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University Daily Kansan Wednesday,Feb.27,1963
Got Skin Trouble? Try Follicle Mites
By Blaine King
Every KU student is infested with mites.
Mites are tiny animals belonging to the same order as spiders and scorpions.
THE MITES THAT infest KU students, and everyone else for that matter, live in the hair follicles of the host's skin, said Robert E. Beer, professor of entomology.
He said every one of the students who have enrolled in his classes in aacology, or the study of mites, had found mites on their own persons. "Much to the chagrin of some of these coeds," he added.
WASHING CANNOT remove the mites, he said, since they live below the surface of the skin. Even the mites obtained by scraping a person's skin are those who for some reason or other have come out of the follicles.
He said so many mites sometimes clog a follicle that some have to leave. The most mites he has found in one follicle is about 15.
The mites apparently eat the fats and oils secreted by the subaceous glands in the skin, and therefore might actually be beneficial, Prof. Beer said.
HE SAID HE HAD noticed that the students with clear complexions have a higher population of mites than students with rougher complexions, perhaps because the mites clean out the pores and prevent the "grease plugs" which cause black-heads.
Prof. Beer said he spoke at a convention several years ago at the University of Wisconsin, and after his speech was approached by a pharmacologist who wanted to produce and patent a product containing the mites.
The man said that if the mites really did help clean out the pores, the product would sell well as a face cream.
SCIENCE DOES NOT know
enough about the mites now to produce such a product, Prof. Beer said, but if research now being conducted at Duke University proves that the mites do clean out pores such a product might be possible.
"We might be able to suspend the eggs of the mite in an emulsion that could be spread on the face at night." Beer said.
The eggs would hatch during the night and the larvae would go right into the pores of the user's skin, he said. Prof. Beer emphasized that any such product is just a wild guess, however.
THE FOLLICLE mites are about five one-thousandths of an inch long, and one-seventh as wide as they are long.
Beer said the mites are obtained by scraping a person's forehead with a piece of stiff cardboard. The scrapings are then treated to dissolve the oils, and the mites are left suspended on a microscope slide.
He said that since mites in all stages of growth have been found on a person's forehead, the mites evidently reproduce in the hair follicles.
John Ise to Address Young Democrats
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, will speak at Young Democrats at 7:30 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Ise will be making his first campus appearance since last fall.
Israeli Orchestra Concert Friday
The Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra of Israel, which began its first tour of the United States last month, will present a concert at 8 p.m. Friday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The orchestra began eight years ago under the direction and financial assistance of the Ramat-Gan Municipality, the Government of Israel, and the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.
SINCE THEN, THE orchestra has not only established itself in the musical life of Israel, but has also toured much of Europe.
The orchestra is composed of 12 young instrumentalists and the conductor, Sergiu Comissona.
The orchestra will play a general selection of chamber music and original Israeli compositions.
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE at the Murphy Hall box office and Union Ticket Center for $1.79. There is no identification card exchange.
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A former Kansas Citian, Virgil Thomson, will be this year's guest composer and critic. Thomson was for many years the music editor of the New York Herald-Tribune.
The KU Fine Arts Quartet will
Two hundred and forty-one unpublished compositions from 31 states have been submitted to the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts for its fifth annual Symposium of Contemporary American Music to be held May 5-7.
Fine Arts Symposium Has Large Response
The number of compositions submitted this year is second only to the response for the first symposium in 1958.
"The scores range from solo flute to full orchestra and from solo voices to concert choir," said John Pozdro, chairman for the symposium and associate professor of organ and theory at KU.
be the guest ensemble at the symposium.
Members of the symposium committee, in addition to Prof. Pozdro, who are selecting the works to be performed are Dean Thomas Gorton, and Professors Laurell Everette Anderson, Raymond Cerf, Clayton Krehbiel and Robert Baustian.
Love, Fall Subjects Of German Poetry
Love and the autumn will be the subjects of German poetry to be read tonight in the Kansas Union.
Ian C. Loram, professor of German, Lothar K. Schweder, assistant instructor of German, and Henriette Mandl, assistant instructor of speech and drama, will read the selections in German at 7:30 in room 305B.
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