THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
CLOUDY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.134
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Watkins leader of benefactors to University
Friday, April 30, 1976
Activist lecture opens three-day women's festival
A potluck dinner and a lecture by activist Kimmy Kennedy will open the May Day Festival.
The festival, sponsored by the Women's Coalition and the Commission on the Status of Women, was held in Washington.
A WOMEN'S POTTLUCK DUMP from 5:30 to 6:30 PM at the United Nations institutions.
Building will once be Kennedy's home.
Workshops and films are on schedule from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Institute and Smith Hall. Topics include: self-defense, sex discrimination in schools, poor decision-making, women and divorce, and self-health—a health study group.
Registration for the workshops will be held tomorrow in the main lobby of the Union.
A women's coffeehouse and dance will be the
first pm to 1 am; tomorrow in the Hawk
2.
Sunday, a potpole picnic will be held from
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Potter Lake.
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
A free child-care center will be available during the speech tonight and during the workshops and coffeehouse all day tomorrow.
Sinain' the Blues
"I thought I was a child," sang Bonnie Rattit during her hour and 45-minute concert last night in Hector Auditorium. The blues singing redhead brought her own brand music to
KU to start publicity drive
By JERRY SEIB
University officials will soon begin a program designed to generate more public support for the University of Kansas, under Archie R. Dykes announced yesterday.
Dykes sold the University Senate that the program would送 KU administrators, faculty and student officials to speak at conferences and community organizations around the state.
Dykes said the program would be similar to the Ambassadors Club, an athletic department program which arranges for student-athletes to speak at civic functions.
After the Senate meeting, Dykes said administrators had held preliminary discussions on the program with Tedde Tasheff. student body president.
But he said that the program wasn't married yet, and that more details would be added.
Dykes told the Senate that American universities faced a dismal future unless they undertook such efforts to build public confidence.
Unless schools do, he said, they will pounce into deep financial trouble because poor parents are so often the cause.
"As one looks to the future of higher education in America, there isn't much to do."
Dykes cited the examples of the State University of New York, Michigan State University, and the Universities of Georgia, Florida, and Texas. In addition, bud cults are forced enrollment selections.
But he said KU had fared better in obtaining state funds in recent years.
"Truly one of the remarkable achievements of the past two or three years
After talking with administrators of more than 20 state universities, Dykes said, he found that none of the other universities had received a faculty salary increase as large as the 8 per cent hike KU faculty will get next year.
Dykes said another major achievement of the legislative session was the approval of the construction of a new computer center, to be built starting this summer.
Two new computers, purchased with funds from last year's legislature, will arrive this summer eventually to be housed in the new center.
"I'm convinced we will have a computer center unequalled in any university of this country," he said.
has been the improvement of the level of support for higher education in Kansas," he said.
Administrators were disappointed in cuts in library fund requests, he said. Requests for $10,000 each from the Library Foundation were discontinued.
Dykes said that record enrollments at KU in the past two years, after some officials had predicted enrollments would decline, are still more attractive to parents and students.
Because of its strong professional schools, Dukes says he would like to teach the smaller number of students entering colleges. He said the high quality of those schools would continue to attract more students.
Marijuana 'fad' invites research
One result of declining enrollments elsewhere might be that the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees professional schools of the state colleges and universities in one location, Dykes said.
Field hockey funding to go before Senate
Dykes said that there would be a 30 per cent decline in the size of high school graduation classes during the 1980s, cutting enrollments at some colleges and universities.
improvement had been severely reduced by the legislature, he said.
A bill to give $4,000 to the women's field hockey team will be presented at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting, the Sports committee decided last night.
See SENATE page 3
The funds in the bill, sponsored by John Broadie, Sports Committee co-chairman, would supplement the $2,500 promised to the team by the University administration. The $4,500 would come from the Senate's unallocated funds.
By RON COHN
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Legal or illegal, moral or moral, the use of marijuana is widespread, and Allen Rawitt says it is for searching the drug at the KU Medical Center.
Rawitch, associate professor of biochemistry, came to KU in July after attending a post-graduate University for six years. He said Friday that he considered his marijuana research, which is a collaborative effort with Kent and is the primary research in thioprotients.
"My interest in this is purely scientific," he said, "and it's not psychological behavior—that's why I collaborate with two psychologists. I don't take any legal or ethical responsibilities, or the other. We respect to advocating it or not advocating it, I don't do either."
"I LOOK AT it as a fault. People are using it, and therefore I believe that it's the obligation of the scientist, if he feels he is doing something wrong in his society with as much information as necessary so that if nothing else, each individual owes respect as to whether he wants to use it."
Rawitch said that the project was started at Kent State two and one-half years ago. A team of researchers from Michigan funding to Kent State with a subcontract to KU from the National Institute of Drug Abuse is awaited. Rawitch and his colleagues are optimistic about the funding,
RATS ARE GIVEN doses of marijuana and tested to determine the drug's psychological effects. The animals are then put to death and their tissues are sent to the Med Center, where chemical analysis is conducted.
Rawitch said that he was one of three investigators on the project. The others are two psychologists at Kent State who conduct behavioral work with female rats.
The exposed rats, he said, show some deficits in learning ability. Also, Rawitch said, he thought a test in which two rats are placed in a tube with its openings closed off had shown that rats would back up unless forced) had shown that the exposed rats pushed the unexposed rats out.
He said that those particular experiments were conducted on mice and rats because researchers couldn't afford to take a risk with human subjects.
"If you give it to, for example, a pregnant or a nursing animal," he said, "it can have an effect."
He said the project tried to tie together small correlations between chemical studies, looked at where marijuana goes down in an animal and what tissues it collects.
"WE ARE DOING some studies." Rawitch said, "in which we have shown quite thoroughly that the drug and its metabolites do get into the developing fetus in rats, and do get into the milk in nursing babies, when the offspring when they're nursing.
"And furthermore, that there are differences in those rat offspring when compared to rats that did not get exposure to the placenta or through the milk."
Rawitch said the test results might indicate that the exposed rats were more dominant or aggressive or clausrophobic. But, he said, these are speculations.
He said the subjects were given a brief written test 45 minutes to an hour after the drug was taken. Then he underwent behavioral testing for a half hour before
"I GUESS THE only thing I could say is that there are differences that are reproducible, and you can document the differences." he said.
HE THEN WENT to the health center at Kent State, where he was taken to a special suite of rooms, and a substance was orally administered.
It's the speculation, he said, that causes the primary concern of researchers.
The substance may have been THC (the most common form of marijuana) psychoactive ingredient in marijuana alcohol, a tranquilizer or nothing at all. The subject didn't know what substance was involved.
There might be validity, Rawit said, to behaviorist's theories that the period in an infant's life immediately after birth is very important. If so, he said, anything that might distort an infant's perceptions is dangerous.
"So long as we have some indication that these rats behave differently, without regard to whether it's positive difference or negative difference, but their perception is modified, you run the risk of seeing potential later consequences."
In the project's tests with humans at Kent State, 100 male volunteers were selected. The volunteers must sign a statement that theyd have smoked pot previously.
The volunteer was screened in an interview, and a psychological test was given. Urine sample was taken to check for the presence of fecal matter. The subject signed a release or consent form.
RAWITCH SAID that the researchers do think that there are differences in baby rats that either nursed from exposed mothers or mothers were given the drug when pregnant.
He said that he would advise a pregnant woman or a nursing mother not to use milk.
"And that really all," he said. "Those differences may not ultimately amount to a hill of beans, but we don't know. And that's where the animal model breaks down because as the rat grows up, how do you know whether he's well-adjusted?"
"Don't use it—not because I can guarantee that you're going to have an idiot or someone that's maladjusted—but because there's a possibility that there's some alteration, and what that alteration will do is unknown," he said.
The second aspect of the project, Rawitch said, has been an attempt to measure some behavioral variables in human subjects, and as a guideline to find out how far the research has come, to look at marijuana in relation to drugs such as alcohol.
"THE PROBLEM, of course, in any of this human work, particularly in behavioral work, is that there is a great deal of variability," he said. "When you're talking about human behavior, every individual is somewhat different in the first place."
He said the way to overcome the problem was to experiment on many people.
taking another written test about the experience.
ranchish said that he couldn't reveal the details of the actual experiment because a naive subject was required for testing behavioral variables.
"The reason," he said, "is that it's not just sensing that there is nothing happening or there is something happening, but diffferent between an alcohol high and a hot pot.
until we have so far, we've adjusted these
tissues to gross body weight," Rawitch said.
But, he said, the subjects weren't asked what drug they thought they were given, only to rate in subjective terms how "high" or "low" the dose was. A low or a high dosage, selected at random.
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THE DOSAGES were given according to the person's body weight he said, but that presented a problem because two people who weigh the same may have very different body structures, particularly in fat content.
He said he wasn't sure that was the best way to determine dosages, but they were still operating at a dose far below what might be seriously toxic.
Hawitch said that a person knew within certain limits what kind of high he was.
See MARIJUANA page 5
Women's field hockey was cut from next year's athletic budget because of insufficiency.
Marian Washington, director of women's athletics, said the athletic department decided to cut the field hockey program to save the popularity of other women's sports.
Washington said that if the Senate funded a rocketset, she would handle the scheduling of them.
However, Jane Markert, field hockey coach, said she received a letter from Washington Wednesday that terminated her contract two weeks before her contract ran out.
THE SCHEDULDING is usually handled by the team coach.
"I see no purpose in it. I see no reason
whether my contract couldn't have run out,"
Marcus said.
Washington didn't comment on the job termination.
Washington said at the meeting that she thought the dues has to be submitted by the bank.
The Senate won't be able to appropriate any money to field hockey unless the bill amends it.
According to Markert, $30 in dues to the United States Field Hockey Association must be submitted by tomorrow. The memorial is open for regional and national tournaments.
LATER, HOWEVER, she said she would verify the date the fees are due and would ask the regional Field Hockey Association equivalent for an extension, if necessary.
The Sports Committee also will present a bill to the Senate for approval of a petition to establish an advisory board for women's intercollegiate athletics. The board, which includes members from both college and alumni and three students, will oversee women's athletics along with Washington.
A bill to establish an Intramurals Board to act as a grievance committee for complaints on intramural sports' policies and rules also will be presented to the Senate. The board will consist of Brodie, committee members. All five students who were selected last night.
The students are Jill Grubaugh, Sports Committee co-chairman and four members of the Sports Committee: Pam Blasi, Nancy Lambros, Jack Marvin and Joe Sweeney.
By CHRISTINE TYLER
Wagon train rolls into Lawrence
Eastward the wagons move along the great trails, the Oregon and the Santa Fe. They travel through snow and travelers did more than a century ago.
But today they are towns and cities along those trails, so many supplies can be delivered in short periods. Today, cars travel alongside. Today, roads and highways run where roads don't exist.
Today, 13 wagons with a train that has been following the Santa Fe Trail will凋 from their course to spend the weekend in Lawrence.
And some things haven't changed, it's still a long, hard trip.
The wagon train is scheduled to pull into Lawrence between 4 and 5:30 this afternoon.
THE WAGONS, the 115 people traveling with them and an assortment of horses and other livestock
The Santa Fe wagon train is one of five trains traveling from various parts of the country retracing the routes of the American expansion. The five wagon trains will meet near Valley Forge on the Fourth of July.
will camp for the weekend in O-zone parking lot.
The American Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage is a project of the Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission.
The Santa Fe procession started from the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 1 and began traveling east along the Santa Fe Trail. The wagon train has traveled 208 miles to Mexico, Colorado and into Kansas.
AS THE PILGRIMAGE traveled through each state, it was joined by a wagon and to represent that state. People on horses and in wagons
The kitchen on wheels has two stoves, two ovens, two old sinks, a three-foot grill, a steam table and a large freezer and refrigerator.
Food for the people who travel with the Santa Fe wagon train is cooked in a large cast iron pan, bask which has been converted into a kitchen on wheels. Bob, Mike and Bob Woodley, a father and his two sons, are fed by a chef and pack sick lunches each day.
The official Kansas wagon joined the train at Coolidge in the beginning of April with Clyde Chayer of Palmer, as waggonmaster.
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Chayer's assistant, 76-year-old Roe Groom of Council Grove, says wagons aren't new to him. He remembers the town from its territory with his parents in 1904.
also joined the train for a day or two.
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The southeast corner of the O-zone parking lot is blocked off from today until early Monday morning to make room for the bicentennial wagon
Bob Ellison, KU police captain, said yesterday that the driveway on the east side of the parking lot also would be closed except for outpatient facilities at Watson Hospital. Ozone is the city's street south of Robinson Gymnasium
See WAGON page 5
Ellison said that an alternative parking area would be X-zone, near the football stadium.
Another parking conflict may develop. Ellison said the Naval Air Force stationed tonight on the east lawn of Allen Field House. He said that N-zone, north of Allen Field House, would be available to students and parents.
Staff photos by JAY KOELZER
Bicentennial wagon train rolls along Highway 56 toward a night stop in Baldwin