University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 21, 1989
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100 KU students to join Wichita rally against chlorofluorocarbon production
by Max Evans
Kansan staff writer
More than 100 KU students will protest tomorrow at two Wichita-based firms that manufacture chlorofluorocarbons.
The rally was arranged to correspond with similar rallies planned in four other U.S. cities and nine countries.
CFCs can come under fire from environmentalist groups worldwide, who blame the chemical compounds for depletion of the ozone layer and the greenhouse effect, a gradual warming of the Earth's atmosphere.
Environ., a campus environmental awareness organization, is one sponsor of the rally. Dierdre L. Goldarbay, a professor at Ohio State University, junior, said Racon, one of the Wichita firms targeted by the protest, was one of the top five producers of CFCs
in the United States.
Another Wichita company, Vulcan Chemicals, supplies many of the chemicals used in the production of CFCs at Racon, she said.
An organizer of the Wichita rally is Kay Rose, a Frankfort farmer. She said that CFC levels had reached a critical point and production had to
"It is something we have to do, and we have to do very soon." Rose said. "The CFCs that are already up there will continue to destroy the ozone for 20 to 40 years. The people are no longer longer able to protect them," general corporations making a lot of money ruining the Earth and people's health."
Council of Churches, the American Humane Association and Greenpeace.
Rose, who said the Wichita rally could draw as many as 1,000 people, said that sponsors of the rally included such groups as the National
Yesterday, Vulcan Chemicals presented an "Open Letter To The People Of Wichita." The full page advertisement filled the back page of a campaign by Eagle Biotechnology, was written in response to the proposal of the rally.
Yesterday, Vulcan could not be reached for comment.
In the advertisement, Vulcan said it supported a reduction of CFCs and that the company was involved in creating safe, safe replacements for the chemicals.
Mike Hill, Sedgwick county sheer-
lift, said he had been in contact with
representatives from both sides of
the protest. He said he lacks any
problems with the protesters.
Computer pioneer recalls campus project
The amount of time it takes the image from this newspaper to reach your eyes is one nanosecond, and Norris S. Nahman can measure that unit of time and time increments even smaller.
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
Nahman came to the University of Kansas in 1955 after serving three years in the U.S. Army as an electronics scientist assigned to the National Security Agency.
Nahman spoke last night to about 75 people at the colloquium "The Impact of KU's Project Jayhawk." The event was sponsored by the department of computer science.
The Jayhawk project involved measurement methods for pulses, or transients, that would eventually lead to accurate measurements of computer circuit performance.
From 1955 to 1966, Nahman, with the assistance of KU's electrical engineering department, was one of the pioneers in the branch of electrical engineering supported by the NSA, and was named jawhawk.
closet," Nahman said, recalling his early years at KU.
"Our first experiments were done in essentially a
Nahman punctuated his talk with examples of how the many discoveries and processes uncovered in the Jayhawk project currently were being used in computer and electronic industries. At one point in his talk, he explained that an epoxy dude built was built by his researchers in the late 1950s, he pondered the invention's worth.
"Talk about one that would have made KU fat city," Nahman said.
Epoxy has since become the norm in diode construction, but at the time it was unheard of.
Another of the inventions of the Jayhawk project's staff, miniature superconductive coaxial transmission lines, was at the forefront of superconductivity research, he said. The invention, on which KU held the new expired patent, was premature for most superconductors, but recently has began making tremendous headway.
Nahman left KU in 1966 to work for the National Bureau of Standards, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He worked for that agency at the University of Illinois and the title of Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering.
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