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2 = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, JULY9, 2003
Campus Briefs
Zach Straus/Kansan
Latin American Studies educator dies at age 94
Former University of Kansas professor William Joyce Griffith died Saturday at the Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community. He was 94.
Griffith was director of the Center of Latin American Studies at the University from 1970 to 1975. He retired in 1977.
Kelly Bumpas, Wichita junior, lines up the cue ball with the seven ball during a game of pool at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Bumpas was present Saturday at Fetish Night as a representative from Priscilla's, 1206 W. 23rd St.
He was born in 1908 in Kanapolis and was a graduate of Kanapolis High School.
Griffith received his bachelor's degree from Southwestern College in Winfield in 1930, his master's from Wichita State University in 1937 and his doctorate of Latin American history from University of California, Berkeley, in 1942.
He was head of the Division of Education, Office of Inter-American Affairs from 1942 to 1944 and was special representative of the OIA in Guatemala from 1944 to 1947. While in Guatemala, Griffith assisted the government in expanding education among the indigenous people. He spent 20 years as chairman of Latin American Studies at Tulane University in New Orleans before coming to the University
Griffith received a Medal of Merit from the Guatemalan government in 1947, a Distinguished Service Award from the Conference of Latin American Historians in 1989 and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Southwestern College in 1990.
The Griffith Collection, a collection of his Central American research, is located in the Spencer Research Library.
—Annie Bernethy
Science Fiction writers to sign books for public
The Oread Bookstore, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. in the Kansas Union, will hold a science fiction and fantasy book signing Saturday.
The signing is free to the public and is in conjunction with the Campbell Conference. The annual conference awards authors of science fiction with three awards: the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short science fiction of the year and the induction of honorees into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
After the awards authors will be available at the bookstore from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m., July 12, to sign books and view CSA, a speculative documentary about the South winning the Civil War.
Ruth Lichtwardt, assistant buyer for books at Oread Bookstore, said the book signing and Campbell Conference attendance had grown over the years.
Lichtwardt said book signings rarely turned a profit, but she expected one from Saturday.
"All the profits earned from Oread sales go to Student Services," Lichtwardt said.
University to research newborns' syndrome
Brandon Baker
University of Kansas researchers will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a five-year, $6 million study on Fragile X syndrome.
Steven Warren, director of the University's Life Span Institute, will lead the projects with KU associate research professor Nancy Brady.
The grant is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The two researchers will focus on how families adapt to having a child with FXS and study comparing the effect of parenting of children with FXS to their siblings.
Warren and Brady will also collaborate with the University of California at Davis in a plan to screen one-million newborns with FXS. This project is based on a three-year NICHD grant.
The researchers have already shown how crucial parenting style is to children's language development, especially children with developmental disabilities.
The syndrome is the most common inherited form of mental retardation. It occurs in both male and females, but is more severe and frequent in males.
CORRECTIONS
Jennifer Wellington
- Last week's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article, "Local fireworks ban burns students," Sgt. Mike Patrick's name was misspelled
Last week's The University Daily Kansan contained an error. In the article, "Design graduate returns to Kansas for reunion, visit," the photographer dimitre interned at Big Deahl Productions, not BW Productions.
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