University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1981
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Smoking clinic begins tonight
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
The dangers of smoking were first discovered in America during the early 18th century. Today, the Surgeon General reports that smoking is on the decline, but it still causes 350,000 deaths a year.
"Smoking is a poison, but it is accepted socially so its dangers are passed over," Jim Schuurchir, assistant director of the Douglas County Drug Department, said. "There is a number of deaths smoking causes it is the most dangerous drug in America."
Scheurich's organization is sponsoring a three-week stop smoking clinic, beginning tonight at the Fireplace Room of Lewis Hall.
"Tonight's meeting will be a general presentation on the dangers of smoking
and following meetings will involve people tricting to cuit smoking," he said.
$CHEURICH SAID participating smokers would quit "cold turkey" after the second day of the program. He said he had made a tough case, the struggle to break the habit.
The number of women who smoke is increasing Scheurich said, and a higher percentage of men are quitting smoking than women.
He said many women weren't aware that smoking complicated pregnancy and could cause infants to be born at a lighter weight and increase their susceptibility to disease. He said children with parents who smoke in the home were generally unhealthier than children with non-smoking parents.
poison I mean blatantly. Those things will kill you." Scheurich said.
"Cigarettes contain 31 chemicals in them, including cyanide, small amounts of DDT, ammonia and carbon monoxide. When I say cigarettes are
SMOKING LOW tar cigarettes is not a substitute for quitting, Scheurich said. He said smokers had a tendency to inhale low tar cigarettes deeper and hold the smoke longer, which increases its potency.
Scheuhric said if people had enough information to make a wise decision on smoking, the reported decline would be even greater.
Even with the introduction of low tar cigarettes many people are abandoning their smoking habits. The Surgeon General announced in January that the number of smokers declined in the 1970s by 45 percent, declined from 40.3 percent in 1984 to 32.5 percent in 1980.
"Smoking is dangerous and has to be treated that way," he said. "Once smokers realize this they usually want to quit."
Note service restriction ups med class interest
Class attendance at the University of Kansas Medical Center has increased 40 percent since the Med Center's note requirement was in effect and cases with at least 60 percent attendance.
The new requirement was imposed this semester by the note-taking service in response to complaints from professors that the service was slow and low flow. Terry Wall, president of the medical students assembly, said yesterday.
"It it not widely accepted as a substitute for class attendance." Wall said. "It provides us with easily digestible material that is accurate in content."
George Pearson, head of the student
note-taking service, and Marvin Dunn,
dean of the School of Medicine, were both out of town and could not be reached for comment.
The professors no longer read the notes to check for accuracy, although they do receive copies of them and do not work on them. The instructors works for the note-taking service said.
Wall said the students were very concerned about the professors no longer checking the notes for accuracy diminished the efficiency of the service.
He said the medical students assembly had expressed its concerns about the status of the note-taking
service to David Waxman, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center.
"The service is a tremendous learning tool for us to have at our disposal," Wall said.
The subscribers to the service record class lectures on a rotating basis. The recordings are transcribed and distributed to the subscribers. The students participate in a semester, students an average of $3 a semester, which covers its operating expenses.
"Before the attendance rule, 95 percent of the students subscribed to the service," a service employee said. "Now it is only 70 percent."
Education Week exhibits native arts and crafts
A Thai girl sat behind the display table, softly playing a saw duang, a simple, violin-like instrument of coconut shell and snake skin.
"Students have shown a lot of interest in this instrument, but it isn't as nice as some I've seen," Phakaphan Bhumichitra, a graduate student from Thailand, said. "Some of the finer ones are inlaid with ivory."
As part of the week long activities scheduled for Higher Education Week, an annual event organized by KU students, Thai and Turkish students are exhibiting native arts and crafts at the Kansas Union.
Higher Education week was organized by the Student Senate in 1972
to make legislators aware of student and faculty problems, Terry Topping, a coordinator for the event, said.
"Higher Education week is designed to promote higher education throughout the state." Topping said. "We want schools to be concerned about their education."
The Turkish and Thai exhibits, sponsored by the Thai Student Association and the Turkish Club, will continue through today.
"There has been a bit of interest shown in the exhibt." Bhumichitmair said, laughing. "Some of the students often tried to buy the things on display."
"We wanted to show our culture to
American students. This exhibit is a good way to improve cultural relations and understanding between our two countries."
Turkish arts and crafts are also on display, some of the pieces are of museum quality, a spokesman for the exhibit said.
"We have several pieces that are worth hundreds of dollars," the spokesman, Ali Sahinkaya, a graduate student from Turkey, said. "These are things that American students rarely get a chance to see."
The week's events, including a film,
several concerts and a banquet, show
that students care about education,
and help them become the higher
Education Week Committee, said.
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Small numbers hurt Vets' programs
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By KIRK TINDALL Staff Reporter
An impressive item that you can put your technical degree to work on? You bet.
This is the missile
hydrolus IUS Pegasus,
Hull of the Pegasus
carrier, the Harpoon missile,
which are the tubes on
it's built by Boeing.
Volunteer Army veterans returning to Kansas universities may find considerably fewer services than those provided for the Vietnam-era veterans.
To answer the quiz question, use these facts from the nautical almanac.
"Veterans have to be 10 percent of the student body or the school has to have a 10 percent increase in the number of veterans attending the university each year to qualify for federal funding," he said.
Many university veterans' programs depend on a large veteran population to fund their funds and the number of veterans enrolled in college is declining across the state.
But KU has never had enough veterans to qualify for federal funding and its programs will not be so heavily enlisted in training a veteran enrollment, be said.
At the University of Kansas, the number of veterans has been declining since 1975, according to James Henry, past director of Veterans services.
figures hoping we could qualify but we never came close."
"I used to pour over our enrollment
AT KU THERE are 100 students who are war orphans and use veterans services. KU provides for the needs of over 700 veterans and their dependents.
This moving city carries its own airport complete with control tower, crash crews, fire trucks, jet mechanics, steam catapults and airplanes in the air, and a unique item called fighting spirit.
Lawrence is a small town, they say, and can not provide the jobs that many of the older veterans need. Also, they say, it has a reputation as a liberal arts school and there are no large military bases nearby to provide servicemen.
Because of the Veterans Cost of Instruction, a federally funded program, Wichita State University is able to employ two full-time and 13 part-time work-study employees in its veterans program.
"What we do, primarily, is certify veterans so they can receive benefits." Gary Thompson, director of KU veterans Services, said. "If a veteran has other problems we try to refer him to someone who can help them."
KU officials say there are many reasons for KU's small veterans population and for its failure to qualify for federal funds.
BUT VETERANS who attend KU don't enjoy the breadth of services provided at Wichita State.
anything from helping a veteran find housing to delayed stress."
Thompson, who is also assistant registrar, said that despite the fact that KU didn't have federal funding, the security still provided for veterans' needs.
Richard Barns, director of the veterans services at Wichita State, said that the program was a one-stop center for veterans' problems.
"We have tutorial services, job placement and counseling services," Barnes said. "We can deal with
Take this quiz in marine engineering.
What has a displacement of 91,400 tons when fully loaded, steams at a speed of over 30 knots, and presents little question of identity to any nation on earth?
"We can refer them to the Kansas Veterans Commission, which is here in Lawrence, if they have problems that the University can't handle." Thompson said. "Otherwise we refer them to student services. We try to get them to the right people the first time they need help."
THE BULK of veterans who have been eligible for benefits served in Vietnam in the early '70s and will soon have been out of the service for more than 10 years, which is the limit of their benefits eligibility.
★ ATTENTION ★ PRE-LAW STUDENTS
Sheila Reynolds of Washburn University will give a presentation on
Wednesday, Feb. 11th at 7:00 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union
★ Presentation will include video tape of actual law classes
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