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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Thursday November 18, 1999
Kansan
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Smokeout
Today might be the first day of some students' smoke-free lives as they join smokers across the nation in putting out their cigarettes on the 23rd annual American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout.
Sports today
Vol.110·No.65
SEE PAGE 3A
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The Kansas men's basketball team's freshmen have been playing well on the court this exhibition season but aren't saying much of it.
SEE PAGE 1B
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Football player arrested at Taco Bell
Senior defensive end will not be allowed to play in final game
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By Katie Hallar and Mike Miller
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writers
"Yo quiero Taco Bell" meant "vaya al carcel"—"go to jail"—for Dion Rayford yesterday morning.
Rayford, a senior defensive end for the Kansas football team, was arrested for assault, criminal damage and transporting an open container after a tantrum at a fast food restaurant
At 2:10 a.m., Rayford went to Taco
Bell, 1408 W. 23rd St. He ordered food, and when he didn't get the
proper order, he started to get upset, Lawrence police said.
Rayford was missing a chalupa.
Lawrence police Sgt. George Wheeler said Rayford got out of his car and tried to attack the three female employees inside.
He didn't tell
He didn't ten them to drop the chalupa — instead, the 6-foot-3, 260-pound senior started forcing himself through the drive-
Rayford: arrested for assault and criminal damage
through window. The window could not support him and broke. Rayford was stuck hanging halfway.
"When you take a big guy and put him through a small space, something's got to give." Wheeler said.
The employees ran to the back of the store and called the police. No injuries were reported.
Wheeler said when police arrived, they removed Rayford from the window. He was arrested and spent the night in jail.
Rayford was arraigned at 4 p.m. at the Douglas County Jail. Judge Paula Martin entered a plea of not guilty and released Rayford on his own recognition. His next court appearance is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at Douglas County Court.
As a condition of his release,
Martin ordered Rayford to avoid all contact with Taco Bell or witnesses.
A Taco Bell manager refused to comment on the incident.
In a statement issued yesterday, Kansas football coach Terry Allen said Rayford was suspended from playing in Saturday's game against Iowa State, the final game of the 1999 season.
"I'm disappointed for the young man and frustrated as a coach to be put in the position to suspend someone from the final game of their career," Allen said. "But we can't tolerate that type of behavior in our program."
Allen indicated senior Jeremy Hanak would replace Rayford in the starting lineup.
- Edited by Allan Davis
Living day to day with diabetes
College lifestyle poses challenges for students with the disease
Story by Clay McCuistion ● Photo illustrations by Christina Neff
Andy Obermeller sees a brownish streak everywhere he looks.
His condition: diabetic retinopathy
Obermueller, a 1998 graduate of the
Obermuelier, a 1998 graduate of the University of Kansas and former
The streak is vertical, as if painted on the front of his glasses. It is caused by tiny, broken blood vessels in the retina of his left eye. Obermueller is unable to focus his right eye well enough to read.
editor, eventually could go completely blind because he neglected his chronic disease — type 1 diabetes — during his four years in college.
Obermueller:
experienced difficuities with his diabetes in college
Most college students don't have to worry about drinking a few beers on a Friday night. Most college students can call a
sugary cola and a candy bar lunch. Most college students can spend an evening lounging on the couch eating potato chips.
But for diabetics, any one of these things can upset the tight control they are supposed to have of their lives and bodies.
According to the American Diabetes Association, an estimated 500,000 to 1 million people have type 1 diabetes, a disease requiring regular injections of insulin and strict control of diet and physical activity.
It's a regimen completely at odds with the college lifestyle.
"I wish that I had paid more attention," Obermueller said. He now works as a copy editor for the Colorado Springs Gazette. "It does require really constant watching."
Richard Guthrie, a Wichita specialist in diabetes, agrees that college is a dangerous trial for diabetics.
"It's not a very good situation," he said of university life. "Activity is erratic; food is erratic."
A difficult history
Doctors diagnosed diabetes in Obermueler when he was 8 years old.
He had the common symptoms of type 1 diabetes — weight loss, constant thirst, frequent trips to the bathroom. Tests showed his pancreas wasn't producing insulin, the hormone that allows sugar from foods to be absorbed into the body.
In other words, no matter how much he ate, Obermueller was starving to death.
Obermueller learned about the daily injections of insulin needed to substitute for the function of the pancreas. He learned about checking his blood sugar to determine how well his body was absorbing sugar. He learned about how regular physical activity and a healthy diet would help
His mother recognized the symptoms, and he was whisked to St. Francis Hospital in Wichita for a two-week stay. As a child, Obermuwang was expected to understand his disease and take care of it.
"At that point in your life you haven't developed any of your bad habits yet," he said.
See TEMPTATIONS on page 8A
More than 15 million people have some form of diabetes. Last semester students with both types of the disease visited Watkins Health Center 80 times according to Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins.
Add/drop stressful for students who are missing forms, required signatures
By Amanda Kaschube
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students who want to add or drop a class for next semester can start today as long as they have all the proper forms and signatures.
Most student are ill-informed about the add/drop process, and it leads them to be confused and aggrassed with the whole process, said Brenda Selman, associate registrar.
"My best advice is to be well prepared and to not listen to hearsay," she said. "Most students get frustrated because they do not read the instructions properly."
All University schools require a dean's stamp at some point in the add/drop process, and most also require an adviser's signature. Each school sets its own standards, Selman said.
A student's first step in the add/drop process
should be to pick up an add/drop form from 150 Strong Hall or from the dean's office in their school. Next, students should refer to the charts on page 22 of the Timetable of Classes to find out if a dean's stamp is necessary.
Selman said students should call or come to the enrollment center if they had any questions or problems with the form.
Dee Ozment, undergraduate records officer for the School of Education, said the school required the
DEAN'S STAMP
Which schools require a dean's stamp to add or drop a class?
Business: after Jan. 28
for adding, after Feb. 21
for dropping
Liberal Arts and Sciences:
After Jan. 28 for adding,
after Feb. 21 for dropping
Architecture: always
Education: always
Education: always
Journalism: always
Engineering: always
- Engineering: always
- Fine Arts: always
Nursing: always
dean's stamp for the student's protection.
Pharmacy: always
Social Welfare: always
"We want to make sure students take the right classes in order to graduate," she said. "Some classes are only offered once a year, and we don't want them to miss it because they didn't think they needed it."
Several other schools, including the architecture, engineering and journalism schools, use the stamp to monitor a student's class progression.
Barb Seba, administrative assistant for the School of Architecture, said one wrong class could delay a student's graduation.
"We want to make sure that students don't make the wrong call on changing their classes," Seba said. "Architecture students have sequential studios, and they can't miss one."
Other schools use the dean's stamp requirement to ensure classes keep harmony between their class sizes.
"We want to keep balance between sections and classes," said Vicki Mignot, student services officer for the School of Social Welfare. "We just want to double-check that we don't have five students in one section and 30 in another."
Students can add or drop classes through Dec.
1. However, Selman said she encouraged students to go either today or tomorrow to avoid the rush.
Selman also had a bit of advice for students who want to change their spring schedule.
"Make sure you read all the instructions carefully," she said.
Department heads have say in evacuation decision
— Edited by Allan Davis
By Michael Terry
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A week after two separate bomb threats forced the evacuation of four buildings at the University of Kansas, the incidents still are under investigation.
"These two incidents were the University's first bomb threats in over two years," Mailen said. "In the past four years, counting these two most recent threats, the University has had a total of six."
Sgt. Troy Mailen of the KU Public Safety Office said his office did not have any suspects at the time.
Mailen said that in 1986, when the office received reports of three bomb threats during the course of the academic year, the University developed a policy on how deal with these types of situations.
"One of the policies discussed was how to deal
with classes that were in the process of taking tests," Malen said. "The solution that was decided on was to relocate the class to another building on campus if their instructor wished to do so."
Another part of the policy is that, in some cases, department heads are given the choice whether to evacuate their departments and classes.
David M. Katzman, professor and chairman of the American Studies department, said he has had to deal with bomb threats in the past and didn't like having to make the decision.
At least one department chairman 'is not pleased with even having that option.
"The decision should be in the hands of an expert who has been trained to deal with situations like a bomb threat," Katzman said. "It's irresponsible to leave it in the hands of a department head or instructor who may have never dealt with a situation like this before."
Even if a bomb goes off only once out of every 10,000 threats, that's too great a risk. Therefore,
buildings should be evacuated, Katzman said.
Mailen said his office always gave the department heads information about the nature of the call and its recommendation.
"Our department does have the power to evacuate a building whenever we feel it is necessary, and our procedure for searching a building does not change," Mailen said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs,
said that the KU Public Safety Office knew how
serious a threat could be and that it gave detailed
information to department heads so that a decision
could be made that was in everyone's best interests.
"One of the things they were looking at was to make sure that the individuals who made the calls were not able to disrupt classes," Ambler said. "We are all mindful of the safety of students and faculty, and we don't want to take chances with their lives."
— Edited by Kelly Clasen
Kansas public safety lieutenant Schuyler Bailey, left, fills out a bomb scare report with the assistance of another public safety officer. The public safety office has a policy of letting department heads decide whether to dismiss classes. Photo by Nick Krug/ KANSAN