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Thursday, November 16, 1972
University Daily Kansan
12. The area of a rectangle is 360 square units. If the length of the rectangle is $x$ units, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
Beer Displays 'Nonaggressive' Sam
Tarantulas are rather docile despite their fierce appearance .
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disturbed a good many people," Eagleton said.
The Democratic party now faces the task of "broadening its base," he said.
In the presidential campaign, he said, the one-sided results indicated that 'our appeal was not enough' to win.
"The Democratic party can never afford to be exclusive," he said.
Asked whether "broadening the base" of the party might involve the removal of Jean Westwood as the party's national chairman, the Caucasian leader was told "sit on the sidelines" on that issue.
EAGLETON SAID he would give "mixed reviews" to the press coverage of the events leading up to and after his departure from the national ticket. He said he thought the coverage was "credible on the whole, but less than perfect."
As an example, he said he did not believe coverage given columnist Jack Anderson's retraction and apology after reporting that Eagleton had been arrested several times before the attack was sufficient to counter "the harm done by the original erroneous allegation."
Eagleton was asked if he foresaw a struggle between Democrats and Republicans over the allegiance of former Texas governor John Connally, the nominal Democrat and former member of President Obama, who headed the Democrats for Nixon drive.
Eagleton drew a metaphor from the game Monopoly in his reply.
"IWOULDN'T give Boardwalk and Park Place for John Connally," Eagleton said. "I think he has taken himself without the confines of the Democratic party."
Eagleton he expected 0th parties to continue seeking diversified viewpoints. He
Campus Briefs Majors Forum
Two professors will speak on the curriculums of their schools 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Arno Knapper, assistant professor of business, will explain the course of study offered by the School of Business. Dana Leibengood, assistant dean of the School of Journalism, will describe the curriculum offered by the School.
This will be the final session of a series of majors forums sponsored by the sophomore class to inform students about various programs at KU.
Humanities
A panel discussion on the teaching or
immunities will be at 3:15 p.m. tonight in the
Gymnasium.
The discussion is being sponsored by the University of Kansas and the Music Education Conference.
Included on the panel will be Paul Haack, associate professor of music education; Robert Finday, director of graduate students in theatre, William Melin, visiting professor of music history; Dixie Glenn, technology professor; Kenneth Schrid, assistant professor of music; and George Duerksen, associate professor of music education.
Poetry Reading
Paul Metcalfe will present a poetry reading at 8 p.m. in溶剂 in Council Rock, Nevada.
Eagleton said that he expected the relationship between Congress and the president to be unchanged, it was in 1969, even with the President's landside victory at the polls. With Vietnam dying out as an issue, defense spending and welfare reform would be major areas of focus.
Metcalfe is the greatest-grandson of Herman Melville. He studied at Harvard with Charles Olson and teaches a creative course at a rural high school in Vermont.
said he did not anticipate a wave of party switching in the space against it, living along party boundaries.
Metcalfe's work has appeared in many small publications, according to John Moritz, Lawrence senior and publicity chairman for the event. "Genoa," a book of Metcalfe's work, is available in the Oread Book Store.
In his prepared speech Eagleton called for adoption of a qualified shield law providing for a "newman's privilege" confidential sources and information.
EAGLETON SAID the administration alone had opposed "newsman's privilege" legislation.
Eagleton cited the attempt to repress publication of the Pentagon Papers, the jailing of reporters William Farr and Peter Bridge, the congressional investigation of the TV program "The Selling of the Pentagon Papers," and the gag order in Daniel Schorr and the gag order in the Watergate case as events that should make the media wary.
By PAULHUI Kansan Staff Writer
A wooden plate, which is kept inside a cupboard with glass doors, reads, "This week is insect week—go bug somebody." Robert E. Beer, professor of entomology, has no misgiving about having it in his office.
KU Prof's Office Bugged by Choice
Bee's office in Snow Hall is a veritable world of insects. There are live ones crawling about in their glass confines, and other species that are drenched in bottles of preservatives. There are spiders, scorpions, centipedes and other arthropods. Some are brought back from as far as South America and some are from other campus. Robert Beer treasures them all.
BEER SAID it all began with the usual interest an inquisitive boy has in insects.
Beer keeps a live collection of what one generally considers harmful arthropods such as spiders, scorpions and centipedes. He said they were useful instructional aids in the caises that he taught such as Insects and Bugs. He was also particularly known on campus—Bugs and Boys.
Some of the species in his menagerie are not as dangerous as they are popularly thought to be, Beer said. An example is the tarantula, which is the largest spider in existence, he said, measuring up to seven inches long with less extended.
These hairy-bodied spiders are rather docile despite their fierce appearance. Beer said he often demonstrated to his classes that spiders are not naturally sustained by lava, but "lanceed" ones with his hairstyle.
He said the summer was a good season for catching tarantulas because their eyes glowed in the dark making them easy targets for their cannets.
BEER SAID tarantulas were rarely found in Kansas, He said people who called to report tarantulas in their houses had often merely found wolf spiders. But tarantulas can be found in southeastern Kansas, Beer said.
When a tarantula bite, Beer said it was "not much worse than a bee sting." However, there is a deadly Australian species known as the barking tarantula, named because of the sound that it makes that one bite a barking tarantula could kill an adult.
Included in Beer's spider colony are two smaller species, which are far more fear inspiring than the tarantula. They are the black widow and the brown recluse spider. These are very common venomous spider in the world, can be found in Douglas County.
IT IS A rather samll spheroid, very black spider; a full grown female is about the size of a half dollar, and the male many times smaller, said Beer. The black widow got its
name from the female spider's habit of devouring its partner after the mating
The black widow is a prolific species capable of producing 600 offspring in one day. The black widow is a neurotoxic venom, which can damage the central nervous system of a victim, Beer said. But he said the black widow was not possessive and would not bite unless provoked.
The brown recluse spider has a unique venom, which does not spread out in the victim's system. Beer said. The venom is transmitted to humans by inoculation. An ulcer will develop in the vicinity of the wound. Beer said, which leaves muscular tissues seriously deform.
"THE ONLY CURE is surgical removal of the tissues affected by the venom, the quail skin."
The brown recluse spider is a smallish species similar to the black widow, and can also be found locally, Beer said. Though chances of an encounter with a brown recluse spider in open areas or outdoors are small, Beer said, people should be alert for basements or other secluded cleaning attics, basements or other secluded rooms, the house. Beer said the brown recluse spider could be aggressive when disturbed or provoked in its hideout.
Recently, Beer said that he noticed a brown reuse spider hiding in the auditorium in Strong Hall where he was holding one of his classes. He decided it was too much trouble to try to catch it, but just to prove that "these things are among us," he went out and caught two other brown spiders near the University gas station.
BEER SAID the seriousness of a spider bite wound was determined by several factors. The toxic composition of the venom, the victim's body resistance, and the amount of water it means the difference between a fatal wound and a merely painful experience, said Beer.
About five years ago, Beer said, former KU football coach Jack Mitchell was bitten on the buttocks by a brown reusel spider when Mitchell rolled over in his bed and then fell into a contusion treatment on the wound. Beer said, and nothing malignant developed from it.
"He really lucked out that time," said Beer.
Beer said he knew of another incident three years ago in which a child in Kansas died after being bitten on the face by a brown recluse spider. That was the latest death caused by an insect bite that he knows of, Beer said.
BEER HAS in his collection some considerably less dangerous spiders such as the jumping spider, the filstatid spider and the millipede. He said these painful bite but not much else, he said.
learned about spiders, and that more information had to come from more intensive work.
Bee said he thought that spiders, until
they became a neglected entom-
ologue. He knew they had still
gotten.
Beer also keeps a number of live scorpions and centipedes in his office. There is a whip scorpion, which Beer keeps in a glass box. This scorpion, brought back by Beer from Mexico, doesn't have a sting in its tail, which is shaped like a whip.
LOCALLY, SCORPIONS can be found
north of campus at the Kawai River at a
pothole on Bldg 205.
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