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University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 29, 1989
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Bicentennial Salute
Below, Army ROTC cadets take part in the ceremony salute in formation.
Retired Brig. Gen. James K.
Terry of Lawrence, left, administers the oath of office to the
Army Reserve Officers Training Corpa yesterday on the lawn at Allen Field House. The cadet corps, joined by graduate student officers and ROTC cadre, reaffirmed their oaths in honor of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Army yesterday. Terry served 31 years, including combat duty in World War II and Korea. His awards include the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.
Plan to count students, soldiers creates legislative controversy
Kansan staff writer
By Derek Schmidt
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA $ ^{1}$ - The method of adjusting federal census data proposed by the Kansas secretary of state would leave university towns underrepresented in the Legislature, officials said yesterday.
The university town officials said that a new Kansas law allowing students and military personnel to choose where they wanted to be counted as residents for the purpose of redrawing legislative districts could cause university towns like Lawrence to lose influence in state affairs.
The fate of that law will be determined by several ongoing lawsuits. But city representatives, speaking at a public hearing in the Capitol, said that the methods proposed to implement that law would create more problems.
Bill Graves, secretary of state, proposed distributing a questionnaire to college students asking them whether they wanted to be counted as residents of their university towns or of their hometowns.
"I just want a person to tell me where they feel is home," Graves entices, "that is our goal, and to the extent that we can accomplish that, we're going to."
But representatives from university could short-change their communities.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said students should be
counted where they voted. He said that students now could vote in Lawrence, but were considered residents of other communities.
"Their votes could have the effect of canceling out the votes of all these permanent residents," Solbach said. "A farmer may find out that his vote has been canceled by a bunch of students who have been dumped into his district, but have not been counted."
For example, Solbach said, students influenced the 1988 election of State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who received almost 30,000 Most legislators win elections with 3,000 to 4,000 votes, he said.
"That should be an indication that her district was too large," Solbach said.
The Graves guidelines call for the survey to be administered to students in January 1980, probably during registration.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said guidelines for the proposed survey of students were too vague.
McKenzie said the survey instead should be administered in classes during April because in January some students would not be back from Christmas vacation, would be too busy to respond or would not go through registration, and therefore would not be counted.
it measured the same group of people.
The local officials also said that, under the Graves, guidelines, students who did not respond to the survey would be counted at the permanent home listed in their university records.
"A student record does not reflect the residency intent of a student." McKenzie said, and that circumvents the intent of the law.
Graves said he would evaluate the concerns of the local officials, but could not yet commit to changes in procedure.
Officials from Leavenworth, Junction City and Manhattan also objected to the Graves guidelines. All students must have a large student or military compilations.
Moreover, he said, the federal census will occur in April, and taking the survey then would guarantee that
Wilton B. Thomas, chairman of the Riley County board of commissioners, said his county, like Lawrence, would continue to fight to retain its representation. Riley County includes Kansas State University and Fort Riley.
"Our position is that people should be counted where they are," he said. "We think that this procedure adjusts what is essentially a correct census, making make it basically faulty."
The close alliance between traditional rivals Lawrence and Manhattan on this issue demonstrates the problem, he said.
"That kind of illustrates how faulty this procedure is," he said.
Anti-AIDS drug approved
Time restraints cause FDA to bypass thorough safety testing
By Cory S. Anderson Kansan staff writer
A new anti-AIDS drug will be available for treatment while it is still in the early stages of safety testing, the Food and Drug Administration announced yesterday.
The drug, dideoxyinosine, or ddI, is the first unapproved Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome drug to be released by the FDA for widespread use before it has been thoroughly tested.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the need for AIDS drugs had caused the FDA to bypass many of the usual procedures for approving new drugs.
"Treatment is needed before there is time to test the drugs," Yockey said. "So they are reducing some of previous rules because there is no time."
According to an FDA press release, the drug was released to be tested by the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. These tests will involve about 2,600 patients who are infected with AIDS or an AIDS-related complex.
The FDA also has granted Bristol-Myers permission to distribute ddl to AIDS patients who cannot take zidovudine, the only other AIDS treatment drug, because of its serious side effects. Bristol-Myers will not charge patients for the drug.
According to FDA officials, early test results have shown that most patients can tolerate ddl, but higher doses have caused pancreas damage and nerve damage to the feet.
"It's a desperate situation, and when you get into desperate situations, sometimes you have to use drugs that have severe side effects,"
said William Buck, head of gynecology at Watkins and member of the AIDS/STD Task Force.
"Some drugs are tested to the point where by the time they are available, there are other drugs to take their place," he said. "How much testing you do on a drug is kind of relative."
Buck said the amount of testing that was done on drugs in the United States was far more than what was done in many European countries.
Buck was not concerned that the drug was being released before it had been thoroughly tested.
"I would suspect that Bristol-Myers has a reasonable idea about the drug. They are not just releasing something they know nothing about." Buck said. "Anything that comes along that looks promising will obviously give hope to the people suffering from AIDS."
Enrollment figures show new trends
By a Kansan reporter
Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare, said the school was in a maintenance program.
The most dramatic changes in enrollment figures did not come as a surprise to the administrations of the National Welfare or the School of Journalism.
The School of Social Welfare's enrollment decreased 12.8 percent from Fall 1988 and the School of Health Services enrollment increased 15.9 percent.
"It is down a little more than last week. We planned it that way," she said.
Black said the school did not want an increase until it had the resources.
Both the graduate and undergraduate programs had grown, she said. During the 1970s, her bachelor's degree in social welfare was awarded since the early 1970s.
About two-thirds of the students in the program are graduate students.
The largest enrollment increase was 15.9 percent in the School of Journalism.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism,
said a review of the enrollment
trends in the school in recent years
led him to believe that there would be
a significant increase this academic
year.
Annette Stenner/KANSAN
"By our criteria this is a larger enrollment than we can serve in the way we would like," he said. "We are able to meet the needs of the students, but to do so requires a great investment in day-to-day monitoring of the enrollment and management of the school's resources."
Money may spur growth of Higuchi centers
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
The Higuchi Biosciences Centers need room. And they may finally be getting it.
The U.S. Senate approved an appropriations bill Tuesday night that included $5.2 million for KU's centers.
The money would pay for adding a new building to the north side of the centers at the McColum, Smissman, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry labs on West Campus, said Elas Michaelis, director of the Center for Biomedical Research at the Higuchi centers.
"That building would be a tremendous challenge," said Charles Deecke, executive director.
He said that many labs at Higuchi were operating in crowded conditions.
"Even if we didn't hire a single new person, we could probably fill a new building with the people we have now." Decedue said.
He said that all of the research labs associated with the activities in these centers, which include pharmaeuti-
"There's a limit to how many people we can shoehorn into a lab." Decode said. "The additional space is really, really needed."
Shirley Domer, director for resource development, said that three new centers were planned: the Center for Drug Design, Metabolism and Toxicology, the Center for Molecular Engineering and Immunology, and the Center for Neuroscience Research. One center is expected to open each year during the next three years.
The Center for Drug Design will be designing new drugs and studying the drugs' toxicology and pharmacology, she said.
Decedue said that when researchers created a new chemical that might be used as a drug, they must use it in a way that the drug is toxic or effective in the body.
Domer said the Center for Molecular Engineering would work toward the discovery of biotechnology drugs.
cal chemistry and biology, were full to capacity. If the new centers are approved, more people will be hired to do research.
Deceduce said this research would involve genetic engineering.
The center wants to add to the University's strength in pharmacy, Decedue said. The immunology part of the center will be designed to use the tremendous selectivity of natural human antibodies in analytical chemistry.
Michaelis said that the Center for Neuroscience Research would build upon the work done by the other centers.
"We hope to use the Neuroscience center as a focal point for technology developed in the other centers," he said. "We want to focus the technology in the Center for Bioanalytical Research to analyze chemicals in the brain, or to find new drugs that can act on anomalous states in the brain.
diagnostic tools and analysis.
"We also want to do basic research on conditions in the brain to find agents that block some agents of drug or alcohol abuse in the brain, or damage to the brain caused by genetic diseases."
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