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Wednesday, August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Veterinarian tends KU animals
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
John Mulder, D.V.M., who began work this month as veterinarian at the University of Kansas, said he could sympathetic with new students who struggle to remember where their classes are held and how to get to them.
Mulder said he felt it was a major accomplishment to be able to locate his office, Snow Hall and the University laboratory at the facility without map and guidebook.
a veterinarian at KU, Mudi monitors and cares for all research animals used for
"I like being able to have all kinds of pets around."
experimentation. Previously a Kansas University vet act as consultant for KJI.
MULDER SAID he looked forward to the planning of the new central animal facility which will be part of an addition to Malott Hall.
He said the fact that funds were already committed to this project was a major incentive for his return to the Midwest from his position at Michigan State University.
"The administration is enthusiastic and is committed to improving research animal care. I excelled about the opportunity to work in design in designing the facility for KU." he said.
Mulder conceded that he and his family were basically Midwestern people and that he thought Kansas weather was a pleasant change from that of Michigan.
"MICHIGAN HAS long winters that just don't quit. As a native Iowan, I never thoroughly adjusted to the degree of coldness you get up north."
He said that he had been eager to return to a university setting, and to become inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Mulder said his family also agreed with decisions to take the positions at Michigan State and UT KU.
"When I was in practice in Iowa, it was a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week proposition and I obviously had little time to spend with my family," she said. "My wife says that I'm in business now. The advantage now is that I can regulate my hours. If I was an evening on, I take it."
Mulder's interest in animals was the natural result of his early life on an Iowa farm. He is a specialist in the
livestock and therefore going into veterinary medicine seemed like the logical
HIS CREDENTIALS are impressive to say the least. After obtaining a degree in biology from the University, Mulder entered the service for two years where he was involved in biological warfare research. He then returned to Iowa and worked in private practice.
Mulder subsequently attended the University of Missouri where he received a master's degree in laboratory animal science. He then taught another master's, this time in education.
"I decided after all this 'experimentation' that I really enjoyed teaching, so I got my degree in child psychology and I went to school thing. I know my degrees are an unusual combination—I'm probably the only one who ever thought to combine education and veterinary medicine in the same class."
IN SPITE of working with animals on an everybodys basin ladder said that he rewrote a sentence.
Mulder said his family has always had pets of all kinds, including gerbils, dogs, goats and lambs His son, Kevin, 16, said that he would be a veterinarian has its advantages.
"I like being able to have all kinds of pets around. Also when I need help with a school project where we use animals, I get lots of free help and advice." Kevin said.
AT PRESENT the Mulder family includes three gerbils (unamused because you can't tell them apart) and one combination of gerbil and ferret. Their whose sealance of the gerbils is unabashed.
Mulder's outside interests also reflect his interest in all types of animals. He said that he enjoys studying animal behavior, specifically what effects man and his environmental modifications can have on domestic animals.
"I think it's interesting to study the effects produced when a sick animal is isolated from the rest of its group. It's been shown that this separation causes increased stress on the animal and actually makes the animal more complacent, we continue to do it anyway," he said.
Mulder said he enjoys bicycling and photography in combination. He said he'd already been riding around the north area of Michigan, where he was maintained with its abundance of bump roads.
HE SAID his photography was strictly an amateur operation and was centered primarily on animals, preferably wild animals.
Mulder said he thought that wild animals were much more interesting to photograph and to study than domestic varieties because they have more personality.
"We've managed to ruin the personalities of most domesticated animals. We cater to their needs and they then, logically, expect us to take care of them," he said.
Mulder said he thought that we can learn from studying the habits of wild animals how to better care for our domesticated ones. Application of the knowledge of a wild animal's habitat can enable us to better accommodate domesticated species, he said.
Mulder's research work is also aimed at learning what animals really like in the way of a 'life style'. His studies deal with environmental effects on research animals which are arbitrarily imposed by researcher, and he employed effort to standardize experiments.
"THE FEDERAL Animal Welfare Act has set arbitrary limits on temperature, light, humidity and the like for all research animals. It's my opinion that these regulations show little logic or effort to provide a natural habitat for the animals."
In addition to his research work, Mulder's duties at KU include teaching, treating any cases of burns, and performing medical procedures.
'We've managed to ruin the personalities of most animals.'
ment of animals to particular experiments and supervision of all procedures within the
Because most people associate the word "veterianian" with Kansas State University. Mulder said he has had several reasons for bringing his reason for being employed at KU.
He said that any institution that uses animals extensively for research experimentation would have reason to need a full time veterinarian. He also said that animal care is not broadening, especially with the increasing percentage of women entering the field.
Mulder said that during his last term as member of the selection committee for Michigan State University vet school, 40 per cent of those admitted were women. He said that the problem of strength needed to handle larger animals was no longer a problem due to the development of tranquilizing drugs.
is largely a process of convincing other people you're no different from others simply because.
*WE LEARN to make do with what we've got. if you fall you get up and do it again.*
She had to invent her own method of cleaning her room from a wheelchair. Taking a shower was also no easy task at first.
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This was easier said than done last winter, when her crutches went out from under her on the ice, on more than one occasion.
Handicap ...
Mobility is made easier through a KU on-campus parking permit. She is still annoyed when non-disabled persons occupy the parking spaces reserved for her.
KU has been adapting to the needs of the disabled gradually. Elevators are being installed in some of the buildings and easy access to entrances is alleviating difficulties for those who are not only disabled due to a limb, but through blindness, also.
A SPECIAL difficulty that Kathy noted while she was limited to wheelchair travel was that her car had been stolen.
"When you're in a wheelchair the smallest slope is like a mountain, both up and down. A downward slope can cause a backflip, and a backward which can be treacherous," she said.
Kathy cultivated a certain amount of healthy defiance in order to make herself comfortable without her left leg. She says, "I'm going to wear shorts if I feel like it!"
Surmounting difficulties has become a way of life for Kathy Russell. It's something she is almost comfortable with at this stage of the game.
ONE OF the professors who had little faith in her academic ability apologized to Kathy shortly after she left the hospital. Others, who believed in her all along, feel proud of the progress she has made in gaining confidence in herself.
Professors, doctors, and friends took her under their wings while she was struggling to come to terms with all the changes she was going through.
Kathy recently acquired her artificial leg KU Medical Center. It is designed to look like a bone.
The stump of her own leg fits into a hollow bone in the artificial leg. It is helped on through a scar.
SHELL KEEP this artificial leg until next year when she has to get a replacement. She explained that the stump changes proportion and shaves that a broken bone, in a method described.
At this point, she can only wear the leg for part of the day, until the stump builds up on her.
She'll keep the original artificial limb, though, even after she gets a new one. Yes, even artificial legs break, sometimes, and it's handy to have an extra.
As far as the future is concerned, Kathy looks forward to graduating in 1970. In the past five years, she has
And what about dating? Kathy says the only problem she has on that score is "too many." She limits her dating to only Saturday night. "Sunday," she says firmly.
"there is no dating, I have to get up early for school on Monday."
THERE IS a sense of purpose in everything Kathy does. Her latest plans and goals include participation in bowling, dancing, track, and roller skating. And dancing.
When she is approached by other disabled persons who claim they don't believe they can lead normal lives socially and other socially important activities, head advised menting with a brief history
of what she has been through over the past six years.
Usually their own "impossible situations" don't seem quite so bad. Anything seems possible in light of what this woman has learned about her own brand of courage and determination.
Kathy Russell had no idea six years ago that her accident would one day seem like a blessing in disguise. In addition to gaining a college education, a new leg, and a career, Kathy says she has gained one more thing. Herself.
Burzle aids foreign study
More than forty years ago, J. Anton Burzle was an exchange student from the University of Munich to France. As director of KU European programs this fall, he'll continue his life-long connection with international education.
Staff Writer
By DAYNA HEIDRICK
Since coming to KU in 1945, Burzile has served as Director of the Study Abroad Office, director of the Fulbright Orientation Center. Fulbright adviser to the German literature and civilization and foreign language teaching methods.
THE STUDENTS are also going to different places, Burzle said. There is "intense interest" in the British Isles and the developing countries of the Third World, the Far East, in Pakistan, he said. KU Guam are being placed for Africa, Guam and the Marigans.
Now, Burzile said, three-quarters of all students go overseas are studying something besides language: natural sciences, engineering or business.
Originally, foreign study was an added opportunity for language majors, but in recent years students from all disciplines have studied abroad.
Faculty members are joining students in direct exchange programs between universities in Ireland and England, with programs planned for Germany also.
Burkle said he hoped that the United States government would expand federal assistance to foreign students and provide more scholarships, noting that the Soviet Union has made tremendous strides in luring foreign scholars.
The Midwestern Conference for Study
Broad, a consortium of private and state
universities in the Midwest, is held in
Washington.
In contrast to earlier efforts by schools to set up their own programs in each country, they now work together, allowing students from their respective schools to attend each other's classes. Students from small colleges can participate in KU programs through the association.
represents a significant move toward cooperation among Midwestern schools, he
Burzle hopes that every KU student who is qualified and interested can become a "world citizen", gaining knowledge and a wider perspective through study abroad.
KU, IN TURN, shares in the programs of other schools, such as the University of Colorado's program in Bordaux, France, and the joint venture with Minnesota, Nebraska and Missouri universities in Germany and England.
films is the way to know America, Burzle said.
THE KU Endowment Association gives scholarships based on merit and need to study abroad. Therefore, Burzill said, "Students should abstain any qualified student's participation."
But international study suffered a setback this year when Congress cut off funding for the Fulbright Orientation Center. For 25 years, Burkle said, the center introduced a program that gave students people, language and educational methods: Burkle said he thought that the Orientation Center saved as much as it cost to run it, since by the time students left at the end of six weeks, they could "jump into the world" with their fields and not have to be adjusting."
Burzel said short-term foreign study programs, offered between terms, will expand. Special sessions emphasizing music or art will initiate the programs.
After completing work at the Center, Burtle said, the students knew the ropes—"how to meet people, how to use a laundromat, how the grading system works."
At this time he said it is essential that the real America be known by bringing students to the U.S. and that Americans be known by sending students abroad.
BURZLE SAID the Orientation Center provided a thousand fold returns to the U.S., showing foreign students the real America. Meeting people, not reading books or seeing
Another alternative for study abroad are internships in areas such as business, giving graduate students a chance to work in their field in another country.
Burzle was born in Germany and studied at the University of Munich, the University of Dijon in France and the Sorbonne. he taught in Germany and Canada before coming to KU in 1945, served as a visiting professor at Stanford University while at KU.
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