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University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 23, 1987
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Local Briefs
Regents allow KU to request parking bonds
The state Board of Regents gave the final go-ahead Friday for a $5 million multilevel parking structure on KU's Lawrence campus.
The Regents gave the University of Kansas permission to ask the Kansas Legislature for the authority to issue revenue bonds to finance the structure, which will have 600 to 800 parking spaces.
Thursday, the Regents approved a request from KU's facilities planning office to amend its fiscal year 1988 budget to include the facilities planning plans and opening officials plan to open the structure in fall 1988.
No state money would be used to finance the structure. The revenue-bonds would be paid back by the university and other KU parking service funds.
The two possible sites for the parking structure are the parking lot north of Allen Field House and the just north of Watkins Hospital.
City candidates to debate this week
The Downtown Lawrence Association will sponsor a debate between the 10 candidates for Lawrence City Commission at 7 p.m. today in the Senior Citizens Center, 745 Vermont St.
The candidates will meet again in a debate sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall, on Broadway, and on the streets. That meeting will be the last before the March 3 primary.
The top six candidates in the primary will advance to the April 7 general election, when three commissioners will be elected.
2 engineering profs to receive awards
Two KU engineering professors will receive awards from the Midwestern section of the American Society for Engineering Education
Howard Smith, professor of aerospace engineering, will receive the $1,500 AT&T Foundation Award on March 12 in Salina. The award recognizes exceptional teachers for their interest and enthusiasm in their subjects and their students.
Robert Voigt, associate professor of mechanical engineering, will receive the Dow Chemical Outstanding Young Faculty Award at the annual ASEE study in June in Reno, Nev. The award honors an ASEE member demonstrates enthusiasm for engineering and the education of engineering students.
Alumni committee nominates leaders
The executive committee of the University of Kansas Alumni Association has nominated six association members to serve on the group's board of directors. Association members will elect three of the six by Mav 4.
The nominees are William Bunyan III. Dodge City; Marilyn Rogge Greathouse, Colby; Sue Harper Ice, Newton; Michael McCoy, Topeka; David Mills, Arkansas City; and Kurt Watson, Wichita.
The new directors will replace outgoing directors Dorothy Lynch, Salina. Judith Stanton, Prairie School. Derek Trombold, Solana Beach, Calif.
From staff and wire reports.
Danny Ray/KANSAN
Tom Osborne, U.S. director of the Anne Frank Center in New York. Anthropology. Osborne spoke to about 150 people yesterday in the stands before a display of the Anne Frank exhibit at the Museum of Jawahry Room at the Kangas Unión.
Director discusses legacy of Anne Frank
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
Sig Lindenbaum was 8 years old when Adolf Hitler decided to rid Germany of the Jewish people.
His family was among many forced from their home in Unna, Germany, and sent by train to Poland. Each person was allowed to bring a single suitcase and a little money
Lindenbaum, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and his brother, Manfred, spent the war years in England. Lindenbaum's sister was about the same age as diarist Anne Frank and died in the
Holocaust
Yesterday, Tom Osborne, U.S. director of the Anne Frank Center in New York, spoke about the legacy of Anne Frank to about 150 people in the Jayhawk Room of Kansas Union.
The Anne Frank Foundation is a non-sectarian educational organization named for the young girl who recorded her life in a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family.
Osborne discussed the legacy of Frank's diary and how the United States must defend its democracy, especially by not allowing one
extreme group to define values and policies for the rest.
Osborne said knowledge about
the Holocaust was declining. "Many people wish to forget the Holocaust." he said.
People do not want to talk about it, and children are weary of hearing it, he said.
He said people wanted simple solutions to problems. And riding the country of defined undesirables is the answer provided by extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan.
The Anne Frank Center also monitors the activities of these
anti-Semitic, right-wing groups.
Judy Hellman, associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau of Greater Kansas City, said anti-Semitic attitudes were not uncommon in the Midwest. She said that a few anti-Semitic activists would tell a farmer that the real problem of farming was international bankers.
"Which usually means Jews." Among its other programs, such as educating schoolchildren about the Holocaust, the bureau has worked to educate the urban community about the farm crisis.
Mayor rests after surgery to drain fluid
United Press International
Jon Moran, Reardon's surgeon,
said yesterday that Reardon, 43, was
doing very well and had spent a restful night.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. Mayor Jack Reardon, who had emergency surgery Saturday to drain fluid buildup from his newly transplanted heart, was resting quietly yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center, a hospital spokesman said.
Reardon's kidneys were functioning well and were continuing to improve, Moran said. Doctors think the excess fluid congestion around Reardon's heart was related to a kidney malfunction.
The mayor remained on a respirator yesterday and was listed in critical but stable condition in the intensive care hospital spokesman Mary Harrison said.
"It (the fluid buildup) is not a sign of rejection." Moran said. "It occurs to patients that have open chest surgery, but normally within the first 24 hours of surgery. After 48 hours, it is very uncommon."
Doctors noticed an immediate improvement in Reardon's kidneys after Saturday's surgery, Moran said.
He said the fluid buildup around
Keardon's heart was from old blood,
thanks to a rare genetic mutation.
The kidney problem was thought to be related to Reardon's intake of cyclospermine, an anti-rejection drug, and probably was aggravated by the presence of blood in the problem occurs in about 20 percent of all heart transplant cases. Moran said.
Reardon had suffered from cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart, and had been waiting for a new heart since November.
Moran said Reardon's recovery likely would be lengthened because of the emergency surgery, but he did not have a plan for the hospital in three to four weeks.
Kansas City's mayoral general election will be held April 7. Reardon is seeking election to a fourth term.
Performers ready for revue
Staff writer
Bv IFRRI NIFRAUM
SIX KU students and two a capella groups will sing and dance in Hoch Auditorium to keep the audience warm during KU's 37th Rock Chalk Revue, opening Thursday.
"They all have to do with food." Franz said.
Therese Franz, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, directed this year's in-
between acts to music from the '45s
and '60s, and the hit Broadway
musical "Fame."
This year's Rock Chalk theme is "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Kitchen," which Franz said she tried to capture with the songs "Java Jive," the "Hot Lunch Jam" and "Steam Heat."
The numbers will be performed between Rock Chalk's five featured groups of sororities and fraternities that originated skits, music and dancing.
New this year is a finale with Rock Chalk's cast of more than 200 and the in-between acts performers. The singles will spill off the stage into the aisles to perform "We Can Move Mountains," a song used to promote first lady Nancy Reagan's anti-drug campaign.
Franz said she chose the song to represent the purpose of Rock Chalk Revue, donating money to the
Lawrence United Fund
"I'm hoping it will be really effective and really mean something to people." Franz said.
Last year, Rock Chalk donated more than $10,000 to the United Fund.
Audience members also can jive to the "Jayhawk Rap" and boogie to a dogwop group this weekend as two lounge beds break into the Rock Chalk show.
Jaguar, a new group of three KU students, will improvise a rap song about to class, taking care of business, partying and falling behind at the University of Kansas.
"It is like a party, and everybody's going to party with us," said Jaguar member Anthony Butcher, St. Louis. Moi, junior.
Thursday and Friday night audience members will get to rap with Jaguar by singing the chorus of the "Jayhawk Rap," "Kaaaaaaay U. U."
Jaguar won't perform Saturday night, but Harmonic Function, a performer last year, will return to Rock Chalk Revue for its last public performance.
Harmonic Function member Marty Wall, Lawrence graduate student, said the group was breaking up because a member was getting married. The group's four men started singing doo-wop four years ago when
they lived together at Templin Hall.
The group performs a cappella, but Wall said the members performed doo-wop, the style of the Drifters or the Temptations.
"We're four guys who happen to sit in the same singing group. Siah said that. We had a lot of fun."
Wall said last year's Rock Chalk Revue was the group's first exposure to a large audience. Since then, they have performed at "Late Night with Larry Brown," the Miss Lawrence Pageant and the Javahawk Jam.
Butcher, a past member of Harmonic Function, said members of Jaguar decided to sing together in November after hearing each other perform solos at KU's Mr. and Mrs. Ebony Pageant.
"That night, we decided we wanted to blend our voices together," Butcher said.
Jaguar's members plan to party with the audience this weekend as they blend their three voices with the audience's in the "Jayhawk Rap."
'We move.' Butcher said.
Jaguar will sing several popular songs in addition to its rap, and members said they wouldn't stand still during any of it.
"I expect them to be really live and happy, because that's the way we're going."
Staff writer
New design system helps plan airplanes
By TIM HAMILTON
The aerospace department of the School of Engineering has a new computer-aided design system to aid graduate students in advanced aircraft design.
The system, CAD, was purchased with money donated by Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering, and money awarded to the department in an aircraft design competition sponsored by General Dynamics in September.
KU aerospace students won $20,000 at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauties Annual Team for their design for their superscript lion.
Roskam, the Deane E. Ackers distinguished professor of engineering, donated the $10,000 Higuchi Endowment Research Achievement Award he received this semester. The Higuchi award is given to outstanding researchers to support and advance their programs.
Roskam said the system's Apollo DN 300 computer and CAD programs were purchased for use in the department's advanced aircraft design research. The system was received early this year and has been
Donna Gerren, Denver graduate student, said the CAD systems were used to reduce the amount of in-flight testing of aircraft.
The CAD systems, made by Gray Tech and General Dynamics, and the computer are being used by three graduate students seeking master's degrees and doctorates.
"You can never eliminate flight testing,but you can try to reduce it," she said.
For Gorner's research project, the CAD system is used to predict the most efficient number and place of fuel tanks in planes with fuel storage in the wings.
Seyed Malack, Techeran, Iran,
graduate student, said he was writing
a computer program that would
maintain the security of an aircraft
for maintenance.
"It all pointing in the same direction," he said. "Predict as much as you can using the CAD system."
Louise Morgan, Hutchinson graduate student, said her project for a master's degree might be to write a program that could create an image of a plane using only its physical dimensions.
THE HOLOCAUST OF THE PALESTINIAN CAMPS For over four months, 35,000 Palestinians have been held hostage and forced to starve at the refugee camps of Bourj al-Barajneh and Shatila by Amal militiamen. Not only are they forced to starve, but Israel considers them such a threat that the camps are shelled daily by Israeli aircraft. Are these not the same Palestinians forced to leave their homeland in 1948 after the partition and subsequent occupaition by Israel? Are these not the same Palestinians who suffered the massacre in 1982, the survivors of more than 2,000 victims? Does it take the mass starvation of 35,000 Palestinians before the world will recognize the human rights of Palestinians? The G.U.P.S. (General Union of Palestinian Students) is taking donations on behalf of these starving Palestinians. Call 749-5965, or 842-4776 or write directly to: United Holy Land Fund, P.O. Box 1981, Chicago, IL 60690.
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