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Local Briefs
Student Senate OKs financing for jazz festival
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night approved a $4,500 bill for the 10th annual Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival.
The festival will be Feb. 5-7 at Swarthownt Recital Hall and Barnes & Noble Theatre. Last year Senate provided $4,320 for the performances.
Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 27, 1987
All three bills will be considered by the full Senate on Wednesday.
The finance committee also passed a $1,500 bill to buy typewriters for a new typing room in Watson Library, and a bill for $1,150 for office supplies, phones and advertising for the Associated Students of Kansas.
Also at the meeting, the committee elected Steve Gilchrist, Hays senior, and Clarissa Birch, Topakea senior, as co-chairmen for this year.
The bill would provide honoraria for jazz artists Bill Watrous, Ida McBeth and Paris Rutherford, who would allot $000 for advertising.
Today is deadline for bowl registration
Today is the entry deadline in the College Quiz Bowl. The entry fee is $15 for teams of four that can be paid at the Student Union Activities Office, fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The KU tournament, which is sponsored by SUA and Lambda Sigma, the sophomore honor society, is Saturday.
The winners will represent the University of Kansas at the regional tournament in Oklahoma Feb. 20 and 21.
The double elimination tournament guarantees that each team will participate in at least two matches.
Budig plans to meet Washington officials
Chancellor Gene A. Budig will meet this week with the Kansas members of Congress to discuss national needs. Budig said yesterday.
Budig will leave today for Washington, D.C., where he will attend meetings today and tomorrow. He will return to Lawrence tomorrow evening.
Correction
The salaries of the co-directors of the associated Students of Kansas were incorrectly reported in Friday's Kansan, Eddie Watson receives $60 a month and Martie Aaron is not paid.
From Kansan wires
Engineers hope projects go up in space
By TIM HAMILTON
Engineering students are often stereotyped as being out in space, and a group of them hope at least their experiments can be.
Staff writer
Students from all departments within the School of Engineering have come together to design several experiments to be performed during one of the 1988 space shuttle missions.
The experiments are part of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration's Getaway Special Program, which allows universities, businesses and foreign countries to reserve space on shuttles for experiments in space's low-gravity environment.
More than 60 projects from the program went up on launches before last year's Challenger accident, and more than 500 more have been scheduled for next year's launches.
"It is a bunch of engineers getting together to think of projects that can be performed in a low-gravity environment," said Saeed Farokhi, faculty adviser to the group and assistant professor of aerospace engineering.
Farokhi said participation in the program was initiated by Paul Fieseler, Lenexa senior and aerospace and chemical engineering student.
"Actually, he approached me about it rather than me approaching him." Frankie said.
Fieseler suggested the project after he heard about the program.
Fieseler said that the project began in the fall when students met to decide what type of experiment they wanted to send on the shuttle.
The group's vice president, James Sigler, Olathe senior, said the group had received tremendous faculty and administrative support.
He said the final ideas included experiments on the development of a super-strong lightweight construction material to be used in space, electroplating; properties of magnetic materials in space; and checking seeds exposed to space for mutations.
"Our main problem this semester will be to decide which experiments will go." Sigler said, "The answer is that we don't have enough data."
together."
All the experiments, plus the battery and computer system needed to run them, must fit into a special 2.5 cubic meter canister. The canister, called a small self contained payload, would be mounted to the shuttle's cargo bay wall. The astronauts would begin the experiments by flipping a switch on the canister's side.
Sigler said that because of the limited area inside the canister, all the experiments might
"One of the biggest problems in space will be recording because it could be months before we receive the information." Sigler said.
Financial problems threaten to ground the project, though. Fieseler said the group had received money from the school and Student Services department of the money it needs to complete the project.
"We are currently beginning to seek corporate sponsors," Fieseler said.
He said the group also had planned a mailing campaign designed to contact large corporations and generate financial support.
Sigler said the group could perform a lot of work on the project's design this semester without more money but needed the money to buy materials for construction in the fall.
"We will definitely have to have the money by the beginning of next fall, or else we won't make launch date." Sigler said. The KU project is scheduled to go up on either the second or third launch. The first launch is scheduled Jan. 1.
"It's a vicious circle," he said. "We can't do a lot without money, and we can't get money without having something to show."
Sigler said the group might have to trade its canister space to a company in Russia, where it is cheaper.
Gary Mook/SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
Both Fieseler and Sigler said the project could have significant implications for the school.
"Sending the GAS canister up is really the beginning of what we could do." Sigler said. "It's something that could attract more engineers to KU."
Pouring fixer down drains may violate city ordinance, according to local officials
Frozen fun
Paul Myers, left, Hellertown, Pa., graduate student, and Brad Birkelo, Bloomington, Minn., graduate student, take time out from their studies to play one-on-one ice hockey on Potter Lake. The two played yesterday.
BY CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
Some University darkrooms may be violating city ordinances on hazardous waste disposal, a city official said recently.
A city ordinance does not permit darkrooms to dispose of used fixer, a necessary chemical in the film developing process, by pouring it down drains, said K.T. Joseph, pre-treatment coordinator for the city utilities department.
John Landgrebe, chairman of the University Biohazards Committee, said he thought the darkrooms on campus disposed of used fixer by pouring it down drains. He said he was unaware that the city prohibited the practice.
"I would say that disposal of fixer is a very minor problem compared with disposal of other chemicals on campus," he said. "Great quantities of solvents are used all over campus
It's hard to pin down who's using what because there are so many people involved.
Landgrebe said he would study the situation and, if necessary, bring the problem before the spring meeting of the Biohazards Committee.
Used fixer contains silver, which is considered a hazardous waste by the city if disposed of in concentrations of more than 0.5 milligrams for every liter of fluid.
"If the fixer contains four grams of silver per liter, the concentration is about 8.000 times higher than the 5 milligrams per liter allowed," Joseph said. Most used fixer contains about four grams of silver per liter.
Pok—Chi Lau, associate professor of design, said the visual arts darkroom disposed of used fixer by pouring it down the drain. He said that five to 10 gallons of fixer were discarded each week.
Gary Mason, associate professor of journalism, said he saved all used fixer from the photojournalism darkrooms for a silver reclamation company.
Officials concerned about financial aid cut proposal
Staff writer
By LAURA BOSTROM
KU administrators are concerned, but not worried, about President Reagan's proposed cut of the student financial aid budget.
The president's budget would cut student financial aid by 45 percent, or $3.7 billion, from need-based Pell Grants and loan subsidies during the 1988 fiscal year.
“It's the same message Reagan has given the last five years,” said
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid. "Fortunately, nothing drastic has happened yet."
Reagan's proposals face strong opposition in the Democrat-controlled Congress, but Rogers said no one was sure what would happen.
"I'm worried for the whole, but not for myself," said Barry Blevins. Coffeville junior. Blevins, who received $975 in financial aid from the University of Kansas for the fall semester, said he didn't think Reagan was doing the right thing.
A key Reagan proposal would expand a new loan program in which repayment of the loan was based on the loan recipient's income after graduation.
The plan would ask students, rather than the government or taxpayers, to pay an increased interest rate on student loans. Rogers said.
But Rogers and other college administrators are concerned that the higher interest rate will give reci
pients lifetime loan payments.
The financial aid office would receive a tentative statement of their allocated funds in February, Rogers said.
"We'll know a final amount in May. I think there will be a reduction in funds," he said, although he did not yet know how much or from where the funds would be cut. "You never want your programs to be cut."
About 6,500 KU students receive
some financial aid, including grants,
loans and scholarships.
When people heard the government had bought a $300 screwdriver, trimming education seemed the wrong place to cut, Rogers said.
Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education, works with programs for disadvantaged college students. The proposed Reagan budget would cut $94 million, or 53 percent, from those programs.
Come Join the Excitement of The Lady Jayhawks!
Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m. at Allen Field House
The Lady Jayhawks vs. Iowa State
The first 500 people at the game receive a free, miniature Lady Jayhawk basketball!
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