Sally >> THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN GAME DAY Page 6B H horr week p.m. Gues and a prize FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2007 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOLUME 118 ISSUE 50 The hand that feeds you balloween 15 10. 25.2007 JAYPLAY WHAT it's LIKE TO DISSECT A CADAVER "When you go in, it's like an adventure," says Danny Najera, an Oklahoma City graduate student in biology. student in which is a GTA for a biology department dissection laboratory, guides students and scalpel through the inwards of the university's cadavers, which are stored on the first floor of Haworth Hall. He says the university has five specimens at any given time, all borrowed from the University of Kansas Medical Center. He says the first thing you have to do is get over the smell—a bitter, rotting fruit-like odor. The perfume comes from preservatives, not the body itself. *It makes your nose think bad things.* he says He comes from persia but has a sister. "It makes your nose think bad things," he says. It makes your nose think twice before you wear a Najara's students are always surprised by the massive amounts of fat found on bodies, slim or thick. He says it is everywhere; between muscles and skin, organs, and even between the eye socket and eyeball. "You feel like you're spending an hour and a half digging through fat," he says. But before you get too far into your journey of anatomic discovery, you have to dry the body out. "Initially, when you go in, it's juicy everywhere." After drying the body in a process that includes sooping up body liquid with paper towels, the body assumes the appearance of beef jerky and is ready for examination. Najera says you find all kinds of surprises inside, including branches of arteries that aren't found in textbooks, stomach staples and livers ranging from the size of golf balls to footballs. He's held human brains and seen damaged kidneys covered in blisters. Some parts are easier to cut through than others. "Even a scalpel has problems going through the tendons," he says. "It's almost like you need a saw." Najera says he's never had a student vomit or pass out while dissecting a body,but notes that everyone experiences some discomfort at first. "It's a test. No one really knows what their reaction will be like." Nathan Gill WWW.JACKPOTMUSICHALL.COM JACIPOT! 943 MA55 LAWRENCE K5 785.832.1085 R25 THU 25 WOLF-WOLF WOLEWEL+STORMY STORY +COSTUME PARTY! THU 25 RAISIN-WOLF BRIAN'S WORKS • STORMY STORY • COSTUME PARTIIII FRI 26 EOTO FEAT. MEMBERS OF STRING CHEESEI SAT 27 GET CRUNKI - GIGABYT- PAT MICE + BEN FULLER - QUEEN BEA SUN 28 HIGH FALCONITO! HORROR HOGGENTAMI NIGHT HORROR FLIXI 9PM HOGENTAMI NIGHT HORROR FLIXI 9PM WED 31 THE SPOOK LIGHTS ARCHETYPE* BLACK CHRISTMAS THU 1 CENTRAL ATMOSPHERE FUNK+SOUL+JAZZ SAT 3 KIOSK BENEFIT JASON MEYER JANE SMITH - DANNY FOUND POUND MATHY GROBBY + YOGBYBAT FRI 2 THE LIFE & TIMES ORION+THE OLD BLACK SUN 5 KENNEDY LUCK CLUB THE AQUA SYMPHONICS REDLAY LOINGE MAIL ADDRESS: REDLAYLOINGE@YA.COM TEL: (844) 257-9292 TUE 6 RIDDLE OF STEEL THE FORMS • TBA TH 25 THE GUNSY MULANIKE SKY ROCKET • MUSTANGS & MADRAS THU 25 THE GUNSHY FRI 26 LOVE GARDEN SOUND SYSTEM ON THE PATIO! SAT 27 UNC ANDY'S HALLOWEEN STARTER JUSTIN TUNNEL • THE GLOVES SUN 28 SPEAKER SPEAKER THE ACADEMIES MON 29 THE MOURLY RADIO WED 31 LAST CARES (A TRAINUE TO THE MISTIES) D WHARFALKENPOL A D PUMPKIN PIE EYE cline Loeck/KANSAN es ts, es Balderson ibeca Film Oct. 26, 29 ing shown ego Strikes Movies &A session leading up amego but because because oinded. He Institute of Balderson of his time its portions s Angeles. Balderson he help of had a still he set outrn and togrets. FULL STORY ON PAGE 6A 2