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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. June 30. 1999
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Butterfly program inspires learning
By Kris Villaca Kansan staff writer
On the seventh floor of Haworth Hall, a strange scraping and humming noise emanates from room 7005. It originates from small wood and wire mesh cages filled with Monarch butterflies.
Butterflies flit around the cages and sip from sponges soaked in artificial nectar. Test tubes, beakers and vials of unpronounceable chemicals fill the room. On one cabinet door is a copy of the Weekly World News that proclaims,
"Farmer Shoots 6 Pt. Butterfly!"
Make no mistake though, there is serious business going on in this office. It is home to Monarch Watch, an educational outreach program now in its seventh year. The goal of the program is to teach children about the Monarch butterfly while furthering its preservation. It is a joint effort among students, teachers, volunteers and researchers. Orley R. "Chip" Taylor directs the Monarch Watch project.
curriculum has been developed to teach students, kindergarten through ninth grade, more about the Monarch butterfly. Jim Lovett, Monarch Watch program assistant, is confident about the effectiveness of the curriculum.
"The Monarch can be used to teach almost any subject," Lovett said. "The really neat thing about the program is that the kids get to work with a live organism and actively participate in research."
Many of the curriculum's activities center around having live Monarch butterflies in the classroom. The activities include teaching how to capture, tag and release Monarchs.
Students tag a Monarch by first capturing them during their migratory period, which runs from August to early October. The Monarchs are tagged using an all-weather polypropylene tag that is placed on their wings. The tag is placed in a position that does not interfere with the butterfly's flight. Teachers and students keep journals to record the information that is gathered.
A Monarch butterfly receives a tag as part of the Monarch Watch program. The program was dedicated to teaching about and preserving the butterflies.
Photo by Joseph Griffin/KANSAN.
Kathy Davis, a second-grade teacher at Hillcrest Elementary School in Lawrence, was complimentary of the program. Her students receive a tagging kit each fall from Monarch
Watch that contains materials and information about tagging Monarchs. Using a butterfly garden to attract the butterflies, Davis and her students observe, count, tag and release Monarchs, then record the information in a journal. Once the study is completed, the information is sent back to Monarch Watch.
"I want them to feel like they're involved in serious science," Davis said. "They can see that in the second grade you can be involved in a serious science project."
The project is one that resonates in the minds
of the students who participate in it. According to Davis, sixth-grade students who are leaving Hillcrest often refer to the project.
"One of the big projects that they remember is the second-grade butterfly project," Davis said. "They often go home and plant their own butterfly garden."
More information about Monarch Watch can be found on their Web site at www.monarchwatch.org.
Smallpox-virus destruction halted till 2002
—Edited by Derek Prater
By Lisa John
Kansan managing editor
But they won't be.
Today is the day that all the small-pox stockpiles in the United States and Russia were to have been destroyed.
Because of fear that Iraq and North Korea may hold secret stores of the virus, and at the recommendation of President Clinton and other government leaders, the World Health Organization has decided to postpone the virus' destruction until the year 2002.
Marcia Chan
"I think we should have stocks of (smallpox) in the United States and Russia. I'm not sure it's necessary for other countries to have it, and if they do, it looks as if they might have them for biological warfare."
Two University of Kansas scientists, a military officer and a professor of political science said that although biological warfare with the smallpox virus could potentially exist, the threat of this happening here is unlikely. But most agree — if it did happen here, it could be devastating.
assistant professor of molecular biosciences
Little. if any. immunity
In the United States, routine vaccinations of civilians against smallpox virus were halted in 1972, about 25 years after the last case of smallpox occurred in this country. This means that at the University of Kansas, none of the traditional college-age students have been vaccinated. Further, for people age 27 and older who were vaccinated against smallpox, the degree of their immunity is unknown.
Marcia Chan, assistant professor in molecular biosciences, said that smallpox was similar to chicken pox, starting with flu-like symptoms, before the blisters erupt.
"The difference with smallpox is that you'll start getting the blisters on your hands and soles of your feet, too." Chan said. Death usually comes from loss of blood or a secondary infection, and one out of three persons died from the disease. Chan said.
Even though the disease has been eradicated, the existing stockpiles of the virus that are stored in the United States and Russia should remain, Chan said.
"I think we should have stocks of it in the United States and Russia." Chan said. "I'm not sure it's necessary for other countries to have it, and if they do, it looks as if they might have them for biological warfare. If that's the case, then for sure, we should have them."
Chan said if biological warfare would occur, the most likely means of the attack would be through the air;
"I think it could be transmitted very effectively through aerosol spray," she said, explaining that the virus was large and would have a strong chance of survival.
Future of research
thing the military prepared for.
It's also a good idea to keep the smallpox virus for scientific purposes, Chan said. "We don't know where smallpox came from initially. It may be that it was a mutant through evolution that came from the monkey pox. If we completely eradicate smallpox, and if we discover a variant strain of it 15 to 20 years from now, it would be nice to have stocks of it somewhere so we could compare the original virus to a new one."
Lt. Karl Fruendt, public affairs officer for the National Guard 190th air refueling wing, Topeka, said that the threat of biological warfare is some-
"It's one of those things we don't broadcast a lot, but we are training for biological warfare and it is a very critical part of what we do," Fruendt said. "We take it very seriously, in addition to weapons training — this is as important, if not more important, training for us in today's environment."
Fruendt said that terrorist attacks could occur on any military installation anywhere in the world.
Including Topeka? "We have not had any threats here in Kansas, but we never say never," Freundt said.
Sandy Quackenbush, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, said that she thought the stores of smallpox in the United States and Russia should not be destroyed. "Basically, we would be getting rid of a virus that, while we think it is eradicated, we have to stop and ask is it really"v?
Even if there were an outbreak of
smallpox today, it might not cause the high number of deaths as in the past, because of the advances in medical treatment, Quackenbush said. But overall, she said she thought this was not a topic to be overly concerned about.
"I think it's not very likely that smallpox would be used in biological warfare" Quackenbush said.
Threats could be risky
"It's clearly a possibility," he said.
Philip Schrodt, professor of political science, said that although the threat of biological warfare occurring in this country is unlikely, it could happen.
It's clearly a possibility. 'he said'
The problem with any biological warfare, for any country that might try it, is that no country has much, if any experience in this area, Schrode said.
"It would be an extremely high risk strategy," he said. "The problem would be that once a country started biological warfare, it would find the entire world was against it."
Not only would its own citizens be susceptible to the disease, military repercussions could be devastating. Schrodt said.
Moreover, even the threat of using biological warfare would be risky. Schrodt said.
"Suppose you have some rogue state that threatens to use biological warfare — we always have the option of vaporizing them with nuclear weapons."
But Schrodt said people shouldn't lose sleep worrying about the possibility of biological warfare.
"It's one thing for the military to be concerned about this," Schrodt said. "It's quite another for the average citizen in Kansas City to be worried that some Timothy McVeigh is going to show up with smallpox."
Edited by Anjum Aziz