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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Sept. 19, 1958
BUT DOCTOR, I ONLY HAD A COLD!-A blood sample is taken from this mouse for medical research in the genetics laboratory. The lab, now inside Memorial Stadium, will move into new quarters adjoining Snow Hall when building is completed next year.
For Squeamish Students-
Many Research Mice To Be Caged Here
Squeamish students may not like this, but by next year there will be several thousand mice living in one building.
mous mice do not resemble the wild, lonely house every person has seen. They are cleaner, mass fe1. living conditions.
"In medical research the mouse has become king because of organs of similar structure to humans."
The U. S. Public Health Service has provided thousands of dollars for medical research and money for construction of the building will come from an anonymous benefactor.
"Mice are much more expensive than fruit flies or bacteria usually used in genetics study." Prof. John Weir, director of the center, said, "but mice are adapted to research in medical science.
Prof. Weir expects the building completed in a year. It will be four stories high with a basement, and will be approximately 40 by 50 feet large. It will have a connecting corridor between the present natural science building and the addition.
About a dozen KU staff members started the inbreeding of mice a year ago in a temporary laboratory under Memorial Stadium.
It would take many years to develop seven generations of cattle and the new features of the breed that would evolve, Prof. Weir said, but with mice it takes less than two years to see what changes can be developed in mammals over seven generations.
Inbreeding Started Last Year
Seniors Plan Class Events For School Year
The two top floors will be filled with small cages each housing individual mice, plus room for research. The second floor will be occupied by classrooms and offices.
Automatic Cage Washer
Seniors will be able to buy an entirely new senior ring, attend the third performance of "The King and I" in a group on Senior Play Night, and watch the performance of KU's best intramural football players in a senior all-star game this fall.
"In order to attend the game and sit in the senior section, which is near the 50 yard line, seniors must attend the Senior Coffee and get a senior class I.D. card, which will admit them to the class section at the game," Patterson said.
On the main floor there will be an automatic cage washing machine, workshop for preparing shipping boxes, and an isolation room. The basement will house heating and air conditioning equipment,
Engineer Gets Trego Grant
One can visualize thousands of mice scampering out of the building if an earthquake opened all the cages, but fear not householders.
The pampered mice, most of them coming from the Bar Harbor, Me., laboratory, could not survive in the wild for long because of their cleanliness and dietary habits
The program presented at Class of '59 executive committee dinner and organizational meeting this week was what the senior class sponsor, Dick Wintermote, assistant secretary of the alumni association, termed "One of the most ambitious senior class programs I've ever seen undertaken."
Other new activities for Senior Day are a car parade of the Senior Calendar Queen candidates before the Senior Coffee and a class picnic before the Oklahoma game. The calendar queen will be announced to the class at the picnic.
Dick Patterson, Senior Day chairman, announced plans for the first two activities of the class which are the Senior Coffee, Oct. 15, and the Senior Day Football Game, KU vs. Oklahoma, Oct. 18.
The $250 Trego County Alumni Club Scholarship has been awarded to Norris Flagler, Collyer junior, an engineering major. The scholarship is made possible by donations from KU alumni in Trego County to the Greater University Fund.
AFROTC Cadet Group Gets 24 Officers
Colonel McHenry Hamilton Jr., professor of air science, today announced the names of 24 new Air Force ROTC officers.
The seniors, who recently completed AFROTC summer training at air force bases throughout the country, will direct this year's 200-man Cadet Corps.
Those appointed are as follows Dan F. Schrepel, Group Commander, Lt. Colonel, Pratt; James C. Naylor, Executive Officer, Major, Liberal; Robert W. McMichael, Operations Officer, Major, Stockton; Arthur M. Harkins, Squadron Commander, Major, Ottawa; Donald E. Terpening, Major, Washington; Floyd V. Palmer, Squadron Commander, Major, Independence; Kenneth D. Morris, Speical Training Commander, Mapor, Salina.
Larry L. Dunlap, Group Adjutant,
Captain, Salina; Robert J. Lewis,
Personnel Officer, Captain, Russel;
Charles M. Yoekum, Materiali
Officer, Captain, Belton, Mo.; John
L. Bourret, Squadron Administrative Officer, Captain, Mission; Edward W. Lohnhoff, Squadron Administrative Officer, Ft. Scott; John K. Wiley, Squadron Administrative Officer, Captain, Wichita; Robert E. Boehme, Special Training Instructor, Captain, Lawrence.
Charles D. Roberson, Special Training Instructor, Captain, Prairie Village; William P. Reinken, Drum and Bugle Corps Commander, Captain, Lawrence; Gary L. Duncan, Make-up Drill Commander, Captain, Independence, Mo.
Herbert S. Weldon, Special Services Officers Lt., Prairie Village; Richard L. Bowers, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Kansas City, Kan.; Ronald H. Womack, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Lenexa; David H. Hutchinson, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Maryville, Mo.; Ralph J. Tosti, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Kansas City, Mo.; Paul M. Nielsen, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Riverside, Ill.; Robert B. Giarraputo, Flight Commander, 1st Lt., Lawrence.
Nature Offers 1 Hour Course
Walter M. Kollmorgen, professor of geography, had explained nature in a cyclonic storm to his elementary geography this summer, but still the students wondered what a cyclonic storm was really like.
Suddenly the sky became dark and students and instructor moved to the windows to observe nature's laboratory.
The class knew what a cyclonic storm was like. The wind was in the southwest. Raindrops were slanting north-northwest at the beginning of the warm front movement. There was a lull. The wind suddenly shifted as the cold front moved in. For nearly 30 minutes, the rain fell. Within an hour it was clear.
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH
Today begins my fifth year of writing this column, and what an eventful five years it has been! What things have these old eyes not seen! What great discoveries have rocked the world—the anti-proton, for instance, and the anti-neutron, and high-low split, and Brigitte Bardot!
In these five years it has also been discovered that American smokers like two kinds of cigarettes—filter and non-filter. The Philip Morris Company makes both kinds. I mention the Philip Morris Company because they pay me to mention the Philip Morris Company. They sponsor this column. I write it and then give me money. Then I take the money and pay my grocer, my butcher, my gardener, and my four madrigal singers. In this way full employment is maintained and we avoid a repetition of the Panic of 1873 when bread riots killed over 98 million people in Muncie, Indiana, and millions of other were reduced to ghost-writing Ph. D. theses to keep body and soul together.
But enough of gloom. Let us get back to cheerful subjects, like the products of the Philip Morris Company. For those of you who wish filter cigarettes there is Marlboro, which now, more than ever, gives you a lot to like—a brand new improved filter and a wonderful flavor that comes breezing right through. For those of you who wish non-filter cigarettes, there is Philip Morris, a mild natural blend, flavorful, fresh, and thoroughly agreeable. For those of you who can't decide between filters or non-filters but have an affinity for packages, I should like to point out that both Marlboro and Philip Morris come in both the crushproof Flip-Top Box and the good old-fashioned Soft Pack, and you will surely want several of each for your collection.
Speaking for myself, I smoke both Marlboro and Philip Morris in both packs. What I do is make kind of a fun thing out of it. In my bedroom I have four signs, one on each wall, which say in turn: "PHILIP MORRIS—SOFT PACK",
"PHILIP MORRIS—FLIP-TOP," "MARLBORO—SOFT PACK" and "MARLBORO—FLIP-TOP". When I get up in the morning I put on a blindfold and then my faithful cat Rover spins me around six times and then, with many a laugh and cheer, I walk forward with my finger outstretched and the first sign I touch is the cigarette I smoke that day!
This little game has been a great source of mement...
As you can imagine, this little game has been a great source of merriment to Rover and me, except for one untoward incident one morning. I was stumbling around in my blindfold and fell out the window right on top of a man named Fred R. Timken, a census taker, and broke all his lead pencils. He was cross as a bear, and though I offered him both Philip Morris and Marlboro in both the Flip-Top Box and Soft Pack, he refused to be mollified. In fact, he refused to put my name down in the census, so when you read population figures of the United States, will you please add one?
But I digress. We were speaking of Philip Morris and Marlboro who will bring you this column throughout the school year. In this space I will take up vital aspects of undergraduate life, like high-low split and Brigitte Bardot, and it is my fondest hope that the column will be half as much fun for you as it is for me.
$ \textcircled{c} $ 1958, Max Shulman
The makers of Marlboro and Philip Morris welcome you to another year of fun and games from Old Max, and another year of good smoking from us. Filter or non-filter, pick what you please—and what you pick will please you.