3. The following diagram shows the relationship between the number of students and the number of textbooks.
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University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1981
Woman sees con job avoids 'pigeon drop'
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
An 84-year-old Lawrence woman knew a con when she saw one Wednesday afternoon.
M. W. Benander had just pulled into the alley next to her house and was walking to her front door when a woman stopped her and told she had just found a wallet, Benander said yesterday.
"She said I haven't opened this yet," and then asked where 711 Arkansas was," Benander said. "I had read about these deals where they take you somewhere to split up this money they were supposed to have found, but you have to put up your money first."
A SIMILAR INCIDENT occurred last month in front of the First National Bank at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
In that incident, two men had approached a Lawrence man and asked him to help them open a bank account using part of his own money. He appeared to agree when he met the bank, but instead he called the police.
When police arrived, the two men were gone.
In Benander's case, the first woman was joined by another
woman later. Bender said the first woman said something about having a witness around when they opened the door and then started piling money out of it.
"When I saw that money, I said, 'That's phony,' and then skedaddled," Benander said. "I wasn't about to tarry."
BENANDER SAID she saw both women leave in a red or maroon car after she went inside to call pllice.
Lawrence police Sgt. Mike Reeves called the incident "an attempted pigeon drop." He wald that the object was to trick elderly people into believing that the artist had made a mistake and would split it with the victim if the victim would put up an equal amount out on good faith.
Benander said she had read about several elderly people in other cities falling victim to such scams.
"There was one woman in Oklahoma City that they held a gun on," Benander said. "I was kind of afraid."
Benander gave police descriptions of both women and reported that when the woman pushed the money into the mouth of the man, she and several other bills underneath.
LAWRENCE POLICE said Benander described the women in their 48s or 50s, one with red hair.
Biology center provides audio-visual aids
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
A sand dollar's pulsating, whisker-like teacules are projected onto a piece of poster board from a film loop machine.
Across the room, on a video cassette player, an anatomy professor lectures on the dissection of the cranial hemispheres and basal zanglia.
SOUND INTERESTING? To most students, probably not; to but more than 1,200 KU biology students and their instructors, the information and the room in which it's found are definitely good news.
desks, you see, that we just repainted.
We just improvise as much as we can." Still, he said he was pleased with the center.
THE GRANT RUNS out in November, but the University has agreed to provide $3,000 to $4,000 a year to add new materials, Bocher said.
A $250,000 grant from the Science
"We feel that it's quite functional and savvy, we discover any serious problem there."
Borchert wandered around the room, pointing to the six computer terminals, eight slide and sound machines, four film loop projectors and other modern equipment, much of which was placed on old, repainted desks.
Sarl Hagen, graphic designer for the center salad; center was much more
"Thanks to this outside funding, we can come a little closer to what we should have and what really should have been provided by the University."
"This building is one of the oldest and outdated buildings on campus," he
Hagen is in charge of preparing slides, drawing from X-rays, assemble illustrations and poster as well as processing all black and white film.
"You have these old clunkers of
HAGEN SAID THAT 30 to 50 students used the center daily. The center is open weekdays from 8.a.m. to 5.p.m.
He said the center, 315 Snow Hall,
of its kind at the University of Kansas.
"We have a chance to use for the first time, a great number of audio-visual aids that are available these days," he the man who you have the money to buy them.
The department has been building the center since it received the grant three years ago, Rolf Borchert, professor of cell biology and cell biology, said yesterday.
Education Project of the National Science Foundation has enabled the KU biology department to open a biological training resource center and five student laboratory rooms this semester.
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