University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 15, 1988
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Change of address
LEFT: Using a bar of ivory soap, Darell Ward, Burlingame, Kan., prepares the skids on which the house, 824 New Hampshire St., will be moved. Dale Fortenberry, Topeka, right, said soap was the best lubricant for the job. Fortenberry and Ward work for Heimst Moving Inc. ABOVE: Using a truck, a steel cable, and a wench, Victor Fortenberry, Topeka, begins to pull a 108,000 pound house onto steel skids, which will be used to transport the house across town.
KU space club seeks financing
By Katy Monk
Kansan staff writer
The KU Space Program remains determined to send experiments into space in 1989 despite a daunting blow over the budget. The Finance committee earlier this month.
Mahyar Rabbadr, Olathe senior and program president, said the committee's denial of a $10,000 request would not ground the program's five experiments. The finance committee denied the request on Nov. 2.
"The design and development of the projects are still going on." Rabbarrard said. "Nothing is at a standstill.
"This is a minor setback, as they say. It just makes it a little more difficult. We'll be spending energy earlier rather than testing the experiments."
The 34-member space club is operating now on $4 membership fees, he said.
The club will meet Thursday to discuss fund-raising plans.
In a meeting last week, Rahbarbad and engineering school officials analyzed ways to finance the equipment and pre-flight testing they had planned to pay for with Senate funds. The club also will seek to reduce costs by borrowing time on industrial equipment.
Saeed Farokhi, faculty adviser to the club, detailed plans for soliciting donations or equipment time from Kansas industries.
"But that doesn't mean we're not going to show up in front of the Student Senate finance committee (again) . . . and request operational expenses for this activity." Farokhi said. "They are not off the hook."
In addition to other fund-raising methods, Carl Locke, dean of engineering, presented a research grant from the Engineering General University Fund.
The fund of about $35,000 is built from alumni donations directly to the School of Engineering for unrestricted use. We said, Locke administers the fund.
Locke said that in addition to giving students experience in space project work and gaining national exposure for KU, the program also offered a summer program for Rugby or KU Frisbee Club. Both of those clubs are financed by Senate
I *not quite sure* I understand all the reasons cited by the Student Senate. "I'm not sure," he said. "I think an outright rejection of funding was a little
The design and development of the projects are still going on. Nothing is at a standstill. This is a minor setback, as they say. It just makes it a little more difficult. We'll be spending energy finding the money rather than testing the experiments."
- Mahyar Rahibarrad
Olathe senior
KU! Space Program president
misplaced."
Finance committee members said last week that the request had been denied because of the large amount requested, participation that would likely be limited to students in the sciences and a misleading statement last year that as a $300 fee by the Senate would be a one-time expense. Farooki and Rahbarad said the Senate had misunderstood the last point.
Chris Shirling, who was co-chairman of finance at the time of the Nov. 2 meeting, said that if the space program returned to the moon in the next semester, the request would likely be looked upon more favorably.
Shiring also said he thought some members of Senate and the space program had approached the request from an adversarial position. He said if both groups took a more cooperative stance next semester, the program might benefit.
The space program has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to send a canister containing five experiments aboard a shuttle in May.
The experiments are:
a vapor deposition test, to determine coatings of metal coating in slowing decay when plastic is exposed to radiation;
GradEx to request larger budget Official says increase justified,seeks to buy more equipment
- the building of composites, or
  joining materials together, in space
  to determine differences from building
  them on earth;
- a simulation of red blood cell interaction with membranes, to study a weakening of bone marrow in space.
Kansan staff writer
a chemical mixing test to see if re-entry affects the mixtures and if space has any affect on mixing;
an experiment to test for effects of microgravity and radiation on seed reproduction.
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
A Graduate Student Executive Council official said last night that the group would request between $80,000 and $100,000 from the Student Senate for fiscal year 1990.
Michael Foubert, executive coordinator, said that the Graduate Student Council probably would
"Obviously, the likelihood of getting that kind of money is rather low," he said.
Foubert said that he expected to receive between $80,000 and $50,000. He said the request would be made within 10 days.
He said that one problem with receiving the money was that it would seem like a large increase from what the current operating budget is.
This year, the council received 822,536, according to the Student Senate 1989 budget.
Foubert said that the council needed the extra money because more graduate student organizations were formed at the University of Kansas after the budget had been finalized and because the groups needed better equipment, such as computers and printers.
"It will look like a major increase, but they reflect actual needs," he said.
reflect actual needs. no answer.
Foubert said the reason the council would request more money than it thought it would get was as part of a political game.
"You ask for a wish list, and you pave everything down to what you can live with," he said. "If you ask what you can live with, you get a bare survival budget."
Other members of the council referred to this process as "Mickey Mouse games."
Heithem E-Hodri, Lawrence graduate, said, "No to sound high and mighty, but this is reason."
But Foubert said the graduate students would have to follow the rules of the predominantly undergraduate Student Senate.
"Although it's Mickey Mouse, it's the only game in town," he said.
Council members agreed that a problem of communications might be the key.
James Mur, Overland Park graduate student,
said that undergraduates on the Student Senate
thought graduate students were the same as they.
"They don't understand what a graduate student does," he said. "They do the same thing, and their classes are different."
Foubert suggested that graduate students were partially to blame for the miscommunication and that they possibly could improve it by holding receptions for student senators.
In other business, GradEx will meet sometime near the beginning of next year with Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Tom Rawson, associate vice chancellor for administration and finance, to discuss how the council can lobby to help pass the second year of the Margin of Excellence.
Campaign for KANU raises $61,000 so far
By a Kansan reporter
KANU's fall fund-raising efforts yieided more than $61,000 last week during an eight-day phone-in campaign, said Marcia Cooper, membership coordinator.
Fall Fanfare' 78, the radio station's semi-annual campaign, combined the phone pledging system with a mailing effort to raise a projected $100,000. Cooper said that in addition to the money raised by the phone contributions, between $25,000 and $35,000 would likely be raised through contributions that patrons would mail in.
"All in all, I feel pretty good," Cooper said. "It wasn't record-breaking, but it was okay. We'll
keep plugging away."
Money raised would contribute to general operating expenses and would also help support special radio programs. KANU is a public radio station and receives no commercial money.
Cooper said the amount of money received by the station may have been lower than in the past because of the election season which prompted people to contribute money elsewhere.
"The timing was a little off. People only have so much money and sometimes there are too many causes," she said.
Another fund-raising campaign will be conducted in the spring.
SENIORS Vote for your favorite H.O.P.E. Award Finalist
Wed. Nov. 16 & Thurs. Nov. 17 in your School's Office of the Dean (CLAS voting in 106 Strong Hall)
- Lonn Beaudry, Fine Arts * Norman Forer, Social Welfare *
* Chip Howat, Engineering * James Lapoint, Education *
* Valentino Stella, Pharmacy *
H. O.P.E. Award sponsored by Senior Board of Class Officers
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