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Tuesday, November 16. 1976
University Daily Kansan
Owners' fault that pets must die
Staff photo
By VIC FLEMING Staff Writer
a rooppy-cyed boarder at the Charles Tse Memorial Animal Shelter takes a good look at the mackerel - Helen Melton. Melton has been at the shelter for 17 years and sole caretaker.
Animal lover
The three kittens climbed the bars on their cage, alternately batting and cuddling the finger that wiggled through the bars at times. It might be put to death by the week's end.
Killing animals is something Helen Melton doesn't like to do, but it's part of her job as the manager of the Human Society's memorial to the Memorial Animal Shelter, 186 E. 9th St.
"I wish the public could do this job for a month," she said recently. "Then they would quit calling me a killer. They need to have their nubs rubbed in it."
DESTROYING UNWANTED cats and dogs is Melton's part in curbing Lawrence's share of the national cat and dog population explosion.
More than 200 dogs and 80 cats passed through the shelter last month. More than half were killed. The remainder were "adopted" or reclaimed by owners.
Melton said she blamed irresponsible pet owners for the excess pet population. Surgical spaying and neutering of pets would help solve the problem, she said.
"I wish the people who breed these animals had to not them." she said.
**ANIMALS** ARE disposed of by a "Euthanian" device, which acts as a vacuum chamber and suffocates the animal placed inside it. Death is supposed
Operation of the "Euthannair" isn't something Melton looks forward to
"If you look them in the eyes you can't do it," she said, shaking her head. "I have to do it in the morning before I'm fully awake."
Some of the animals have caught her eye and now are her pet—Melton owns three baby koalas.
Melton said she generally kept animals at the shelter longer than the three days required by law, hoping that someone would adopt them.
"WEDEN' CHARGE for the adoption of animals," she said, "but we do charge $5 for distemper shots and require that all females be spayed."
Spaying costs $20 if arranged through the Humane Society.
She now operates the shelter with one full-time assistant.
It was the death of a pet that first brought Molton and her husband, Vic, to the shelter
WHEATWTED FOR the dog and managed a shelter with her husband until his death
"We came to find a little dog just like the one that died. We were going to wait only a year. I've been waiting for 17 years now and I grew like that one has ever been brought in."
Examples of the excellent care and compassion abound in the shelter and go beyond the mere care and feeding of the animals.
State examiner certificates on the shelter attentive well to the job Melton has done. Word "excellent" is applied and "communicate" throughout; she liberally through the certificates.
FEEDING THE animals, however, takes money. About $15,000 of the shelter's operating expenses of more than $35,000 is raised from contributions by Humane Society members and from donations by people who adopt or leave a pet.
The shelter also receives about $20,000 for keeping dogs caught by Lawrence's two dog catchers. Lawrence doesn't have a dog pound.
Mellon's guest book looks like the passenger list on Noah Ark. Besides dogs and cats, she has boarded guinea pigs, gerbils, white rats, monkeys, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, owls, falcons, squirrels, rabbits, chickens, hamsters, parakeets, ducks, pigeons, horses, crowns, goats and even a pig.
Melton's position is simple: "We don't refuse animals."
Humanities program discussed
From name one
By questioning methods used in the IHP, Quinn said the ACLU is threatening him.
"I don't have to tell you the intimate details of how to teach," he said. "That is big responsibility."
"WE TALK ABOUT religion when religion is relevant to the books we teach. Religion is a factor in many books in the humanities."
Quinn said that IHP curriculum didn't reach the era of Christianity until the third bernier of the program. Before then, he studied in the University with religion consider only pagan religions.
Quinn compared teaching the classes to teaching evolution. He said that a student taught evolution because the theory of evolution contradicts the creation theory, but said that a biology teacher wasn't held responsible. The biologist, Quinn said, had taught only what
"No case has determined that the University can't teach the truth about religion," Quinn said. "That is an area where we feel we are protected."
THERE HAVE BEEN conversions by members of the IHP, Quinn said, but it is difficult to tell whether any of those who did so because of the humanities program.
"A vocation is a call from God," he said. "Nobody wants someone in the priesthood to have an angel."
"We really do believe in freedom of the will. We don't believe in determinism. We would think that it would be utterly in vain to accept a position that we accept a position they see as true."
Shankel said that when he and the other KU officials had met with ACLU and Jewish Community Bureau representatives, the KU officials "tried to persuade them that it would not be productive to file those law suits against the University."
"WE THEM THERE are issues of academic freedom involved," Shankel said. "We feel that what faculty and students do outside class is their business."
Hankel said he hadn't known that a number of HHP students had visited the monastery in France during their semester abroad this spring until parents had told them.
students studying abroad to travel during their free time. Students who went to France to visit did so voluntarily and with their own money, he said.
Shankel said he didn't plan to request any changes in the IHP as a result of the process.
"THERE ARE ALSO several families who feel that the program is one of the greatest things they've ever come across," he said.
Mark Singer, a Kansas City, Kan., attorney who is handling the IHP inquiry for the ACLU, said he wasn't sure what course the ACLU would take. He said that he was going through material presented by the parents and that he would make a summary report to the ACLU legal experts. The panel he said will determine whether a court case is justified.
Singer said he had talked with other members of the ACLU about the program and said they took differing views on the questions of academic freedom and separation of church and state in the program. He described it as "a very
"Academic freedom is opening somebody's mind and giving both sides of the story," Mr. Anderson said. "It's academic containment."
THE ANDERSONS, meanwhile, dispute the arguments of academic freedom.
The parents said their son became sulken and withdrawn during his two years at KU. They said he lost interest in music and school other than THP classes.
"He stopped reading newspapers," Mr. Anderson said. "All I ever saw him read newspapers."
Mrs. Anderson said, "He was very much a reader and a writer before this happened."
The Andersons would like to see a change. They say a practical solution would be to add a professor "with a completely different approach" to the program to balance the teachings.
"We're bitter about what happened to us." Mr. Anderson said. "They're trying to keep the waters smooth in the corporate office, and those kids should be going to KU to learn that."
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