Highjackers continue to bug airlines
WASHINGTON (UPI)—For the airline industry, the hijacker has become a terrifying puzzle.
How can he be stopped? How can a potential hijacker be spotted in a line of waiting airline passengers? What should be done once he shows his hand?
At present the most obvious deterrent in use against hijackers is the threat of a long federal prison term.
But for spotting and handling trouble, authorities now are relying primarily on a weapons detection system and a psychological "behavior profile" of the typical hijacker designed by the Federal Aviation Administration
The results are mixed. So far this year six American airliners have been hijacked, compared with 33 in 1969 and 18 the year before.
Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe says the decline stems from a concentrated attack on the problem. He reports that "in recent months 24 persons" were kept off airliners when they either tripped a weapons detection device or were spotted by airline employees using the psychological profile.
Teaching honors go to professors with experience
Teaching experience counts with students in the School of Business, a faculty evaluation conducted by the University of Kansas Business Council, a student organization, proves.
Weapons, ranging from guns to
Teaching honors in the undergraduate division went to instructors who have been on the faculty for over 20 years. They are Associate Profs. Frank Pinet, R. Keith Weltmer and Sherwood Newton.
ranging from guns to Professors Weltner and Newton also received "top grades" from their students in the graduate division. Joining them in this distinction were Profs. Robert Sterling and Lawrence Sherrn.
Evaluations were completed by each student in all classes taught in the business school last fall. The test used was developed by Prof. Donald P. Hoyt of Kansas State University and results were computed there.
The choice of measures of teaching excellence was made by the KU Business Council, according to Roby Ogan, Great Bend senior and president of the KUBC. Each faculty member received a report of his own evaluation and thus could see where he stood on the scale.
Questions related to preparation and organization, student involvement, clarity of communication, stimulation, speaking style, personalism, exams, assignments, textbooks, and course content.
Green named as chairman
Don W. Green, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, has been named chairman of that department for the 1970-71 school year.
He will assume his duties next fall from Prof. Harold F. Rosson, chairman since 1964. Green served as acting chairman in the 1967-68 school year.
Green received the B.S. degree from the University of Tulsa in 1955, the master's degree and Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1963 from the University of Oklahoma. His professional experience includes work with the Continental Oil Company, the Gulf Oil Corporation, and the Jersey Production Research of Tulsa.
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knives, have been found in airport waiting rooms where they presumably were discarded by airline passengers who feared the detection system, Volpe said.
Only three airlines — Eastern, Trans World and Pan American—are using detection devices. A fourth airline is expected to join the group shortly.
An FAA spokesman says the government also hopes soon to get airline agreement on a plan to equip entire airports with the devices so that each airline gate would be covered.
If every gate were covered, authorities might be able to avert hijackings such as last week's takeover of a TWA jetliner by a passenger who boarded the plane at Phoenix. The gate the hijacker used to board the plane was not equipped with a device and there was no detection of the gun he carried.
The personality of the hijacker is one of the biggest puzzles. Dr. John T. Dailey, chief FAA psychologist, says that commander-eing a plane is the hijacker's one moment "of power and glory in a life of failure."
The records show that most hijackers have been either criminals or emotionally disturbed persons bearing a grudge. Sprinkled in between are politically motivated individuals who use airplanes as a way to get to places like Cuba.
Except for possibly being emotionally disturbed and bearing a grudge, the hijacker of the TWA jet did not fit any of these patterns. "He had suicide on his mind" a psychologist said.
KU students win honors with photos
Six University of Kansas student photographers won honors in the 25th Annual Intercollegiate Photography Contest at the University of Missouri.
Greg Gorman, a junior from Overland Park, majoring in photojournalism, was third in the portfolio category and the Kappa Alpha Mu Founder's Award of $100 scholarship. The portfolio category contained 20 prints representative of the student's work for the year. Gorman included pictures from the second moratorium in Washington, a picture story of a narcotics arrest and campus demonstrations.
Gorman also will receive a $25 savings bond for first place in the "College Life" category with a picture of a stern looking policeman holding back a group of students in Washington, D.C. He also placed a print in the show, one of three in addition to the prize winners, in the "Portrait" category with a picture of a hippie sitting on a roof.
Bill Higgins, a junior majoring in photojournalism from Mission, won a $25 savings bond for first in the "Portrait" category. The winner was a picture of a Bowery bum helping a friend.
Kathy Hird, fine arts senior from Lawrence, won a $25 savings bond for first place in the "Picture Story" category. Her story was on he Amish community of Yoder, south of Hutchinson. The judges commented that this was one of the best picture stories they had seen in the competition.
John L. Brown, a sophomore from Kansas City, Mo., was second in the "College Life" category with a picture of two young college students sitting on a statue on which was inscribed "Study the Past." The picture was made during his trip to Washington to cover the moratorium in that city.
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James B. Hoffman, Jr., a junior in photojournalism from Pratt, placed two prints in the "Feature category and one in "College Life."
Greg Sorber, a sophomore from Topeka, placed a print of campus demonstrations in the show's "Feature" category.
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) believes the best solution is for all nations to support the Tokyo Convention which requires signatories to return hijackers to the country of their origin. This should be coupled with quick and severe punishment by U.S. courts, says ALPA President Charles Ruby.
Other efforts to curb hijacking range from a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a hijacker to the FAA proposal to bulletproof cockpit doors.
Some possible solutions have
Professors get grant for water basin study
Green already has worked with a model for predicting the availability of ground water such as that found in the Equus Beds, which cover approximately 2,000 square miles in Sedgwick, Harvey, Reno, McPherson, Rice, Ellsworth and Marion Counties.
Development of a basin hydrology simulator and its field testing in the Little Arkansas River Basin by two University of Kansas professors will be financed by the Office of Water Resources Research in the U.S. Department of the Interior.
The first phase of the new project will be to combine these two models with adjustments to account for the interaction between surface and ground water. Then the investigators will test the model mathematically, relying on data from the Little Arkansas Basin collected since 1940.
In another project, Pogge has experimented with a surface water model based on such variables as precipitation, surface run-off and the flow of streams.
Dr. Don W. Green, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and Dr. Ernest C. Pogge, associate professor of civil engineering, will direct the project, one of 33 authorized this year under Title II of the Water Resources Research Act of 1964. Funding, which awaits a Congressional appropriation, is tentatively set at $68,460 for a 26-month period.
The KU professors seek a reliable method of predicting the availability of basin water in the Little Arkansas and the Equus beds of south-central Kansas to meet the future demands of cities, industry and agriculture.
The third phase will involve actual testing of the model at a Little Arkansas Basin site. Using data on stream flow and water levels and records on the geology
An associate professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of Kansas, Dr. Edward J. Czerwinski, is a member of the editorial board of Books Abroad
been ruled out. Pilots are unnot want to risk a gunfight in the cabin when a passenger could be killed and there is no guarantee it would lead to the capture of a hijacker.
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The 43-year-old quarterly sponsored by the University of Oklahoma has established a $10,-000 international literary prize, to be first bestowed in 1970.
Armed guards were ruled out by many airlines for the same reasons.
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of the basin, Green and Pogge will compare the calculated basin behavior with the historical records of the area.
By programming the computer model with earlier information and comparing predictions with actual past occurrences, the research team hopes to set up a general model suitable for use in all such basin areas.
After the model has been tested, Green said he hopes to show it can be used effectively as a tool for management of water resources. As the needs of people, industry and agriculture increase, it is conceivable that all water demands cannot be met without effective management, he said.
As an example, he referred to the 55 wells presently used by the city of Wichita to draw about 30 million gallons of water a day from the Equus Beds. Such a model could be used to determine the rate of replenishment and, therefore, determine the maximum amount of water which could be removed while preserving a constant source for future use.
An advisory board will review progress of the work and recommend other areas of research. Members include Prof. Robert L. Smith, director of the Water Resources Institute at KU; Keith Krause, Topeka, director of the Kansas Water Resources Board; Dr. Frank C. Foley, director of the State Geological Survey; and Charles Lane, chief of the Kansas district, Water Resources division of the U.S. Geological Survey at KU.
$403,300 given to aid teachers
The U.S. Office of Education has awarded grants totaling $403, 300 to the University of Kansas for the training of teachers of exceptional children.
Eightly students, ranging from undergraduates to Ph.D. candidates, will receive teaching and research training under the program which takes in both the KU campus in Lawrence and the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Support for the project is broken down so that $182,300 goes to the Lawrence campus and $221,000 goes to the Kansas City Campus.
Dr. Richard Whelan, associate professor of education, is program administrator at the KU Medical Center. There, 46 students will receive training in the areas of deaf education, crippled youngsters, and emotionally disturbed children, he said.
On the Lawrence campus, Dr. Jerry Chaffin, assistant professor of education and program administrator, said 34 students will work under the program during the 1970-71 academic year. Training here, he noted, is in the areas of mental retardation, learning disabled and in the preparation of administrators. Besides classroom training, Dr. Chaffin said, students have the opportunity to teach and supervise in the classroom. He noted that some students receive fellowship support from the grant.