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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
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PHARMACY (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Members of the School of Pharmacy staff look on as the final beam is placed on the new School of Pharmacy building on West Campus. The new building is projected for completion in August 2010.
beam and to be a part of the new building"
Nancy Muma, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said the building would offer new technology, such as teleconferencing, which would allow students to communicate with scientists around the world.
Kelli Bryant, Hays first-year pharmacy student, said she signed the beam because she was proud of the hard work she had done to get into the school.
"I think once you're here you learn how important the profession is and just getting through the four years," Bryant said. "It was kind of prideful to put your name on the
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Audus said the new building would have larger labs and lecture halls, which means the school could hold more classes simultaneously.
"This is going to be terrific for
He said the pharmacy skills lab in Mallott — where students learn to fill prescriptions — was on two
different floors. The new building will put that lab in one room on one floor.
"That'll save some wear and tear on instructors running up and down to cover two classrooms," Audus said.
— Edited by Abby Olcese
NEWS
WETLANDS (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
20 acres back to Haskell Indian Nations University, as some activists have proposed. The government appropriated the majority of the Baker Wetlands from Haskell in the 1950s, called the land "surplus, and distributed it to local public institutions, including the University. But Bretz said that if control of the land were transferred away from the University, under terms of deed, the federal
"We believe in it, we believe that it's a sacred land, and we believe that it helps the environment.
MILLICENT PEPION Haskell student
government could reclaim control of it.
Although the University cannot simply give the land back to Haskell, Hering said it had the option of sponsoring research on the land through the Kansas Biological Survey. In this way, he said, the University could help the activists prevent the Kansas Department of Transportation
from going forward with its proposed trafficway.
Millicent Pepion, a third-year Haskell student representing the Navajo Nation and president of the Wetlands Preservation
Organization, took part in the demonstration. She said the fate of the 20 University-owned acres would be a decisive factor in whether or not the South Lawrence Trafficway would be built.
"We still want to use it for educational
purposes," she said. "We believe in it, we believe that it's a sacred land, and we believe that it helps the environment."
The groups gathered 1,373 signatures from both Haskell and the University, which they plan to present to the chancellor Wednesday.
Edited by Nick Gerik
After deciding two weeks ago to demonstrate along with local groups, Hering, who is the president of the student environmental group Eco-Justice, searched for any text in the research library that mentioned the words "Wetlands" or "Trafficway." He found a document called the "Resolution on the Trafficway and the Haskell Indian Nations University."
This fifteen-year old text, which he found by consulting the library card catalog with help from library staff, recorded a declaration made by the University Council in 1994.
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD TEXT
DECLARED NEUTRALITY
Jason Hering, Hutchinson senior, discovered a forgotten document at the Spencer Research Library last week that shed light for him on the University's continued stance on the Wetlands.
The declaration was approved by a voice vote on April 14 of that year.
The document he found reads, "The University Council hereby declares that the University of Kansas should disassociate itself from any official endorsements for or against the South Lawrence Trafficway, express or implied, that have been made in the past. The University of Kansas endorses and supports the Haskell Indian Nations University in its effort to build the best Indian educational institute in the country."
The University Council was renamed the University Senate in 2005, and contains representatives of four constituent senates: the Faculty Senate, the Student Senate, the Unclassified Senate and the University Support Staff Senate.
Justin Leverett
BASKETBALL Buford, City of Lawrence reach agreement on OUI
Junior guard Chase Buford has entered a diversion agreement with the City for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, according to Municipal Court records.
Buford will pay a total of $802 for a diversion fee, evaluation fee and court costs.
Buford was scheduled to appear in court last week regarding a July 11 arrest for suspicion of OUI near 7th and New Hampshire streets.
Because of the agreement, Buford will not have to go before court. If he adheres to all the terms of the agreement for a period of one year, the charges against him will be dismissed.
According to the agreement, Buford agreed to undergo substance abuse treatment and to
not consume alcohol or drugs for a year. In addition to the OUI charge, the agreement lists additional charges of refusing to submit to a breath test and a stop sign violation.
Junior guard Brady Morningstar was also placed on diversion earlier this month in an October DUI case. The two players agreed to similar conditions and fines, but unlike Buford, Morningstar will be subject to blood, breath or urine tests and has been suspended from team activities.
In a July 11 statement regarding the incident, coach Bill Self said he was disappointed in Buford's actions and would handle any discipline in-house.
"Although Chase is a high quality young man, he made some poor decisions and now has to live with the consequences of those decisions," Self said.
Brandon Sayers
GREEN (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
the recent advertising campaign would be the biggest.
Ryan Callihan, Lenexa senior and president of Environs, said
Hernandez said.
the campus conservation front dealt with energy, waste management and transportation issues. He said Environs was working on another way to improve University sus
"The main goal is to have the entire campus lit by LEDs, but that's not going to be a feasible
"The main goal is to have the entire campus lit by LEDs ..."
KIMBERLY HERNANDEZ
Vice president
of Environs
tainability, this time indoors: software to conserve energy use in labs by having computers automatically shut down overnight. Callihan said the University had more than 12,000 computers that ran between 50 and 100 watts continuously that would reduce energy waste.
Hernandez and the rest of the members of Environs were working with Scott McVey, Facilities Operations energy conservation and utility manager to
goal anytime in the near future," Hernandez said.
Callihan said getting the administration directly
McVey said that as time passed, LEDs would become cheaper and more attractive in conserving energy.
Don Steeple, senior vice provost, said the administration had been asked by the legislature to spend the University's money cautiously and responsibly
"The fact that we have a center for sustainability is because of students."
STACEY WHITE Director of academic programs, Center for Sustainability
install the LED streetlights on Jayhawk Boulevard.
involved would be imperative in creating a dedicated effort toward sustainability.
Environs and Facilities Operations expect to install a six LED streetlights at a cost of $1,000 to $1,500 per bulb along Jayhawk Boulevard near the Kansas Union. The group is seeking funds from the Student Environmental Advisory Board,
and responsibly. Steeple said an official announcement about new plans from the campaigns class for sustainability on campus wouldn't be made until a few months later.
Although the University has made some steps to
change to a greener environment, students have taken leadership in these efforts.
"The fact that we have a center for sustainability is because of students," said Stacey White, director of academic programs of the Center for Sustainability.
— Edited by Jacob Muselmann
WILDLIFE
SeaWorld in San Diego welcomes baby sea turtles
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LOS ANGELES — The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.
There hasn't been such happy turtle news at SeaWorld since 2003, when 21 sea turtles got an assist from park staff, said Tim Downing, assistant curator of fishes.
This time, the park let nature take its course and didn't incubate the eggs. The babies started poking through their ping pong-sized eggs on Oct. 5.
The birth of the baby turtles was announced Monday. Downing said they are in excellent health and should go on display at the park before the end of the year.
It will be up to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine whether the new turtles
Since then, they have been getting a diet of squid, krill, shrimp and special pellets.
stay at SeaWorld and whether they will allow the turtles to mate again next year, he said.
SeaWorld has 30 adult sea turtles in its collection, including three green females and one male. They have all been at the park since the 1960s so they are around 40 or 50 years old, or middle age for the creatures, which live to be well past 100 years.
SeaWorld's green sea turtles have reached sexual maturity and all three females may have buried eggs in the sand on the park's Shipwreck Beach, Downing said.
They have to do genetic testing to determine whether one turtle laid all the eggs or there were multiple mothers, he said, and SeaWorld crews have to dig up the beach to determine how many eggs failed to hatch.
"There is so much that is not known about sea turtles," Downing said. "We are getting real good information on the growth rate of juveniles."
A female turtle mates in the water, comes up high on the sand, digs a few false holes to fool
The babies weigh just a few grams now, but when they become adults in 20 years or so, they will weigh about 250 pounds.
The park doesn't name its animals, but the turtles have pit tags and flipper tags, Downing said.
"The biggest reason they don't live that long in the wild is mankind," he said. They are fished in some parts of the world, and pollution hurts.
There are seven species of sea turtles in the world and they are all endangered or threatened, Downing said.
"They are all gaining weight and doing well. We have done some X-rays, and they are progressing just like we would expect them to." Downing said.
predators, then digs a nest and lays between 100 and 120 eggs. Downing said. The eggs incubate for three months, with the gender of each baby being determined by the temperature of the sand.
"For example, a trash bag looks like a jellyfish. They eat it and it gets impacted in their gut and they starve to death," Downing said.
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Senior Aquarist Christa Miller transfers sea turtle hatchlings to a holding pool in this photo released by SeaWorld. The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld grew by 82 in October.
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