University Daily Kansan, February 18, 1985
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CAMPUS AND AREA
NEWS BRIEFS
Woman found dead in snow
A 73-year-old woman was found dead in the snow at 10:05 a.m. Saturday, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Edna Roberts, 527 Lake St., was discovered outside her home by her brother, Claude Penfold, 725 Elm St. He found her already dead and lying in the snow. The last time she had been seen alive was at 9 a.m. Friday.
Police said she had died of natural causes, but were investigating.
Tomorrow is the last day to drop classes.
No appointment is necessary and class
cancellations will be handled on a first
come, first served basis in 111 Strong Hall.
The enrollment center will be open from
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Classes dropped today or tomorrow will be eliminated from students' enrollments. Students dropping classes after tomorrow will receive either a W for withdrawal or an F on their transcripts, or will have to petition to drop the class.
Students must petition the school offering the course. If the petition is approved, classes in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and the School of Pharmacy are graded W. Classes in the schools of Allied Health, Business, Engineering, Fine Arts and Nursing are graded either W or F, depending upon the student's work when the petition is made.
City offices closed for holiday
Post offices, banks and city and county offices will be closed today in celebration of President's Day, a holiday.
Most campus offices, except the post office in Strong Hall, will be open today. Mail will not be delivered, but regular delivery will resume tomorrow.
Haskell Indian Junior College will be closed, but Lawrence public schools and the University of Kansas will have classes. The Lawrence Public Library will be open.
ASK to meet to discuss issues
The Associated Students of Kansas will meet tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
Members will discuss ASK's most important issues in the Kansas Legislature and in ASK's legislative assembly conducted Feb. 10 at Washburn University.
Center to offer reading classes
For more information call Sandra Binyon, ASK campus director, at 864-3710.
The Student Assistance Center will offer instruction on reading for comprehension and grammar.
The three class sessions will offer six hours of instruction. Sessions start at 7:30 tonight and continue Feb. 25 and March 4. A $15 fee is required for materials. Students can register and pay fees at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Ball.
For more information, call the center at 864-4064.
Weather
Today will be partly sunny with a high in the mid to upper 40s, with winds from the northwest at 10 to 15 mph. Tonight and tomorrow will be fair, with a low between 20 and 25 tonight, and a high of about 50 tomorrow.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Where to call
If you have a news tip or a photo idea,
call the Kansan at 864-4310.
If your idea deals with campus news, ask for Rob Karwath, campus editor. If it deals with sports, ask for Lauretta Schultz, sports editor. For On campus items or information on arts and leisure, speak with John Egan. Et cetera editor.
If you have a complaint or a problem, ask for Matt DeGalan, editor, or Diane Liber, managing editor.
To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-4358.
Claims for KU boost surety bond costs
By TAD CLARKE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The cost of a surety bond for employees at Board of Regents schools will increase by about $170,000 because of two claims filed by the attorney general's office for the University of Kansas, a Regents official said Friday.
Staff Reporter
Marvin Burris, Regents associate director for budget, told members of the Regents Fiscal Affairs Committee that they have established a Automobile and Casualty Underwriters in Des Moines, Iowa.
The surety bond protects the board and its seven schools from financial liabilities that could harm them.
THE BOND PREMIUM for the past three years was about $5,000. But the premium will cost $175,000 over the next three years, Burris said.
During the meeting of the full board, the Regents passed a proposal asking the Legislature for state financing to cover most of the increase in the bond premium.
The Regents usually pay for the premium with state funds, he said, but because of this significant increase, the board decided to divide the costs between its office and the seven schools. Burris said the premium was due March 1.
The Regents will pay $12,000 from its office budget. Another $11,000 will be paid by the schools' auxiliary enterprises section of the
budget, which is allocated on the basis of fiscal year 1855 budgeted positions.
EACH OF THE seven schools also will pay a portion of the remaining $152,000 from the educational and general budgets.
KU and the University of Kansas Medical Center will pay 56 percent of the $152,000, and the other schools will contribute the rest.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig asked the Regents to allow students from schools to share the curriculum at the premiere.
Presidents of the other universities said they did not mind sharing the expense because their schools might have similar experiences in the future and need the same help.
One of the claims filed by the attorney general's office involved the loss of about
$80,000 in cafeteria and parking receipts at the
business, and Kaitner, directs
business affairs.
NITCHER SAID THE losses occurred between June 1980 and March 1982. Accountants discovered the losses after finding discrepancies in receipts and financial records from the Med Center's cafeteria and parking services, he said.
The second claim involved the embassy about $27.00 from KU on Wheels, Nielsen's 1984 ad.
Steve McMurry, former director of KU on Wheels, was convicted on five counts of theft in 1983. He was sentenced to eight to 20 years in the state prison and ordered to pay restitution. McMurry now is out of jail on probation.
Joe Wilkins Ill/KANSAN
Brandon Condon, 11, 2449 W. 24th St. enjoys the warm belonging to a neighbor. Yesterday's pleasant weather weather while playing with his beagle, Charlie, and two dogs should continue today and tomorrow.
Regents name future center for Sen. Dole
By the Kansan Staff
TOPEKA — The Board of Regents on Friday approved a request to name a proposed human development center at the University of Kansas after Sen. Robert Dole,
Chancellor Gene A. Budig told the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Regents that Dole was instrumental in getting a $9 million grant to establish the center and said the name would be the Robert Dole Human Development Center.
The Regents approved the name during a meeting of the full board.
The new center is designed to be a research and training center for the education, rehabilitation and treatment of handicapped people.
KU officials in October said they hoped the building could be completed within three years. The location is expected to be near Haworth Hall.
In October, the University was given $9 million in federal funds to build a comprehensive research and training center for the handicapped.
Language laboratories troubled by leaky roof
Budig said the administration decided to name the building after Dole because of his key role in getting funds for the center. Dole has long been concerned with disabilities and has always been involved in helping handicapped people. Budig said.
Staff Reporter
By JEANINE HOWE
Students may have enjoyed last week's warmer weather, but melting snow leaking through the roof has caused problems at the language laboratories in Wescoe Hall.
The lab reported the leaks to facilities operations Wednesday, he said.
Ermal Garinger, director of language laboratories, said leaks already had caused structural damage in two areas of the lab and were threatening tapes and equipment.
Garteringer said the lab contained about $350,000 worth of electronic equipment and $150,000 worth of program materials, none of which are insured.
"Facilities operations came over Wednesday and acknowledged that indeed it was leaking and left. That was the last we've heard from them," Garinger said Friday. Garinger said he didn't know when the leaks would be fixed.
ROBERT PORTER, associate director of physical plant maintenance, said a crew pumped water and snow off Wescoe's roof Saturday. Porter said he would not know until he received reports today whether the leaking had stopped or what would be done about the damage.
Porter said he was not aware of any other buildings having problems with leaks.
Garinger said the ceiling in the tape storage area had sprung two leaks and enough water had leaked through to cause ceiling tiles to sag.
HE SAID TAPES had been removed from the two shelves ruined by the water. Gäringer said monitors and video cassette players also were moved away from the walls in case of new leaks. Mobile television units, each valued at $3,000 to $5,000, also
were moved. He said all the equipment was sensitive to moisture.
"One drop in the wrong place could be disastrous. We are trying to make sure that drop doesn't drop." Garinger said.
Student employees at the lab have taken turns emptying the containers twice a day. John Huey, Wichita senior, said they were fortunate to have freezing temperatures at the summer camp. The teacher said he was worried what would happen over the weekend with the warmer weather.
Garterine said Friday that he planned to visit the lab several times during the weekend to empty the containers and check for new leaks.
Cow brains help student with drug research
Bv BETH REITER
Staff Reporter
Cow brains are helping a biology and chemistry student find a way to transport some drugs to the human brain.
Mike Paulter, St. Louis junior, started research this semester using cow brains, which resemble human brains, as laboratory models.
Pautler said he treated cow brains with enzymes and separated the cells by density to isolate the capillary cells. Because the action of the cow's blood-brain barrier is similar to that of the human blood-brain barrier, the cow brain may be used as a laboratory model.
Many drugs can't penetrate the blood-brain barrier, a wall of tightly packed cells that protects the brain from toxins. Pauffer said Friday. He will test whether a drug could be attached to iron, which the brain takes in readily, and be taken into the brain with the iron.
Some laboratories use rat brains because it is extremely hard to keep the cells of cow brains alive, Pautler said.
"Cow brains are cheap and easier to work with." Paultier said.
HE SAID THAT each brain cost about $2 and that he had used about 10 brains in the six weeks since he started his laboratory work. Only about five laboratories in the United
States have tried to keep cow brain cells alive. Pautter said.
rtonalion Borchardt, chairman of the department of pharmaceutical chemistry, said he knew of only two other laboratories in the city that had succeeded in keeping cow brain cells alive.
Only about five laboratories in the United
"I think it has been reasonable progress considering he's only been in the lab for six years."
Paulette said cow brain cells needed to have just the right environment and nutrients to stay alive.
The idea for the research came from Borchardt, who has been working on the project for about one year. Pautler said he had received a $200 grant from the College
Honors Program this semester and would apply again this summer so he could continue his research.
PAULTER SUBMITTED a 10-page proposal to the Honors Program to apply for the grant. He also is required to write a report about the research of the study when it is published, he said.
"It gives you motivation and makes you do something." Paultier said.
Pautler said he had been interested in the human brain when he took Psychology 105, the Introduction to Psychology honors course, as a freshman. He wrote a term paper about how tranquilizers affect the brain. Since then, he has learned more of the technical aspects of the brain.
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