KU Receives Research Grants
Grants totaling more than $100,000 have been awarded to the KU pharmaceutical chemistry department, with nearly half the amount designated for anti-cancer research.
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Edward Smissman, professor of pharmacy, and Mathias P. Mertes, assistant professor of pharmacy, together have been awarded more than $42,000 for separate projects aimed at synthesizing anti-cancer drugs.
IN ADDITION Prof. Smissman was granted renewal support for projects dealing with depressants of the nervous system and biosynthesis studies.
The U.S. Public Health Service awarded Prof. Mertes $9,333 for one year's study of cancer treatment at the enzymal level. Funds totaling about $18,000 have been allocated for two more years on the new project
The National Science Foundation has given Prof. Smissman a renewal grant of $15,000. It will support the fourth and fifth years of his work to synthesize podophyllatoxin, thought to be an active component in tumor regression.
RENEWAL SUPPORT for other research of Prof. Smissman was also announced by the Public Health Service. He will receive more than $10,500 this year to continue research on plant compounds, called pyrones, in an effort to synthesize tranquilizers which do not have harmful side-effects. Nearly $33,000 has been allocated for another three years of the study.
The Public Health Service also has granted renewal support of $13,000 for Prof. Smissman's three-year-old study of aromatic biosynthesis. The same amount has been allocated for an additional year on the project.
Dance Lessons To Be Given
International Club members with a yen for the cha-cha can sign up for the club's dance lessons at 7:30 next Wednesday in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
The course is designed primarily for foreign students to learn the American steps, but many of the American students find it a perfect opportunity to brush up on their dancing.
The club will teach whatever the group wants—cha-cha, waltz, tango or twist.
Next week the emphasis is on the cha-cha.
"Our big problem every year is a shortage of girls," Fatsy Price, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and club secretary, said.
"For the first few lessons everyone just walks around the room to the music. Then we have boys dancing with boys."
Despite the shortage of the fair sex, students seem to be having a ball.
Moonshine No Remedy
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — (UPI)—Sallie Williams, 65, explained yesterday the jug of 100-proof moonshine found by state beverage agents was prescribed by a "herb doctor" for her aching feet.
The woman said thrice daily soaking didn't seem to help her much. So state beverage director Thomas Lee Either prescribed a one-year suspended sentence for illegal possession of moonshine.
Watson Library is suffering growing pains.
For the couple holding hands in the east corner of the reference room, their privacy is invaded. For the freshman woman, her chances are lessened for meeting a tail, handsome stranger.
Over a half a million books are stored in the library, which Director Thomas R. Buckman said is "splitting at the seams."
New Addition Will Ease Library 'Growing Pains'
But what about the person who really comes to study? He is hampered by his fellow classmate whose books he scattered an elbow's-length from his own. He becomes easily distracted by the murmur of whispers which echo throughout the crowded room. And his frustration mounts as he waits in line to check out a book.
By Jackie Stern
Fortunately, the situation is short-lived. A $1,600,000 addition to Watson Library is underway and scheduled for completion by the summer of 1964, according to Buckman.
Behind the scene are the student librarians who must execute an unusual amount of flexibility as they strain for books in out-of-the-way places.
The added stack levels will accommodate 1,350,000 volumes when completed. The new stacks also will necessitate the enlargement of the present circulation desk on second floor.
The project involves two separate structures, a stack tower eight levels high, and an entirely new subbasement floor on the east wing.
The basement level, extending eastward from the present undergraduate and periodicals reading area will provide for a department of special collections, with space for books, readers and staff.
A special feature will be a bookstore to be operated by the Kansas Union. Paperbacks and second hand or duplicate books will be sold.
The first floor, opening to the east from the front entrance, will be converted into an open stack reading room, the largest reading room in the building. The present educational room will be converted into administrative offices.
Opening to the east from the present reference room on second floor will be, in addition to extra reading space, a new centralized work area for staff members involved in the acquisition and cataloging of books. On the same floor a mezzanine will be built for additional reading and book space.
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The entire top floor of the building will be devoted to a graduate reading room with assigned private desks, seminar rooms and an area designated for faculty members.
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The expansion will provide space for about 1,200 more readers and storage for about 85,000 more volumes.
"We are terribly crowded now," said Buckman. "Books that should be in Watson are being stored in the basement of Memorial Stadium and in other campus libraries," he said.
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"The process of adding-on will be difficult for everyone. But it will mean a significant improvement in the service, with a promise for future student convenience," Buckman said.
Library hours will remain the same after the addition is completed. Watson is open from 7:45 a.m. — 11 p.m. on weekdays, from 8 a.m. — 5 p.m. on Saturdays and from 2 — 11 p.m. on Sundays.
Nine students in the KU Air Force ROTC have been appointed "Distinguished Air Force ROTC Cadets," according to Lt. Col. Gerald E, Hallas, professor of air science.
The appointments recognize outstanding performance in academic achievement and leadership. A "distinguished cadet" may qualify as a "distinguished Air Force ROTC graduate," which in turn makes him eligible for regular commissions in the Air Force.
AFROTC Names Nine Honor Cadets
The nine are:
Robert P. Ash Jr., Lawrence junior; Ted E. Lawson, Lawrence senior;
Frank J. Gasperich, Sand Springs, Okla., senior; Michael C.
Clem, Lawrence senior; Ronald L.
Mastin, Beliot senior; Jon P. Morris,
Kansas City senior; James R. Lewis,
Kansas City, Mo., senior; Billy F.
Lucas, Mapleton senior, and Richard W.
Bryant, Merriam senior.
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