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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 90 (USPS 650-640)
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Searchers may have found rocket booster
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Searchers may have found one of Challenger's two rocket boosters yesterday, which could be a valuable piece of evidence in the investigation of the space shuttle's explosion. NASA said.
"Sonar soundings indicate a solid rocket booster may have been located," a National Aeronautics and Space Administration statement said. There was no information on the precise location.
There also was no indication of
whether it was the right booster, which is the chief suspect in the liftoff explosion that destroyed the shuttle and killed its seven astronauts Jan. 28. Challenger had two such boosters to help propel it into space.
CBS, meanwhile, said that at least part of the shuttle's main crew compartment had been located and that some of the personal effects of the astronauts floated to the ocean surface. NBC said some of the human remains brought to shore in recent days had been identified as belonging to the seven astronauts.
NASA spokesman Richard Young
adhering to a self-imposed agency rule, said, "We don't have any word from the investigation board about that."
"if the booster is from the right side,
"we have a very valuable piece of evidence for the (accident) review board." Mizell said.
Recovery of the booster might show whether a leak in the thick metal casing caused a tongue of flame to heat the huge external tank, setting off the blast. This flame was seen in film, although its origin was not clear.
Engineers could gain much
knowledge just studying the burn patterns or the joints on the side of the thick rocket casing. Mizell said.
Chief objects of the search besides the right booster are the crew compartment, with its cockpit voice recorder and electronics that monitor and record spacecraft systems.
Two NASA ships with sonar and robot submarines that can see hundreds of times better than the human eye continued scanning the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean 40 miles offshore in water 1.100 feet deep.
With any surface debris scattered ever wider by strong ocean currents, the Navy pulled out its ships, leaving only four Coast Guard vessels, four fixed-wing planes and two helicopters. There had been 10 aircraft and 15 ships on Monday.
NASA yesterday crossed off seven of 17 targets — objects seen in sonar soundings — after a closer look by
robot submarines showed they were not parts from the shuttle.
The agency also said it was in error Monday when it said two interesting soundings were old wreckage of a helicopter and an airplane. There were no sonar sounds at all, spokeswoman Sarah Keegan said yesterday.
Members of an interim investigation board were flying to Washington to make their first report to the presidential panel that is charged with finding out how the explosion happened and how another can be prevented.
KUAC to postpone changes in seating until next season
By Frank Ybarra
Staff writer
Staff writer
After making a decision to eliminate 400 seats in Allen Feldt Field, the executive committee of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation decided yesterday to postpone any seating changes until next season.
Anthony Redwood, professor of business and chairman of the KUAC, told a meeting of the KUAC that committee members went to the field house yesterday afternoon to examine how the bleachers would be blocked off.
After looking at possible arrangements of rope and wooden barriers, the members decided that the bleachers could not be physically blocked off without guaranteeing that people would not climb under or over the barriers. Redwood said.
William Hanna, Newton senior and a student representative on the KUAC, said he went with the executive committee to look at the situation.
The committee was concerned with how the barriers looked and about possible confrontations with anyone who tried to sit in the blocked-off areas, he said.
who tried to sit in the office during Redwood said after the meeting that the committee's decision became moot upon examining the possible barriers.
"If we could have physically done it, we would have stuck with the decision," he said.
who were standing in areas of the field house where new bleachers were installed last fall. The new bleachers are six feet higher than those they replaced. As a result, fans who sat behind the bleachers could not see the game even if they stood.
The problem with the seating came about after the KUAC received complaints about a group of students who were standing throughout entire basketball games.
see the game board. On Monday, Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director, said between 400 and 500 seats in student seating sections would be blocked off.
would be scheduled. Redwood said that even though the committee discovered it was not practical to block off the seats this season, a solution still had to be found for next season.
After the next KUAC meeting on April 15, he said, a committee would be formed to find a solution to the problem for next year.
bem for next year:
The new committee would consult with some of the students who were standing during games this year, Redwood said.
Jason Krakow, Prairie Villa sophomore, is one of the fans who stands behind the KU bench at the games.
"I never gave it much thought until it became an issue," he said. "It will be a thought of mine now."
Krakow said, however, that he might be more conscious of the fans who were seated behind him.
'America is on the move'
United Press International
Speech urges fiscal fitness
WASHINGTON — President Reagan challenged the nation last night to "win the race to the future" by pressing ahead on a course of fiscal fitness and military strength to reassert America's place of world leadership.
Assessing the accomplishments of his tenure and embracing anew the goals of his conservative agenda in his fifth State of the Union address, Reagan told Congress and a nationwide television audience. "We have done well, but we cannot stop at the footshills when Everest beckons. It is time for America to be all we can be."
Through his 30-minute litany,
Reagan spoke directly to the nation's children about the challenge of the future and repeatedly emphasized the role of family in American life.
He announced a major review of welfare programs — at the federal, state and local levels — with a goal of developing by Dec. 1. a plan to break the hold of the "welfare culture" on the nation's poor and ensure that such assistance leads to "real and lasting emancipation."
The president also directed Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen to report by year's end with recommendations on how the government and private insurance companies might join forces to protect the elderly against the devastating costs of catastrophic illness.
Security at the Capitol was tighter than usual, prompted by increased fears of terrorism, an issue to which Reagan made only a passing reference. Guards with bombsniffing dogs patrolled the grounds, access to the building was limited and identification was carefully checked.
Reagan opened his address in the House chamber — packed by members of Congress, the Cabinet, the justices of the Supreme Court and other luminaries – with a reference to last Tuesday's Challenger explosion.
The speech was devoid of specific recommendations to Congress for
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
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Chris Butler, Coffeyville junior, scrubs the face of the Moses statue in front of Smith Hall. The statue was being cleaned yesterday in preparation for the premier of the film, "Moses: The Creation of a Heroic Sculpture." The film, which documents the 15-year making of the statue, will be shown at 8 p.m. Feb. 14 in Dyche Auditorium.
House bill may halt cut-rate liquor costs
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
Penny and dime draws may be prohibited under a House bill pinning stifter restrictions on Kansas club owners.
The proposal says no price can be set that is lower than that charged to all other buyers of drinks during that week and prohibits owners from selling liquor as part of a meal package. Last year's legislation said no price could be set that is less than other drink prices during that day.
The proposal would prohibit club owners from selling an alcoholic beverage for less than it costs the establishment, said State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington.
"We are trying to actively discourage heavy drinking in clubs," said State Rep. Robert Vancram, R-Overland Park. "Extending it to an entire week will discourage clubs or taverns from offering all-you-can-drank nights, or penny-a-pitcher nights."
Members of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee are now studying the proposal and will hold a hearing within the next two weeks.
The measure also says it is illegal to sell a pitcher to one person and requires clubs to post a price list for all drinks.
liquor legislation passed last year. Some club owners had side-stepped certain provisions of those laws, he said.
"It's going to need some fine tuning," he said. "That's what this is designed to do."
"The government is trying to step in and regulate our total business," he said. "It would be some big changes, but it wouldn't be anything we couldn't handle."
Doug Compton, owner of the Mad Hatter, 700 New Hampshire St., said the government's involvement in liquor bills hurt the industry.
Vancur said he thought the legislation was difficult to enforce, but would probably pass through the committee with some modification.
Miller said the proposal was designed to eliminate holeoles in
Compton said his Thursday night deal which offers 1-cent draws of beer for a $5 cover charge was to reward his patrons who bought drinks all week. Compton said the Mad Hatter would drop the cover charge and sell draws for 15 cents if the bill became a law.
Vancrum, vice chairman of the committee, said the intent of the changes were to keep people from drinking too much at one time.
"I might as well hand my liquor license over to the legislature," Compton said. "It's not free enterprise any more."
Some KU sales tax policies to change
By Leslie Hirschbach
Staff writer
A sales tax audit at the University in March may lead some departments to reassess their current sales tax practices, an official from the Kansas Department of Revenue said.
Kansas sales tax statutes now allow for different interpretations at each university, he said. Guidelines need to be set to insure that each university adheres to the statutes in a similar way.
Harley Duncan, secretary of the revenue department, said he called for a sales tax audit at Kansas State University last year, and at KU this year, to set precedents for other Regents schools.
tion that if you're not a profitable institution, you're tax exempt," he said.
The audit has two purposes, Duncan said. One is to insure that the universities have been paying and collecting sales taxes. The other is to make sure that tax exempt purchases are being used for educational purposes.
There is a common misconcep-
Marvin Thompson, internal auditor at K-State, said the department of revenue found the university liable for about $100,000 in back taxes. Ten departments are protesting the decision, he said.
the libraries, the yearbook and the student union suffered large financial setbacks, according to Thompson.
He said the audit at K-State hurt its library more than other departments because the library had not been charging a sales tax for 5-cent copies from photocopy machines.
"They had to pay sales taxes for three years of previous business, which was in the neighborhood of $10,000 liability," he said. That amount included interest.
Recently, The Rock Chalk Review, a variety show that raises money for the Lawrence United Way, began paying sales taxes on ticket sales after being advised by the University comprotiler's office.
Jim Ranz, KU dean of libraries, said the libraries began paying sales taxes on the receipts from copy machine sales a few months ago at the suggestion of the University legal counsel.
Paying sales taxes for copies may hurt the library, he said, because it might have to raise the price of photocopied material if the financial
burden became too heavy
If the price of copies is raised, Ranz said, the collections could suffer because students may tear pages out of books to avoid paying for more expensive copies.
"We want to make our collections available to students and hold copy prices down," he said.
compete John Allison, executive director of the show, said organizers hadn't paid sales taxes because they thought
See AUDIT, p. 5, col. 4
Petition requests help to decrease vandalism
By Peggy Kramer Staff writer
Four KU students have organized a petition requesting help in reducing vandalism in the residence hall parking lots, the organizer of the petition said Monday.
Bond said the petition would be sent to everyone who would be involved in the project, including the Association of University Residence
Kelly Bond, Reynolds, Ga., graduate student and the organizer, said the petition would ask for improved security, increased police patrol of residence hall parking lots, improved lighting and repaired potholes.
Halls and the KU police.
"There has been a lot of vandalism going on and nobody's doing anything about it," Bond said. "We haven't set a goal for the number of signatures, but we hope to have enough to show that we have a representative voice."
Sgt. John Brothers, crime prevention and community relations for KU police, said last Thursday that there were 11 separate burglaries to automobiles in the Daisy Field extension parking area.
Since Jan. 1, 15 burglaries have occurred in the residence hall parking lots. Eleven of those occurred on Jan. 30. Brothers said.
Scott Danenhauer, Denver junior and Ellsworth resident, said his car window was broken Thursday and the glove box was rummaged through, but nothing, including the stereo, was taken.
Brothers said, "There are officers making extra patrols of the Daisy Field parking area, but we don't have the money or the people to put an officer there full-time."
People should be aware that automobile burglaries don't only
The residence halls and Jayhawket Towers have the largest concentration of parked vehicles, he said, and there is crime potential wherever the population is concentrated.
happen at night, he said. Last fall there were six or seven burglaries during the day in the Daisy Field parking area.
Brothers gave some tips to help discourage vandals.
He said people should park in well-lighted and well-travelled areas, keep their automobiles locked and valuables either locked in the trunk or not in the car at all.
Even though car alarms can be beneficial, he said, they can also be expensive and the extra-sensitive ones can be a nuisance to the owner.
ones can be a master door.
Dannenhaer said locking the doors
See PETITION, p. 5, col. 4