Wednesday, June 24, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Chemists conduct painstaking study
by Julio Sachs
Kansan staff writer
Researchers in the chemistry department are discovering ways to generate pain.
New types of painkillers could result from an understanding of how pain is triggered in the body, said Andreas Jung, a post-doctorate resident from Germany.
Research students are working alongside Gyorgy Orosz, a visiting Fulbright fellow from Budapest, Hungary, to better understand how pain is received by the brain.
The University is providing some financial support for the project, but researchers are writing a proposal for grants and other funding, said Rich Glvens, professor of chemistry.
The basis of the research is to mask a chemical called Bradykinen, a body chemical that triggers the pain response, Jung said.
"We are interested in how Bradykinen does this particular process," Givens said. To understand how Bradykinen triggers pain, researchers are using compounds called phototriggers.
These compounds are made up of two parts. One part consists of a biological substrate, and the other part of the compound is a photoactive attachment, Givens said.
"When light is absorbed by the molecule it falls apart into two parts," Givens said. "The attachment falls off and the biological substrate is active to do its thing."
When the substrate is active, it carries the pain impulse to the brain and acts like a pain generator, Givens said.
Although the research is being conducted by the chemistry department, biologists will benefit from the research.
"This would give people studying biochemistry a tool of studying processes right down to the molecular level," Givens said.
As temperatures rise, so do campus OUIs
By Jorry Jackson
Kansan staff writer
Although fewer students are on campus, drunk driving arrests increase during the summer semester, the KU Office of Public Safety said.
KU police made 120 arrests for operating under the influence during 1997. Of those arrests, 59 were made between the months of May and August. This summer, 23 OUI arrests had been made between May 1 and June 12.
KU police officer Tony Agusto said that during the summer, police were not as
distracted by campus occurrences and could pay more attention to drunk drivers.
Saferide should run during the summer to keep drunk drivers off the road, said KU police Sgt. Troy Mailen.
Jason, a Wichita senior who asked that his last name not be used, has been arrested for OUI twice since coming to the University of Kansas. He paid $500 bond and received a diversion after his first arrest, but had to spend almost two days in jail after his second OUI arrest.
"Since I'm under 21, I had my license suspended for a
while, but the worst part was sitting in jail."
"I think people do it because they figure they can get away with it," he said. "But it doesn't always happen that way."
Jason said that several of his friends at the University drove drunk, and many of them rode in a car with him after he drank.
The KU Office of Public Safety has taken measures to prevent drunk driving. KU police officers give presentations at new student orientations and schedule educational programs at residence halls year round.
Task force seeks reform of drunken-driving laws
By Jerry Jackson
Kansan staff writer
The Far-reaching Alteration of Traffic and Alcohol Laws task force, or FATAL, met Monday to reform Kansas' drunken-driving laws.
Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall conducted the new task force's meeting at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka.
In a press release Friday, Stovall said that the task force would examine how Kansas dealt with drug-impaired and drunken drivers, particularly those who drove with revoked licenses.
The task force's name should remind people of the fatal consequences of drunken driving, Stovall said.
"We are focusing on a crime which took the lives of 107 Kansans in 1995 and which caused 2,755 Kansans to be injured," Stovall said.
Stovall said she planned for the task force to meet monthly and to propose laws or changes in current laws that could be introduced during the next session of the Kansas
Legislature.
The task force is composed of 25 members including legislators, state administrators, law-enforcement officials, prosecutors, judges and drunken driving victims.
Sheila Walker, public information officer for the Department of Revenue, said that forming the task force was a positive step toward reforming drunken driving laws. She said that her department made recommendations on the fines that a person found guilty of drunken driving must pay.
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