KU blasts off with NASA
Bu PAUL HANEY
Faculty and students from the engineering and science departments to the school of business will work together in the University of Kansas' new space technology building scheduled for completion in September 1969.
A $1.8 million grant for the building was awarded yesterday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The announcement was made by Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.).
A memorandum of understanding was signed today by James Webb, NASA director, and KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
William J. Argersinger, Jr., associate dean of faculties for research, said, "The nature of space technology is interdisciplinary; the building will draw in all of the sciences and engineering and a number of other disciplines.
"This is the justification for our getting the building we have interdepartmental cooperation."
The grant is the largest made
by NASA to any midwest university for a space building. Only three other universities in the U.S. have received larger grants. They are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley.
Just hours after the grant was announced researchers in all disciplines in the University began
discussing plans for the new building.
Seeks Accelerator Money
Seeks Accelerator Money Edward J. Zeller, professor of geology, said he will request $80.00 to $100.00 for a proton accelerator to study the effects of solar wind on solid material in space.
R. Keith Lawton, vice chancellor of operations, estimated the total cost of the building and contents at $2.3 million. This is about $100,000 more than the cost of new Fraser Hall.State and private funds will supplement the NASA grant.
The 70,000 sq. ft. building will be constructed of exposed textured concrete.
The three-story structure will be built on University property west of Iowa Street near the Center for Research, Inc., Engineering
Science Division (CRES) building. When expansion according to the University Master Plan is complete the site will be near the center of the campus and other research buildings.
It will be the closest building on campus to the Daisy Field residence halls.
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AN ARCHITECTS PRELIMINARY DRAWING OF THE SPACE TECHNOLOGY BUILDING KU officials stressed that this drawing, made more than one year ago, is only one of several possible designs.
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Wednesday, April 26, 1967
Slovenko: Psychology of an assassination
By PAUL HANEY
Lee Harvey Oswald did not get up "one fine morning" and shoot the President of the United States. There were no fine mornings for Lee Harvey Oswald.
And that is why Ralph Slovenko, a KU law professor and former senior assistant to New Orleans Dist. Atty. Jim Carson, believes "we have ignored the 'psychological conspiracy' — the most important part of the case."
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR AND FORMER GARRISON ASSISTANT
Ralph Slovenko discusses the assassination, the Warren Commission Report and the investigation of a possible conspiracy in an exclusive interview with the Daily Kansan.
This is his theory:
"Oswald's mother and Marina are the key to the assassination."
Marina wanted luxury
Gerald Ford and John Stiles in "Portrait of the Assassin" say Marina craved "Cadillacs and ice-boxes" and was "itching to get in on that."
Marina apparently married Oswald to get out of a poverty-stricken country into a life of luxury. She came to the U.S., but she had married a nonentity—a person with no attachments, who went from place to place and cause to cause.
She left him and later said she would return if he would buy her a washing machine, although there was a laundromat near their home. Oswald promised her a washer, but she still rejected him.
The next day he shot the President.
Previously, he tried to show he was a man, and vented his anger, by attempting to kill Gen. Edwin Walker.
"The use of a 'pistol' is an attempt by a male to feel adequate, and a way to vent destruction." Slovenko says.
william Manchester, in his book, "The Death of a President," says: "Despite Oswald's envy of the President, John Kennedy was not the central figure in his life. That person was Marina Oswald." Only after she had turned
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History prof is HOPE winner
Aldon D. Bell is the 1967 winner of the "Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator" (HOPE) award.
The announcement came today at the senior class coffee. He will receive a $100 prize, part of a gift of the class of 1959.
Bell, associate professor of history and assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is a former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He earned a bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees there.
A member of the KU faculty since 1961, Bell was active in the planning and implementation of the Centennial College (CC). He teaches the history of European civilization in CC.
Bell is chairman of the College's senior independent study program, director of the honors program, advisor to the student intermediary board, and University Review advisor.
He also serves on the Council on Student Affairs (COSA) and is campus representative for the Rhodes and Woodrow Wilson scholarship programs.
His book, "London in the Age of Dickens," will be published this spring by the University of Oklahoma Press, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1951.
ALDON BELL
Carnival postponed
Although the sophomore class carnival has been postponed this spring, the class will sponsor a carnival sometime early next fall, Dave Keesling, Herington sophomore class vice-president, said.
The exact time and date is not yet known, Keesling said, but final arrangements will be made by the Sophomore Class Congress.