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It's not every day that you see someone legging it down Jayhawk Boulevard quite like the man on the right is. But when you do, do you ever have the guts to ask him what he is doing?
Gov. Robert Docking would like third term
Kansas Gov. Robert Docking said Saturday night at a Democratic party fund-raising dinner that he would like to seek a third term as governor.
Docking made the remark before a group of 800 persons at the $25-a-plate dinner. He said if he sought a third term he would campaign on the record his administration established in its first two terms.
However, Docking did not say he had decided to run again. He said that wishes of his family, the advice and counsel of aides and other factors will determine whether he seeks re-election.
He said, "We (the Democrats) have operated state government on this basis: If you cannot afford it, don't buy it."
Docking accused the Kansas Republicans of running the state like an expensive car. "In the past it has been acceptable to the Republicans to operate the state government like it was a plush luxury automobile—a lot of chrome and consuming gas at the rate of 12 miles to the gallon.
"We disagree. In the past three years we have stripped off the chrome and what we hope are the unessentials—and now it is operating like an economy car and getting a lot better mileage."
No Kansas governor has ever served three consecutive two-year terms. The last to try it was Docking's father, the late George Docking, who was unsuccessful in 1960.
Youth camps in Germany offer summer opportunities
If you would like to spend a summer in Europe, but feel you cannot really afford the trip, or if you are the kind of person who thinks that summer vacation is too long and you get tired of doing nothing, then you may be interested in the summer program offered by Aufbauwerk der Jugend (Constructive Youth Work) of Germany.
Joachim Wieler, graduate student in social work from Germany, says there are more opportunities for American students to go to Europe than students are aware of.
Wieler has worked for Aufbauwerk der Jugend for two winters in arranging summer camps. The organization arranges three week summer camps all over Germany.
Participants in the camps are engaged in social work for 35 hours a week, usually divided into seven hours a day Monday through Friday. This work provides for room and board, and health, accident and liability insurance for the entire camp period. Camp participants only have to pay for the trip to and from Germany and a registration fee of from five to ten dollars.
Freshman President Steve Hix said Thursday he would run for the Student Senate this spring, and that he would try to get support to organize a campaign for campus environmental cleanup.
Hix to support campus clean-up
Wieler believes the camps are an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with another culture. He said it was action in terms of social engagement and it gave a person a chance to judge another country by more than "its famous drinks and its 'strange' sanitary facilities."
Hix said he had discussed his plan with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr., who said he would support the project 100 per cent.
Hix said his first intention was to organize an environmental protest march in Kansas City, but that Chalmers suggested to start here on campus and then expand the program if it gained support.
It is not necessary to be able to speak German, Wieler said.
He said students who want to work in hospitals and children's day homes where communication with patients is necessary, will have to speak German, but that there are plenty of opportunities in other fields for people who do not speak German.
The camps will be arranged from the beginning of June until
the beginning of September. Participants must be between the ages of 16 and 25, Wieler said a visa is not requested, only a passport. The final camp lists will not be available until the end of March, but persons who are interested may write for an application form now to: Aufbauerwerk der Jugend, 355 Marsh Lahn, Frankfurter Strasse 21, Germany. For more information, contact Joachim (Joe) Wieler at 843-6282.
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Butterfly habits subject of study
Orley R. Taylor, associate professor of entomology at the University of Kansas, is working on a project to unravel the mystery of the sulphur butterfly's mating habits.
Taylor, an ecologist and evolutionist, said he hoped to see how the natural selection process works in the elimination of mating between two different species.
There are two species of the sulphur butterfly, Taylor said. Normally, the butterflies of one species will mate only with others from its own species.
But, Taylor said, during the first hour of the female's life, she will mate with a male from the opposite species. As the female, he said, grows older, she will become more discriminating and mate with males from its own species.
The males, however, are not so discriminating all through their lives. Failure of the females to select proper mates, combined with mating of the males with either species may, Taylor said, be the reason for this hybridization or inter-specie mating.
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Taylor said he also wanted to see just how fast this process of natural selection to eliminate hybridization took place. His long-range goal is to determine a model that can be used to predict a change in the population due to this hybridization.
Most of Taylor's work is done in Arizona and the Midwest, where the population of the common and familiar yellow butterflies is most abundant. His most important work is done in the field where this process of elimination of hybridization can be better studied. In this way, Taylor said, he can show whether the theories of selection can be proven or disproven.
The idea of hybridization, Taylor said, can be easily seen in the example of mating of horses and donkeys, the end product being the mule. The only problem with hybridization, he said, is that the offspring is normally inferile.
To facilitate Taylor's laboratory work, he has developed a new agar-based food that can allow him to grow the butterflies indoors, a feat which has been difficult to do in the past.
Taylor has been working on this project intensively for three years and said it would probably occupy him for the next 10 years.