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Monday, March 26, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Students search for glacial valley
Staff Reporter
Eleven people spent last Saturday searching for a buried glacial stream valley that could mean an abundant source of water.
Braving sub-freezing temperatures and 30 mph winds, eight students in Exploration Geophysics conducted experiments designed to find the valley, situated several miles north of Perry State Park.
Finding glacial valleys is important because of their potential, as ground sources.
Don Steeple, research associate in the environmental section of the State Geological Survey, said that as much as 100 times more water could be obtained from a glacial well than a regular well.
The students were assisted by Steeples, George Horet,
assistant professor of geology, and Jane Denne, research
researcher.
SIX HUNDRED thousand to a million years ago, glaciers extended into northern Kansas, according to Steeples. They crept down from Canada carrying rubble from the land they passed through.
Glacial valleys are good ground water sources because they are porous and water flows through them easily. Rolhe
Rothe said when the glaciers receded they left behind valleys filled with the rubble, called tilt. Since then the glaciers have melted.
Steepies that pump five gallons of water a minute from a perall well was considered fortunate.
A deep well in the area, however, has been tested at 500 gallons a minute, Denne said. This well, a similar one aligned with it, and two outcroppings of limestone were the source of minerals to suspect the presence of a glacial valley, Denne said.
The students used explosion seismology to try to detect the glacial valley. Explosion seismology is a technique that uses the timing of soundwaves created by explosions to determine the underground structure of an area.
The sound waves generated by the explosion were picked up by a series of geophone probes, a soundwave detection device, about three inches in the ground. They were strong and a specific spacing pattern that covered about 36 meters.
The first two sets of explosions were refraction experiments. Refraction is used at shallow depths, Rothe said, and measures the time it takes for sound waves to hit the first high-velocity layer at a necessary angle, travel across the layer and then bounce back up to the surface. The second set of explosions describes valley and the steepness of its walls can be determined.
After a limited analysis of their data, the students discovered that there appears to be a glacial valley running north and south in that area and that its west wall is some steeper than its east wall.
THE STUDENTS then conducted a reflection experiment to try to determine the valley's depth. A third set of explosions was set off near where they thought the center of the valley was. They then measured the travel time of the waves an
Denne said that the next step was to try to trace the valley's path, size and direction, possibly by using another
"In addition to the extent of the valley, it will give us a better idea of the quantity of water that might be available
Nuclear protesters to appeal verdicts
Five persons who each were found guilty Friday of two charges stemming from a January protest of the Wolf Creek bill, an event new to Burlington will annotate that verdict.
Bill Beeens, Lawrence senior and spokesman for the protesters, said the decision would be appended because "a bad precedent was set."
The defendants they should have been able to use the Kansas compulsion statute in their defense, Beems said.
The compulsation statue would have allowed the defendants to "put nuclear power on trial" by claiming they had been responsible because of the dangers of nuclear power.
"Because the nuclear power plant placed a much greater harm than what we did, we were justified." Beems said.
Judge Floyd Coffman of the Coffey County District Court in Burlington ruled before the trial that compulsion could not be used because the Wolf Creek plant, expected to be completed in 1983, did not contain any malicious material.
The Jan. 12 demonstration resulted in the arrest of 36 persons for blocking a train carrying a reactor vessel to the Wolf Creek site.
The jury, after less than an hour's deliberation Friday, found the defendants guilty of temporary deprivation of bail and having been fired as officer. They each were ordered to pay $100 in fines and court costs and to spend 10 days in jail if the fines were not paid.
According to Beems, the defendants will pay their fines within 10 days.
Nineteen persons who pleaded guilty or no contest to criminal trespass charges after their arrests each paid $83 in fines and court costs.
Eleven others who pleaded not guilty, including three KU students, will face trial on the same charges as the conspiracy. Their trial dates will be set May 17.
Charges were dropped against one man who had requested to be arrested at the demonstration.
Alumni study office faculty club proposal
A six-member committee was appointed recently by the University of Kansas Alumni Association Board of Directors to build an alumni center and faculty club.
According to Dick Wintermorte, executive director of the Alumni Association and a member of the investigating committee, the need for a center for several months.
Winternote said that overcrowding of the Alumni Association's offices in the Kansas Union had been the primary reason for appointing a committee.
"The major need is that the Alumni Association is growing and we need more office space. We think the University would be a good place for alumni and other social groups," he said.
Wintermorte said that since the Alumni Association received no federal funding, the cost of a center would be paid for by the school to eliminate the cost of a center had been made.
THE SIX committee members plan to determine whether a center would be feasible. Wintermatter said, "We will study the situation and build a building would be maintained and the cost."
Members already have visited Ohio State, Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio universities which have free-standing alumni centers, Winnertime said. Investigations of several other university centers are planned for this spring.
"Other schools have found the centers worthwhile, and the centers have provided staff for the programs."
Wintermote said that one possible site for a center was a piece of land owned by the Kansas University Endowment Association at the northeast corner of 13th and Oread, which is being used as a parking lot. Wintermote said, no decision has been reached.
TODD SEYMOUR, president of the Endowment Association and a member of the investigating committee, said the parking lot was a logical place, being so close to campus."
Plans for a center include space for staff offices, meeting rooms, accommodations for visitors.
The committee plans to present a statement report to the alumni board members Mr. Harris and Ms.
Relevant historical trends taught backward
Staff Reporter
Bv MARK GATES
History can be more interesting and relevant when taught backward, a KU professor's experience.
"Generally, teaching history backwards involves making a statement about what is going on today, let's say in feminism, and then working back through time to the period of women's rights," the professor, William Tuttle, chairman of the graduate history program, said recently.
"By moving backward chronologically, you relate the past to the present more effectively than by starting at the beginning of the present," generates interest at the outset," he said.
THE MAN credited with developing this method of teaching says one way to narrow the generation gap is to teach history backward.
The man, Ernest W. Lefewer, director of Georgetown University's Ethics and Public Affairs department, died on January 18.
related to similar events of the past. This develops greater understanding by young people of the influences on the opinions of their elders.
David Katzman, professor of history, said historians had always been aware of the nature and consequences of war.
"Historians are focused on current events and this motivates them to delve into the past to study the historical perspective," he said.
"Just as the past influences the present and the future, the present also influences the past," Katzman said. "However, we must caution ourselves against pandering to the past because sometimes there is a tendency to project the present into the past, and that is missing history."
TUTTLE SAID he taught history backward because the period of history he covers
"I teach history from 1941 on. I'll talk about McCarthyism in the early 50s and then relate that to Stalin's rule in the 40s," he said.
"An important qualification to make is that studying history for its own sake, regardless of its current implications, is valid, too.
"If one wants to understand medieval England just for its own sake, this is equally worth it."
Tuttle said he knew of no local schools that were teaching history backward.
"I think it would be a better way if the purpose of the course were to enhance the person's understanding of man's nature." This helps stimulate student interest.
Tuttle said textbooks were not geared for this kind of teaching.
"THEY USED TO just allow a scholar to write a textbook. Now they do market research to develop books that they think will be used in school boards and teachers, not students.
This is a unique way of presenting history, but it don't know of any textbooks that are well-known.
"The conservative trends in education are stronger today than the innovative trends, 86 percent of the time."
However, Tuttle said the emphasis today in history texts was more topical.
"The neglecting of non-whtes, women and the working class in earlier textbooks was a reflection of their neglect by society," he said.
"There have been big changes in textbooks recently, but most still proceed chronologically. There are new topics but not new approaches."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Police Beat
Lawrence police said the arrested man, Michael R. Brown, 18, Silver Lake, had been released from the Douglas County jail yesterday morning on $3,300.
A Silver Lake man was arrested by Topeka police yesterday morning in connection with the theft of a car in Lawrence early Saturday.
- Compiled by David Edds
Brown is charged with the theft of a 1978 Datsun, valued at $5,500, from the parking lot of G.P. Loyd's, 701 Massachusetts St.
Thomas C Pearson, Concordia
car, had dropped his keys, police said. The
apparently had been stolen after another
man claimed the keys from the club
Lawrence police said two diesel tractors had been stolen Friday night from Russell Ford Tractor Co., 1105 E. 23rdSt.
Investigators said the tractors were probably loaded into an enclosed truck because the vertical exhaust pipe of one
Police said the tractors, a 1979 Ford valued at $1,760 and a 1978 Ford valued at $4,65, probably had been driven onto a loading dock and loaded into a vehicle.
of the tractors had been cut off so that it could be loaded.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
Lawrence police said a car had been stolen Friday night or early Saturday morning from the Ramada Inn, 2222 W. Sixth St.
RABID ANIMAL
The car, a 1978 Pontiac valued at $5,500, belonged to Carol Bishop, 634 Greer Terrace. The car was unlocked and the keys were in the carion police said.
KU police investigated on Saturday night a report of a raid skunk near the Endowment Association building on West Camps.
Pice said a KU police officer fired four shotgun rounds at the animal from a distance of 15-20 feet. The shots wounded but did not kill the skunk.
The officer then drew his service revolver and shot the animal. Police said the skunk continued labored breathing, but no signs of injury were on the revolver killed it. The body of the animal is being stored at Haworth Hall until it is sent to a Manhattan laboratory for examination.
John Mulder, University veterinarian, said it was not unusual to have to shoot an animal several times to kill it.
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