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Luby Montano-Laurel / KANSAN
Civil Air Patrol Capt. Leo Handzila instructed KU Air Force ROTC cadets Megan Searle, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, and Jeremiah Reed, Olathe freshman, at Lawrence Municipal Airport yesterday. Searle and Reed are two ROTC cadets who will be trained by the Civil Air Patrol.
KU's Air Force ROTC cadets take to air with Civil Air Patrol
Students learn sky is limit in flying class
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
On weekends, the skies over eastern Kansas become a classroom for flying.
As part of a program designed to familiarize them with the basics of flight, Air Force ROTC cadets from the University of Kansas spend two hours on weekends flying with the Civil Air Patrol.
The patrol is a volunteer auxiliary of the Air Force that does search-and-rescue missions and emergency missions such as transporting transplant organs, said Ron Williams, the pilot who instructed the students.
Williams said the patrol had more than 50,000 members and 530 airplanes nationwide.
Kansas has 60 volunteers and six airplanes, he said.
Williams met two students, Jason May, Peabody junior, and Megan Searle, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, at Lawrence Municipal Airport. There he gave them an introduction to the plane, a Cessna 182.
Williams said the $125,000 airplane was one of the most sophisticated airplanes owned by the patrol
Once the group was airborne,
Searle took the front seat for the
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Megan Searle Lee's Summit, Mo., senior
first hour and May sat in back. While Searle practiced flying, it was May's job to know the location of the plane at all times by using a map.
"The most important thing a pilot can do in the air is know where he's at," Williams said.
Williams stressed that this was not a joy ride but a learning flight for the cadets.
"It's an introduction to military aviation for these cadets," he said.
Williams speaks with the authority that comes from many years of flying. He entered the Air Force in 1956 and flew 110 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
As they fly around Clinton Lake, each student had an opportunity to pilot the plane. They practiced flying level and learned to make turns without changing altitude.
Later he flew for Trans World Airlines, retiring in 1989 after 25 years. Williams said he had more than 25,000 flight hours.
The Air Force pays a flat rate of $57 an hour for the Flight Orientation Program, said 2nd Lt. Richard Karn, administrative assistant of aerospace studies and the program's coordinator.
"It was kind of like skidding in a car," Williams said. "You can feel it's not right."
Williams also taught the cadets how to detect changes in how the plane was flying by using engine sound and touch.
Each student who signs up gets four flights in the front seat and four in the back seat.
Karn said the program had not existed when he was an ROTC student.
Karn, who graduated from the University last year and will start pilot training in May, said he had paid for his own flight time.
"I spent over $300 before flight screening to get six hours," he said.
Searle said that although she did not plan to become a pilot, the training still had been a valuable experience.
"Every time I go up, I learn about the airplane and its limitations," she said. "That's what it's all about."
Students selected for pilot training
By David Teska
Kansan staff writer
Six Air Force ROTC juniors have been selected to attend pilot and navigator training once they graduate next year.
Through a process it calls categorization, each spring the Air Force decides what jobs its future officers will take, said Capt. Bob Wicks, junior class instructor.
Jeff Jeskie, Wichita junior, was one who wanted a pilot slot but received a navigator slot. Although he didn't get his first choice, Jeskie said he wasn't supposed to categorize this year because unlike his classmates who graduate in May 1997, he won't graduate until the following December.
"We have to determine strength levels for the Air Force — kind of like a pipeline," he said.
"I was surprised I even got anything," he said.
Wicks said the remaining seven juniors will be categorized as non-rated operational, technical and non-technical officers.
The numbers show that the Air Force needs pilots. In the next four years, the number of pilots needed will increase from 300 to 560.
Wicks said that everyone who was selected pilot or navigator received their first or second choice.
Jason May, Peabody junior, was selected for pilot training.
He said that during the selection process, he was nervous about whether he had what it took to fly.
"I felt competitive, but I didn't feel I had it in the bag," he said.
Before starting pilot training, May said all student pilots will have to undergo a flight screening process designed to ensure they have the skills to fly.
"Some people may be able to learn how to fly but won't be able to fly the aircraft," he said.
The other students selected were Darrell Railsback, Bartlesville, Oka, junior; Canyon Knop, Lawrence junior; Tyrone Douglas, Lawrence junior; and Paul Cory, Overland Parkjunior.
Nobel Prize winners to visit campus this week
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Two 1995 Nobel Prize winners will visit the University of Kansas this week, and for one the visit will bring him full circle.
Eric Wieschaus, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will speak at 3:30 p.m. today at 1005 Haworth Hall. His visit is sponsored by the departments of biochemistry and physiology and cell biology and the biochemistry graduate student organization.
Martin Perl, co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in physics, will meet with undergraduate honor students majoring in physics at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and will speak at 7:30 Wednesday
night at the auditorium in the Spencer Museum of Art.
He was awarded the prize for his work on how genes control the early structural development of the body. He studied the fruit fly to understand how embryos develop from a single cell into well-differentiated anatomical structures such as brains and legs.
Wieschaus, professor of molecular biology at Princeton University, once studied at the University and will present a speech titled, From Molecular Patterns to Morphogenesis: The Role of Zygotic Transcription.
Nancy Dahl, professor of physiology and cell biology, had Wieschaus as a student in the summer of 1965.
Perl, a professor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University, will give a speech entitled, Reflections on Experimental Science.
"He worked really diligently and creatively, she said. "He called to tell me how important that summer was in his life."
In 1975 Perl surprised the physics world with his discovery of an element particle known as the tau lepton.
The tau resembles the electron, but differs in that it is 3,500 times heavier and survives less than a trillionth of a second.
His visit is sponsored by the department of physics and astronomy.
Brian Flink / KANSAN
Susan Jones, an instructor in the Small World program, teaches Soon Ok Yoo of Korea, and Noura Atta of Ethiopia, about St. Patrick's Day in the beginner English class.
It's a small world in Lawrence co-op
Informal group helps international women adjust to U.S. society
By Susanna Loöff
Kansan staff writer
For Ann Bush, a Taiwanese Lawrence resident, Small World was like a penicillin cure that made her cabin fever go away.
Before Bush started attending classes at Small World, a nonreligious women's cooperative, she said she had cabin fever all the time.
Bush, whose husband is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, is a homemaker and has a toddler,which made it hard for her to get out of her home.
But when she started taking English classes at Small World about a year ago, her life changed, she said.
"This really helps physically and mentally," she said.
Bush goes to First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway, every Tuesday and Thursday morning for class.
While she is learning English with her classmates, her son is playing with other children from all around the world in the cooperative's nursery.
The classes aren't formal, and Bush and her classmates burst into laughter when they read essays that they wrote about a photograph in a magazine.
All class members are women, and so is their teacher, Kathy Mulinazzi, director of the program. That creates an environment where the students feel comfortable, Mulinazzi said.
"In my country, Peru, women are sometimes intimidated by men," said Sonia Kincaid, Small World student. "Here, I feel free to talk about anything."
Her students agreed.
Small World is run by 25 volunteers, and about 55 international women are enrolled. The students pay $10 a semester, which covers rent and supplies for the program. Most students are spouses of international KU students, professors or researchers.
The program was started in 1968 by a group of women who had lived in Venezuela while their husbands, all KU professors, helped organize a university there.
"It's a wonderful experience for Americans, getting to know these women from different cultures."
Jean Lominska Small World volunteer
They started the program to make the transition to life in the United States easier for wives of Venezuelan professors.
But the program is not only beneficial to the international women, said Jean Lominska, a volunteer.
"It's a wonderful experience for Americans, getting to know these women from different cultures," she said.
Some of the volunteers are KU students.
Jamie Hart, Eugene, Ore., sophomore, started volunteering at Small World partly because volunteering was a requirement for her social work class. Hart is a teacher in the nursery.
"It's a lot of fun," she said. "I've already fulfilled my hours for volunteer work, so I'm just there for fun now."
Hart said she planned to volunteer at Small World for the rest of the semester.
"It's a learning experience for me," she said. "It makes me understand different cultures."
Hart said the feeling that she made an impact on the children's lives motivated her to volunteer. That was also a motivation for Malinka Weil, Lawrence graduate student, who teaches intermediate English in the program.
Small World helps women take the first step out of their households and break their isolation, Weil said.
The program also includes social events, such as picnics and holiday celebrations.
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