Mice invade Hill, no traps needed
By ROSE MARIE LEE
KU has a mouse population of 12.000—not counting the wild rodents seen occasionally scurrying in campus buildings.
The 12,000 are special inbred mice raised by the Hall Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics (HLMG) for genetic research here and for distribution to other research labs.
The mice come in many colors—white mice with black eyes, albino mice whose eyes appear pink, silver-colored mice with pink eyes, and black and white spotted mice, black mice, honey tan mice, and several of varying shades of grey—all with black eyes.
The lab, a four-story building attached to Snow Hall, was built in 1959 for research and training in Mammalian Genetics.
"THERE ARE 15 inbred strains and more than 50 different mutant stocks produced in HLMG," said H. Glenn Wolfe, assistant professor of zoology and acting director of the institute.
Besides housing approximately 6,000 mice,HLMG also includes three laboratories,a library,office space,facilities for cleaning and sterilizing cages,and storage space for feed and bedding.
There are 10 animal rooms in HLMG with a 100 to 200 cage capacity in each room. Wolfe explained that a female mouse can produce about six litters a year and each litter normally contains five to six mice.
THE CAGES ARE small (10 x 7 x 5 inches), stainless steel boxes. As he cautiously lifted a corner of one of the cages, Wolfe said, "I hope these are beyond the popcorn stage—a certain phase when young mice tend to pop out of the cage like popcorn." These silver-colored mice were beyond that stage.
The mice have to be killed if they get out. They might carry in disease-producing germs and contaminate a colony.
Wolfe explained that the mice are inbred in that "they have the same genotype. All members of the strain are like identical twins to each other. The young look just like their parents.
"These mice not only look alike; genetically, they are alike," Wolfe said.
AN ADDITIONAL 6,000 mice are raised under the Memorial Stadium.
Wolfe said students occasionally request fresh mouse meat for their pets. "A fellow was in here the first part of the semester and
wanted a mouse for the bullsnake he had in the dorm," Wolfe said, "but our mice are distributed only for scientific purposes."
Research in HLMG deals generally with the physiological and developmental genetics of the mouse.
In addition to five animal caretakers, a full-time research assistant, secretary and several KU students assist Wolf at HLMG.
PROTECTING THE mice from bacterial and viral infections is the most serious problem Wolfe has in keeping the KU mice healthy, he said.
All newly-imported mice are kept in isolation until tests are run to rule out the possibility of disease.
"KU, the University of Michigan and the University of Miami are the only teaching installations supplying mice for research, but many teaching institutions raise mice and use them for their own research," Wolfe said.
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Fund hits $4.75 million with gifts from banks
By CAROL DeBONIS
The Program for Progress total now stands at "roughly four and three-quarters million dollars"—following the $85,000 contributions of three Lawrence banks, according to Maurice Barker, program secretary.
The gifts were $35,000 from the First National Bank and $25,000 each from Douglas County State and Lawrence National.
The contributions were the result of direct solicitation in the local drive.
IN THE PAST each has contributed to such funds as the John Outland Scholarship Fund, the Higher Education Loan Program and the School of Religion Building Fund. The recent contributions exceed all others, however.
As one bank president put it, the contributions were commensurate with the goal.
Dolph C. Simons Jr., local chairman, said he was pleased with the gifts and expressed hope that "they have set a mark for which others may
MOST OF THE $35,000 will become a part of the unrestricted opportunity fund, said Barker, although a small percentage will go for student aid.
He was referring to the $18.6 million three-year aim set last April by the Council for Progress, a 275-member group appointed by Chancellor Wescoe in 1963 to study second century university needs and develop plans for meeting them.
aim." Simons stressed the importance of the local campaign as a pacer for the state and national drives.
"WE ARE SLOWLY moving into high gear," he said of the drive. Although the program was officially launched in September, solicitation is still in the advanced stages.
Lawrence members of the Council for Progress are presently contacting limited numbers of individuals. The following contributions have been elicited: $50,000 from a Lawrence family, $10,000 from a KU official, $5,000 from a KU dean, $4,000 from a KU professor, $4,000 from an area businessman and farmer, $20,000 from a Lawrence businessman, $4,000 from another Lawrence businessman and numerous others of the same general size.
The general solicitations will probably begin next month, although no definite date has been set.
Plans are to incorporate the best ideas of the two into their own campaign. "We hope we can beat what has been raised in Manhattan and Norman." Simons added.
SIMILAR CAMPAIGNS by Kansas State and Oklahoma universities are being studied by the members of the local committee.
He said some kind of general Lawrence campaign should be in full swing by the end of the school year.
KU-Y, Viet Committee to debate war Jan. 11
The Viet Nam Committee's challenge for debate on the war's termination has been accepted by two KU varsity debaters representing KU-Y.
Jim McNish, Topeka junior,
and Bob Ward, Wichita junior
(KU-Y), will face Rick Atkinson,
Belleville junior, and Hamilton
Salsich, St. Louis, Mo., graduate
student (Viet Nam Committee),
at 7:30 p.m. Jan.11 in the Kansas
Union Forum Room.
The debate was scheduled following a resolution by the KU-Y cabinet Tuesday.
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According to Tom Moore, executive secretary, acceptance was based on the Ys continuing interest in discussions on the Viet Nam conflict.
No exact topic has been set.
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