Show SB negotiating $ million contract 1 yny e rsity shuttle will include Space JR Allred in Liformation Services the first six sc lentific e shuttle oeriments on the spu conducted b scientists jj 5e Unix ersitv an Utah State National Aeronautic s and One of The ) N S jace Administration L'SU to prepare the selected j5 Deccm-e- r merunent for orbit u w ith 1979 and is neogtiating approximates $1 President (Wen ullion contract USl Institu-ona- l Taggart told the Council during its meeting for an SU campus Saturdav the r pbvsics Department Banks he ad of the Phtacs Department at ISU is investigator for a the principal Peter M study of the electrical properties of the space shuttle in orbit He heads a team made up of other USU scientists with support from others at the University of Tokyo and University of Texas at San Antonio There were 157 proposals submitted by universities and other research entities for contracts to do reserath on the first flight to carry scientific experiments The USU proposal was one of six selected President Taggart told council members One of the other experiments will be related to the USU project and will be conducted closely with USU by the University of Iowa Banks said Contract documents are now being prepared for the three-- y ear USU project Pinal negotiations will determine the exact amount of the grant to USU from NASA but the amount will likely be slightly over $1 million The primary goal of the project Banks said is to measure the electrical properties of the spac e shuttle as a whole — how it behaves in space in an environment that can elec trie ally c harge the vehicle itself with high voltage The surface of the space shuttle orbiter is highly So when researchers attempt to shoot electron or positive ion beams from the orbiter the spacecraft may become electrically charged to as muc h as 1000 volts ” One of three special instru experiment ments in the USU research package will be apparatus to measure the voltage reached by the orbiter Electron Gun Another will be an electron gun to emit electrical current It will be used to charge the shuttle and measure the conductive processes that affect electrical c harging This will make the first use of an electron gun on a spacecraft Banks said It is a forerunner of a muc h larger electon gun project to he done later The third instrument in the USU experiment will measure electrical currents from electrically charged plasma medium More than ninety nine percent -- of the universe is composed of electrically charged gases known as plasma” Banks explained Our experiment is of basic importance in understanding the overall electrical behavior of the orbiter in the plasma environment of the upper atmostphere” Banks said More projects Banks and his expect this to be only the first step in a total USU project that wil involve several more parts of similar magnitude They are preparing proposals for follow-u- p projects to continue investigation of space plasma phenomena Does the experiment have a practical application that will (Continued on page 3) ‘ STUDENT 34 LOGAN UTAH January 16 1978 75 NO VOL Monday assails SALT II and Panama Canal treaties in UC Sky Room speach Hatch bi Becky ’ Cairns “Ltor tht reform Labor S I nan a treaties the Pa treatv and the energv the most II I anal bill will facing Congress in the future ierator Orrin Hatch K I tab here annual dinner Speaking to the the Cache ( harnber of Commerce in the LC Sky room Hatch discussed future meeting of issues and important related the he has made as a accom-plshmen- senator The senator said Wednesday II talks are the SALT the most probably important issues to come before the United States and said the treaties are selling ins country right down the river defenseless ” Hatch said the United States P'fupthe B- bomber for the and rendering us -l erase missile and got nothing Wum from the Russians Kuasians were absolute lv Library tor in The Taft-Hartl- e ‘ terri (Continued on page 3 fines for overdue materials The learning resources ha r of the irrttee acuity ii!!asurecoramended T CSesin that faculty out policy ““8 foes J"der Present polu may check o and materials f( Z Pnod Max Pe '!ate library direc be renew members the ground The greatest deterrent we have is to unleash our mightv and show the Russians if power they want an arms race we 11 give it to them" he said Hatch also decried labor ' reform" legislation which is des cribed as nothing less than push button unionization shrouded m the semantics of reform ” This legislation w ould do all but Act the repeal the right to work act the senator said and would almost make for mandatory unionization across the country The Panama Canal treaty is another issue which lies ahead for Congress he said Until constitutional problems goes after faculty's Mohammad If tile Student Life act“t) i i important issue1 said fied of that bomber he said In ti rms of di fense the senator said we shnuldn t put a price on the life of ever American We should plav what it takes to run them the Russians right into are a for over- - com- mittee has recommended the eight week period be retained with the stipidaton a book may be recalled if required by another individual The committee also wants normal fines assessed for overdue items year 1200 books were taken by faculty members and not returned Peterson said "They happen to be key books also needed by students” he Ist said A recent attempt by the library Sigrns Chi sponsored Derby Days Derby Days raises money for Exceptional Child Center by Doug Buc kley staff writer Sigma Chi Fraternity’s annual Derby Day s at Utah State took on a unified rather than competitive note this tear in raising funds for the Lxc optional Child Center In the past all the sororities competed against each other for ’ long-overdu- e the best fund raising project and each sorority channeled the funds raised to what charity they choose" said Iarry ‘ By water hut this Sigma Chi’s consul year the program has been restructured to encourage more sorority support ” This year we’re shooting for about $500 dollars for the exceptional child center ” he said ‘but books With the present faculty system Peterson said if a book is not returned nothing can be done We have to depend upon the good behavior of ‘the faculty members” he said We have no tee said Peterson said undergraduate way to force them to return those students may check out a book books If a faculty member for two weeks only and graduate chooses to ignore us we really students may check them out for can’t do anything ” four weeks In case of overdue Peterson said only a small books a week’s grace period is given during which notices are percentage of the faculty are issued and if the books are not responsible for not returning the returned a fine of $3 is charged overdue books and materials to the library he said to recall these books from the facultv resulted in about 17 percent of the books being returned to the library Tammy Trimble student member of the commit- in the past we’ve earned over a thousand dollars ” Sig Derby Days Chairman Scott Hansen said that Derby Days is a traditional activity sponsored by Sigma Chi chapters on campuses stretching nationwide Its activities include the fund raising projects games skits contests and with Alpha Chi Chi Omega and Kappa Delta sororities This year the sororities went in with Sigma Chi on the project held in the basement of the UC last week of guessing the amount of carmels in the bottle” Hansen said "We’d like to thank all those that helped supported it at the table ” rs Bywater said one of the largest success stories produced by Sig Derby Day’s has been the Wallace Village Sigma Chi gymnasium that was built by the funds raised by this event "The Wallace Village is a camp for mentally disabled children m Colorado and there were $38000 dollars raised for that” Bywater said |