University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 18, 1978
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Fall rest
Wilber Lockhart, 751 Grant, took full advantage of the warm fall
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
weather yesterday, stretched out by a fence made of scraps or corrugated steel near his home.
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Castor bean studied as cancer treatment
A University of Kansas biochemist is doing research with castor beans in an attempt to develop their toxic properties for cancer treatment,
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L. L. Houston, associate professor of biochemistry, says ricin, a toxic enzyme in castor beans, possibly could be directed to attack cancer cells.
"Ricin could be a valuable cancer treatment because it inhibits the growth of tumor cells much more efficiently than it inhibits growth of normal cells." Houston
Although ricin is extremely toxic to all animals, it can be used as a preservative. Oil has long been used as an inactivate. Ricin is a protein, and because proteins are not soluble in oil the toxin is not present in milk.
Houston's research focuses on a method to alter the ricin molecule so that it will act only on rapidly growing cancer cells without damaging a large number of normal cells.
"I DON'T bill it as a cancer treatment as it stands now." Louis Houston.
Ricin has not been used as a cancer treatment because it kills a large number of normal cells along with the cancerous cells. It does, however, hopes his research can solve the problem.
The research involves the study of how ricin acts on the cell. Houston says ricin attacks the ribosome, a cell's protein manufacturing center, and blocks the
Researchers are "at the point where we can design a ricin molecule to make it more selective for tumor cells," Houston says. They now couple a ricin molecule with a tumor.
synthesis of protein. Without protein the cell dies.
Houston has applied to the National Institute of Health for a grant to fund his research on the ricin-antibiotic drug convalescent vaccine by January whether the grant is approved.
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Wednesday, Oct. 18
Buster Keaton Double Feature:
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR.
(1928)
Dir. Charles Relsner, with Buster Keaton. Buster plays the son of a riverboat captain, Silent.
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THE GENERAL
Thursday, Oct. 19
(1926)
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
D. Buster Keaton and Clyde
Buster Keaton and Clyde
Marion McLean, Jim Farley, Joe Kaehn
Civil War heroes in which Keaton has
two lives—his locomotive and his
gun.
Russian Classics:
(1929)
Dir. Zirga Verort. Ostensibly a documentary of Soviet life, this film explores the ways experimental works in film history. Vernort employs such techniques as the hand held camera, elaborate costumes, rapid editing, among others. Silent.
ARSENAL
THE MAN WITH
THE MOVIE CAMERA
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Dir. Alexander, Dovzhkenko, Dovzhkenko presents hardie, realistic imagery to the audience's destruction, but his juxitpositions are impressionistic and symbolic.
(1929)
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud
Friday & Saturday, Oct. 20 & 21
(1973)
Dir. James Bridges, with Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman.
PAPER CHASE
3:30 Fri.
9:30, Fri. &
7 pm, Sat.
Dyche Aud.
Woodruff
Auditorium
ALLEGRO NON TROPPO
$1.50
(1977)
Dir. Bruno Bozzetto. Hilarious animate parody of Disney's Fantasia. Classics such as Raver's "Bolero" and Stravinky's "Firebird" are the Bozzette's wildly imaginary scene and stories. An encore performance.
7 pm, Fri.
3:30, Sat.
9:30, Sat.
Woodruff Aud.
Dyche Aud.
Woodruff Aud.
Monday, Oct. 23
John Ford/John Wayne:
STAGECOACH
(1939)
Dirn, John Ford, with John Wayne,
Claire Trevor, John Caradine,
Thomas Mitchell, Ford's first sound
track and the film's most famous
Monument Valley as the film's principal
location. One of the most fan-
photographed of all Ford Westerns.
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THE MAN WHO
SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
(1962)
Jir. John Ford, with John Wayne,
James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Andy
Devine. The demythorography of
the Western Haro. An excellent film.
$1.00 7:30 p.m. Woodruff Aud.
tuesday. Oct. 24
Tuesday, Oct. 24
A film Symposium on Abortion, with a speaker:
Taking Our Bodies Back
An introduction to the subject of women and their health care.
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IT HAPPENS TO US
(1971)
Dir. Amalie Rothschild.
$1.00 7:30 p.m. Forum Room