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Monday, February 18, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Engineering school plans centennial festivities
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
The School of Engineering will start a full week of celebration today to educate the public about the role of engineers and to celebrate the school's centennial.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said this year's celebration was an attempt to raise campus awareness of engineering, to remind engineers of the importance of attendance of the centennial and to attract the attention of incoming students.
Locke said that one aspect of engineering week was its outreach
program, which is designed to attract high school women to the
The program is sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers.
Engineering week, designated by the Society of Professional Engineers, is celebrated in various ways at different universities.
David Darwin, professor of engineering, will begin the ceremonies by giving the inaugural lecture at 5:30 p.m. at Anderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Locke said that because the school was 100 years old, a special banquet
James Maloney, professor emeritus of engineering and author of a book on the history of the engineering school at the University, will give the lecture at the Indiana Museum in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The banquet will start at 6 p.m.
and speech would provide perspective for the history of the school.
Exhibits by each department of the school will be displayed in Learned Hall to show the evolution of the various disciplines within the profession.
Students can take part in the Order of the Engineering Ring Ceremony
on Wednesday. The ceremony reminds engineers of their responsibilities to serve the public and to act ethically in their profession.
Another part of engineering week is the Rube Goldberg competition, in which teams of students design complex systems involving as many as 10 different components in a simple task. This year's task is to extinguish a small birthday dandle.
Harold Rosson, associate dean of engineering, said that engineering week was not well known.
"In a way we're preaching to the choir," he said. "We need to make
engineering more widely attractive for students coming up for careers."
Rosson said that there were predicted shortages of engineers in the future and that one reason for engineering week was to attract students into the profession.
"In a way, it's a public relations effort mostly," he said. "It's a time to look around and say this is what we do, we like it and we're proud of it."
Engineering classes have been canceled from 3:0 p.m. Thursday to noon Saturday to allow students to participate in the activities.
Local briefs
Two arrested for armed robbery
Kansan staff report
Two Lawrence men were arrested Friday in connection with Thursday's armed robbery of Sirlin Stockade. 1015 Iowa St.
Police said they thought Randall Michael Brooks, 21, 1817 Mississippi St., and Barry Dean Rush, 29, 1820 Maine St., also were involved with the Feb. 7 armed robbery at Taco Bell, 1408 W. 23rd St., and the burglary at the restaurant taken from about $750 was taken.
robbery on Feb. 2 of the assistant manager of Sirloin Stockade.
In addition, police think the men are connected with the attempted
The Lawrence Police Department, in cooperation with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, identified the suspects through separate and unrelated investigations conducted late Friday afternoon.
During the investigation, the suspects were found, interviewed and arrested, and some evidence was collected, according to police reports.
Spring enrollment at record level
Kansan staff report
Enrollment at KU continued to increase and reached a record level this spring.
last spring.
The figures from Spring 1991 enrollment, compiled on the 20th day of class. Feb 13, show that many enrollments are enrolled at KU campuses.
Enrollment on the Lawrence campus increased by 118 students to a total of 24,944. The University of Kansas Medical Center enrollment increased by 35 students from last year to 2,391.
The increase of 153 students is a 0.5 percent increase from the previous record, which occurred
Since enrollment decreased slightly from Spring 1988 to Spring 1989, spring enrollment has increased every year.
Kansan staff report
Lawrence police Sgt. Ron Dalqest said the student was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she refused treatment and
KU student reports she was raped
An 18-year-old KU student reported that she was raped about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 2000 block according to Lawrence police reports.
Dalquest said yesterday that the student had not filed any charges.
The student reported that she had been drinking and was not sure whether the sexual assault had occurred, Dalquest said. She was encouraged by the Rape Victim Support Service to report the inci-
Police report
- Someone threw a wine cooler bottle through a KU student's car window between 2 and 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1300 block of West St. Street, Lawrence police detained Damage to the car totaled $200.
Someone broke a KU student's car window and took a pursue and contents valued at $102 between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday in Lawrence Mississippi Street. Lawrence police reported. Damage to the car totaled $100.
■ Someone broke a KU student's car window and took a purse and contents valued at $440 between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 12:00 a.m. Saturday on Lawrence Street, Lawrence police reported Damage to the car totaled $100.
- Someone broke a KU student's car window and took a purse and contents valued at $180 between 10 p.m. and 4 p.m.
- Eighth and Mississippi streets, Lawrence police reported. Damage to the car totaled $125.
Free-trade accord may harm U.S. fruit, vegetable industry
Mexican farmers could outsell U.S. The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Fruit and vegetable growers are keeping a wary eye on free-trade negotiations with Mexico, fearing competition could mean
"There will be some serious competition here on certain fruits and vegetables," said Wayne Showers, president of Griffin and Brand Inc., one of the country's largest produce growers and importers.
Members of the industry fear, and a government study confirms, that U.S. growers could face significant competition from Mexican produce, harvested with far cheaper labor, if tariffs and other trade barriers are lifted because of a free-trade agreement.
ables not widely grown in Mexico are enthusiastic about opportunities for sales in the country of 85 million people.
Showers, whose company has had operations in Mexico for nearly 40 years, predicted that labor-intensive crops would be most strongly affected by a free-trade agreement because a Mexican farm worker earns in one day what a U.S. farm worker earns in 60 to 90 minutes.
And U.S. producers, unlike their Mexican counterparts, must provide workers' compensation insurance the team shows that cut into profits. Showers said.
The Bush administration hopes to begin negotiations with Mexico this spring and conclude the talks by the end of the year.
But producers of fruits or veget-
Workers' compensation insurance costs for his company have risen from $250,000 five years ago to $1.3 million last year. Showers said.
A study by the International Trade Commission found that the elimination of trade barriers would generate a significant increase in U.S. imports from Mexico and a moderate increase in U.S. exports to Mexico.
"Mexican producers are able to supply the U.S. market with many of the same products grown or processed in the United States at much lower costs," the study reported. "This is particularly true for citrus crops and winter vegetables that are manually harvested."
business in Mexico was not cheap, saying that freight costs, herbicides and insecticides were more expen- in Mexico than in the United States.
That probably would result in losses for U.S. growers, particularly those in California, Florida and other warm states, according to the study.
U. S. processors also are expected to suffer losses, according to the study.
minor last year, Showers said.
But he said the cost of doing
Freud full of it, scientists say Ideas called 'outmoded assumptions,' not real science
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, made exaggerated claims of cures, drew conclusions with little evidence and generally ignored basic principles of scientific research.
Those are the conclusions of experts who have re-examined the fundamental theories and work of Freud and now believe the Austrian physician may have been more slick salesman than scientist. Their studies were prepared for presentation today at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"Thekind of evidence we have now is extremely critical of Freud," said Frank J. Sullaway, a professor of psychology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
One of Freud's major works is an accounting of how he treated six patients. The work, said Sulloway, is considered a pillar of the whole concept of psychanalysis, the so-called "kingmaker" for the mentally ill or anxious.
Sulloway, recent research has shown one involved a patient who fleed therapy in disgust, two actually were involved and another and another involved in real therapy.
Freud claimed to have cured two of the patients, yet when one was interviewed at length in later years, the cure was found to be a complete misrepresentation of the facts, said Sulloway.
He said the case histories were rampant with censorship, distortions, highly dubious reconstructions and exaggerated clinical claims.
Freud lived from 1856 to 1939, and after his death some of his patients were interviewed. From this and other sources, we learn the results in Freud's work became known.
Much of Freud's theories, said Sulloway, are based on "outmuted assumptions from the 19th century," as by other authors shows. But Freud's logical inferences and conclusions about his research and empirical evidence are simply not justified, he said. Freud failed to follow basic science
other scientists to evaluate research and results, Sulloway said. Instead, like a high priest, his treatment and advice was grounded in experience. He step based on authority and secrecy.
Of Freuden psychoanalysis Sulloway said, "It's not a science. It's like a religion."
Yet, of the six case histories, said
Morris Eagle, a psychologist at York University near Toronto, said that the whole idea of psychoanalysis has never been subjected to the rigorous evaluation of controlled studies, which are the routine scientific methods in other areas of medicine and of science in general.
Fred trailed to follow basic science principles of openness that permit
In accepted medical practice, a method of treatment is tested vigorously against other methods before it is generally accepted as an appropriateness to patients. It in effect, has to prove to promote cures or relieve symptoms.
Eagle said that such tests had never been done for psychoanalysis.
Millions of people now spend years visiting psychotherapists who try to understand their anxiety or anxiety by probing the patient's psyche through talk and discussion.
Boys find fire escape house without injury
By Jonathan Plummer
The boys' father, Greg Thrasher, was at work in Olathe at the time of the fire, Brett said.
Kansan staff writer
Battalion Chief Dan Morrow said three units were called to the scene at 3:22 p.m.
Source of the fire
An electrical short on a work bench in the garage caused the fire. Morrow said. Damage to the house and a vehicle inside the garage, the was about $40,000.
The flames burned only the garage-side of the house, Morrow said. Fire slowly burned the yard but the house did not cause any problems.
From the neighbor's house, Brett and his brother, Clint, 8, called the fire department and then called their mother, Cathy Thrasher, a pharmacist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, at work.
morrow said that when the department arrived the garage and the attic were fully afire.
Two boys who found a fire in their house Friday were able to escape without injury and call authorities
John Feeney, Lawrence resident, said he was with some friends driving by the house when they noticed the fire. Using pine tree branches, they began beating out the fire on the lawn.
"I saw smoke coming from between the hinges, and I opened the door and all I saw was fire flaming and smoke." Brett said. "So I closed the door and got my brother and ran next door."
Brett Thrasher, 11, said he noticed smoke around the door leading to the house's garage. The garage is constructed in a ranch-style house at 3911 W. 14th St.
"We got here before the fire department did." Feeney said. "The garage was roaring flames."
Cathy Thrasher said the family's two dogs and two rabbits, which were kept behind the house, were not hurt. The rabbits were inside the basement and was killed.
Vacation postponed
The family was going on vacation Saturday, she said.
"We were going to leave tomorrow after the K-State game," she said. "I guess this puts a hold on the old ski trip."
As Thrasher and her children watched the firefighters put out the last of the fire, neighbors gathered in a place to sleep and other aid.
Brett, who was standing behind the house with shoes too large for his 6/1 2-size feet, said he had left the house that he did not bring his own shoes.
"I was standing out here with just my socks on," Brett said, "so my neighbor loomed me some shoes."
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