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Thursday May 4, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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KUMC defends animal policy
by Jennifer Corser Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas Medical Center treats its animals humanely, despite protests to the contrary by residents on Tuesday, dayay, a Med Center statement said.
Tony David, director of the Animal Care Unit at the Med Center, said animal rights activists demonstrated and picketed worldwide every April at institutions that use animals for purposes other than recreation. Animal activists have demonstrated at the Med Center and the administration felt compelled to respond, he said.
"When you're asked by the press what your thoughts are and what your opinions are regarding animal cruelty, you may be to be prepared to respond," he said.
Last week was "World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week," said Norma McMillen, president of People for Animal Rights, the organization that picketed the Med Center. She said the event happened at different times during the day.
McMillen said PAR demonstrated at the Med Center to raise awareness
of cruel treatment of research animals. They chose the Med Center because the group was too small to expand to other institutions and that it has been reprimanded about animal treatment in the past, she said.
Research animals used at the Med Center include rats, mice, dogs, hamsters and cats. Experiments include research on bacterial infections, anti-cancer drugs and high blood pressure.
McMillen said that because faculty members were appointed by their peers to the committee, the Med Center has problems enforcing regulations.
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee does routine inspections of the animal laboratory and is based on the animals at the Med Center.
McMillen said the group asked the committee to appoint a veterinarian or someone in the medical field who had the care of the animals in mind.
She said they also wanted that person to have the authority to make unscheduled checks on the laboratory and procedures.
David said the committee made semi-annual checks on animal care and reviewed the research program. Members of the committee are appointed by the vice chancellor of the university, the committee must include, by law, a veterinarian and another member unaffiliated with the Med Center.
David said the Med Center exerted every effort to provide responsible care for animals and to treat them humanely.
"I think concern for responsible animal care is appropriate." he said.
But animals must be used in research, contrary to what animal activists claim. he said.
"I feel like animals need to be used if we're going to make any progress in biomedical research and solutions to medical problems." he said.
David said the activists were advocating the use of simulated animals and cell structures on computers, rather than live animals, to test the technology. However, he said, researchers need the total physiological environment
to assess these effects on an animal. If a computer could do this, animals would have to be used to establish a data base.
The Med Center is building a $5.6 million research support facility, which probably will be ready for use in July, David said. This facility, which will house the Animal Care Unit, will improve animal care with controlled temperatures, controlled environments and automatic watering systems with pipes leading to the animal cages.
McMillen said the Med Center needed to look into alternatives to animal use, such as using computers. The money used to build a new facility could be used to research and establish these alternatives.
"Who are we to think we can cause pain and suffering to animals?" she said. "I just don't understand it."
McMillen said she and other members of PAR had not seen what the Med Center's research laboratories were like but that she was suspicious.
"My feeling is that if they have nothing to hide, they'll open the iron doors," she said.
Political action group will start at KU Organization to join ASK in giving students political power
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan staff writer
A money-wielding political action group will serve KU students for the first time in the fall.
The newly formed Jayhawk Political Action Committee will give KU students more political power, said Aaron Ritmater, Manager and president. Jay-PAC was registered with the University of Kansas Organizations and Activities Center vesteray.
Ritmater, Overland Park junior,
said the organization would join
Associated Students of Kansas as
another political force on campus.
"Currently, we have a student lobbying group that has a paid state
staff and coordinates with other universities," said Rittmaster, former ASK campus assistant director. "There's kind of a bureauracy to it that takes it out of the hands of Joes Kirkpatrick and of a grassroots student campaign."
Unlike ASK, Jay-PAC will endorse local and state candidates and make campaign contributions. Jay-PAC members will decide who supports based on issues instead of political parties, said Laura Ambler, Jay-PAC member and Lawrence宴
Bill Moshee, former ASK campus director, said he did not think the two groups would work together because their purposes were different.
“ASK has been more on the issues side of education. Rather than trying to get the candidates into office, we try to get the idea on the agenda.”
Chris Graves, ASK executive director, also said ASK was a non-partisan organization working for the interests of students.
"We're very careful that we don't take a Democratic or Republican tone," she said.
Ambler said Jay-PAC's most important function would be to examine issues that affect students.
"In Kansas, we get a lot of support from both parties and that might be different if predominantly Democrats or Republicans sided with education issues," she said. "I think it will really depend on the issues and which way will benefit students the most."
She also said JAY-PAC probably would not reach beyond state politics since the group would concentrate on student issues.
Rittmaster said, "This is another way to politically empower students. You can talk to legislators all you want, but if there's a $50 campaign that you can possibly give to them, then you're talking about political power."
Rittmaster said Jay-PAC would raise money through membership dues and solicitations.
Cocaine lies.
There's no way to tell who'll become addicted. But one thing is certain.
No one who is an addict, set out to become one.
Sex with coke is amo
After nearly a decade of being America's glamour drug, researchers are starting to uncover the truth about cocaine.
It's emerging as a very dangerous substance. No one thinks the things described here will ever happen to them.
But you can never be certain. Whenever and however you use cocaine, you are playing Russian roulette
You can't get addicted to cocaine.
Cocaine was once thought to be non-addictive, because users don't have the severe physical withdrawal symptoms commonly associated with heroin—diluim. muscle-cramps, and convulsions.
In animal studies, monkeys with unlimited access to cocaine self-administer until they die. One monkey pressed a bar 12,800 times to obtain a single dose of cocaine. Rhesus monkeys wint smoke tobacco or marijuana, but 100% will smoke cocaine, preferring it to sex and to food—even when starving.
Like many more than
If you take cocaine, you run a 10% chance of addiction.
The risk is higher the younger you are, and
may be as high as 50% for those who smoke cocaine
(Some crack users say they felt addicted from the first time they smoked.)
However, cocaine is intensely addicting psycholoqically.
Like monkey like man.
Because cocaine is expensive, you end up doing what all addicts do. You steal, cheat, lie, sell anything and everything, including yourself. All the while you risk imprisonment. Because, never forget, cocaine is illegal.
When you addicted, all you think about is getting and using cocaine. Family friends, job, home, possessions, and health become unimportant.
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What is certain is that continued use of cocaine leads to impotence and finally complete loss of interest in sex.
C'mon,just once can't hurt you.
If you're unlucky the first time you do coke, your body will lack a chemical that breaks down the drug. In which case, you'll be a first time O.D. Two lines will kill you.
Cocaine hits your heart before it hits your head. Your pulse rate rockets and your blood pressure soars. Even if you're only 15, you become a prime candidate for a heart attack, a stroke, or an epileptic-type fit.
It'll make you feel great.
In the brain, cocaine mainly affects a primitive part where the emotions are seated. Unfortunately this part of the brain also controls your heart and lungs.
A big hit or a cumulative overdose may interrupt the electrical signal to your heart and lungs. They simply stop. That's how basketball player Len Bias died.
Cocaine makes you feel like a new man, the joke goes. The only trouble is, the first thing the new man wants is more cocaine.
It's true. After the high wears off, you may feel a little anxious, irritable, or depressed. You've got the coke blues. But fortunately they're easy to fix, with a few more lines or another bob on the nine...
Of course, sooner or later you have to stop. Then—for days at a time—you may feel lethargic, depressed, even suicidal.
Says Dr. Arnold Washan, one of the county's leading cocaine experts: "It's impossible for the non-user to imagine the deep, vicious depression that a cocaine addict suffers from."
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