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KU Studies Habits of Fleas
Flea research is one of the many studies being made on the KU Natural History Reservation.
The wooded 590-acre plot provides ideal natural conditions where native plants and animals can be observed and studied in their associations under relatively undisturbed conditions.
Fleas Studied
The reservation, located $61\frac{1}{2}$ miles north-northeast of Lawrence, contains two reservation buildings and the home of H. S. Fitch, professor of geology and superintendent of the reservation.
Alwan El-Wailly, graduate student from Kufa, Iraq, has used the reservation while gathering data for his master's thesis, which he hopes to complete before June.
His thesis title will be "Fleas in Douglas County."
"When I tell people the subject of my thesis they often laugh and say, 'Oh, fleas.'"
El-Wailly explained that one of the biggest headaches he meets in collecting his samples is that he cannot kill the animals on the reservation because it is illegal.
El-Wailly said his flea research is important because in some parts of the world fleas are important carriers of disease, including the bubonic plague.
He also said that when his study is completed he will know the seasonal distribution of Douglas county fleas.
1.500 Fleas
El-Wailly has identified and mounted about 1,500 flea specimens. Approximately half of these he has found on the KU reservation. He has found 13 species of fleas from numerous animals in Douglas county.
Several hundred other KU students visit the Reservation each year, mostly in classes, Prof. Fitch said in a UDK interview.
"The elementary biology class is the largest class that comes here. I think that the department of entomology does the most work here. Classes come here nearly every day during April and May."
Classes Visit
"Other classes and groups that visit the Reservation, include biology classes from Washburn University in Topeka, the Science Field Club from Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, the Topeka Audubon Society, high school and grammar school groups, Boy Scouts, and interested individuals of the general public. Research workers from other parts of the country come too," Prof. Fitch said.
"Charles Robinson, the first governor of Kansas, acquired the land and in his will left it to the university. Some persons still call the plot the Robinson Farm.
The university acquired the land for the reservation in 1910, according to the Reservation superintendent. Prof. Fitch said:
"In 1948 the zoology department became interested in the land and arranged with Dean Malott and other authorities to make it a natural history reservation."
tract in Jefferson county which adjoins the reservation on the north. The tract was acquired in 1956 with funds made available by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., according to Prof. Fitch.
The University owns a 160-acre
Stu Hits Discriminatory Trends in Employment
He said the Rockefeller Farm, in general, is used in the same ways as the reservation.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — (UPI)— Age and race barriers to equal job opportunity "sap the strength" of the United States and other nations, Sen. Stuart Symington said last night as he closed out his speech-making tour of Michigan.
The Missouri Democrat who is seeking the Presidential nomination called for an end to discrimination in education as well as employment when he spoke at Michigan's Third Congressional District Democratic dinner here.
The White House hopeful also called for an end to "racial discrimination in federal employment. Any project on which the citizen's tax money is expended cannot be a ve hicle for perpetuating bias."
"However, the Rockefeller Farm is not maintained strictly as a natural area, but is subject to some manipulation in experiments designed to re-establish and maintain tall-grass prairie," he said.
Symington called for equal opportunities for older citizens in employment through the establishment of a federal-state program for vocational training and retraining. He said such a program should be made available to older workers, as well as people displaced by automation.
Regarding discrimination in education, Syington spoke of the lack of opportunity for needy students to get an education. "The criteria for a college education should be brains, not money," he said.
"End Job Discrimination"
Symington also commented on the Pennsylvania primary, in which Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon outpolled all Democrats, and the President's recent announcement about the Summit meeting.
"Nixon's showing in the Pennsylvania primary is not an indication of the relative strength of the Republican and Democratic parties," he contended. He said the only "real surprise" was the size of Nixon's vote, but added he didn't think it meant anything.
He said he "couldn't criticize" President Eisenhower's standby arrangement for Nixon to fill in next month if the President is called back to Washington to handle domestic affairs.
"To criticize," Symington said, would be to question the President's integrity."
"Ike Needs Help"
He said he didn't question the theory behind the designation, that Nixon could be a help at the Summit meeting, because "Ike needs all the help he can get."
Earlier in the day Symington called the arrangement a good idea—if was not a "political gesture" on the President's part.
But he said it would be "unfortunate" and a "problem for the President's conscience if it was just a political gesture."
Chemistry Banquet, Science Talk Tonight
"What is science up to" will be the speech topic of William Kieffer, professor of chemistry at Wooster College, Wooster, Ohio, at the fourth annual awards banquet of the KU chemistry department.
The banquet will be at 6:15 p.m. today in Room 306, Kansas Union. Prizes will be awarded to outstanding undergraduates. Graduate fellowships for next year will be announced.
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Coy Wins Third in Engineering Contest
Dale E. Coy, Kansas City, Mo., junior, has won the $25 third prize in the annual competition of the Southwestern Institute of Radio Engineers.
Before winning the prize at Houston, Texas, Coy had won the group competition at KU and the $75 first prize in a Kansas City engineering contest.
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