CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 10. 1995
3A
Source: Watkins Memorial Health Center
Sports injuries often pain even casual athletes
By Robert Allen
Kansan staff writer
The first time Nick Proud tore the cartilage in his right knee at age 16, it took a surgeon's scalpel and about 10 months for him to recover.
The second time he tore the same cartilage, two years later, recovery took 12 months and more surgery.
The third time, 16 games into last year's basketball season, the former Kansas basketball player called it quits.
Sports injuries are common among many KU students, not just college athletes, said Lawrence Magee, a physician in the sports medicine clinic at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"The they decided that my knee wouldn't hold up," said Proud, Sydney, Australia, sophomore. "If I wanted to keep playing, I would need a prosthetic knee by the time I was 30."
"The most common involve ankle injuries," Magee said. "Any time you play sports that have a sudden change in direction, a lot of stop-and-go, you can get off-balance and injure it."
Magee said that knee injuries, such as the one that recently knocked Phoenix Sun and former Jayhawk Danny Manning out for the season, were common.
Magee said football and basketball sent the most people to the clinic, but he guessed that more
people played those sports.
"It varies according to the specific sport and population you deal with," he said.
The clinic's staff evaluates every injury separately, Magee said. But there are some general steps for treatment.
First, they control swelling. Second, they work to increase strength and range of motion Third, they prescribe a program of rehabilitation, which may include rest, medicine or retraining the injured area.
Some students are not daunted by past injuries.
Lori Zito, Omaha, Neb., senior,
said she had suffered many sports-
related injuries, including tfrc
"It is when you hyperextend your toe," she said.
Although none of her injuries was serious, a cast was made to fit her toe. She still wears the cast when she plays soccer.
Some injured students don't follow the treatment prescribed by a doctor. Magee said the clinic's staff took this into consideration.
"If I step on my foot the wrong way, my toe will start to hurt," she said. "But it's nothing serious."
Zito's injuries haven't kept her from playing sports.
"If it's harmful to the injury to do a specific action, we explain why it's harmful," he said. "We also give alternative actions to do. We always ask what activities are coming up so they can keep active without worsening the injury."
Boston journalist receives award
By Matt Hood Kansan staff writer
As a journalist who never has taken a single journalism class, Ellen Goodman has done pretty well for herself.
Goodman will receive the William Allen White Foundation's National Citation for Journalistic Merit today at 1:30 p.m. at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. She will speak after receiving the award.
"It's a nice honor." Goodman said.
is a nice honor. Goodman said. Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and associate editor of the Boston Globe. Her syndicated column appears on the op-ed pages of more than 440 newspapers across the country.
"I learned journalism in on-the-job training." she said.
Goodman graduated from Radcliffe College in 1963 with a degree in history. At that time, discrimination
against women was completely accepted, and companies were hiring "over-educated women for lousy jobs."
Ellen Goodman greets KU faculty at a reception in the Adams Alumni Center.
Goodman had one of those jobs. She was a researcher for Newsweek. But she was determined not to be held down by an unfair system. She went on to work as a reporter at the Detroit Free Press and later
at the Boston Globe.
In 1976, the Washington Post Writers Group began syndicating her
columns. In 1980, she received the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary.
William Dickinson, a lecturer at the School of Journalism, gave Goodman her shot at national syndication.
Dickinson, who was editorial director and general manager of the group, said that Goodman's columns spoke to women's and family issues at an ideal time.
He said that in the late 1970s, women were writing for editorial pages, but few were writing about women's issues.
"She has a singular ability to empathize with her reader," Dickinson said. "Her writing is strong but not strident. Her concern for humanity makes her column special."
Goodman said she loved having a venue for her opinions.
First Black grad remembered
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
"The biggest challenge is to say what you think and figure out what you think," Goodman said. "You'd better care because that's what sustains you."
In 1859, the same year that federal authorities executed Kansas abolitionist John Brown, Blanche Ketene Bruce was born in Brunswick, Mo.
Twenty-six years later, Bruce became the first African-American student to graduate from the University of Kansas.
Those years presented a series of obstacles to African-American students at KU. The Graduate Magazine reported in 1909 that the majority of African Americans who came to KU didn't stay through their sophomore year. The same article said most of the students were partly self-supporting and worked as "tablewaiters, janitors, porters, farmers, maids and laudresses."
But Bruce didn't quit.
With a bachelor in didactics, Bruce began a 54-year career as principal of the Sumner School in Leavenworth.
In his seventh year at the school, he won the state Republican Party's nomination for secretary of state, but he did not win.
Bruce also was recognized because he tutored more than 2,000 students who applied to military academies. Only three failed their entrance exams, according to The Graduate Magazine.
In 1939, a Leavenworth newspaper reported that "At least one his 'boys' is on every ship in the U.S. Navy and one or more in the 48 states."
Deborah Dandridge, program associate at Spencer Library, said that universities in Kansas always had welcomed African-American students.
"There was a strong attraction to come to Kansas," Dandridge said. "Compared to Missouri and Oklahoma, which refused African Americans, our state universities were always open. From 1870 to 1910, 60 Blacks graduated from KU."
Fred Williams, president of the KU Alumni Association, said funds administered by the Kansas University Endowment Association were named the Bruce-Smith Awards, in recognition of Bruce and Lizzie Ann Smith, the first African-American students at KU.
“This fund was established when David Chase, a KU graduate in 1970, was interested in starting this special fund for African-American students,” Williams said.
Blanche Ketene Bruce was the first African- American to graduate from the University of Kansas.
Photo Courteses of Kansas University Archives
Student Senate kills extra voting site proposal
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Stevie Case, association of University residence halls senator, wanted to set up a sixth polling location at Ekdahl Dining Commons in Lewis Hall.
Student senators punished and slaughtered a bill Wednesday night that would have added a new polling place on campus for Student Senate elections.
Case said the more accessible polling area would help bridge the gap between students and Senate.
The five polling locations are the Kansas and Burge unions, Wescoc Hall, Watson library and Robinson gymnasium.
"We have $1.5 million in Senate, and people don't know what's going on here." Case said.
But some student senators said a sixth polling place wasn't needed.
Ann Perry, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator who lives at Jayhawker Towers, said putting polling areas close to the residence halls would cut down on the quality of voting.
Other senators opposed to the bill said a new polling location was not the way to go about bridging the gap
between students and Student Senate.
"It shouldn't be" 'fall out of your bed and go vote." she said.
"What this really comes down to is a lack of planning," said Ken M a r i t i n g.
holdover senator who lives off campus. "They should have thought about this at an earlier time."
Apathy — not a lack of polling stations — caused student not to vote, he said.
"People walk on the other side of the street because they don't want to vote." he said.
Thirteen percent of the student body voted in last year's elections.
Alan Pierce, non-traditional senator, said he thought that senators were more interested in choosing coalition sides than considering the advantages and disadvantages of a sixth polling location.
Terry Bell, a member of the Finance Committee, said that Interfraternity Council members were lobbying to oppose the funding of the bill.
The coming elections are creating a war-like atmosphere in Senate, he said.
"If you increase the amount of
Pierce said that coalition hostilities were beginning to muddle the issues Senate needed to address.
"The coalitions already are starting to set the scene of the battlegrounds as far as the elections," Pierce said. "And it should not be brought to Senate because we have just too much to do."
David Stevens, a Nenumaker senator who lives off-campus, said that the conflict was not a coalition issue but a voter-participation issue.
Case's bill was proposed after Stevens filed a complaint with the Elections Commission that said there were not enough polling areas on campus.
"I think it shows that the current Senate is not interested in increasing voter turnout," Stevens said. "Those who believe this is political reveal more about themselves than their accusations."
Stephanie Guerin, Student Senate finance committee chairwoman, and Stevens will run for president and vice president, respectively.
Kim Cocks, education senator, and Dan Hare, nineman senator, also
Senate action
Other legislation passed at Wednesday's Student Senate meeting:
Pre-Occupational Therapy Club received $292
■ LesBiGay Awareness Week received $5,267.
The KU Singapore Student Association received $177.
The Safe Break Week lecture received $1,906.
The Student Recreation Fee was raised to $13.
The Kansas Student Votes Coalition was endorsed.
Senators with unexcused absences were Lea Chediak, Nunemaker senator; Syketh Milburn, Black Panhellenic senator; Jeni Miller, Nunemaker senator; Monte Monforo, pharmacy senator; Sandra Olivas, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator.
will run for president and vice president, respectively.
The deadline to file for student body president and vice president is March 8.
Elections will take place April 12 and 13.
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