Monday, Oct. 7, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Plants are source of cancer
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Drinking a glass of water from one of the shut down wells in Silicon Valley may be safer than eating a peanut butter sandwich, a leading researcher of cancer-causing agents said last night.
Bruce Ames, chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of California-Berkeley, spoke to about 250 scientists from around the world at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive, at the opening of the first International Conference on Mechanisms of Antimutagenesis and Anticarcinogenesis.
Ames said too few studies had been on natural carcinogens while research and government agencies were overly concerned about manmade substances which frequently were much less dangerous.
One of the main sources of potential cancer-causing agents in the human diet is plants, he said.
"Plants are filled with toxic chemicals, lots of mutagens and carcinogens," he said. "I calculate we're eating about 10,000 times more of nature's pesticides than we are manmade pesticides."
He said another high source of carcinogens was from cooked food, especially burnt food.
mimulate pesticide treatments. Breeders who develop plants that are exceptionally insect resistant have simply raised the amounts of the natural pesticides found in the vegetable. Ames said.
"In fact, the total amount of burnt material we eat a day is probably more than smokers — pack-a-day smokers," he said.
Ames, who is known worldwide for developing a test that can determine whether a chemical is capable of causing genetic changes that could result in cancer, said many of the studies done on rats and mice could not be applied to humans.
not 6b apoptosis, but that even between rats and mice there was a significant difference in what chemicals were ultimately carcinogenic.
Ames was the keynote speaker at the opening of the international conference, attended by scientists from about 20 countries including Japan, France, The Netherlands, Egypt, Israel and India.
Del Shankel, KU professor of biochemistry and the conference coordinator, said the objective of the conference was to bring together scientists.
ASK director avoids politics
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Almost four weeks after taking office, the KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas says he is becoming more comfortable in his job.
more commitment to the school. Brian Gilpin, Topeka sophomore, was appointed campus director of ASK Sept. 11 at the first Student Senate meeting of the school year.
meeting of the school year.
"I'm learning something every time someone walks in the office," Gilpin, who had no previous experience in ASK, said Thursday.
Gilpin's term will run until the Student Senate elections in November, when the new administration will have the option of hiring a new director and appointing a new member to ASK's board of directors.
ASK is a student organization that makes recommendations to the Regents and the Kansas Legislature on behalf of the seven Regents schools and Washburn University.
The Regents schools are the KU, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State
The position of campus ASK director was vacated Sept. 4 when Sandra Binyon resigned, citing politics in the Student Senate.
University, Pittsburg State University, Wichita State University and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina
Gilpin, who is not a senator, said he did not foresee the same conflicts.
"I don't see myself getting that involved in direct cam-
paigns," he said.
pus politics. He said he could work with more students if he remained non-partisan.
Chris Graves, executive director of ASK, said Gilpin had done well so far, especially at KU, where political tensions are greater than at other Board of Regents schools.
Gilpin said his goals mirrored the state ASK platform, which was determined Sept. 28 at the first Legislative Assembly of fiscal year 1986.
He said he wanted to rebuild the KU chapter of ASK so it could effectively represent KU at the Legislative Assembly in November.
Fund to support professor of law
By a Kansan reporter
The Kansas University Endowment Association recently established a fund to provide a salary stipend for a professor in the School of Law.
More than $100,000 has been contributed to establish the E.S. & Tom W. Hampton Professor of Law Fund, Steve Menaaugh, director of public relations for the Endowment Association, said yesterday.
The fund was established in memory of Ernest S. Hampton and his son, Tom, who were partners in one of the oldest law firms in the state, Hampton, Royce, Engleman & Nelson of Salina, Menaugh said.
E. S. "Ham" Hampton, a native of Kinsley, received a law degree from the University of Kansas in 1929 after working his way through school as a barber. He died Aug. 31, 1882.
Tom was a native of Salina and
received a bachelor of arts degree from KU in 1957. He received a law degree with highest distinction from KU in 1959.
Torn was 48 years old when he died March 24, 1984, after a long illness. His wife, Nancy, lives in Salina. His son, Frank, is a KU sophomore and his daughter, Elizabeth, attends Grinnell College in Iowa.
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