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To study a woman's changing role . . .
These newly elected officers will head the 1970-71 Commission on the Status of Women. They are from left: Suzy Kelly, Prairie Village sophomore, vice-president; Colette Kocour, Kenilworth, Ill. freshman, secretary; Anne Boydston, Des Moines, Iowa junior, treasurer and Suzy Bocell, Kansas City junior, president.
Unique zoology field course to be available this summer
A course offered at no other American university will be made available this summer at the University of Kansas. The department of systematics and ecology and the Museum of Natural History will sponsor a field course in vertebrate zoology.
The course will be taught by J. Knox Jones and Robert Hoffmann, professors in the department. The course will focus on the Long Pine Hills of southeastern Montana, Jones said.
Students will be instructed in the methods of collecting and preparing vertebrae of animals for subsequent use and study, Jones said. The class will also be studying blood and chromosome make-up, he said.
The course topics will include methods of preservation of vertebrates, proper methods of
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The program has been partly financed by the National Science Foundation in the last few years, Jones said. The Foundation is awarding ten fellowships to students in the course to cover the cost of tuition and some of the equipment used, he said.
labeling, preparation of notebooks, mapping and collecting of environmental and habitat data, methods of censusing and marketing vertebrates and the gathering of specialized data.
This year's course continues KU tradition of such offerings begun by E. Raymond Hall, professor of systematics and ecology and director of the museum for 23 years. The course was first offered more than 20 years ago, Jones said.
A select number of about 10 students, mostly on the graduate level and from KU and other institutions, will participate in the course, Jones said. He said they must apply directly to him.
Strictly 1970 — but in the strictest natural shoulder taste. When we widen those lapels, deepen the back vent, revv up the shape and silhouette of a natural jacket, it's authentic. Trad. Never mad.
A KU senior majoring in biology using mouse eggs arrived at a method of test-tube fertilization which is an improvement over anything used in the past. The test tube mating of eggs and sperms is a problem with which several researchers have dealt, but which has never been solved satisfactorily.
KU endowment funds have more donations
Edgar Beahm explained that there have been successful testtube fertilization of several species. However the technique in common practice with the mouse was to dissect the female mouse to take out part of the fallopian
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Irvin E. Youngberg, executive secretary of the University of Kansas Endowment Association, said Monday that the number of contributors in the May 1, 1969 to April 30, 1970 fiscal year was greater than in any previous year.
Biology major improves process of test-tube fertilization using mice
Despite this, Youngberg said he had received quite a few letters from people who refused to contribute to the University because of the increasing number of student riots.
Youngberg said, however, he did not think this unique for KU, but that other institutions of higher learning were probably facing the same situation.
Some of the letters, Youngberg said, expressed dissatisfaction with the way the administration was handling outbreaks.
tube into which the male sperm were injected. But with this method, he said, the egg couldn't be observed during fertilization, and the fertilized egg had to be flushed out of the tube. By taking a method developed for hamster and rabbit eggs a few years ago, and making some changes in technique, Beahm has arrived at a method for obtaining fertilization of mouse eggs in nothing more than a culture medium in a glass test tube.
The eggs, he said, are fertile only for a short time, but with the use of hormones the timing can be controlled so that they will be fertile when they are exposed to the sperm.
moving a segment of the reproductive system. From six mice there will be about 35 eggs.
Beahm said he dissects six or 12 female mice at one time, re-
Beahm has gotten 75 per cent fertilization by putting the eggs in a medium of salt solution with albumin, adding sperm and stirring with a glass rod.
"I was reading in the area of fertilization," he said, "and I came on the papers on 'in vitro' fertilization. They had a sort of fascination since it raises images of Brave New World and all that," referring to the Huxley novel that forecast controlled test tube human birth.
When he began his experimenting, Beahm bad planned only to repeat earlier work, which he felt would have been a respectable senior project.
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