University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 5. 1992 5 Warmer weather could carry smell of burning, dead rodents By Shelly Solon Kansan staff writer When the weather gets warmer and windows are opened, people may notice a strange smell coming from the Animal Care Unit in the basement of Malott Hall. Barbara Meador, administrative assistant for the unit, said the unit had received a few calls recently about the smoke and smell coming from its incinerator, which burns dead rats twice that were part of experiments. "We run the incinerator about once or twice a week," she said. "We usually run it late in the day so it won't bother too many people. But if the wind blows in an unfavorable direction, we usually hear some complaints." One of those complaints was made Friday by a woman on the sixth floor of Malotl, according to KU police reports. Meador said rats and mice usually were the only animals burned. But the Lawrence Humane Society once had its incinerator break down and had to use the Malott incinerator to destroy dogs it had put to sleep. "This is a common thing to do," she said. "It's not the kind of thing you put in a landfill." But the Animal Care Unit primarily provides housing and care for animals used in research, Meador said. She said the unit housed animals such as dogs, rabbits, hamsters, frogs and black rat snakes. "The dogs are being used in an oral hygiene study about what foods cause tartar and plaque build-up." Meador said. "It's a long-term experiment, and when the dogs get old, we find homes for them." The dogs are laboratory-bred beagles. Al Smith, director of labs, said all the animals used were approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Sasco, a company in Omaha, Neb., which breeds rodents for experimental use. The rabbits came from an U.S. Department of Agriculture vendor in Centralia and from a rabbit breeder in Tennessee. He said that the rodents came from "Graduate students from several departments use the lab animals," Smith said. "The money to order the animals comes from their grants." He said there were usually about 1,000 rats and several hundred mice in the lab at one time. "This week, we got six rats for research," Smith said. "We have minimal purchases from outside because we usually maintain them for research." He said every project was approved by the Animal Care and Use committee James Bresnahan, the unit director and a veterinarian, also provides the veterinary care for the Wildcare program, which cares for wild animals. Kansan staff writer By Janet Rorholm Kansan staff writer Study of Kansas City-area media leads professor to create directory A University of Kansas associate professor recently finished researching the media in the Kansas City area and says the results indicate a bias in news coverage of African Americans. Adrienne Rivers, associate professor of radio and television, wanted to know if radio stations, television stations and newspapers in the metropolitan area were biased in their reporting. She began a project in 1990 that surveyed more than 200 managers, editors, reporters and news sources to see what their perceptions were of the coverage. Working with Gina Henderson, an assistant business editor at the Kansas City Star, Rivers sent out surveys and made telephone calls. Rivers said reporters and sources ranked coverage of African Americans as fair to poor while managers or editors thought their coverage was good to excellent. As a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Kansas Association of Black Journalists, Rivers said she had been aware of the problem. "The criticism most often heard from African Americans was that you only heard about a minority in the news when it was a negative story." Rivers said. "You never see minorities used as a source." 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