CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 28. 1983
Page 9
KU bioanalysis center approved by Regents
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents has ap proved an agreement that will allow a "Center for Excellence" in bio analytical research to begin operating with help from the KU Endowment Association.
Todd Seymour, association president, said recently that the time was right for the association to invest in KU research and in the state economy through financing a new company.
"We are looking at this as an effort aimed at making some money," he said. We think it is a challenge, and in the university of Kansas.
THE AGREEMENT STATES that the association will first invest $200,000 in a for-profit corporation, Oread Laboratories Inc., whose primary purpose will be to finance research in the Center for Excellence. No individuals will own the stock.
The Endowment Association has to work through Oread because it is a private non-profit corporation, Seymour said, and tax laws would not allow the association to enter the institution and keep its non-p profit status.
The initial investment will qualify Oread for $135,000 in matching funds from the state. After the association purchases the remainder of Oread's stock,津价较付 at $550,000, be wholly owned by the association
That money should be enough to keep Oread operating for a few years, Seymour said. He said he expected the company to earn profits in realities and through patents on inventions in bioanalytical research.
THAT RESEARCH INVOLVES developing methods to detect, identify and analyze traces of biologically active compounds and environmental contaminants in living systems, according to Larry Sternson, professor of pharmacy and pharmacology.
Sternson will be the scientific director of Oread, Seymour said. Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, and Takuru Higuchi, Regents professor of pharmacy and pharmacology, will also be involved in leading the research effort.
Seymour said that inventions and patents could be forcoming from Oread within three to five years, but the study does not yield profitable results.
THE ASSOCIATION COULD LATER gain by selling Oread to a larger corporation for a profit, Seymour said. But even if no profits come out of Oread, he said, the association will not consider its investment a
"You have to look at it as in investment in KU research," Seymour said. "It is also a venture-capital situation, where we are attuned to the capital capacity into the state. It wouldn't be a loss in any case."
The agreement approved by the Regents states that KU professors working in the Center for Excellence will be compensated for their inventions according to Regents policy. Under that policy, a researcher receives at least 15 percent of the royalties from an invention made while working for a university.
By working through Oread, Seymour said, the association can finance the research without dealing with a company outside the state.
Area fallout shelters not ready for attack
By GINA K. THORNBURG
Staff Reporter
Students walking to class might seldom notice the gold and black fallout shelter signs posted on several campus buildings.
out in the event of a nuclear attack, the signs would probably become more apparent to students seeking shelter in buildings.
John Mullens, the public safety coordinator of the KU Police Department, said recently that although many campus buildings were official buildings, some residents might not know where to go during an emergency.
NINE TIMES OUT of 10, people do not know where fallout shelters are located in the city, said Mullens, who worked with the Emergency Preparedness Board.
He said the board had distributed a 16-page emergency preparedness
But most people probably did not take the time to read the guide, which was included in an issue of the Lawrence Daily Journal-World and was also mailed to people who did not subscribe to the paper, he said.
home guide to Lawrence residents earlier this year.
The booklet gives detailed instructions of emergency procedures in Douglas County and lists 40 privately designated emergency shelters designated as emergency shelters.
Phil Leonard, director of the Douglas County Emergency Preparedness Board, said the emergency shelters were no longer well-marked because people had removed the signs from the buildings.
"The students decided they liked these little signs in their rooms," he said.
HE SAID THAT the board had replaced the signs many times and planned to replace them again.
Fallout shelters on campus, according to the emergency home guide.
include the basements of Stauffer-Flint Hall, Strong Hall, the Kansas Union, Snow Hall, Mallet Hall and Robinson Gymnasium. Several other University buildings and all of the residence halls are community emergency shelters.
Leonard said that the buildings designated for emergency use did not offer the same amount of protection, but he said they should withstand a nuclear blast or a fallout.
In the event of a nuclear war, he said, local policeemen or night security officers could be deployed.
Mullens said that if more people educated themselves about emergency procedures, a lot of confusion could be prevented.
ALTHOUGH THE PROCEDURES detailed in the guide are current, the list of 40 fallout shelters in Lawrence is not up-to-date, he said.
About 15 years ago, civil defense authorities surveyed the buildings on the list, he said. The list changed only to include names of buildings that have been razed
KU MOUNTAINERING Association Room 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union
STUDENT CREATIVE Anachronists will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union.
NOMINATIONS FOR faculty members to be selected to receive Distinguished Teaching Awards are being accepted by Deannell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, in 127 Strong Hall.
TODAY
THE LIFE-ISSUE seminar "The Committed Marriage: A Christian Perspective" will discuss "Gifts of Extravagant Grace" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
OPEN AUDITIONS for "OPGRS",
a play to be presented by KU Theatre for
Young People, will be at 7 p.m. in the
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Some buildings that could be used as emergency shelters, such as Wescoe Hall, are not included on the list, he said.
ON CAMPUS
BASEBALL SIMULATIONS will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union.
AN ARTS AND Crafts Bazaar sponsored by SUA will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kansas Union Gallery.
TOMORROW
KU WSWORD and Shield will meet at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union TAU SIGMA DANCE Club will meet with students Dance Studio 242 in Robinson Center
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Broom of the
CHAMPIONS! will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
CAMPUS/ CHRISTIAN Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 116th Indiana Ave.
But a few years ago, federal officials removed the emergency supplies when the dates on the canned and dried food and the medical supplies expired. Since then, the supplies have not been replaced, he said.
ORIGINALLY, THE SHELTERS contained emergency provisions, such as camel water, food, radio equipment and first aid kits. Mullens said.
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When civil defense authorities wrote the original plans for the fallout shelters in the early 1960s, the plans included provisions for shelter supervisors. Mullens said Each supervisor was supposed to have an area of expertise. For example he said, an expert in biohazard protection medical treatment for radiation victims would be qualified shelter supervisors.
Mullens said the emergency pre
paredness board had attempted to have the list of shelters updated.
He said Leenard made the request for a new survey more than a year ago, but he didn't have it.
"We're trying to" get the Corps of Engineers to do another survey, he said.
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