UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 5, 1997
5A
Seeing the Light
Chris Hamilton/Kansan
Tony Esparza, Dodge City sophomore, tries to read the newspaper from the bright light of the Coke machine while relaxing in the TV lounge of the Kansas Union.
Take flight with lectures
Anyone can attend class that features aerospace speakers
By Aaron Marvin Special to the Kansan
Students interested in the aerospace industry don't have to change their major to engineering to experience it firsthand — they just need to go to the aerospace engineering's colloquium series class.
Anyone can attend the class, which features speakers from the field of aerospace, said Jan Roskam, Ackers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering and creator of the series.
"It's open to all students," he said. "Anyone who is interested can show up."
While the lectures are open to everyone, only students enrolled in AE 290 receive the credit and pay to take the class.
Neil Hague, Topeka senior, said he had not missed a colloquium lecture since he began attending the University of Kansas.
He remembered when a representative from Boeing discussed the 777 commercial jet and another time
when a speaker talked about the Air Force C-17 cargo plane. He heard information about the two planes before the information was unveiled to the public.
"It keeps us up-to-date," he said about the series. "We get insight into the programs before they are available."
Students will hear lectures this semester by representatives from places like the NASA Langley Research Center and about topics such as the testing of the X-31A aircraft.
The series will begin Feb. 14 with a lecture by Jim Thiele, KU alumnus and founder of American Blimp. Thiele's topic will be Back to the Future with Blimps.
Roskam first realized the potential for such a series when he came to the University in 1968. Students had organized such a program themselves, but few students attended.
"It was an outright embarrassment," he said.
During a 1970 faculty meeting, Roskam announced his idea to make attendance at the lectures mandatory and move the responsibility of bringing speakers to the faculty.
"Students are asked about what they would like to hear about but the
Lecture Dates
Lectures for AE 290 begin at 3:30 p.m. in 3140 Wescoe Hall.
Feb. 14: Back to the Future with Blimps
Feb. 28: To be announced
March 14: Flight Dynamics at NASA Lanoleu
faculty contacts the speakers," he said.
April 11: Overview of X-31A Flight Testing
Aerospace engineering students must take the course every semester while they are at the University and must attend five of the six lectures to receive credit for the half-hour-credit class.
"It lets students hear about industry from someone who isn't faculty," he said. "And it allows students to hobbin with the speakers and ask questions."
Roskam said there were two primary benefits of the series.
Speakers generally stay for about a half-hour after their lectures to answer questions from the students, Roskam said.
The colloquium series is from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on select Fridays in 3140 Wescoe Hall.
Greek board will assist with campus recycling
by Harumi Kogarimal
Kansan staff writer
KU fraternities and sororities will join campus-wide recycling efforts this spring.
To support campus recycling, KU fraternities and sororites have created the Greek Environmental Board, said Kevin Yoder, Interfraternity Council student senator. The board will start coordinating the recycling effort of the greek community by the end of February, he said
The goal of the board is to get all chapter members involved in the recycling effort, although some greek chapters already have started recycling on their own, Yoder said.
"I hope the board will also create awareness among chapter members." Yoder said.
Greek executives will appoint one chairperson to represent fraternities and one for sororites this week. They soon will choose board members from each chapter, said Scott Merchant, IFC vice president for administrative affairs.
The Greek Environmental Board is one of the recycling efforts Student Senate resolved to implement last semester, Yoder said. As a first step toward 100 percent recycling on campus, the newly-created Student Senate Environmental Advisory Board encouraged four living groups on campus to coordinate recycling efforts.
Half of the fraternities have appointed someone to handle recycling for them, but the level of recycling varies, Yoder said. As for sororites, 12 of 14 are recycling newspapers, plastics and glasses on their own, said Bridget Mason, Panhellenic Association vice president for public relations.
Courtney Kelly, house environmentalist for Gamma Phi Beta sorority, said her chapter members had been recycling for more than three years but thought the board was a good idea.
Robert Grant, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity member and recycling volunteer, also was excited about the board but skeptical about its effectiveness.
"It is sometimes difficult to get guys involved," he said. "Some people think it is just a matter of throwing cans, but you need to clean bins, and sometimes you get really nasty. But this is a wonderful idea, and I hope it will be successful."
By Ann Marchand
Kansan staff writer
Proposals may alter education control
The plan to incorporate community colleges into the Regents system was proposed by State Reps. Cindy Empson, R-Independence, and Richard Reinhardt, D-Erie. Reinhardt said that this would start to streamline the state's education system. The plan also includes a $30-million increase in funding for community colleges.
Two proposals before the Kansas Legislature may change the governance of education in the state. Both directly affect higher education and may fundamentally alter the way the Board of Regents and the State Board of Education operate.
One plan would give the Regents jurisdiction over community colleges. The other would establish a secretary of education in the governor's cabinet, who would oversee three commissioners — one for the Regents, one for community colleges and vocational schools and one for K-12 education.
The second bill, sponsored by State Reps. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, and Ralph Tanner, R-Baldwin, would establish a commissioner of education in the governor's cabinet.
The bill would strip the State Board of Education and the Regents of their autonomy. The Board of Education and the Regents operate independently of the state, except
for funding and major policy changes. Sloan said he was concerned that the Board and the Regents were not accountable to any person or office.
"Representative Tanner's and my view is that it is a much better way of creating a seamless education, because both K-12 and higher education would be more accountable and have to be more responsible to the governor and the people of Kansas," Sloan said.
Board members, however, are opposed to the bill and are worried that such a sweeping change diverts attention from vital funding issues for education in the state.
Tanner and Sloan's proposal requires a constitutional change.
Pending a two-thirds approval from both the House and the Senate, a special election would be held. This election would require a two-thirds approval by Kansas voters.
Mike Matson, communications director for Gov. Bill Graves, said that variations on these educational themes were circulating in the Capitol. But he cautioned that any bill that would have the governor's support must be fiscally lenient and well thought out.
"The governor's budget is carefully crafted and has been planned for months — it is tight to the point that if you take money from somewhere, you've got to take that money from someplace else," Matson said. "It just may be too soon to tell."
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