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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAIN
VOL. 101. No. 138
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991
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Two KU alumni supervise Discovery payloads
Bv Patricia Roias
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Kansan staff writer
When space shuttle Discovery next orbits the Earth, two KU alumni will be helping supervise the payloads, or experimental equipment, aboard the flight from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Mary Randolph, a 1990 KU graduate, and Eddie Terrrell, 1987 KU graduate, both work for NASA Payload Operations and will be assisting the seven astronauts in five scientific experiments aboard the Discovery.
The Discovery will carry Pentagon cargo worth more than $260 million. Its scheduled launch yesterday was rubbed because of equipment failure.
Between the two main payloads that Randolph and Terrell will help
monitor during the eight day mission
to assess the Defense Initiative for
the Strategy of Defense. Initiative
The crew, commanded by Michael Coats, is expected to release an SDE spacecraft from the shuttle on the second day in orbit and operate it by
The SDI spacecraft will carry television cameras that will look at the gases that the shuttle releases, Randolph said.
"They want to be able to know how missiles might look like as they come in."
A second main payload Randolph and Terrell will help supervise during the Discovery's mission is a collection of scientific instruments that will take infrared, ultraviolet and x-ray measurements of stars, the
northern lights and the atmosphere.
brown lights and the troposphere.
This data is expected to help SID
scientists construct a spatial missile-detection system.
Besides Randolph and Terrell, there are about 10 other KU graduate working for the NASA payloads operations in Houston who have assisted the space shuttle crews of previous flights. Randolph said.
"When I came down here, whenever they would introduce me, people would say, 'Oh, oh, not whom would KU person," Randolph said.
She said that KU's School of Engineering was among those in the nation with the highest number of students attending at the space center in Houston.
David Downing, chairperson of the
department of aerospace engineering. said KU's program was ranked among the top 10 in the nation.
He said part of the reason the program had been so successful was that all of the faculty members had experience in governmental aerospace laboratories.
Downing said he worked for NASA for 11 years before coming to KU.
"We can relate real-world experiences to our students because of our experience," he said.
There are seven professors in the KU aerospacen program. The school is trying to recruit two more professors, Downing said
"We are planning to strengthen the astronautics offerings, which are more directly applicable to the shuttle program," he said.
Indian Center will meet to discuss Sevier's death
Kansan staff report
The Indian Center of Lawrence is organizing a community meeting Sunday night to discuss the dead death of Greg Allen Sewer.
Sevier, 22, was shot Sunday morning at his home, 1627 E. 18th Street Terrace by police officers in a scene by relatives of the victim.
Family members of the victim asked police for assistance in dealing with Sevier, who was armed and distraught about personal problems. Lawrence police reported
Editor's note: Because of an editor's error, a Page 1 story in yesterday's Kansan included incorrect information. Ron Olin, Lawrence Police Chief, said Monday that he did not think the shooting of Gregory Allen Sevier was accidentally motivated. Because of it, Olin's comments were misrepresented in the Kansan. The Kansan apologizes for any misunderstanding the error may have caused.
Grads to get ceremony in rain or shine
Budig approves plan to move ceremony indoors if rain falls
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Gene Rudig approved a plan yesterday that would move commencement ceremonies inside if inclement weather made a ceremony.
If heavy rains do not allow an outdoor ceremony by 5 p.m., the ceremonies will be at three separate times and venues.
Jim Scaly, vice chairperson of the commencement committee, said that if it was raining at the May 19 ceremony's scheduled start time of 2:30 p.m., commencement would be delayed. At 4 p.m., an announcement will be made about whether the ceremony will be moved indoors.
Ailen Field House at 5 p.m.
Crafton-Preyer Theatre, in Murphy Hall, at 7 p.m.
The committee will announce next week which schools will be placed in which location.
Scally told members of the University Senate Executive Committee.
which also met yesterday, that the main goal of the new plan was to make an outdoor ceremony as likely as possible.
'It's going to have to be raining
pretty damn hard for us not to walk
through it.'
Wait, there's a word after 'hard' in the second line.
Is it 'walk' or 'walking'?
It looks like 'walking'.
William Bayne, who had planned a rally for today if the committee did not find a way to put the ceremony off, said he was pleased with the new plan.
The commencement committee ruled earlier that the ceremony would be canceled rather than conducted in Allen Field House, as it was in 1981, if rain prohibited it from being in Memorial Stadium.
But, Bayne said, it was too late to cancel today's rally outside Strong Hall because he had put up a number of posters that could not be taken down, and so it would go on as planned.
"It looks like it's going to be a party," he said. "It sounds like good music."
Kansan reporter Eric Nelson contributed information to this story.
Downtown minstrel
Lawrence resident Craig Bertholf plays the guitar for cigarette money on Massachusetts Street. Bertholf learned how to play the guitar in the early '70s, and then taught himself how to read
music. Bertholf said that he liked to play music outside when the weather was nice and that he enjoyed giving lessons on the street.
KU changes policy wording; GLSOK prefers 'orientation'
By Lara Gold
By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
'If gay and lesbian people have a choice, then there is no reason to provide protection to them.'
The words "sexual preference" will be changed to "sexual orientation" in KU's anti-discrimination policy in future University publications, the interim executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
"I think gay and lesbian students have indicated they are more comfortable with 'sexual orientation,'" said Dell Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor. "We are pleased to concur with their wishes in this
Shankel said the administration
graduate assistant for gav and lesbian concerns
and students in Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas were working to make positive changes at KU.
All University publications will have the changed wording in the anti-discrimination clause.
preference" to "sexual orientation"
was necessary because "sexual
preference" was outdated language.
Mike Sullivan, co-director of GLSOK, said the language change was a step in the right direction.
He said the change from "sexual
Emerson said the difference between "sexual preference" and "sexual orientation" is that "prefer" sex has one choice, one chooses to be gay or lesbian.
Tom Emerson,graduate assistant for gay and lesbian concerns, agreed.
"If you choose to be this way then you can choose not to be this way," he said. "If I gay and lesbian people are gay, it is a reason to afford protection to them."
"Many people in the administration and in the community have reported a disturbing related phrase is embarrassing for an enlightened institution," he said.
Emerson said that being gay or lesbian was a characteristic, and that the language change took away the myth that being gay or lesbian was a choice.
Iraq calls for U.N. possession of camps
UNITED NATIONS — Baghdad complained yesterday that the Kurdish refuge camps the U.S. Army is setting up in northern Iraq violate its national sovereignty, and it asked the Kurds in Nations to take possession of them.
The Associated Press
U. N. representative Nadia Younes said the United Nations had just received the request from Iraqi Foreign Minister Ahmed Hussein, and had relayed a copy of it to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cueillar in
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations had no official reaction, but officials said privately that Washington always has intended for the United Nations to take charge of the camps as soon as possible.
Western diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the
United States, Britain and France would begin discussing the transfer of authority with Perez de Cuellar this week, when he returns from Paris.
The Iraqi letter called the U.S. military effort "a serious, unjustifiable and unfounded attack on the territory and territorial integrity of Iraq."
About 450,000 Iraqi refugees, most of them Kurds, have fled to Turkey since the Kurdish rebellion was crushed by Saddam Hussein. Another 400,000 are at the Turkish border.
It also said, however, that Baghdad had not taken any steps to block the establishment of the camps around the town of Zakho.
Even as the United States was moving last week to begin setting up a new campus, other colleges in New York and
Refugee relief may be flown to Iran
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration raised the possibility yesterday that it would authorize humanitarian relief flights to Iran, where an estimated 1 million Iraqi refugees have fled to safety.
The Associated Press
Approval of such flights would be a rare display of cooperation between Iran and the United States, diplomatic relations for 11 years.
ern Iraq, Baghdad was negotiating with the United Nations to set up U.N.-run camps
Iraqi officials signed an agreement Thursday with Prince Sadruhdin Aga Khan, the top U.N. official for relief efforts in the gulf region, that calls
Most of the U.S. relief effort has been directed at the region along the Turkish border, but there are almost twice as many Iraqi refugees and displaced persons inside Iran or near the Iranian border. The great majority of the refugees are Kurds.
The United States has been providing relief supplies to Iran through third parties.
for relief stations in northern Iraq as well as camps in southern Iran
Kampa in southern Iraq
An estimated 1 million Shiite and Kurdish Iraqi refugees have fled south and east to Iran and another 500,000 have moved to the southern border area.
Senator says problem
Legislators consider plans to cut deficit
has no easy answers
TOPEKA — The 1991 wrap-ip session begins today, and legislators face either a last-minute tax increase or a delay in approving that already have been approved.
The Legislature has spent almost $130 million more than the state has in resources, and the legislators have yet to agree on how to raise that money, said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence.
Kansan staff writer
Winter said that there were no easy resolutions for the problem of the excess expenditure.
"I think the chances that we will raise taxes are favorable. We need to take this opportunity to make some significant reforms."
we can solve that problem by cutting further," he said. "But that would amount to a $1 per across-across-accountation is to raise taxes by $130 million.
Winter, who unsuccessfully fought to have $20 million in cuts restored to the Board of Regents budget, said a letter last month that affirms finance the Regents schools.
The Regents budget remains in conference committee, with the House and Senate versions of the bill $12 million apart. The Senate side is led by State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, who is not in favor of restoring the money. The House side is led by State Rep. George Teagarden, D-LAcYgne, who favors restoration.
The tuition increase approved by the Regents last week will raise $12.3 million. But State Rep. John Solbach, chairman of the state budget revenue increase did not necessarily
'The Regents cannot spend the fees unless the Legislature appropriates the money out of the State General Fund.'
— John Solbach State Rep., D-Lawrence
Solbach said the conference committee would need to request that the Legislature approve the spending of the funds by the Regents. If the Legislature does not approve the spending, the fees will be used to replace general fund spending for other programs.
"The fees are simply a source of revenue for the Regents," he said. "The Regents cannot spend the fees unless the Legislature appropriates the money out of the State General Fund."
mean a spending increase
"I would hope the Regents are raising fees to fund higher education and that we don't take those fees and replace the general fund," he said. "I'm sure there will be such a temptation by some legislators.
"But I'm not sure that Sen. Bogina would be so blatantly anti-student as to do something like that."
Bogina said that although the Legislature had used fee increases to replace general fund spending in the past year, that it would do the same this year.
He said that he did not think the tuition increase would be an issue when discussing the $12 million difference between the House and Senate stance in the conference committee.