University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1981
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Committees to finalize reports
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
Students aren't the only ones scrambling to finish research papers.
December is the month of deadlines for several KU committees to turn in their special reports.
Committees examining such topics as early enrollment, financial exigency and sexual harassment all plan to turn in reports some time in December.
"Hopefully, presumably, they'll lead to subsequent action," Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
RICHARD MANN, director of institutional research, has led the early enrollment committee in studying different enrollment methods.
Mann said the committee would turn in its report about a week later than the original deadline tomorrow because one of its trips had been postponed.
The committee was going to visit the University of Iowa earlier this
semester to KU's enrollment system, but KU's plane was grounded.
At Iowa, students enroll at computer terminals. Committee members also visited the University of Illinois where scheduled schedules are processed all in one batch.
Mann said the committee would work this week to decide which system was best. Chancellor Gene A. Budgis has said that whatever the committee recom-
mend, it should have to early enrolment implemented in fall 1982 for the spring semester.
ALTHOUGH MOST committee reports for the University Senate executive committee are due next week, committeetees are completing their work now.
Joel Gold, chairman of the committee, said the committee met twice a week for three weeks in October and November to churn out a new policy.
The University may declare financial exigency when funding levels drop so low that faculty members, including those with tenure, must be dismissed.
Ernest Angino, SenEx chairman,
said he hoped to have a report from
the financial exigency committee so
he could explain the report in the
report at its meeting on Thursday.
The committee has been working to update guidelines for the University to ensure the health of our students.
Another SenEx report will be coming from the sexual harassment committee. That report is due by Jan. 1, but Shirley hurley, chairman, said her committee was working to get the report in as soon as possible.
DEANELL TACHA, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and her committee have completed their report on the progress of improvement of undergraduate education.
That report should be released sometime this week.
The committee has talked to experts and studied other policies and is making recommendations for a KU policy on sexual harassment.
Cobb said the reports were coming in now because of the time the committees were appointed.
'Library' lends plants for studv. cures
By SUSAN COOKSEY Staff Reporter
One of the largest "library of plants" in the Midwest, the Kusanbari, lends many of its 300,000 specimens of dried plants to everyone from students in western Kansas to physicians at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The herbarium on West Campus is filled with plant specimens from the Great Plains and contains all of the information on those specimens.
Ralph Brooks, assistant director of the herbarium, said last week that he and Ronald McGregor, herbarium director, received many calls from hospitals when children swallow parts of unidentified plants. The hospital has given the plant identified so an antidote to be given to the child as soon as possible.
"Just the other day Ron got a call from a hospital in a small town in Kansas and had to drive down to take the plant to identify it," Brooks said.
"We've even bad calls from people who want to know how to take care of
their house plants," Brooks said. "But we don't handle that area, so I refer them to someone who does."
Brooks said that the herbarium was useful because the average person couldn't begin to know the name of every plant in the Great Plains. He said that staff members of the herbarium had done the basic research necessary to provide people with detailed information about every plant found in Kansas.
He estimated that 10,000 of the herbarium's specimens were lent out now to researchers and universities.
Some of the specimens date back as far as the mid-1800s. Many endangered plants found only in Kansas are also included in the collection.
BROOKS and McGregor gather 3,000 to 5,000 new specimens for the herbarium each summer. They go to fields all over Kansas collecting specimens and then spend each winter doing paperwork on the research.
When new specimens are collected, information is recorded relating to the time and place the plant was found, how
"We learn an awful lot by really being in touch with what is out there," said Brooks.
common it is and whether it seems to be decreasing in number.
The details of the herbarium's origin are obscure, but it is believed to have been organized around 1905, when it already collected were compiled.
Several KU professors added 341 specimens to the herbarium in 1911 when C. E. McClung, director of the State生物调查, and Frank Agrellis, a biology assistant at Kansas State Normal School in Emporia, were hired to plant-collecting expedition to northwestern Kansas.
The herbarium now contains about 400 specimens resulting from the work of Arelulus and his associates.
THE HERBARIUM requires constant maintenance because it contains so many specimens. Because many of them are small and delicate, the herbarium's staff must always check to make sure that each specimen is securely fastened on to its paper; that there are no infestations of insects in the plant; that all parts of the various specimens are kept up-to-date.
"Most universities have some sort of herbarium," said Brooks. "But ours is one of the largest and most active in the country."
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Sometimes between Wednesday and Friday, burglaries broke into a KU student's apartment at 103 Camden Manor and stole $9,975 worth of camera equipment, jewelry and bonds, Lawrence police said yesterday.
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