starred Jack Lennon as police reporter Hilly
"There's really no fiction in the story," he said. "But there are a lot of things in here that you won't believe—that there was a real Hildy and that there was a murderer sentenced to hang who escaped in a hid in a desk and was brought into a press room.
When the movie was previewed last fall at the annual convention of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, in Phoenix, Irwin gave the introduction.
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