University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 13, 1978
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Ecology club to revive recycling
BvLYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Writer
Recycling, or the lack of it, was partially responsible for the formation Tuesday night of an ecology club at the University of Kansas.
One of the club's founders, Gary Thompson, Prairie Village junior, recently said that when the boxes of recyclable bottles and cans are overflowing, he encourages the club to
A dozen students joined Thompson
pau to discuss the role of an ecology
club at KU
Establishing a recycling center should be the first goal of the club, members agreed. Since 1973 the recycling center was turned over to a private non-profit corporation, The Whomper Inc., no efforts have been made on the KU campus to recycle glass, tin or copper.
ARLY ALLEN, former president of The Whomper, Inc., said that the reclamation center made several thousand dollars after he assumed management. Profits from the recycling effort were used to build three new buildings, but by 1976 the company was losing money.
The Whomper, Inc., folded in 1976 and there has been no glass and tin recycling center in Lawrence since that time, Thomson said.
He said that Allen advised him that the club would need $2,000 to open a recycling center. Rent, insurance, utilities and wages would have to be covered by the initial funds until the project began to make money, he said.
Vernon Schindler, Lawrence sophomore,
said he knew a Wellington man who would
set up a bin for aluminum recycling if the
club could provide a site.
SCHINDLER SAID that the firm also would be responsible for disposing of the cans when the bin was full. The ecology club stores an 8-gallon cans a pound for the recycled aluminum.
Thompson said he would investigate the offer of a free aluminum recycling bin. If
Mild heart attack slows labor leader
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UPI)-United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller suffered a mild heart attack yesterday just before he was to be released from Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was recovering from a mild stroke.
A hospital spokesman said the 55-year-old labor leaders was listed in stable condition.
Building membership should be the club's goal for this semester, Thompson said, in the hope of receiving Student Senate funding for the fall.
the club decides that the program would be feasible for the KU campus, he said, he added. "We had a few members who
1 'believe this club could be a strong force for informing and mobilizing the public on issues related to climate change'
Thompson said professors with whom he had discussed the ecology club had been
"THEY ALL SAID that every year students come to them looking for an organization like the one we'll be starting." Thompson said.
He said that any profits from the recycling center could be used for other club projects and suggested a library he established and speakers invited.
Members also decided that the club should be an action group to boycott excessively packaged products and to protest wasteful energy policies.
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By RUTH SHERMAN
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Snakes, opposums, marmots, wood-chucks, rabbits, games peas, goats, seven-footed lizards
The only missing item seems to be a partridge in a pear tree.
Animal use abounds here
Although these animals all live on the University of Kansas campus, it is not a case for exterminators, nor is it a great animal migration. These animals are used in experiments and research in various campus departments.
The menagerie is cared for by the Animal Care Unit. John Mulder, professor of physiology and cell biology, is the head of the unit. He said yesterday that more than 15,000 animals currently were being used in research at KU.
Almost all of the animals used are purchased from lab animal dealers. Mauldir said. Purchase price per animal ranges from 75 cents for mice to $12 for rabbits.
THE COSTS OF animal care range from approximately 18 cents a day for gueenus to $240 per day.
THE ANIMAL, Care Unit, 513 Haworth Hall, checks to see that cages are of adequate size and are kept clean; that room temperature and humidity, air circulation and lighting are properly set; and that sock animals are receiving adequate veterinary care.
Al Smith, the unit's animal care supervisor, inspects all animal care facilities two to three times a week. Molder inspects the facilities annually and reports to Jeanie Hauser, a veterinary technician, inspect the facilities annually and report on them to Paul Schoole, dean for research
GUIDELINES FOR the care of research animals were established by the Federal
In another series of experiments, Mulder is studying the behavior and diet preference of seven coyotes. Mulder trapped the coyotes in a cage and were being housed in a kennel on West Campus.
TWO SUCH series of experiments are being conducted by Jerome Yochim, professor of physiology and cell biology. Yochim is researching the effects of environmental signals on the timing of the ovulation cycle in mice and cats and studying the changes that occur in rat sex hormones during the first five days of pregnancy.
According to Yochim, each experiment requires the use of approximately 150 rats. The rats must be killed with ether at the experiment's conclusion, Yochim said.
Mudder said there had been no problems with the care of research animals.
If it is necessary to kill an animal, Mulder said, the experimenter must adhere to guidelines outlined in both the Federal Animal Control Act and the National Inate of Health.
IN MOST cases, Mulder said he personally considered the experiment for approval. If Mulder thinks that the proposed experiment is questionable, the proposal is reviewed by the entire Animal Care Committee.
HE SAID state law prohibited returning animals to their natural environment because many animals during the ex-camp lost the skills necessary for survival.
"I don't see myself as a policeman," he said, "but rather as someone to help if needed."
NO EXPERIMENTS now or in the last two years inflicted pain on animals without the use of anesthesia.
The Animal Care Unit, Mulder said, tries to avoid killing animals. When a department is finished with an animal, he said, the unit will try to give that animal to another department rather than kill it. Animals that cannot be reused are donated to museums.
The Animal Care Unit is required to report annually to the Department of Agriculture on KU animal research. This report becomes public information and frequently is reviewed by animal welfare organizations.
One of the biology experiments is examining the predator-prey relationship between bass and minnows. Leen said he got upset when the bass ate the minnows.
"Research animals are very well taken care of," Stuart Leon, Concordia junior, said. Leon is a part-time employee who takes part in the fish used in experiment of the biology of biology.
Before a department can begin an experiment using animals it must submit an Animal Care and Use form to the Animal Health Department. Mulder and representatives from the 12 University departments that use animals in experiments. The forms include information. The forms will be withdrawn when many animal experiments are solved and where the animals will be housed.
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Describing fish as clean and loveable, Leon said, "What can I say? They're animals too . . . You can easily fall in love with your fish."
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