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TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009
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VOLUME 120 ISSUE 120
SPEAKER
Author to talk on cars
BY KEVIN HARDY khardy@kansan.com
Within 20 years, the world's car population is expected to double from 1 billion to 2 billion cars.
Sperling attributed much of the growth in worldwide auto sales to the booming markets of China and India.
Dan Sperling, author of "Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability", will offer his take on the booming car population at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in Eaton Hall.
Sperling, professor of civil engineering and environmental science and policy at the University of California-Davis, will discuss risks to the environment and how new technologies in the automotive industry could help slow down global warming.
"They're now able to afford them, and they want them just like we do in the U.S." Sperling said.
THE RETURNING | This is part 1 of a 3-part series on veterans' views of the war in Iraq
Although new technologies, such as fuel cell, hybrid and hydrogen, are gaining popularity, Sperling said the environmental effects of automobiles were still getting worse.
Lou McKown, Downington, Pa., senior, said, "No matter which type of vehicles we're looking at now, there's still going to be some form of pollution."
"This is a market economy," Sperling said. "It's not just the companies. It's the consumers — it's you and me."
Sperling said new technologies needed to be encouraged, but that change couldn't be forced on the auto industry.
"People are not buying what's new, whether it's because they don't need it, or just don't want it," he said.
McKown said neighborhood electric vehicles, such as the small egg-shaped vehicles seen
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McKown, an engineering student, said U.S. automakers were already displaying a shift in auto design by moving toward smaller and more environmentally friendly vehicles. McKown attributed the change to consumers.
Shattered perceptions
Soldiers arrive in Iraq and quickly realize that the portrayals don't mirror reality
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF bcutcliff.kansan.com
March 20 marked the sixth anniversary of the United States' initial invasion of Iraq, and the beginning of an uncertain fight to establish stability and peace in a divided country. Despite President Barack Obama's promise to withdraw troops by August 2010, the day was greeted with anti-war protests in Washington and U.S. flag-burning in Baghdad. This week, The Kansan takes a look at the students who have already returned, and what they took away from their experiences in the war in Iraq.
The explosion that shattered the leg of Army Capt. Gates Brown wasn't anything like the theatrical blasts hed pictured at home. There was no cloud of fire or dramatic chaos depicted in Hollywood movies and that he had come to expect before his deployment to Iraq.
Brown, Lansing graduate student, was traveling in a convey in the southern part of Baquba, Iraq, when suddenly his Humvee jerked and jolted to a stop, surrounded by a showering cloud of dust and sand. An Improvised Explosive Device, or IED, had been planted underneath the road and exploded beneath the captain's feet.
"It itted like our Humwee had just fallen off a six-foot drop," Brown said. "At first I looked over at the driver and was like, 'Dude, what the hell did you just do?' Then I looked around and it slowly sunk in what had happened."
Although he didn't know it at the time, the pressure forced outward from the anticlimactic bomb had fractured Brown's lower right leg in seven different places. It was only after a dull pain began throbbing in his feet that Brown said he even considered he was hurt, and it never crossed his mind that he would never be able to run again.
The reality of the explosion that would keep Brown from his dream of competing in the Boston Marathon is just one of the many misperceptions he said the public had about violence and warfare in Iraq. The romantic or gory views of soldiers' lives don't tell the whole story of everyday life in the military, something veterans said they wished would change.
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Gates Brown, Lansing graduate student, returned from Iraq after being injured six months into his first deployment. Brown suffered multiple fractures to his right leg when an improvised Explosive Device detonated underneath the Humeee he was riding while en route to another vehicle that had been ambushed. Brown wore an external fixator for several months during his recovery. Although he will not be able to return to combat, Brown will begin teaching at the Command Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth after completing his graduate studies in history.
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PHARMACY
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Tian Yaw, right, studies pharmacy and worked in the Netherlands last year to complete her required rotations. Yaw said she went to the Netherlands to observe socialized health care.
Imagine walking into a hospital where the floors are made of dirt and cement and walls stand completely blank. Patients are sandwiched together on their hospital beds and the medical equipment is dated and broken. Around the corner a sick man lays in an isolation room, separated by screened walls meant to isolate his disease.
Rotations abroad offer new views of health care
This image was real for Kristen Powell, who is part of a growing number of pharmacy students who are choosing to complete their degree requirements abroad.
Powell, Topeka graduate student, spent last October in Roatan, Honduras, filling prescriptions at the Clinic Esperanza, "Clinic of Hope." Powell spent one month working as a pharmacist at Clinica Esperanza to complete one of her nine pharmacy rotations. While
BY LAUREN HENDRICK lhendrick@kansan.com
the conditions at the clinic were better than those at the local hospital. Powell said health care in Roatan was incredibly poor.
"You know places like that exist, but you don't want to believe it," she said.
James Kleoppel, clinical assistant professor in the department of pharmacy practice, said that while pharmacy students had been completing rotations abroad for years, he had seen an increase in interest.
Students are required to complete nine rotations, and the School of Pharmacy offered rotation opportunities in partnership with the Office of Study Abroad in countries including Australia, Peru, Scotland and the Netherlands.
"It's more than an education — it's getting involved in the culture;" Kleopel said.
"I really wanted to bring my
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