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The University Daily
WEDNESDAY
July 24, 1985
July 95, No. 154 (USPS 650-640)
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Biophysics ends; students feel fallout
By Jill Ovens
Scientists say that for every action there is a reaction.
The faculty, staff and students affected by the decision to discontinue the KU radiation biophysics program on July 1 have come to know in human terms what effect an administrative action can have.
James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said yesterday that the decision made earlier this year by the University Committee on Cases and Policies was that the program should be relocated if possible.
"The final decision was made, that the funding was not available and there was no home for the program to discuss it enthusiastically about having" [2], he said.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig officially
uncontinued the 32-year old program at the start of fiscal 1986, July 1, on the recommendations of Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research studies and public service, and Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The decision to discontinue has had disastrous financial consequences for Cheng-Shie Wuu, Taichung Taiwan, graduate student.
taucung, Taiwan, graduate student.
First, Wuu said, his adviser last a year ago and was never replaced. Wuu's adviser was Louis Milavickas, a former assistant professor of radiation biophysics, and now a medical doctor.
The failure to replace my adviser eliminated all the possibility to get grant support, because he was the only physicist," Wuu said. "There is no one else in my field."
After Milavicakas left, Wuu continued to work on the research for his doctoral dissertation without financial support during the summer 1984. In August 1984, Wuu was given a teaching assistantship, but that support was cut off on May 15, 1985, when the decision was made to discontinue the program.
Wau said he has been too busy working on his doctoral research to take a part-time job outside the University of Kansas and his wife has a visa that does not allow her to work in the United States, so they have been without financial support of any kind since May.
Moreover, Wuu has to make long-distance calls to Milavieks whenever he has a problem with his
research because there is no one at KU able to help him.
Students said they found it depressing to come into the laboratory to work with so few of the students left, the secretarial staff gone and faculty members assigned to other departments.
One full-time, one part-time and three adjunct faculty members were assigned new duties elsewhere at the University.
Armin Jaberaboansari, Essahan Iran, graduate student, said it had been difficult to come to the lab and concentrate on doing research.
"It's frustrating to do something in the lab with the kinds of decisions going on," he said. "They're trying to
decide where the desks will go and
where the filing cabinets will go. It
seems those things are more important than what will happen to the
Jaberaboansari said it also was difficult to accept the financial hardship. He started his doctoral studies in spring 1884 and almost has completed his coursework, but his research will take another two or three years.
"It's going to be difficult to support myself," he said. "It will be impossible to get grants." I started with the impression that I would be supported because there were funds for him, and had a good grade point average.
Jaberabansi has a 4.0 GPA.
"We take aboob's TA, maybe more," he
See RADIATION, p. 5, col. 2
Manager says check is in mail
By Jill Ovens
The good news is that the checks are in the mail.
Or at least that is what Pat Nellans, manager of Jayhawk West apartments, 524 Frontier Road, is saying about security deposit checks still not returned to tenants who move in or out of apartments after the spring semester.
Nellans said she did not know how many people had moved out or whether any of the former tenants had received their refunds.
However, the bad news is that unless the former tenants sign a statement on the back of the checks promising not to file suit against the company, they cannot cash the checks, a KU student said Monday.
Margaret Berlin, Bonner Springs graduate student, said she received a call Monday from Management USA, the California property management company that owns Jayhawk West, saying that her security deposit was being refunded for the original amount of $250.
Under the Kansas Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, a landlord must refund deposits 30 days after the tenant's lease expires, or 14 days after damage is assessed. A tenant whose security deposit has been withdrawn is 30 days entitled to sue for $15 times the amount of the deposit, or in Berlin's case; $625.
"They said they would send me the check if I promised not to bring suit against them," she said. "On the back of the check will be a statement for me to sign promising not to bring further suit."
Since April, nine former tenants have filed suit against Jayhawk West Apartments for refunds in Douglas County Small Claims Court.
Two of them have received payments, but only after they asked the court to take the money from Jayhawk West's account at Douglas County Bank, Ninth and Kentucky streets. Debby Dryer, Liberal junior, moved out in March and Laura
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Getting their kicks
A squad from the American Drill Team Association camp practices beside Oliver Hall for today's final competition. Perfecting their routine yesterday were members of the Bishop Milege High School pompon
squad from Roeland Park. From left to right are Courtney Reasoner, Shelley Rudolph, Jennifer Cannady, Susie Freshchett and Julie Shober.
Oread lab sells stock to public
Company needs help financing new laboratory
See JAYHAWK, p. 13, col. 1
By Carol Stephenson Staff Reporter
Oread Laboratories Inc. this month began selling about 800,000 to 1.25 million shares in the corporation at $4 a share in Kansas residents to help finance the construction of its laboratory, according to the company's recently released business plan.
The business plan, a 67-page document, outlines the finances and future of Oread Laboratories. The
Higuchi donates for chair p.7
document is given to potential investors in the corporation.
About nine acres of land in the new University Corporate Research Park within two miles of the University of Kansas have been purchased to build a 15,000-square-foot, fully equipped lab, according to the business plan. The building should be ready by summer 1986.
The Kansas University Endowment Association, a private corporation not directly affiliated with KU, owns 1 million shares in the corporation. The Endowment Association plans to reduce its ownership to 20 percent in about half of its shares, the corporation becomes active and productive, Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, said yesterday.
"The Endowment Association is the parent company of Oread Laboratories." Seymour said. "By investing in it and being a major stock holder, we've allowed Oread to exist."
Oread Laboratories was founded in 1983 as a corporation to provide a way for bioanalytical technology to be developed commercially within KU's Center for Bioanalytical Research.
Takeuchi inguchi, University Regents distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemistry and director and chief extend the math conference. He said he felt sympathetic toward the students because it caused a burden of adjusting to having three instructors. But he would have approved of Agrawal leaving, he said, because the summer provides opportunities to attend math conferences.
See OREAD, p. 5, col. 5
"It's hard to keep a positive at titude when you have five teachers
Multiplying teachers hurts math, students say
Staff Reporter
By J.P. Conroy
If students in Calculus II, MATH 116, could give their summer session course a grade, they probably would give it an "F."
Students taking the course, taught Monday-Friday for three hours of credit, have had five instructors this summer. The average amount of time each instructor has taught the class is $1_{2}$ weeks.
Mark King, Overland Park
sophomore, said Monday, "I am really
disappointed in the University. I
believe it has to hurt me in the class.
When you look around, you can see everybody is frustrated."
Dave Hickman, Overland Park senior, said yesterday. "In order to have a good student-teacher relationship, you need to develop a bond. When you pay this kind of money for you, you expect consistent instruction."
Angle Marke, Fairway junior, said yesterday that students did not pay tuition to become confused by having five different teachers.
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said recently that originally two instructors were teaching the two sections being offered this summer. But, he said, one of the instructors, Bill Oullery, had to leave the country at mid-semenal.
"Our grade should definitely be taken into consideration," she said. "I think there should be a large number of opportunities our authority should evaluate our grade."
In the sixth week of the summer session, the second instructor, Om Agrawal, a temporary math faculty member, left for a math conference California.
Himmelberg said he agreed to let each instructor teach both sections for four weeks.
Himmelberg said he had not realized that Agrawal was leaving to at
During Agrawal's absence, the substitute instructor, Hans Vermeer, became ill and two other math teachers, Brian Anrine and Robert Brown, associate chairman of mathematics, taught a day each to finish the seventh week of the summer session.
All five instructors for the course
"There isn't much I can do because it's water over the dam." Himelberg said yesterday. "That was a crazy confidence that Vermeer got sick. I don't expect those things to happen again."
Himmelberg said that several students had seen him in the last week about the class. He said he had sent a letter to the Committee of Undergraduate Student Advising informing them of the circumstances. He hopes the letter will assist any students in the class who want to petition to withdraw from the class, he said.
KU Disorientation will be available in fall
have doctoral degrees in mathematics he said.
New student publication offers different view
By Gina Kellogg
Some new students will not be wandering the KU campus this fall with the customary confused look of students unfamiliar with Mount Oread. They will walk with an assistant and a confident glam in their eyes.
Staff Reporter
They will be the students who received copies of the KU Disorientation handbook
The manual, produced by the Freshman Disorientation Collective, is based on a similar publication produced by students at the University of California at Berkeley. The KU manual was produced the manual, which was distributed to students attending summer orientation sessions.
"I would have been very excited if I had this then," he said Monday. "It will help people who want to get involved in things and didn't know where to start, people who don't have any direction yet."
Grove graduate student and one of the collective's members, said he wished he had received a similar degree. The University of Kansas eight years ago
"Boog" Highberger, Pleasant
Five hundred copies originally were printed on the 14-page booklet, most of which have been distributed. Highbierger said. However, an expanded version of the book is being produced for the fall. Highbierger said the collective hoped to print 5,000 copies of the new edition.
"If I'd had one, I'd be in a different place right now."
The cover of the manual describes it as "KU from Anarchy to Zen," and the book explains recycling, cooperative alternatives to living and to buying food, student government, social services, aspects of KU and the community.
during fall registration in the Kansas Union and in campus distribution boxes.
The new editions will be available
"Fun Facts about KU" and "A Brief and Incomplete History of Radical Action at KU" also are included.
The first edition was produced and financed entirely by the collective's members and through donations from interested people. Advertements have been sold for the revised edition, Highberger said.
He said he would attempt to produce the booklet next year with Student Senate financing.
"It's a really legitimate thing for Student Senate to fund," he said. Their job is to provide services to students and help meet the needs of a lot of different groups.
Highergerd said the Student Senate had a job to encourage the social and political development of all KU students.
Tim Roller, St. Joseph, Mo., seni-
ness has been involved in the Student
Senate for several years and helped
with the first booklet's production.
He agreed with Highberger about the
manual's purpose.
mathematics it's about time we had this," he said. Boller said sometimes the "official" story was all students saw but they needed to see the other side.
The expanded version of the booklet will include a guide to annual activities in Lawrence such as Art in the Park and library book sales. The "Living Cheaply in Lawrence" accession also will be expanded
"If you want to know how to get something done, you have to know who to contact," he said.
The current manual says most ill-
"Under some circumstances, drug use can be beneficial — and enlightening."
"We'll also rewrite the part on drugs," he said. "It was misconstrued by a lot of people. We'll still promote the use of some illegal drugs, but we'll distinguish between drug use and drug abuse.
See DISORIENT, p. 5, col. 1
Boog Highberger