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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. January 20. 1987
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Local Briefs
Impeachment committee sets parade, rally
An "Impeach Reagan" rally will be held at noon tomorrow, beginning with a parade at the Kansas Union. The parade will start at the Kansas Union and proceed down Jayhawk Boulevard to Wescoe Beach
The Committee to Unelect Reagan/Bush is sponsoring the rally.
BooG Highberger, Lawrence graduate student and a member of the committee, said that no speakers were scheduled but that an open megaphone would be used for students to make comments.
Highberger said the size of the rally would depend on the weather, but he said he expected about 300 students to attend.
Professor of law gets fellowship
Fred B. Lovitch, professor and former associate dean of the University of Kansas School of Law, was named the Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the KU law school.
Lovitch has received several honors for his teaching abilities. In 1975, KU law students chose him as their outstanding teacher. He received a University distinguished teaching award in 1976.
Lovitch joined the KU law faculty in 1972 after practicing law in Philadelphia for six years. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962 and received his law degree in 1965 at the Penn Law School.
The fellowship is in honor of Robert A. Schroeder, a 1937 honor graduate of the law school
Employee awards to be given in April
The Chancellor's office announced yesterday that the 13th annual Recognition Ceremony honoring two members of the faculty and staff will be held at 1:30 p.m. April 28, in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"Employee of the Year" awards will be presented to two staff members, one from the classified staff and one from the unclassified, non-teaching staff, who have given long and distinguished service to the University.
The Recognition Committee interviews the nominees' supervisors and colleagues. It also pays attention to the nominees' dedication, loyalty and contributions to their work and the University.
Nominations for these awards can come from any member of the University community and must be signed.
State funds for arts below U.S.average
The $589,000 spent by Kansas government in the last fiscal year in support of the arts ranks 51st in the United States and its six territories, a new study by a KU economist reports.
Although less than 25 cents is spent for each Kansas resident to promote artistic achievement, 83 cents is spent per capita nationwide, according to Shirley Sicilian, research economist at KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research.
Sciilan said a review of Kansas Arts Commission grant recipients for the last fiscal year indicated that the $89,000 set aside by the Legislature to support the arts had a significant economic effect on Kansas.
From staff and wire reports
KU students wait in long lines outside the Enrollment Center to add and drop classes. Yesterday was the first day this semester for add-drop.
Scheduling hassles cause lines
RV CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
Many students who lined up in front of the Enrollment Center yesterday may have been able to identity with the old adage. "Familiar breeds contempt."
The long add-drop line in the center at 111 Strong Hall is a familiar, if unwelcome, sight to most KU students, many of whom participated in the first day of adding and dropping classes.
The University doesn't record the number of students who add and drop courses each semester, but most students who were in line would agree that there were too many people ahead of them. Also, many students find it necessary to go
through the line more than once.
Students, however, can help themselves and others avoid standing in long lines that only lead to the discovery that a class is closed.
Gary Thompson, director of student affairs, strongly encourages students to drop unwanted classes early.
"It benefits everyone if students who are going to drop courses do so as soon as possible in order to make space for someone else," Thompson said. "Students who want only to drop courses can go to the head of the add-drop line at any time."
Albert Cook, coordinator for undergraduate studies in the English department, urges students to take enrollment seriously.
"Students should enroll in courses that they actually intend to show up for." Cook said. "They should also take online courses, if possible on their enrollment cards."
Many students were in line yesterday because courses they needed were closed when they enrolled last November.
Robert Bond, Ste. Genevieve, Mo. sophomore, was trying to add courses.
"I had terrible problems with sophomore English and Western Civ 105 at enrollment," Bond said. "All the sections that didn't conflict with my other classes were filled."
Cook, who is also an associate professor of English, admits extra
"I issue closed class opener cards on the chance that my demands, abrasive personality, etectera, will force some students out," said Cook, laughing. He added that graduate teaching assistants often didn't have that option.
students into his classes.
"The GTAs are often understandably reluctant to add to their already heavy teaching loads by overloading classes." Cook said. "They don't get extra credit or money for teaching more students, only more work in grading extra papers.
Allergies nothing to sneeze at for prof
By JERRL NJEBAUM
Staff writer
Everyone has a sneezy, achy cold once in a while, but for Jack Weller, assistant professor of sociology, sneezing and nose-blowing are daily rituals.
Perfume, cosmetics and highly scented deodorants start Weller sneezing, cause his nose to swell and make his eyes red and watery. Weller also experiences mood changes and memory lapses after being exposed to certain chemicals.
"I will become much more forgetful
to speak in speaking." he said.
rural or desert environments.
Besides reacting to ordinary chemicals he encounters daily. Weller is allergic to rageweed, dust mites (parasites commonly found in house dust) and mold.
"I have a type of illness that makes it possible for me to become allergic to many things." he said. "It's a daily struggle."
Thomas L. Luzier, Lawrence aller
gust, said that about 10 percent of the population had allergies but only half of them showed symptoms.
"Five percent of the people (showing symptoms) will come to see me."
Lazier said the number of people with allergies was increasing but he didn't know why. Allergies usually are hereditary, and symptoms are most pronounced in adults.
Weller said his family had no history of serious allergies.
"I'm a genetic quirk," he said.
Children who are exposed to heavy smoke or physical trauma often develop serious allergies, he said. But Weller said that he had not found anything in his past to link to his illness.
Weller said it took him longer than usual to complete ordinary tasks because he had more time.
Lazier said certain chemicals, such as those found in perfume, contained molecules that stimulated
swelling of passages and production of mucus.
"Some people are more sensitive than others." he said.
An allergy is the body's over-reaction to a relatively harmless substance, Luzier said. The body's allergy system is set up to combat incoming parasites, but pollen, molds and other substances called antigens sometimes enter the body and set the system to work.
A highly specialized "T-cell" senses the intrusion of an antigen and sends out a signal to start production of antibodies, which can cause one of two things to happen.
The Y-shaped antibody has a code that matches the code on the surface of the antigen. The two prongs of the Y attach to the antigen, and a code on the tail of the Y chemically changes. This chemical change stimulates production of white blood cells, which eat the antigen and its attached antibody.
The antibody can also attach to a highly specialized white blood cell called a mast cell.
If two antibodies attach to either side of the antigen, and one of their tails attaches to a mast cell, a chemical called histamine is produced. Histamine wards off parasites, but it also causes blood vessels to dilate and the skin to itch.
If histamine gets into the lungs, bronchial tubes constrict, and breathing becomes difficult. If histamine lands on a mucous gland, mucus is produced.
Antihistamines can help slow mucus production and lung constriction by taking the place of histamines, leaving the histamines no place to go but out of the body.
The allergic reaction starts again four to six hours after an antigen is introduced into the body, when leukotrienes, a type of white blood cell, are produced.
Students organize lobbying
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
A forum tomorrow night for students and faculty will focus on how the proposed state and federal budget cuts will affect the future of quality education at the University of Kansas.
The KU Coalition for Peace and Justice is holding the forum as the first step in organizing and coordinating the efforts of students, faculty and other concerned student groups to effectively petition and lobby the governor and state legislators.
The forum will be at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The purpose of the forum is to provide more information about the budget cuts and to give those concerned a chance to voice their opinion, said Eric Matheis, president of the coalition.
"We're afraid that the quality of education at KU will go down as a result of the recently passed state budget cuts." he said. "We are determined not to let the Legislature or governor arbitrarily cut student assistance programs or University programs."
Kirstin Myers, vice president of the coalition, said, "People take students for granted because we don't vote on them and are misorganized as some other interest groups."
"Our voices are just not heard."
"Our voices are just not near Mathess said students protesting in France had inspired the group to take action. French students recently graduated from a university management with withdraw a reform program of increased tuition and more selective entrance requirements at the national universities.
"After a week of protests in Paris, they made the government abandon its program. he said. "It shows the war effort force students can be in a society."
Myers said speakers would explain and comment on the short- and long-term effects of budget cuts on many student and University programs.
The group will provide a fact sheet detailing the proposed budget cuts, which Matheis said included the elimination of the College Work-Study program and a $1 million reduction in federal Pell Grants. The work-study program encourages state employers to hire students by paying part of the student's salary
"This will hit home for a lot of students whose parents earn too much money for them to receive federal grants or loans." Myers said.
Myers said many students who may be concerned about the budget cuts, but don't know what to do, now have access to federal and petition legislators to help prevent any further cuts in educational programs.
"A lot of students just don't understand what the cuts will do or what they can do about it," she said. "We want to make students aware of how disastrous the cuts are to the future of higher education in Kansas and in the country."
Lawrence group searches for a sister in Orient
Staff writer
By PAUL SCHRAG
The Land of the Rising Sun beckons to some Lawrence residents.
The people with their eyes on Japan are 25 members of a committee who hope to form a sister-city relationship between Lawrence and a city in Japan.
Planning for the sister-city relationship is in the early stages, committee co-chairman Carol Shankel said yesterday. But Shankel, managing editor at the Spencer Museum of Art, said the committee already had high expectations and lots of enthusiasm for the project.
"Economically, Japan is one of the leaders in the world right now," she said. "Many American cities have ties with Japan. This is a good way
Shankel said American economic and cultural interest in Japan were factors in the selection of Japan as a destination, which to make a sister-city contact
Faye Watson, an independent travel consultant who has coordinated several foreign study programs for the University of Kansas, said developing intercultural friendships and enhancing education were reasons for Lawrence's participation in the sister city program.
for Lawrence to make these connections, too."
"We have much to learn from other cultures by becoming acquainted with their way of life," she said.
"Janan has a fascinating culture."
Japanese contacts with the University provide a further basis for interest in Japan. More than 100 faculty, students and research associates from Japan are at KU this semester. Shankel said KU competed in the graduate program with Tsukuba University near Tokyo for more than 10 years.
Through the sister-city arrangement, Shankel said, the committee hopes to develop cultural and educational exchanges and economic contacts. But she said that it was too early to speculate what form these might take.
Shankei said she was looking forward to the time when negotiations with Japanese cities could begin.
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