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The student vOice since 1904 KANSAS CHALLENGES NEBRASKA SATURDAY AT ALLEN FIELDHOUSE » PAGE 8B FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOLUME 118 ISSUE 82 » DOLE INSTITUTE MYSTERY MEAT Director to return to Do they clone the pickles, too? campus role Former Thompson for President cam- paign manager Bill Lacy is sick and fatigued. Although Lacy had hoped Thompson would survive the republican primaries and ultimately be elected president of the U.S., Lacy said he was ready for a vacation Lacy, who is also the director of the Dole Institute of Politics said he would not return to his position at the University until mid-March. FULL STORY paGE 3A » ATHLETICS Recreation center to be renamed It was a Friday evening and David Ambler, former vice chancellor of student affairs, had just returned home from a vacation in Chicago. When he listened to the message on his answering machine from Chancellor Hemenway’s secretary, he had no idea why the chancellor would want to come to his home and talk to him. “I said to my wife, ‘My God! What did I do that the chancellor has to come to Photo illustration by Mindy Ricketts/KANSAN my house!’ ” Ambler said. Students are unsure whether cloned meat is safe, but the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t see a problem. The FDA concluded Jan. 15 that meat and milk from clones of animals were safe to eat. Little did Ambler know, the University had decided to rename the recreation BY ANDY GREENHAW from conventionally bred animals, an FDA into my body,” Weilert said. genetic copy. center the David A. Ambler Student agreenhaw@kansan.com press release said. Erik Lundquist, associate professor of Jack Dekkers, professor of Animal Recreation Fitness Center. The FDA doesn’t expect a significant developmental neurobiology, said there was Science at Iowa State University, agrees with The future of cloning is here, and it ties number of clones to enter the food supply. absolutely nothing to worry about. Lundquist, but he doesn’t expect producers FULL STORY paGE 4A into the production of food. Instead, the sexually reproduced offspring “I think a lot of people are apprehensive to begin cloning animals for food produc- A farmer in Wisconsin collects a skin cell from the clones will be the ones used for because it’s a very technical process and tion just yet. from his prize cow. He then transplants the food production. cloning holds a very powerful connotation, “Right now it is not cost effective to nucleus from the skin cell to an unfertilized Some students, such as Yonatan Gizaw, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with clone animals specifically for food produc- » THEATER egg, which he implants into the uterus of Ethiopia senior, welcome the idea of cloning the meat,” said Lundquist. “You’re not add- tion,” Dekkers said. “The technology is still a host mother cow. Nine months later, the animals for food production. ing chemicals, altering genes, or adding in development and I think it will be years host gives birth to a calf that is genetically “I think it’s a cool scientific development,” hormones.” before it becomes a cost-efficient practice.” identical to the original cow. When it grows said Gizaw. “I wouldn’t be opposed to eat- In fact, Lundquist even encourages the Students such as Ryan Koerner, Andover KU Opera up, it could find itself in the deli of your local ing it.” idea of cloning animals for meat. If a specific Junior, can’t wait for the market to jump on grocery store. Other students, such as Humboldt junior animal has all the desirable characteristics a the new trend. After seven years of evaluating the risks Melanie Weilert, are skeptical about the farmer is looking for, he said that breeding “If they find the best tasting cow and clone premieres involved, the Food and Drug Administration FDA’s findings. the animal the traditional way would only it, then hell, I’m all for it,” Koerner said. concluded Jan. 15 that meat and milk from “I probably wouldn’t consume it because give you half the characteristics of the origi- ‘La Traviata’ clones of animals were as safe to eat as food I’d be concerned about the chemicals going nal, while cloning the animal would create a —Edited by Samuel Lamb After months of work, the first of five performances of KU Opera’s presentation »SCIENCE of “La Traviata” made its debut Thursday night at Murphy Hall. “La Traviata” is the story of love found then tragically lost in nineteenth century Professor researches mountain formations Paris. BY MARY SORRICK not just mountain building, but earth- Daniel Stockli, associate professor of FULL STORY paGE 4A msorrick@kansan.com quakes and other earth processes as well. geology, said the Andes formed as the Taylor chose to conduct fieldwork in result of an oceanic plate sliding under While many KU students and facul- Argentina, he said, because the Andes and the western edge of South America. The ty spent their last week of winter break the Himalayas share a considerable link. Himalayas were formed by the direct colli- shivering through the Kansas cold, Mike “South America is what Tibet looked sion of two continental plates. weather Taylor, assistant professor of geology, was like 50 million years ago,” he said. “That “The Andes were like a one-car accident sleeping under the stars in the Andes was before India slammed into southern as opposed to a two-car accident in the 39 22 Mountains. Asia and made the Tibetan Plateau.” Himalayas,” Stockli said. A.M. Snow showers Taylor, who arrived back at KU on Jan. Taylor said fertile land similar to the That head-on collision helped make the — weather.com 15, was in Mendoza, Argentina, studying one that surrounds Mendoza once thrived Himalayas as large and rugged as they are. the mountains of the Andes, and looking where Tibet’s often cold and craggy moun- It’s a feature that contributes to another of SATURDAY SUNDAY at deformed rocks and fault lines along the tain plateau now sits. Taylor’s interests in Tibet, which has less 47 23 51 40 range’s eastern edge. That trait has made the Andes a place of to do with mountains and more to do with Sunny Mostly sunny Sweating out the 100-degree heat of interest for Taylor. who lives among them. the southern hemisphere summer, Taylor Clues in the faults and rock deformation “The distribution of nomads has been spent his week in South America trying to of the Andes and Himalayas could also determined by the spacing of mountain index determine characteristics of the Andes that help answer fundamental questions about ranges,” he said. “The dialect each group Classifieds. 5A might shed light on the real subject of his the nature of the two ranges, namely the speaks evolved independently of other CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Crossword. 6A geologic devotion: Tibet. slip rate, or rate at which two sides of a groups because they’re separated by moun- Mike Taylor, assistant professor of geology, spent a “My bread and butter and deep passion fault are moving, Taylor said. Finding the tains.” Horoscopes. 6A week of winter break in South America doing field research is Asian tectonics,” Taylor said. “It’s the slip rate would help scientists determine In other words, he said, tectonics are in the Andes Mountains. Opinion. 7A best place in the world to study mountain how often earthquakes occur along any controlling the language and lifestyle of Sports. 1B building.” one fault. Tibetan nomads. they’ve never seen blonde hair or hazel Mountain building, or the process However, Taylor said, the Andes and Having spent six trips of 60 to 100 days eyes,” Taylor said. “They’re living the same Sudoku. 6A of chunks of the Earth’s crust ramming Himalayas are not entirely similar because each mapping rocks in Tibet, Taylor has as they did 100 to 200 years ago. It’s magi- together to form mountain ranges, has been the formation of the mountain ranges developed an appreciation for the people cal.” All contents, unless stated otherwise, Taylor’s focus for years. He has studied the involved different types of continental who live there. © 2007 The University Daily Kansan Himalayas in Tibet to better understand drift. “You come across people so isolated — Edited by Patrick De Oliveira 2A NEWS FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2008 ECONOMY quote of the day Squirrels like you choose Jif Bush, Congress approve on campus “If the doors of perception one-time tax rebates The workshop “Blackboard were cleansed, everything WASHINGTON — With unprec- Strategies and Tools” will be would appear to man as it is: edented speed and cooperation, presented by KU Libraries infinite.” Congress and the White House Instructional Services at 9 a.m. — William Blake, forged a deal Thursday to begin in 6 Budig Hall. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell rushing tax rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most tax filers by E. 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