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Thursday, March 5, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
600 mice participate in lab experiment
GARRET WALPH, KANAN BILL Lester, Hope, Ark, graduate student, trains mice to crawl into a chute in preparation for an experiment. Lester measures the mice's blood pressure while they sit in the chute.
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By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
The room has faint smells of the cattle barn at the state fair.
More than 600 mice live in this room. It is a cool, sterile laboratory crawling with life.
The mice from this room are all participants in Gunther Schlager's blood research. Schlager, a German medical sciences, began his research.
These "Schlager Mice," have been bred for blood pressure extremes.
A strain of Musc Musculus, commonly known as the laboratory mouse, lived in Snow Hall for 22 years. Last year, the 34th generation of this line moved into Haworth Hall.
The mouse room is one of several animal rooms maintained in Haworth, said Barbara Meador. The resource program coordinator
Generations of inbreeding, brother-sister matings, have produced mice designed for blood pressure experiments. The white mice now have genetically high blood pressure, the brown mice, low, and the black mice are randomized into genomes within the groups are so alike, Schlaer said, that genetically, the mice resemble identical twins.
They're also inexpensive to maintain at one and a half cents a day, she said.
Meador said laboratory mice are excellent models because their small size and large litters make them easy to keep and reproduce.
Animal care services cleans the cages twice a week. They feed and water the animals, and check them every day, even on holidays, Meador said.
About three to five mice live in
each cage. Meador said that KU animal guidelines allowed a maximum of five adult mice to a cage
The only noises in the mouse room are occasional muffled squeaks from the occupants and
the sound of paws moving the wood shavings on the cage floor.
Schlager said the mice did not live in the mouse room more than one year.
have a note with the word "discard" taped to the front of its cage. The discard mice will then be sent for use in other experiments, or to the Museum of Natural History.
Eventually every mouse will
Bill would set fee cost ratio for state schools
Staff writer
By ROGER COREY
A bill in the Kansas House Appropriations Committee may standardize the fee cost ratio for all Board of Regents schools.
The fee cost ratio is that total of a university's educational costs paid from student tuition. Under the present fee policy, total tuition revenues are supposed to pay 25 percent of the educational cost.
The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Robert Vancurre, R-Overland Park. The bills will subsidize fees at 20 percent for residents and 60 percent for nonresident students.
However, because of the recent budget cuts at the University of Kansas, KU students are paying a slightly higher percentage.
"KU students are paying about 26.5 percent now," said Tom Rawson, director of business and fiscal affairs for the Lawrence campus.
Rawson said KU administrators were concerned that the extra fees generated from a tuition increase
would replace state financing. But under the present bill, at least two-thirds of that extra money would remain with Regents schools.
"That extra money wouldn't just outheet general finances." Rawson
Marvin Burris, Regents associate director for budget, said KU was close to the 20 percent-60 percent ratio now.
"The new policy may result in some increases for non-resident students but not much." Burris said.
He said non-resident students at KU now paid about 2.5 times more than resident students.
Marlin Rein, administrative liaison, said, "We won't know until April how the bill is going to come out. It will be on the plan to plan on the percentage change."
Burris said the fee cost ratio was a complicated formula, but that basically it meant if KU's educational costs came to $100, $25 of that sum would be paid with total student tuition.
During a party at Ellsworth Hall on Thursday night, a Kansas driver's license and a telephone credit card, valued at $14, and $33 in cash were taken from a Lawrence resident's nurse KU police said.
On the Record
A student left his backpack Tuesday evening in a grocery store in the 1900 block of West 23rd Street. The
loss was estimated at $102, Lawrence police said.
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