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Wednesday, July 10. 1991 / University Daily Kansan
PRO-CHOICE MARCH & RALLY SUNDAY, JULY21 12:30--3:30 p.m. 3rd & MAIN WICHITA, KANSAS
Sponsored by the ProChoice Action League
The March:
The March.
Meet at 12:30 pm at 3rd & Main in Wichita.
The Rally:
The parade will begin at 1pm and proceed south on Main to Douglas and West on Douglas to A. Price Woodd Park.
A. Price Woodward Park at approximately 1:30 - 3:30pm.
Keynote Speaker:
Barbara Radford
Executive Director
National Abortion Fed.
We urge you to attend this important rally at what may be the turning point for freedom of choice in this country and this state.
For bus information or questions call in Overland Park Barbara Holmzark (913/381-8222) or Comprehensive Health for Women (1-800-229-1918). Parking is available at Century II (225 W. Douglas) or City Hall (455 N. Main).
Profs and staff learn about cloning
Workshop will aid University research
By Jeff Meesey Kansan staff writer
There are lots of little things that professors and researchers at KU do not know about.
That is why some of them are taking a course to learn more about manipulating and cloning the microscopic double-helix molecules of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid.
Dean Stetler, associate professor of biochemistry, said many KU faculty had come to him in the past to teach a virtual claclon computer for their research.
"We felt it would be easier and they would learn more if we held a workshop." Stelter said.
He said KU's "cloning camp" was free to KU faculty and staff. A similar course at other colleges, such as one at the University of California-Los Angeles, can cost more than $1,000.
He said the techniques taught in the course could be used in courtroom testimony, such as in paternity and maternity suits, and genetic fingerprinting of criminals. But it also could be used by biologists, for example, when
Stetler said the first few days of the course would deal with learning about a micro-organism, Escherichia coli, which researchers use to manipulate the DNA.
questions of lineage arose in the animal kingdom.
"There are several basic procedures," Stetler said. "Once they learn how to do them, there is not much that they can't in cloaking and manipulating the DNA."
The course, which began Monday, will continue until July 19.
Martha West, of the Biochemical Research Service Laboratory, is taking the course to bolster the services her laboratory offers.
"The key word in what we do is 'service.'" West said. "We do others ask us to do for their research. Before this course, we couldn't clone."
Another course participant, William Coil, professor of systematics and ecology, said he hoped to put the knowledge he gained in the course to work on future research projects.
However, he said research ideas were more plentiful than research money.
William Coil, professor of systematics and ecology, prepares a slide for viewing. He was participating in the Molecular Biology/Recombinant DNA workshop in Haworth Hall. The faculty and staff in the class are learning how to clone DNA.
Inconveniences plague smokers at KU
By Eric Swanson
Kansan staff writer
When Russ Dickison was a bus driver for KU on Wheels in 1990, he used to smoke a few cigarettes in the Union before starting his route.
One day, a man approached him and urged him to put his cigarette out. Dickison refused, and the man threw it at him and finally stormed away
A few days later, Dickison was smoking in the Union when the man approached him again.
Dickison said that when he refused to extinguish his cigarette, the man began to strike him and tried to wrestle his cigarette away from him. After a brief struggle, the man fled, cursing Dickinson under his breath.
"I should have stubbed the cigarette out on his forehead." Dickson is unaware of what has just happened.
This incident is one example of increasing problems facing smokers at KU. All campus buildings, including the student residence, permit smoking only in certain areas.
In residence halls, students may smoke only in large public areas such as cafeterias and floor lobbies. They are not permitted to eat, but only if their roommates consent.
Scholarship-hall residents may not smoke inside.
There are fewer smokers in the residence hall system than there used to be, said Fred McElhennie, associate director of student housing.
toward smokers was justified but that it had little effect on them.
"Tolerance for smokers is lower than it used to be," he said. "People are reading the research on smoking, and they're paying attention to it." Charles Vockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that he thought public hostility
Watkins offers both free individual counseling and group sessions to help students quit smoking. The sessions are conducted by Watkins department of health education.
Watkins also promotes the Great American Smokeout, which is sponsored by the American Cancer Society the week before Thanksgiving.
Despite the support for KU students wanting to quit smoking, only 5 percent manage to quit, Yockey said, citing figures from surveys done by the American College Health Association.
"I's a horrible statistic," he said. He said that 10 percent of KU students smoked and that Watkins physicians treated 30 percent of that 10 percent for upper respiratory problems.
"Every one of them knows it's not good for him," he said. "It's less fashionable now than it was because non-smokers are becoming more vocal."
"Still, most people are worried about getting through the day; they aren't worried about what they'll look like when they're 50."
Despite growing public opposition to smoking and a 20-cent price increase from $1.75 to $1.95 a pack, sales of cigarettes remain steady.
Helen Harrell, manager of the Kansas Union information and candy counter, said she sold about 120 bags of cookies a week. She was a week during a regular semester.
"I thought the price increase last fall would deter them, but it hasn't," she said. "Money doesn't seem to discourage them."
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