The University Daily Kansan
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It's a dirty job
Fire fighters from the Lawrence Fire Department extinguish a small fire in a trash receptacle on the south side of Stauffer-Flint Hell. The fire occurred at 3:45 p.m. and caused no damage. A faculty member called for help after smelling smoke outside the building. The fire department said it did not know the cause of the fire. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
Volunteers sought in virus vaccine study
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Kansan staff writer
Bv T.J. Johnson
Pamphlets promoting a Human Papillomavirus vaccine study were mailed to all female KU students last week to attract volunteers to participate in a study, which is being performed at Watkins Memorial Health Center and 14 other locations around the country.
The study is testing a vaccine against one of about 80 strains of the HPV. About one-third of the strains can cause genital warts and about one-third of those can cause precancerous lesions on the cervix, said Henry Buck, gynecologist at the health center. It is being sponsored by a major pharmaceutical company.
Although the vaccine contains virus-like particles, there is no risk of HPV infection from participating in the study. Buck said.
"It's a virus-like particle and because of that, it's impossible to get the disease from the vaccine," said Buck. "There is no risk of HPV infection with the vaccine."
Buck said that with HPV, as with other viruses such as the flu, developing vaccines against particular strains of the virus enabled scientists to develop polyvalent vaccines, or vaccines that protect the recipient against many strains of a disease.
"My guess is that they will make one that perhaps has somewhere between three and five different strains in it," Buck said.
Women who are interested in participating in the study are screened using a list of criteria. They must be healthy, not pregnant, unmarried and
between the age of 16 and 32. They also cannot have had any previous diseases caused by HPV and also must agree to use birth control for the first seven months of the study. Participants need to be available for up to nine check-ups during a three-year period at the health center.
Volunteers will be given up to $1,000 and free routine gynecologic care for the length of the study.
Kathy Guth, a nurse practitioner at the health center, said much of the response from people in the study had been positive.
"Some of the response from people is that they are excited to be in the forefront of something," Guth said.
Women who are interested in participating can call toll-free. 1-877-788-3947.
Local bartenders learn when to stop serving
— Edited by Duane Wagler
By Don Curry
By Dan Curry
dcurry@kanson.com
Kansan staff writer
To an untrained eye, a person in the pub smoking two cigarettes simultaneously and pawing for loose change might pass for a disoriented tobacco zealot.
But about 40 local bartenders who went to the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon to receive free alcohol management training now know that this person could be drunk.
Debra Leach, executive director of the National Licensed Beverage Association, conducted the training session at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union. She said it was important for bartenders to know when to cut off customers.
"It is illegal to serve an intoxicated person." Leach said.
Patti Pickard, Junction City junior, said she had heard much of the presented
information before but that she went because she wanted to start bartending at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
"My manager mentioned it might be a good idea to go," she said.
Each year the number of alcohol-induced deaths in the United States surpasses 20,000—a number that does not include domestic violence statistics and other related fatalities, Leach said.
She said that to keep people safe, bartenders needed to know how alcohol worked and how to judge people who had been drinking.
As a person drinks more and more, alcohol works on different parts of the brain. Leach said.
First it affects the cortex. Drinkers become more jovial, relaxed and uninhibited, she said. Next, the cerebellum becomes influenced, and the drinker begins to lose motor control.
the limbic system, responsible for emotional control, is the next to go, Leach said.
Finally, she said the brain stem, which is responsible for the most fundamental functions of the body, will be depressed as the person continues to drink alcohol, and the person will stop breathing.
"It's a really good idea just as a matter of course to give somebody a glass of water when they order a shot," she said.
A bill in in the Kansas House might make alcohol management training mandatory, said Ted Madie, who worked at the information table for the Kansas Licensed Beverage Association, which sponsored the event.
Madle said that this was the first training session in Kansas and that bartenders who completed the session would be certified by NLBA for three years.
Future training sessions would not be free, he said.
— Edited by Steph Brewer
Debra Leach, executive director of the National Licensed Beverages Association, informs bartenders how alcohol is absorbed by the body after consumption of an alcoholic beverage. Leach talked at the Kansas room in the Kansas Union yesterday. Photo by Magnus Andersson/KANSAN
By next fall, lighting and a blue emergency phone will be installed in the parking lot west of GSP. The project is funded through students' $2 campus lighting fee, which was matched by the administration.
Lighting the lot
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New lighting to be installed in dark 'rape lot'
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustfa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Many Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin Hall residents were relieved to learn that lighting and a blue emergency phone will be added next fall in a parking lot west of GSP known to many students as the "rape lot."
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Before spring break, the campus safety advisory board allocated $35,000 to light the lot, which it perceived as a campus safety priority.
Money for the project will be taken from a surplus produced by the students' $2 campus lighting fee, which was matched by the administration March 19.
which was marked by a dainian street. Residents of GSP and Corbin often have to park in the "rape lot" at night when other parking lots are full. There is only one city street light, which is in a corner of the lot and is north of 11th and Indiana streets.
Rebecca Hougland, Corbin resident and Overland Park freshman, said she was glad the University of Kansas decided to add lighting to the parking lot.
"People could just grab you." Hougland said.
"Any time you go down there, you fear that you'll get raped. I'll park my car and see somebody, and it scares me."
Scott Kaiser, student body vice president and member of the advisory board, said he had heard complaints about the parking lot for more than two years.
"A poorly lit lot just invites crime, Kaiser said. "At least now we'll have a feeling of safety or deterring possible opportunities for unsafe areas."
The KU Public Safety Office and Facilities Operations plan to install the lighting and phone within the next six months.
- Edited by Sarah Hale
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