Thursday
February 4, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 98, No. 89 (USPS 650-640)
House votes to eliminate contra plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided House voted yesterday to cut off U.S. military support for Nicaragua's contra rebels, rejecting President Reagan's aid request in the hope of spurring peace prospects in Central America.
The 219-211 vote, culminating six years of overt and overt military support for the rebels fighting the leftist Sandinista government, killed Reagan's request for $36.2 million in new aid to keep the contras alive as a fighting force through June.
It was a serious defeat for the president, who had lobbied hard on the issue for two weeks and had put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere.
"Today's vote is the end of a chapter," said House Majority Whig
Current aid to the rebels expires Feb. 29, and democrats pledged to hold another vote before the month is out on an alternative package of purely humanitarian aid to the rebels, and to follow that up with a new emphasis on economic development aid for countries in the region that abide by terms of a five-nation peace accord.
"If you vote this package down, you'd better be prepared to bear the consequences," Michel said. "And who among you is smart enough to predict the path on which Daniel Ortega will take you?"
The most controversial part of the defeated package was $3.6 million earmarked for weapons and ammunition, which Reagan had said he would withhold until March 31 to see how cease-fire talks went between the rebels and the Managua government. Those talks are scheduled to
allocate $10 million to build the centers. KU received $50,000 from these initial funds, not enough to build a space center but enough to get started in space research. "We divided the initial money . . . and began to work together on joint projects," Barr says. "We tried to communicate more and work together on goals that were just very loosely related to the space program." Because of the work done with that initial grant, KU achieved credibility in space research. By 1965, Congress had funded space centers at 17 schools across the country. KU wanted to be next.
"We were down towards the end, about the time the Vietnam War began to cut back the money," Barr says. "It was touch and go as to whether that program would continue to exist." On the strength of prior research and a strong proposal from University faculty, KU was selected to receive the $2 million grant to build the space center. But KU was to face one final scare before getting the money.
In 1967, a fatal launching pad fire damaged the Apollo 1 capsule. "They lost three astronauts, and the budget became very restricted. We feared that they were going to scrape the rest of the money, still available for the universities to build these buildings, to rebuild the capsule." Barr says. "Our building literally could have blown up on the pad."
But plans for the center did not blow up, and just 10 years after space research began at KU, Nichols Hell was completed. Since its beginning, the center has housed scientists in a variety of fields that relate to outer space, ranging from geology to electrical engineering. The researchers, most of whom have offices and classes elsewhere on campus, now receive individual funding for their studies from many sources, some from NASA.
To assist the scientists in their research, the Center for Research Inc. is located in the building. David Downing, an aerospace
engineering professor who does flight research in Nichols Hall, said CRINC was one of the most useful features of the center. "CRINC acts as a business office for all grants. The flight research labs and grants are administered by CRINC. They handle purchasing, travel arrangements and all the support you need to have a growing research project. It's really convenient."
Ed Martinko, director of Kansas Applied Remote Sensing and director of the Kansas Biological Survey, two programs that use the center, says having many scientists from different fields in the same building has helped his research. "As I do research, it is relatively easy to compare notes with engineers or geologists to get a different perspective on what I'm doing."
Even the building's design reflects an open exchange of ideas. A spiral staircase winds three stories to the top of the open lobby. Surrounding the staircase are the center's 10 main labs, enclosed in glass. Visitors have a full view of the research inside. Even the scientists' offices have glass doors.
Barr gets excited when he talks about the building and what it means to the University. He stuck to the project in its early stages when it was criticized and then watched it grow to one of the strongest centers in the country. "We had some people who never thought we'd pull it off.One guy even called it a white elephant."
Barr knows that today, 16 years after it was built, the center has achieved its original goals. The purpose of Nichols Hall may be best symbolized by the statue that guards it — Icarus, the Greek god who with melted wings fell from the heavens. For some, the statue demonstrates the folly of space research. But for others, Icarus demonstrates a willingness to venture into the unknown, even though the quest may be dangerous.
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KANSAN-MAGAZINE February 5,1988 11
Halftime acrobats entertain audience
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
In fact, some of the best action occurred at halftime.
Several athletes made spectaculair moves at last night's KU-Oklahoma basketball game. But they didn't just include Danny Manning, Harvey Grant or Stacey King.
The Bud Light Daredevils, with the help of a mini-trampoline, fascinated the sellout crowd in Allen Field House with their acrobatic slam dunks.
The Daredevils, who are based in Memphis, Tenn., perform around the world. The four-member team has played in over 150 colleges, in every National Basketball Association arena and in Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Latin America and Australia.
The team will play at Nebraska tonight. Missouri Western tomorrow, Kansas State on Saturday and Topeka Sizzlers game on Sunday.
Cobb, coach and performer the Daredevils, founded the a when he was a cheerleader ie University of Mississippi in it. It was originally a part-time but when he graduated in 1983, scame a profession. Cobb said vas surprised at the success of Daredevil team.
Real surprised," Cobb said. "It always just for fun. I feel so really lucky."
obb's team includes his her, Guy, Tim Lancaster and eld Held.
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art of the team's act is to pull ple out of the audience and get m involved in the performance. caster said crowd involvement the point of the show.
ancaster said that at some ces, the crowd was not too eptive to the Daredevil's persecution. And the Jayk-faes were great.
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David Morris, president of the irrefraternity Council, said that the until hadn't had a chance to review resolution yet but that it would be scussed at an upcoming meeting.
Andrea Reeze, president of Gam-a Phi Beta sorority and a member the panhellenic alcohol task force, id that the future might bring even 'icter policies.
Reese said that a policy to ban sobol from all functions, even for see who could legally drink, was discussed.
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he said that even if the 70 percent ure were true, it was meaningless cause some women still don't get id as much as men, even though iv do the same jobs.
between 1866 and 1967, the average ekg earnings of women working I time rose by $13 a week, from 6 to $309, but men's weekly earns rose $19, from $428 to $445.
Barbaria Ballard, director of the tally Taylor Women's Resource inter, said she didn't know what studies the study was based on but did she guessed the percentage was sadly going up because more men were moving into higher
See SALARY, p. 6, col. 1