University Daily Kansan, December 2, 1982
Lab
Page 5
From page one
because it preferred to know the backgrounds and ages of animals.
The shelter can hold untauged animals for 15 days and tagged animals for 30 days. Peisser said, and if the animal has an owner it can be found by the owner by tag information and found quickly.
Animals are put on display to the public, but if after 15 days the animals have not been sold, they are returned.
Animal shelter workers say that bunches, licensed dealers who collect animals from shelters and sell them to research institutes, will be able to research researchers prefer to work with such animals.
DECELELLS SAID this infuriated members of the Humane Society who thought that obtaining shelter animals for research added to the belief that an animal's life was worthless.
The director of one Humane Society chapter that is in a state that requires the release of animals for research said that the Society should be aware of the position of supplying animals for research.
"Animal experiment leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth," said the director in the study.
"WeVE JUST gotten people to believe that it's better to bring the animal to the shelter than to turn it loose. If they know that the animal may be dangerous, we've done our best, lab, we just right back where we started."
Antiviriasectionism claim that laboratory animals do not receive adequate care, but Valentino Stella, KU professor of pharmacology, agrees with researchers who say the quality of care for lab animals is probably superior to the care most pets receive.
Mulder said a second reason pound animals were not used at KU was that they were not of the quality researchers prefer.
Stella said the background of the animal affected the consistency of the testing. Most researchers must work with a genetically homogeneous pool of animals, because the genetic and environmental background of stray animals could affect the reliability of the research.
WORKING FROM THE same genetic pool allows researchers to use a smaller number of animals, he said, because some of the variability has been eliminated.
But specially breed laboratory animals are expensive. Sasco Laboratories, Omaha, Neb.,
provides the University with rats, mice, guinea pigs and hamsters.
Steve Dwyer, Sasco president, said his company supplied a million animais annually to research labs.
The cost of a lab-breed animal ranges from 95 cents to $17. One of the more expensive animals is the "nude mule," which is used to study the growth of human cancer tumors.
CHARLES RIVER Breeding Laboratories in Wilmington, Mass., sells mice, rats and guinea pigs. Gilbert Slater, that company's corporate vice president, says this year the company sold 22 million animals.
Animal shelter also are affected by financial concerns because they must pay the cost for an animal's upkeep. Opponents to using animals for research say it is worth the price, though it would be cheaper to sell the animals to a research center.
but Kinsley said it did not make sense to kill the animals in the shelter when they could be
He said that nearly 10,000 dogs were put to sleep last year in Oklahoma City while the research center there used 495. This was a very real waste of animal lives, he said.
Decelles said that in the Lawrence shelter, 952 dogs and 752 cats were destroyed last year.
SOME ANIMAL WELFARE agencies are not as outspoken about using animals bred for research as they are about using shelter animals.
But Jones said the Society of Animals' Rights did not think that any experiments using live animals were possible.
She said that two surveys, one done by Glamour magazine and one by the Boston Globe, indicated that 63 percent of those surveyed favored ending all experimentation on animals.
Increased medical knowledge does not depend upon animal research, she said, as competent alternatives are available to replace live animal research.
Hoyt said scientists had not tried to explore many of the alternatives.
"WE REALIZE THAT there are necessary and important research activities that involve animals, but we are working for the best care and the least amount of pain," he said.
Animal welfare advocates argue that alternative methods abound to test drugs and achieve the same results as animal testing. Researchers who used animal testing found that more alternatives are being tested.
"But certainly the bulk of the kind of research that is done still needs living animals if they're going to test a vaccine that is going to be used in humans."
Muldier said, "I think research people who work with animals have always tried to find alternatives. We already have many alternative computers, computers, more can be done in /issue cultures.
CELL CULTURES are an alternative that animal welfare supporters say can replace human labor.
But Stella said these cultures must be taken from an animal to begin with, so an animal was
"The problem with this, even though it's a potentially very useful area, is in the danger that cultured cells behave differently from cells in intact animals," he said.
For example, most experiments using cultured tumor cells for studying molecules are invalid because they have very different reactions from those in animals, he said.
This is because cultured tumor cells are much more effective at absorbing large cell drugs than skin cells.
Grants are available to researchers who actively seek non-animal tests. Revlon, a cosmetic manufacturer, gave a $750,000 grant to Rockefeller University to seek an alternative to the Draize test, which determines whether a chemical is harmful to the human eye.
SLATER SAID the use of animals was decreasing primarily because laboratory researchers were learning how to use fewer animals and because companies had worked to improve the animals' health so that fewer animals die during transportation to research facilities.
Even with the increased interest in non-animal alternatives, the Society for Animals' Rights thinks that more can be done, Jones said. Her society continues to work for the repeal of laws that allow live animal experimentation and to prohibit illegal regulation preventing the exploitation of animals.
RESEARCHERS AND MEDICAL professionals think that if this happens, the quality of care they provide will improve.
"I can assure you that your unborn grand-children will suffer if that is accomplished."
years there had been no major surgical discoveries.
However, testing a new drug involves complex tests and Jones said these were repetitive, and they could be avoided.
KNISELY DENIED this and said the tests were necessary because of Food and Drug Administration requirements Testing on a drug can be used on humans completed before a drug can be used on them.
Mulder said that Great Britain had restricted the use of animals in research, and in the last 20
"Biomedical experiments are not crazy tools. They are after information to help improve their design."
FDA laws require tests on three different species, one of which cannot be a rodent. To assure the drug response the test must be conducted in five levels, which involves studies on many animals.
"Under the present law, you couldn't issue any new drugs if they weren't retested. No two humans are exactly the same, that's why there are so many tests on animals." Knisely said.
Knissle said that researchers who wanted to experiment on animals had to present their experimentation proposals to the animal advisory board at the University of Oklahoma. If the board thought that the research was unnecessary, painful to the animal, the project was denied.
ON THE MATTER of pain, opponents raised the question how researchers could determine what causes pain.
Dennis Stark, director of the animal research laboratories at Rockefeller University in New York, said an electro-encephalogram was used on an animal to watch brain waves. Stella said that animals were under anesthesia during testing that could cause pain, and that the animal was killed after the test so it would not have to suffer.
“IT'S AN EMOTIONAL thing. People say we must hate dogs, but there is not necessarily a relationship between wanting to find cures for humans and hating dogs.” Knisely said.
Some animal rights advocates say that researchers do not care about the animals they study.
Mulder agreed, "I have compassion for animals, obviously, but if it upset me a great deal I couldn't be in the job I'm in. I strictly come from the position that we need to use animals for research for the betterment of human health and life. If you're in that position, some animals must be sacrificed and some will suffer."
Iran
From page one
"Since I've known her — she's been my friend for seven years — she was very faithful to her ideas," he said. "She would fight for them until her death."
HE SAID THE KHOMeni regime had accused Nadia of being a contact person between people who wanted to join the Mojahedin and the leaders of the organization.
He translated a letter from Iran that Nadia sent him on Jan. 22, 1980.
"Our job right now is to tell the people what's going on, so they will rebel against the reactionaries," she wrote.
Amir Katozvi, president of the KU chapter of the Moslemi Iranian Students Societies, said, "Nadia Kavani is a symbol of what is going on in Iran."
Katovzian said Nadia's death was hard to take.
"For me hearing it, at the beginning I just became silent like everyone does," he said.
But he said that he later viewed Nada's death as a message to continue the struggle for justice.
KATOVZIAN SAID THAT at KU Nadia distributed political and philosophical leaflets detailing the views of the Mojadieh. He said he attended meetings of the Muslim Student Organization but was not an active member of that group because it was pro-Khomeini. The group is now called the Muslim Student Association.
In Iran, she taught classes, helped start classes in rural Iran for dispossessed children and preached Muslim ideals to workers, he said.
Nasir Charmchi told in high school Nadia protested against the government of the Shah, as he and his sister did. He said the SAK, the AK, the KS, the KD, the KE, the KQ, the KS, his sister and other students at the high school.
HE SAID HIS sister was arrested by the SAVAK but was released after two days because he had been caught stealing.
Gehring said that Khomeini's secret police had apparently taken over some of SAVAK's files on student protesters. Gehring said Amnesty International had received other reports of Iranian students in the United States who were killed by the Khomeini regime.
The Khomeini regime has executed 4,388 Iranians, according to the reports of Iranian officials. He said that amount did not include those killed in the war, a number of people who had been killed without a trial.
Applications are now being accepted for the
University of Kansas Student Senate Staff
*Executive Secretary
- Administrative Assistant
- Treasurer
- Associated Students of Kansas Campus Director
- Chairperson, Student Senate Executive Committee
* Treasurer
If you are interested in working in student government, if you have organizational and leadership skills, if you have the desire to serve in a student leadership position, investigate these opportunities.
Applications are available for these salaried positions in the Student Senate Office, 105 B Kansas Union and are due by Friday, December 3, at 4:00 p.m. Interviews will be held December 6, 1982. If you have questions call 864-3710.
(paid for by Student Activity Fee)
Sony Tape introduces Wide Fidelity Sound
Sony's revolutionary new UCX S. audio cassette tape, tricolor, the ultimate Tape for High Frequency Sound Reproduction.
SONY.
A Factory Representative from Sony Tape will be at Kief's Records & Stereo Friday, December 3 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to perform a tape comparison clinic. Sony UCX-S 90 tape, reg. $7.25, will be on sale Fri. & Sat. only
for $2.99 ea.
---
The FUNTIME VIDEO AMUSEMENT
WHERE THE HOT ONES ARE!
AMUSEMENT CO.
Union Jay Bowl
New Yorker
West Coast
Bottoms Up
West Coast...
Donkey Kong Jr.
Satellite Union
Donkey Kong
Naismith Hall
Ms PacMan
Galaga
Naismith Hall
Union Jay Bowl Satellite Union
Bottoms Up... Union Jaw Powl. Calgary
Wheel...
Joust
Ichabods.
Bullwinkels . . . . . Donkey Kong
Bullwinkels . . . . . Phonebooth
RENTING?
- Exchange . . . . . Speakeasy ...
vaientinos ... Zaxxon
Mad Hatter...PacMan
Gammons.
Exchange . . . Speakeasy Pin
Centipede
Galaga
Fun Time — Supplier of All
the latest & greatest video games
1) computer terminal connections
Ichabods . . . . . Donkey Kong
Offers the educational aids of:
JAYHAWKER TOWERS
2) audio-visual equipment
The special facilities are available to residents of Tower A—reserved
for KU graduate students.
Bullwinkels . . . . Donkey Kong
YOUR INSPECTION IS INVITED.
JAYHAWKER TOWERS APARTMENTS
1603 W. 15th St.
Towers Office
Office Hours
Alex, Asst. Manager
(913) 843-8020
(913) 843-4993
8:00 a.m.— 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
8:00 a.m.—12:00 a.m.Saturday
A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR DENNIS DAILEY
Found in the November 22nd issue of the University Day Kansan (UDK) is a letter from Social Welfare Professor Dennis Dailey claiming that Maranatha Campus Ministries Director Steve Mobley's statements about porchography "reflect a total lack of understanding of the dynamics of rape and incest." While I agree with Professor Dailey's claim, his attempt to convince the UDK's readership that his understanding of the aforementioned subjects is superior to Mr. Mobley's falls short of the mark. For instance, Professor Dailey informs us that: "Rape is much less serious than an issue of power over the material life." For example, Professor Dailey feels that this country's "incidence of rape" is a function of "the underlying sexism in our society," and hence advises Mr. Mobley to examine "the conservative/fundamentalist theological roots that he represents, a perspective that still subjugates women to men."
When Professor Dailey claims that "rape is . . . a feature of . . . (our) male-dominated society," he implies that this country's present incidence of rape is and always has been an integral part of every nation's existence as each of these societies is and has been "male-dominated." With this title thesis, he manages to ignore the fact that the national incidence of rape has markedly increased during the very period in which women have made great advancements in their ability to protect themselves. Perhaps Professor Dailey believes that rape advances such an increase in Japan, a "male-dominated" country in which women don't enjoy nearly the independence they do here. He would, it seems to me, have to conclude that rape is not simply the result of an "underlying sexism" but a product of many national variables, one of which is pornography.
Both pornography, which Adrienne Rich calls "culturally glorified violence against women", and rape are genuine expressions of sexism because each, in Professor Dalley's words, "subjugates women to men". If one concedes that each individual's environment plays a large part in shaping that person's behavior, then it follows that pornography, which Susan Brownmiller considers "the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda", should be proscribed because of its defamatory and inflammatory nature.
Professor Dailey also says:
Incect—familial sexual abuse—is a product of family disorganization, the result of which is incest as a symptom. Mobley might be interested to know that one of the characteristics of incestuous families is that they often associate with fundamentalist theological groups, and that these groups may practice the things they often do are attend church regularly. It is not uncommon to have the incestuous occurrence justified in theological terms.
by categorizing incest as both "a product" (the natural result) and "a symptom" (a sign or subjective evidence) "of family disorganization". Professor Dailey manages to miss the boat twice in one sentence. The truth is that most family arguments, separations, and divorce don't occasion incestuous behavior because incest has been recognized as destructive and prohibited in most societies for centuries. Incest is occurring with greater frequency in our country today not because of some "underlying sexism" but because various societal institutions—the three branches of government and the schools, for example—are failing to honor our heritage and put to productive use this nation's vast potential. The incredible success of the rancid pornography industry, which has often profited from the promotion of incest and pedophilia, is just one result of this institutional failure.
Professor Dailey then asserts that "incestuous families
Professor Dalley then asserts that "incestuous families often associate with fundamentalist theological groups . . . (and) often . . . attend church regularly." What he doesn't tell us with this studied smear is that "incestuous families" every bit as and probably even more "often" neither "associate with fundamentalist theological groups" nor "attend church regularly".
In a breathtaking tour de force, again unaccompanied by any substantive material, Professor Delley adds: "It is not uncommon to have the incestuous occurrence justified in theological terms." Professor Delley then urges Mr. Mobley to limit his inferences "to those things he has information on that he considers it." It is, I believe, relevant to note that had Professor Delley followed his advice to Mr. Mobley, the November 22nd issue of the UDK would have contained a much brighter apologia for pornography.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Torr.
Paid Advertisement