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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 16, 1987
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Local Briefs
Phone book distribution is underway
The 1987-88 faculty, staff and student telephone directories are being distributed to academic and administrative departments across campus this week, as well as to students living in KU housing.
For people living off-campus,
the books will be available sometime next week at the Oread Book Shop and Burge Union bookstore.
They also offer a purchase a book for $1.50, and others can purchase one for $3.
Registration ends today for tickets
Today is the final day for students to register for the all-sports ticket lottery at the Allen Field House ticket office.
Thirty tickets will be distributed by lottery. Winners will be notified by telephone Monday. The ticket office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New police chief has been chosen
Lawrence city officials say they will announce this morning the name of Lawrence's new police chief.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said the city would have a press conference at 9:15 a.m. today.
The police chief's position has been vacant since the June 19th retirement of Richard Stanwix, and City Manager Buford Watson has been screening candidates since then.
College will get new dean soon
The newly appointed search committee for the dean of liberal arts and sciences met for the first time yesterday to discuss the job description and selection procedure for the post.
Rex Martin, professor of philosophy, was elected chairman of the 16-member committee, made up of faculty and student representatives.
Martin said the committee planned to choose a dean by next spring and to have the new appointment on the job by July 1.
The dean will replace Robert Lineberry, who has been dean since 1981. Lineberry announced his resignation last month.
Church to bring Martin Luther to city
Trinity Lutheran Church, 13th and New Hampshire streets, is bringing Martin Luther to Lawrence.
Luther, a German monk who began the Reformation, will be portrayed by the Rev. Don E. Rothweiler of Nevada, Iowa, in a talk at 7 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church. A Reformation celebration service is at 8 p.m.
Corrections
Because of a reporter's error, a basketball tournament scheduled to be played in Kansas City, Mo., was incorrectly identified in yesterday's Kansan. The city will be the site of the NCAA Final Four.
Because of a reporter's error,
Pat Malecek's name was misspelled in yesterday's Kansan
Malecek, a KU student, recently
won $1.000 in the Missouri Lottery
From staff and wire reports.
Rain, rain, go away
Becca Danders, Wichita freshman, is none too pleased with the grey clouds and raindrops that threaten overhead. Danders was waiting for a bus in front of Lippincott Hall yesterday afternoon when it started to rain.
Profs help win Nobel Prize
KU chemists part of research team for 'enzyme mimics'
By MARK TILFORD Staff writer
It takes just the right formula to win a Nobel Prize, and two University of Kansas professors were part of that formula as members of the team that helped Frenchman Jean-Marie Lehn win the 1987 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Kristin Mertes, professor of chemistry, and Mathias Mertes, professor of medicinal chemistry in the school of pharmacy, celebrated Wednesday with other researchers who had worked with Lehman field of "microcyclic amines" in the lab.
Lehn was awarded the Nobel Prize Wednesday by the Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Kristin Mertes said attempts to contact Lehn in Storrsburg, France, had been unsuccessful.
"The first time there was too much celebrating going on," she said.
Lehn was scheduled to fly into San Francisco last night, and Mertes said she and her husband would attempt to contact him there.
The Mertesses first met Lehn in 1981 at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, although, Kristin Mertes said she had been following Lehn's work for years.
She said that she and her husband were scheduled to go on sabbatical so they applied to do research with Lehn in the spring of 1893.
The Mertesses were accepted and studied with Lehn for about seven months in 1883 and have worked with him every summer since. They plan to go to Strasbourg next year to continue their research.
Lleh was awarded the prize of $340,000 along with two Americans, Donald J. Cram and Charles J. Pedersen. Cram, 68 is a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Pedersen, 83, is a retired
researcher with the DuPont company.
Macrocycles, by mimicking enzymes — proteins that perform numerous biological processes in the body — help scientists understand how complex molecules generate energy.
Lehn's primary work has been in developing small molecules called macrocycles, which can mimic the work of more complex molecules in biological systems.
Macrocycles can be applied to practical energy uses, such as conversion and storage of solar energy and
The Merteses and three other researchers at KU are working on an isolated molecule, adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.
"We're making a macrocycle act like an enzyme, just like rayon acts like cotton or wool," Mathias Mertes said.
ATP, said Phil Chalabi, a medical student working with Mertes, is a molecule that stores energy and then breaks it down to supply virtually all of the body's energy needs.
"That's how you use energy to use muscles and so on," Chalabi said. "If there's a biological deficiency in the body, we can get an idea of what's going on."
With a grant from the National Institute of Health, the Merteses were able to establish a program in their field for graduate work and research. The grant was renewed in 1984 for five years, Kristin Mertes said, and has totaled $720,000.
To help examine the molecules and how they work, the Merteses have the assistance of a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, a $300,000 machine that analyzes organic compounds.
Templin petitions security system
By BEN JOHNSTON Staff writer
Staff writer
The president of Templin Hall has begun circulating a petition asking the Association of University Residence Halls to recommend that security desks be removed from Templin.
Cotter Brown, Parsons sophomore and Templin Hall president, said yesterday that he began circulating the petition at dinner Wednesday, and 284 residents signed it during the meeting. About 400 men live in the hall, he said.
Security desks are tables placed near the entrance to all residence halls between midnight and 8 a.m. Two security monitors sit at the desks and require students to show a KUID before they can enter the hall.
Brown said he would circulate the petition until Monday. Then he will deliver it to the AURH contract committee's meeting committee's meeting Monday, he said.
Security desks were introduced at Templin and Joseph R. Pearson Hall early in the season to make uniforms available. The team said Ross Niro, president of AURH,
Jeff Adams, Lawrence senior and chairman of the AURH contract committee, said residents of Templin and JRP had told him they wanted the security desks removed.
"The petition that will be delivered at the meeting is not really necessary because it is already on our agenda."
Adams said. "But, by all means, it will help."
The petition says that the desks should be removed because they are unnecessary and inconvenient, Brown said.
Brown said that one reason the desks were unnecessary was that Lewis Hall was the only hall in which fewer acts of vandalism were committed than were committed in Templin last year.
Also, Brown said, "It is a definite pain to have to have an ID. My neighbor had to sneak his girlfriend in the side door because she did not
Nigro said the proposal would have to be approved by the contract committee before the whole AURH general assembly ould discuss it. The AURH executive committee, which consists of KU student housing officials, will make the final decision, Nigro said.
The security desks are manned by security monitors who work eight hours each day, and if the desks were removed, the housing office would save money, Brown said. Security monitors are paid $3.45 an hour.
"Most ideas that have a strong backing from residents are passed depending on how severe they are." Niero said.
He said he supported the proposal because he thought residents of Templin and JRP should not have a security desk if they didn't want it.
Opportunity knocks for two KU dancers
Staff writer
By AMBER STENGER
Performing in New York City may be the opportunity that launches a dancer's career. Two KU dancers will have that opportunity in a week.
Laura Krodinger, De Soto, Mo,
senior, and Willie Lienko, Kansas
City, Kan., graduate student, will
perform at a New York theatre that
has laureates the queens of jazz,
modern dancers and choreographers. They have been working on the dance for one and a half years.
Krodering and Lenoir will perform Oct. 23 at the 92nd Street Y Dance Center. They are both members of the Scott Morrow Dance Theatre, a dance company that was started in Los Angeles and now is in residence at the University of Kansas.
The 92nd Street Y Dance Center provides exposure for innovative choreographers. Since 1936, many of modern dance's most famous artists have danced at the center early in their careers, including phreh Charles Weidman and Jose Limon. A dance company has to be invited to perform there.
"Masculin/Feminin" is the modern dance piece the KU dancers will perform. Scott Douglas Morrow, the choreographer of that piece and an assistant professor of dance, said that the piece was about a relationship between two lovers, and that, through movements, it explored the wide range of emotions that relationships create.
Krodinger said, "It's like an abstract narrative because it's not a story about one woman having an affair with a man. It represents a universal relationship."
The New York performance of "Masculin/Feminin" will be the 16th time that Krodinger and Lenoir have performed the piece together. The last time they will perform the piece in public before going to New York is
tonight and tomorrow night at the Granada Theatre Performing Arts Center in Kansas City, Kan.
The Scott Morrow Dance Theatre will be featured with other dance companies from the Kansas City area. The performance, "Poetry In Motion - A Dance Celebration," starts at 7:30 p.m.
Morrow said that performing "Masculin/Feminin" many times helped the dancers grow into the piece because in each performance they were perfecting their skills.
'Each time we do this performance, we try to re-examine what it is we are trying to do, and to continue to bring deeper dimension to it.'
fessor of dance
- Scott Douglas Morrow Choreographer and assistant pro-
"It takes them time to fulfill the intent of the movement and they need to develop a chemistry between them to fulfill that intent," Morrow said. "Each time we do this performance, we try to re-examine what it is we are trying to do, and to continue to bring deeper dimension to it."
Besides performing in New York, Krodinger and Lenoir will take dance classes from May O'Donnell, a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Krodinger will use some of the money she was awarded last spring for the Elizabeth Sherbon Dance Scholarship Award to take the classes.
The New York performance has been financed through the KU office of research, graduate studies and public service.
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