University Daily Kansan. Januarv 25.1985
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State pay plan to be explained
NEWS BRIEFS
John Myers, chief of Gov. John Carlin's policy staff, will explain the governor's new pay plan for state employees at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
The sponsor of the meeting, State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said the meeting would help provide answers to questions about the new nav plan.
About 1,600 University of Kansas employees would be affected by the new pay
Author will present works
Meridel Le Sueur, a proletariat writer of the 1930s, will read from selected works 4 p.m. Monday in the Pine Room of the Kagas Union.
The readings are sponsored by the women's studies department. Admission is free, and the readings are open to the public.
The 85-year-old author wrote, "I Was Marching," a work about the Minneapolis trucker's strike of 1943, and "Ammunition of the American men whose husband resents her pregnancy.
A collection of her writings, "Ripening:
Socied Woman Who Has been published
by the Feminist Press."
Indian lectures series begins
LaDonna Harris, president and executive director of Americans for Indian Opportunity, will lecture at 3 p.m. Wednesday on "Tribal Governments at the Crossroads" in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
The lecture will be the first in a series on Indians sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to celebrate the graduation of Haskell Indian Junior College.
Dancers to perform at Spencer
The non-traditional dance group 4.5,6 Speed-Up will perform at 2 p.m. Jan. 27 in the Central Court of the Spencer Museum of Art. Admission is free.
Directed by Joan Stone, the program will feature "La Pia," a dance that refers to a painting in the museum by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In the second half of the show, she strolls through White and Read All Over, "Tete-a-Tête" and "Friends" will be performed.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and cold, and there is a chance of snow furries during the morning. The high will be in the low to mid-20s. Winds will be from the north at 15 to 25 mph and gusty. Tonight will be mostly clear and cold. The low will be between 10 and 15 above. Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer. The high will be in the low to mid-30s.
Where to call
If you have a news tip or a photo idea,
call the Kansan at 864-4810.
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 DeCalman, editor, or Diane
To place an ad, call the Kansas business office at 864-5348.
Correction
Due to an editor's error, a story in yesterday's Kansan announcing the election of several Student Senate committee chairmen omitted the names of Ruth Lichtwardt and Brent Toalson, cochairman of the Minority Affairs Committee.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Cereal box sports face of KU grad
By BETH REITER and DAN CROCKETT Staff Reporters
Few people remember what they ate for breakfast yesterday, but a former KU track athlete just had a breakfast he'll never forget — the Breakfast of Champions.
Jim Hershberger, who donated the Hershberger Track in Memorial Stadium, just returned from Los Angeles where his picture was taken — a picture that will appear on three million Wheats cereal boxes across the United States this fall.
"There's been a million All-Americans. But to actually be on a Wheaton box — I can't imagine an honor any greater than that." The former owner of Petroleum Energy Inc., of Wichita,
HERSHBERGER WAS ONE of six amateur athletes chosen from 1,000 recommendations in the Wheaties Search for Champions Contest, said Kathryn Newton, General Mills Inc. communications supervisor. The contest ended in September.
"For many, many years, Wheaties has been associated with amateur athletes," Newton said. "The search contest is to help recognize amateur athletes in their local community as well as on a national scale and win the contest to appear on package."
Winners were selected based on their worthy achievements, personal character and athletic ability. Candidates were nominated by ballists that appeared on the back of Bowman, Newton said. Each winner's photo will be Wheats boxes for about three months.
Hershberger, 53, is the oldest athlete and first native Kansan to appear on a Wheaten histo-
Hershberger said Billy Mills, the only American to win the 10,000-meter run in the Olympics, was the first KU alumnus to be on a Wheaties box.
At the Breakfast of Champions, held at the University of Southern California, Hershberg said he was served fruit, croissants and "of course, Wheaties."
Wheaties were a part of Hershberger's diet before he won the contest.
"Now I eat them 100 percent of the time, but never for breakfast," he said. "I eat them after dinner."
Herssberg was a spinner on the KU track team from 1951 to 1983. He wasn't well known in track, however, until 1964 when he won the NCAA championship and the second (fastest time in the world that year).
Elias Michaelis' lab animals aren't served their favorite whiskie. Instead, they get drunk on ethyl alcohol mixed with chocolate diet drink. Michaelis took test mouse No. 5 out of
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his cage Monday to give him his daily dose of the mixture. Michaelis is using the mice to test a drug that prevents seizures.
Inebriated rodents may save lives
By SUE KONNIK
Staff Reporter
Getting mice and rats drunk is all in a day's work for Elias Michelis, professor of genetics at the University.
Michaelis feeds the animals a mixture of alcohol and chocolate diet drink to simulate a drunken state. A drug called ethanol is given, which is then transferred to the animals to prevent seizures.
Fifty percent of all chronic alcohols experience seizures and 25 percent die as a result of those seizures, Michaelis said earlier this week.
Michaelis said he had proven conclusively that glutamate diethylester would prevent alcohol withdrawal seizures in lab animals.
Glutamate diethylerate is known to block the action of glutamic acid in the brain. By injecting glutamate diethylerate into the animal, Michaelis controls the level of chemical excitement and prevents the seizures.
The effectiveness of the drug, Michaelis said, is a fairly dramatic breakthrough considering that in his research, 80 percent to 100 percent of the animals went blind and 20 percent eventually died. The same percentage of humans will die if not treated, he said.
During Michaelis' experiments, the first indication that a lab animal is going into a seizure is the stiffening of the animal's body. The animal will begin to quiver and eventually snap shut, the said William Freed, one of Michaelis' former students and his lab assistant.
Michaelis now is working with human brains to see whether the drug will be as effective as it was in the animal experiments.
"WE DID AN initial series with the human brain and found the same evidence that we found with the animals," Michaelis said. "However we haven't tested enough humans to get any significant trend."
Freed, now at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., supplied cerebrospinal fluid to the human brains. And he was anxious waiting the results of the human testings.
"What Michaela is doing goes beyond alcoholic seizures," he said. "It can be a clue to treating seizures of other kinds also."
The professor's research began in 1974. His original focus was to discover why chronic alcoholics went into seizures after withdrawal. Until this month, his lab work has been confined to experiments with animals, specifically rats.
Since 1974 Michaelis and his assistant and wife, Mary Lou Michaelis, have determined that an animal treated with alcohol displays an increase in the activity of an excitatory chemical in the brain, glutamic acid.
The high level of excitation produced by the increased activity of glutamic acid is what leads to seizures, said Mrs. Miteh and Ms. Fahmadi. The role of human development and biochemistry
Michaelis' work with the animals is a significant part of his research.
"We can duplicate the psychological changes that the chronic alcoholic experiences by treating the animals with an enormous amount of ethyl alcohol over a short period of time until they show tolerance to the alcohol." he said.
Bill could give liquor vote to counties
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN
TOPEKA — A proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution that would allow counties to vote on the sale of liquor by the drink tax was defeated by Senate Federa and State Affairs Committee.
Yesterday, the committee heard testimony from Kansans supporting and opposing the amendment, which calls for each county to pass a bill that would drink the drink. Each side spoke for 30 minutes.
Jim Murphy, representative for Gov. John Carlin's office, told the committee that Kansas was one of three states that prohibited liquor by the drink. Because of this, visitors have an image of Kansas as a backward state. he said.
"We cannot allow such an outdated law to determine our economic development efforts."
Businesses don't move to Kansas because of archaic linour laws. Murhov said
S & A Restaurants operate six Steak and Ale and Bennigan's restaurants in Kansas.
A restaurant company's lobbyist echoed Murphy's statement.
"AT THE PRESENT time, we have no future expansion plans in Kansas, due primarily to your antiquated liquor laws," he said. "We're a general counsel for S & A Restaurants, said.
Thomson said each restaurant turned away approximately 150 customers per week because of the private club restriction, resulting in a loss of more than $600,000 a year.
If the open saloon prohibition were removed, Thomson said the company could as many as nine additional restaurants in Kansas over the next several years.
Ed Bruske, president of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry and former secretary of the Kansas Department of Economic Development, said it was obvious that new businesses viewed Kansas lour laws as restrictive.
Bruske said he supported the amendment because he wanted Karnas to compete with other candidates.
"IF WE ARE going to be different, let's be different with the lowest tax rate in the country, or the best education system, or the most jobs created in a year," he said. "The present law assumes that Kansans are not required to have enough ability to use alcohol in a responsible manner."
Speakers反对的 amendment the Kansas equiv laws did not hurt the state's federal authority.
"Our image problem is a fabrication of liquor sellers who have a selling problem,"
said Lonie Hephner, chairman of the board for Kansans for Life at its Best!
Hepner said Kansas ranked high in economic development, above other states
Other supporters of the amendment said the change would make it easier for officials to get information.
STATE LAWS AND CITY ordinances now govern alcohol distribution and consumption are confusing and hard to enforce, said the Kansas Peace Officers Association.
A single set of rules for the distribution and consumption of alcohol is needed to better
But the Rev. Richard Taylor Jr., head of Kansans for Life at its Best], said the idea that open saloons would lead to better control of customers, could be generalizing cocaine to more effectively control it.
Taylor also said that the proposed amendment would not increase tourism in the state. He supported his argument with an example of a tourist from a small City, where liquor by the drink is prohibited.
But Myrna Preiser, director of the Topeka Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the 42,000 Kansans employed in the travel industry were being hurt by the current lawlions.
THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY is the second
Many east-east travelers take routes through Nebraska and Oklahoma because they can't order a glass of wine with dinner in Kansas, Preiser said.
largest retail industry in Kansas, she said Foot is first.
"We are fighting for the survival of a $1.5 billion industry," she said.
Jerry Shelor, executive director of Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, told the Senate committee that Kansans wanted to vote on the issue.
A recent telephone poll conducted by the KU Center for Public Affairs-Institute for Economic and Business Research, indicated that 84.9 percent of those polled favored issue on the ballot. The poll also indicated that 62 percent favored liquor by the drink.
"KANSANS ARE INTELLIGENT enough to make up their own minds on this issue," Shelor said.
Robert Groff, member of the advisory committee of Kansans for Life at its Best!, said the right to vote was not the issue.
The constitution requires lawmakers to vote on the merits of the proposed change, he said. Those who think the change is good for Kansas should vote yes, he said, without misleading people by saying they are voting for the right of the people to vote on the issue.