Friday, November 30.1973
University Daily Kansan
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Kansas Staff Photo by MATT TOTTEN
Kathy Jacques Is Charmed by Snakes
Some students take dogs or cats to classes, but that's too mundane for Kathy Jacques, Satina sophomore. Sometimes she uses her two 3-foot-long boa constrictors to牵引。
Whaddaya Say to a Snaked Lady
"I've always like snakes and I've always bad them around." she explained.
Jacques got her second boa constrictor, a female named Ely, about a month ago from a pet dealer in Florida. Ely is a Columbian rainbow boa, she said.
"The kids at camp just love him, she said.
At first, a few were afraid, but after a while
they'd hold him. Hector was about four little
kids long.
Beau is about 18 months old, is 33 inches long and weighs one pound. she said.
Move over, energy crisis.
Along with the increased demand for engineers, a decrease in the number of engineering graduates has aggravated the engineer situation, Smith said.
She said she had received her first boa,
Beauregard, as a gift from students and
staff at a Girl Scout camp near Hutchinson,
where she bad worked last summer.
Last year she had a bull snake named Hector "as big as I was." she said.
A reason for the drop in enrollment of engineering students was the recession of the early 1970s, he said, when companies were hiring engineers and were laving off many others.
A shortage of engineers is "a very real problem that the country faces," he said.
Here comes the engineer crisis.
Demand caused by the energy crisis, pollution problems and improved business is outstripping the supply of engineers, according to William P. Smith, dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.
Engineering Crisis Coming Next
"It was a good way to teach the kids not to be afraid of snakes. I don't know why people are afraid of them. How could anyone be afraid of one of these?"
The development of alternative energy sources and the solution of pollution is a major challenge. The energy resources will require a great number of engineers, Smith said yesterday.
Beat's gotten around my neck a couple of times and cut off the circulation a little bit.
Jacques said her mother was afraid that the boats might wrap itself around her boat.
Smith said that although the demand
dropped during that period, it was never as low as some people thought.
Smith said enrollment in engineering at KU was up this semester compared to last semester. Enrollment at KU has generally reflected the national trend, he said, but from the indications he has had for this year, the national trend for engineering at KU was spotty. Enrollment at upper schools are down at other schools.
Don Green, professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, said the demand for chemical and petroleum engineers was tremendous.
The development of oil-bearing shale and coal gasification as alternative energy sources will require chemical engineers, Green said. Petroleum engineers will be in demand as new exploration for oil increases.
The energy crisis could hurt employment prospects for some engineers, according to a report in the New York Times.
engineering. Marple said he thought companies would be very selective in hiring engineers if the energy crisis caused a recession.
Aerospace and electrical engineers could be affected by a business slump, he said, and the recent layoffs in the aerospace industry that India could be an indication of such a trend.
However, Marple said he thought the general trend for engineering employment
The School of Engineering has had an active recruiting program for high school and junior college students for a long time, Smith said.
Green said the school had a very active scholarship program for new students, and sent out posters to every high school and college. He also form students about the school's programs.
He said that part of President Nikon's Project Independence would be an effort to increase the supply of engineers to help solve the energy crisis.
United Fund Drive Exceeds Goal
Including expected mail contributions, the drive totaled $179,922.77.
The Lawrence United Fund campaign has exceeded its goal of $179,850 after 23 days of overtime collecting, campaign officials said yesterday.
Surplus contributions were received from the business, University of Kansas, professional and residential divisions of the funding drive.
The surplus contributions offset the failures of four divisions, industry, School District 497, city-county government and federal campaign, to reach their goals.
Board directors will meet at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday at the Douglas County State Bank
to approve the allocation of the money to the
16 UF-supported agencies.
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She said both boas were even-tempered and much calmer than other types of mammals.
60,000 square feet of greenhouses filled with
"They're really good pets because you don't have to worry about the rug, torn coat, or stuff."
"In my room, they've got their own private tree—a big branch—and they crawl around on that and just about everything else."
She said most students and teachers didn't mind when she brought a snake to school.
"I haven’t had any complaints but I have
seven people get up and move away," she said.
"Most people are interested and want to see it. Some won't hold it right away but
She said that one day last spring, she had taken Hector into a geology class and the
professor had told her that rocks were a good thing to kill snakes with.
"That was in bad taste completely," she said.
Jacques said she sometimes took a boa to class without realizing it.
"It took a chemistry test with Beau around my neck and didn't know it until I was told."
"One guy told me later that Beau had popped out of my shirt, and that it was a boy," he said.
Jacques said she feeds each snake two mice a week which she got from the pet store.
The "bo will watch the mouse for a little bit, and then, so fast that you cann't even see
Jacques said she had been bitten only one time, when she had startled Beau.
it, he grabs it by the nose and wraps around it. He holds it until it's dead, then simply unhinges his jaws and gulps it down," she said.
She said Beau could grow to a length of eight to 13 feet and live more than 20 years. Ely's maximum length is seven feet, she said.
AURH Elects PR Coordinator
"Eventually, I'll have a whole lot of them, she said.
Two boas aren't nearly enough, for her,
she added.
"I want a copperhead and a rattlesnake, I just to observe them. The after a while I'd search for it."
Harry Wigner, Ladell freshman, was elected communications coordinator for the Association of University Residence Halls and the NIHR Residents Assembly meeting last night.
Wigner, as communications coordinator, will be responsible for public relations and development of promotional programs for AURH and the residence halls.
Wigner, who serves on several other AURH committees, said he would probably resign from some of these committees to join his job as communications coordinator.
The communications coordinator will be the sixth member of the AURH executive committee.
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