University, Daily Kansan / Friday, October 6, 1989
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KU center could lose $5.2 million financing
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
Congressional financing for a new KU research facility may be in trouble in a conference committee, a senate staff member said yesterday.
A U.S. Senate-House conference committee had not cut the $5.2 million for a KU bioscience center yesterday morning when it began its last day of work on the fiscal year 1990 appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.
However, the conferences had to cut an additional $200 million from the bill yesterday, said Kathy Ormiston, legislative assistant for Senate
Minority Leader Bob Dole.
"When they start looking at $200 million more, pet projects like this are likely to get cut." Ormiston said.
The proposed bioscience center would be an expansion of the Biguchi Bioscience Center on West Campus and would house research on drug design and genetics.
Dole staff members could not be reached last night to confirm whether the conferences had retained financing for the center. Ren Murray, chairman of the Haitian Slattery, could not confirm the outcome of the conference.
The Senate on Sept. 26 approved $5.2 million for the new KU building. The House version of the bill contained no financing for the project. At that time, staff for Kansas lawmakers said the lawmakers' intent was to insert the financing in the Senate and fight to maintain it in conference.
Ormismet confirmed that the conference committee had made one change in financing. The Senate bill had earmarked the financing specifically for the KU project. Ormismet later changed it to a more general appropriation for the National Institute of Health.
that means that if the conferences retain the financing for a bioscience research facility, the University of Kansas would have to obtain a grant from NIH to secure the financing.
By Liz Hueben
Kansan staff writer
Library to be dedicated tomorrow
By Liz Hueben
The Marian and Fred Anschutz Science Library will be formally dedicated in a public ceremony at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow on the library's main level.
Jim Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said the Anschutz family, for whom the library has been opened, was very grateful.
Philip Anschutz, who donated $6.5 million for the Marian and Fred Anschutz Endowed Library Fund, will speak on his family's behalf at the ceremony:
Norman Jeter, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents, will present the $13.9 million library to Chancellor Gene A. Budig. Tours of the library, just south of Hoch Auditorium, will follow the dedication, according to a University Relations press release.
Many said other speakers Saturday would include Jim Ranz, dean of libraries; Clyde Toland, Iola resident and president of the Friends of the Library; Robert Schwen, professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
Ranz said the library would not open for approximately one month but that the shelving and most of the
furniture would be in place at Saturday's ceremony.
Scally said the only things that would not be complete at the ceremony would be the stocking of the books and the wiring of the telephone system.
Jim Modig, director of facilities planning, said the contractor, R.D. Andersen Construction, Inc., of Topeka, was putting finishing touches on the library's interior this week.
Rans said the library personnel would begin to move the books into the new building sometime next week.
He said all the books that would be moved into the new library were already in the libraries' collections but that the current science library was not big enough to house all the science materials.
Ranz said all of the science collections would be moved into the new building. The library also will house maps, plans and journals, he said.
Ray Ammar, chairman of physics and astronomy, said that the current science library, on the sixth floor of Malot, was not big enough and that the Anschutz library's collections would be bigger.
"I think it's a good idea to have a large collection of scientific journals and books in one location," he said.
Student joins in rat race
Biologist studies behavior of rodents for dissertation
Traps are set to catch the voles.
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
Wendy Sera opened a small trap and gently poured its contents into a large plastic bucket.
she caretually sifted through the lumps of cotton and crimped oats and uncovered the object of her research, a small rodent called the prairie vole. In one fluid motion, she checked the vole's ear tag, glanced at the marked stake at the trap site, examined the animal's genitalia, and checked a small hand-held scale. Then she put the vole on the ground, and as it disappeared, she called out her findings.
-K1506, at K-15, B-3, male scrotal, 40 grams," she yelled to a student assistant who recorded the data.
Although it may sound like biological bingo, Sera, Shereville, Ind., graduate student, had just recorded the latest data for her dissertation.
"A lot of people do descriptive work," he said. "The key to our success is the manipulation of the experimental population."
Sera is one of three students studying with Michael Gaines, director of undergraduate biology, on different aspects of vole behavior. Gaines, who has been involved in vole field studies since 1970, said the experiments differed from other related research.
the student's laboratory is a small area at the John H. Nelson Environmental Study Area, located on University-owned property eight miles north of Lawrence. Sera works in 12 new enclosures that measure 30 meters square. Within each enclosure are 16 traps that are baited and set on Tuesday afternoons, she said.
Sera placed 82 ear-tagged voles, 41 of each sex, in the enclosures in
September, she said. All of the males were unrelated, as were 21 of the females. The other 20 females came from a related group of sisters, Sera said.
Sera, and a group who includes Gaines, the other two students doing research and either paid or volunteer student assistants, check the traps twice daily on Wednesday and Thursday and once on Friday, she said. When a vole is trapped, the traps are cleaned, beated and re-set. On Fridays, all of the traps are sprung so that none of the animals would be trapped until the following Tuesday, Sera said.
The trapped voles are examined for several reasons. Sera is attempting to find out if related voles recognize each other, associate with each other and benefit from each other. She said the 20 kin were placed in six of the 12 enclosures, and so she studied if they stayed in the same enclosures or moved to the other six areas.
Another area of her research is the mating activity of the animals.
"We look at the vagina and nipples to check for reproductive activity," Sera said. "A perforated vagina would show that it recently mated."
Wendy Sera gets ready to weigh another prairie vole.
She said she also checked the male reproductive area to see if it was visible, which also is a sign of recent mating.
"The animals are collected at the end of the second reproductive cycle," Sera said. "They are postpartum breeders. They mate the day they give birth so there are high fluctuations in the population."
Gaines said that the students adhered to federal guidelines in handling the animals, and that all field studies were approved by the Institute of Animal Care and Use Committee.
She said the voles would be collected in mid-November and killed humanely at the biology laboratory in Haworth Hall. Sera said she would dissect the uteri of the females and count the embryos and placental scars to learn the
reproduction of each female.
"We try to help one another," he said. "It's labor intensive. You have to be communally oriented."
Gaines said he was proud of his student's work and their spirit of cooperation.
Festivities begin for homecoming weekend at KU
By Angela Baughman Kansan staff writer
Homecoming Day festivities will kick off with an all-day symposium starting at 8 a.m. today and will continue through tomorrow evening.
The symposium, "Educating African-Americans for the 21st Century," will be held at The Leadership Development and Research and is at the Kansas Union.
A University Governance symposium, "Academic Excellence in a Multi-Cultural University," will sponsor concurrent sessions today that will continue tomorrow. Today's sessions will be at 3:30 p.m. in 119 Strong Hall and at 3:45 p.m. in 4020 Wescoe Hall. They will resume at 8:45 a.m. tomorrow at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
AfoPop, the homecoming dance concert featuring bands from Guinea and Zimbabwe, will be from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight in the Union ballroom. Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert Series, said the groups played contemporary African music that people would want to dance to.
AfoPop is being presented by the KU Concert Series in collaboration with Student Union Activities and the KU Homecoming Committee. Tickets are available at the Murphy Hall and SUA box offices and at the door. Admission is $5.
The class of 1964's 25th reunion is scheduled to begin tonight with a cocktail party and a dinner featuring KU alumni Emily Taylor at the Adams Alumni Center. Donna Wheeler, associate director of services for the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said about 80 people were expected to attend.
Tomorrow's events are scheduled to begin with the homecoming parade at 9 a.m. The parade, will feature the Marching Jayhawks, the Alumni band, the Heartbreakers, the KU Spirit Squad and floats, will travel from Seventh and Massachusetts streets to South Park.
Jill Maycumber, homecoming chairman for Alpha Delta Pi, said her house was entering a float in the parade with Kappa Sigma fraternity.
"We've been working on our float
said. We're really excited about it."
Other events scheduled for tomorrow include the dedication of the Marian and Fred Anschutz Science Library at 9:30 a.m., a School of education open house from 10 a.m. to noon at Bailey Hall and a School of business open house from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Summerfield Hall. Editor's Day activities are scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Union.
The Alumni Association and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will sponsor three seminars in the Union tomorrow that are open to the public. Neuer said that participants would meet for coffee, juice and rolls at 9 a.m. in the English Room and that the seminars would begin at 9:45 a.m.
The "Abraham Lincoln" seminar, with Philip Paludan, professor of history, will be in the Pine Room. The "Writings of Willa Cater" seminar, with Janet Sharistanian, professor of English and women's studies, will be in the English Room, and the "Literature of Baseball" seminar, with James Carothers, professor of English, will be in the Walnut Room.
The Alumni Association's Picnic Under-the-Tent, which will feature Octoberfest-style food, the Junkyard Jazz Band, and KU's Pep Band and Spirit Squad, will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the tennis stadium southeast of Memorial Stadium.
Neuner said more the 400 tickets had been sold for the picnic, and a limited number would be available at the door. Admission is $.50 for adults and $.50 for children.
Kick off for the KU-Jawa State football game will be at 1:10 p.m. The Herald Trumpets will join the Marching Jayhawks for pre-game and halftime performances. Haltime ceremonies will include the presentation of the Sudler Intercollegiate Marching-Band Trophy to the Marching Jayhawks, which is given annually by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.
A banquet to honor current and former members of the Marching Jayhawks band and staff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the Ballroom. The banquet is open to the public. Tickets, which are $15, are available at the KU band office at 214 Murphy Hall.
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