'Study of insects significant today'
By JOHN HILL
Insects.
Why study them?
Prof. George W. Byers, chairman of the entomology department, explained why he feels that the study of insects is significant today.
"INSECTS ARE THE ONLY animals in the world that do now, or ever have, challenged the superiority of human beings in this planet," Byers said.
Byers also explained the medical importance of studying insects.
"The people in this country don't appreciate that more than half the world who are diseased have the disease as a result of an insect bite," he said. "Insect-born, insect-carried diseases are extremely rare in the United States, but in other parts of the world, they're extremely common."
KU'S ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT has nine staff members
More thefts reported
Traffic and Security officers today released reports of additional larcenies.
A secretary in Room 312 Carruth-O'Leary reported the theft sometime Wednesday night of $2.00 from her locked desk drawer. Pry marks were also reported as they have been in some 19 desk larcenies in the past weeks.
Two students today reported the theft of billfolds, a watch and ring valued at over $100 from their clothes pockets in new Robinson Gymnasium. They reported the articles were taken while they were showering.
three of whom are now in Africa, Costa Rica, and Mexico, and 35 graduate students.
"Entomology is not regarded by us as primarily an undergraduate subject," Byers said, because it a special field of zoology.
What type of work do people who do entomology obtain?
"Most of our people go into teaching," Byers said. "However, some of our graduates have gone into applied fields of entomology, working on insecticides, for chemical companies, or working for the federal government on insect control."
STARTING PAY FOR PEOPLE who do into teaching in the field of entomology is around $8,000 or $9,000, according to Byers.
"One of the interesting things about KU's entomology department is that we are one of two entomology departments in the U.S. that have no connection with a school of agriculture," Byers said.
"The emphasis here is more of an academic one," he said.
"In spite of the fact that we have this academic outlook," Byers said, "we were recently rated in a survey of graduate schools, and teaching departments generally, as the fourth or fifth best department in the United States."
Is the study of insects a growing field?
"AS COMPARED WITH rocket engineering, or tele-communications, or some such thing," Byers said, "no, it's not growing in that sense.
"It's growing in the sense that there is an increasing need for teachers," he said, "and for people going into the applied fields of entomology."
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TOPEKA—A bill recommended to the Kansas Senate this week would permit the Board of Regents to issue revenue bonds for constructing research facilities on university property which would later be leased to private industry.
Thus, unused University property could become a revenue source for the school.
"KU doesn't have any available land for such purposes right now."
said Raymond Nichols, vice chancellor for finance,"but about 480 acres of land currently owned by the Endowment Association might be deeded to the University for this."
The proposed law is designed to attract industry wishing to locate near universities having highly skilled professors of chemistry, physics, and other sciences.
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