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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. September 3, 1993
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Pain lingers after collision
Leg injury keeps student away from his classes and the sport he loves
By Scott J. Anderson
Kansan staff writer
Andrew Mitchell, Lawrence sophomore, attended his French class for only the second time yesterday.
After breaking his left leg in a bicycle accident Aug. 23, Mitchell is considering dropping out of school this semester.
"It's just not happening right now," Mitchell said. "At the very least, I am going to have to cut back hours. I have three professors I have never even met."
Mitchell, a French major, said the pain in his leg kept him from focusing on what was happening in class.
I understood what was being said, but I couldn't pay attention to what was going on," he said.
Mitchell was injured when he collided with a truck that was turning into the loading dock area behind the Kansas Union, Mitchell was thrown from his bicycle and landed head first. He said his helmet saved his life.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
"It could have been a lot worse," he said. "It's important to me that people always wear a helmet because you never know when an accident like this can come up."
The accident did more than take Mitchell away from classes for a week and a half. It took him away from his first love — cycling. He said he was riding 40 miles a day before the accident and used to ride competitively. He said he hoped to do some light cycling by next April, but now he is training his leg to move again.
"I'm learning how to lift my lower leg with my quads, how to roll my leg over and how to make my leg bend at the knee," Mitchell said. "Everything is so atrophic right now that it doesn't move. Right now learning how to move again is taking all my energy."
Mitchell had surgery on his leg at Lawrence Memorial Hospital the day after the accident. Richard Wendt, an orthopedic surgeon, put one rod and two screws in Mitchell leg to stabilize the two main fragments of bone. Mitchell's leg was broken in several pieces below his knee.
Mitchell said he may have to have surgery again in about a year to repair the groove and rod.
Wendt saw Mitchell again on Wednesday and said he was making good progress.
"Everything is in good alignment, and he's moving his foot well," Wendt said. "It's just a matter of time, but I don't foresee any complications at this point."
A French friend has agreed to help Mitchell keep up his speaking skills if he does not return this semester, he said. He also said he planned to keep the textbooks he bought and do some reading in his spare time.
"I plan to take those courses in the spring, so hopefully that semester will be a cakewalk," he said.
Cheryl Mitchell, Mitchell's mother, said the family was taking a wait and see attitude toward his recovery.
"We're just playing it by ear," she said. "He thought he could just jump back into it after sitting on the couch. He's real anxious to get back, but we just don't know what he's going to be able to do right now."
Stephen Mitchell, right, helps his son, Andrew Mitchell, Lawrence sophomore, into the back seat of a car. Andrew Mitchell was injured last week when he collided with a truck near the loading dock behind the Kansas Union.
Add/drop process frustrates, angers students
Kansan staff writer
Bv David Stewart
Holding up her wish list of potential classes to add, Elisabeth Anderson, Fort Leavenworth sophomore, scanned the computer printout of closed classes posted outside the enrollment center in Strong Hall yesterday afternoon.
Making checks for open classes and slashes for those closed, Anderson took a minute or two to whittle her eight possibilities to four choices.
To the right of the glass-enclosed case holding that morning's most recently added, closed and canceled class lists, a sign warns of how fletching those class openings could be:
"Notice. The Closed Class list is accurate as of 8 a.m. Classes may close or be reopened without notice."
From the remaining courses, Anderson said, she thought she would take Communication Studies 455, The Living Relationship.
"I thread it's a good class," she said she filled out her white add/drop form. "Besides, it'll fit in my schedule."
John Gamble / KANSAN
But in her trip through the center, Anderson changed her mind. She chose Psychology 470 instead, a career she said she needed for her major.
Students had many reasons for waiting until the end of this final week to finish adding and dropping classes at the enrollment center in Strong Hall.
"I don't know how many times I've come in here, and they've told me that I had to do this or had to do that after waiting in line for God knows how long," said Aaron King, Kansas City, Kan, senior, as he waited to enter the enrollment center for a sixth time this week. "I've done this so many times, it's almost mind-numbing."
King expressed frustration with the process,including his need to get four closed class openers,and said he hoped the process could be improved.
"I know the people in the enrollment center are doing the best they can," he said, "but there must be an easier way. I haven't really seen any improvements on it since I've been here."
Deciding on courses, bypassing long lines and getting the right forms:
Steve Meduna, Dickinson, N.D., graduate student, worked on his add/drop form yesterday in a window well in Strong Hall.
"Still, I think they could make this system easier. I'd just like to do it by phone or computer. Too bad it can't be done like that," Williams said with a snap of his fingers.
Even students spared from repeated trips to the center wanted to see the system rewarmed.
An enrollment system allowing KU students to sign up to classes on comby next year. However, for now,
students are suffering through long lines.
Jarrod Williams, Republic, Mo. senior, got his late enrollment done in two hours.
"Just having in a little corner of Strong, it's so stupid. There's something like 26,000 people who go here, right?" asked Ciaran Molloy, Overland Park junior.
said that while lines for the enrollment center do get long at times, the center's staff does a good job handling the students that hit the center in sporadic waves.
by and large, the University has been able to accommodate the students using the center," Selman said.
Honor students to use computer voting system
Brenda Selman, assistant registrar,
By Christoph Fuhrmans
Instead of pulling a lever, 200 KU honor students will press computer keys to elect representatives for the honors student research organization.
Kansan staff writer
KUSEARCH, whose goal is to promote academic research at KU, will begin the University's first electronic elections today, said Zin Mak. Alor Setar, Malaysia, junior and president of KUSEARCH.
Honor students can participate in the elections from any campus computer or from a home computer with a modem. The electronic mailing pro
The elections will be done through electronic mailing, which will speed up the process, Maksaid.
Any student in the honors program with a computer account from the Computer Center will be able to participate in the election. Accounts from the center are free. An account allows computer operators across the nation to receive electronic mail and to talk to each other through their computers. The majority of accounts at KU are with OREAD, KUHUB and UKANVM.
Jason Underwood, Lenexa sophomore and head of KUSEARCH's academic committee, said KUSEARCH should be able to allow everyone with a computer account to participate in next year's election.
More than 7,500 students with computer accounts were supposed to participate in the elections, but the electronic mailing system could not handle sending the information to so many computers.
cess of the elections can be sent through INTERNET, BITNET or KERMIT, three different electronic mailing systems, to KUSEARCH's electronic mailing address, KUHUB-KUSEARCH.
Dave Nordlund, associate director of computing services for KU, said electronic mailing systems have a promising future but still have some problems.
Underwood said KUSEARCH was optimistic about the use of electronic elections.
Another problem could be security, Nordlund said. Identification procedures would need to be installed to prevent tampering.
"The problem with electronic mail is that everyone doesn't have access to it," he said.
"The actual technology is probably in place right now, but the problem is giving everyone access."
"We think it might be the wave of the future to elect people," he said. "There's almost no effort in it at all and no waste going into the environment."
The elections will take place during three one-week periods. The nominations will begin today and last until Thursday. The campaign will start the week of Sept. 15, and the voting will take place during the week of Sept. 23.
Each student can nominate only two different people for each of the 100 committees, and each candidate can run for only one committee. Two students will be elected to represent each committee.
Correspondence study creates class options
By Kathleen Stolle
Kansan staff writer
But KU's independent study program may provide one solution to the dilemma.
About 125 college-level correspondence courses are offered through independent study. Director Nancy Clover said about 2,800 people now were taking KU courses by mail. She estimated 30 to 40 percent of those were KU students who also were enrolled on campus.
Today is the last day to add a class,
and that could mean panic for students who have yet to get all of their classes this semester.
"Correspondence remains a simple, tried and true means of instruction," Cover said.
Most wanted
ENGL 101: Composition
ENGLE 570: Kansas Lit
MATH 101: Algebra
ENGL 101: Composition
ENGL 570: Kansas Literature
MATH 101: Algebra
These are the most popular independent study courses, according to KU's independent study program:
Among the traditional favorites such as Math 101 and English 101 are several new offerings.
However, correspondence classes are unique in many ways.
At $72 per credit hour, correspondence course tuition is slightly less
Other new additions include Introduction to Organizational Communication and Introduction to Radio Television and Their New Technologies. Revised courses include General Psychology, Social Psychology and Elementary Latin.
Because the correspondence courses are written by professors who teach campus courses, the courses often replicate their campus counterparts. Colyer said.
Western Civilization I, a course required by many departments, is available through correspondence for the first time. Western Civilization II will be offered for the first time during spring semester, Colyer said.
HDFL 220: Principles of Nutrition and Health in Development
HIST 619: History of the American Indian
HIST 620: History of Kansas
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an individual campus courses. The length of each course, up to nine months with a possible three-month extension, allows for more flexibility. And working independently is favorable to some students.
"Some people think they've learned more from a correspondence course because they've had to think through things in a different way," Colyer said.
Sheri Plenert, Marion senior, is taking Western Civilization I through independent study. She said working independently fit her schedule better and made her responsible for creating her own ideas.
"Some people really need the structure of a classroom and the discipline an instructor and a syllabus provide," she said. "Independent study is not for everybody, but for people who like the independence, it's marvelous."
By next spring, students will be able to browse through independent study's correspondence course offerings in KU FACTS, the campus-wide computer information system.
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