WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 26, 2001
NEWS
War: No rush to enlist in military
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He said a draft would only be necessary in a time of crisis, when the military needed extra men for larger operations or when a great number of troops had been depleted.
"There is no need right now for a draft." DeToy said.
But patriotism is still running strong.
"I'm a lot more patriotic now," said Luke Bauer, Hutchinson senior.
He said he and his three roommates had all agreed they'd be willing to go.
Interruption of his studies is a concern for Bauer, but not grave enough to deter him.
"I'd finish my semester in school, and then I'd go," he said.
Draft renewal unlikely military experts say
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By Courtney Craigmile Kansan staff writer
At the age of 18, all men are required to register with the selective service which makes them eligible for a draft.
Maj. Brian DeToy, professor of military science, said that the Selective Service Act was enacted in 1971. It states that men ages 18-25 are eligible to be drafted into the armed forces.
DeToy said Congress enacted legislation for each draft and the president signed the legislation into law. Until Congress decides to reinstate the draft, KU students don't have to worry about being drafted.
However, if a draft is enacted,
men aged 20-25 will be the first to
be drawn into service. This could
affect many KU students, but
there is the option of filing a for a
student deferment, DeToy said.
The deferments, he said,
would allow a student to finish
the semester at school before
joining the military. If the student
is a senior, DeToy said the deferment allowed them to finish the school year and graduate before being called to serve.
Entrance Processing Station that is set up after draft legislation is passed, DeToy said. This board would then decide whether to grant the deferment.
To file a deferment, students must appeal to the local Military
Although a draft is not likely, some students who are in the National Guard could be called to serve. These students should contact Annette Bergman, Veterans Affairs Certifying Official, Cindy Derritt, Associate Registrar, or Richard Morrell, University Registrar. These people would help students decide whether to withdraw from classes or take an incomplete, Derritt said.
If students are called near the end of the semester, professors may work something out, allowing the student to complete the class, she said.
If students opt to withdraw from the University, they simply have to provide a copy of their military orders and their tuition will be fully refunded, Derritt said.
Students may also opt to take an incomplete in their classes. With an incomplete, students have a specified period of time to complete the class and still receive a letter grade. Derritt said this was a popular choice during the Gulf War because many students were called to serve a short period of time.
If National Guard is called to serve
Contact: Annette Bergman, VA Certifying Official, 864-5426; Cindy Derritt, Associate Registrar, 864-5170; Richard C. Mortrell, University Registrar, 864-4515.
Bring or send: copy of your military orders; forwarding address; name, address and phone of your representative; your name as it appears on KU records; and KUID number.
DeToy said it was unlikely that a draft would be enacted in the near future. There has not been a draft since the Vietnam War.
He said that all men should register with the selective service anyway. This can be done at any post office. DeToy said that the penalties for not registering ranged from losing financial aid to serving a five-year prison sentence.
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Student Senate to change bulletin board rules
By Luke Daley Kansan staff writer
Bulletin boards around campus will get a make over this semester.
Kyle Brownning, student body vice president, said the bulletin boards on campus weren't very exciting and he wanted to change that.
Browning said most of the bulletin boards included a mix of outdated student fliers and unimportant University announcements that made students immediately disregard them.
OLIVIA SARI/KANSAN
Cara Coffman, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore skims through the numerous fliers posted up in the Kansas Union bulletin board. Student Body Vice President Kyle Browning is attempting to start a system of separating student and University postings on the bulletin boards.
"Most students ignore the bulletin boards and see them as eyesores and I don't blame them," Browning said.
He said that there were about 90 bulletin boards on campus. He said that he wanted to have two-thirds of the boards available to the University departments and the other one-third reserved for students to post their fliers.
"I want to see them be a more effective means of communication for students," Browning said. "They are not effective right now."
He said the problem with the current system was that nobody enforced the rules on what gets posted. He said he wanted to create a student position to monitor the bulletin boards.
Beth Woodbridge, Lawrence sophomore, said that looking at the bulletin boards around campus was hard on her eyes.
She said revising the bulletin board system would help.
said. "It would help the people who put their money into the actual advertisements."
"I've always been curious to coming around and looking at them to see what they're trying to get out to students," Woodbridge
Jeannett Johnson, assistant to the provost, said that the provost office had worked with Student Senate to monitor the bulletin boards and to ensure postings were kept separated.
cerned with a lot of the commercial postings that take up space that was only marginally important to students," Johnson said. "We also understand the frustration with having their postings covered up."
"Student Senate was con
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Research adds life to sperm
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Tash said making sea urchins the experimental subject avoided the ethical quandaries posed by performing tests on humans or mammals. Plus, evolution hasn't drastically changed the way these reproductive functions work.
Joseph Tash, professor of molecular and integrative physiology, said as a result of the research, the team at the Med Center has patented a sperm storage process that could have benefits for rancher and other breeders of animals.
"It's not a huge leap to extrapolate what's going on with the sea urchin versus what might occur with other species," Tash said.
He said the studies showed that sperm have sensors in their tails that detect changes in gravitational forces. He said they were waiting to find out if sperm's ability to fertilize eggs changed with gravitational changes, as well.
Researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center published a paper in the most recent issue of Biology of Reproduction on how changes in gravitation affect different species' ability to reproduce.
Through grants from NASA and the National Institutes of Health, the Center of Reproductive Sciences at the Med Center sent sea urchins for experimentation on a space shuttle to show how sperm swim under altered states of gravity.
Tash said the researchers had another special problem getting the sperm into space for the experiment. Sperm are often damaged when frozen, which is the most-often used form of transport. Much more sperm is needed to overcome the unavoidable loss of damaged sperm.
If the sperm is stored in too warm of an environment, they begin to exhibit too soon the factors researchers are trying to study. Tash said.
The team at the Med Center came up with a process that keeps the sperm at a temperature near what one would find in a refrigerator. By finding the right temperature in which to store the sperm, they were able to extend the time the samples were usable by about four days.
Tash said this could pay huge dividends to ranchers and companies that reproduce animals by artificial insemination.
"That will reduce costs in shipping, and it allows a semen sample to be used for more inseminations because you end up with more sperm that haven't been damaged," he said.
"If you wanna know how great universities get even better, I'll tell you. Without the proper resources, they don't. So KU is going to raise $500 million by 2004.And that, as they say, ain't chump change.
"You've heard the term KU First? That's the name of the fund-raising campaign being run by the KU Endowment Association. They tell me the money will be used to expand support for students, faculty, facilities and research.And that's in addition
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