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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Tuesday May 2,1978
Vol. 88, No.141
Lawrence, Kansas
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Derailment
A total of 54 new Datsun cars were rinsed yesterday when eight Union Pacific freight cars detailed by two miles north of Lawrence. Officials are not certain what caused
Train derails north of Lawrence
one derailment but speculated that high winds might have caught the railroad cars as they rounded a corner, causing the cars to overturn.
Staff Writer
Bv TOM RAMSTACK
Eight cars of a 98-car Union Pacific freight train derailed yesterday afternoon about two miles north of Lawrence near U.S. Highway 24.
Three of the derailed railroad cars carried 54 new Datsuns that Leni Cradt, manager of Raytown Datsun, Raytown, Mo., said had a value of about $270,000.
One police spokesman said the Datsuns might have to be unkilled.
The other five railroad cars were empty hopper cars that are sometimes used to carry fertilizer or chemicals, a spokesman for Union Pacific railroad said yesterday.
CHEMICAL WARNINGS on the sides of the cars led law enforcement officials at first to think that there may have been a chemical leak.
Tom Watts, a supervisor for Union Pacific, said that the track was in good
condition and that it was unknown why the train derailed. He said, that strong winds could have caused it.
Edwin Schafer, general director of public relations for Union Pacific in Omaha, said that it was unlikely that strong winds caused the derailment.
"Usually you would have other damage in the area, like damage to houses, before the winds would be strong enough to derail a train," Schafer said.
SCHAFER SAID, however, that there had been a derailment in Wyoming last year.
There are usually three reasons for a train derailment, he said. They are faulty controls, too many signals or too much water.
The train, which was on its way to make connections with a Missouri Pacific train in Kansas City, was rounding a curve when the 42nd through 49th cars fell over on their sides about 1 p.m., a Union Pacific spokesman said.
The spokesman said that an estimate of the total damage probably would not be
service by 7:30 p.m., a Union Pacific spokesman said.
He also said that Union Pacific had no insurance and would pay for the damage
The exhibit was to open the day after the "Holocaust," a four-part television presentation depicting the mistreatment of the Jews in World War II, to be end and the day before the start of Passover, a Jewish holiday.
Another reason for the cancellation was bad publicity from 'non-University sources', the statement said. The publicity gave the college the opening of the exhibit and its contents.
The statement was in agreement with a resolution by Carl Leban, associate professor of Caucasian Asian studies, that was submitted to University Senate executive committee April 12.
That resolution supported the action taken by the University in canceling the exhibit.
The decision of whether the Nazi exhibit will be shown is now on to the library staff.
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The statement said, "Under these circumstances, and in view of the traumatic effect which would have resulted for members of our staff and student body, we believed that it was desirable to cancel the scheduled opening."
WASHINGTON—Japanese Prime Minister Takekawa Fukuda arrived in Washington yesterday for two days of talks with President Jimmy Carter and other U.S. officials on such economic issues as Japan's trade imbalance, the volatile U.S. dollar and the economic summit in Europe. The Tokyo government also wants Congress to pass Carter's energy bill to encourage a slower dollar drain to the Middle East oil countries.
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The statement was released to clarify the circumstances that developed from the cancellation of the opening of the exhibit and other related events following the cancellation. The statement said that the opening of the Nazi exhibit entitled "Full Circle: The Rise and Fall of Hitler's German Occupation" by administrators for various reasons.
HULCHER EMERGENCY SERVICE from ST. Joseph, Mo, which specializes in clearing tracks after train derailments, to assist with the recovery of several cranes. The tracks were back in
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Exhibit opening obtains approval
The release stated that one of the reasons
In the statement released yesterday, administrators also said that another collection donated by Laird M. Wilcox, Kansas City, Mo., would not be censored. The collection includes Nazi social and political documents.
The Lebanese resolution was not passed, because the University Council April 27 Lebanon resolved all other related committees last Friday because he said, the resolution was not
No Senate funds financed Rabin protest, groups say
**warm** May weather stays on the back burner today and tomorrow. The skies will be clear to partly cloudy and high temperatures both days will be in the lower 68s, according to the National Weather Service. The low tonight will be about 40.
Japanese leader, Carter confer
George Griffin, curator of the Kansas Collection, declined to say whether the 1926 painting was in its original place.
Weather . . .
Israel's birthday observed while arms sales considered
Powerlines beside the track that service the train stations were severed and parts of the railway closed.
WASHINGTON—President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Jewish leaders gathered at a White House reception yesterday to celebrate Israel's 30th birthday. Congress, meanwhile, began considering a proposed jet fighter站 to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. See story page two.
Winds today will be from the east to northeast from 5 to 15 mph.
The statements were made in a meeting of the Senate International Club subcommittee, at which representatives from the nine groups belonging to the International Club presented their budget requests.
GRIFEIN SAID that he would talk with his assistants first before a decision would be made and that he did not know when he would do so.
The Senate voted to create the sub-committee to investigate the club's budget.
for the cancellation of the exhibit was poor timing.
The release said, however, that the University should be seen as an open forum for dialogue among all members.
University of Kansas administrators approved yesterday the reopening of the Nazi memorial exhibit that was canceled in April 2016 and opened at Kenneth Spencer Library April 20.
The guest of honor may or may not be at a celebration at Potter Lake Sunday. The guest is the sun, and the celebration is Sun-Day, part of a national program devoted to solar energy education. Sun-Day will be celebrated in 12 countries and across the United States. Lectures, solar equipment demonstrations and panel discussions will highlight the day's presentations at the University of Kansas. See story page three.
By JOHN FISCHER
HASSAN FAREED a representative of the Arab Student Association, said last night that money to promote the demonstration was being distributed from club members, not from Senate funds.
By SARAH TOEVS
Controversy arose about the club's request because several senators wanted to know whether the Arab and Iranian governments had funds to promote the Rabin demonstration.
"It's possible that we will," Griffith said in response to reopening the exhibit. "We
Staff Writer
Representatives of Arab and Iranian student organizations told a Student Senate subcommittee last night that student funds were not used to finance the demonstrations against Yitzhak Rabin's appearance on Campus April 16.
Senators also thought the International Club's budget should be scrutinized because
Staff Writer
Locally...
See NAZI EXHIBIT page five
Warm May weather stays on the back burner today and tomorrow.
request of $8,860, instead of voting on it
sent the Senate budget hearings several
weeks earlier.
See SENATE FUNDS page fiv
Lab cockroaches are scuttle bugs
Staff Writer
Rv SUZANNE BURDICK
When the door to the roach farm in Snow Hall is opened and the light switched on, the sound of thousands of rusting legs and scrambling bodies fills the room.
The sound is made by cockroaches that have been startled by the intrusion. Fortunately, the roaches are not scurrying over the floor. They are safely encensured in about 75 cages that contain more than 25 cockroach species.
Graduate students in entomology and biology use the cockroaches for research
Tybail Schal, Lawrence graduate student,
said that when he first began working with
Laboratory Research Interns,
in the beginning I used rubber gloves and forceps to handle the insects. Every time a racoff fell on the floor, I'd step on him as fast as I could." he said.
He said he remembered when Bill Bell, professor of entomology, first introduced
Schal said people had a misconception of cockroaches. They're only as dirty as the environment they inhabit. Like all insects, the cockroach grooms himself by running his antennae and legs through his mouth parts.
And, he said, cockroaches weren't important disease carriers like the mosquito, the tick, the rat and birds. Cockroaches are ideal for experimentation.
"When Bell lifted off the lid to that first cage, I stepped back two feet," he said.
NEW SCALE PICKS up and handles the insects with his bare hands.
After the molt, the cockroach emerges with replaced or healed body parts, which may have been damaged or removed during an experimental operation.
"They're easy to obtain and grow in the lab," he said. "They eat anything. And they're easy to dispose of. You can just throw them aaw when they're dead."
The life cycle of the cockroach is shorter than many other lab animals, he said. One can observe the insect from the time it matures to the time it matures in a matter of months.
"YOU CAN CUT off a cockroach's head
And because the cockroach molts several times before reaching its adult stage, it has better regenerative powers than many other lab animals, he said.
and his body will live on for a week or more." Schal said.
Also, cockroaches are available in large numbers.
"For example, if I need to replicate my experiment 490 times, it's possible with cockroaches. It's not like using rats or rabbits."
Although cockroaches are easy to breed in the lab, a forage is made once every year or two into the steam tunnels that are located beneath the campus.
Schul said these collections were made to introduce new genes and to improve the quality of the products.
Schal is one of five KU graduate students
who study cockroach behavior. He said he
spends a half hour and a half every
day treating the flies that infest
He tape records his observations because, he said, "The minute you look away to write something down, you might miss something important."
Because cockroaches are nocturnal creatures, their day/night cycle has been reversed so that CAT can observe them by night. They also dark by day and the lights left on at night.
SCHAL OBSERVES the cockroaches in the darky a red light, which is invisible to the camera.
A variety of cockroach research projects
are going on in the entomology department, many of them complicated and highly technical experiments involving elaborate and sophisticated equipment.
"Often designing the equipment and setting up the experiment is more complicated and time-consuming than the actual experiment," Michael Tourtellot, Lawrence graduate student in entomology, said.
Schal said that many of these experiments were pure research.
"Although pesticide companies might sometimes use our data to support their research, our purpose isn't really to control cockroaches," he said.