University Daily Kansan, April 18, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Med Center internships
Students conduct research
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
She even earned $1.500 for it
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Trying to find a cure for Parkinson's disease, conducting acupuncture experiments and staining tissue were all part of a research internship last summer at the University of Kansas Medical Center for Pam Jones, senior from Summer Academy High School.
The Med Center's Minority High School Apprenticeship Program allowed Jones to take part in a research program for select Kansas City, Kan., high school seniors or seniors who are disadvantaged socially or economically. The program is financed by a $6,000 federal grant.
"Originally, I wanted to go into dentistry or accounting." Jones said yesterday. "After participating in summer training, I want to be a medical technician."
Jones has been selected for the program again this year. Three other students will be picked later next month.
MELVIN WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR of affirmative action and staff relations at the Med Center, said the program offered the four students the chance to earn money and gain valuable experience.
"It is my hope that the students' desire to come to the Med Center has been enhanced by this positive experience." Williams said. "The program gives the Med Center an opportunity to interact with minor-role nurses now potential and allows the students to identify with the Med Center."
Individuals are chosen to participate in the program by Williams and the Kaw Valley Health Program, a community-based federal program.
To be eligible for the program,
students must be economically or
socially disadvantaged and a junior
or senior in high school.
The student also must have shown an interest in a health career and have a 3.0 grade point average in high school.
THE DIVISION OF Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health has awarded the money for the program to the Med Center for the last five years, Williams said.
Williams said he read about the opportunity in a federal publication, applied for the program and received the money.
This year, an increase in the program's funds allowed the research opportunity to be expanded three to four students, Williams said.
Richard Silverstein, associate professor of biochemistry, said two high school students assisted him last summer in studying an enzyme called TEPCK, which was important in making glucose.
"WE SHOULD INVOLVE ourselves in the community. We are educators and we shouldn't limit our qualifications to graduate or medical students."
"Given their curiosity, they worked very well as lab assistants." The program provides a good opportunity them to find out what research is like.
Jones, 17, said the research that she conducted in the anatomy department gave her a chance to learn about the application of sei-
"For the first few weeks, I was just watching," she said.
"During the research, we were trying to find a cure for Parkinson's disease. That's when you know you're really trying to do something rewarding."
"I held rats while their tails were dipped into hot water," she said. "We would see how long it would take for the tail to fall off while measuring their biological responses with different amounts of acupuncture."
Wescoe lot may be restricted
BY SHARON ROSSE Staff Reporter
The parking lot and fire lane behind Wescoe Hall might not be open to students after a proposed library is built the director of facilities.
Staff Reporter
Allen Wiechert, the director, said that his office had studied the need for some traffic control for that area but that the issue had never gone on. In discussion Construction on the library is scheduled to begin in July 1987.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking services, said the loading area and drive were meant for deliveries and maintenance at Hoch Auditorium and Wesco Hall. But, because it provides close access to students, students often try to park or drop off friends and assignments there.
If the University did decide to close the area to the public, Wiechert said,
a booth or a control device, such as a mechanical arm, would be installed to enable delivery and maintenance vehicles to enter the area.
"It WOULD be feasible," he said.
"The cost would depend on what kind of control we used. We could install a traffic booth and hire someone to monitor it or install and maintain a mechanical arm with a card pass. One way or the other, it's going to come."
But Sgt. John Brothers of the KU police department said he didn't think the traffic congestion in the area warranted closing it to students.
Police reports show only one accident in that area this year, he said.
HULTINE SAID THE area was more congested than other parking
"It just goes back to, if it's not broken, don't fix it," `Brothers said`. "It seems more of an inconvenience than a problem because there hasn't been any real property damage or injuries."
lots because it was so narrow. But she said the problem might not justify the cost of a traffic control booth or device.
"Some students try to park in the meters for classes," she said, "but they only for 50 minutes. Some get it size that and end up getting tickets."
She said the parking service also received complaints from people who were legally parked but couldn't get out because of traffic.
But most of the students who use the drive and parking lot said they would rather deal with the traffic than see the area closed to students.
Susie Graves, Wichita senior, said she used the area about twice a week to drop off friends to classes or assignments to professors.
Wendy Risjord, Shawnee junior,
said, "It's been a mess up here the
last couple of weeks. But it's kind of
nice to be able to get dropped off. I
wouldn't want to have it closed."
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