University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 30,1973
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KU YOUNG DEMOCRATS will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union. Lance Burr, Kansas assistant attorney general, will speak.
PROSPECTIVE LAW STUDENTS are invited to meet with Jane Waterton, dean of the University of Michigan law school, from 10:30 a.m. to room Thursday in the Pine Room of the Kauai Union to discuss legal requirements at the Michigan law school.
HVNELL FIGLER, professor of piano at Fort Hays State College, will give a guest piano recital at 8 p.m. Thursday in Swarath without Recital Hall. His program will include Chopin's "Barcarolle," Op. 60, "Thomas Turner's 'Arrows,' (1973), "Messiae's "de Feul" and Beetenhovens "'33 Variables on a Walz by A. Diabell, Op. 120."
THE FRIENDS OF THE UNITED FARM WORKERS will meet at 7:30 tonight in Parlor A of the Kansas University to discuss the United Farm Workers' grape boycott.
THE KU STUDENTS OF OBJECTIVISM will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at 163 Pinecree Drive.
NEWLY-ELECTED STUDENT SENATORS will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union for an orientation meeting on senate procedures.
SIGMA XI of KU will present a lecture at 7:30 p.m. thursday in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. Henry O. Stone, assistant professor of microbiology, and Laurence R. Draper, professor of microbiology, will speak on "Cancer: Viruses and Immunity."
THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS will present an honor recital with nine students performing at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Swarthout Recital Hall.
KU Prof Helped Plan Experiment To Test Outer Planets' Radiation
THE SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS will sponsor a concert at 8 p.M. Friday in the Dana Oaks, Dana Oaks, violinist; Patricia Carr, pianist; and the woodwind琴团 will play.
By ALICE COSTELLO
Kansas Staff Reporter
An experiment to study the radiation and magnetic fields of the outer planets, developed in part by a KU faculty member, will be on board the Marine-Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune mission. Thomas A. Kramer, associate professor of physics and astronomy, said last week.
The satellite, which will travel to Jupiter, Saturn and possibly Uranus, will be launched on January 21.
Armstrong, who is working with six investigators from five other institutions to develop the experiment, said the experiment received final acceptance from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration last month.
The experiment, which will be one of several on MJ7S-jet, will study the properties of the outer planet and the characteristics of the inner planet and the interstellar medium. He said,
Armstrong said that radiation zones were believed to be around Jupiter. Radiation from the sun may have produced them.
are areas full of rapidly moving protons and neutrons. They affect the ionosphere, radio communications, the magnetic field and may indirectly affect patterns of the
BY STUDYING the radiations and magnetic field, of the Jovian environment, Armstrong said scientists may be able to discover the structure and composition of Jupiter.
The outer planets are less dense than the inner planets, Armstrong said. Because of this, the way the outer planets were formed differs a different from that of the inner planets.
The experiment may help to answer that question, Armstrong said.
While at Jupiter, the MJS-77 satellite hopefully will also send back information about Titan, the only planetary satellite having much of an atmosphere, Armstrong said. The atmosphere of Titan is believed to cause a harmful effect, which would cause it to be warm.
Armstrong said some scientists had conjectured that organic molecules were in
"Titan presents an interesting possibility," said Armstrong.
The MJS-77 satellite will study the extent and structure of Saturn's strings, he said. A mission to orbit Saturn could take place in 2015.
Armstrong said that scientists hoped to get new and improved information on the contents of the interstellar and interplanetary medium. Interplanetary space is where many important chemical processes take place, he said.
the atmosphere of Titan and that possibly life could exist on the satellite.
The MJS7-7 satellite will spend about 600 days in flight time to Jupiter. Information about the interplanetary medium will be sent on earth during this time, Armstrong said.
The satellite will bounce off Jupiter's magnetic field and go to Saturn. The planet is the brightest object in the sky.
MJS-77 is expected to reach Jupiter in August 1979 and Saturn in September 1980. Armstrong said that the satellite hopefully would transport information until 1981.
Med Center Professor Receives National Cancer Institute Grant
Cells undergling cell division are constantly replenishing themselves, Uyeki said. Such cells, such as skin or blood cells, can be attacked by cancer drugs. These
Uveki said he would attempt to identify the ancestral, or stem, cell from which all cells that undergo cell division originate. Once the stem cell is identified, the effects of drugs on that cell can be determined. Uveki said.
A research grant for $93,267 has been awarded to Edwin M. Uyeki, professor of pharmacology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The grant, awarded by the National Cancer Institute, is for the study of cancer of anti-tumor drugs, Uyeki said yesterday.
The funding, which will become available Thursday, will extend over a three-year period. The first year's allotment will total $27,265.
THE EXPERIMENT to study the radiation and magnetic fields of the outer planets will cost about $3 million, Armstrong said. S. M. Krimigis of Johns Hopkins University is the chief investigator in the experiment.
October. The low temperatures in the snake's mouth caused the mother to bask in the babies too.
Uyeki and his co-researcher, Thomas L. Pazdierk, assistant professor of pharmacology, will attempt to find drugs that have a selective effect on one cell-line.
For example, leukemia affects the white blood cells in the body, Uyeki said. He would, in this case, search for a drug that affected only the white cells, not the red cells or other body defense cells as well, he said.
Three of the dead baby snakes had an unusual striping down their backs rather than the normal banding. All the dead snakes have been preserved.
drugs allow the replicating process in both health and cancerous cells. Uyeki said.
Armstrong said that he would do the data analysis, organization, and numerical modeling for his group.
The experiment can be done only once every 10 years, he said. It would take about that long for Jupiter to orbit the sun and have the desired position in relationship to Saturn.
The two surviving baby rattlers are kept in a special incubator away from the parents for warmth. Ashton both have slightly deformed heads and might die.
In captivity poisonous timber snakes can live 10 to 15 years.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Uyeki said he had been researching in this area for about five years.
2 Baby Rattlers Survive In Museum Snake Exhibit
Nest
The timber rattler is one of two poisonous snakes found in Lawrence, Ashton said. The snake has a long tail.
Only two of 10 baby timber rattlers born last week while in captivity at the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History have survived.
Nov. 1-10
Eight of the nine rattlers born last
year were born dead. The tenth rattler
was born Swain.
The 6-foot mother, two males and the two 6-inch baby snakes are on display at the live snake exhibit on the sixth floor of the museum.
Ray Ashon, coordinator of public education for the museum, said the eight deaths were probably caused by the mother of a child who was shot. The others are usually born in September and
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