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University Daily Kansan, November 17; 1982
Bones excavated in Pompeii of interest to professors
From staff and wire reports
Archaeologists in Herculaneum Italy, have unearthed a large collection of complete skeletons from the explosion of Mount Vesuvius in a find that several KU professors call "terribly exciting."
The archaeological find, as reported yesterday by National Geographic magazine, included the discovery of the skeleton of a woman who was struck down in an archway and wounded with rings set with gemstones. Archaeologists also found the preserved skeletons of a sailor who was clutching an oar in a capsized boat.
and a man lying face down on a beach his sword beside him.
Excavations at the site, south of Naples, uncovered more than 80 skeletons. Most were intact from head to toe. It was the first indication that the site was inhabited by humans. T9 also buried hundreds at the nearby Herculaneum seaside resort.
Elizabeth Banks, KU associate professor of classes, called the discovery team.
"THIS DISCOVERY makes possible better information about the way in which people responded to the disaster," he said. "The vast amount of material from those
sites, which are particularly fertile for architecture and wall paintings."
Banks said the Italian discovery also was important because the city of Herculaneum was destroyed by molten bronze and the pamice and ash that buried Pompeii.
"There is a different set of circumstances surrounding the deaths of the people in Herculaneum," she said. "At Pompeii, they have made incredibly difficult to imagine models of people in the position they were in when they mussed their last."
The discovery of skeletons at Herculaneum, Banks said, will open up an unusual view of everyday life in a Roman city during the first century.
JAMES SEAVER, professor of history and director of the Western Civilization program, said the discovery of more skeletons would provide an interesting twist for a group of KU architecture and history students that planned to visit Herculaneum and Pompeii next summer.
"Certainly, the discovery makes me look forward to our trip next summer to Italy," said Seaver, who has traveled to Italy, nearly every summer since 1900.
"Much of ancient history is directly fed by archaeological finds. The numismatic finds (coins) and the gemstones undoubtedly will be valuable."
Seaver said the discovery of the
skeletons was significant because they
THE DESTRUCTION of Herculeanum differed from that of Pompeii, Seaver said, because boiling mudslides made it harder for people to escape the disaster. Charred doors and window frames have been found at excavations made throughout at the city, which was thought to have been a resort for fashionable Romans and Neoolitans.
"They couldn't have been moved since antinity." he said
State faculty research funding declines
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
State funding for faculty research this year is almost $710,000 less than requested, continuing a decline in state funding, a research official said recent
Carolyn Hallenbeck, director of research support and grant administration, said about $670,000 was awarded to KU researchers from the general research fund. While the amount of money received was less than half of that requested, about 64 of the proposals received financing.
Hallenbeck said more proposals were financed because some of them received less funding than requested. She said the amount of money requested yearly from the general research fund, a state appropriation to KU, had been more than $1 million for the past couple of years. But, she
said, the amount of money appropriated was only 50 percent of that requested.
GLEE SMITH JR., Kansas State Regents Budget and Finance Committee chairman, said the private college should make up for the loss in state money.
"Because of the quality of research, we've been able to attract outside funding," he said. "I think the research will be more expensive to research the last few years."
"This stresses the importance of the fund. Research is an integral part of the University." Hallenbeck said.
Although two-thirds of Herculaneum still remains unexcavated, archaeologists think that many residents of Herculaneum, hoping the worst was over, remained in the city after the Vesuvius explosion.
Smith cited the state's financial problems as one of the reasons that research had not been of primary importance to the state.
Hallenbeck said that when Gov. John Carlin made his 4 percent budget cut this summer, KU reduced other parts of the research department before reducing the general research fund.
"This particular fund is a substantial investment by the state."
SMITH SAID that research was an important function of the Regents schools but that teaching was still the number one concern.
The deadline for submitting research proposals for next year to the office of research, graduate studies and public service is Jan. 4.
Robert Bearse, assistant vice chancellor for research and graduate studies, said a $4,000 limit for faculty salaries awarded for summer research was recommended by the Faculty Senate Research Committee. The committee insisted because of review committees differing attitudes on salaries.
HALLENBECK SAID said the
Guidelines for the proposals were changed this year because the current ones were unclear as to how much attention was needed to salary amounts during summer research.
guidelines also set a minimum limit for faculty salary requests at two weeks of regular salary.
There are eight review committees in several fields: social sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, humanities, fine arts, engineering, biological sciences and behavioral sciences.
Faculty members submitting proposals can request a review on their proposal by any of the committees, which are composed of KU professors, according to the guidelines. In this the proposal has been recommended by the review committee must be considered by the research committee.
Another change was made in renewal proposals for grants already awarded and in progress. Proposals requesting an extension of a grant's funding now must include more documentation on the progress of the research.
Physical anthropologist Sara Bissel, hired by National Geographic to work at the site, said residents were caught up in the mud. They suffered a full force of the volcanic avalanche.
Two inmates found guilty in stabbing
The jury deliberated three days before finding Carlos Johnson guilty of first-degree murder and Oscar Brown guilty of second-degree murder.
TOPEKA—A federal jury yesterday found two inmates at the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth guilty of murder in the stabbing death of a third
By United Press International
The victim, Charles Jackson, was stabbed about 15 times in the recreation room of the prison in February, court officials said.
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