THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
(USPS 650-640)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989
VOL.99.NO.80
Broken floor tiles are commonly seen in Jolliffe Hall.
Future of Jolliffe Hall to be determined later
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
An inadequate fire escape is the reason only nine people are allowed on the second floor of Jolliffe Hall at one time.
When the radio-television department moves out of Jolliell Hall next spring, a lot of the past will rest on a future decision: whether to destroy the building.
"They'll tear it down over my dead body," Burchill said. "I will lobby for it to be well-used."
lobby of 101 East 49th Street.
Burchell, a member of an ad hoc space committee created by Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that there was shortage of academic space, placing a premium on any building still standing.
David Schaecher, assistant director for facilities planning, said that Blake Annex, one of the two buildings that will be vacated by the department, has been scheduled for demolition after the move. The future of Jolliffe Hall is yet to be decided.
But Brower Burchill, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that Jolliffe hall was worth saving.
we'll have more space than we've got now and all in one place." Utlser said.
stuffing.
The radio/television department is scheduled to occupy half of the floor of the Robert J. Dole Human Development Center, now under construction, east of Haworth Hall. The center is scheduled to be completed by March 1990 and will house several departments: human development and family living, music education and therapy, and others related to telecommunications.
But until the move, Jollihle Hall and Blake Anex will continue as part of KU's history since World War II days.
Max Utsler, chairman of the radio-television department, said that the move would benefit his department.
In 1941, O. Jolliffe, a banker and cattleman from Peabody, gave $50,000 to the Kansas University Endowment Association for the construction of a new residence hall for men. Problems arose, however, when the lowest bids for the proposed residence hall were
more than the $50,000 gift
more than that. The Endowment Association chose instead to purchase the former University Club, 1433 Ohio St., from the Acacia Fraternity, and named it Jolifie Hall.
The next 30 years were spent alternating the hall between housing for men and women. The radio-television-film department moved into the building in 1975.
Blake Annex, on the other hand, grew out of necessity. The buildings were meant to be temporary quarters to house the 5,600 returning World War II veterans who had enrolled at KU.
Allen Wiechert. University director of facilities planning, said that decisions on the future of Jolliffe would be made later.
Radio and television department will be moved out of Jolliffe Hall and into the new Robert J. Dole Human Development Center, which is now under construction.
AIDS virus similar to multiple sclerosis
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A genetic test of cells in the blood of patients with multiple sclerosis suggests that the crippling disease is closely associated with a virus that is similar to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus, researchers said.
B. Prem Kumar Reddy, a researcher at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, said the genetic study of blood samples from six multiple sclerosis patients provided direct proof that the human T-lymphotrophic virus, or HTLV-I, was involved in the MS disease process.
"This test for the first time shows that if you do sensitive enough assays, you can find HTLV in MS natips." Reddy said.
The same tests on 20 healthy people, he said, detected the HTLV-1 virus in only one.
A report on the study was published today in the journal Science.
"Even though these two viruses are not causing the same disease, their basic mechanisms of infection are very, very similar," Reddy said. "Something that works for HIV also should work for HTLV-1."
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that attacks the brain and other parts of the central nervous system. It causes damage by destroying a tissue called
myelin that covers the nerves.
About 250,000 people in the United States are MS patients. The disease strikes most frequently between the ages of 20 and 40. In about a third of the patients, the disease is very severe, with great disability and crippling. Currently, no cure is known, though the disease frequently goes into remission
Reddy and his associates at Wistar proved that HTLV-1 is in the blood cells of multiple sclerosis patients by performing extremely precise assays for the genetic pattern of the virus. As a control, similar assays were performed on blood samples from 20 healthy persons.
Reddy said the research proved that HTLV-I was associated with multiple sclerosis but that it did not cause it; itself, was the cause of the disease.
the cause of the disease.
Reddy said that the next step in his research would be to study brain tissue in an attempt to determine how HTLV-1 affects the nervous system on a molecular level.
"Once we understand that, then we could develop a pharmacological agent that would block this process," be said.
Dental care at Watkins could be discontinued
The researcher said that developing a drug against HTLV-I or to treat MS directly would take many years.
Kansan staff writer
by Jennifer Corser
After a year in existence, the free dental clinic at Watkins Memorial Health Center could be discontinued because few students take advantage of it.
Last year, Watkins began offering dental examinations to KU students who had questions about their dental care, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins. But because so few students are using the clinic, it could be canceled after this semester.
be canceled after this. "I'm not optimistic that we'll be continuing it," Yockey said.
Two Lawrence dentists volunteer to give students examinations and diagnose dental problems. The examination is basic and does not include X-rays, Yockey said.
Yockey said students could use the service to save the price of a diagnoses visit to a dentist. That way, Yockey said, students would not have to pay for checkups when nothing was wrong with their teeth.
was wrong with him. If a patient needs X-rays or treat ment, Yockey said, he must visit another dentist.
"There are many dentists in Lawrence who are willing to see KU students at a moment's notice." Yockey said.
Only one or two students visit the dental clinic a week, he said. Half of those students need treatment and are referred to another dentist.
Last semester, four dentists volunteered to do the examinations, he said. Two of them decided not to volunteer this semester because students did not use the clinic enough for it to be a beneficial service.
C. O. Nauman, one of the volunteer dentists, said he thought the clinic was necessary.
"I felt it was worthwhile because there are lot of students having questions pertaining to dental work." Nauman said.
nauman said he would continue volunteering at Watkins as long as the clinic existed.
The Classroom
"I think if you just saw one thing or problem that is important, it's worth your time," he said.
Nauman said the clinic was beneficial for catching dental problems early.
He said that during finals, many students experienced tooth pain. If the student gets teeth pulled or takes medication, he or she will not be able to study.
The clinic has a dental chair and a light, which were donated to Watkins. Yockey said.
KINS, TUCKY CHEW "This (clinic) trial hasn't cost the students a dime," he said.
Watkins is offering the clinic every other week this semester. The time and date of the clinic will be advertised in the Kansean to generate more interest among the students, Yockey said.
Officials say no more naps at nuclear plant
The Associated Press
DELTA, Pa. — The troubled Peach Bottom nuclear plant will use less comfortable chairs and a new shift rotation to prevent a recurrence of control room operators sleeping on duty, officials said yesterday.
About 60 reporters were handed hard hats, goggles and tiny radiation monitors as the Philadelphia Electric Co., operator of the dormant plant on the Susquehanna River, conducted its first media tour of the facility.
Can you give me the NRC fined the company $1.25 million, the largest in the commission's history. Operator negligence was so pervasive that the commission also leved fines ranging from $500 to $1,000 against 33 current and former workers for sleeping and/or intention to duty.
facility. The utility is trying to convince the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that things have changed since the NRC ordered the two Peach Bottom reactors shut down in March 1987. The commission ordered the shutdown because of widespread sleeping and horseplay on the job by control room workers.
inattention. To combat the catnaps, plant officiially they had replaced comfortable, high-backed chairs with low-backed models.
so that operators work a week of day shifts, followed by a week of afternoon-evening shifts, and then a week of overnight shifts. The rotation, which includes days off, formerly went in the reverse order.
April.
Dave Woodrow, a control room shift supervisor, said the shutdown had been a burden on him and his family. He said operators were eager to start again.
The moves are part of a plant shake-up that also includes new top managers and revamped training courses for control room personnel.
woodrow said sloppiness in the control room might have occurred partly because Philadelphia Electric was devoting so much attention to construction of the Limerick. It rear plant in salubran Philadelphia.
Peach Bottom officials said they hoped to get NRC permission to restart the plant in late March or April.
"We would like to prove to the public that we are good operators," he said.
Yesterday, the company chairman, Joseph Paquette, said, "Our credibility certainly has been damaged."
Philadelphia Electric has had to pay about $150 million for replacement power because of the outage.
Entomology professor, author dies Peter Ashlock, 59, had planned to retire to California in May
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
Peter D. Ashlock, professor of entomology, died of heart failure in his home Wednesday night. He was 59.
Nab 58.
Ashlock had been on staff at the University of Kansas since 1968, and had served as curator of the Museum of Entomology since 1983.
He recently co-published a book on insects, "Catalogue of the Heteroptera, or the True Bugs of Canada and the Continental U.S.", one of several books he wrote or contributed to.
Throughout his career, Ashlock had several papers published in various scientific journals and
was one of about six researchers in the country who specialized in Lygaeidae, a family of seed bugs.
During the Korean War, Ashlock served in the Army. He was stationed at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where he conducted scientific surveys on insects and plants.
Ashlock's wife, Jimny, said he had been interested in insects since he was a child in Marin County, Calif. As a Christmas present one year, his parents gave him a microscope and he began studying plants and pond water, she said.
plants. The team attends at the University of Connecticut, when they were working toward masters'
Ashkob graduated in 1952 from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in biological sciences. In 1956, he received his master's degree from the University of Connecticut. He returned to Berkeley and earned his doctorate in 1966.
degrees. They married June 25, 1956, in Greensboro, N.C.
After graduation, Ashlock worked for two years at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
See ASHLOCK, p. 6, col. 5
Senate to categorize some campus groups
by Kris M. Bergquist
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate funding of some campus groups will be less arbitrary and more uniform under a resolution passed by Student Senate last night, said Pam Holley, student body vice president.
"This is to insure that we don't spend 90 percent of the budget on activities that only 50 percent of the students enjoy," said Jane Hutchinson, chairman of Student Senate executive committee.
Under the resolution, two-year revenue code groups will be placed in
one of four categories: fine arts, community services, sports or student organizations.
dief or ganzaal will be the funding of these groups will be done by category in the hope that Senate will be better able to track the amount of money that goes to each category.
Previously, groups were considered individually and funding was made on a first come, first serve basis, Holley said.
Two-year revenue code groups are budgeted for odd years. A registered student group has to have been in existence for three years before it
can be considered for revenue status Groups such as KU on Wheels, KJHK and the University Daily Kansan have revenue status.
san have fees
Student receive this year received a
tuition of 3.1 million from student fees.
Of that, revenue groups received $1.2
million.
additional funding.
Requests for supplemental funding
must now pass by a three-fourths
Supplemental funding for two-year groups also will be changed. Previously, groups could get supplemental funding during the two-year period if an activity came up that required additional funding.
vote. A two-thirds vote previously was required.
"If they're having a problem and can't plan ahead, then they should go to the one-year revenue status," said Chris Shirling, student body treasurer. "There's a leavening off of enrollment now, and we're not going to be Dodd-Frank laws like we used to with this. We'll be able to think about the money being spent and see which groups will be the best for all the students."
the students"
Hutchinson said that the change to a three-fourth vote would encourage groups to plan more carefully.