Money well spent
The entire flight of Apollo 11, and its most notable part of putting a man on the moon, has been simply "incredible." It has accomplished in just a relatively short time what man has dreamed of since his first moment on earth.
And contrary to the objections of those who feel the money spent on space might have been put to better use, the entire space program has greatly benefitted mankind
Aside from the obvious external accomplishments which we, the American people, have seen in the space flights we have witnessed, there have been innumerable accomplishments and discoveries that preceded and contributed to these flights which will ultimately benefit us all in our everyday life.
When we talk about where that space money could have been used, we should also stop and think for a moment about what it has done. Such things as dietary, communications and radar research which went into the space program will bring about benefits far beyond their original application.
When we think about solving the problem of starvation in our country and the world, we should keep in mind that the highly nutritional foods which come in small packages for space travel might also be used to adequately and readily feed starving populations.
The television and voice broadcasts which millions of people all over the world saw and heard are only an indication of what space research has done and will continue to do to further man's contact with his fellow man.
And the research on the adaptations of radar to many facets of society is astounding. Research is being done in universities throughout the United States in learning to make more precise interpretations of radar maps, not only of bodies in outer space, but also of our own earth. Imagine being able to make radar maps from airplanes flying above the fields of western Kansas, and then being able to interpret those maps to the point of telling what plants are growing in those fields and even detecting diseases in those plants.
Research of this nature is being conducted.
If some persons feel bound by either conscience or their stomachs to protest money spent on space, are they thereby willing to forget the added food supply which such agricultural applications of space research could help to increase? Perhaps not.
Somehow all that space money does not seem to have been so poorly spent.
Don Westerhaus Managing Editor
Portrait of a professor
Quinn likes 'fresh' students
By SUE WALKER Summer Kansan Reporter
He was late. When he finally arrived we went into his office. His warm smile put his interviewer immediately at ease.
"What would you like to know?" He cleared his throat and settled back into the high-backed chair placing his feet on the edge of the desk in front of him.
This was Professor Dennis Quinn, director of Pearson College. Past newspaper pictures had not done him justice. His short-cropped brown hair gave way to obvious signs of greying at the sides, complimenting his ruddy handsome face. His voice was soft but persuasive.
"I teach early seventeenthcentury literature—primarily poetry and prose. I enjoy teaching undergraduate courses in English best of all." He smoothed out a
wrinkle in the blue-white striped shirt indicating perhaps his desire for neatness.
"The earlier an instructor gets to his students the fresher they are—they don't have quite as many fixed ideas and attitudes. I aim to influence and impress rather than to force my ideas and opinions upon them. I'm here with the intention of teaching."
Quinn holds A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He joined the KU faculty in 1956.
He received the $1.000 H. Bernard Fink award for distinguished classroom teaching in 1966, and was cited by students of the College Intermediary Board for his "dynamic lectures."
His most recent award and perhaps most prestigious was the HOPE (Honor for the Outstanding Progressive Educator) award for 1968. The senior class annually selects the HOPE recipient.
A former student commented, "Professor Quinn really deserved that award. He gives of himself so much and is interested in each of his students. He always finds time."
"All I do is tell my students the truth." Quinn revealed, "I use no particular teaching methods and rarely prepare my lectures. I'd rather engage in discussion to raise issues that the students wish to learn about."
Quinn gave certain qualifications for good teachers. "First of all I think that intelligence is important. Then comes knowledge and finally the ability to see knowledge as something always new and fresh—to be able to convey a sense of freshness to the students."
Waiting astronaut endures solitude
SPACE CENTER, Houston
(UPI)-Let this be recorded too:
That while his two fellow astronauts walked the moon, Michael Collins endured a solitude and an isolation more total than even Adam may have endured in Eden.
If Neil A. Armstrong were the first man to walk the moon since man was born, Mike Collins in the command space ship Columbia was the first to orbit the moon with so little contact with his fellow man.
All he had for company was a radio receiver and a tape recorder. But the radio was good only when he was on the front side of the moon. Each time the Columbia made its 45-minute sweep behind it there was silence.
Collins made 14 lonely orbits while waiting for his two companions in the lunar ship Eagle to rejoin him for the journey back to earth.
As Connins vanished behind the moon one orbit. Houston space commentator Terry White said:
"Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike
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Mike Collins would be the first to say that the world properly concentrated all of its attention on Armstrong and Aldrin Sunday during their dramatic descent to the lunar surface in the spaceship Eagle.
Yet not even Adam could have been so utterly isolated from living things. For there is the testimony of Genesis that God had already created plant and animal when he said:
Collins, with no one to talk to except his tape recorder."
But there might have been a bit of wistfulness or lonesomeness in his voice when ground control radioed to Eagle:
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."
"That was a beautiful job, you guys."
Visiting Holland and Spain is considered to be his greatest type of relaxation. "We go there quite often just to see the country and to learn about it." Quinn also said that he likes to indulge in the readings of his favorite poet, Virgil.
"And don't forget one in the command module," Collins said.
Moon baby
TOLEDO, Ohio (UPI) — Mrs. Delmar Moon of nearby Elliston gave birth to a boy only hours before America's lunar astronauts blasted off for earth Monday.
"I think that in comparing today's poetry to that of my seventeenth-century prose is difficult. There is a scientific outlook on today's poetry. There is just so much I could tell you but I wouldn't want to give you a lecture."
His name: Neil Armstrong Moon.
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He stood up and calmly informed me that the fleas were invading the carpeted offices of the college and that we'd better leave.
The Lighter Side 'Bottled air'
It wouldn't be good business to introduce bottled air at this time, however. Better we should wait until the atmosphere deteriorates a bit more, meanwhile building up our inventory.
Already, on muggy days when the smog index is soaring, the average city dweller likely would pay a handsome price for a whiff of good mountain air.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — I've been travelling around the country for the last three weeks, ostensibly on vacation. Actually I was on a business trip.
By Dick West — UPI Columnist
Now consider that the air probably is being polluted at an even faster rate than water. Indeed, some ecologists figure that at the present rate of pollution the earth's atmosphere will only be good for another 50 years or so.
I spent most of the time scouting around for a suitable mountaintop on which to locate a bottled air plant.
Tap water in a lot of piaces tastes funny because of so much chlorine is needed to kill bacteria in municipal water systems.
I didn't want word of the venture to leak out until I had signed a long-term lease. Now that the deal has been completed, I am ready to start raising the necessary capital.
If you dare to come in with me on this project, I can virtually guarantee you riches beyond your wildest dreams.
Eventually, I figure, cities will have to start putting chlorine in their air supply as well as the water system. That will make it safe to breathe, but it will smell funny.
The investment may not pay off right away, but in 25 or 30 years we should be rolling in dividends.
By about 1990, non-medicated air should be getting scarce enough to command premium prices. And by that time we will have our warehouse full of bottled mountain ozone.
The idea for going into the bottled air business came to me as I was reading a report that bottled water sales are expected to total about $60 million this year.
Thousands of Americans are now buying bottled water from stores, vending machines and route salesmen to avoid drinking tap water. The demand was created primarily by pollution.
Drinking heavily chlorinated water straight is bad enough. Mixing it with bourbon is a social felony. So it is easy to see why the bottled water industry, which usually features pure mountain spring water, is prospering.
Sex is best taught in school systems
By BRAD FLYNN Summer Kansan Reporter
In many issues, people tend to speak their minds, no matter how confused or uninformed they may be. This is certainly true about sex education.
People should quit their blindeyed shouting and sit back and view the aims and principles of sex education.
Sex today, to many minds, is as taboo as it was 50 years ago. Victorianism and conservatism are great influences on our sexual thinking. It is unhealthy to supress and hush up a perfectly natural bodily function. Sex should be considered a pleasurable act as well as a means for creation.
In the past, intercourse was viewed as an unpleasant but necessary duty—rather like having an enema. The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a prime backer of sex education, has been
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Sex is not best taught at home. Normal parents cannot be good sex educators just as they cannot be good mathematics teachers. Parents ignore the subject, saying, "Oh, he will learn it by himself." He will, too. Out on the street. The Kinsey Report showed that over 75 per cent of all boys in a survey used other boys as their sex educators. Talk about the blind leading the blind!
Their aim is to teach that sex is normal, healthy function of the human body—to be treated with respect. What is Communist about that? Many schools, however, shun any reference to humans and either go on teaching reproduction using stamens and pistils—or ignore it completely with a statement like, "Such things are best taught at home."
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It's time to move. We have to stop this incomplete and inadecate unprofessionalism. Most of all, we have to lift the beauty of sex out of the streets.
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Give sex education to trained sex educators. Much of the sexual revolution is not because youth doesn't care—it's because they don't know. Youth today needs professionals trained in sex education a lot more than they need a string of four-letter words in an alley.
NEW YORK—Arthur J. Goldberg in a letter to California Gov. Ronald Reagan regarding Sirhan B. Sirhan;
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"There is an increasing body of legal opinion supporting the view that the imposition of the death penalty ... is proscribed by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as 'cruel and unusual punishment.'"
WASHINGTON - Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre, D-N.H., discussing the upcoming Senate vote on the ABM:
"I believe it stands a good chance of being defaced."
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