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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 10, 1958
DON'T TAKE SUCH BIG BITES!—Jim Oliver, Lawrence graduate student in entomology, looks through the microscope at lice feeding on his hand. (Daily Kansan photo)
It Really Was A Lousy Class
By GENE NUSS
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
Bv GENE NUSS
nology class is certainly getting lousy," said a voice in room.
The owner of the voice was, of course, referring to the live lice which Dr. R. E. Beer, associate professor of entomology, was handing out to the members of his class.
Dr. Beer said the lice were free of bacteria, and any student who wanted to let one feed on his or her arm could do so.
A Dead Heat
"In fact," Dr. Beer said, "we'll have a little contest to see whose house starts feeding first upon contact with the person's arm."
It was a 2-second tie between Dr. Beer's house and the one feeding on the arm of Bob Kralicek, Independence. Mo sophomore.
By placing their arms under a microscope, members of the class could watch the tiny pump in the house's head draw the blood into its body. Since the body of the house is transparent, the flow of the blood could be seen.
A Greedy Glutton
After about 25 minutes of feeding, the louse had expanded to about twice its normal size and was dark red in color.
This gluttonous feeding habit brought forth several quips.
"My, what a greedy little monster you are?" said one student. "Drink heartily, lad, that's type 'B' blood you are getting," said another.
The body louse, or ooite, as it is commonly called, transmits tphus.
"This is the critter that defeated Napoleon's army in Russia," Dr. Beer said. "In fact, it killed off a lot of Russian soldiers also."
Each member of the class got to keep his pet in a glass vial.
The longest single-name department at K.U. is otorhinolaryngology, devoted to diseases of ears, nose and throat.
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Fellowships To Hear Hospital Chaplain
The Rev. Mr. Tom Klink, chaplain at the Topeka State Hospital, will speak on "The Church and Mental Health" at a joint meeting of the United Student Fellowship and the Disciples Student Fellowship at 5 p.m. Sunday in the fellowship room of the Plymouth Congregational Church.
He has been full time chaplain at the hospital for several years. He is in charge of ministerial interns in the hospital and interprets mental health to church groups such as this.
The University of Kansas was the third state university to accept women.
How the 72-foot Viking rocket will launch a United States satellite was explained to the Kiwanis Club Thursday noon by L. Worth Seagondollar, associate professor of physics.
Professor Explains U.S. Satellite Plans
Prof. Seagondollar used a scale model of the 3-stage liquid propellant rocket to illustrate his talk. He was introduced by H.A. Ireland, professor of geology, a Kiwanis members.
The satellite to be launched is
20 inches in diameter and weighs about $ 20!_{2} $ pounds. Prof. Seagondollar said. Scientists in charge of the project believe that the main rocket, which carries the satellite, will continue to climb to about 160 miles into the atmosphere and hope to get it to 300 miles, where the satellite would continue to orbit.
"The two main problems are to get it up and to see that it's there," Prof. Seagondollar told the Kiwan-
ians. "They hope to solve the second problem by using a radio directional beam and 'moon watch' teams to see where it is."
In a question period after the talk, Prof. Seagondollar said that Russian scientists did "a fine job" in launching Sputnik. He said he believed the Russian decision to launch it was a "political-propaganda one to impress small nations so that they would look to Russia rather than the United States."
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