THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
79th Year, No. 33
The University of Kansas-Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 31, 1968
KU campus grows steadily
The 930 acres of the University of Kansas campus at Lawrence have seen much growth since the university first opened in September 1866.
Right now, two new buildings are going up, with another one in the blueprint stage and numerous additions to present structures and future building programs being planned.
Kenneth Spencer Research Library will be dedicated on Nov. 15. This building, located on Memorial Drive directly behind Strong Hall, will house 700,000 volumes, including some rare special collections.
It was largely financed by a $2,125,000 gift from Mrs. Kenneth A.
Spencer of Kansas City through the Spencer Foundation. This library will be open to all students.
The second structure nearing completion is the Experimental Biology and Human Development building, located on Sunnyside Avenue just east of Summerfield Hall. Mid-winter occupancy is the goal for this $3 million building.
The Experimental Biology and Human Development building has eight floors. On the east is a two-story wing for the center for research on mental retardation and other child research activities.
Back to the blueprint stage is the Humanities building which was to have been started this fall.
"The construction of this building will probably be delayed at least six months because of approximately a $1.2 million shortage," W. Clarke Wescoe, chancellor of KU, said.
A three-story addition to the northwest corner of the Kansas Union is presently under construction. The $1 million project will feature a 640-seat, sloped-floor auditorium to be used for student meetings, films and musical programs.
A $500,000 basic research laboratory in pharmaceutical chemistry will be built by the ALZA Corporation of Palo Alto, Calif. It will be constructed west of Iowa Street, about at 20th Street, on land leased from the Endowment Association.
Takeru Higuchi, Regents' professor of pharmacy and chemistry at KU, will be the director of the ALZA Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
"The laboratory will perform fundamental research on basic problems
related to drug transport, release and absorption during drug therapy," Higuchi said.
In the planning stage is a $2.3 million space technology building to be constructed west of Iowa Street. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration made $1.8 million available for this.
The building will provide space for a staff of 25 professional people.
Also, a proposed $500,000 addition to Watkins Memorial Hospital is being planned. The Kansas legislature will appropriate one-half of the cost of this construction.
In the future a two-story satellite union, to be built northwest of Allen Field House, will be constructed to service KU's growing student body.
--which occurs when making identifications from bones.
Nigerian war of starvation
By United Press International
In Nigeria Col. Benjamin Adekunle, describes as "humanitarian rubbish" international attempts to bring food relief to starving Biafrans.
In Lagon, Nigerian capital, the Morning Post speaks scornfully of the "romanticism of the so-called international relief givers."
And in Geneva, the International Committee of the Red Cross estimates that up to 10.000 Biafrans are starving to death each day.
It means that for each month the Nigerian civil war is prolonged more than a quarter million people will die in conflict now in its 16th month.
Biafran leader Lt. Col. Ojukwu has rejected a land route for relief supplies through federal-controlled territory on grounds the food might be poisoned enroute or that it might open the way to surprise federal attack.
Instead he relies on inadequate and irregular air-borne relief brought in by night.
And so the war goes on, to the credit of no one.
Professor helps nation's police in identifying corpses, skeletons
Most KU students are familiar with William Bass because of his reputation as an interesting and humorous lecturer. But, to police departments over the United States, Bass is a valuable aid in identifying bodies.
Bass, professor of anthropology, is one of the few men in the United States who works with law enforcement officers in identifying corpses from skeletal materials.
"Although most physical anthropologists are qualified for this type of work, many aren't interested because at times it is a gruesome job," said Bass.
Bass worked on his first case in 1954, and since that time has aided numerous police departments in making identification from skeletal material. He estimates that he averages three such cases a month.
Bass outlined the usual process
"Someone such as a hunter, gardener or just someone walking along a roadside will find a skeleton or parts of it," said Bass. "Very seldom do the police make the initial discovery."
"The person finding the material will call the police and they will do what they can to identify the body. If skeletal material is found, the police run into a problem because medical doctors aren't normally trained to know a great deal about the exposed skeleton.
"Since the police have to know the identity of the body, the only person they can go to when skeletal material is found is a physical anthropologist." Bass said.
The police want to know the age, race, sex, stature of the individual, as well as the cause of death, the
length of time since death, and whether the person was right-or left-handed, explained Bass.
"We find out as much as we can about the individual and then send a report to the authorities explaining how we arrived at our conclusions." Bass said.
Bass explained why identification can be made from bones.
Certain bone changes occur with age. Other variations such as a long pubis bone in women and a protruding maxilla (bone above upper lip) in the Negroid race, make race and sex identification possible, said Bass.
Extensive X-rays, measurement of the skeletal material, photographs of the bones, and microscopic examinations are some of the techniques used in analyzing the material, said Bass.
Ellis R. Kerley, associate professor of physical anthropology at KU, has developed a method by which the age of an individual can be determined.
SKULL WORK
William Bass, professor of anthropology uses a Schwartz Craniostat to make drawings of a 28-to-32-year old woman's skull found recently in Leavenworth county. Bass concluded that the woman died of a skull fracture and had been dead from one to three months when found.
"Using Kerley's method, a section of bone is placed under a microscope and the number of osteones (structures from which bone is made) are counted. From this count we can calculate an individual's age," said Bass.
Bass said that he became interested in human skeletons and legal medical work while doing his doctoral work.
"I did my doctoral work with Wilton M. Krogman who is internationally known because of his work with the human skeleton and legal medicine. Krogman generated my interest and after I came to KU, I found that there weren't any qualified area persons in the field, so I took it up." said Bass.
"Everyone ought to use his education to help society," Bass said. "Since anthropology is a non-essential field, I feel that I can best aid society by using my knowledge to help law enforcement agencies."
NROTC requisites changed
The Navy Department has changed the curriculum for all Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) units in colleges around the country. The change, reduces the number of professional Navy courses a Midshipman must take and increases the number of University taught electives.
Maj. Jon A. Steube, KU assistant professor of Naval science and public information officer, explained the changes were implemented because many colleges will not accept credits given in Naval Science courses.
Maj. Steube said NROTC now requires only 18 professional Naval courses instead of the 24 required last year. In many cases, he said, universities offer subjects the Navy requires, so it is possible for a student to get both Navy and university credit for one course.