Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 1, 1986- A SCIENCE 'U, By ADAM QA new Universi nearing completion open up new resean University astronor University observin the best in the count The new telescope with, a 94-inch dia mirror, will be th University-owned t the result of the co the University, Da Massachusetts Technology. IT is being assem vatory adjacent to existing 52-inch Mc vatory on Kitt-Peal will cost about tw Each of the three paying about $3 National Science paying the balance. The telescope astronomers to stud and quasars and phenomenon inter telescope n 4 CORT Richstone, chairman of the Univer- .ity telescope is sity's astronomy department. and is expected to Studying these bodies can increase the understanding of the evolution of ch possibilites for the universe, he said. ners and make the THE instrument is scheduled to be ig facilities among operational by the end of the month, ry. said Albert Hiltner, astronomy e, weighing 60 tons professor emeritus and director of the ameter reflecting telescope. Construction is almost he fourth largest complete and most of what remains is telescope, and is testing and debugging the equipment, mbined efforts of he said. rtmouth, and the The University is building the Institute of telescope to meet the overwhelming demand for such facilities. nbled in an obser- Currently, only three national the University's telescopes of this size exist and about cGraw-Hill obser- 800 astronomers compete for time to k in Arizona and use them, said Todd Boroson, a ears completion THE telescope will also give University astronomers more resear- ch flexibility because it will enable them to do more long-term obser- vations and experiment with projects that are not guaranteed to yield major finds, Richstone said. Because of the time constraints, the national observatories have to be somewhat conservative in doling out telescope time, Borosin said. As a result, astronomers must plan relatively conservative projects. The telescope was built at a fraction of what it normally costs to build a telescope of this size. Richstone said telescopes of this size usually cost about $6 million-$8 million to build. THE University cut costs by using designs and mechanisms that have been used in previous telescopes, and by cutting corners wherever possible, said Hiltner. For example, the "blank", the disk out of which the mirror was ground, was made from an existing disk. The University contracted out the various stages of construction rather than employ an independent contractor, o million dollars. universities are 17,000 and the Foundation is will enable ly distant galaxies the way these ract, said Doug University astronomer. The new telescope will substantially increase the amount of time Univer- sity astronomers get for viewing, Hiltner said. This will be particularly good for graduate students, who often have difficulty getting observing time at the National observatories he ad- ded. Tel Aviv prof. remen (Continued from Page1) finity to Ann Arbor," he said. "In fact, many of the friends I made here while I was going to school or later on are called the Michiganders. We still meet in Israel on a regualr basis, trying to relive our period in Ann Ar- bor." WHILE visiting Ann Arbor recently for a series of workshops on Israel, Ya'ar noted that the city is still un- dergoing changes that began when he was a student here. Ya'ar said that when he first came to University, he viewed Ann Arbor as a relatively small town that had no "decent" restauranst. When a restaurant finally opended in an old 0 r ibers days train deport, Ya'ar said the new dining place cause a great deal of ex- citement around town. "It was a great event," he says. "Finally we had a place which served good food and was nicely decorated. It just indicates the smallness of the town when such excitemetn takes place." Despite his distance from Ann Ar- bor Ya'ar still follows University sports avidly. In California, he works with a colleague from Iowa who teases him about the quality of the University's sports teams, as both the football and basketball teams have lost to the University of Iowa this year. After graduating from the Univer- sity, Ya'ar went to Tel Aviv Univer- sity, where he teaches on a permanent basis. Since then, Ya'ar has returned to the United States to teach as a T elescope... facilitates research said Hiltner. The overall design is also compact, which minimizes costs for the building and the dome, said Richstone. at U' visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Califor- nia and the University of Michigan. In 1972, he was a visiting professor in the University's Institute of Social Research. Currently, Ya'ar is researching grass-root sentiment in the Mideast about the Arab-Israeli conflict. He contends that the average citizen in the Mideast is less radical than their national leaders. Because they believe that most others support their leaders radical stances, however, average citizens feel compelled to lend their own sup- port as well, Ya'ar says. By examining such social and psychological attitudes toward the conflict, Ya'ar hopes that his research will ultimately bring peace to the Mideast. Ua - -""""" DISCOUNT Macintosh'M & IBMTM Software & Supplies IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS Khadaf y says he won't attack America unless pressured TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy said yesterday U.S. aggression in the world "could lead to a cataclysm," but insisted he would not order attacks against America unless it resumed pressure on his country. "If this aggression went on," he continued, "it would be a disaster. The confrontation helped Libya very much because it united the Arab world around us. It escalated the feelings of the Arab world toward us." "You see, now America is isolated in the world. Even its allies were against these moves," said Khadafy, leaning back into the sofa and crossing his arms. Khadafy said he would order no actions, including the suicide squads he threatened when the fleet was off Libya's coast. "But you must know many, many people in the world support us, and they are angry," he said. "They may do anyting, but we are not respon- sible for this." Marcos may return home MANILA, Philippines-Ferdinand Marcos said yesterday that he was not corrupt but President Corazon Aquino is, and he may return from exile to rescue Filipinos from a "monster" bent on enslaving them. In a message and hand-written letter, the ousted president called him- self a victim of the "blackest of propaganda." He accused "elements of the American government" of helping oust him. He said Aquino was the "No. 1 looter," a charge that has been made against Marcos. A source close to Marcos made a tape of the message and a copy of the letter available to the Associated Press. Presidental spokesman Rene Saguisag said Aquino greeted the com- ments "with typical calm and equanimity." He said Marcos may be allowed to return "in the distant future, but not just now.' The greatest service Marcos has done to the Filipino nation is to leave it," Saguisag said. "He should not negate it by threatening to come back." In a telephone statement from Honolulu, which the source said was taped yesterday, Marcos said: "We must war again against the monster who imposes slavery." 166 die in Mexican crash MORELIA, Mexico-A Mexicana Airline jet carrying 166 people crashed into a mountain in central Mexico yesterday shortly after leaving Mexico City for two Pacific resorts and Los Angeles and all aboard were killed, the airline reported. The Boeing 727 went down about 90 miles northwest of Mexico City, near Maravatio. It was the worst air disaster since a chartered DC-8 with a crew of eight that was carrynig 248 U.S. servicemen home for Christmas from the Mid- dle East crashed just after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, on Dec. 12, and all perished. "Unfortunately, there are no survivors" among the 158 passengers and eight crew members, Mexicana spokesman Fernando Martinez Cortes told reporters. He said Federal Highway Police were the first to arrive at the scene and reported all those aboard apparently were killed on impact. In an official statement, the airline said the plane left Mexico City at 8:50 a.m. CST and was to arrive in Los Angeles at 12:20 p.m. PST after stops in Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan. U.S. Embassy spokesman Vince Hovanec said airline officials reported 25 non-Hispanic surnames were on the passenger list, but the manifest did not list citizenship. "We have no way of nowing now if there are any Americans aboard," Hovanec said. High court to rule on sodomy WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, told that morality and decency are at stake, was urged yesterday to rule that consenting adults have no constitutional right to homosexual conduct in the privacy of their homes. "Our legal history and our social traditions have condemned this con- duct," Georgia Assistant Attorney General Michael Hobbs said in defending his state's sodomy law. About half the states outlaw sodomy, defined in Georgia as "any sexual act involving the sex organs of one per- son and the mouth or anus of another." But Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said states may not criminalize sodomy between consenting adults merely with "an in- vocation of the majority's morality." The case began in August 1982 when Michael Hardwick, a homosexual, was arrested and charged by the Atlanta police with committing sodomy with a consenting man in the bedroom of his home-a crime punishable by 20 years in prison. Police had gone to Hardwick's home to arrest him for not paying a fine for drinking in public and caught him in the act. Mozambican plane crashes LISBON, Portugal-A Mozambican air force Antonov-26 transport plane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from the northern city of Pemba Sunday, killing 44 civilians and military personnel, Portuguese news agencies reported yesterday. Five other passengers among the 49 people aboard were listed as "gravely injured," according to an official statement issued in the capital of Maputo. The agencies, reporting from Maputo, said the victims included several children and members of the national parliament and provincial Cabo Delgado government. There was no immediate word on whether any foreigners were aboard the Soviet-built plane. The statement, issued by the ruling Marxist party's political bureau, lamented "the terrible loss for the country, including some of its best cadre," the NP and ANOP news agencies said. 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