University Daily Kansan, February 4; 1981
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Off-campus classes booming
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
Despite some drawbacks, many KU professors find off-campus instructional programs worth the effort.
Ernest Angino, professor of geology and civil engineering, said that students at the Regents Center in Overland Park were better prepared for class than students in Lawrence.
"It's a much better teaching experience in Kansas City." he said.
"The students are more mature," Angino said. "They are using their own money to pay for the classes, so they to class on their own accord and they do not conflict with a lot of other courses like the students in Lawrence."
ANGINO NOTED that students at the Regents Center, with an average age of 35, were not likely to be intimidated by their professors.
He said that often Lawrence students were in awe of their professors and consequently were told to ask pressing questions in class.
At the Regents Center the situation was different, Angina said.
"They've paid their freight, and by God, they want an answer!" he said.
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said there was growing demand for off-campus courses in Kansas City on campus. He noted time-consuming job completing a degree or meeting certification requirements.
ENROLLMENT in the programs is increasing at the rate of 10-15 percent a year, he said, with more than 2,000 students enrolled in programs at the Regents Center, Topeka and Wichita.
"Demand is growing, however, I don't think that off-campus enrollment will ever exceed 3-5
percent of the University's total credit hours." he said.
Hutchison said KU would continue to offer off-campus programs, even in this era of tight budgets.
KU also has made recent efforts to smooth out some of the problems inherent in an off-campus program.
Last spring, a University Council committee surveyed faculty members who taught off-campus and subdued a report listing faculty concerns.
THE REPORT listed problems with advising students, transportation and a lack of contact between the students and faculty.
Hutchison said that the manageable problems mentioned in the report had been solved since the report was issued.
The need for transportation was cited by faculty members who commute to the Regents Center. Hutchison said the University now provided adequate bus transportation.
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
An ancient Chinese medical treatment and some simple ideas are one answer to the problem of chronic pain, Kasumi Akarawa, director of the pain clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said yesterday.
Simple treatments fight pain at clinic
"The patients I see are in a difficult situation both emotionally and psychologically," said Arakawa, who is also chairman of the department of anesthesiology. "They have often had many operations and diagnostic surveys before they are referred to the pain clinic."
ARAKAWA DESCRIBED chronic pain as a pain patient had suffered for more than six months or one that caused a painful injury that caused the pain had healed.
The pain clinic treats 200 patients every year for chronic pains not by drug treatments. The clinic uses a low-cost, psychological analysis and acupuncture.
clinic by their physicians. Ninety percent of the patients at the pain clinic come from outside the Med Center, Arakawa said.
"Sometimes a patient's pain is caused by taking all of the drugs different doctors have prescribed for the patient," Arakawa said. "Some patients look like zombies from taking so many depressants."
Patients are referred to the pain
Arakawa said taking a patient off all prescribed medications sometimes alleviated all pain. He said this was the case with four of his recent patients.
WHEN DRUGS ARE not the only cause of a patient's pain, anesthesia and acupuncture are used, Arakawa said.
He said anesthesia was used to end what he called a pain cycle. By injecting a local anesthesia Arakawa can cure a painful cycle, which stops it completely.
"When a patient has a pain in a shoulder muscle, the muscle sends a message to the brain." Arakawa said. "The brain in turn sends a message back to the muscle, which starts having muscle spasms."
But even anesthesia doesn't stop the pain for some of the clinic's patients. For those people, Arakawa turns to acupuncture.
ACUPUNCTURE IS a Chinese therapeutic technique in which the body is punctured with fine needles. With Arakawa's treatment, the needles are connected to electrical wires and a amount of electricity flows into the patient.
"I usually have to stick needs into several points in the body," Arakawa said. "The patient must experience the feeling of Tochi, a Chinese word that describes the feeling caused by the treatment."
Arakawa said some doctors were skeptical of using acupuncture.
"We don't know exactly how it works," he said. "But we give sodium penthalot to surgery patients and we don't know how that works either."
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"I tell my patients I can't promise success, but with these three types of treatments we are able to get rid of the pain for 50 percent of our patients."
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The rest of the patients must simply live with the pain, Arakawa said.
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