Friday, March 28, 1986
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Celebration to honor Final Four players
The Final Four freemay that has gripped the University of Kansas and Lawrence will culminate Tuesday afternoon with a parade and celebration honoring the basketball team, KU and Lawrence city officials said yesterday.
The parade is scheduled to begin at noon at Seventh and Massachusetts streets and follow 11th Street up to campus, said Vickie Louvier of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said further details of the events would be announced after tomorrow's game against Duke University, but he plans to take place when KU won at lew.
Ambler said the final decision on who was going to speak when the celebration moved to campus had not been made.
However, officials from Gov. John Carlin's office said the governor tentatively had planned to attend.
Louvier said yesterday that the Chamber was getting calls every half-hour from people wanting to participate in the parade.
"The excitement here is contagious." Louvier said.
Enrollment begins
Enrollment cards for students not in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may be picked up at the individual schools beginning Tuesday.
The undergraduate advisement period for summer and fall enrollment will be April 1-11.
Dean's stamps from the College and the various schools also will be available April 1-11.
The enrollment center, 111 Strong Hall, will be open April 7-23. Students must enroll at the time printed on their enrollment cards. This is the last day to drop a 16-week course with a "W" for withdrawal without receiving a failing or incomplete grade.
Abortion bill passes
TOPEKA — The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday approved a bill that would require girls under the age of 18 to get consent of a parent or guardian for abortions.
Any minor who wants an abortion has the alternative of going to a district court judge, who may waive the consent requirement.
The bill now will go before the full Senate for debate.
Scholarship started
A family of KU alumni recently established a scholarship fund with the Kansas University Endowment Association for second and third-year students studying business or science.
The Calvin E. Engelmann family contributed $10,000 to create the Engelmann Scholarship Fund to first be awarded in the fall of 1966
Students must show promise and financial need to receive the scholarships.
Between 1869 and 1883, all four members of the Engelmann family attended KU.
Weather
Today will be sunny and warm with a high around 80 and winds at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear with a low around 50. Tomorrow will be sunny and warm with a high about 80.
From staff and wire reports.
Prof uses torture machine to test bones
Howard Smith, professor of aerospace engineering, holds a femur and tibia. Behind him is his patented osteotachy, which he uses to perform stress tests on bones for the U.S. Air Force.
In Smith's laboratory in a shadow corner in Learned Hall's basement, there are actually two refrigerators and one freezer with spare parts.
The sign reads: "Dr. Frankensmith Spare Parts."
By Sandra Crider Staff writer
Bones. Fresh frozen bones. Preserved bones.
Human bones. Rat bones.
Smith, professor of aerospace engineering, tortures bones for the U.S. Air Force. He simulates the injuries pilots sustain when they eject from planes and finds ways to prevent them.
"See that sign on that refrigerator?" Howard Smith asked. "My students are real jokers."
"If you have a crash, we want to give you the best chance possible to walk away from it," Smith said.
Because they move suddenly at hundreds of miles per hour, pilots ejecting from planes can break their legs by hitting them on the steering wheel, break their arms by coming into contact with the canopy, or break their hands by flailing against their helmets.
"It's up to us as engineers to hypothesize these injuries and prevent them from happening."
Smith proudly showed off his patented instrument of torture.
"It' called an osteoclast. That means bone-breaker." he explained.
A bone is attached to the machine with putty, then to a system of weights and pulleys that can place force on the bone in two places and to another system that can twist the bone.
The engineer then can test the resiliency of the bones.
He stepped to the refrigerator that held old bones and pulled out a white kitchen-sized garbage bag that smelled gamy.
Then Smith got down to the real business.
"Oh, this one is really gross," he said upon opening it.
It wasn't one of those bones that are found in desert movies, or the kind from high school
Out came a bone. The one that goes from hip to knee, the femur.
biology class, or the clean, white, dry bones of Halloween decor.
It was yellow and peppered with brownish reddish slime and preserved by formaldehyde. Then he found another bone in the bag.
"This is the tibia, the bone that runs right along the front of the shin." Smith said. "I call it the whistle bone because when a guy whistles at a girl's legs, he's whistling at this bone."
Smith does some work with the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he gets the tools of his trade.
He pointed to the Styrofoam boxes that looked like giant coolers at the large freezer.
Back in his office, he talked about the devices that had come about to prevent pilot injuries:
"That's what I take with me to the Med Center when I go pick up the med students' leftovers," Smith said. "When they get done with the cadavers, I get to go around and pick out what I want out of what's left."
As he was leaving, he checked the refrigerator with the sign. A nauseating stench filled the small room when he opened the refrigerator.
"Oh, I told him this wasn't 'working,' he said.
'It's not freezing properly.'
that has come about to prevent photo impairs.
One is a net that envelopes pilots to protect them from coming into contact with the cockpit.
"You shoot them out like a Thanksgiving turkey," he said.
Not only does Smith work to improve the lives of pilots, but he studies osteoporosis, the bone-wasting disease commonly found in the elderly and sometimes in astronauts who have periods for long periods of time. He also examines spine curvature and bone-mineral deficiency.
When he is not crushing bones, he tears apart airlanes.
For Smith, it all ties in with his laboratory work.
Asbestos in student housing not dangerous, officials say
"I break things," he said. "When you find out where things break, then you can find out how to stop them from breaking.
"If we can find out some things we haven't known before, it makes life more pleasant."
Staff writer
By Lori Polson
It's no secret that asbestos can be found in almost every building at the University of Kansas. But students and faculty don't need to worry about being exposed to the harmful substance, University officials say.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said this week that almost every building on campus contained asbestos.
But the asbestos is not removed or encapsulated unless it becomes friable, he said. Friable asbestos is and flakes off building surfaces.
However, often the mere mention of asbestos causes panic.
sophomore, went to make breakfast Tuesday morning in the basement of Sellards Scholarship Hall, she met a woman wearing white protective clothing.
When Penny Liu, Lawrence
The men were asbestos abatement employees.
"I just walked in the laundry room and there they were," Liu said yesterday. "I guess there was a sign up, but the door wasn't closed."
Dean Milroy, assistant director of student housing, said that efforts had been underway for the past six months to control asbestos in all residence and scholarship halls on campus.
"What we are actually doing is stabilizing the asbestos," Milroy
said.
Stabilizing the asbestos means wrapping protective coverings around pipes or covering up asbestos in ceiling tiles, he said.
"We don't feel that there is any danger." Milroy said.
But Bob Moody, public relations officer for the State Department of Health in Topeka, said working with astheses could be dangerous.
"Anytime you mess with asbestos there is a danger of the asbestos becoming airborne." he said.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, asbestos is a group of natural minerals that separate into thin fibers. Inhaling fibers can cause several lung diseases, including cancer.
Record pledges to aid academics
Staff writer
By Tim Hrenchir
Student volunteers solicited a record $80,423 in pledges from alumni during a 10-day Kansas University Endowment Association's Telefund that ended last night.
The previous record. $76,055, was set last year. Their goal was $80,000.
Most of the money went to the Endowment Association's Greater University Fund to be used in the areas of greatest need — especially scholarships, student loans and research support, said Laurie Mackey, Greater University Fund director.
Ten fraternities and ten sororites participated in the seventh annual telefund, as 120 student callers pulled in 1.872 pledges.
also let students know how much pro-
spective donors had given in the past.
Andy Carro, Winfield junior and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, won two tickets to the Final Four in Dallas by soliciting a record 4 pledges and $2,305 in three hours of calling Wednesday nights at the college's collect pledges, he said, was to keep calling and never stop.
Names and phone numbers of alumni were provided to students by the Endowment Association, who
"You're just trying to sell the University of Kansas," he said.
The Endowment Association treated callers to pizza, soft drinks and all the popcorn they could eat.
Matt McBride, Lawrence freshman and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St., came in second by raising $2,155 Monday night. McBride said
"Every other caller wanted to talk KU basketball," he added.
"People were still pretty hyper about the basketball team," he said. "They kept asking us about being in the Final Four. One guy who said he was on the 1943 basketball team was really happy about it. He gave us $250."
Sunday's KU basketball victory was a big help for Monday's callers.
The Sig Eps received the highest team total in pledges Monday, accumulating $6,960. They combined with Chi Omega sorority, 1345 West Campus Road, to raise the highest nightly amount, $11,463.
The Endowment Association will treat callers from the two houses to dinner at a restaurant of their choice, McBride said.
Although many alumni wanted to talk basketball, almost all pledges went toward academics, Mackey said.
By Tom Farmer
Staff writer
Nobel winner questions U.S. military activities
The present U.S. military activities in Central America may lead to another Vietnam of even greater proportions, a Nobel Peace Prize winner said yesterday.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Argentinian human rights activist, spoke yesterday morning through his interpreter, Cesar Chealala, to about 100 people in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
"If this militarization goes on, Central America is going to become another Vietnam," Esquail said. "This will be greater than Vietnam because it will be the one that will spread all over Latin America."
Esquivel, speaking about "the Crisis in Central America," said the scope of the problem wasn't solely Nicaragua, where Congress was considering sending $100 million in aid for the contras.
"What is going on in Nicaragua can not be seen as something that is isolated from Central America," he said. "This struggle for liberation is not beginning now. It has a journey throughout Central America."
Instead of seeing confrontations between differing Latin American countries, Esquival said, he hoped those countries would try to solve their problems through negotiations and nonviolent means.
The main roadblock to peaceable solutions is the intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union, he said.
Esquivel used Honduras and Costa Rica, which border Nicaragua, as examples of countries where military occupation
has become ever-present. There are four armies occupying Honduras alone, he said. They are the Nicaraguan rebels, or contrasts, the U.S. army, the El Salvadoran army and the Honduran army.
"If we consider what's going on in Central America now, we should be very worried because of the consequences," Esquivel said. "Not only of the region, but on the international scene as well."
The trend over the last few decades, he said, has been the implementation of dictatorships all over Latin America. These dictatorships are based on the ideology of national security.
Esquivel was imprisoned and tortured for his opposition to the former dictatorship of Argentina, his home country. If it weren't for his international recognition as a prominent figure, he said, he might have been killed, as were many others who opposed the oppressive government before it was replaced by a democratic government.
Liberation in Latin America would mean the end to violence, which creates hunger, poverty and human suffering, he said.
"In spite of religious and cultural differences, we all belong to the human family," Esquivel said.
To do its part in bringing about a solution to the problems in Central America, the United States should stay aware of the situation there and act in the interests of the people as a whole, he said.
"I believe that as American citizens, you have the obligation to know what is going on in Central America and what is the policy of your country with regard to Central America." "Equivalel said."
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