University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 20, 1976
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Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Worn-out
Although footpaths may decrease the time spent walking between classes, their wear creates an extra burden for buildings and grounds personnel. This near potter Lake
Shortcut path fixers defied by student feet
Staff Writer
BY FLORESTINE PURNELL
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points. That isn't a lesson in geometry, but the major reason why students skip paths across University of Kansas lawns.
However, these short cuts are often unsightly and create more work for the department of buildings and grounds personnel who have to deal with them, says Harold Blitch, supervisor of grounds and landscaping.
"Footpaths are a part of every college, university or any other place with great expanses of open space." Biltch said Wednesday. "When one develops, we attempt to do something about it, but we have trouble stopping them from forming."
There are several ways to deal with a footpath. Blah said he tried to "plant-out" a path before it did too much damage. Small pieces of concrete were thrown away from the path back on sidewalks.
Bilich said this was the method used most often because it was the least expensive. However, there are times when financing is required, and you must be dealt with, until funds are available.
Even if enough money was available to lay concrete in all the paths students created, Biltch said, the grounds could become so criss crossed with sidewalks that they would become as unsightly as the paths.
It is impossible to estimate the cost of the damage done by footpaths, Blitch said.
"How do you place value on something that replaces oxygen?" he asked.
Sometimes signs are used to route a walker back to the sidewalk. However, this is not always safe.
that most signs, especially the "cute" ones,
up in residence hall rooms.
"The situation with the signs is really comical," he said. "We've tried them over the last 20 years without much success. The prohibitive signs that tell a student to stay off the grass only tend to create more paths."
Another method sometimes used is putting gravel on a path.
"The trouble with gravel is that it is unsightly and unstable." Blitch said. "It is also difficult to control and difficult to walk on."
Gravel also tends to be hazardous when the area has to be mowed. In winter, there is no way to remove snow from a gravel walk by making more damage to the area, Bitch said.
The removal of one footpath only creates another. Blitch used the example of the women's hockey field east of Robinson Gymnasium and the extensive planning done to stop footpaths there, which ran from southeast to northwest. After Naismith and Balls and Watkiss Hospital are built, a path runs northeast to southwest formed.
Biltish said the ideal thing was to mitigate where walks should be during the planning stage of a building. He said he and Alton Thomas, University landscape architect, met with planers of new buildings to determine where walks should be.
Bilch said that grounds personnel were careful when they had to cross lawns in trucks, because they knew how damaging vehicles on lawns could be. Most areas are checked to determine whether they are sturdy enough to support trucks. When possible, trucks use the sidewalks, which are reinforced so they won't crack, he said.
Eugenics possibilities discussed
By JACK FISCHER
Staff Writer
The manipulation of cells to alter species life and create new life 'in' the realm of extinction.
Scientists working in the field ofugenics, often called genetic engineering, wonder whether humans will be created to specifications, but when, George Bogulsawski, assistant professor of interobiology, said this week.
Although the made-to-order human is probably still in the distant future, today's research in the manipulation of simple organisms may soon offer increased food supplies and the eradication of some hereditary diseases. Bocasulawski said.
Some of the most advanced research in genetic engineering is now going on at the NIH.
The chemical DNA, which contains the coded information for the development of cells of all organisms, has been taken from a frog and implanted in a common bacteria, Boguslawski said. After being placed in a nutrient medium, the bacteria shows that the frog DNA, information that the bacteria normally wouldn't create or contain.
This was a first step towards altering organisms, he said.
Another technique of genetic engineering is cloning. In the December 1971 issue of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the process of cloning a frog was explained.
The nucleus of a cell was taken from an adult鸡 and placed inside a frog egg. When the egg was incubated, the offspring weren't a mixture of the traits of two chick embryos but exact duplicates of the adult from which the nucleus was taken, the article said.
Bogalwaski said that because of the complexity of human beings, the prospect of creating a new world is enormous.
But we are faced, in a sense, with the possibility of a thousand Hitlers," he said. "Then, too, we could create a thousand Einsteins."
Because of differing environmental influences and the unknown nature of some of these factors, it is important to consider
Bigger building works out well for Endowment
The new location of the KU Endowment Association is working out well, Todd Seymour, the association's president, said Wednesday.
"We're delighted with our new quarters," he said. "There's more security for our residence."
In January, the Endowment Association moved to a former engineering research building west of Nichols Hall. The association had been located in the former University Faculty Club, near the Kansas Union.
One of the main reasons for the move, Seymour said, was that there was about 80 per cent more space in the new building, which accommodates 25 employees.
"We no longer have people running into each other tearing to do their job," he said.
Another reason for the move, he said, was that the campus has much less traffic than the other one.
A seminar featuring three black lawyers will be presented this weekend by the KU Black American Law Students Association (BALSA).
Black lawyers join in seminar
Leonard Clark, a lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board; Melvin Jenkins, a lawyer for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Charles Scott, a lawyer for the Kansas Association of Attorneys, will speak at a seminar starting at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Green Hall Annex.
Tyrone Means, president of BALSA, said yesterday that the seminar was "geared toward the black student," but that anyone interested could attend.
even cloned humans wouldn't be complete identical.
Bogawalasi said genetic engineering work involving humans presented many challenges.
Means also, said anyone interested in the formation of a black, pre-privileged student club in Manhattan.
There are so many factors to create a
wild or personality that we haven't even
been able to describe.
William Conoby, professor of speech and drama, said scientists and social scientists were divided in their opinions of genetic traits. He teaches a course about the study of the fulbright.
"Some futurologists want a moratorium on eugenics," he said. "Others say there should never be censorship on research or investigation.
"The biggest issue is the value question. Our technical capacity exceeds our grasp of social implications. This gap is the biggest problem."
Boguslakova said scientists should always be able to conduct research unimposed.
"Who is better qualified to decide what should be pursued than scientists?" he asked. "Scientists can be socially responsible, too. We try to alert the public to possible dangers of our work. We can not be blamed for the use that the work is put to."
Boguslakski said that the major breakthrough needed for more sophisticated genetic engineering was to find a gene differentiate to perform specialized functions.
"Only if we learn that can we make a cell go on and do what we want it to do," he said. There are several ways in which genetic information can provide potential source of food, Bologna said.
He said that choking some plants, such as carrot and rice, is relatively easy to do in laboratories. Another possibility is to alter certain forms of bacteria to produce a high
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"We're pretty close to understanding them on a molecular level." he said.
Before the end of this century, Boguslawski said, some common hereditary diseases, such as sickle-cell anemia and diabetes, would probably be
Boguslawis said it was very difficult to demonstrate how biochemical science of genetics would advance.
level of protein that could be used for human consumption, he said.
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6:00-9:00 p.m.
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$3.50 Single Adult
$6.00 Couples
$1.50 Children 10 $8.00
$1.50 Children 12 & Under
Tickets on Sale
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African Studies-116 Strong Hall
K.U. African Club Members
Tickets also on sale at the gate
African night disco will be in Big 8 Room Kansas Union at 9:30 p.m., same date.
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