Section A·Page 6
The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 10, 2000
Kickboxing is on target with students
Rita DeLoach, Overland Park sophomore, practices a punching exercise during her aerobic kickboxing class. Last spring, the University of
By Sindy Greenfield Special to the Kansan
About a year ago, videotapes such as Tae-Bo started to take the exercise world by storm and influenced universities and health clubs across the country.
Kansas began offering HSES 108 Aerobic Kickboxing. Photo by Matt J.
Daugherty/KANSAN
The University of Kansas soon followed, and last spring, the University started offering an aerobic kickboxing class.
Last semester Courtney Wolk,
Highland Park, Ill., senior,
enrolled in HSES 108 Aerobic
Kickboxing, a class which is
always full and almost impossible
to add.
Diane Oehlschlaeger, graduate teaching assistant in health, sport and exercise science, said kickboxing received so much hype because it was a different twist on aerobics.
"Aerobics has been around long enough," she said. "If something new does not come out, it gets stale."
While the class is popular with women like Wolk, women do not make up the entire class.
Oehlschlaeger agreed.
"Kickboxing is a popular workout that men like to do and men feel masculine doing," she said.
The class works out different body parts in a matter of 50 minutes, using a system of three-minute station rotations. One station works abs, another legs, and the last station works arms with punching bags.
"Because I had to go to class, it helped me get my workout in for the day." Wolk said.
Because of that and the aerobic similarity to Billy Blanks' Tae-Bo tape, the class is popular with its students.
designed for exercise, not self defense.
"The classes are not offered to teach students how to spar with somebody else," she said. "The classes are offered to give students more than a workout. We are giving people an idea of how to workout on their own.
Oehlschlaeger emphasized that kickboxing classes were
Oehlschlaeger said one workout was not necessarily better than another, but kickboxing
was primarily a cardiovascular workout that helped tone the body. Students looking to gain muscle mass would be better served taking a weights and conditioning class, she said.
It is all about what the individual puts into the workout," Oehlschlaeger said.
because it concentrates on cardiovascular workouts as well as stretching and weights.
University licenses technology
By Kondwa Kankondo
By Kandwa Kankond
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In return for the license, the University will receive an undisclosed payment from ProFusion LLC.
The University of Kansas signed a contract last month to license technology that runs ProFusion, a popular Internet search engine developed by a KU professor, to a private company.
University officials would not comment on the amount in the agreement or the specific terms of the contract, which was signed Jan. 7.
"We do not disclose the monetary value of agreements in order to protect the competitive interests of the parties we deal with, in this case ProFusion LLC," said James Roberts, associate vice chancellor for research and public service.
Mark Wdowik, director of applied technology at the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center, said it was a matter of confidentiality. However, he said the agreement involving ProFusion LLC and ITTC.
Susan Gauch, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, began the concept of the search engine, www.profusion.com, as a research project. It had supported more than 400,000 monthly users since last April. The company reported that its site traffic had quadrupled last March after a month of more than one million queries.
Although the technology has been licensed to a private firm, she continues to serve as co-owner, co-founder and chief technical officer of ProFusion LLC.
Roberts said the technology transfer was a great example of public service in which KU research can benefit the economy of Kansas.
Wdowik said such achievements created jobs for students and helped increase revenue for the University. ProFusion employs five KU graduates.
Indonesians demand general's resignation
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — An obstetrician who carved his initials into a patient's abdomen when he delivered her baby was arrested yesterday on assault charges.
Allan Zarkin, 61, was accused of carving "AZ" with a scalpel into the lower abdomen of Liana Gedz, 31, after delivering her baby to Caesarean section at Beth Israel Hospital on Sept. 7.
Zarkin pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault at his arraignment. Acting Justice Brenda Soloff released him without bail and scheduled a hearing for March 14.
Barkin, whose license to practice medicine was revoked Feb. 3, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years.
Barry Fallick, Zarkin's lawyer,
admits that his client cut the
letters into Gedz but said his client
isn't responsible because he suffers from a brain disease that impairs his judgment.
"He never meant to hurt her." Fallick said.
Gedz, who is suing Zarkin for $5 million, asked prosecutors to spare the doctor, said her lawyer, Robert Sullivan. He said the prosecution would accomplish nothing.
"He's lost his license, a lifetime consequence," Sullivan said. "It's not like he's a danger to society. He's not going to be in an operating room with a scalpel, so it's a waste of taxpayer's money."
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, told of the comments, replied, "This is not a private lawsuit. This is a public prosecution. What we're prosecuting here is a crime."
The State Health Department fined Beth Israel $14,000 for seven violations after the incident and ordered the hospital to change its reporting procedures.
Wiranto will not step down until he speaks to president
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia — After denying responsibility for the devastation of East Timor, Indonesia's security minister said yesterday that he would not address demands for his resignation until he explained his stance to the president.
Attending a Cabinet session yesterday, Gen. Wiranto made it clear he had no intention of stepping down before President Abdurrahman Wahid returns to Indonesia on Sunday at the end of a 16-day European and Asian tour.
"I am waiting for the president to come back." Wiranto told journalists, saying he would report to Wahid his position in the legal process that he faces in
the case of human rights violations in East Timor.
Earlier, Wiranto — who uses only one name — denied responsibility for any violations in East Timor. An Indonesian government investigation blamed him for a militia rampage that broke out after East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia in August.
"I have never committed any kind of unlawful activity, and I am proud of my record," Wiranto said in an interview published Tuesday in Singapore's Straits Times newspaper.
Wiranto, quoted by the paper,
challenged the investigating
commission to find any evidence
against him concerning
unlawful activity. He said that
if he resigned, Indonesians
would see it as an admission of
guilt.
On Jan. 31, Wahid called on
Wiranto to quit after the commission revealed its findings. Wiranto, a four-star general, was Indonesia's military commander at that time of the mili-tamen's rampage in September.
Before today's Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Jakarta, a relaxed and confident-looking Wiranto chatted, laughed and shook hands with Cabinet colleagues. Afterward, Cabinet Secretary Marsilam Simanjuntak said Wiranto's future was not discussed.
Wahid repeatedly has said he will press for Wiranto's resignation after his return to Jakarta.
Jose Alexandre Gusmao — expected to be East Timor's first president — said today that Wahid should be punished for past abuses.
"We want to stress again that if we ask for justice, we don't ask for revenge." Gusmao said yesterday in Malaysia on the last day of a six-nation Asian tour. "It is not revenge, it is
some kind of action to free human kind of more crimes, of more repression."
Attorney General Marzuki Darusman said yesterday that state prosecutors had begun their own investigation based on the findings of the Indonesian government report.
Apparently wanting to soften the blow for Wiranto, the president has promised to grant a pardon if he is eventually convicted of human rights violations. He has praised his character and even described him as a friend.
The Indonesian investigation and a separate U.N. probe have accused Wiranto's troops of helping anti-independence militias in East Timor loot, burn and kill.
Wahid, who was appointed president last October, has steadily eroded the power of the military in his bid to deliver democratic reforms after decades of authoritarian rule.
GRAD FAIR 2000
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 29, March 1, 2
KU Bookstores
Kansas Union. Level 2
Join us for this special event!
KU Graduation Announcements
KU Caps & Gowns
Official Class Rings by Milestone Traditions
KU Career and Employment Center Info.
KU Alumni Association Information
Diploma Frames
Drawing for eligible 2000 graduates only. No purchase required.
Graduation Announcements: 1-800-433-0926
Enter to Win!
Graduation Announcements ($50 value)
Free Graduation Regalia
14 kt. Men's Official Class Ring ($395 value)
14 kt. Women's Official Class Ring ($325 value)
*Diploma Frames
*KU Merchandise
Bring this card for entry.
Check out Graduation info at www.jayhawks.com/regalia
www.TempleSlug.com the Future of Futons
We deliver to Lawrence. temple
(816) 531-5147 slug
The Etc. Shop
928 Mass.
843-0611
---