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The Student Senate
Aaron Quisenberry tallies up the votes for the 2015-2016 Finance Chair. The chairs for all the Student Senate committees were elected Wednesday night.
Student Senate chairs of committees elected
ALANA FLINN
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As the Student Senate turnover begins, the individual committees field elections last night to vote in their new (or same) chairs and vice chairs as needed for the 2015-16 year.
The positions have been filled as followed:
FINANCE
Chair: First-year law student Tyler Childress Vice chair: Freshman Mady Womack
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
Chair: Junior Lauren
Arney
Vice Chair: Sophomore
Harrison Baker
RIGHTS
Chair: Junior Madeline
Dickerson
Vice chair: Mattie
Carter
MULITICULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chair: Junior Bahar Barani Vice Chair: Sophomore Shegufta Huma
FOOTBALL FROM PAGE 1A
of the day. A physician completes an examination and decides what treatment, if any, is needed. Depending on the severity of the injury, the physician will restrict players from playing and other activities until they are cleared to resume normal activity, Magee said.
"The average athlete at the University of Kansas has better access to more thorough evaluation and rehab and treatment than what they had 10 years ago — not that it was bad, but things change," Magee said. "I think the athlete and their parents have more knowledge about injuries and have certain expectations of what needs to be done."
The NCAA requires teams to teach student athletes the signs and symptoms of concussions. At Kansas, that job is supposed to be executed by team physicians and athletic trainers. Players are required to sign a statement saying they accept responsibility for reporting injuries and know the signs and symptoms of concussions, according to the athletic department's "Concussion Management Plan."
with self-reporting a suspected concussion to a team physician or trainer.
A Harvard study of 907 NCAA-member colleges and universities published last year found a need for improved education of athletes about concussions. While many schools have management plans, the study suggested that there's a need to improve the content and delivery of concussion education. Kansas did not participate in the study, which also suggested the NCAA use its "regulatory capabilities" to ensure "athlete's brains are kept safe."
Magee said Kansas athletes are well-educated about concussions and are comfortable
"More students are likely to self-report to the physicians quicker than they used to 10 years ago," Magee said. "It used to be the culture to take it like a man, but it's not like that anymore. Guys are more likely to bring themselves in for a check-up if symptoms develop after a game or practice."
The self-reported concussions are generally not made public. The ones that get publicized usually involve players who are obviously injured during a game.
During the basketball season, sophomore Brannen Greene and sophomore Keyla Morgan's concussions made headlines. Last year, now-sophomore football player Derrick Neal suffered a concussion during the Baylor game and was out for the remainder of the season due to bleeding in his brain. He said the coaches and medical staff did a good job taking care of him.
"They checked on me every day and made sure I took pills every morning and that I didn't lift over 10 pounds," he said.
Neither the Big 12 nor NCAA require universities to report concussion numbers. The NCAA does require schools to report "catastrophic injuries" like player paralysis or death. Last year, as part of its efforts to raise awareness about the long-term effects of concussions, the NCAA announced it had teamed up with the Department of Defense to launch a $30 million comprehensive study of concussions and head impact exposure.
A lawsuit by a former collegiate football player claims these concussion protection programs came about too late.
Chris Powell, a former Kansas fullback who played from 1991-94, is suing the NCAA in U.S. District Court for failing to protect student athletes from head trauma. According to the suit, Powell suffered four concussions while playing at Kansas. One concussion was so severe it resulted in 48 hours of memory loss. The University is not a named defendant in Powell's suit.
Grant said he believes the University is ahead of the game when it comes to concussion safety. He said the high-tech mouth guards record the impact of each hit a player takes. The technology will allow coaches to modify drills so players are less apt to suffer head injuries as well as recognize and treat individual players who take substantial hits.
"Concussions are never the same for different people," Grant said. "You have got to be ready to adapt with each guy who comes to the sideline."
Reporter Jazmine Polk contributed to this story.
DEBT FROM PAGE 1A
Edited by Callie Byrnes
lem instead of a budget problem. While money can, and likely will, be moved from various state funds, Bollier said she doesn't support that method to fix a self-inflicted issue.
"This is an issue we created," she said. "There are big changes that have to come. People like me are not about borrowing money. That's not a fiscal conservative methodology or ideology."
Because those shifted funds would no longer be available next fiscal year, Bollier said many of her colleagues hold out hope the 2012 plan will succeed.
"The hope and prayer of the administration is that, 'Oh, all this money will be coming into the state because thousands of jobs have been created,'" she said. "They believe it's just around the corner and that it's going to happen. They're basing this off economic theory from [Arthur] Laffer, and they've bought in. They believe it, and they'll hold the course if enough of them can."
When a plan is passed out of committee, 63 votes in the House and 21 votes in the Senate are needed to pass it on to the governor to sign into law. Henry said there are a number of legislators who will not vote to pass tax increases and would rather see more reductions in spending.
"They'll tell you that in a year or two, revenue will come back up, and then we can reinsteal some of the spending," Henry said. "As for the immediate future, it looks pretty dim that we'll be
able to meet our obligations with the revenue that we have coming in."
Sen. Laura Kelly (D-Topeka) said in an email that many legislators have waited too long to tackle this massive issue of the budget.
"The state is in a fiscal world of hurt," she said. "It is past time that the governor and many of my colleagues deal decisively and quickly to begin the healing process. The only remedy is extremely distasteful to them, but it has to be done."
Bottler said while she's extremely worried about the budget in Kansas, she hopes the state can take heed from its motto and find a solution.
"It's an astronomical problem to me," she said. "I was thinking about our motto: 'Ad astra per aspera.' 'To the stars through difficulty.' Well, here's an example. The irony is this is a self-created difficulty, so how are we going to get to the stars and get it to where I want it to be, and I think the citizens want it to be — an exceptional place to be and raise their families."
CHARLES EPP University researcher
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This was done because citations, Epp said, are often not issued in investigatory stops.
BIAS FROM PAGE 1A
SEN. LAURA KELLY
Topeka Democrat
"The state is in a fiscal world of hurt. It is past time that the governor and many of my colleagues deal decisively and quickly to begin the healing process."
"The officer can leave the ordeal thinking the driver suffered no harm. We found that the drivers do feel harm, but the officer doesn't know this."
"[In the past, studies] relied on traffic citations," Epp said. "Only about half the people who are stopped are ticketed. We suspected that the data were incomplete in a way that would skew the results."
The researchers argue in the book that investigatory stops are not a practice that should be continued by the police. They argue that the public's trust in law enforcement erodes as a result of investigatory stops.
"Citizens are less likely to communicate with police when a crime does occur, less likely to cooperate with police and even less likely to respond positively and provide information in the middle of an investigation," Haider-Markel said in a University press release.
Epp said this is often not to the knowledge of the drivers being stopped, which leads to indignation from drivers. He cited the killing of Walter Scott in South Carolina on April 4 as an investigatory stop, as Scott was initially pulled over for having a broken tail light.
"The officer can leave the ordeal thinking the driver suffered no harm." Epp said. "We found that the drivers do feel harm, but the officer doesn't know this."
Not only did the researchers speak with drivers who were pulled over, they conducted focus groups with police departments as well.
["Police officers] think [investigatory stops are] a key tool in the war on crime and the war on drugs," Epp said. "The question is, do these stops work to fight crime? The simple fact is that they don't. It turns out, in fact, that most people who are stopped are not up to no good."
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