University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 20, 1987
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Ken Lassman helps a group of Brownies across a stream at the Woodridge Camping and Hiking Area at Clinton Reservoir. Lassman led a nature hike for 38 people Saturday morning.
KU grad leads hikers near lake
Staff writer
By JENNIFER FORKER Staff writer
At 9 a.m. Saturday, Ken Lassam led 38 people on a three-mile nature hike at Woodbridge Camping near the west side of Clinton Restoration.
The hikers, including two OtaWA brownie troops with 18 girls, walked on winding paths that led them through dense forests and past the sparkling lake waters.
Lassman leads the hikes, which are sponsored by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Center, the third Saturday of each month. It was the second hike this spring. Lassman, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1977 with a degree in anthropology, said the hikes would continue into the summer.
The path was narrow and sometimes muddy. It followed a creek that wound its way toward the lake. The hikers had to cross the creek on a narrow log less than four feet from the water.
Lassman warned the hikers about ticks and told them not to
drink the creek water or eat any of the edible weeds or flowers that he pointed out. He said the water was undrainable unless boiled.
As the hikers trudged through a particularly muddy area, the Brownies yelled out, "Yucky mud, pass it on."
The hikers wound through the forest and emerged at the top of a hill in open sunlight. The path was clear and light on the left and the lake on the right.
The hikers descended the hill and entered the forest. They stopped for a short rest. The lake lapped along the shore, inches from the hikers. The Brownies broke out their plastic baggies of carrots, celery, raisins and trail mix.
Lassman answered questions about the plants and wildlife. He said hiking was worthwhile year round.
"I think anytime of the year is worthwhile because you see something different," Lassman said. "You can see what's in your guide — to know what to look for."
The weary hikers walked up a small incline and past burned fields. Lassman told the group they would rest at the top of the hill. Nearing the top, someone asked, "We're at the top, can we drop?"
While at the hilltop, Lassman explained that the fields were burned to prevent tree growth. The burned grass would grow back, but the trees still stood.
A buzzard flew over, and a hush fell over the group. It circled overhead and then flew off.
"I guess we didn't look good enough to eat." someone said
Pelicans glided over the lake.
Lassman explained that the pelicans were passing through on their way south.
Once back at the camping area, the hikers broke into applause, congratulating each other for finishing the hike.
Gilda Young, Lawrence, said it was her first hike but would like to go on future hikes.
"I don't want to miss any of them." she said.
Campus operations official to retire
By KJERSTI MOEN Staff writer
Staff writer
His friends and colleagues held a
James Canole, campus director of facilities planning, is retiring after $17 \frac{1}{2}$ years at the University of Kansas.
on the cake was written, "fair seas, showing seas," a Navy expression for good luck. Canole and his wife, Alpha, both have backgrounds in the Navy.
Canole
Canole's professional background is in architecture. He worked at the state architect's office for $17\frac{1}{2}$ years, the last six as state architect, from 1961 to 1967. He then became a construction consultant for KU and was hired at the office of facilities planning in 1969.
The pictures on the walls of the facilities planning reception room showed the progressing stages of campus development.
Canole has made a significant contribution to that development. He has supervised the planning and construction of Murphy Hall, Burge Union, Allen Field House, Haworth Hall and the additions to the Robinson Center and Malott Hall.
When he worked at the state architect's office, Canole helped build the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene. The museum is dedicated to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who grew up in Abilene. Canole was in charge of constructing the library and planning the chapel.
"He has a very practical approach towards planning," said James Modig, construction administrator. "He looks at the realistic solution rather than a theoretic solution."
Keith Lawton, former campus director, then known as vice chancellor of campus development, has spent a year at the university and is also a personal friend.
"Mr. Canelo is a dedicated state servant," Lawton said, adding that Canelo always had looked after tax payments and having money on construction projects.
"He's had exceptional luck in generating cooperation from the Kansas construction industry. KU is often fortunate to have him here."
Canole said he was ready to retire after 37 years of working for the state, but not because the job had been unrewarding.
"It just all adds up to one great experience," Canole said. To him, as to most architects, one of the greatest satisfactions of the job was seeing
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a project develop from the planning stage to the finished structure, he said.
He said working for the state had brought him in contact with many great people, some of whom also became personal friends.
"The real satisfaction is the number of just plain super people I've met," he said.
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Turbulent air can make airplane flights uncomfortable and frightening for many passengers. The problem is especially common on commuter flights, which use smaller airplanes, but a KU professor is working to improve passengers' comfort.
Uncomfortable flights, which can scare people away to travel, or the industry.
By TIM HAMILTON Staff writer
Prof designs plane system
David Downing, associate professor of aerospace engineering and director of KU's Flight Research Laboratory, has designed a system to smooth out choppy flights on commercial commuter airplanes.
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Commuter airplanes are more susceptible to wind gusts because they fly at lower, more turbulent altitudes and have a lower ratio of weight to wind area than larger commercial airplanes.
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Downing said that computer-controlled surfaces on a plane's wings and tail would move to counteract vertical gusts and improve ride quality.
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"The ride-quality system will have a computer in it as part of the control system."
Downing said the system's success depended on how quickly the computer could react to the gusts.
The computer checks for gusts 50 times a second, he said. If any gust is detected, it will adjust the surfaces to offset the turbulence. The surfaces are capable of moving 15 degrees up or down in one-third of a second.
The system will add about $100,000 to the cost of a commuter aircraft, which range from $3 million to $6 million.
Now, the system only needs to be tested. Downing said.
The University has subcontracted with Cessna Aircraft Corporation to test and modify the system this summer on one of its commuter
planes, the six-passenger twinengine Businessliner.
The test plane also will include a computer provided by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and some avionics from King Radio Corp. in Olathe.
Downing said his project, one of three in the department involving subcontracts with Cessna, was an example of cooperative research with an industry that was not interested only in increasing profits.
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"The they are examples of ways in which the University and Kansas industries can cooperate to the benefit of both." Downing said.
Saeed Farokhi, assistant professor of aerospace, said that Downing's research fostered economic growth and created a beneficial impact on the industry.
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