Bars, students under study
Local bars have become part of academic study as well as social meeting places at the University.
Stan Lybarger, Leawood sophomore, interviewed 43 male and female students at the Jayhawk Cafe and the Rock Chalk Cafe. The experiment fulfilled an independent research requirement for Psychology 2.
"Satisfaction sites," said Lybarger, "was my lead going into the experiment." The theory concerning satisfaction sites states that people gain from congregating in a place with a number of people. Lybarger hoped to prove that different personalities frequent different sites to obtain satisfaction.
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Cancer cure predicted
Two University of Kansas professors have received attention for their work on a cure for cancer. Mathias Mertes, professor of medical chemistry, received a $29,162 grant from the National Cancer Institute.
John K. Morrow, assistant professor of physiology and cell biology at KU, predicts a cure for cancer possibly in 10 or 15 years.
Morrow said it was possible there were those who would argue about his prediction but he pointed to the progress already made.
"There are some cancers we can cure now," he said.
Morrow is concerned with fusing cancer cells of mice with those of humans, hoping the origin of cancer cells will be established. One theory he is investigating is that a normal cell becomes cancerous because of changes occurring in the genes.
When cells are introduced to each other, they exchange genetic parts. This is the foundation on which Morrow and other scientists have based their research. Morrow's mixing of cancerous mouse cells with normal human cells enables him to observe the results.
Mertes' grant will make it possible for him to continue his work and still augment a five year Career Development Award Mertes received three years ago.
Mertes is searching for a selective inhibitor for thymidylic acid, considered to be a controlling factor in cell division. The abnormally rapid rate of cell division related to cancer is dependent on the rate thymidylic acid synthesizes in the cell.
By treating isolated enzymes with various agents, Mertes hopes to discover an inhibitor which could stop the cancer process.
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The subjects were given a questionnaire with sets of matching questions. One set of questions, for example, was: "Do you like persons of the opposite sex?" or "Do you like to listen to the problems of others?" Lybarger then classified the subjects according to personality by their answers.
jects tested in the cafes. They had to spend a minimum of four hours a week in their respective bars and patronize one bar exclusively.
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Lybarger's theory that people with different personalities frequent different sites was supported by three personality examples. In one case involving nuturance, meaning listening to others' problems, Lybarger discovered girls frequenting the Rock Chalk Cafe had higher scores than girls at the Jayhawk Cafe.
Lybarger attributed this to the Rock Chalk's environment. Its small size creates a much closer atmosphere. Rock Chalk patrons seem to spend longer periods of time at the bar than patrons of the Jayhawk, Lybarger said.
Another personality example
supporting the theory was autonomy, or doing your own work. Men at the Rock Chalk liked to do their own work more than men from the Jayhawk.
Lybarger said he reasoned this was that patrons of the Jayhawk are usually from living groups and thus have more opportunity to get help from other group members. Rock Chalk patrons are usually independent and therefore work alone.
Lovell to retire
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)—Apollo 13 commander James E. Lovell said Wednesday he will retire from space flying after he explores the foothills of the moon's highlands in April.
Lovell, who will be 42 next month, has already logged nearly 24 days in space on three missions and he will be the first man to make a fourth spaceflight when he, Thomas K. Mattingly and Fred W. Haise set out for the moon April 11.
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