UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 30, 1993
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William Alix / KANSAN
Students rush through the entrance of Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union between class periods.
Congestion at Woodruff cuts into class time
Students fight to get in, out
Kansan staff writer
The pressures of college life can range from making the grade to paying the bills. But some students have been feeling a crush on another kind
— of hundreds their classmates — as they leave or enter their classes at Woodruff Auditorium.
Located on the fifth floor of the Kansas Union, the University's only 500-seat classroom has 25 class periods scheduled per week this semester, with many of them allowing only a 10 minute break between sessions. Students trying to leave the auditorium have had to slowly wend their way past other students waiting to get into their next class in the auditorium.
"It's tough. It gets really crushed," said Bob Thurm, Topeka junior, waiting outside the auditorium for his physics class to start.
"There's just tons of people. Iget out early all the time from my other class," said Carmen Ruprecht, Kansas City, Mo. junior. "But if I didn't, I'd have to truck here from Haworth."
Students are not the only ones who notice the problem.
"It's been a bottleneck, but it's been a bottleneck every semester," said Bill Towns, operations manager for the Union. "This is a problem. There is congestion there. But it seems to be somewhat unavoidable."
The crowds coming in and out of the auditorium last week have resulted in late class starts, long waits on the Union's main stairwell and students opting to leave class early to avoid the rush.
"It was late. We weren't in here until about 20 or 25 to eleven," said Krista Nye, Chicago sophomore. "It's like the crowds at football or basketball
Depending on the class that preceded it, five to 10 minute late starts were common for many classes, said students and professors.
'Crunch'time at Woodruff
Some of the heaviest crowds coming in and out of Woodford Auditorium occur during transitions between these classes.
Mondays and Wednesdays:
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9-20 to 9-30
Social Warfare 303, "Human Sexuality in Everyday Life," and Chemistry 624, "Organic Chemistry."
all trying to get in to the games."
10:20 to 10:30 a.m., between Chemistry 624 and Psychology 360, "Social Psychology."
Professors also complained about the delays.
- Thursdays and Thursdays;
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Tuesdays and thursdays:
9:20 to 9:30 a.m., between Biology
104, "Principles of Biology," and Business
368, "Statistics."
"Students are paying to take courses here and aren't getting their full 50 minutes worth," said Nyla Branscombe, associate professor of psychology. "I'm not going to give up 10 or 15 minutes of class every day."
Some students try to leave early in hopes of beating the incoming crowd.
"I usually sit toward the back to get out quickly," Nye said. "But I'm not happy about it. I know it's more personalized if you can sit toward the front."
Professors teaching in the auditorium said they warned their students in advance that they should wait before trying to get into class.
"I told the students, 'Don't try to come up the steps early,' because what do you have otherwise: gridlock," said Earl Huyer, professor of chemistry. "By next week, you shouldn't notice it all. People learn."
Towns agreed that traffic flow in and out of the auditorium improves after the first few weeks of each semester.
Stephanie Schintler, Smith Center junior, also said she expected the crowding to lessen.
"I think once everything gets settled into a routine, we'll know when to show up."
Scholarship halls get more parking
New lot eases parking crunch
By Shan Schwartz Kansan staff writer
Students living in KU's scholarship halls this year are finding that parking is not a problem — for a change.
Jolliffe Hall, a former scholarship hall and instructional building at 15th and Ohio streets, was razed this summer and the site was leveled to provide 24 additional parking spots for scholarship hall residents. Another few spaces were gained in a gravel lot at 13th and Louisiana streets, which was traded with the University of Kansas Alumni Association for a lot one block north.
The result? For the first time in years, residents of the halls are not
"I haven't heard hardly anything compared to how it was in the past," said Carmen San Martin, Wichita senior and president of the All Scholarship Hall Council. "So I guess the problem has been alleviated pretty well."
complaining about parking.
Alumi Place parking zones, those available to scholarship hall residents, comprise about 230 parking stalls for the 438 students of the halls
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the Parking Department, said that as of Tuesday, 100 Alumni Place permits had been sold. However, Hultine said that permit sales had been numerous last week and that number would increase.
Hultine said Alumni Place, like most campus parking, has been oversold in previous years, forcing scholarship hall residents to park on neighborhood streets off campus. However,
those streets are often crowded on weekends and evenings because of patrons parking near neighborhood bars.
Scholarship hall residents could face a further restriction on parking this fall because of a proposal by the Oread Neighborhood Association that would restrict parking on streets surrounding the scholarship halls. That proposal is still under study and could go to the Lawrence City Commission in October.
San Martin said that although she hoped the proposal wouldn't become reality, the new Alumni Place parking would preclude some problems in case it did.
"If they can't park on the city streets, they'll have to go somewhere," San Martin said. "I'd assume the problem would just go farther down the hill. But I think the Jolliffe lot has helped innumerably."
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Squirt-gun fun
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Trevor Garberg, Overland Park freshman, blasts cheeri Jaremba, Orlando, Fla., junior, with a burst of water. The two were participating in a water war Friday between the Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Kappa Psi fraternities and the Kappa Delta and Delta Gamma sororites.
Medical students learn health firsthand
Bv Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Some medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center have found that the best patients to learn from can be themselves.
As part of Clinical Sciences I, a firstyear course at the Med Center, students are learning to assess their own health so they can better assess the health of others.
In the course, doctors-to-be learn to counsel future patients about health promotion and preventive medicine by conducting a series of personal health, fitness and dietary assessments.
"I'm real big on experimental learning," said bac courses director Christine
Moranetz.
She said the course was a great opportunity to learn about various health conditions they would see in future patients.
Students will measure their own heights, weights and blood pressures and will have their blood drawn for blood fats and lipids. They will undergo fitness tests, such as a one-mile walk and timed sit-ups and push-ups. Flexibility of the hamstring and lower back also is measured.
Calculating the body fat of each student involves measuring his or her skin folds with a caliper. Students then must divide their waist measurements by hip measurements to formulate waist to hip ratios.
After completing the assessments, each student will receive a comprehensive report of the results.
Learning to interpret the results of their own assessments should help students assess the health of their future patients.
Moranetz gave the example of a patient having a waist to hip ratio of one or more, which would put them at a higher risk of obtaining hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
They also undergo dietary analysis.
Manoranetz explained that overweight men were most likely to experience android-type obesity, in which excessive weight settles around the waist, resulting in what is called an apple shape. She said overweight women were most likely to experience gynoid obesity, in which excessive weight settles on the buttocks and hips, referred to as a pear shape.
In either case, the student would have to address the patient's obesity and prescribe the proper type of exercise and diet.
"Obviously the focus is to get them understand they will play a very significant role in the year of 2001 as a physician incorporating prevention into their practice." Moranetz said.
Moranetz said the course should give students a greater understanding and appreciation for optimal health. It will teach students to address a patient's lifestyle and behavior issues and not just treat the problem, she said.