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Campus building still on schedule
Cold temperatures and snow have hampered construction at the University of Kansas but completion dates remain the same for five projects now under way.
Bad weather was expected to slow down work on the projects and was included in the construction schedule. Max Lucas, operations manager, operated operations planning, said late last week.
He said all five projects were moving along extremely well.
The new visual arts building being built on the northeast corner of 15th and 16th floors is ahead of schedule, Lucas said. Classes are expected to be held in the facility in fall 1978.
The structure was recently enclosed and mechanical and electrical work has begun on it.
On schedule and expected to open in fall
'76 quakes set record for deaths
WASHINGTON (UPI)—If reports about the death toll from a great earthquake in China are true, 1976 was the world's worst year since 1853, two times the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Government scientists said a reported 655,000 people were killed during the China earthquake last July — number only ex-convicts. 850,000 fatalities were recorded in China.
The year was a deadly one "not because there was an unusual number of earthquakes, but because many of the stronger ones were not strong enough for population or less resistant building construction where they could do the most damage," said geophysicist Waverly Person, who works at the USGS National Earthquake Information Service in Golden, Colo.
Eighteen earthquakes that equaled or exceeded 7.0 magnitude on the Richer scale occurred last year, compared with a earthquake of 19 earthquakes yearly, scientists said.
There were at least 50 "significant" earthquakes, which caused deaths or were of 6.5 magnitude or greater, Person said. In addition to casualties from the great China earthquake, at least 40,000 other earthquakes were reported in 1976, he said.
THESE INCLUDE at least 23,000 deaths in Guatemala Feb. 4; 1,000 deaths in northeastern Italy May 6; 5,000 to 8,000 killed by the earthquake and resulting tsunami in the Philippines Aug. 16; and about 5,000 deaths in eastern Turkey Nov. 24.
"In addition, major earthquakes in the Soviet Union and on the China-Burma border could have caused significant damage. Our reports have been received." Person said.
At least 375 earthquakes strong enough to trigger a seismic event in 33 states during 1976, the USGS said.
1977 is the new law building being built immediately east of Jayhawker Towers between 15th Street and Irving Hill Road. The $4 million structure will leave the current law building, Green Hall, available for other uses.
Installation of precast panels, large blocks of concrete on the outside of walls, is
Precast panels are also being installed at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, and exhibitions will start in fall 1977, according to museum officials.
The museum is being built west of the Kansas University on Mississippi Street. It will be a five-level structure with an Indiana limestone exterior, like Spencer Library.
The most recent construction on campus began in December when the foundation was poured for the new computer services building. The framework is now being raised and construction is on schedule, Lucas said.
Nearly completed is the remodeling of the interior of the Kansas Union. As phases are completed, Lucas said, painting and the touchup of rough spots are needed. The area outside the Trail Room, on level two of Haack's Nveel, is undergoing these final steps in remodeling of the main lobby on level four has been completed about two months.
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
The 4 million facility, on the corner of Sunnyside Avenue and Illinois Street, will bring computer stack equipment and equipment in one location. Completion is scheduled for fall 1978.
Cancer institute helps its own, study says
The new visual arts building is ahead of schedule despite cold weather and snow
Newsday
WASHINGTON - The National Cancer Institute has asked hundreds of scientists to help review and approve the expenditure of federal funds for research projects. A Newday study shows that the institute, which spends billions of dollars, money goes, receives, report of the money.
The institute is the most heavily financed agency in the federal war on cancer. It had a $70 million budget for fiscal 1976—most of it goes to fund cancer research projects.
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SINCE THE PASSAGE of the National Cancer Act of 1971, the institute has relied on "peer review" to determine which research projects to fund. The review groups primarily comprise several hundred outside scientists, whom the government pays on a part-time basis to review and rank by merit project proposals.
Final review and approval of all grants is made up the National Cancer Advisory Committee—a powerful part-time group of scientists appointed by the president.
A Newswst study of $1.6 billion worth of research grants and contracts awarded by the institute from Jan. 1, 1971, to April 28, 1975, shows that $1.6 billion or -about two-thirds of the funds - went to companies and worked in the institute's review system.
TO AVOID CONFLICT of interest under the peer review system, a member of a review committee abstains and "steps out of the room" when a grant proposal is
But that practice does not satisfy critics of the system.
"Itrically enough, a conflict of interest that would never be tolerated in the Pentagon will be tolerated at the Cancer Institute," said Dr. Irwin Bross, chief of cancer biostatistics at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo. N.Y.
He characterized peer review as an "old boy" system, saying, "It is certainly not enough to step outside on one vote when you are in the position to kill the next vote" on a proposal submitted by an institution connected with a committee member.
Dr. Frank J. Rauscher, who resigned as instructor director in November to join the American Cancer Society, was asked, "Have there been instances of conflicts of interest in the National Cancer program? For example, has the National Cancer Institute members with close ties to many of the institutions receiving federal cancer funds?"
RAUSCHER REPLIED, "Oh, sure. I would not cite that as a direct conflict of interest, however. You know, it's the age-old problem. If you want the very best people advising you on where the program is being done, you know that are doing the (research) work. I don't know how to get around that except to adhere strictly to the rules. When
something comes up that affects any individual member of the room. I watch as they walk away at night.
—That 13 members of the National Cancer Advisory Board were affiliated with institutions that received $217 million of the research funds donated out during that period.
There are about 20,000 professional cancer researchers in the United States. Many of those outside the establishment of the institute say they have been shut out by the system and cannot get money for their research without mindfulness of their projects is debatable.
THAT WHILE Rauscher was institute director, a powerful and self-sustaining bureaucracy built up within the institute's virus research program, according to the findings of an independent panel of scientists, he said. The program is operated with questionable legality to corner research money that should have been available to competition from outside.
The Newsday study shows:
—that hundreds of scientists, including two-time Nobel Prize winner Winni Pauling, have been refused funding by the institute. Many say proposals were turned down not
That 410 members of institute advisory committees were employed by 120 outside institutions, which received $1.06 billion of the $1.6 billion in grants and contracts awarded from Jan. 1, 1971, through April 28, 1975.
because they did not deserve financing, but because they did not fit the narrow, preconceived ideas of the peer review groups. Those groups, it has been said, work primarily on cure and treatment proposals instead of on cancer prevention.
A special committee has recently investigated the peer review system and filed a critical report with Don Frederickson, director of the National Institute of Health.
The report, which has not been published, recommends an appeal process for scientists turned down for grants. It also proposes the appointment of an ambassador to Japan in order to improve recommendations were based upon responses of nearly 2,000 outside scientists in cities around the country and three days of research with the University of Francisco, Chicago and Bethesda, Md.
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