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Friday, December 8, 1978
University Dally Kansan
Daniels
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the cup. He wiped his chin with a Holiday Ink towel.
"It don't fit us."
INSTEAD, WHAT does fit his group's image is the kind of country-bluegrass-rock 'n' roll mixture with which it tours across the country at least 250 days a year. Daniel's performance last night was his second in Charleston, where the performance was in Charleston III, on Wednesday.
Daniels and his musicians amply demonstrated that mixture of music last night before an appreciative crowd of about 2,000 in Hoch Auditorium.
They played several tunes from their new album, including "Rainbow Ride," a combination of a soft ballad and several rapid changes of rhythm. The audience listened attentively and broke into applause several times.
Another new song, "You Can't Beat the Damned Old Man," was more in a row with "voyeur" corn.
DANIELS ALSO had his fans swinging in the ashes with many of his old hits. The first few notes of several songs were greeted by a chorus of bouncing drums, clapping and waving of straw cowboy hats.
As Daniels had said earlier in the afternoon, concerts are what have built a musical fortress.
"That's our stock in trade, playing concerts," he said.
. .
He calmly pulled out a bone-handed knife and started cleaning his nails with the blade. The third finger of his right hand was missing one joint.
Even though his band is gaining in popularity and has played benefits for some political functions, including Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign, he said he didn't like to cash in on his fame just to win a vote for somebody.
"I'M GONNA sound like a hypocrite if I don't explain myself," he said. The knife blade screeched across his nail. "I done it from the standpoint of a private citizen. That's my contribution to their campaign, that's what I'm going on, the sameabout anybody."
Daniels might not get on soapboxes for people, but he is certainly a man of strong opinions. Any suggestion that he or his band would be willing to play music for musicians gets a quick, decisive answer.
"I don't like stars at all," he said, nodding his wisdom-haired head. "No sir."
One visitor asked him whether he thought "star" were a different breed of people. He laughed. The belly under his tightly stretched T-shirt shifted.
"I don't know, I never been one, darlin'."
Weather lore forecasts for entertainment only
If you want to know how harsh this winter will be, don't look at gaggles of geese
Such lore is for entertainment only and is, not the stuff that forecasts are made of, says Larry Cosgrove, director of the University of Kansas Weather Service.
"The joke about that is wooly bears are often uniformly black and thick," he said.
The sayings about animals' behavior before approaching weather changes may have some validity, but natural instinct works only in short-range forecasting.
"Ninety percent of all folklore about weather can be traced to Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson."
Some of the weather lore is based on physical ailments such as grandma's arthritis, he said, but the majority of it is based on changes in plants or animals. Woody bear caterpillars are a favorite forecasting tool.
According to entries in a folkcore archive in the KU anthropology department, wooly bear caterpillars with black, thick hair are omens of a long, cold winter.
"instinct can only tell them how to protect themselves on a continuing basis," Coryn says.
Such instincts don't usually extend beyond five days.
Some weather forecasters rely on weather folklore for their long-range predictions. The oldest publication using these methods is the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Since 1792, the almanac claims, it has been predicting weather all over the United States. Its forecasts appear in a condensed format for each day of the month is carefully noted.
Cogrove said such sayings are just carry-
overs from the past.
"A lot of it just doesn't make any sense," he said. "People just don't use it to explain things."
The almanac states that it uses reliable methods to forecast, including "solar activity, the orientation of the earth and its moon," and "the amount of dust and countless other natural phenomena."
"It's not legit," Cosgrove said, "It's totally false."
He said results from a test in California showed that the Farmer's Almanac had an accuracy rate of 37 percent. The National Weather Service had 68 percent accuracy.
"It's harmless, I don't think people take it seriously," he said.
Scholarship to begin soon
A memorial fund has been established with the Kansas University Endowment Association in honor of Richard Kelton.
Kleton was KA ulnumers who died of a heart attack in Colorado while filming a segment of the television series "Centennial."
The fund will be used to assist student actors who seek careers in professional theatre, according to Ronald Willis, director of the University Theatre.
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Wichita branch—to fund four psychiatric residencies at a cost of $64,944—survived Bibb's cuts. The branch is seeking funds for improved medical instruction programs.
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Budget . . .
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A request to fund 17 additional medical residency positions at the Med Center was held to two positions. A $135,000 request to a private faculty position was reddited also.
$345,837 from utilities and $266,870 from the physical plant budget.
A plan by Med Center offices to improve rural health care in Kansas was cut short by a funding failure.
ALSO TRIMMED from KU's proposed budget was a request for a 6.5 percent faculty salary increase and an 8 percent salary increase for Med Center residents. Bibb also rejected a request for a 9.5 percent increase in student wages, and instead suggested a 5 percent increase for all salary increases requested.
$129,017 request to establish three area health education centers.
In order to cut down the amount of money the Med Center would need from the state in fiscal 1880, Nitcher said, Bib recommended that the Med Center spend $799,820 more of the revenue generated from the state over the past decade to carry that amount over to fiscal 1881.
THE SLASHING of the proposed funding of 173 additional nursing positions at the Med Center did not seem to ruffle David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for administration, who had not seen a copy of the revised budget since Bibb's cuts.
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Waxman said that as the move to the new hospital was made, rooms would be opened
Research finds safer diet pill
Researchers have found an appetite suppressing drug that resembles amphetamines but does not have the potential for abuse or the stimulating effect of amphen
The drug, fentramine, or Pondimin, has a chemical structure similar to that of amphotetmes. But it does not cause wakefulness or hyperactivity, Richard Tessel, assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said.
This is an advantage to deters since they tend to break their diets in the evening, he saws.
Dieters find that Pondimin, unlike amphetines, is more of a relaxant than a
stulman, Tessel said. It can be taken
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dairy awake.
The only drawbacks to Pondimin are that it should not be taken by people with a history of depression, or by some people with high blood pressure, he said. The user might also build up a tolerance to it, he added.
Tessel called Pondimin "the best available drum for reducing weight.
"It doesn't seem to have the abuse liability of amphiphetms," he said.
He said he would not recruit it except and a next-to-the-last resort in weight training.
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a section at a time so those 173 nurses would not be needed immediately.
The Wichita branch of the medical school had $846,328 cut from its budget request.
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