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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1986, VOL. 96, NO. 87 (USPS 650-640)
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Coast Guard finds shuttle wreckage
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A Coast Guard cutter yesterday reported finding a large piece of debris thought to be part of the fuselage of the space shuttle Challenger and said parts of the cockpit appeared to be floating on the Atlantic Ocean.
The fuselage is the central body portion of the shuttle. The segment was hoisted aboard the Coast Guard cutter Dallas, and a spokesman reported, "They said it took everything they had to get it up there on the cutter, so it must be fairly large."
See related stories p.14.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration divers were on the scene and prepared to go down 140 feet, where sonar indicated a substantial piece of the Challenger lav.
In addition to the Navy ships, seven other ships and 13 helicopters were running search sweeps up and down the coast. The new search area, expanded from the original 5,500 miles, extended 50 miles from shore in water 50 to 1,200 feet.
Meanwhile, an investigating board spent the day checking television tapes of the liftoff taken from different angles. NBC said the focus was on one of the solid rocket boosters.
Reporter Jay Barbree said a frame-by-frame study of the widely seen video tape seemed to indicate that a splice between two of the booster's four segments sprang a leak and 'served like a blowtorch and burned through the tank — a 6,000 degree blowtorch.'
A source, speaking on condition he not be identified, told The Associated Press that "this is one piece of evidence they are looking at it, but there is nothing conclusive."
Earlier, NASA had expanded its search for Challenger's wreckage, dispatching six Navy ships. Crews recovered thousands of pounds of debris, including one of the shuttle's control panels.
Lt. Cmdr. Jim Simpson of the Coast Guard said that the cutter Dallas reported its find as a large piece and that there appeared to be parts of the cockpit floating in the water.
Simpson would not give the location of the sighting but said it was far offshore.
"They had multiple sonar hits indicating there is something large on the bottom." he said.
Youngsters want crew remembered
United Press International
ELK GROVE, Calif. — Students at Franklin Elementary School have begun a letter-writing campaign asking scientists to name 10 moons around Uranus after the seven members of the shuttle Challenger killed Tuesday and three other astronauts killed 19 years ago in U.S. space program accidents.
Principal Irene West said Wednesday that a parent recommended the idea of giving the names of the astronauts to 10 previously undiscovered moons orbiting the planet Uranus Photographs of the moons were beamed to Earth last week by the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
Voyage a spain West said the youngsters would be mailing their letters to a committee of leading researchers meeting this week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
She said teachers responded to the campaign idea because one of the astronauts killed in the explosion of Challenger was teacher Christa McAuliffe. As for the pupils, she said, they simply thought it was a good thing to do.
A spokesman of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, "The naming scheme is pretty standard, but I think the kids have a good idea considering the circumstances."
in Washington, Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who flew on a previous shuttle mission, said he would introduce legislation to name seven newly discovered Uranus moons after the Challenger crew members.
Asked whether there was any sign of the bodies of the seven astronauts who died when Challenger exploded Tuesday, NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said no.
Also found were two cone-shaped objects described as about 10 feet in diameter. One had an attached parachute, indicating it came from one of the solid rocket boosters destroyed by the range safety officer. Each booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the
See SHUTTLE, p. 6, col. 1
Work now, play later
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Glen Cunningham, 420 North St., holds a depth stick as another KU Housing employee surveys the depth of the hole dug to install new playground equipment. The equipment was being installed yesterday afternoon at Stouffer Place for the residents' children.
Program delayed by crash Journalists see hope for future
By Frank Ybarra Staff writer
The Journalist-in-Space Project has been delayed indefinitely, the president of the organization coordinating the project announced yesterday.
Robert Hoskins, the president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, said he thought the project should be revived. Hoskins is also the dean of the journalism school at Arkansas State University...
"There is strong sentiment for the project to go forward," he said. "For now, ASJMC and its members share the grief of the nation over the tragedy."
Eric Johnson, a coordinator for the project, which is based at the University of South Carolina, said he hop to meet next week with representatives from the Nationa. Aeronautics and Space Administration.
"At this point we are set to proceed at the appropriate time," he said.
Rick Musser. KU associate professor of journalism, is assisting Del Brinkman, dean of journalism, coordinating a regional review committee that will select eight are journalists for the project. Musser said he thought that the project would go on but that one involved really knew when it would continue.
Musser was to attend a conference for the project in Houston yesterday and today, but that meeting was postponed.
Marilyn Yarbrough, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, is on the national panel that will pick five finalists for the project.
She said she assumed the national panel meeting, scheduled for early April, would be delayed, but she had no word about it yet.
Ken Murphy, who is working on his master's degree in public administration at KU and is one of the applicants for the project, said he had expected the delay but hoped the project would continue.
Murphy is a political reporter for WIBW-TV in Topeka.
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Amendment moves to full House
Racing passes committee gate
By Abbie Jones
Staff writer
TOPEKA — A resolution legalizing pari-mutual waging on horse and dog races was approved by a House committee yesterday on what one representative called a "greased" vote.
After two days of testimony, the Federal and State Affairs Committee approved a proposal that would allow the Legislature to permit, license, regulate and tax horse and dog races. The state now prohibits pari-mutuel wagering on races.
The proposed constitutional amendment will now go before the full House for approval. The proposal must pass both the Senate and the House by two-thirds vote before it can be placed on the November ballot.
Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence,
said a similar plan legalizing parimutuel wagering had passed the
Eederal and State Affairs Committee last year, but died in the full House.
This year's proposal was "greased." Charlton said, since there was no discussion on the resolution before the voice vote.
Jonathan Small, a member of Kansas for Parimutuel, said the betting would increase revenue for local economies through the bed, gasoline and sales taxes that accompany a track.
"Having been in other states where pari-mutuel is an accepted recreational sport, you see a tremendous benefit to the local economy as they (the taxes) support the race tracks." Small said.
The substitution, made by Michael Peterson, D-Kansas City, calls for a tax of no less than 3 percent and no more than 5 percent to be placed on the bets.
The committee also approved a substitute motion to change the amount of tax the state imposed on money wagered.
The measure originally had called for a 5 percent tax on the bets, but
Other states were forced to amend their constitutions when their tax rates needed to be reduced to 1 or 2 percent in order to operate, she said.
"五或 six (percent) would almost guarantee that no one could afford to operate a track," Charlton said. "Constitution language should always be as simple and flexible as possible. Tax rates should not be in there."
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Charlton, who abstained from the final voice vote, said the specific tax rates should not be included in the constitution for the proposal to pass the full House.
Peterson said that in other states that had more than a 1 percent tax on wagered money, the tracks were struggling financially.
track in Ottawa.
An opponent to the proposal, the Rev. Richard E. Taylor Jr., who heads Kansens for Life at Its Best!, said betting on horses and dogs was degrading for the state.
was lowered to act as an incentive for someone to build a track, Peterson said.
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"Two local Vietnam veterans decided last summer that Americans didn't know enough about 'grunts and gorillas' or 'boones and base camps.'"
"If the people back home want quality of life in Kansas, superior to other states, they will contact their house member and their senator and ask him to refuse to approve gambling." Taylor said.
Vets' book teaches Vietnam trivia
"We are told with 3 to 6 in the resolution, it will get through the House." Peterson said. "It's a step in the right direction."
By Leslie Hirschbach
AK-SAR-BEN is the horse racing track in Omaha, Neb.
"I would love to have an AK-SAR BEN in Wyandotte County." he said. "Now we're short of funds. We're looking for ways to raise the revenue."
Peterson said it was not the responsibility of the legislators to monitor the abuses that might be caused by someone outside the legislative body.
"We don't legislate morality," Peterson said. "We can set policy. We can start programs.
So they compiled 1,500 questions about the Vietnam War into "The Vietnam Book of Trivia," and hoped the trivia craze would bring them success, said Michael Clofetel, Lawrence resident and co-author.
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Peterson agreed that money generated from the track would help pull the state from its financial woes.
Clodfetler said that many people didn't know, but would find fascinating, that a grunt is slang for an infantryman, and that the boonies refers to the jungle in Vietnam.
Clodfletter, a KU security guard, and John Musgrave, a KPL Gas Service employee from Baldwin City and member of the Vietnam Memorial Committee, compiled the book after two months of individual research in their homes. Clodfletter said. The book is scheduled to be
published in May.
The Vietnam War is a subject that a few people know a lot about and that most people know little to nothing about, he said.
"We felt this was a way to bring out an interest in the war," he said. "Both of us are very interested in the war and have extensive libraries."
Clofdelter said much of the information in the book came from personal experience.
experience.
Musgrave served with the 3rd
marine Division in Vietnam in 1967 and Clodlet served with the 101st Airborne Division from 1965 to 1967.
The 180-page book is divided into eight categories. "Boonies and Base Camps" answers questions about the soldiers' day-to-day existence, and "Grunts and Gorillas" tells about famous individuals of the war.
The category titles were used to catch attention, Cloflester said, and
See TRIVIA, p. 6, col. 5
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Student senate board approves cab service
By Monty Headley
The Student Senate night cab service, which will provide free cab rides for KU students, was approved last night by the KU Transportation Board.
David Epstein, student body president, and Amy Brown, student body vice president, had included a night cab service for students as one major goal in their campaign last fall.
Both cab companies in Lawrence had expressed interest in the service and would submit bids, he said.
The service will operate midnight to 3 a.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Friday through Sunday.
The approved plan calls for free cab rides for students from campus buildings, private parties and community businesses to the students' homes.
The board plans to start the service March 1 or as soon as the state has accepted a bid.
Tim Boller, transportation board coordinator, said the state would begin accepting bids from Lawrence cab companies in about two weeks. The state conducts the bidding for transportation board projects if the amount is more than $500, Boller said.
The service should cost about $4,000 the first year and will be financed by the transportation board, Boller said. The wheels, which finances the KU on Wheels bus system, is supported by the student activity fee.
The board also considered the possibility of lawsuits filed by people who might be injured when riding in one of the Senate-sponsored cabs.
Professor guide to be released by end of March
Bv a Kansan reporter
A students' guide to KU professors should be available by the end of March, Amy Brown, student body vice president, said yesterday.
Brown said the guide might cut down on the number of students going through the add-drop process because they would know what to expect from a course before enrolling.
The guide will include the results of a student survey about the courses and the professors, comments from each professor, the number of exams in a semester and attendance policies, Brown said.
Michael Johnson, English department chairman, said the new guide probably wouldn't decrease the number of students going through add-drop by much because teachers often changed their policies for each course every semester.
"I'd like to think it will help the
See PROFS, p. 6, col. 6
Boller said the cab companies had agreed to assume liability for students using the service.
Epstein, a board member, said the
See CABBIE, p. 6, col. 4