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Now, an individual must live in Kansas for 12 months to establish residency.
Kansas Senate considers bill for in-state fees
Local Briefs
If a student's family recently moved to Kansas because of an employment transfer, the student may not have to pay out-of-state tuition.
A proposal discussed today by the State Senate Appropriations Committee aims to relax residence and attract more people to Kansas.
The Senate committee took no action on the proposal, which was developed by the Special Commit- tions financing of Regents Institutions.
AT&T awards grants to KU and K-State
American Telephone & Telegraph announced yesterday that it had given $1.5 million in computer equipment grants and support to the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
A spokesman for the special committee said some people considered it a penalty to be transfer to another state if required to pay out-of-state fees.
The $1.5 million grants are part of AT&T's University Computer Donations Program. This is the second year that KU and K-State have received grants under the program.
The proposal would apply only to people brought into Kansas by accepting employment or through a transfer and not to those who moved to Kansas and then sought employment.
A statement by AT&T said the two universities were chosen to receive the equipment because of their commitment to research and development through sophisticated computer technology. They also were chosen because of the quality of their proposals to AT&T in terms of involving faculty and students in academic computing.
Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 28, 1987
The department of electrical and computer engineering and the department of computer science at KU will receive computer equipment and support valued at $500,000.
Victor Frost, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, said this year's AT&T grant would be focused on research into computer-aided design, analysis of telecommunications systems and research into computer networks.
Author to talk Feb.5 on literature and film
The author of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," on which the award-winning 1985 film of the same name was based, will give a lecture at the University of Kansas on "Literature and Film" on Feb. 5.
Manuel Paig, who wrote "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1976, will speak at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union's Alderson Auditorium.
Paig, who is from Argentina, also will address a Spanish class and a History of International Sound Film class and will be the lunch guest of KU honor students.
Senate will hold revenue hearings early
By LISA A. MALONEY
Student Senate sent out letters today to inform student organizations that hearings to decide their financing will begin next month instead of next fall, Tom Woods, the Senate treasurer, said yesterday.
Staff writer
The Senate voted last spring to move its elections from November to April and decided to move the finance board, after hearings, to the fall after elections.
From staff and wire reports.
Then, in the fall, senators voted to postpone revenue code hearings until fall 1987. That vote occurred after the Student Senate Executive Committee decided late in the summer that the Senate would not be able to complete the hearings by Oct. 15, 1986, as it
But Brady Stanton, student body president, said yesterday that the Senate's decision last semester was no longer in effect.
was scheduled.
Woods said that according to Senate rules, revenue code hearings were supposed to occur during the spring semester. The Senate administration's decision to have them this spring instead of fall puts them back on schedule, he said.
During revenue code hearings, the Senate allocates portions of the student activity fee to revenue code student organizations. Revenue code groups usually are organizations that are large enough to have full-time support staff, such as Legal Services for Students.
Organizations with revenue code status are given a set amount of funds they have years but may petition the Senate for supplementary funds, Woods said.
Smaller organizations without revenue code status, such as the biology club, must petition the Senate to approve a general student organization fund.
Students pay a $28 activity fee each semester.
They also must tell the Senate how they plan to spend the money and must have all purchases approved by the Senate treasurer. Words said,
Stanton said that several long-established revenue code groups would have to try to convince Senate that they still deserved that status.
Woods said.
"There are some groups that have been on there for years and years, and at one time had a purpose, but are now just vestigial organs.
"I can guarantee that the Finance Committee and the Senate will go through these groups with a fine-tooth comb and yell and scream any of the items that the groups propose for their budgets," he said.
Stanton said because the spring Senate term was only six months, the Finance Committee might have to schedule extra meetings to complete
The Senate Finance Committee will conduct interviews Feb. 21 to determine status and the amount of money each group will receive,
the hearing
"This Senate may have to work a little harder than other senates in the past, but I am confident that they will," he said.
Because previous budgets have been frugal, the Senate had enough money in its unallocated account last year to pay for such extra projects as SecureCab and new lighting on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Although the Senate spent $100,000 last year, the fund still has $115,000 in spendable money, and a reserve of $40,000. Stanton said.
"I'm not going to encourage us to spend the money on projects that aren't going to be around for a long time." Stanton said.
ROTC graduates face budget cuts
By TODD COHEN
Seventy-five percent of armed services' officers are ROTC graduates, and the others are graduates of the armed service academies or were privates who worked their way up, Laster said.
Staff writer
"Some highly qualified people will be allowed to go on active duty." Kenny
Fewer openings on the armed forces' active duty roster for some Reserve Officer Training Corps graduates may be the result of new federal budget constraints, Lt. Col. James Laster, chairman of KU Army ROTC, said Monday.
At KU, 33 percent of the Army ROTC graduates will be put on active duty, down from 40 percent last year, Kennard said.
Because of a Congressional mandate, fewer Army and Air Force ROTC graduates, who are commissioned as Second Lieutenants, will be put on active duty than in previous years, Laster said.
"The number of officers who go on duty each year is contingent upon the size of the budget and the size of the Army," he said.
All graduates of the academies are put on active duty upon graduation.
“That’s a significant number of second lieutenants,” said Terrence Kennard, Military Science IV class instructor. The division with 300 second lieutenants.
ROTC graduates that are put on active duty go to officer training school, Laster said.
This year, 300 fewer Army ROTC and 275 fewer Air Force officer candidates will be chosen nationwide, according to officers in the two branches at the University of Kansas. Navy ROTC officers said they anticipated an increase.
Navy ROTC graduates are put on active duty immediately, while Air Force ROTC graduates have a one-to-12 month wait before being called up.
Army ROTC graduates apply for
the Army Reserve on the National Guard.
More Army ROTC graduates probably will end up on Army Reserve or National Guard duty this year, Laster said.
Air Force ROTC graduates, for the first time, are being permitted to serve in the Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard, rather than active duty, said Lt. Col. Phillip Litts, chairman of Air Force ROTC.
The new options are designed to reduce the number of officer candidates.
"There will be people who won't be selected," he said. "The competition is going to be keener.
"But no one is going to be involuntarily dismissed."
Because Air Force training schools will have fewer openings, ROTC cadets who have to be put on waivers are called up for active duty. Lt. said
Cadets are put on waivers if they haven't completed all the ROTC or degree requirements on schedule and must take an extra semester, he said.
Laster said the cuts were only for this fiscal year, and the number of officer applications might increase later, depending on the budget situation.
Kennard said, "It all depends on how the Democrats in Congress treat it."
Several ROTC students do not consider the cutback in a negative limit.
Bob LaRue, Kansas City. Mo.
says the advertisement said the
sales were a good idea.
"That way you can get people of his caliber (as officers), Lafute said.
Mark Gillem, Walnut Creek, Caujun, who is in Air Force ROTC, said he hadn't heard about the reductions but had heard of the new non-active service options for Air Force cadets.
Former professor dies at 94
Cora M. Downs, Summerfield professor emeritus of microbiology, died yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
By a Kansan reporter
Miss Downs was inducted into the KU Women's Hall of Fame in 1970 and received the University's Distinguished Service Award after she retired. She received the Kansas Women's Association Award in 1972 and was inducted the U.S. Public Health Service Woman of the Year in 1975.
Miss Downs, 94, taught at the University of Kansas from 1917 until she retired in 1963. She continued active research until 1968.
She received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from KU.
science field at KU. She is known for developing a technique used worldwide to identify bacteria and viruses, he said.
David Paretsky, professor of microbiology, said Miss Downs was the first female microbiology inpatient at UT Medical Center, the first female instructors in any
Valentino Stella, KU professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry, has developed a drug to help seizure victims. The drug has fewer side effects than drugs now available.
Professor hopes to market new drug to help epileptics
Staff writer
By TIM HAMILTON
If all goes according to plan, Valentino Stella soon will become one of the few college professors to have developed a drug marketed commercially.
Stella, professor of pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry, has developed a drug that will prevent seizures in victims of seizure victims safer and easier
Seizures are a problem for more than 2 million Americans with epilepsy, the most common seizure-related disorder. Seizures are caused by an electrical storm in the brain.
To help control seizures, doctors prescribe a drug called Dilantin, available under several brand names. Dilantin inhibits seizures by reducing the amount of electrical activity in the brain.
In emergencies, Dilantin must be injected to stop the attack, to prevent lapses and to reduce seizure risk in brain surgery, head injury, alcohol poisoning and other brain traumas.
But if the drug is injected too rapidly into a vein, the active
ingredient, phenytoin, and other chemicals in the drug can damage the heart or kill the recipient. But if the drug is injected into a muscle during an emergency, it is released into the vein too slowly to be effective.
Stella's drug corrects Dilantin's flaws. His drug can be injected into the vein or the muscle.
Stella called his drug a "prodrug" of phenytoin. He said this meant the drug was an inactive drug that became active inside the body, so it could not convert to an active drug too quickly and become toxic, he said.
The backers of the drug, Du Pont Critical Care of Waukegan, III., said the drug would revolutionize emergency treatment of seizures.
"I think it's really a feather in the cap of the department," Stella said. He said the development and potential marketing of the drug brought prestige to him and his colleagues, including Takeur Kawada, a physicist who tinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemistry
"It also has implications on what Higuchi is trying to do — bring
high-tech industry to the state, Stella said.
"I think it will encourage companies to donate money for research activities at KU."
Stella said he thought the accomplishment showed the Kansas Legislature that the department made a double and wasn't just an ivory tower.
Stella's research was supported by INTERx Research Corp., a Lawrence research lab that Hagiuchi founded. INTERx originally held the rights to Stella's 1979 U.S. patent. But the rights were transferred to Merck and Co. when that firm acquired INTERx in 1980.
Stella said he obtained permission to market the patent to other companies because Merck and Co. had no interest in the drug or the patent. In 1984, Du Pont Critical Care, then American Critical Care, conducted market and lab tests and made a deal with Stella. Du Pont Critical Care is now testing the drug in patients.
This spring the company will ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to market the drug.