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Thursday January 29,1998
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Vol.108·No.89
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Guard Kenny Gregory scored 18 points as the Kansas men's basketball team destroyed Baylor 94-47 last night in Allen Field House.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
"I'm going to quit smoking when I graduate,when I have a house and kids,when I'm respectable."
- Nathan Allen, Santa Cruz, Calif., senior
(USPS 650-640)
Mat Shumate (left), Des Moines, Iowa, junior, and Dominic O'Donnell (right), Quincy, Illinois, junior, smoke outside of Wesco Hall. They were getting a quick puff before a class yesterday. Said he had been smoking for one year, and O'Donnell said he had been smoking for six years. Photo by Jizw Weber/KANSAN
Plan burns to snuff out smoking
By Lisa Stevens John
john@Kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
To quit or not to quit — when it comes to smoking, that is the question.
Visitors to the University of Kansas Student Health Services may see signs advertising a "No-Nag" stop-smoking plan. The "No-Nag" program is geared toward students who have made the decision to stop smoking, said Julie Francis, a health educator at student health.
Francis teaches "No-Nag" strategies that help ease the transition from smoking to nonsmoking.
"The more strategies somebody learns, the more likely it is that he or she will be able to quit," Francis said.
Nathan Allen, Santa Cruz, Calif., senior, said he smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for three years and took his first puff when he was 10 or 11.
Allen said that he had not heard of the "No-Nag"
program but that he planned to quit smoking eventually.
"I'm going to quit smoking when I graduate, when I have a house and kids, when I'm respectable," Allen said.
Francis said the quitting process was sometimes more difficult than expected. Her first strategy was to encourage students to begin an exercise program.
"I tell them to find something they enjoy doing. If they enjoy it, then hopefully that's going to be something they will want to continue," Francis said.
"Exercise is addictive," she said. "If somebody came to me and asked what the best thing they can do to try to stop smoking, to replace the loss someone feels when he or she stops smoking, I'd say begin an exercise program."
Francis said the exercise could be as simple as walking, roller blading or bicycling.
Other tips include switching to a lower nicotine
and tar cigarette, smoking only half of a cigarette,
or simply cutting back. Quitters-to-be also can
use over-the-counter nicotine patches or take a
physician-prescribed medicine called Zyban.
Nolan McWilliams, Prairie Village junior, has been cutting back on cigarettes. During the last month, McWilliams has moved from smoking one pack a day to smoking half of a pack, he said.
The "No-Nag" program may not be for everyone. Nurer Rahman is a graduate student in physics from Dhaka, Bangledesh. Rahman, 27, said he has smoked a half of a pack of cigarettes a day for eight years. He said he had no plans to quit.
"I like to smoke," Rahman said. "When I have to think it helps me concentrate."
"I'm in the process of trying to cut down week by week," McWilliams said. "It works for the most part."
Students who want to quit smoking can contact Francis at Student Health Services or call 864-9570 to make an appointment.
Spring enrollment to include center for clearing holds
By Gerry Doyle
gdoyle@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
In the near future, students will no longer be held back from the enrollment process.
The Office of the Provost and the Enrollment Center are developing a plan to reinstate the holds center, a centralized location where students could clear enrollment holds, said Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate provost.
The move to bring back the center began last semester, McCluskey-Fawcett said.
"Students seem to want it back," she said. "We will definitely have a holds office in Strong Hall during some or all of the enrollment period this spring. Students still are better off clearing their holds before they come to enrollment."
During Spring 1997 enrollment, 457 students used the old holds center in 156 Strong. The center was not open during Fall 1997 enrollment.
The center in Strong would allow students to clear holds in one place. Now, holds that result from University billing
- such as library fines, housing bills or unpaid tuition - must be paid at the cashier's window in the basement of Carruth-O' Leary Hall. Holds issued for other reasons - such as parking tickets, proof of immunization or unpaid Kansas University Endowment Association loans - must be cleared at the corresponding department.
Although a room for the center has not been chosen, services definitely will be expanded, McCluskey-Fawcett said.
"It will be a little more sophisticated than the old one with more people," she said. "The old one had one person sitting behind a computer, and the new one will probably have more people behind computers."
The center could be helpful but should not encourage students to wait until the last minute to resolve holds, said Bill Shunk, Endowment Association director of scholarship and loan programs.
"I'm sure some students will be helped by this," Shunk said. "But we let students know ahead of time if they have a hold. The student has the responsibility to take care of it."
The center might have drawbacks but would benefit both students and the organizations that give holds, said Jim Boyle, Watkins Memorial Health Center associate director.
"For many, this would be a good thing," Boyle said. "It would be easier for the students to get things resolved."
The enrollment stress also would be diminished, said Scott Unekis, Manhattan senior. He said the center would save walking and nerves.
"God forbid the University would have anything be easy in enrollment," Unekis said. "It would be especially helpful to a newer student. Even an information desk about where holds should be paid would be a big help."
Hold Payment Locations HOLD BUILDING
Library fines, housing, tuition Unpaid parking tickets, fines Perkins loans Endowment Association Immunizations
Carruth O'Leary
Parking Department
142 Carruth O'Leary
Youngberg Hall
Watkins Health Cente
Residents plan for care of neighborhood
Jason Benavides / KANSAN
Oread group will apply for grants to tend area
By Carl Kaminski
Kansas stuff writer
The Oread Neighborhood Association, which looks after an area between Ninth and 17th streets and from the University of Kansas to Massachusetts Street, met last week to discuss its goals and put together requests for Community Development Block Grants.
A small group of concerned Oread residents are making an impact on students who live off campus in the Oread neighborhood.
The Oread neighborhood is a target neighborhood for a block grant, which means it is eligible to receive grants from the city of Lawrence each year to help the neighborhood meet its needs and goals.
The neighborhood was designated as a target neighborhood because of census figures that determined it as a low to middle income area, said Julie Banhart, coordinator of the Oread Neighborhood Association.
"That's in large part because of the students living here," Banhart said. "Students usually do not have lots of money."
At the last neighborhood meeting, everything from how to monitor liquor licenses to whether to institute a pooper-scooper ordinance were discussed.
Dunn said the association was not certain how much money the city would grant this year.
James Dunn, board member of the neighborhood association, said previous projects, which had included crime watches.
Students usually do not come to association meetings, but they are encouraged to attend and give their input. Banhart said.
Banhart said students needed to attend one of the quarterly meetings or contact the neighborhood association to get involved.
"We send out the newsletters to all the houses and apartments, and the meetings are announced," Banhart said.
The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Oh'o St., and Bull Winkles Bar, 1344 Tennessee St., closed temporarily because of a statewide crackdown on underage drinking. The association helped organize meetings with the owner, which enabled residents to discuss their concerns. Banhart said.
"The bar issues usually bring a lot of students from both sides." Dunn said.
Janet Gerstner, association treasurer, said one of the association's greatest concerns was maintaining the mixed medium and high-density populations of renters and permanent residents.
Many neighborhoods are moving toward building more apartments complexes, but
Gerstner said it upset her and other association members when some of the old houses were torn down.
the Oread neighborhood wants to discourage more apartments, Gerstner said. She said the association did not want more apartment complexes because the complexes did not fit in with the neighborhood.
"Most of us really like our old houses," she said.
The association also has been working on removing asphalt from the street between the 900 and 1000 blocks of Ohio Street to reveal the underlying brick and has been fixing sidewalks.
"Sidewalks are kind of a nemesis here," Dunn said. "If you are a pedestrian here, you figure that out real quick."
Jason Benavides / KANSAN
John Glenin prepares to throw another frisbee to his dog at the halfway show during a women's basketball game against Texas A & M. Glenin takes his frisbee-catching dogs around the country and performs under the name Disc" Dope. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Whoa doggie!
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