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'New wave' book wins sci-fi award
A British author, Michael Moorcock, was named winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 1978 yesterday in the Kansas Union
Moorcock received the award for his "new wave" science fiction novel, "Gloriana," a story of an alternate universe in which a different Queen of England, Gloriana, reigns over an empire faced with various problems.
The award was presented in conjunction with a three-week science fiction seminar of English and Stephan Goldman, professor of English. Goldman said that "Gloriana" made the other novels in the series look like "very hard-core science fiction."
"Normally it's hard to give the award a new wave writer, because the writing is more fantasy-oriented than the more traditional science fiction." he said.
"But the new work deserves recognition, and Moorcock's 'Gloriana' is the most mature and well-written statement yet by a new wave writer."
"In earlier works, his writing dealt more with fantastic worlds," he said.
"Gloriana" is about the trends of our own world. It's about a real society rather than a hedonistic one.
Gunn, who is chairman of the selection committee for the award, said that along with the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the more prestigious given for science fiction.
The selection committee was made up of an international group of teachers and administrators.
Moorcock, who won the Nebula Award in 1967 for "Bebold the Man," was not present at the ceremony. The award was accepted by President Ronald Reagan, Great Britain, who was attested the semester.
DONALD BENSON received second place for "And Having Writ," and Paddy Chayfeski took third for his first novel, "Altered States."
Frederick Pohl, who won the Campbell Award last year for his novel "Gateway" and was participating in the KU seminar, spoke in the Union earlier in the davar.
Pohl told a group of about 50 people that science fiction was the "only thing worth writing about." He said that, like much of his work with the novelist, was concerned with change and its effects.
Each innovation, Pohl said, shows the writer how to free himself of old constraints. The concept that aliens might not be present was at first met with resistance, he said.
POHL SAID HE took his book 'Space Merchants' to seven or eight major publishers, all of whom turned it down and then sold it to monsters and extra-terrestrial gummies.
The book was eventually published by the fledgling Ballentine Company, and has since become a bestseller.
Noting the popularity of works like "Star Wars," Pohl said a science fiction was finally on the table.
"Five years ago," he said, "No major writer wanted to soil his hands writing science fiction. Now, in 1979, you can't beat them off with sticks."
The real value of science fiction, Pohl said, is that it gives the writer "an opportunity to make statements and pose problems not available anywhere else.
"For pleasure, to stimulate the imagination, as a mirror to see the true shape of the world we live in. . . it's the only game in town."
Carter outlines 6-point program
A concerned President Jimmy Carter outlined a six-point energy proposal last night in a nationally televised address. The proposal eliminated seven days of meetings at the White House.
Concerned Carter
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter described America last night as a nation beset by a crisis of confidence, and asked his countrymen to join him "on the bat" and "to solve that problem and at the same time restore the faith and unity of the nation.
He said that he saw shortcomings in his own leadership and that he now realized more than ever that as president, "I need your help."
He outlined a six-point program to cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil by one half over the next decade, a savings of more than 4.5 million barrels a day. He said he never again would allow the nation to import more foreign oil than it did in 1977, a year in which this country imported 8.5 million barrels a day.
CARTER SAID HE was proposing the greatest commitment of resources in history to develop energy from coal, oil and other fossil fuels. Carter said he is setting up an Energy Carter, he is setting up an Energy
Security Corporation. Its goal, he said, will be to produce the equivalent of 2 million shares a month.
He repeated his call for Congress to quickly pass a windfall profits tax on the oil company revenues produced by the oil companies' control on domestically produced oil.
The president asked Congress to "mandate ... that our nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil ... and switch to other fuels, especially coal." He urged Congress to establish an energy mobilization board, which the president would cut through red tape ... "to reach these critical energy targets."
HE ALSO PROPOSED spending an extra $10 billion over 10 years to strengthen mass transportation facilities and called for a national solar bank, which Carter said would "help us achieve the goal of reducing our energy needs" by the year 2000.
It was the climax of his so-called domestic summit conference at Camp David, 10 cloistered days of meetings with about 130 leaders of American institutions,
in and out of government, and with townpeople in Carnegie, Pa., and Mar-
The president said that his leadership had become too focused on "what the isolated world of Washington thinks is more important than on the real concerns of the people.
"We SIMPLY must have faith in each other and faith in our ability to govern ourselves," said the president, who has evidence in his leadership steadily eroding.
Carter said some of those who came to Camp David spoke to him bluntly. He quoted a southern governor: "Mr. Bush did not have you. You're just manning the government."
KU profs question Carter's energy plan
"We've got to use what we have. . . Our neck is stretched over the fence and OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has a knife."
"When we import oil, we are also importing inflation plus unemployment," the president said.
Carter said the nation could not go on consuming 20 percent more energy than it produced.
The technology to make President Carter's energy plan work is there, several KU professors said last night, but the economics and politics of the president's most recent proposal are questionable.
Although alternate forms of energy could be developed within Carter's schedule, the immediate future of American energy depends on conservation, which he says will follow the president's nationally televised speech.
Part of Carter's energy plan is to establish an Energy Security Corporation to develop alternate energy forms. He listed the possible sources: coal, oil and synthetic gas plant fuel, gasoland and solar energy in that order.
Ken Bishop, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said he thought the alternative forms were more appropriate.
Another KU professor is performing research that could increase domestic oil production.
Bishop is now researching the uses of synthetic plant fuel.
The professor, Paul Wilhelm, is co-director of KU's Tertiary Oil Recovery Project. This project deals with new methods of extracting oil left behind after conventional drilling and secondary recovery procedures.
Bishop said that although synthetic fuels were not competitive with oil now, they would soon have to be, because the president mandated the oil importation limit.
But both Wilhite and Bishop said economic factors prevented implementation of their research.
Carter said he would use his executive authority to limit American oil imports to the 1977 level.
The president also called for the issuing of $5 billion in low-interest bonds to help finance development of the country.
Bishop said the capital outlay needed to produce 2.5 million barrels of synthetic fuel a day by 1900, as well as increasing efficiency.
"A lot of the other $80 billion will come from the windfall profits tax," he said.
Carter urged Congress to impose the windfall profits tax on oil companies' profits from decontained fuel production.
Willshire said the oil industry thought oil recovery enhancement processes and domestic oil exploration
"I think things can work if the incentive is there for industry and if Congress really gets behind the push."
Although Carter discussed the cost of $5 billion in bonds and the oil importation limit, Lawrence said that he was confident that it would be
of Carter's speech was political because Carter skimmed over its economic aspects.
"One of the major economic decisions of the speech was the oil import quotas. He made no mention of them."
Another reason the speech was suspected by the professors of being political was that no mention was made of it.
Patton Mulford, president of KU Students for a Radioactive Free Kansas, said he was surprised that the state had not sent a message to him.
"The president was trying to evoke a sense of national unity," Mulford said, "and there is certainly no doubt that the people are ready."
Allian Cigler, associate professor of political science, said that although nuclear energy was not mentioned, it would be a large part of the alternative energy sources needed to reduce oil consumption.
"Alternative energy is a competitive area. Carter didn't say it, but nuclear power is a large part of it."
Besides not mentioning nuclear power, the president made other political moves to gain the people's support. In 2014, the president said that
Ron Francisco, associate professor of political science, said cutting imports to the 1977 limit was not a problem.
"Unless we reduce our imports enormously, we're in
trouble," he said. "The program is full of tricks. For example, the oil imports in 1977 were higher than those in 1960."
In the first six months of 1977, the United States imported more than nine million barrels of crude oil a day. But, for the same period in 1978, more than 7.9 million barrels a day were imported.
Clifford Ketzel, professor of political science, said Carter's plan to reduce oil imports should lessen the influence of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on the United States.
He also said OPEC would welcome a lower rate of production because it could then stretch its reserves
Ketzel said OPEC could still sell its oil for the same price, even with the decrease in exports to the United States.
Francisco said he was surprised with the political stance Carter took during the speech.
"It was remarkable to hear a president castigate himself almost masochistically," he said.
Ketzel said Carter's rhetoric and sincerity would only help him if he followed his speech by action.
"If he acts, his reputation will be enhanced,"he said.
AAUP president says faculty union possible
By VALERIE HOWARD
Staff Reporter
"Unionization may not be in the forefront of faculty members' minds, but it is lurking in the back of their minds to be thought of as a major threat," he may be coming soon," he said last week.
The time is coming for KU professors to re-examine their unfavorable attitudes toward faculty unions, according to T.P. Srinivasan, president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
Srinivasan, a KU professor of math, said there were many factors that might cause KU faculty members to unite, such as possible money-saving changes by the state Legislature, continued disappointment in the education system and toward unionization in higher education.
He said one of his concerns was the state legislative study being done this summer by a joint Ways and Means Committee. In an attempt to deal with the effect of declining enrollment on school budgets, the committee is reviewing the financing of all
Kansas institutions of higher education, with emphasis on the Regents schools.
THE COMMITTEE is also assessing the Regents schools' current plans, tenure policies and money-saving alternatives, such as early retirement plans for faculty.
Srinivasan said that such a review could cause changes that would bring the faculty into action, but that the Legislature would be cautious.
1' feel they will be very circumspurpose in 'making an drastic changes and that they may not succeed.'
the tenure system, which is at the core of higher education," he said.
SKIRVINASAID he also was con-
firmed with the morale of the faculty
marmal.
"We are not wanting to just save our skins, but we want to protect the very fundamentals of higher education and its integrity."
"Faculty morale is already low, having suffered "financial disappointment greater than that of other professional groups," he said.
He said that the KU administration and Kansas Legislature had been far-sighted in 1973, when they gave the faculty a 30 percent cut on salaries and said that as the years went by, the raise was cut.
The 30 percent was to be in 10 percent stages over the three years, but Srinivasan said the raises for 1974 and 1975 were only 8 percent and 7 percent.
"I wish they had kept up the kind of enlightened position they had in 1973," he said. "They were not doing so."
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Combustionless coune
Staff photo by DANNY CARLAN
Harold Pape, director of KU's electrical engineering lab, charges the batteries in an electrically-converted 1965 MG. The car's
electric conversion began as a class project in 1975. According to Pepe, research on the car's design problems will continue in the coming years.
Future bright for electric cars
By ROBIN ROBERTS Staff Reporter
The car rolls silently up to the Standard Electric station. An attendant carrying a coil of wire steps up to the customer. The driver presses on his dashboard and smiles at the attendant.
"Charge 'er up, please."
The car, powered by electricity, may go on back on the road to stay if gasoline prices continue to increase, a KU electrical engineer said last week.
Harold Pape is director of the electrical engineering lab where faculty and students have been converting a 1965 MG to electric power.
"The higher the price of gasoline gets," Pape said, "the easier it is to get someone to listen to the need for research on the electric car."
Pape said electric cars could be recharged at home in a common electric outlet for less than a dollar. However, more research could reduce the cost of electric cars.
teries will be developed that can provide 50 to 100 watt hours per pound.
Research on electric cars has centered on the development of improved batteries.
"The BEER ENERGY density we have so far is about 18 watt hours per pound of water"
If a 100-watt per pound battery were developed, the number of batteries in an electric car could be reduced by about a five-to-one ratio without changing the car's driving-range capacity between rechargings.
KU's electric car carries about 1,000 pounds of batteries. Some are standard car batteries, but most are golf cart batteries, which Pape said could withstand total discharges several times more than car batteries could.
However, Pape said, the weight of the batteries cuts down on acceleration, which is the main reason why electric cars are not popular.
One student design problem was to simplify the "switch bank," a complex
The conversion of KU's car to electric power started as a class project in 1975.
The top speed for an electric car is about
60 mph. said KU's car has been driven
at 45 to 50 miles per hour.
THE KU ELECTRIC car has traveled as far as 17 miles without a recharge, but Pape said if it were driven on a level course at a constant 30 mph, it could go 50 miles.
system of switches and levers that controls acceleration and power.
Pape said KU' students had designed a small computer called a microprocessor to analyze and control the traffic.
"The acceleration will be controlled by the foot-feed when the microprocessor is installed," Pape said. "But the microprocessor will also monitor the batteries and sense the ones that have the most charge."
HE SAID THIS would cause the batteries to discharge efficiently. The switch bank, which is mounted on the dashboard, can be manually before drawing power from another.
The microprocessor would also monitor speed and current usage and would flash a figure indicating to the driver the miles per gallon he was getting. Pape said.
He said that in the next year, many gasoline-powered cars would incorporate microprocessors to continually adjust and tune fuel mixture for optimum fuel conservation.
The microprocessor will probably be installed in the KU car this year, Pape said, although it is now in the "debugging stage." The microprocessor, the KU car will not be perfect.
"There will always be someplace a design project can be done in it," Pape said.