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From left: Jerry Bailey, associate professor for the School of Education and chairman of the board of directors; Sean Lester, interim athletics director; and Student Body President Michael Wade Smith discuss the agenda of the Athletics Advisory Board meeting at Wagnon Hall on Sept. 23.
New leaders consider the future of Kansas Athletics
BY STEPHEN MONTEMAYOR
smontemayor@kansan.com
The temporary chairman of Kansas Athletics' board of directors sat by the interim athletics director and offered sentiments no more set in stone, albeit in jest.
"Congratulations — I think," Jerry Bailey said to Sean Lester, who is in his second week as interim athletics director.
Tasked with rethinking its composition and purpose, the board maintained a light mood in its Thursday meeting, despite the existential questions hanging in the balance.
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little told the board that outside representation should be considered,
as should the means of selecting a permanent chairperson. The board's role in reviewing personnel
and financial matters is also up for revision.
Gray-Little removed the athletics director as chairman of the board in August and appointed Bailey, associate professor of education, to the position for the rest of the year.
affiliated with the University. Kansas Board of Regents chairman Gary Scherrer has urged this change.
"Outside eyes and outside perspectives are healthy,"Scherrer said last week after the regents' meeting.
"Outside eyes and outside perspectives are healthy."
serving as chairwoman for the board only if the board's members were compelled to have her fill that role. Otherwise, she said it didn't make sense to have the chancellor lead a board overseeing Athletics when the athletics director already reports to her.
GARY SCHERRER Kansas Board of Regents chairman
Bailey researched how other universities structured their athletics advisory boards, finding that in most cases the university chief executive officer — typically a university's chancellor or president — led the board. Gray-Little said this was illogical to her.
She said she would consider
The board's bylaws require it to meet at least four times a year.
though members suggested more correspondence may be necessary considering its tasks this year.
The board agreed to gather feedback on who should serve as chairperson in the future and possible additions to its structure. It agreed to gather this information by Oct. 14 and discuss it in its next meeting in early November.
The board's members include the athletics director, provost, student body president, vice provost for Student Success, a faculty athletics director and the University's chief business and financial planning officer.
Edited by Alex Tretbar
Engineering students win top slots at jet conference
ACADEMICS
BY ALLYSON SHAW ashaw@kansan.com
For the first time in the history of the Aviation, Technology. Integration and Operations conference, one university took the top three spots. Three students at the University of Kansas created designs that won the university those spots.
The conference was held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics last week in Fort Worth, Texas. Competitors, such as MIT, Stanford and Cal. Tech, were asked to design a business jet that had a large cabin, could use relatively short runways and fly farther.
The contest drew competitors from 55 universities worldwide, but KU students didn't have anything to worry about because they have won more awards for aerospace engineering than any university in the world. Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, associate professor of aerospace engineering, said the competition was like the Indianapolis 500 of aerospace competitions.
The first-place winner, Lauren Fitzpatrick, a 2010 graduate from Stilwell, is the first black woman to ever win this award. She used
an old design to build her model aircraft.
Most business jets hold fuel in a compartment under the plane or in the tail cone, Fitzpatrick said. But she used a fuel-storage system called slipper tanks under the wings of the aircraft. These slipper tanks were last used in the 1960s but were abandoned because they created extra weight and drag. Barrett-Gonzalez said. Fitzpatrick also used the slipper tanks to store the main landing gear to make up for the slipper tanks' problems.
"Lauren is a student of history," Barrett-Gonzalez said. "She resurrected an idea, updated it and improved it."
Fitzpatrick said this design was safer than other storage fuel options because in the event of a crash in regular jets the passengers are in the same space as the fuel so "they'd be incinerated."
NASA contacted Fitzpatrick after her presentation to inquire about her design.
"I started with a blank sheet of paper, and I finished with a winning design." Fitzpatrick said. "It's such an honor."
Fitzpatrick and the runners-up completed the project as part of a senior design class for the
aerospace engineering program. Sarah Kulhanek, a graduate student from Deerfield, Ill., designed the second-place plane,
She said her design was unique because her plane was the same size from end to end. Other business jets are tapered like a Coke bottle and you have to crouch to get into them, she said. She said their designs represented the next phase in business jets. Kulhanek's jet would cost $14 million to build and operate.
"This project was the integration of all our classes from freshman to senior year," Kelhanek said. "It's most exciting that KU swept the top three spots."
swept the top three spots Barrett-Gonzalez said this project was important for Kansas tax-payers because aerospace is one of the top two industries in the state. More than two-thirds of airplanes made in the Western Hemisphere come from Kansas.
"Competitions like these are more important than the accolades," Barrett-Gonzalez said. "Our program directly supports one of our most important industries in our state."
Edited by David Cawthon
NATIONAL
Feds object to injunction against DADT ban
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN DIEGO — Attorneys for the Obama administration objected Thursday to a proposed worldwide injunction being considered by a California federal judge that would halt the military's ban on openly gay troops.
Calling the possible move "untenable," Department of Justice attorneys filed their objections in U.S. District Court in Riverside.
They said Judge Virginia Phillips, who declared the policy unconstitutional earlier this month, would be overstepping
her bounds if she tried to stop it in its tracks.
Instead, she should limit any injunction to the 19,000 members of the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay rights organization that filed the lawsuit to stop enforcement of the ban, the lawyers said.
The case has put the White House in the uncomfortable position of defending a policy President Obama has said he wants repealed.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the Department of Justice traditionally defends legal challenges to acts of Congress, but that does
not mean the administration is backpedaling on its efforts to get rid of "don't ask, don't tell."
"This filing in no way diminishes the president's firm commitment to achieve a legislative repeal of DADT — indeed, it clearly shows why Congress must act to end this misguided policy," Gibbs said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.
Phillips was asked to order an injunction that would immediately stop the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy from being used to discharge any U.S. military personnel anywhere in the world.
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