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Mite Study Causes Sensation; Report to Be Made in August
By Ramona Rush
The leader of a mass o' mites guided his multitude up a path into the left ear of a moth and promptly caused a sensational report for the 11th International Congress of Entomology in Vienna this August.
DR. BEER went on to say that he didn't believe it until substantial evidence was presented to confirm the report.
To continue with the study report on the dyna-mite discovery, a researcher in biology in New York, Dr. Asher E. Treat, was interested in all types of animal behavior. He decided to investigate a moth's auditory system. For you see, the ears of moths function in a very vital part of their lives — they listen for the call of their mate at the time when a young moth's fancy suddenly turns from clothes closet to the responsibility of parenthood.
The facts in this "mitey" discovery were reported to us by KU's own mite specialist. Robert E. Beer, professor in the entomology department. Dr. Beer (better known as Suds to his more personal friends) had this to say about the profound discovery, "I didn't believe it!"
Our afore-mentioned researcher, Dr. Treat, strapped a muttering moth onto the operating table and proceeded to examine its inner ear (as opposed to outer, of which there is none on the moth). Hm-mm-m, a bit of ravelings, wax, a clothes hanger . . . the researcher continued his ear
probing. What! A mass o' moving mites appeared in the ear. The researcher looked in the moth's other ear — nothing.
HE GRABBED the muttering moth from the table and strapped another in his place. Masses o' mites were found in the second moth's good right ear, but none were found in the left. Several hundred moths later, the researcher had come upon a "mitety" finding — the mites had invaded only one ear of each moth.
With the look of a man about to write the sequel to the "Star Spangled Banner," the scientist strapped a rested, non-infested moth onto his worn operating table. Then he placed a mite on the body of the moth and watched its every move.
Why? Why just one ear? This was the researcher's problem.
The mite, using the KU students' ability to sidestep the issue, headed to the mid-dorsal line on the moth's body, where the vestiture (hairs, foliage) wasn't so thick. Here is where the phrase "taking the easy way out" originated. The mite headed along this path of least resistance to the ear region, not realizing that the eyes and the ears of the world were upon him.
SENSING THAT it had now to turn either right or left — to go to the moth's ear, the mite, standing on his left foot, decided to go right. Thus the first mite reached his destination — the right ear of the moth.
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The researcher then released the second mite on the battered body of the moth. The second experimental mite followed his leader as if he were the descendent of a bloodhound mite, directly into the right ear.
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The third mite did as the second, the fourth as the third, the fifth as the fourth, until a mass o' mites infested the right ear of the moth.
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Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1960
Official Bulletin
ID card exchange for tickets to Satur day's doubleheader basketball game mus be made by Thursday at 5 p.m. at Aller Field, House.
Quill Club Creative Writing Contest
Manuscripts: prose or poetry, due Dec. 16 at 205 Fraser. Prizes: cash and publication.
Budget-priced tours of Europe are available for next summer by writing Europe Summer Tours, 255 Sequoia, Box N., Pasadena, Calif.
TODAY
Pi Lambda Theta. 7:30 p.m., Kansas Union, Christmas Party.
Pilosophy Club. 7:30 p.m. Big B Room, Kansas Union. Dr. Lawrence Hackstaff, from University of Missouri, "Rationality & Revelation."
Naval Reserve Research Co. 7:30 p.m.
104 Military Science Bldg. Discussion of
the War in Iraq and Operation Ima-
native Reserve Officers. Capt. P.
Smith, NSR-R. Filum."Bleak Angels."
Teacher's Appointment Bureau. M. J Whitson & staff from Topeka Public Schools will interview for elementary education candidates. Sign for interview
Episcopal Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Catholic Daily Mass, 6:30 a.m. St.
John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
TOMORROW
Episcopal Morning Prayer and Holy
Maryfast follows. 6:45 a.m.
Canterbury House.
Der Deutsche Verein besucht in diese.
Woche an Mittwoch, den 14. Dezember
das Krippenspiel im Fraser-Theater und trifft sich ans schlossend bel Punsch und Weihnachts-gebaek am Wilcox-Museum (Fraser Hall).
Wie immer essen wir um 6 uhr gemeinsam in der Mensa zu Abend. Dabei sprechen wir natürlicher nur deutsch.
Sigma Gamma Epsilon . 4 p.m. . 426 Lindley. H. A. Ireland will speak on "North Africa." The public is invited.
German Department Christmas Play. 8 p.m., Fraser Theater.
Jay Janes. 5 p.m., 306 Kansas Union.
SUA Film Series. 7:30 p.m., Forum Room, Kansas Union. Four Essanay Comedies with Charlie Chaplin.
KU SKI Club, 7 p.m., Forum Room,
Kansas Union.
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