University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 29. 1992
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Harsh headaches plague students
ByKatherine Manweiler Kansan staff writer
Doctors first thought Jennifer Wiggins might have a brain tumor.
She actually had a migraine headache.
Wiggins, Wichita sophomore, started getting migraines about every two months when she was 12. Emotional events in her life, such as her brother's leaving for college, triggered the headaches, she said.
Wiggins said that eating certain meals, such as Chinese food with monosodium glutamate (MSG) or meat, also triggered the migraines.
It usually takes three days for Wiggin to recover fully from a migraine, she said. Her intense pain, accompaniment, and blurred vision, often lasts five hours.
Wiggins takes prescription codeine to stop painmine pain, she said.
"In my case, stress was the major contributor to the migraines," she said. "Learning to manage that has been the key for me."
She said the frequency and severity of the migraines had decreased since
she learned how to manage stress. Her last migraine was in September.
*When I get upset, I take some time to try to cope with it and then I go on.*
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that Watkins treated about 30 students each week for migraines and that almost 90 percent of the patients treated were women.
Yockey said that tension headaches often were mistaken for migraines.
Most tension headache sufferers can still function while suffering the headache, but migraine sufferers are more likely to be affected until the headache disappears.
Migraines often occur during a period of relaxation following stress, Yockey said.
"Migraine headaches are sick headaches," he said. "When people have migraines, they usually have to drop everything and go to sleep."
Symptoms of migraines include nausea, sensitivity to light or loud noises and tingling sensations, Yockey said.
He said students with migraines often had a family history of the
Alcohol especially red wines
Lack of sleep
Orexcess sleep
Chocolate
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
Caffeine withdrawal
Birth control pills
Migraine headaches
What can cause migraines
Alcohol-especially red wines
Types of migraines
Classic migrine- warning signs include a visual disturbance such as seeing shimmering lights in front of youths. Classic migrines are often associated with anorexia.
Common migraine- No warning signs before the headache strikes. You often wake up with this type of migraine. Common migraines are brittle.
Cluster headaches- Much more common in males. You will often go for months without a headache, and then have frequent headaches. These headaches cause intense pain right behind the eyes.
source. Susan Baser, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Alimee Brainard, Daily Kansan
headaches.
If certain medications are taken immediately when migraine warning signs start, they can stop the headache, Yockey said.
Susan Baser, assistant professor of neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that factors such as chocolate, lack of sleep, or birth control pills could cause migraines.
"Birth control pills can precipitate migraines, and people with migraines who smoke should definitely not take the pill," Basaer said. "Students who
are sleep-deprived and then sleep a lot on the weekends are also prone to
Although most migraines are more common in women than in men, she said that cluster headaches occurred more often in men.
Cluster headaches are a class of migraines that cause intense pain behind the eyes. People who suffer from cluster headaches can go for months without a headache and then have several headaches in a row within a few weeks, Basaer said.
Point of Light programs are glowing strong
WASHINGTON—The Points of Light business is booming.
The Associated Press
The line President Bush delivered but had trouble translating in 1988 has since become the calling card and slogan for a volunteer action movement that gets a daily push from the White House.
C. Gregg Petersmeyer, the presidential assistant in charge of the movement, says he envisions a volunteerism movement that will gather strength and momentum comparable to the civil rights and environmental protection movements.
This movement began with government backing and money.
Petersmeyer runs the White House Office of National Service, which is set up to promote and reward community service with a presidential push, with a roster of 14.
There's a separate Points of Light Foundation with a $7.5 million budget to spread the message of volunteerism, telling people what works and helping them learn to do it.
A new government commission will be awarding $73 million in federal grants this spring for pilot projects to mobilize volunteer efforts to deal with social problems. Congress approved the formation of the commission in a compromise package that includes Demc.ratic proposals along with the features that Bush sought.
Another $120 million is authorized for the next budget year, although the actual appropriation may be short of that.
That spending ran into Republican complaints before it passed Congress in 1990 with Democratic backing, but Bush's Points of Light project has become a target for Democrats campaigning against him. The new complaint that the call for counteraction is a GOP action for government action is to cope with social problems.
The president says it will take both public and private efforts to solve social problems such as drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy, even loneliness among the elderly.
Six days a week, the White House issues a statement in Bush's name recognizing an organization or
individual as a Point of Light for volunteer service.
Petersmeyer's office decides who gets the daily recognition, choosing among 200 to 250 nominees a week. The designations have gone to mainstream volunteers, not social radicals, but Petersmeyer said it has nothing to do with politics. "I don't know their politics and I don't care," he said. "And that is the president's feeling, too."
But in a presidential election year, politics is always at hand.
"I've spent more than 10 years trying to be what President Bush calls one of those thousand points of light," said Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire. "But a thousand points of light does you a lot of darkness if you have no national vision or national strategy to get this country moving again."
And while Bush — or, more accurately, his 1988 campaign speakerwriter, coined the phrase "Petersmeyer says the idea behind the *points of view* on this administration and its successors as well."
Judge unshackles wronged prisoner from life sentence
Judge Dale Saffels issued the order last Friday, vacating the Wyandotte County conviction of Laville Hannon, who was sent to the state's maximum security prison at Lansing on Jan. 9, 1960, after being sentenced to life in prison on a first-degree murder conviction.
The Associated Press
However, a Department of Corrections representative, Bill Miskell, said yesterday that because of two convictions for battery on corrections employees at Lansing in the past two years, Hannon would not be released immediately.
TOPEKA — A federal judge has ordered a Kansas penitentiary inmate who has been incarcerated for 32 years released from a life prison sentence after reviewing how police elicited a murder confession from him in June of 1959.
Miskell said Hannon's case would have to go before the Kansas Parole Board for a determination on when he would be eligible for release.
In addition, Becky Sabel, a representative for Attorney General Bob Stephan, said the attorney general had the case under review for a possible appeal of Saffels' ruling. She said that decision would be made after the matter is presented to Stephan, who was out of his office yesterday.
Hannon was 17 years old in June 1959 when Kansas City, Kan., police asked his parents to bring him to the police station for questioning about some missing hubscaps.
"We are looking at it." Sabelsaid.
Once there, according to the judge's order, police began questioning Hannon about a homicide. He said he confessed to the crime because he was told that he would be treated with leniency and that the victim's wife would not press charges.
After he gave his confession, according to the court order, police took Hannon and a co-defender to the scene to re-enact the crime. The re-enactment was photographed and the pictures were introduced as evidence
at Hannon'strial.
"Although petitioner (Hannon) was advised of his rights," Judge Saffels wrote, "the police ignored the fact that he was underage, suffered from some mental disability, was without the advice of his parents or the counsel of an attorney."
The judge added, "In 1950, a Black youth confronted by a presumably all-white law enforcement system would likely have felt some intimidation. Whether petitioner's confession was voluntary was clearly a legitimate appealable issue."
Saffels note that Hannon has tried since early 1961 to get his case against the police.
The judge wrote: "The record before the court contains no evidence that petitioner ever waived his right to appeal. In fact, virtually every action taken by petitioner since his incarceration has been designed to bring his case before a court for consideration. Unfortunately, petitioner has been thwarted at every turn."
"On the facts of this case, there can be no doubt had petitioner filed a direct appeal, his claims would not have been considered frivolous. At every step of the proceedings, this case presented legitimate, reviewable issues."
Hannon, now 50, has had three convictions added to his record since being in prison at Kansas State Penitentiary, now called Kansas Correctional Facility at Lansing.
Miskell said Corrections Department records showed he was convicted of one count of aggravated battery in 1974 and given a 1-to-20 year sentence; one count of battery on a corrections employee in 1990 and sentenced to 1-2 years; and one count of battery on a corrections employee in 1991 and given another sentence of 1-2 years.
"There have been no adjustments in time at this point," Miskell said. "Our preliminary review of his sentence structure, in the event the first (murder) conviction is vacated, indicates he would not be eligible for immediate release, but his case would have to reviewed by the parole board."
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