University Daily Kansan, July 24. 1985
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Higuchi donates for chair to help center for research
By Carol Stephenson
One of the founders of the Center for Bioanalytical Research is making every effort to see that the center succeeds.
Takera Higuchi, one of the founders, University Regents distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemistry and director and chief executive officer of Oread Laboratories Inc., contributed $125,000 this month toward establishing a chair that would be filled by a distinguished scientist in bioanalytic research. A leading pharmaceutical corporation that preferred not to be named also contributed $125,000.
Todd Seymour, president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, said yesterday that the chair, or distinguished professorship, would help maintain KU's leader in the area of biotechnology.
"This chair in bioanalysis will allow us to seek out a top scientist," Sevmour said.
Higuchi said he contributed the money toward the chair because he
saw the need and was in a position to meet it.
"I had no reason to get into this," he said. "It's a time-consuming interest involving relatively large amounts of money, and I suppose I got involved more than I cared. But it is fun if you're able to identify a real need and can service it. It gives satisfaction."
After coming to the University of Kansas in 1967, Higuchi persuaded Alza Corp., a California company, to build a research institute in Lawrence. The institute, INTERx, was built in 1972 and became protected by the state of INTERx that encouraged the state to create the center, he said.
The center aims to develop high technology that will lead to industrial development in Kansas.
"The plan underlaying the effort is to create high technology in the University and to develop an industry to exploit that technology because that's what the state wants," he said.
Higuchi said the success of the center depended on the ability of the state and KU to work together for a common cause.
Most science fiction films fall short of the imaginative power of science fiction writing, author Frederick Pohl said Saturday at the University of
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Pohl, 65, was at the Adams Alumni Center for a science fiction film symposium and to receive the John W. Campbell Award for his 1984 science fiction novel, "The Years of the City."
Tibbettes and Landon maintain that science fiction films show what people want to see. The bottom line on science fiction films, Landon said, is that "they will go to any length to avoid being boring."
"Unless you haven't read any science fiction, there is little in any science fiction film to challenge the imagination," Pohl said.
technically superior to those of the 1950s, Gunn said, but have improved little in content.
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The winner of the award, given annually by KU's Center for the Study of Science Fiction, is selected by a committee of science fiction writers and scholars from North America and Europe, said Stephen Goldman, associate professor of English and an organizer of the symposium.
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But Gunn said escapist entertain ment need not be mindless.
Pohl agreed.
"But today's audiences are much more sophisticated and can make the leap of imagination necessary for real science fiction," Gunn said. Yet too many film makers are unhappy with this, and they stay with simple fairy-tale fiction.
About 15 science fiction enthusiasts attended the symposium. Along with Pohl and Goldman, panelists were
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"One can escape intellectually," he said. "Science fiction requires the full use of the intellect and demands that questions be asked."
Landon said that 1950s movies such as "The Thing" (1951), "The War of the Body Snatchers" (1956) reedition of the Cold War decade.
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Two classic movies that successfully put science fiction first, Gunn said, were "Things to Come" (1936) and "Destination Moon" (1950). "Destination Moon" set a new standard for realism in special effects.
"I like stories that raise questions in my mind," he said "The thing I prize about science fiction in any form is that I make me think about things I haven’t thought of before."
But Tibbetts said that striving for technical accuracy too often resulted in a static film.
that are pure extrapolation are now badly dated," Tibbets said. "'Destination Moon' is a wonderful documentary of the age in which it was made, but not of the age it envisioned."
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Recent movies such as "Star Wars" (1977) and "Alien" (1979) are
"I will accept bad film making for good science fiction, just as in the early days we accepted bad writing," he said. "It would be wonderful if the best of film and science fiction could be combined, but it rarely happens."
"In the '50s, neither world domination nor world destruction seemed far-fetched," he said. "Science fiction films of the period suggested the precariousness of human existence." Gunn said audiences in the 1960s may have been unable to understand natural science ideas.
James Gunn, professor of English; John Tibbettts, arts and entertainment editor for KCTV in Kansas City, Mo.; and Brooks Landon, associate professor of English at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and co-producer of a science fiction film series for Iowa Public Television.
Pohl said good science fiction should be the top priority in a science fiction world.
'Movies like 'Destination Moon'
"Films that exploit the elements of science fiction without presenting the thoughts of science fiction are like movies which exploit sex and leaves out love.
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