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Thursday, April 2, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
Bv GARY LARSON
"Well, Frank's hoping for a male and I'd like a little female. . . . But, really, we'll both be content if it just has six eyes and eight legs."
Cancer
During the past two weeks, two of
evans, patients have received doses
of oral steroids.
and can diffuse deeply into cell clusters.
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Every Monday morning for the next five weeks, these patients will receive about one quart of Fluosol during a 90-minute period. Afterward, the patients will undergo radiation therapy every other day while breathing pure oxygen.
The patients will be monitored for several months and checked for any side effects, Evans said. If no complications develop during the study, three more patients will undergo the treatment with the highest dosage of Flusolol allowed by the Food and Drug Administration.
These patients will be monitored for two years. The research is being monitored by the National Cancer Institute and the FDA.
Evans said his patients were tolerating the treatments and radiation therapy well.
At the end of the seven-week study period, Evans' patients will undergo a neurological exam and CAT scan to detect whether the tumors have shrunk. The patients also will be tested to determine whether the Fluosol has created high levels of toxicity or liver damage.
If the treatment is successful, the substance will be made available to other medical centers. Evans said. The substance already has shown promise in other cancer treatments.
Studies using Flusosol with 30 New Jersey patients suffering from head and neck cancers showed that the substance supplied oxygen to the cancer cells and made the cells less resistant to radiation treatment.
Seventy percent of the patients were shown to be free of the tumors after treatment, Evans said.
Angel Gonzales, a Spanish poet, is scheduled to give a Spanish poetry reading at 4 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union.
On Campus
A lecture and film on the Middle East crisis is scheduled to be presented at 7 p.m. today in the Smith Hall auditorium. The presentation is sponsored by the General Union of Palestinian Students.
■ "Electronic Atlas of Arkansas," a lecture by Richard M. Smith, is scheduled to be presented at 4 p.m. today in 412 Lindley Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the geography department.
- "The Ansel Adams Archive," an art lecture by James Enyeart, is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
- "Workshop on Terrorism" is scheduled for 7 p.m. today at McCollum Hall.
Explode
■ "Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God," a lecture, is scheduled for 7 p.m. today in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
"The Cultural Ferment in the U.S.S.R." a lecture by Edvard Radzinsky, Soviet writer-in-residence, is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Aldershot Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
"Architecture in the High Atlas Mountains," a lecture by David Hicks of the University of Manchester, England, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today at 216 Marvin Hall.
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"Archaeological Discoveries in Contemporary China," a lecture by Lian Shaoming of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today at 211 Spencer Museum of Art.
"Toni Morrison's Use of Folk Motifs," a Women's Studies drinks and dialogue meeting with Trudier Harris of the University of North Carolina, is scheduled for 8 p.m. today in the English Room of the Kansas Union.
arts, Curtis said. The Kansas Film Foundation holds an annual film festival in Lawrence.
The money from the premiere's ticket sales will go to the Kansas Film Foundation and the KU department of theatre and media
A student recital with Michael Moreland, composition, is scheduled for 8 p.m. today in Swarthownt Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
He said that by filming the movie in Kansas, the producers spent about one-third of what they would have spent in California.
Jerry Wells, coordinator for the Kansas Film Commission, said several Lawrence locations were used in the movie. Chuck Martinez, the movie's director, used a
house in the 2000 block of Vermont Street for some of the exterior shots, and Twente Hall for a psychiatrist scene, Wells said.
For example, a union garner in California would earn about $25 or $30 an hour, he said. But because Kansas has right-to-work laws, local non-union people could work on the movie for at least $10 or $15 an hour less, he said.
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A RESPONSE TO CHRISTINE TYLER
The University Daily Kansan's (UDK) March 6th issue contains an arresting letter from a Kansas University senior by the name of Christine Tyler who thinks "A few sore thumbs stuck out" in my March 2nd UDK advertorial about capital punishment.
After agreeing with "Dann's point about the economic system putting blacks at a disadvantage," Miss Tyler then says: "Although the notion of society turning out an abundance of 'black sociopaths' is a bit ridiculous, it does recognize the problem at its roots." Miss Tyler understandably doesn't attempt to explain how a theory can be both "ridiculous" and a recognition of "the problem at its roots."
In the following sentence Miss Tyler claims "this discrimination does not stop at the point of justice administration as Dann imagines." Miss Tyler evidently doesn't understand the following excerpt from my advertorial. After noting that a disproportionate number of blacks are slated for execution I said:
"However, these riveting figures result from racial discrimination which is societal rather than judicial. For as long as our economic system both indiscriminately rewards activity in the private sector and superficially responds to the high rates of unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, infant mortality, illegitimacy and violence suffered by blacks, it (our economic system) will continue to create black sociopaths whose pursuits earn for them a place on death row."
If, in Miss Tyler's words, "The black impoverished murderer is indeed much more likely to find himself on death row than the white affluent murderer," then our legal system should continue striving to punish equally and justly. The notion that all brutal killers should be forever fed, clothed and entertained because some members of this infamous group do not receive their just desserts is simply illogical.
After describing my "comments about abortion... (as) at best irrelevant, and at worst a contradiction," Miss Tyler then asks: "How can one be so empathetic to the 'brutality' of abortion without sensing the very same atrocities inherent in the passing of judgement upon and eventual taking of an adult human life?" Even while dismissing my opposition to abortion, Miss Tyler concedes each abortion is an atrocity.
Because Miss Tyler thinks "human life is a precious thing, not to be arbitrarily tossed aside at the emotional whim of a person no more perfect than the next," perhaps she'll stop objecting to both the practice of eliminating from the populace those who are demonstrably dangerous and the idea of protecting from capital punishment those who are indisputably innocent.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th Street Terrace
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