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University Daily Kansan, February 28, 1983
Professors, library to share $25,000 grant
BY ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
Two KU professors last week were awarded a $25,000 Tinker Foundation grant to conduct research this summer in Central America, said Charles Stansifer, director of KU's Latin American studies program.
One recipient, Robert Tomasek, professor of political science, plans to study conflicts between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The other recipient, Jacob Frenkel, professor of pathology in the College of Health Sciences, said he would use his money in Panama to conduct a study of toxoplasmosis, an infectious disease transmitted from cats to humans.
The two professors will share their award with KU's Latin American
STANSIFER SAID HIS department received grants from the Tinker Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education and the American University Fields Staff, as well as money from the general University research fund.
"Such grants are an incentive for professors to stay within the Latin American fold," he said. "They are the ones who study aids in the academic studies programs like our alive."
KU's Latin American studies program draws its professors from such departments as political science, Spanish-Portuguese and anthropology.
Latin America is the laboratory for everyone involved in Latin American
"For example, as a historian, I'm expected to do research in the archives, and I must be able to
said. "These grants are vital to help the faculty in touch with what's going on."
"BUT THEY ARE just as vital for teaching purposes. If we are unaware of current situations there, we are unable to evaluate them properly," he said.
Stansifer said this was the last of three grants awarded over the past six years to his department by the Tinker Center for Advanced Research and by the late Edward Larocque Tinker.
A journalist with an interest in Latin America, Tinker rider with Pancho Villa and reported on the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s. He became a noted anti-fascist, stirring between countries in the western hemisphere. Stansler said.
The Tinker Foundation is unique, he said, because it awards about $1.5 million each year exclusively to Latin American research. Other foundations, such as the Rockefeller or Ford, give to a wide range of research areas, he said.
"It would be nice if more Tinkers were around." Stansifer said.
Tomasek said he planned to use his grant money to find out why Costa Rica was changing its traditionally neutral capital to a decidedly anti-Nicaraguan one.
He said he wanted to research whether the new stance was because of the country's own perception of Nicaragua as a military threat, or because it is a country located in United States, which recently awarded Costa Rica $2 million in military aid.
TOMASEK ALSO PLANS2 to use his portion of the grant to study the current border conflicts between Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Honduras.
Costa Rica has historically been the most democratic country in Central America, Tomasek said. Its only organized military group is its 5,000- to 6,000-member civilian guard.
"IF COSTA RICA is pushed by the United States into things it doesn't want, it will become counter-productive," Tomasek said, "because Nicaragua already perceives Costa Rica as a U.S. pump."
He said he wanted to see whether U.S. would be helped or hurt in the long run by giving military aid to both countries.
"It if it affects domestic policies in the two countries, political controversy may destabilize Costa Rica and Honduras," said Mr. that would be very unfortunate."
He said he planned to spend a month in Honduras, where the military is a staunch supporter of the United States, although its civilian president is not.
He said he would spend about a month in Costa Rica interviewing government officials and citizens to find out their perceptions of Nicaragua's Sandanista government, which has been the target of U.S. criticism since the 1979 overthrow of the pro-American Somozan government.
Frenkel said his work would be an extension of a study that he had conducted for the past 10 years in Costa Rica that revealed that 50 percent of Costa Rica's youth had contracted toxoplasmosis, which could cause eye or brain damage, by the time they were 15 years old.
FRENKEL SAID HIS study in Panama would focus on people who were not infected with the disease and
find out where and when others contracted it.
He said there were two ways to contract the disease: from direct contact with infected cat feces and from raw or undercooked meat. The first is the most common in Central America, especially in countries such as Panama, where children often play in dirt and where there are many cats.
The disease usually is transmitted to humans in the United States from the meat of animals that had eaten plants grown in infected soil, he said, and affects adults more often than children. The disease is more difficult to trace in the United States than in Central America, he said.
THOSE FACTORS ARE advantages to studying the disease in Central Australia.
Ellen Brown, director of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American department at Watson Library, said it was cheaper to go to Latin America to acquire library materials than to order them from catalogues.
She said that one publication on sale for no cents in Nicaragua sold for $8 in the United States.
Brow will leave tomorrow on her 10th acquisition trip to Latin America since 1975. She said her trips, which have been funded by the Tinker Foundation and Watson Library, were valuable to KU's Latin American studies program.
By traveling to Latin America, she said she had collected government and civilian publications not otherwise available to the collection, which number more than 200,000 pieces and the largest in the United States.
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Gameday preparations keep Allen crews busy
By JIM BOLE
No one person was in charge of preparing Allen Field House for Saturday's men's basketball game between Kansas and Kansas State universities.
But, as usual, workers from a variety of departments finished everything by game time — everything from mopping the court to changing the names on the scoreboard to stocking concession stands.
The workers involved in the pregame preparations at Allen Field House represent the athletic department, the teams and Kansas Union Concessions.
The workers, operating as a team, stay out of other people's way or help others when required. Floyd Temple, a co-founder of athletics, said before the game.
Because the bleachers on the floor were already extended, the 13 full-time and 14 part-time athletic department maintenance workers concentrated instead on sweeping each level of the building, cleaning the bathrooms and
"I THINK OUR people have a lot of personal pride, and that's what makes it one of the best programs in the Big Eight." Temple said.
Saturday morning's preparations were easier than usual because some work had already been done for Friday's women's basketball game, said Diana Beebe, athletic department supervisor of physical operations.
dressing rooms and setting up extra chairs for the sold-out game, she said
As maintenance workers began pushing their wide brooms about 10:30 a.m., concessions workers started unloading bags of ice at the 21 stands that served hot dogs, popcorn and soft drinks during games.
Craig Berquist, Claffin graduate student in charge of student security, and 13 other students patrolled the building. They were required before the doors officially opened.
AT 12:30 P.M., three 'Facilities Operations electricians checked the scoreboard and public address system. They lowered the scoreboard and replaced some of the thousands of tiny 10-watt light bulbs that were burned on. Then they put the name of KU's appointment on each face of the scoreboard.
After a final check by student security, the doors opened at 1:30 p.m. Restless fans who had been waiting for several hours flooded into Allen Field House 90 minutes before the game started.
Almost everything was ready. Television crews made last-minute checks, and the crew was in.
At 2 p.m. Tom Wilkerson, director of recreation services, and Dick Bennett, a Lawrence resident, unlocked red wooden doors that led to the teletype machine that controlled the messages appearing on the top of the scoreboard.
Finally, at 3:08 p.m., the game started. . .
On the record
A THEIF STOLE a 1976 Vega, worth an estimated $600, from a Lawrence resident Saturday, police said. Police have no suspect in the
BURGLARST STOLE three cases of beer, an electric guitar and two microphones Friday from the Congo hospital in Brazzaville. The loss was estimated at $1,010.
A SHOPLIFTER STOLE lingerie,
valued at $314; Saturday from Undercover,
21 W. Ninth St., police said.
CAR STEREO EQUIPMENT
valued at $473, was stolen yesterday from a Lawrence resident's car parked in the 160 block of West 22rd Street. police said.
A MOPED belonging to a Lawrence resident was stolen Saturday from the 2300 block of Murphy Drive, police said. The loss was estimated at $425.
FOUR HUBCAPS, worth an estimated $450, were stolen Saturday from a KU employee's car in the 1900 block of West 24th Street, police said.
THEIEVES STOLE a radar detection unit, valued $185, from a
Lawrence resident's car parked in the 2100 block of Harvard Road on Saturday, police said.
BURGLARST STOLE $98 in cash
Saturday from Haas Imports, 601
Kassel drive. police said. The
Road is secured by entrap-
ingly a rear door.
BURGLARS STOLE about $80 in cash Saturday from the Pizza Shoppe, 601 Kasold Drive, police said. The burglars apparently entered through the ceiling.
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