Chimp is roommate
Bu STEVE RUSSELL
Need a new roommate?
Would you believe a chimpanzee? No?
Well, Merrick Lockwood, biology teaching assistant from Milton, Mass., doesn't advise it either, and he should know. Lockwood shares a two-room house trailer with a $2\frac{1}{2}$-year-old chimp named Suzie.
LOCKWOOD, WHO also is working towards his master's degree in entomology, said he acquired his female roommate while he was serving a two-year stint in Africa with the Peace Corps.
"I bought her from a bush character," he said
He and Suzie share the mobile home. "She has a room, the bedroom, and I have the rest of it." Lockwood said.
Suzie is toilet trained and eats at the table. Although she is neat around the house, Lockwood said he definitely wouldn't suggest a chimp as a roommate.
"Having a chimp around the house takes a lot of time," he said. They need a lot of attention since they can't be left alone for long periods of ime. They also need a lot of fresh air and plenty of exercise.
RECENTLY SUZIE made her second "official" trip on campus Lockwood took her to his Biology I lab, as a "visual aid" to his students who are presently studying the living world of animals. He said one of the other lab instructors brought in a parrot and another a scorpion.
Last year an invitation to an anthropology class which was studying comparisons between chimpanzees and humans brought about Suzie's first "official" visit.
She frequently accompanies Lockwood to the lab at night but he sneaks her in to avoid attracting attention from curiosity seekers, he said.
Asked if he has trained Suzie to help him in his work Lockwood said no, but admitted there is a possibility. "As soon as I can teach her to grade papers," he said.
By SOLVEIG EGGERZ
Gregg is KU's 13th Danforth Fellow
Gary Gregg, Coldwater senior, has been awarded the Danforth award for scholarship. This is the 13th Danforth Fellow at KU since 1955.
As a Danforth Fellow Gregg will receive up to five year's support during graduate study at universities across the U.S. and Canada. The Danforth foundation will cover graduate school expenses and living costs.
"This is a great honor," said Aldon Bell, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He added, "about 1,800 top candidates from schools throughout the nation entered the preliminary competition. Only 125 were selected."
GREGG IS MAJORING in history and has a grade point average of 2.78. He hopes to earn a Ph.D. degree and then enter college teaching, preferably at a large university.
He is participating in a rather unique living-learning arrangement this semester with five other senior men.
Bound together by an interest
hour course in the classics. This is taught by KU faculty members.
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Gregg is enrolled in the independent study, program at KU.
in classics, they are living in the home of Prof. and Mrs. Raymond Loehr, 1302 Tenn. St. They do their own housework and sponsor weekly discussions in a six-credit
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