Thursday, April 26, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Viagra to aid building's erection
Pfizer contributes $100,000 for Dole
By Sarah Smash
writer@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
The makers of Viagra have donated $10,000 to help erect a building for the Robert J. Dole Institute for Public Service and Public Policy.
The donation, which comes after Dole's appearance in an ad campaign for the erectile-dysfunction drug, recognizes his accomplishments in public service.
Pfizer Inc., a New York City-based pharmaceutical company, will help support construction of the building on West Campus. Pfizer,
which employs 95,000 people worldwide and spends billions each year researching and developing new drugs, is best known for producing Viagra and the cholesterol-control drug Lipitor.
The Institute, named for the Kansas-born former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, will continue to offer public service and public policy programs on taxes, disabilities, agriculture, welfare, the judiciary, communications and international affairs.
The new building will house papers and other materials Dole donated to the University in 1897. The Dole Collection includes photographs, audio tapes, videos and memorabilia from Dole's career in Washington, D.C., and his younger days in Russell.
Burdett Loomis, program coordinator of the Institute and professor of political science, said the money from Pfizer would help with construction and, later, by providing high-quality programs.
"The money will further the mission of the institute, which is to provide innovative programs on public policy and contribute to public service," Loomis said.
He added the monetary gift would benefit students pursuing careers in government and public service.
Loomis said Pfizer's contribution was probably motivated by a desire to honor the famous Viagra supporter.
"Bob Dole has proven to be a very effective spokesperson for Viagra," Loomis said.
Diane Silver, senior editor at the
Kansas University Endowment Association, said Pfizer was a valued contributor to a number of KU initiatives.
"They're a long-time supporter of KU." she said.
Pfizer, which donates millions each year in medicines and financial assistance to charities and health care causes around the world, has contributed to KU projects in the past. Pfizer helped pay for research on Alzheimer's disease and dementia at the University of Kansas Medical Center and donated money for continuing education to the School of Medicine. Pfizer also provided a $15,000 grant for the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Predostoral Fellowships Program in the School of Pharmacy.
- Edited by Jacob Roddy
Professor feels no gall about stone's display
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out a gallbladder.
"They took out my whole gallbladder, and then they took the stone out of it," Steeples said. "But I was asleep during all that; they put the gallbladder in the trash I suppose."
However, Steeples said sub-par gallbladders ran in his family.
"My mother had gallstones, my father had gallstones and my sister had gallstones," Steeples said. "There's lots of people walking around without a gallbladder."
And all of those people who live sans gallbladder had to make some slight adjustments to their diets.
"The gallbladder stores excess bile, which helps handle really fatty foods, so if the gallbladder is missing, then you have to cut back on your fats a little." "Steeples said."
As for his famous stone, Steeples is still debating what to do with it once it's removed from the display case.
"My mother wants to see it, so I'll take it out to her," Steeples said. "After that I was thinking about throwing it up in the air and shooting it with a shotgun, but I was also thinking I might get it encasped in plastic and have it as a paper weight instead."
THE STEEPLES STONE
It's true of every one of them, those geo physics blokes;
They want to work with rocks, you see, the geologic folks.
tike geologic rocks.
Instead they deal with wiggly lines to build hypotheses.
Or measure gravitation just to find
Don Steeple, we are well aware, was surely born to weld.
Or measure gravitation just to find anomalies.
vigor held By few of his contemporaries: built for
surely born to weil. He tackles every problem that he sees with
This stone, most sedimentary, though not a rock you see.
So if he wanted rocks, you know he'd see the problem through.
untold tendency
He made this thing deep in his gut con-
Will make the point about our Don's untouchability.
But, still, to call this stone a rock does take a lot of gall.
— Roger L. Kaesler, professor of geology
Don Steeples, professor of geology, had a gallstone the size of a huge unshelled pecan lodged in his gall bladder. The gallstone, a two-inch-diameter calcium and cholesterol deposit, is on display on the third floor of Lindley Hall. Roger L. Kaesler, professor of geology, wrote a poem devoted to Steeples' gallstone that accompanies the stone in its display.
Photo by Christina Neff/KANSAN
Free for All bomb threat investigated
By Amanda Beglin writer@kansan.com Kanson staff writer
A Free for All message about a bomb threat caused Chris Borniger, University Daily Kansan opinion editor, to contact the KU Public Safety Office yesterday afternoon.
A female KU student called the Free for All voice mail, a daily feature in the Kansan's opinion section, and left this message sometime between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. yesterday: "I'm calling to warn all Jayhawks, there will be a bomb tomorrow on campus. I kid you not, my fellow Jayhawks. Take cover. Do not go to school."
Warisa Chulindra, who transcribes Free For All messages for the Kansan opinion section, said she heard the message Tuesday night at 11 p.m., but didn't consider it threatening at the time. The woman had left two messages that night before the bomb threat.
"I've been listening to messages all semester, and we get all kinds of calls," Chulindra said. "She was sort of laughing, so I didn't take it seriously. It sounded like she had friends in the room and they were laughing."
But when Borniger saw the text as he was editing the Free For All for today's newspaper, he was not pleased.
Lt. Schuyler Bailey said the woman was contacted and questioned yesterday about the message.
He notified the Public Safety Office at 1:15 p.m. yesterday and, because the Free For All answering service uses Caller ID, he was able to give the officer the woman's phone number.
"If someone leaves a message like that, joke or not, that's not cool," Borniger said. "I consider that a threat."
"She said it was a prank, and it was never meant to be taken seriously," Bailey said.
"We're sending it to them for their review," Bailey said. "They can decide what they want to do about it."
Bailey said the reports about the investigation would be forwarded in a few days to the District Attorney's office.
Bailey said if the District Attorney's office decided to proceed with the case, the student would be charged with criminal threat, a felony offense.
— Edited by Megan Phelps
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