CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1984
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Defends allegations against prof Slander defendant testifies
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
Liz Murray, one of two former research assistants being sued for slander by a KU professor, yesterday testified that she had never taken a chemistry course before a 1976 research expedition when she was assigned to test human blood for sickle-cell anemia trait.
The suit, in part, stems from allegations made by Murray and the other research assistant that the professor had not properly conducted research in the Central American country of Belize.
During yesterday's testimony in Douglas County District Court, Murray said Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology, had given only an article to her explaining the process of caring when he asked her to conduct the test.
After returning to the University of Kansas, Murray said, she filed formal complaints because she "was very concerned that the people in Belize, when so kind to us, had been harmed" by not receiving accurate test results.
AND THOUGH SHE received some other instruction during a visit to a KU chemistry lab, she said, she performed the blood test she performed in Belize.
The complaints, filed with the KU Advisory Committee on Human Experimentation and several other agencies, stated that Crew members misused his money and enacted himself unethically while conducting the research in Belize.
anthropology, was also named in the soil.
The $1.5 million slander and defamation suit, filed by Crawford in 1980 in Douglas County District Court, stemmed from complaints made in the case against J.K. Sempolki, the other research assistant. Henry Lundsgaarde, professor of
Crawford testified last week that the tests run in Belize were at least 95 percent accurate when compared with a standard blood at a reputable lab in Minnesota.
BEFORE THE TRIP to Belize,
Crawford had assigned Murray the task of gathering demographic and fertility data from women subjects.
Later, Murray testified, Crawford later to the run tests on blood drawn.
When running the test, a screening method to determine whether the subjects had sickle-cell trait. Murray said she didn't know herself how good she was.
Murray also testified that Crawford, based on her observations, had never received an informed consent from the research subjects.
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