6 Wednesday, April 25, 1990 / University Daily Kansan There's Even More at Don's Now every Thursday enjoy these specials in addition to all your favorites • Live Lobster • Oysters • Crab legs • Shrimp • and baked Oreo Dory 5-9 p.m. 2176 E. 23rd St 843-1110 Standing Ovation $5.00 off Haircut and style Reg. price $15.00 Come visit us at our new location 1109 Massachusetts (near Tin Pan Alley) SENIORS!! Get a FREE picture from University Photography when you pick up your cap and gown at Memorial Stadium Gate 22 *Come Early!* University Photography 843-5279 KU professor to lead alcoholism study By Steve Bailey Kansas staff writer A KU professor will lead a team of U.S. and Danish researchers in a study on identifying traits during childhood and adolescence that might predict alcoholism. The University of Kansas Medical Center has received $646,286 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to work on a cooperative study on alcoholism, said Rosemary Hope, spokesman for the Med Center. Donald Goodwin, chairman of psychiatry, will lead a team of psychiatrists and psychologists for the study. "The purpose of the study is to identify traits which can predict whether someone will have a problem with alcohol later in life." Good He said the study was actually the "The first study was done on 8,000 deliveries in Copenhagen," goodwin said. "They were looking for anything early in life that was associated with alcoholism." There was no information compiled about drinking or alcohol at all. second follow-up to a 1960 study done in Denmark on infants and their mothers looking for information about birth defects. A follow-up study was done 10 years ago on about 250 of the men born during the original study who had a parent who had been hospitalized for alcoholism. These men were 20 years old. "We wanted to study sons of alcoholics because about 25 percent of these men develop serious alcohol problems before they are 40," Goodwin said. "They are called 'high risk children.'" The men were studied when they were drinking and when they were sober. Blood samples were taken, brain waves were sampled, and the men were psychologically evaluated, Goodwin said. "A lot of information was accumulated, and some interesting differences were discovered," he said. "We found that sons of alcohols had more alpha brainwave activity, which tends to make a person more sedate, when they were drinking than when they did not have an alcoholic parent." Goodwin said the new study would compile all of the data collected during the past 30 years to find predictors of alcoholism. "We are studying them at 30 to see who has problems with alcohol," he said. "We can then look back at years' worth of data to see if there The first goal is prediction with the purpose of prevention. There is a one-in-five chance that a man with an alcoholic parent will be an alcoholic. We want to be able to predict which one out of the five." were any common denominators. Goodwin said the recent findings of a possible "alcohol gene" also would play a part in the study. "We will be collecting blood samples to look at DNA and the gene that reportedly affects alcoholism," he said. "Alcoholism runs in families, but that does not necessarily mean it is caused by alcohol." So see whether the gene found in alcohols is found in the children of alcoholics as well." Goodwin said that compiling the research would take about two years and that conclusions - might be reached after about four years. KU center studies influences of mass media on children by Christine Reinolds Kansan staff writer Situated next to the Wheel Cafe on 14th Street, the KU Center for Research on the Influences of Television on Children is hard to find. The only clue to its identity is a license plate on the front porch of the beige, two-story house that states CRTIC. Peggy Fitch, CRITC research assistant, said the center was hard to find when she first started in 1986. "It's not what people accept for a University research office," Fitch said. Aletha Huston, professor of human development, founded CRITC with John Wright, professor of human development. The center, 515 W. 14th St., is financed by grants. It will move into the Dole Human Development Center when the building is completed. Since CRITC's beginning in 1978, it has explored many avenues of television research. "My field is human development, and I became interested in the effects of the mass media on children and have stayed with it." Huston said. Some of the studies conducted by CRITC look at how television shapes a child's view of the world, child perception of fantasy and reality, and the long term effects of Children's Television Workshop, which produces shows such as Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact. Huston has noticed a decline in educational and informative children's programming on commercial television and some decline in public television while working at CRITC. "The main reason is money," Houston said. "The federal government has reduced its support. There are many product-related children's programs, which are made specifically to market a toy." networks and children's television advocacy groups also have requested CRITC's research. Huston suggests that parents sit and watch the programs with their children. "People tend to think cartoons are innocuous," Huston said. "When they watch them, they are shocked at the violence, stereotypes and war messages. These are things that would be in tolerable in adult programming." Fitch assists with the fantasy-reality study, which was financed by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The study observes children's perception of fantasy and reality on television and the effects of different types of programming, such as news and fiction, on children. The researchers recruit a broad cross-section of children, mostly from the Lawrence schools. The research is typically field work, not done in the laboratory. "I think it is important work," Fitch said. "Television is such a part of children's daily lives, we forget that it has positive and negative effects on them." City commission OKs Emery Road sidewalk By Kathryn Lancaster Kansan staff writer Lawrence city commissioners decided yesterday to pay half the cost of installing a $39,045 sidewalk along Emery Road. Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve sidewalk construction starting about one-half block south of Linth Street to West Hill Parkway. Kell Rogers, one of two students who originally brought the issue to the commission, said she had received tremendous support from students who thought a sidewalk was necessary. "The girls at the house will be so excited when I get home and let them know." Rogers said after assistance approved the issue. Rogers, a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority, 1500 Sigma Nu Place, said the benefits of the walk greatly outweighed the cost. A benefit district consisting of properties neighboring Emery Road will shoulder half of the project's cost. Six Greek houses, including Alpha Chi Omega, are included in the benefit district. Commissioner Dave Penny voted against the measure, saying the city was setting a bad precedent by agreeing to pay half of the cost. Commissioner Bob Walters said that because many of the people who would use the sidewalk did not live in the benefit district, the city should pay half of the cost. Commissioners agreed that property owners on the southwest corner of Ninth Street and Emery Road should not be included in the project because they were required by the city to install a four-foot sidewalk while developing the property. After the vote was taken, Libby Blaker, Blaker, Tulsa, Okla., junior, said the city was wasting $8,500 by installing five-foot sidewalks instead of four-foot sidewalks. The city estimated the difference between four- and five-foot sidewalks at $8,500. "A foot of cement isn't going to save them," Blaker said, referring to pedestrians. "They probably walked on the grass anyway." People in the benefit district have 20 days to protest the sidewalk construction, said Mike Wilden, city manager. 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