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Thursday, January 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Professor earns special degree
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
A KU professor of architecture traveled to Yugoslavia last month to receive an honorary degree that previously had been reserved for Nobel laureates and heads of governments.
Victor Papanek, J. L. Constant distinguished professor of architecture and urban design, received the degree from the University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, for his work in humanizing industrial design.
He is the first U.S. citizen and 57th person to receive an honorary degree in the university's 317-year history. All previous recipients have been Nobel laureates or heads of governments.
"I was surprised and delighted because an old European university like that does not give them out as readily as most American universities," the Austrian-born Papanek said.
The theory of humanizing industrial design involves giving user convenience a higher priority in making telephones, computers, stereos, sports equipment and other products.
"Most products are designed more for the convenience of the manufacturer than the convenience of the user," said Papanek, who traveled alone. "A lot of the products that you buy or get as gifts for Christmas are fairly forbidding-looking and are difficult to use."
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design, said the school was proud of Papanek and considered him a valuable member of its faculty.
"I understand this is quite a significant honor in Europe, and it is well deserved." Lucas said.
Along with the honorary degree, Papanek also became an honorary member of Yugoslavia's National Committee of Industrial Design. The university awarded the degree after a three-year process in which he graduated from high schools in Yugoslavia nominated and eventually elected Papanek.
"It was a nice way of honoring my work, but more importantly a way of honoring the field of industrial design," he said.
The chancellor of Zagreb University presented the award to Papanek. The U.S. Consul General, the cultural Attache and the Austrian Ambassador to Yugoslavia also attended the ceremony.
Papanek went to Yugoslavia in 1972 for an exposition of his work and to do a five-city lecture tour. One of his books on humanizing industrial architecture and design resulted in the publication in Yugoslavia at the time.
"The combination of the book, the tour and the exposition must have made a big impact on them," he said.
Papanek said he had returned to Yugoslavia several times since and did design work for leading Yugoslavian industrial firm.
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Victor Papanek, J.L. Constant distinguished professor of architecture and urban design, is the first U.S. citizen to win an honor degree from the University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia. Papanek specializes in industrial design.
Transportation official seeks drug test policy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department and Congress began moving yesterday toward requiring random drug testing of airline and railroad industry employees, and the department said it planned to test 26,500 of its own workers as well.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dale disclosed plans for the broad-ranging drug testing and rehabilitation program as several members of Congress said they will introduce drug-testing legislation in the coming days.
The whirlwind of activity involving random drug testing, a controversial issue for some time, came a week after the disclosure that marijuana had been used by Conrail train workers and with ap Amtrak passenger train Jan. 4.
Sixteen people were killed and 175 injured in the accident.
"People have a right to expect and receive a drug-free transportation system," Dole said. "There's no area where a person's decision to use drugs would have a more disastrous impact than in transportation."
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Star Wars will take time, official says
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WASHINGTON — The nation's top military officer said yesterday that more information was needed before the Reagan administration decided whether to deploy some version of a Star Wars anti-missile system.
The statement by Adm. William Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came amid reports that the administration is considering early deployment of the shield against nuclear attack called Strategic Defense Initiative, as Star Wars is formally known.
Crowe told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the question of deploying an SDI program was a challenge within top-level Pentagon circles.
SDI supporters on Capitol Hill recently have pushed for deployment of some early stages of a system, arguing that Congress is unlikely to keep paying for research much longer without a deployment decision.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that he supported deployment of SDI as soon as possible if the system was
part of a long-range plan. Attorney General Edwin Meese III also endorsed an early deployment.
Crowe said military planners were looking at the various SDI research projects to see what type of weapon can be built, but he said it would be quite some time before that review was finished.
"My own view is that SDI right now is a research program," he said. "I hear so much said and written that it's (like it is) out there in the parking lot and we don't know where to put it."
Crowe said that his personal view would be that a decision to launch a system this year is unlikely.
The Star Wars program has been controversial ever since it was announced by Reagan in March 1983. Critics say it will only waste money
But a decision could be made next year, he said. That would leave Reagan to make a choice in the last year of his presidency on a project that has become the Pentagon's largest single research program.
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