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Monday. November 25.1974
University Daily Kansan
Curator goes to bat for research
By BILL HUMMELL
Batman is alive and well and living in Lawrence.
He isn't however, the super crime fighter who in real life is mild-mannered millionaire Bruce Wayne. Instead, he is a tougher man than Bruce Wayne. The Museum and named, Merlin Turtle.
During a slide show presented Saturday morning in Dyche Auditorium, Tuttle said he had studied about 200 species of bats in 14 countries. Still, he said, scientists know only four or five persons in the world who had observed some of the raker species.
"It takes a lot of effort to get close to bats," Tuttle said. "They aren't frightened by humans. Instead, they try to ignore them."
Tuttle said most people had several misconceptions about bats.
"Some people see bats as devils," he said, "just like primitive people did who saw these strange creatures flying out of holes in the ground at night.
"Some people also think that all bats are vampire bats. There are vampire bats, but not in the United States. Thousands of years ago vampire bats did live in the South, but it is now too cold for them. All of our bats eat insects.
Bats' penchant for insects causes many to think they are being attacked by
"Humans attack mosquitoes and other insects," Tuttle said, "and, when people see them, they are sure they are being attacked. To my knowledge there have been only three cases of bat attack in the United States." But the attack has been unprovokedly attacked by a bat."
Also, he said, many people think most
bats have raibes. According to Tuttle,
however less than 1 per cent have raibes.
"In the early 1960s," he said, "it was thought that batches were the reservoir of rabies because they didn't die of a rabies bite. People were scared to death. Suddenly, bats became public enemy number one. There were bat shoots in Florida. People would stand in cave entrances with bats when they could come out. Homeowners would call exterminators who would use DDT, which is more dangerous to children than bats."
Further research in 1968 and 1969, however, showed that there wasn't any correlation between cycles of rabies in bats and in other animals. Gradually, Tuttle said, people are being made aware of the false alarm. Most people still are afraid of bats, and rabies is still a major concern, but it has been reported that from a bat bite is less than the chance of getting rabies from a dog or skunk bite. Tuttle said.
In fact, he said, most bat bites are superficial. Some don't even break the skin. Most bites be adequately treated simply by washing the wound, he said.
Bats, Tuttle said, are extremely beneficial in insect control.
"Of the 12 species of bats in Anabala,
the one that I studied consumes one million
pounds of insects annually. One colony of
bats consumes 19,100 pounds of
insects in one night."
In his slide show, Tuttle showed many of the various species of bats he has studied. There were brown, white and orange bats. There were bats that feed on nectar in flowers and have tongues longer than their bodies. There were carnivorous bats that feed on opossums, snakes, lizards, birds and fish. Almost anything one can think of that'
There are bats, he said, with five-foot wing spans and bats that weigh less than a dime. There are bats that can cruise at 60 mph and can fly backwards over like helicopters or fly backwards.
can be eaten, Tuttle said, is eaten by some kind of specialized bat.
a small airplane, but it is of such a high pitch that you can't hear it. Each second he flicks a bat emits over 200 sound waves out of it. It is the same idea as echo location."
Tuttle said bat sonar was one area of interest and mavsterv to scientists.
Turtle said bat sonar was so successful that even when it had to compete with background noise 200 times more intense than the sonar, the bait, a bat could locate an insect on a tree.
Project Whistlestop hasn't been signaling its presence lately.
That's because the project is now a low priority item, with prevention of rapes inside of homes being of more immediate concern. The most likely Stop representative, said yesterday.
Rape prevention focus now on home instead of street
"As a bat flies, it makes as much noise as
Whistlestop was started as a reaction to an inordinate number of on the street rapaes in the Lawrence community, Casey Elke. In early 2013, two thousand whistles were purchased last April to be distributed to area women to serve as distress signals in the event of an assault. The Student Senate approved a plan to award $20 to help pay for publicity for the project.
The project isn't being publicized because the number of on the street rapes has decreased, Hoggard said. Since the arrest of Al Johnson, originally charged in connection with three campus rape cases, there hasn't been any on the street rapes, she said.
On Campus
Randall Bell, Hutchinson senior, has received the Roy C. Clark Memorial Scholarship for $550. Bell is president of Acacia fraternity. The scholarship is presented annually by the Acacia Educational Foundation, Inc., to an undergraduate of Acacia fraternity to assist him in continuing his education. Bell is secretary of the KU Interfraternity Council, past president of the Owl Society, a Summerfield Scholar and a member of the sachem Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, national honorary society for senior men.
Mahatma JI, member of Divine Light Mission, will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Room Of Forum of the Kansas Union. His subject will be about "knowledge," a method of meditation. Mahatma JI is sponsored by the Divine Information Center.
Journalists win awards
Two students from the William Allen White School of Journalism placed in the top 10 in the October competition of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation's Journalism Awards Program. The scholarship was awarded to four students, sixth place and $300, and Steven Lewis, Larnered, sixth place and $200.
Acacia scholarship given
Mchatma Ji to speak here
The Office of Student Financial Aid has announced that a limited number of Men's Scholarship Hall awards are available for the spring semester.
Scholarship hall positions
Undergraduate men interested in applying should contact Jeff Weinberg in the Office of Student Financial Aid. Application deadline is Dec. 2.
The awards are made on the basis of four equally weighed selection criteria: scholastic ability, responsible participation in school and community activities, desire to function in a cooperative living environment and financial need.
Distinguished professorship
A University of Kansas Distinguished Professorship in history has been awarded to Donald R. McCoy, professor of history. The award was announced last week by Chancellor R. Dykes and Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor. University Archist Distinguished Professorships a professor's regular salary from state approved funds and are the highest paid faculty members. faculty members. McCoy has been a faculty member at KU since 1988. He is a specialist in American political history during the first half of the 20th century.
Mike Thomas, director of KU Security and Parking, said there hadn't been any reports reported at KU since August. Johnson was arrested last June in Nebraska.
Statistics indicate that most raps happen in the home, Hoggard said, and 30 per cent of all raps probably aren't reported. She said the Whistlestop project was conducted by a group playing a movie to women's groups and trying to make people award of the problem.
Hoggard said the project still recommended whistles as the best protection against on the street raps. She said carrying guns or knives was discouraged, because the weapons could be used against the rage victim.
Hoggard said they were no longer
inspecting as as one of the
project's integrity teams.
"We're also trying to dispel the myths, like that the girl in the mini skirt and halter top is always the one who gets it," Hoggard said. "In Lawrence, you're just as likely to get raped if you wear blue jeans and a trench coat."
Eike said the police had told her that they had received more responses from the community in reporting raiders and other crimes since the program was instituted. He said it was impossible to tell whether the program worked as well as it could have, however.
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"You never know when it will work," Hoggard said.
Mace isn't recommended either, Hoggard said, because there is the danger that it won't work or that it will affect the victim instead of the attacker.
The project has sold 3,500 whistles for 75 cents apiece. Eike said. She said whistles were still available from the Dean of Women's office.
"You can't really measure how successful it was," she said.
Rape victims can call Headquarters or the KU Information Center for assistance, Ammie Singh, Headquarters volunteer, said. He said callers were usually referred to the Rape Victim Support Service for counseling.
Elke said she didn't know whether the decrease of reported on the street raps was due to any of these factors.
of its success, or whether the arrest of Johnson may have caused the droopoff.
"If we could do it again, I think we'd point the project toward all kinds of crime instead."
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Dykes calls for morality in University instruction
Morality must be taught hand in hand with scientific technology in colleges and universities if humanity is to prosper, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last night.
The existence of civilized society depends on values such as honesty, integrity, concern for fellow man and compassion, Dykes said.
"If we fail in our colleges and universities to foster these attributes, then much of the purpose of education is lost no matter how successful we may be in instilling the skills that are needed for a greater scientific and technical achievements to march on uninterrupted," he said.
Dykes made these comments in an ad-
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He said nuclear power could be the solution to the problem, but it still caused a dark shadow on society.
"Our tremendous scientific technological advancements hold within them the greatest opportunities man has ever known for lifting human life to undreamed heights, enabling humans to construct destruction and catastrophe if used unwisely or if applied to undesirable purposes."
Dykes said no society could survive, regardless of its scientific and technological eminence, without "a moral order sustained by the individual."
"As our social organizations become more complex and interdependent, the need for personal integrity and for commitment becomes more imperative," he said.
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