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Thursday, August 24, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Bees Making Beeline for States
Prof Studies Bees
. . . Charles Michener, holds specimens . .
By SHARYN BALLARD Kansan Staff Writer
The bees are coming! It's not a line from a horror movie, but the truth. The African honeybee is advancing toward the southern United States at the rate of 200 miles a year, according to Charles A. Michener, professor of entomology.
If an insect is in the bee family, its sting can be as minor as that of the sweat bee, or cause the same throbbing torment that caused by a bee stinger. The exception is a skin irritation or it could result in death.
A foremost expert on bees, Michener has been studying the social habits of bees for more than 20 years. His recently-awarded $33,000 grant from the National Science Foundation is directed to the study of sweet bees but Michener has been an intensive research on the African honeybee.
This bee, which was brought to Brazil in 1957, is far more aggressive than the European honeybee, which thrives in the temperate climate zones, according to Michener.
At the request of the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Academy of Science last November and December sent Michener and her colleagues a research report that concluded a study of the African honeybee.
The African honeybees are easily aggravated
"The African honeybee has spread from the original 26 colonies brought from Africa to about 211 colonies per square mile in some parts of the United States," Michener explained.
The scientists traveled throughout Brazil, in reviewing beekeepers and the examine bee itself.
That would mean that there are now over three billion African honey bees in the western
By natural spread, Michener said, the bees are swarming northward at the rate of 200 miles a year. Because the African bee can exist in warm temperate as well as tropical areas, Michener believed that they could survive in the southern part of the United States.
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and attack collectively. They have been known to kill livestock, wild animals and humans.
"However, the disturbing behavioral quality that their aggressive nature causes the bees to attack collectively under little provocation and that they are able to larger moves or gets out of their reach," he said.
"The African bee's sting has the same
“It’s hard to determine just how many have been killed from the African honeybee. Emotionalism plays such a role that accurate records are not to be found. People have gone out on hunts with an ax and chopped into a hive, but most people still have no honeybee would react.” Michener explained.
All is not lost. In fact, Michener is optimistic about the value of the African honeybee as a vital plant resource.
"In the short run of the situation, things look bad for beekeeping with the African honeybee he said, but in the long run, beekeepers may be able to accomplish what they set out to do in the first place, namely develop a good tropical-adapted strain of honeybees.
Although it is illegal to have bees in Brazilian
towns, beekeepers in Brazil are successfully developing strains of the African bee that are not so aggressive. The hybrids of good character, it is possible to breed African honeybee in the western hemisphere.
"If this occurred, beekeepers would have increased honey cultivation; and crops would benefit greatly from the increased pollenization of crops," Michener said.
While working under his new grant, Michener will be involved in the study of sweat bees, which are at the beginning of social evolution. William Bell, assistant professor of entomology, and Rudolf Jander, lecturer in biology, will also be working on the project.
"The altruistic behavior of bees and other insects is what makes their study so interesting," Michener said. "The worker gives up his reproductive system to improve the queen's ability to work together is what is so fascinating. It makes the study of these insects so interesting."
Michener said of his life's work: "If one knows how and where the bee lives and learns how not to kill it off, we can then use the bee more fully for the natural pollenization of vegetation."
Center to Provide Aid to Gays
By CONNIE PARISH
In order to meet what he termed a great need, David Tolinski provided clinical and counseling, recently set up a Gay Counseling Center.
Radd said that before the counseling center began operations about three weeks ago he received a response asking calls for advice and help.
He and David Stoud, graduate student in social work, and three women decided to organize the center in conjunction with the Lawrence Gay Liberation Center. F.W. Majoring in the social sciences or associated fields, according to Radd.
Radd has since counselled 18 persons in 24 sessions, and has referred four women to other
counselors. He reported that most had been students or past students, but that a few were older non-students.
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Radd said that homosexuals in general faced two main problems: self-acceptance and adverse publicity.
"First, a gay person has to learn to accept himself and learn not to be uplight about showing his feelings," Radd said.
THOSE requesting counseling often expressed apprehension about the reaction of their parents to a publicity that may result from publicly "coming out" or ad homosexual tendencies, Radd said.
Dietary Handles Large Orders
He said that repression of
By SHARYN BALLARD Kansan Staff Writer
Frakes replaces Ruth Gordon, Ruth Gordon, since he had been in Gordon stepped down as head of the department before reaching the mandatory age for reaching that age.
The recipe calls for 40 pounds of flour, four pounds of baking powder, 10 gallons of milk, eight cups of sugar and a cup of sugar and cinnamon. The ingredients make 900 cinnamon rolls, according to Elizabeth Digwell, a professor in the department of dietetics and nutrition at the Kansas University Medical Center, who that sort of order is not used.
A master's degree in dietetics and nutrition, therapeutic dietics and food service management is available at the center.
Preparing more than 4,000 meals a day is the job of 200 dietitians. The food supplies the cafeteria, snack bar, coffee breaks, ambulatory patient dining room and tray service.
Frakes said she was excited about a new cooperative program with Kansas State University this fall.
According to Frakes, there are three functions of the department of dietetics and nutrition: food education; educational program and research.
Other projects in which the dietary staff participates are a diabetics camp and the regional Center nutritional consultants.
"We have found that the most important food for children is chicken, roast beef and hamburgers, dogs. These are the foods that people will eat more than once a day."
We will be instructing a clinical training unit for dietitians in their senior year from both KU and K-State," she said.
Foods people don't like are lamb, seafoods and liver. Frakes pointed out that spinach was quite popular.
Research at the medical center's nutrition department is done almost entirely in conjunction with the master's thesis, which requires a detailed study of piments and deficiencies in food are the main emphasis of study.
"One of the most important things happening this year is the height of the metric system. We think that within five to 10 years Congress will initiate the most universal reform and head of the times," Frakes said.
Studies have been made at the center as to what foods people eat and how often they eat them.
In the August two-week camp session, held at Swope Park in Kansas City, Mo., the food is prepared by KUMC nutritionists;
and the children are taught proper eating habits for diabetics. Frakes explained.
honest feelings was psychologically hard to deal with
Two of the staff members work full time with the Head Start centers in Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The classes include more than 16,000 children.
These children are served at least a lunch and snack daily. The two regional directors from KUMC work with parents, teachers and cooks to each them every day and of underprivileged children.
"Although it is not as yet certain, we are considering setting up a type of food factory. We could make all the meat loaf needed for a three-month period and then freeze it. By using these frozen loaves, we could reconstitute the 'food on the day it is to be served.'
psychologically hard to deal with.
ADVERSE publicity has been directed both to the GLF and to individuals, according to Badd
"By this method, we could use magnetic magnets on the floor. Delivery could be automated by using magnetic magnets on the floor. The whole process is quite efficient."
Adam Adams, receiving to Reader Radd said on example was KU's refusal to recognize the GLF.
"For a while KU operators refused to give out the phone number for our office in the Union, and also when most organizations are notified about new GLAF has not been." Radd said.
Housing is often a problem, he said. Frequently gag persons are ordered out of their apartments if they don't say they don't have a group behind them, most simply move and hope the next landlord won't find
Another problem has been letters to parents and sometimes blackmilk, he said. Radd explained that he had been the target of a number of abusive crank statements, which were affiliated with the GLF.
SOMETIMES open or discreet discrimination by professors to someone who is openly gay is a problem, he said.
"but generally the reaction is favorable," Radd said. "There is forcement, but occasionally a bad incident results. You've got to go used to it, though not enough to want work actively against some discrimination. I usually end up feeling sorry for people who don't want to work actively."
Sometimes, Radd said, there is discrimination against gay persons who admit their homosexuality.
"This is understandable, though," he said, "because awareness of the environment determines to well—being anybody who thinks he is negatively perceived by a large group tends to have a negative attitude."
RADD HODD that by fall the Gay Counseling Center staff could be expanded to three women and three men.
Radd has completed most of the course work for an M.A. and hopes to gain material for a thesis in setting up the counseling center. He plans to write on the topic of admitting homosexuality.
Radd met with William Balfour, vice chancellor of student affairs, and Dr. Sydney Schroeder, health service
physician, for advice before setting up the center. He also contacted a lawyer about the legal aspects of an operation.
He said that counselors tried to show that they could be happy if they met others with similar feelings and were rejected for their personalities.
He explained that most of the counseling the staff planned to do was on an informal basis, because whenever the individual wanted.
"People have been told that homosexuality is a sickness for so long, obviously they are going to believe it." he said.
"OFTEEN the problems encountered by homosexuals are common to all people. For example they may feel lonely and alienated, sure that no one else can such a problem, Radd said.
According to Radd, one myth is that all gay males are e-fermine, and another is that all are destined to be short-lived.
Gay Liberation Front is trying to combat several common myths about gays, he said.
"I THINK frustration plays a role in the so-called 'Drag Queen phenomenon' encountered in gay bars," Radd said.
"It it used to be that the only place gays could meet other gays was at a bar. Because one had to play a different role all day long, when he had the chance to let go at night there was an explosion of people who felt it virtually impossible to relate as human beings." Rudd said.
"the same is true, I think, of a guy who picks up a girl in a bar and sticks her head into his mouth probably won't marry her. In both cases there is no chance to really develop a relationship, and ultimately it is not satisfying."
He said that Gay Lib had tried to combat this by creating an atmosphere where gays can get
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WE'RE NOT trying to give out propaganda at the Counseling office. We don't have some cases. I've urged people to develop their heterosexual feel. We don't necessarily recommend that who is gay should join GLF."
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He said that their role as counselors was not to give direction to people but to helpride on their own direction.
Radd said he believed that everyone had some gay feelings. He said that he thought everyone was on a continuum and feelings were different situations and on the people. He shunned an either and or label.
Radd said that if problems came up that the counselors felt capable of coping with they would suggest professional guidance.
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