Campus Briefs
Big 8 track champs
Three field event men who rank at the top of the all-time Big Eight honor roll and a freshman distance runner were voted the outstanding performers of Kansas newly crowned Big Eight track champions.
The winners by classes were: Stan Whitley, senior long jumper and spinner from Washington D.C.; Doug Knop, junior weight thrower from Olathe, Kan.; Karl Salb, sophomore weight thrower from Crossett, Ark., and Doug Smith, freshman distance runner from Sioux City, Iowa.
Also at Ames, Knop uncorked the longest discus throw in Big Eight history with a winning cast of 192-8. Salb won the conference shot put title, but his winning peg of 60-2 $ \frac{3}{4} $ was nearly seven feet below the all-time Big Eight best of 67-0 $ \frac{3}{4} $ he established earlier in the season.
At the Big Eight meet at Ames, Iowa, Whitley long jumped 26-1 for his fourth conference title in the four meets in which he's participated. It was the longest legal jump ever by a Big Eight athlete.
Radio Station KANU-FM of the University of Kansas has received a $5,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prepare a series of documentaries to explore the idea of psychic phenomena.
Jim Ryun, world record-holder in the 880, mile and 1,500 meters, won the Dr. Ed Elbel Award given annually to the senior who compiled the best grade average throughout his college career. Ryun posted a 1.7 average (on a 3-point scale) while majoring in business.
KANU radio grant
R. Edwin Browne, director of KANU-FM and its sister station, KFKU-AM, will handle the project. Dr. Garnder Murphy of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka and president of the American Society for Psychical Research, will be consultant and commentator.
Dr. Walter E. Sandelius, professor emeritus of political science at KU, who studied psychic matters as a hobby, also will be a consultant.
Browne said he conceived the idea after observing the impact on the public of books on psychic phenomena and astrology by such persons as Jeanne Dixon, Ruth Montgomery, Bishop James Pike and the late Edgar Cayce.
He envisions the programs as including the recorded voices of persons supposed to have benefitted from the psychic phenomena and the voice of the "Practitioners."
Browne plans at least 13 programs, each considering a separate topic. Included will be telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy, reincarnation, automatic writing, ghosts and poltergeists, psychic healing, "out-of-body travel" and "life after death."
Browne emphasized the series would only discuss the ideas and seek neither to validate nor invalidate the phenomena.
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Rat study at KU
There may be a logical reason why more babies are born in the middle of the night than in the daytime.
Dr. Jerome Yochim, associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Kansas, has received a grant for $21,520 from the U.S. Public Health Service to study the effects of daily exposure to light on the implantation and delivery time of rats.
Currently, Dr. Yochim is attempting to develop models in pregnant rats that will allow him to keep all other factors the same, changing only the light exposure to study the biochemical changes in the uterus. He feels that there is a relationship between light and the time of implantation, the day of delivery and the time of day for the delivery. As yet, there is no attempt on his part to relate the phenomenon in rats to human behavior.
Working with him on the study are three doctoral candidates in biochemistry and physiology.
They are:
Dr. Robert T. Hersh, professor of biochemistry and physiology at the University of Kansas, has been awarded $25,273 by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) for the tenth year of research on ribisome particles found in cell proteins.
Gerald Pepe, Providence, R.I.; Steve Clark, Olathe, and Ed Wallen, Chicago, Ill.
Biology award
He will be studying the effects of pressure and temperature on the association of protein systems.
Dr. Hersh has been on the KU faculty since 1958. He holds the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley. He also received a USPHS postdoctoral fellowship to the University of California.
Working with him on the project is a graduate student, Ken Richards, Miami, Okla.
Simpson scholarship
Dennis W. Roberts, a freshman in the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design this fall, has been awarded the $500 Leslie B. Simpson Scholarship.
The Simpson Scholarship is sponsored by the Masonry Division of the Kansas City Builders Association.
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In October, Kaesler will go to Tierra del Fuego off the coast of South America for similar work aboard one of the two scientific research ships, the Hero or the El Tanin. Both men will be taking core samples from the ocean floor of the microscopic crustaceans to determine distribution, changes in locality, and history.
The study begins this month when a graduate student in geology, Henry Meade Cadot, Greenville Branch, Wilmington, Delaware, sails from Melbourne, Australia for two months. He will be researching benthic ostracoda.
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Dr. Daniel F. Merriam of the State Geological Survey at KU is a member of the executive committee of the Classification Society.
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Working with Kaesler on the project will be Dr. Richard H. Benson, professor of geology at KU, who works out of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Dr. Sokal is one of the founders of the society and a co-founder of numerical taxonomy, a branch of classification theory.
Dr. Robert R. Sokal, professor of statistical biology at the University of Kansas, has been elected chairman of the North American branch of the Classification Society. He also will serve as president of the international council of the society for a three-year term.
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Dr. Sokal, a member of the Kansas faculty since 1951, has accepted appointment as professor of biological sciences at the State University of New York at Stoney Brook.
Elected chairman