THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6, 2009
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2006
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》 CONSTRUCTION
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Tiles await installation on the roof of Danforth Chapel on Saturday. The chapel will undergo repairs and additions next year, including the construction of a bird's room.
Campus chapel to get $850,000 upgrade in 2007
BY MARK VIERTHALER
The familiar facade of Danforth Chapel will be getting a face lift in the upcoming winter months.
With money donated from the Kansas University Endowment Association, the University of Kansas has announced plans to add a brides' room to the back of the chapel, create a porch, restore the stone surrounding the windows, add two handicap-accessible toilets and update the air-conditioning.
Warren Corman, University architect, said the project was estimated to cost $850,000. Close to $400,000 have already been donated by John T. Stewart, a grandson of one of the original donors, and various other alumni.
Danforth Chapel was built in the mid-1940s through the labor of German prisoners of war.
Corman said almost 5,000 weddings had been held in the chapel and that wear was beginning to show. Those who have held weddings in the chapel have expressed frustration that there was no place for the bride to dress.
The 600-square-foot attachment will be added to the southeast side of the chapel. This placement will not interfere with current parking, Corman said.
The air conditioning system, added several years after the com-
struction of the building, has caused noise problems, so the ductwork will receive a complete overhaul, Corman said.
He said the roof had recently been repaired because of damage from the March microburst. Construction is expected to begin sometime in January and run for close to a year.
Todd Cohen, interim director of University Relations, said the University was taking steps to make sure renovations didn't necessitate event cancellations. However, there will be future periods when no events can be held. Cohen said.
Suk Hyang Lee, a recent KU graduate from Seoul, Korea, said she came to pray in the chapel at least three times a week. The construction and renovation would hold little sway over her attendance at the chapel, she said.
"It's not important whether it's comfortable or not," Lee said. "What's more important is there is a place to go and pray."
Corman said construction would not interfere with meditation and the chapel would remain open to the public.
Kansan staff writer Mark Vierthaler can be contacted at mvierthaler@kansan.com.
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oddly unique.
"Worms and humans had a common ancestor," Lundquist said.
Researchers hope to better understand the role of genes in
This enables researchers to make discoveries about the worms' genes that can be applied to human genes.
Erik Lundquist, associate professor of molecular biosciences, said the roundworms are ideal for research because their genomes have been completely sequenced and they share a majority of genes with humans.
》 HEALTH
Worms aid in cancer research University of Kansas researchers use roundworms to study genetics
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
KU researchers are making discoveries about the role of genetics in cancer by researching tiny roundworms, about one millimeter in length.
He said he made discoveries about genes by looking at mutants, or organisms with a genetic mutation.
Lindsey Roe, research assistant in Timmons' lab, has worked daily with the worms for over three years.
"We look at what happens to the organism when a gene is knocked out," Lundquist said. "The more we understand about these genes, the better we can understand cancer."
Lundquist said knocking out a gene's function was kind of like taking spark plugs out of a car and then observing how it runs.
cancer development and drug resistance.
Lundquist identified a worm gene that is associated with myotonic dystrophy type I: a form of muscular dystrophy in humans.
Lundquist said his research focused on the development of the nervous system.
The human biology graduate from Shawnee said she doesn't think the worms were gross.
Lisa Timmons, assistant professor of molecular biosciences, has researched genetics using the worms for about eight years. She said they're ideal to use in the lab because they're cheap and easy to grow.
Timmons studies RNAi, or how a cell can knock out a gene's function when double stranded RNA is injected into the worm.
we're trying to answer with our research" he said.
He said the gene affects muscles, gonads and the nervous system.
The majority of her research focuses on cancer and how genes are related to the treatment of cancer.
Timmons said the lifecycle of the worms was about three days. Some experiments use over 25,000 worms, but some use only two.
"It just depends on the question
"They have a lot of similar structures as humans," Roe said.
Kansan staff writer Anna Faltermeier can be contacted at afaltermeier@kansan.com.
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University Band draws musicians of all types
BY ERIN CASTANEDA
The words "no auditions" originally attracted Paul Marx of Prairie Village to begin playing with the University Band five years ago. Now, his 15-year-old son, Joseph, has joined him in the open admissions band.
The Marxes help make up the 50 people, a mix of young and old, music and non-music majors, locals and international students who played at the Lied Center on Tuesday night.
"It's hard to find a group like this," Marx said. "I just enjoy play-
Thomas Stidham, University Band director, said he enjoyed the band because of the wide range of people, especially the townspeople and non-music majors. He said there was a faithful 80-year-old trumpet player, Bob Laushman, who played with them.
Most of the members are students from Kansas and Missouri, he said. One of the percussionists, however, is Lok Sum Yuen, a freshman from Hong Kong.
She's played percussion since elementary school in Hong Kong, but she didn't feel like doing auditions to join the other university bands, the symphonic band and the wind ensemble.
Rachel Allen, Hutchinson freshman, said it wasn't a big deal to combine both bands into one concert because the song that was cut was 10 minutes long and they didn't rehearse it as much.
She said she enjoyed trying new things and the uniqueness of the percussion section. During the concert, she switched from the drums to xylophone in the same songs. She said she and four other percussionists switched instruments for each song, depending on who plays which better.
pushed its concert back.
The University Band played four songs and cut one so the Symphonic Band could also play. Their Symphonic Band was scheduled to play last week, but weather
The Symphonic Band directed by David Clemmer played the second half of the concert.
Kansan staff writer Erin Castaneda can be contacted at ecastaneda@kansan.com.
Edited by Shanxi Upsdell
HEALTH
BY JOCELYN NOVECK ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — New York on Tuesday became the first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants, leading the charge to limit consumption of an ingredient linked to heart disease and used in everything from french fries to pizza dough to pancake mix.
Trans fats banned throughout New York
In a city where eating out is a major form of activity, many New Yorkers were all for the ban, saying health concerns were more important than fears of Big Brother supervising their stomachs.
"I don't care about what might be politically correct and what's not," said Murray Bader, with a cup of coffee at Dunkin' Donuts on Tuesday morning. "I want to live longer!"
"It's basically a slow form of poison," said David Katz, director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. "I applaud New York City."
The 72-year-old Manhattan resident called the ban a "wake-up call" for a public often unaware of the risks of artificial fats. "This stuff clogs up your vessels," he said. "When it comes to health, we only have one life."
Health and nutrition groups say artificial trans fats clearly contribute to heart disease. Studies have shown they raise bad cholesterol and lower the good kind. Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, the main form of artificial trans fats, is used for frying and baking and turns up in a host of processed foods: cookies, pizza dough, crackers and pre-made blends like pancake mix.
Not everyone agrees with Katz
"This is a legal product," he said. "They're headed down a slippery slope here."
— he's gotten angry e-mails calling him and colleagues the "food police" and saying, "If I want to eat trans fats, that's my inaliable right." To which he responds: "Would you want the burden of asking your restaurant whether there's lead in the food? Whether there's arsenic in the bread? For all I know, maybe arsenic makes bread more crusty. But it is poison."
The Board of Health, which passed the ban unanimously, did
Some industry representatives were not happy. E. Charles Hunt, executive vice president of the New York State Restaurant Association, said the city had overstepped its authority by ordering restaurants to abandon an ingredient permitted by the FDA.
give restaurants a minor break by relaxing the proposed deadline. Restaurants will now be barred from using most frying oils containing the fats by July 2007 and will have another year to eliminate them from all foods.
The New York ban does not affect grocery stores. Nor does it apply to naturally occurring trans fats found in some meats and dairy.
The ban, which was advocated by health-conscious Mayor Michael Bloomberg, follows a national requirement beginning this past January that companies list artificial trans-fat content on food labels. Efforts are also being made to reduce the trans-fat content of snacks in school vending machines.
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