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2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 2005
GET READY FOR THE BEAKEND
BY MARK VIERTHALER
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KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
With flavors of old Rolling Stones and Beatles, these four European talents are following in the footsteps of such rock revivers as Jet, Louis XIV and Franz Ferdinand giving a distinct European flavor, mixed in with poppy hooks and a newer flavor and harder edge to bring in an audience that demands a little more true talent from their performers.
The pop-rock group OK Go will be making a Saturday night appearance in Kansas City, Mo., this weekend. The Swedish quartet will headline at The Hurricane, 4048 Broadway. The show is all ages, so everyone from freshmen to graduate students can attend to catch a glimpse of an up-and-coming buzz in the world of rock.
Its songs range from vaguely surreal tunes like "The House Wins," an infectious tune that begins with a pounding piano followed up with chanting vocals. "A Million Ways," gives another smooth and rolling song berating a woman that knows "A million ways to be cruel."
Having spent the past several years on the rock scene, poking around and testing the waters, OK Go has finally begun to get some mainstream airplay with their newest single, "A Million Ways," off their most recent album. "Oh No".
The lyrics aren't on the level of Bob Dylan's genius, but they
aren't the cookie cutter, glazed over shoddiness that has become a staple of recent rock and metal. For anyone who's sick of listening to painfully earnest lyrics about how their father never loved them, this band offers both serious and lighthearted lyrics that refuse to take themselves too seriously.
Probably the best feature of this band is that it's original and it isn't afraid to be original. Its fame comes in after similar bands, but these guys have been out there with the rest of them, and they deserve the recognition.
In a continuing world of pierced, tattooed, highpitched whiners, OK Go is a breath of fresh air that holds similarities to the indie band The Killers. In a music industry increasingly dominated by serious motifs, it's good to see some bands throwing back to the roots of rock.
So if you have the gas to drive to Kansas City this weekend, be sure to check out these guys at The Hurricane. The entire downtown scene is worth checking out anyway.
The group even dabbles with Pink Floyd-esque effects in several of their songs, giving them a retro avant-garde feeling.
OK Go relies on its rolling bass lines and harsh guitar hooks to entice the listener. The attractive lyrics and heavy use of symbols are just more attractive points that give a feel of the late 1970s rock scene.
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Loveland, Colo., third grader Savannah Gilbert reacts to finding the word brilliant in her dictionary Thursday. Local Rotary Club members gave dictionaries to children at Stansberry Elementary on Thursday morning.
Hispanic University of Kansas Medical Center students Tania Beltren, right; Ruben Font, middle; and Francisco Chacon, left, study Thursday afternoon. The Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity encourages most students to take the pre-admissions program that helps students adjust to the workload of the Med Center classes.
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Thomas said future plans included working on researching the health disparities and needs of the community.
Chacon said he respected Thomas' vision in regard to adapting to changing demographics and learning to be a socially aware health provider.
Much of the Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity's programs are funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. According to Hispanic Business, the school recently received additional grants totaling more than $11.8 million that will help fund the office's efforts in the next three years.
"As the state's population changes, it's becoming more important to be culturally competent and understand how to interact with people from various backgrounds," he said.
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"It seems like whenever I go there and they find out I speak Spanish they just cling to you," Beltren Papsdorf said. "It works out pretty well, though, because I get to help them and I learn a lot.
Francisco Chacon went into medicine when he realized what a difference it made to have medical professionals who understood how to help the Hispanic population.
"It is a population you can't ignore," said Chacon, who is of Mexican heritage. "You need to have a broader perspective and be bilingual to be able to treat these people."
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The program coordinates outreach efforts with minority students or those from underprivileged or rural backgrounds. The sponsored learning initiatives range from Saturday learning sessions for children in grade and middle schools to its summer school for high schoolers to a pre-admissions program that is designed to strengthen academic competitiveness.
Students at the school have academic assistance and resources available to them. Academic assistance programs include supplemental instruction, small study groups and tutoring.
Chacon, first-year University of Kansas School of Medicine student from Liberal, isn't the only one who understands the importance of helping the Hispanic community. The school ranked sixth on Hispanic Business magazine's top 10 medical schools for Hispanics.
Patricia Thomas, associate dean for Cultural Enhancement & Diversity, said the school earned the distinction because of its Center of Excellence for Minority Medical Education and Health Careers Pathways Program.
Thomas said the school was one
of the only medical schools in the country that had a full-time faculty position that was responsible for teaching a Spanish class that focused on medical terminology. Thomas has also worked with professors in each department to make sure cultural diversity, touching on topics like attitudes and belief systems, is taught in every class.
HEALTH
Tania Beltren Papsdorf, second-year medical school student from Wichita, frequently works with the school's JayDoc program, a student-run clinic that treats members of the community for free. Papsdorf said she mainly helped translate and work with Hispanic patients
Girl in custody battle receives treatment
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WICHTTA — Through a port in her chest that once delivered powerful chemotherapy medication, vitamin C now flows into Katie Wernecke's body.
A week after a lengthy legal battle between her parents and the state ended with 13-year-old Katie walking out of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, she's had three such intravenous treatments.
She may have two or three more during her stay at the Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning International in Wichita, before returning with her father to their home in Agua Dulce, Texas.
But a doctor told a social worker that Katie's parents were endangering her life by refusing the treatment. In June, workers with Child Protective Services in Texas removed Katie from her family.
The treatments are an alternative approach to fighting Hodgkin's disease, which Katie was diagnosed with in January. Center medical director Ron Hunninghake has said that in large doses, vitamin C can be converted into peroxide, which is toxic to cancer cells.
"She has a good foundation ...a better-than-average prognosis from our perspective," Hunninghake said.
Doctors have said that Katie's chances of surviving the disease had dwindled from 80 percent to as low as 20 percent.
After initial rounds of chemotherapy, the tumor in her chest appeared gone and the Werneckes refused the radiation treatments that doctors recommended but her father refused because of heightened risk for breast cancer.
Last week, a judge ruled that Katie should be returned to her parents' custody as soon as she completed a round of chemotherapy and was stable.
"She's had a good attitude about it,
her father, Edward Wemcke,
told The Wichita Eagle. He added that she told him several times, "Dad, it's only cancer."
The treatments are an alternative approach to fighting Hodgkin's disease, which Katie was diagnosed with in January. Center medical director Ron Hunninghake has said that in large doses, vitamin C can be converted into peroxide, which is toxic to cancer cells.
Although Edward Wernecke said he was satisfied with District Judge Jack Hunter's ruling, the judge still has not cleared the Werneckes of an earlier ruling saying they had medically neglected their daughter.
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