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Lab classes offer on-the-job experience
By GEOF CLARK Staff Reporter
Most people take a lab to get some on-the-job experience and learn things they can't get from just reading a book. But the real work of the body works by dissecting a cadaver.
There are currently 80 faculty members and 180 graduate students working on research projects such as this at the University of Kansas, Gunther Schlager, professor of ecology, said yesterday.
Sometimes, working with cadavers can lead to interesting experiences, which was the case when Joan Leblanc.
Chicopee, Mass., junior, took an anatomy class last spring.
"The first time the class was supposed to work on a body, it fell back on the box and freaked the whole class out." she said. "Another title, I understood that contained the dead body and the eyes were opened and it startled me.
"After a while I became accustomed to the body and started looking at the dissection as a unique experience."
She said it was fascinating because students learned what made a person tick and how all the body's systems include the circulatory system.
But this fascination took a different twist last fall when some pranksters
There are other labs on campus in which events like this rarely occur, such as the microbiology and biological sciences labs.
stone a cadaval from Snow Hall and put it on a beach towel by Potter Lake.
"I hope to be able to apply the research to humans some day," he said.
Schager said he spent about 16 hours a week on research while most of the graduate students spent up to 80 hours a week doing research.
Schlager is working on a research project studying why certain mice have higher blood pressure than others.
He said the topics of graduate student research projects depended on two things. Either the graduate students
work off a professional grant and do research for the professor, or the students do it for their own dissertations and can pick their subjects.
In Haworth Hall, Henry Stone, associate professor of microbiology, is doing research on microorganisms and how they cause diseases. He said great importance to study the microorganisms because they could spread from the room and infect people.
Brad Loveless, Dayton, Ohio, graduate student, said that he had been working in a lab for about three years. He is doing research with bass to see how they react to light and how their ewesight works.
"I enjoy working here and working with the animals,"he said.
Team grading gets high marks
By JIM LEHNER and NEAL McCHRISTY Staff Reporters
Team training, a concept practiced in two schools at the University of Kansas, has received favorable reaction from students who have participated in it.
Team grading is an evaluation of a student's project by more than one professor. The final grade, though, lies strictly with the student's professor.
THE SCHOOL of Architecture has several courses in which team grading takes place, while the School of Fine Arts has one course that uses a form of team grading. Both schools say team grading has been used for several years.
"It's very complicated and takes a lot of work. Projects are graded on sight, graphics, presentation and layout," Dennis Domer, associate dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said yesterday.
Domer said that team grading could be beneficial to both the students and faculty
"In the final analysis, the teacher of that particular student has to make the decision on the grade, but that professor--since he's made his own grade independently too--is able to meet his five colleagues did." Dorem said.
THE STUDENT'S professor may have his own reason for grading a student a certain way. It may be for preparing for an exam, participating in class, or missing class.
Students contacted about team grading agreed.
"The students I've talked to, and the faculty alike, have expressed their approval of this program, even though it is very time consuming." Domer
"It's a good idea because a person in architecture needs all the criticism he can get." Wessling said.
Kris Wessling, Kansas City, Mo., junior in architecture, said that the team grading concept was better than the university's own model. The variety of opinion that a student gets.
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Wessling also said that the students were given a verbal explanation of their grades that may have been intimidating, at times, but helpful.
ANOTHER STUDENT in the School of Architecture, Matthew Wolfe, St. Louis senior, said the critique system is an easier system than the conventional one.
"Any outside input is going to be more helpful to the student," Wolfe said.
Walfe said that he had learned from the criticism that the team of professors had given him, and he felt that they improved each time he was critiqued.
Although the team grading system in the School of Fine Arts is limited to one class, Richard Branham, professor of design, said that the criticism the students received was as refined as in any other design school.
Branham said that the students would be given a hypothetical project, such as remodeling the Wescoe Hall cafeteria.
"WED LOOK at the place and experience it and we'd ask people who were running it what was wrong with it," he said.
Branham said the class might ask students using the cafeteria for improvements that they thought would be helpful.
"After they had gone back and came up with some solutions, we'd go back and have people critique their findings—both students and the manager-plus their own classmates and the professor." Branham said.
"We criticize a lot. Their critique is a big part of our teaching process. You can't work in the corner with a green hat. That's what the world is out there thumping, you know."
City tracks transport of radioactive waste
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Radioactive materials that once passed through the city unnoticed will have to be reported within a month after shipment, as a result of an ordinance that passed 3-2 at last night of the Lawrence Commission.
However, the new law may face legal challenges within a few days because federal Department of Transportation regulations that take effect Feb. 1 may pre-emptify, it said Mayor Marci Francisco.
Under the new ordinance, the transport of radioactive materials must be reported to the Lawrence Fire Department.
Major routes affected by the law are interstate 70 and highway 59, both of which pass through city Commissioner Barkley Clark said.
Clark, who voted against the ordinance along with Commissioner Don Binns, said it conflicts with federallaw.
Francisco, who voted for the law with commissioners Tom Gleason
and Nancy Shontz, said "The ordinance may in fact be in conflict, but I think it's important that the city state its case for the ability to regulate and take an interest in the outcome of that case.
the Department of Transportation that says that materials that are allowed to go through Lawrence aren't allowed to go through cities over 100,000; so they feel there's some danger. The same materials that go through Lawrence aren't allowed through Tooneka."
But Clark said the costs were too large compared to the benefits received.
"The chances of a spill are so small and I'm not sure it would help avoid a spill," he said.
The ordinance is unenforceably vague as to which of the parties involved in shipping materials should be held accountable. Should they fail to report, Clark said.
Jack Kinkett, 945 Connecticut St., a spokesman for the Sunflower Alliance, a statewide anti-nuclear group that sponsored the ordinance, said the new ordinance were challenged. Lawrence would not be alone in court.
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