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Unique Mice Have 40 Years of Ancestors
Carefully imprisoned in the genetics laboratory behind Snow Hall, their chief task in life is teaching mammalian genetics to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
KU's 5.000 inbred, multicolored mice are unique—the bluebloods of the mouse world. The parents of some can be traced back 30 or 40 years.
5. 000 MICE TEACH—Their subject is genetics, and they teach in Snow Hall's laboratories. James W. Bee, instructor of zoology, examines two of the "teachers."
For instance, they are better teachers in advanced genetics than fruit flies. Fruit flies, being insects and not so complicated as mammals, produce a generation every ten days. Mice produce four generations a year.
John Weir, associate professor of zoology, explained:
"In some ways the less rapid production of generations is desirable because more time is available for analyzing and developing the complex information gained from experimentation."
Generations are not to be confused with litters. One pair of mice can produce a litter, 10 or more mouselings, every three weeks.
Sex-ratio—the factors that control the number of males in a litter as compared to the number of females.
Among other things, KU's experimental rodents are presently being studied for:
properties of the blood—the chemical and cellular properties as related to the sex-ratio problem and disease resistance.
Hormones—the .. little ..chemical messengers that regulate so many bodily activities (reproduction, sex life, growth, etc.)
Official Bulletin
Pettitions for freshmen and foreign student elections should be returned to the Dean of Students' office by 5:00 p.m. on Oct. 16. Any pettitions not in by will be due in the ASC office by 12:00 noon, Oct. 17. This is the deadline.
Items for the Official Bulletin must be brought to the public relations office. 222 Strong, before 9:30 a.m. on the day of publication. You don't bring Bulletin material. Do the Daily Kansan. Notices should include name, place, date, and time of function.
Freshmen Primary Election, Oct. 27 and 28, 8:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., Strong Hall,unas for freshman class officers and freshman women's dormitory ASC representatives.
Ph.D. French Reading Exam, Saturday,
9-11 a.m., 11 Fraser.
TODAY
German Club meets in 402 Fraser at 5:00 Thursday. A "Deutschlandspiele" will be shown, first with English, then French, and second with freshments will be served. Foreknowledge is necessary.
ASTE, 7:00 p.m., 300 Fowler. Talk by Larry Powell. field engineer for Metallizing Engineering Company of Chicago. He will give a talk and demonstrations on "Metalizing and Thermo-Spraying of Metals and Ceramics."
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Medical Dames, 8 p.m. at the KU Art Museum.
Vox Populi, 7:30 p.m., Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
"A telescoping of mammalian life in a short period of time is possible when mice are carefully studied from conception until death," Prof Weir said.
Besides being invaluable, the mice are expensive to keep. Feed alone costs several thousand dollars a year.
Radio Programs
KUOK
4:00 Music in the Afternoon
6:00 News
6:05 Jayhawk Jump Time
7:00 News
7:05 Musical Pathways
7:30 Spotlight on Sports
8:00 News
8:05 Album Time
8:45 Melody Time
9:00 News
9:05 Music From Beyond the Hea-
veens
10:00 News
10:05 The Horton Kurtis Show
11:55 News
KANU
4:30 Jazz Cocktail
5:00 Twilight Concert: "Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major" by Brahms.
7:00 Concert Hall
7:30 Contemporary Concert: "No-nette" by Villa-Lobos.
7:55 News
8:00 University of the Air: Security in a Nuclear Age.
9:00 Everybody's Classics
9:55 News
10:00 A Little Night Music: "Sinfonia in G Major" by Johann Friedrich Peter.
11:00 Sign off.
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Wool Flannels—Black Olive 12.95
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