The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, August 25, 1982 Vol. 93, No.4 USPS 650-640
Bell to lose a year of eligibility, NCAA rules
Kerwin Bell sat out this play last season and now must sit out three games this season.
KU fall enrollment increases in face of struggling economy
First-day enrollment at the University of Kansas was up 242 students from last fall's first-day total despite decreases in the number of students eligible for Guaranteed Student Loans, KU officiated.
Enrollment figures released yesterday showed the first-day enrollment figure for the Lawrence campus was 22,379—155 more students than last fall.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the first-day enrollment figure was an encouraging one. "It reflects the confidence that the students have in the University," he said.
Bill Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor said that Chancellor Gene A. Budgis was
Enrollment also was up slightly at the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City. This fall, 2,234 students enrolled there, 87 more than the 1981 total.
THE INCREASE POINTS to the attractiveness of the University," Hogan said. "It points to the quality of our academic programs and our reasonable tuition levels compared with other
Ambler said that he was not surprised with the
The eligibility problem stems from a policy at Edison. The school has a policy for all students, not just athletes, that work completed even in the summer following the eighth semester counts for graduation. If he or she attended everything would have been all right, and he still would have been allowed to enroll.
By GINO STRIPPOLI Sports Editor
The official enrollment figure is taken from the number of students enrolled on the 20th day of classes. At that time, Ambler said, the full-time equivalent also is calculated.
increase in students enrollment but that the figu re should be looked at only as a temporary one.
"All of the official information from the high school to the University indicated he had over a 2.0 grade point."
Last fall, the 20th-day figure was 23.900. Dyck said this year's 20th-day figure might exceed 24.000.
Bambler said this fall's higher first-day enrollment was a hopeful sign for the University because funding for the University was related to the FTE figure.
The FTE is calculated by dividing the total number of credit hours by the average full-time course load for undergraduates.
"The University of Kansas, after discussion with the NCAA and Edison High School, has concluded after applying the strictest interpretation of the 2.0 eligibility rule in eight semesters of high school work, that Kermin Bell was a nonqualifier to compete his freshman year." Jim Lessig, KU athletic director, said yesterday. "At no time during the recruitment or the enrollment process did KU or Kermin realize he did not meet the NCAA rule.
GIL Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said
between 1,000 and 2,000 students might enroll
from the university.
But he also said that the FTE figure might not increase just because the number of students seemed to be increasing. Many students go to school only part-time and their FTE figure could decrease even if the number of students increases. The FTE decreased last year.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association ruled yesterday that Kerwin Bell, an All-Big Eight performer his freshman year, was ineligible to receive a scholarship upon graduating from Edison High School in Huntington Beach, Calif.
The NCAA said that Bell would lose one year of eligibility and would have to sit out the first three games of the 1982 season.
Bell did not comply with the NCAA rule that states an athlete must have a 2.0 GPA to be eligible for a scholarship. Bell took two summer school classes after his senior year and his GPA was then over a 2.0, but the NCAA does not allow him to attend a document tests to count, thus Bell was ineligible.
"Kerwin Bell was permitted to do work in two
Bell, who will out of the most of the work肌束 because of shin splints, will now be eligible to return to practice. It is not known, however, when Bell will return to practice.
Bell earned all-conference honors as a freshman at Kansas rushing for 1,114 yards, making him only the 14th freshman in the history of the NCAA to go over 1,000 yards. He broke the record of Oklahoma's Joe Washington for most yards rushing by a freshman in the Big Eight, and he was named to the Associated Press' All-America honorable mention team.
Weather
"Naturally, I feel sorry for Kerwin Bell since he was innocent along with the University of a technical violation," said Head Coach Don Fambrough. "But we can't dwell on the negative. Our team will take up the slack and look forward to Kerwin rejoining us Oct. 2 against Tulsa. But the important thing is that Kerwin can continue his education at the University of Kansas."
Last season, Bell gained slightly over 212 yards in just over two games. During the '14 game of the season, Bell went down with a knee injury and was lost for the season. Bell received two awards and three-time All-Star representatives and had three years of eligibility remaining before the NCAA's ruling yesterday.
It will be mostly sunny and warm today, with light and variable winds, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The high today will be in the mid-80s with skies becoming partly cloudy and low clouds forming.
Bell was originally declared ineligible to play this season, but KU appealed that decision to the NCAA's eligibility committee. After listening to the facts in the case, the NCAA ruled that Bell would lose one of his three remaining years of eligibility and that he not compete in the first round of the fourth season. Bell will become eligible to play startling with the fourth game against Tulsa Oct. 2.
The extended forecast calls for continued pleasant weather with a high chance of rain, and a warm.
casses, and when it was *s* successfully completed those grades became a part of his official transcript, "Lessig said." That is the transcript that the University dean of admissions and records, Dr. Sylvester
Research study may link arrhythmia, fatty acids
By BRUCE SCHMIDT Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The causes of arrhythmia, an errant heartbeat, may be related to the heart's release of fatty acids, said Duane Wenzel, professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
Arrhythmia (a-RITH-mia) occurs when the heart does not coordinate its contractions in a proper sequence and when each chamber does not contract in a uniform and complete manner.
A group of cells, the pacemaker, generates electrical impulses that stimulate the heart to contract. If heart tissue is starved of blood because of blocks in the coronary arteries, heart cells die and are unable to conduct electrical impulses along the normal cell-to-cell pathway.
Wenzel and several research assistants have been studying irregular heartbeats for the past
To help in Wenzel's study of how arrhythmia is produced and stopped, single layers of beating heart cells from newborn rats are prepared on culture dishes.
The heart cells on the culture dishes all beat uniformly. An arrhythmia then is produced by exposing the cells on the culture dish to low amounts of oxygen followed by normal oxygen
Wenzel's arrhythmia research model is different from previous research techniques that used the whole heart.
"WITH OUR SINGLE layer of heart cells we don't have interference from the nerves, hormones in the blood or any other," Wenzel
"A typical explanation of how anti-arrhythmic agents work is that they stabilize the cell, which has no meaning whatsoever in terms of arrhythmias." Wenzel said. "You can find drugs in which you are able to identical degrees of so-called cell stabilization, but have absolutely no anti-arrhythmic effects."
WENZEL SAID HE hoped to isolate the cause of cellular fatty acid release and to develop a drug to stabilize the flow of fatty acids in and out of heart cells.
Cockroaches cause problems for angry Towers residents
Anti-arrhythmia agents interfere with the excessive absorption of calcium ions in the heart cells. Wenzel said, too much calcium enters the heart cell, the cell malfunctions or dies.
The administration of anti-arrhythmic drugs is based on patterns received from an electrocardiogram, a device that records electrical activity of the heart.
The main difference in Wenzel's model from a naturally occurring arrhythmia is that the model does not have a normal defined pathway of impulses going through the heart cells. Impulses that are generated in the single layer of heart cells move at random.
"Treatment with anti-arrhythmic agents is very often trial and error." Wenzel said. "A physician learns from other people's experience or his own experience that a given type of drug is beneficial and uses it, but the physician doesn't understand why."
Although there are numerous anti-arrhythmic drugs on the market, little is known about the scientific principles involved in how the drugs work.
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said. "We can maintain experimental conditions down to a very narrow and isolated level."
Staff Reporter
Cockroaches crawled from cracks in corners, and a resident watched as 30 of them swarmed on a kitchen ceiling in a Jayhawk Towers awaits and last week.
anys," he not sick of killing them," said Ross, a Sawbee swophone. "I'd understand if it was a slum area, but it's not. We pay $420 a month to live here."
Russ and her roommates cover their food with paper towels while it cooks to keep bugs from dropping into it. Her roommate Teresa Frazze, Shawnee sophomore, said they kill at least 15 bugs.
Exterminators had been in the apartment twice that week.
Elizabeth Ross, a resident of the apartment in Tower C, opened the silverware drawer and saw
with the lab coat. Pill Control spreads for bugs at the Schenectady Public Park, but residents must request that their apartments be sprayed, said Pratt Truitt, manager he said the extinternants came in to spray three consecutive days after students moved in this fall. Every empty apartment at the Towers was sprayed during the summer, too, he said.
Ross and Frazee said that they and their two roommates were going to move to Tower B because they couldn't stand sharing quarters with the roaches any longer.
Despite the efforts of exterminators, some residents of Tower C say they cannot get rid of the mice.
Richard Flene, branch manager of Orkin Exterminating Co., said most chemicals used in extermination lasted for 30 days. To get rid of a rat, he sprayed the area with spraying for nine months to a year, he said.
ELAINE ADAMS, Topek junior, said the severity of the problem depended largely on which exterminator sprayed the apartment. She said she thought that everyone should leave Tower C for one day so the whole place could be sprayed thoroughly at one time.
Now, when one apartment is sprayed, the other apartments in the area get infested, she said. The cockroaches move from the sprayed apartment and back again when the spray years
Four types of cockroaches infect the Lawrence area, Fiene said. American, Oriental and wood roaches are not found in most apartments. The German roach is most prevalent, he said.
IN ITS TWO YEAR lifespan, a German roach lays 10 egg capsules. Flesh one. Each capsule contains about 250 cells.
John Isaac, manager of Schenell Pest Control,
said no chemical powerful enough to kill the encapsulated insects could be used safely in a home.
Isaac said he thought that Jahywahner Towers was probably less roach-infected than other companies.
See ROACHES page 5
BEN BIGLER/Kansan Staff
Angela Mayfield, Medicine Lodge sophomore, and her roommates were forced to move from their apartment in Tower C of Jayhawker Towers when repeated fumigations failed to bring results. The Jar contains some of the insects they found yesterday.