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University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1984 Page 6
Larry Funk/KANSAN
Frank Miller, 1128 Rhode Island St., practices his hammer toss. Miller was practicing yesterday east of Memorial Stadium because he wanted to get some exercise.
First-day enrollment appears lower because some students not in figure
By the Kansan Staff
First-day enrollment figures for the University of Kansas appear lower than in previous semesters because some students usually included in the total have not been added yet, the dean of student records said yesterday.
Students not included in the first-day enrollment figure are those enrolled in the Applied English Center, those in the study abroad program and graduate students who registered by mail, said Gil Dyck, the dean.
This semester's first-day enrollment on the Lawrence campus was 19,434.
compared with last spring's first-day enrollment of 20,352
Without the Applied English Center, the study abroad and the graduate students' enrollments last year's figure would have been 19,512, an amount comparable to this semester's first-day enrollment.
official figure reported to the Board of Regents.
ABOUT 840 STUDENTS from those three areas have not been included in this spring's enrollment total, Dyck said. About 800 students have gone through late enrollment in the last three days and he expects this semester's 20th-day total to be comparable to last year's 20th-day total of 21,237.
The information sent to the Regents will include figures on full-time equivalent enrollment, a breakdown of enrollment by classes and the number of credit hours each class is taking. The figure based on the number of hours a student is taking, not on the number of students.
This semester the records staff has not had time to process those special enrollments because KU budget cuts or reduced the office's staff, Dyck said.
KU prof's devotion to research leads to cancer-prevention drug
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — For many people chemistry is not exciting, but for C.C. Cheng chemistry has provided a lifetime of challenges. And he loves it.
The chemist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center developed a drug designed to prevent cancer. The drug is now used in several top cancer research hospitals across the country.
He says the research was his most important.
Cheng has worked closely with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD.
In 1978 the institute began testing a chemical compound that Cheng had
After being tested on laboratory animals and checked for toxicity at the National Cancer Institute, the drug, DHAG, is now being administered to patients at top cancer institutes. Some of these institutes have reported positive results.
In 1974, a friend challenged Cheng to develop a chemical compound that would treat cancer more successfully than other drugs.
"MY OWN MOTHER died of cancer
20 years ago," said Cheng, a
Two years later, Cheng developed what he thought was that drug.
38-year-old native of China and chairman of the University's drug development laboratory. I am a PharmD student. I'm in dedicated One day, we will conquer it."
TI LI LOO, chief of the section of pharmacology at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston, said that the institute had been successfully treating patients with the drug.
He said that the institute had used the drug to treat various types of cancer.
"It is a useful drug and I think it will be available to use in hospitals." Logan said.
Cheng said he had developed more than 3,000 compounds for the National Cancer Institute. He said the institute had validated 150 of the compounds tested, and of those DHAQ seems to be the most effective.
The basic difference between the DHAQ and other cancer treatments is that the drug is easier to develop and less toxic, he said. Many drug compounds used to treat cancer have harmful sugar-molecule bases.
Sugar-containing drugs are sometimes toxic when administered for a long time, he said. DHQA does not have the sugar molecule in its base and is
"WE HAVE HIGH hopes for this drug. But no drug can treat every cancer."
differently to the same drug," he said.
"This seems to be working in quite a few cases, and I think it's because of its simple chemical composition."
Cheng has also worked on developing treatments for malaria, he said. In 1963 U.S. Army officials wanted him and other other chemicals to develop a drug to treat soldiers in Viet Nam for malaria.
Cheng said he was reluctant at first because he didn't want to work on a project that could have had political implications.
AS A MEMBER of the National Board of Scientific Counselors, he reads about 70 medical journals a month. In his office, packed with copied information from different sources and with plastic molecule models, Cheng has kept index cards on every article related to the subject that he has read.
"We have to read much of the time we do it religiously," he said. "But for all the reading I do, it never seems to be enough."
He is perhaps able to read more than most. Besides English, Cheng knows Chinese, Japanese, German, some Italian and some Russian.
He immigrated to the United States in 1949. He said working in the United States was satisfying because people were left alone to do their work.
Administration plans bridge repair
One of Cheng's daughters, Alice, is now studying chemistry at KU. And she
By the Kansan Staff
Allen Wiechert, the administrator and director of facilities planning, said extreme cold was the primary cause of the damage to the bridge connecting Marvin Hall and the Visual Arts Building.
One of the University's newest building projects suffered the most extensive damage, estimated at about $10 million, a KU administrator said yesterday.
"Design could have contributed to the problem he had." That's something I like, looking.
The bitter weather caused about $18,000 damage to 10 campus buildings
during Christmas break, he said. The Marvin bridge, completed in August 2013, was the last of four.
Administrators will ask the Board of Regents tomorrow to allow the money needed for repairs to be taken from the facilities operations budget.
The greatest concern is to repair the bridge as soon as possible. Wiechert said. Money readily available from the budget and insurance budget will hasten those repairs.
The Regents should know about the damage because the bridge is relatively new and funds from outside sources might be needed for other repairs, but the doctors haven't decided yet what other sources could finance the repairs.
"It will take some time to determine any fault and any sources where we might get money for repairs." he said.
Max Lucas, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said two steam lines in the bridge and one in Marvin Hall had frozen and burst causing water to accumulate on the floor.
Facilities operations did basic repairs, Lucas said, and the building is in use.
By the Kansan Staff
Office says early applicants may get more aid
The packets are available in the
theatre or in strong Hall, the
director Jerger Rogers said.
Students who need financial aid for 1985 should pick up and prepare their financial aid packets as soon as possible, the director of financial aid said yesterday.
To complete a file a student needs to fill out the two forms enclosed in the financial aid packet and send them to the appropriate institutions.
"The earlier you get your file completed, the better," he said. Students who complete a packet by March 31 are more likely to be considered first for financial aid.
The family financial statement is only used by the university that the student plans to attend and should be
sent directly to that school. Rogers said. The other form must be sent to the American College Testing Board to be processed. ACT results are sent to the school that the student wants to attend.
Students must also have a 1960 return on file in the office, Rogers said. Students filing as independents for the first time need to include an affidavit of non/support signed by their parents, he said. Students transferring from other schools also must file a copy of their transcripts.
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