Friday, February 25,1977
University Dally Kansan
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Strong winds blow in problems
The spring winds blowing across Kanaas can be frightening and can cause a variety of problems.
Besides scattering papers from unwary grips and causing hats to fly into the distance, it caused one unidentified KU student to be trapped briefly in Blake Hall this week—forced by the merciless wind to wait until a helpful stranger opened a door.
KANU radio up for award
The five-feet-tall, 55-pound student was shaken by the event.
KANU-FM, broadcasting from the University of Kansas, is one of 10 United States radio stations selected to compete for the Best Station Award sponsored by Broadcast Management and Engineering magazine.
KANU is the only public broadcasting station selected to compete for the award.
"The concept of KANU is to provide an alternative to other commercial stations," John P. Easley, station development director, said recently.
"KANU is different from rock or country stations in Topeka or other areas because of the variety of programs we offer," he said. KANU plays a variety of music, including rock, bluesgrass and classical, in addition to news press, sports and talk programs.
The KANU staff renovated a building constructed during World War II that was made of bricks from Wakaraus River Valley soil and cinders, Brad Dick, KANU director of engineering, said, which earned it the nickname "mud hut."
KANU's engineering department describes the equipment required to reach the station's equipment, Dick said.
It is funded by the University, the Public
Assisting Corporation and Friends of
KANL.
In 1973 KANU won the George Foster Peabody award for its program, "The American Past," whose host is Calder Pickett, Stellter professor of journalism. It won the major Armstrong Award for excellence in music in 1971 and 1974.
Final selection of the winners for the Best Station award, to be made by readers of Broadcast Management and Engineering issue, will be announced in its March issue.
Events
TODAY: "EDUCATING THE HAND-DICAPPED from Minority Groups" is a conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Room Forum of the Kansas Union. ENHANCED Disorganization will meet at 3:30 in the Union's Hawk's Nest. VICTOR CONSTOKS, poet, will give a reading at 4 in the Union's Council Room.
TONIGHT: VISITING PIANIST STEPHEN ZANK will perform works of Bach, Beethoven and Liszt at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW: BACH ARIA MASTER
Sawborough to 6 p.m. in
Swarbout Reccital Hall
SUNDAY: ROBERT LOWERY, clarinet guest artist, will play with the KU Symphonic band at 3:30 p.m. in the University theatre, and at 4:15 p.m. in the university will give a recital at 3:30 p.m. at the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St.
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"I was so embarrassed," she said. "I seemed like all half an hour. I can't imagine the feeling."
BEGINNING MONDAY, the yearly ritual of blowing hair and dust greeted drivers and pedestrians. But strong winds are common this season. To Joe Eagleman, professor of geology
The wind is caused by exasperate called the middle latitude cyclonic effect, brought about by areas of how atmospheric pressure passing eastward across the United States. Less intense cyclonics bring rain and moist weather. More intense cyclones bring more extreme currents in the upper atmosphere—bring strong winds to low pressure areas.
ESTIMATING THE wind speed this week at 25 to 30 miles an hour, Eaglemann said there would be a one-week return period—because the weather would ablate for a week and then return.
Heavy winds in 1973 reached an estimated
10 miles an hour and left Lawrence
heavily
Because they are easily damaged by strong winds, the flags on top of Fraser Hall have been absent from their posts this week. The flags cost $100 each, according to the weather department's tenance. "When they start popping, that's when the edges start fraying." Wiley said.
THE FLUTTERING and the popping in the only indications Wiley has to take the flags down. A maximum wind velocity was chosen at one time, above which the flags were taken down, Wiley said, but he didn't know what it was.
Wiley said that a woman tried to raise the flags Monday, but that she was nearly yanked off the wheel. Wiley estimated her weight at 115 to 120 pounds. When a flag is
raised the leverage created can be so great that it often takes two people to raise one
Every time the flags flutter, some damage is done to the edge opposite the pole, Wiley said. The building maintenance department repairs them until they're impossibly shredded at which point new ones are bought.
From a trailer parked at Falley's Discount Foods, 2525 Iowa St., Lawrence station radio KT-NFN is providing the L leukemia Society of America Radiothon.
Radiothon to raise research money
The radiothon began at 2 p.m. Wednesday and will continue through 6 p.m. Sunday. It is being held to raise money for leukemia research.
Volunteers will take pledges throughout the radiothon. KU fraternities and sororites are canvassing the city, and those who volunteer will be asked to pledge by calling 841-7007. Those who want
to volunteer to collect pledges should stop at the trailer.
The local radioth办 coordinator is Mary E. Windholz.
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