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University Daily Kansan Monday March 31, 1958
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(Daily Kansan photo by Richard Botshon)
Grafted Rats Give Cause Of Hunger
The brothers under one skin in the above picture are parabiotic rats in Haworth Hall. Parabiosis, the union of two living individuals, is produced at KU by surgical operation in experimental animals.
David G. Fleming, assistant professor of physiology and research director of the project, said "I am using the rats to help determine the causes of hunger."
"Since the project started we have been able to identify a substance in the blood which may prove to be one of the hunger hormones," Prof. Fleming said.
In April he is giving a paper in Philadelphia on the rate of cross circulation between the rats, which was determined by use of radioactive blood.
"As the blood makes a complete circuit in one rat," he said, "one-tenth of his blood volume is exchanged with the other rat."
Prof. Fleming has been working on the parabiosis project for over three years. He said pairing sisters has been most successful because the tissues have been compatible.
Some heterosexual rats have been successfully paired, though they are not well coordinated, he said.
"Instead of transplanting one organ or one tissue." Prof. Fleming said, "we are essentially grafting one animal to another."
Prof. Fleming's assistants, Roberta
A Grant For Latin American Study
International relations and certain Latin American problems will be the subject of a summer study by Robert D. Tomasek, assistant professor of political science.
Prof. Tomasek has received an $800 Elizabeth Watkins study grant for the research.
Jacobs, Lawrence special student, and Robert E. Nichols, Leawood graduate student, feed the rats dog pellets and horse meat.
Prof. Tomasek said he would do some research work at KU but most of the work would be done in Washington, D. C. He said his study would involve library research, interviews with representatives of the Organization of American States and Latin American diplomats.
The money was collected when closing hours were extended to 1:30 a.m. The women's escorts had to contribute a penny a minute for the time they were out after the usual 1 a.m. closing hour.
The "Wee Hour Fee" Saturday night netted $360.50 for an Associated Women Students' memorial scholarship which will be awarded in May to one or more woman.
The freak rats, which number about 80, usually manage to get where they want to go, but they would certainly give a poor showing in a rat race.
'Wee Hour Fee' Collects $360.50
Time Off For State Workers
TOPEKA —(UP)— State workers will be given time off from noon Friday until Monday for the April 6 Easter Holiday, Gov. George Docking said today.
The longest speech made in the Senate was made by Sen. Wayne Morse who spoke for 22 hours, 26 minutes on April 25, 1953.
For women desiring the scholarship offered, a special memorial scholarship form is available in the dean of women's office which must be turned in by April 15.
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Aim To End Discrimination
A group of KU students and faculty members, organized to promote better racial relations in Lawrence, have been working since November, 1957, to help eliminate discrimination in downtown restaurants.
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The organization. The KU Group for Improvement of Human Relations, was organized in October, 1957
Stanley A. Murrell, Lindsborg senior and one of the organizers, said the group was formed when a visiting professor was refused service at a Lawrence restaurant because of his color.
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"Quite a few people were aware of the problem." Murrell said. "This incident caused a lot of people not interested in the problem to become interested."
Murrell said the group tries to ease discrimination problems in two wavs. One method used is to have one or two persons talk with restaurant owners, learn their policies on discrimination and their reasons for these policies.
The second method is to send a mixed group of three or four students to a local restaurant. If any of the group are refused, the entire group leaves.
Murrell said the organization is planning a meeting in May with students throughout the state participating. He said the meeting would deal mainly with racial and religious discrimination.
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LONDON — (UP) — The Western Big Three in their first note to Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposed today that diplomatic discussions for a summit conference begin in the second half of April.
Whale teeth are legal currency in the Fiji Islands. The name of the unit is tabua and the mint is the cachalot whale.
May Sarton, poet and novelist, will be on the campus for a series of lectures and discussions open to the public Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8-9. Miss Sarton is a participant in the visiting scholar program of the United chapters of Phi Beta Kappa.
Poet Here April 8-9
At 10 a.m. Tuesday Miss Sarton will lecture on "Sense and Sensibility in the Modern Novel: The Middle Ground." She will express her judgments and feelings about what is more valuable in contemporary fiction.
"The Holy Game," a lecture on poetry as the poet sees it will be her topic at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Both lectures will be in Fraser Theater.
Miss Sarton, who teaches in Radcliffe seminars, is the author of six novels and four books of poetry. Her memoirs currently are appearing in The New Yorker. In 1950-52
she was a Briggs-Copeland instructor in English composition at Harvard. She has lectured at 50 other colleges in the United States and the Boulder and Breadloaf Writers' conferences.
She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lucy Donnellly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and in 1945 was awarded the Golden Rose for poetry and the Edward Bland Memorial Prize of Poetry magazine.
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