University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 26. 1979
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Underwater World
Mining model built to assist writers
Students in the School of Architecture have been on this model of an underwater城中. From left to right are Stirl Heelman, St. Louis senior, John Scholl, Bloomington, and Wesley Ferguson.
Staff Reporter
By DOUG HITCHCOCK
A class of KU architecture students has built a model of an underwater ore mining operation to help New York science fiction writers.
"they wanted me to recommend a firm to build the model. When they found out how much it would cost to have it in their budget, they said they had it in their budget." They said Sandi
The class, Advanced Architectural Presentation Techniques, taught by Cynthia R. Daly of Ariel Books of New York City to help Ariel Books of New York City to help
The cost of having the model built by commercial designers would have been more than $5,000, according to Theis.
The class built the model for about $500.
Ariel has the rights to use the model, but KU owns it. Ariel plans to use pictures of the model to inspire its science fiction writers.
THEIS WANTS to have the model exhibited on campus, but no plans have been made.
The design for the underwater mining operation took more than half the fall semester to complete. Representatives from Ariel and Jean-Michel Couteau, son of the famous underwater scientist, modify the plans for believability.
The last month of the semester was used to build the model. The plans changed as the model was built.
In the model, underwater living organisms (e.g., fish) are in the side of a dermant underwater volcano. The model is four feet deep but in scale the distance is 1,500 feet
The rocky terrain, represented by layers of hard styrofoam sheets, is painted and sculpted in the contours of the rocky surface. A table provided the class with maps of the site.
AT THE EDGE of the volcano is the mine and a tower that runs up to the sheet of glass that represents the surface of the ocean.
The tower is called an OTEC, an Ocean Thermal Energy Converter.
"It would be phenomenally expensive to build an OTEC of this size." Thes said. "But, everything we've done is possible."
There are OETCs built around the coast of Hawaii, but the OETC on the island of Puerto Rico times the size of the real ones if it were built, he said. If the model were real, it
John Schell, Bloomington, Ind., graduate student, said, "We pieced it together from battleship models. We bastardized and cannibalized them."
Essayists invited to philosophize
The Edward S. Robinson memorial essay content is open to KU undergraduate and graduate students.
Philosophers and thinkers will have a chance to put their thoughts down on paper in an essay content sponsored by the KU department of philosophy.
The essays will be judged by a committee composed of members of the philosophy department and a representative of the graduate association of students of philosophy. The essays will be submitted undergraduate studies for the philosophy department, is in charge of the content.
A prize or prizes of up to $100 are being offered depending on the quality of the gift.
The essays may be on any topic of philosophic interest. Each contestant is limited to one entry. The contest is limited to published essays that do not exceed 25 pages.
The contest deadline is March 30. The winner's name will be announced by May 1.
philology, parvinicus, p. viridis,
philosophy, parvinicus, p. viridis,
from the document fund that was established
memory of Edward S. Robinson, a former
chairman of the KU philosophy department
Jayhawker Yearbook
philosophy department in 3022 Wescoe Hall. The prize money comes from an en-
large amount of donations.
is now accepting applications for positions on the 1980 staff. Including Editor & Business Manager.
Come by 121 B in the Kansas Union for applications.
Guzzlers losing out in car sales
Bv LESLIE GUILD
Gasoline price increases in Lawrence have caused an increase in economy car sales, but apparently have not increased in gasoline prices.
Staff Renorter
"A lot of our customers are really becoming aware of the gasoline price increases and trading cars to get better gas mileage." Jon Prochaska, manager of Lawrence Toyota, said in an interview last week. "They drive in a big car and in a small one."
"WE SELL a lot of economy cars for the time," he said. "But in the first three months of 1979 we doubled the demand for economy cars."
(AP)
Louisiana, said regular goaine had increased 1 cent a gallon to 74.9 cents during last week.
Proschaak estimated that 90 percent of his economy car sales were due to rising gasoline prices.
Now our biggest sellers are the cars that get more than 30 miles to the gallon," Prochaska said. "That really indicates to me that people are concerned about the price of fuel."
He said he was selling more cars that got at least 30 to 40 miles a gallon.
"We really can't estimate how much prices will rise," she said. "But we do expect them to continue to increase." She said however, that the price increase had not affected sales.
Lawrence service stations have steadily increased the price of gasoline in the past month, area dealers report.
Two other Lawrence stations, Tony's 66 Service, 2434 Iowa St., and Tom's SkiYellow Station, 1733 Massachusetts St.
"We are not looting business," she said. "But from what we say to us, customers are definitely concerned about prices."
"WE DON'T know how high prices will go," a spokesman for Tony's said. "They seem to deal every week."
Tom's Skelly also reported a 1 cent increase to 72.9.
he said their regular gasoline had increased 1 cent this week, to 73.9 cents.
The consumer's interest in gas prices has what stirred more interest in the economy cars, Dave Moore, manager of the New York office.
"Although our sales haven’t really climbed that much, we have seen more interest in the compact cars on the part of customers."
Moore said if the prices continued to climb, he expected the interest to materialize into sales.
"People are still a bit skeptical that a shortage will really
come about," he said. "They feel they were taken in the shortage of 1973, a so shortage will have to be proven to work."
MOORE SAID his best-selling economy car got 38 miles a gallon.
Another reason that economy cars are selling, accounted to Brent Foster, manager for Bob Hokins Volkswagen Inc., 2522 Iowa St. , is because some economy cars are equipped to use diesel fuel.
"The increase in sales of economy cars has really been up in the area of diesel," he said. "People are really interested in an economical car. So diesel is the answer. But our other economy car sales are up, too."
Foster said cars that used diesel fuel usually averaged about 25 percent more mile to the gallon.
In Lawrence, diesel fuel is available at six service stations, Foster said.
By RON BAIN
"More people are wanting more economy cars every day," he said. "That means a shortage might be near."
KU reactor no threat,prof says
Staff Reporter
"That's a concern to a lot of buyers," he said. "but uneasy to very common today, especially for those who are travelers."
A pool of water surrounded by 20-foot, blue-painted concrete walls is contained inside the Nuclear Reactor Center on 19th Street across from Green Hall.
Although none of the car retailers said they had bad problems stocking economy cars, Foster said he thought the company was doing well.
The pool surrounds and cools KU's small nuclear reactor.
Although the pool resembles a swimming pool, it was not built for people to paddle around in, according to Benjamin Friesen, KU's radiation safety officer.
The reactor produces radioactive material for graduate students to use in nuclear engineering experiments. The reactor is not used continuously and is so small that it does not create waste disposal problems, Friesen said recently.
The wastes from the reactor do not cause problems, he said, because they have very little water.
"A half-life is the period of time it takes for the radioactive activity to go down to half of what it was originally." Friesen said.
THE TYPICAL half-life for a radioactive element created by the reactor is a few hours.
The reactor also is not big enough to cause the kind of safety problems created by high levels of radiation.
Voyager findings analyzed at KU
Unexpected "energetic volcanoes" on one of Jupiter's moons might be responsible for sulphur discovered in Jupiter's atmosphere by the Voyager 1 spacecraft, according to KU astronomy professor Tom Armstrong.
Armstrong, who designed a radiation-testing experiment that is aboard Voyager 1 and 2, completed a project since 1972, returned recently from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. He was working there with other scientists on the mission.
"We have a few early results that we're
fairly confident of," Armstrong said yesterday.
Armstrong said violent volcanic activity on Io, a moon orbiting Jupiter, probably released explosives that ignited Jupiter's atmosphere. Jupiter also produces an unusual kind of radiation, he said, which could have contributed to its surface.
WHILE ARMSTRONG was working in Maryland, five KU graduate students were also working on data obtained by Voyager and broadcast to a KU receiving station in Miami.
graduate student, said he and four othe. graduate students were using computers to process the data obtained by Armstrong's radiation experiment.
Briggs said they already had enough data to keep them busy for a long time.
Patrick Briggs, Sacramento, Calif.,
"We'll probably be here until there's no data left to work with, which could be 10."
Voyager I will proceed to Saturn, he said, and another craft, Voyager II, will pass.
Armstrong said he would probably return to the Applied Physics lab in late May to prepare for Voyager II's encounter with Earth. "We will send data to Earth that would be sent to KU."
Group to aim rally at KU investments
The KU Committee on South Africa announced Friday that it would sponsor a "Rally Against Apartheid" Friday in front of Strong Hall.
The committee said in a statement, "The forthcoming rally is beginning of a new phase of activity opposed to the endowment association's socially irresponsible policy."
In recent weeks, the Committee on South Africa has argued publicly against the Kansas University Endowment and supports in companies operating in South Africa.
According to the committee members, the association's investments there support the company.
Wally Serenity, the keynote speaker at the rally, will speak about the apartheid system in South Africa Serte is a South African poet who writes about social injustice and is now touring the United States.
The Endowment Association maintains that American investments in South Africa influence the South African government toward more racially equal policies.
"Implicit in our policy is the contention that such companies are materially contributing to the betterment of black persons in society, and the association said in a recent statement.
THE TWO VOYAGER spacecraft will pass Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1985. The two craft will leave the solar system in the late '80s, and the data-processing work at KU will continue at least until then, according to Briggs.
The rally, which committee members said would have the support of several other student groups, will begin at 11:30 a.m. Friday.
The first spacecraft contains a surprise for any interstellar travelers that stumbles upon an unexpected recording of natural sounds and music ranging from Beethoven to Chuck Berry.
Laird Oick, spokeman for the committee, said the rally would include speeches from worker and student group representatives. He also said he would be able to participate in the discussion, he said.
All women welcome
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Join us— Tuesday March 27 at 7:30 in the Pine Rm. the Kansas Union
WOMEN'S COALITION
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The cooling water is constantly monitored to prevent any type of accident, he said.
"The worst thing you could have happen is a pinhole size leak from the reactor into the
At any time there are usually about five users of radioactive materials at KU, according to the University's radioactive tracers used in biophysics and biochemistry experiments at the Univer-
TRACERS, WHICH allow scientists to form relationships with animal models of food element after it is absorbed into a person or an animal, are important to medical and scientific research. Fresen
"If it weren't for the availability of tracers, I have no way of estimating how little we would know about biological systems." he said.
Most of the tracer materials used on campus have low radiation levels, Friesen said, but they must be disposed of after they have been used.
The University owns about 20 acres of land near DeSoto where the tracer materials are buried. Wastes from the building they do not return radioactive for long.
FRIESEN KEEPs track of all radioactive materials on campus.
He said the amount of radioactivity generated by those materials depended on the temperature.
"Once a particular kind of nucleus has given off a kind of radiation as it decays, it never gives off that particular kind of nucleus. It can give off a different element with less radioactivity."
sua films
Tuesday, March 27
THE WAR OF THE WORLDs
Dir. Byron Haskin, with Gene Barry,
Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne. Specials
by George Pal.
Wednesday, March 28
Tracy/Hepburn:
ADAM'S RIB
Dir. George Cukor, with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Jody Holli- by Garson Kahin and Ruth Gordon.
*7-30 & 8-30
Thursday, March 29
Owen's Classic Play:
A DOLL'S HOUSE
(1972)
Dr. Joseph Losey, with Janda Fonda, David Warmer, Trevor Howard, Edward Fox. PLUS: "The History Book, vs. 6." **7/30 & 8/4**
Friday & Saturday,
March 30 & 31
GIRL FRIENDS
(1978)
Dr. Claudia Weill; with Melanie Mayron, Annie Skinner, Christopher Vine Linders, and Vivien Linders. The first fiction film by Weill, who also filled "A China Story."
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud.
at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00
admission
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at
3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless
otherwise noted $1.50 admission