Campus/Area University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 21, 1988 3 Kemp trial testimony: Defendant had beaten victim, witnesses say By Ric Brack Kansan staff writer A witness testified yesterday in the first-degree murder trial of Carl Kemp that she had seen Kemp hit his wife in August 1987. Carl Kemp has been charged in Douglas County District Court in connection with the death of his wife, Judy. Her body was found in a wooden box in a shed outside the Kemps' trailer Sept. 9. Ella Mau Holding of Lawrence said she had seen Carl Kemp strike Judy Kemp at the motel where Judy Kemp was working. Another witness, Donovan Ford, the 12-year-old son of Judy Kemp, also testified that Carl Kemp had struck Judy Kemp. Ford clutched his hand to his forehead when assistant District Attorney Gerald Wells asked if he had ever seen Carl Kemp strike Father's mother. "Yes." Ford said. Wells asked if Carl Kemp hit her hard and whether she suffered any injuries during an attack. Ford replied, "Yes, on her eyes." Ford also testified that Carl Kemp hit Judy Kemp with the butt of a 2-caliber rifle that he kept in the closet of the trailler where they lived in Izard County, Ark., and that she often hid from Carl Kemp in that same closet. Carl Fleming, Carl Kemp's attorney, questioned in his cross-examination whether Ford was in Arkansas at the time of the alleged attack. Fleming noted that Ford had been in and out of foster homes during that time. Fleming also asked Arkansas social worker Emma Jean Cooper, who had known Judy Kemp since 1974, whether Judy Kemp had told her about being beaten with a gun by Carl Kemp. "No, she didn't," Cooper said. Bob Whitaker Jr., another witness, testified that he knew the Kemps from 1982 until 1986, when he was a sheriff's sergeant in Izard County. Whitaker said he spoke to Judy Kemp three or four times between 1983 and 1985 about incidents of violence. He said she would call for him and set up meetings at her mother's house or at a phone booth. "She would be very cautious for Carl not to know it, that's why she'd set it up to meet me," he said. Whitaker said, "Carl had told her he was going to kill her and put her in a wooden box." He said Judy Kemp had said that twice, and that both times Judy Kemp had "a busted lip or a black eye." Kenneth Kemp, Carl Kemp's second cousin, testified that a two-week stay with the Kemps stretched to approximately two months because Judy Kemp pleaded with him to stay. "She said that since I'd been there Carl hadn't hit her or anything," he said. Kenneth Kemp said that during the time he lived at the Kemps' trailer in Lawrence, Carl Kemp drank frequently. Kenneth Kemp's wife, Tamala, testified that on Aug. 25, 1987, a woman came to her house in Eudora and told her she was worried about Judy Kemp. She said she went to Carl 和 Judy Kemp' s trailer about 8 p.m. and found them sitting on the front porch. She said she noticed "Judy's nose across the bridge was slightly dark and her eyes were dark a little bit." While Tamala Kemp was at the trailer, a police officer arrived in response to a call from someone who was concerned because the Kemps weren't answering the telephone. Tamala Kemp said a police officer came in, made a radio call to verify that he was to be checking on Judy Kemp and reported "she looks just fine to me. She's sitting right here." Trying to cure alcoholics' seizures KU professors try to make abandoning the bottle safe By James Buckman Kansan staff writer For some chronic alcoholics, to quit drinking could mean death. A small percentage of chronic alcoholics experience violent seizures 24 to 72 hours after they quit drinking. Seizures can prevent doctors from performing surgery, and can even lead to death. Until recently, little progress had been made in finding a cause, let alone a cure. Elias Michaelis said his research on the project started about 14 years ago at KU when he and William Freed, a graduate assistant at the time, became concerned with a nagging question. The professor, Elias Michaelis, recently won a merit award from the National Institute of Health that will allow he and his wife, Mary, to do additional research on the project for eight years. Mary Michaelis, a co-principal investigator on the project and a KU associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, is studying the effect of alcohol on calcium in the brain. A University of Kansas professor of biochemistry, however, may have found the cause. And because of his research, science may be on the brink of being able to treat alcohol-related seizures. At the time, Michaelis and Freed, who now is with the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington D.C., were working with glutamic acid, a chemical agent released by nerve cells that causes electrical activity in the brain. They were studying the receptors that recognized the acid "Nobody was able to figure out why alcoholics had seizures," Michaelis said. "Everything that had been tried wasn't specific. They had looked at a variety of different chemicals in the brain which might be released or that was part of the pattern that was emerging that any one of those things was involved in the seizures." and how the receptors became electrically excited. Freed thought the acid might be involved with the excess brain activity during seizures. An investigation soon was underway. "It started very simply." Michaelis said. "Just a hypothesis that maybe glutamic acid is involved in the seizures." Michaelis examined the entire process of alcoholism, from the first drink to the last, to the point when the alcoholic experienced seizures, hallucinations or delirium. Tests revealed that alcohol may block the activity of the glutamate receptors. That contributed to the "drunk" feeling alcohol causes. But Michaelis wondered why the effects of alcohol changed with extended use. "When you take your first drink, you feel very differently than after you've been drinking for six months," he said. "It's easy to get drunk the first time you ever touch alcohol. But if you keep drinking much, it may take much larger amounts of alcohol before you feel drunk "So obviously the brain is making an adaption." That adaption was a key discovery in Michaelis' research. According to his hypothesis, the body adapts to the way alcohol blocks the receptors by making the additional receptors help overcome the deaminating effect, and it becomes harder to get drunk. "Now, every time your brain releases glutamate, you have all the sensitive receptors, and you can feel everything until you start going into seizures. "But if you suddenly stop drinking, you are sitting there with all those extra glutamate receptors," Michaelis said. "Alcohol, which is normally blocking them, is slowly getting out of your system." "That excitation will eventually destroy the brain. Nerve cells die if you just keep driving them." he said. Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN Mary Michaelis, left, associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology, and Elias Michaelis, professor of biochemistry, research brain changes caused by long-term alcohol abuse. Michaelis originally performed tests on laboratory mice. Later tests on human brain tissue sent from Washington by Freed substantiated the theory. "The results were almost identical to what we had seen with experimental rats. It just followed the pattern perfectly. The alcohools had more glutamate receptors than the controls, the non-alcoholics," he said. Michaelis said he now was probing into the mechanics of the cell to see exactly what caused the receptors to increase. When a cause is identified, a treatment can be found. In addition, Michaelis said the brain tissue from a group of alcoholics who had experienced seizures showed an increase in receptors twice as great as other alcoholics. "Hopefully, as drug treatments that can effect glutamate receptors are improving," he said. "we will have provided a strong scientific basis why one should be willing to try selective drugs in the treatment of alcoholics who have seizures." Nancy Finnestad, a registered nurse at Bethany Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., said severe seizures were not a great problem in the rehabilitation of alcoholics because the seizures, if the symptoms were recognized early, could be managed. But she said a treatment for the seizures could be especially helpful for the medical treatment of alcoholics. If medical personnel aren't aware that they are dealing with an alcoholic, then they may not be the seizures as alcohol-related. "That time is high-risk for alcoholics," she said. Guidelines for research misconduct get FacEx OK Bv Brenda Finnell Kansan staff writer The Faculty Senate Executive Committee has approved proposed guidelines for scientific and scholarly misconduct. The Faculty Senate Research Committee had submitted the proposal to FacEx to get members' recommendations. FacEx approved it Tuesday with minor language changes, said Evelyn Swartz. FacEx chairman. The guidelines consider misconduct to be falsifying research results, plagiarizing another's work, violat- regulations or ethical codes for treatment of human and animal subjects or otherwise acting dishonestly in research. If approved, the proposal would apply to faculty, staff, graduate students, student employees and students participating in research projects on KU's Lawrence campus. Existing academic misconduct rules might take precedent when students are involved depending on the specific case, said Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service and dean of the graduate school. m misconduct policy was in the Faculty Handbook but that the new proposal was more specific. The National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation, both federal granting agencies, are in the process of developing misconduct requirements for universities. Horowitz said KU wanted to have a policy in place before the agencies' regulations were final. The Faculty Senate Research Committee had adapted the proposal from a College of Health Sciences policy, making changes in the policy to make it compatible with the Lawrence campus organizational structure, Horowitz said. Cases of scientific and scholarly misconduct are rare at KU, Horowitz said. Under the proposed guidelines, reports of misconduct would be reported to the chairman of the affected department, who would then report the incident to the accuser to determine whether further investigation would be necessary. If it were, the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service would be notified and would then notify appropriate administrators. After consulting with the individuals involved, the vice chancellor and other appropriate university officials would name a five-member committee and a non-voting chairman to investigate the charges. If the committee found no misconduct, the investigative file would be closed and no reference to it would appear in the individual's personnel record. The findings would be sent to all who knew of the allegations. If the committee decided misconduct had occurred, it would recommend actions to the vice chancellor. 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