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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.96
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1993
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Students descend on Statehouse
Lobby Day draws 100 to Capitol to discuss issues with legislators
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
By Ben Grove
TOPEKA — Students yesterday found that a good way to grab their state legislators' attention was to first grab them in the hall.
Several KU students caught State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, outside her office on the second floor of the Statehouse and discussed topics ranging from qualified admissions to KU School of Law Dean Robert Jerry's memo.
About 100 students from all the Regents universities, including 50 KU students, made a trip to the Capitol for Lobby Day, a day set aside each year for open dialogue between students and legislators.
One of the hottest topics of conversation of the day was Washburn University's bid to become a Regents university
But not all the conversations between legislators and students, most of them with Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, focused on pressing issues facing higher education in the state.
"Ithink Washburn will eventually be coming in," Ballard said later. "Though the state is having a difficult time funding its Regents institutions. We really have an obligation to the institutions that were already here."
A conversation with KU student body president Brad Garlinghouse and several other KU students gave State Rep. David Adkins, R-Leawood, who was student body president in
1982, a chance to reminisce about the University and some of its stodgier old professors.
Shannon Morford, Lenexa junior, said that it was easy to relate to Adkins but that she had spoken earlier with another legislator who seemed less at ease.
"It was almost like he was humoring us," she said. "He was nice enough, but it seemed like he wouldn't really do anything about education."
Many of those students checked in with Lawrence legislators first to ask about senators and representatives they could speak with who were not traditionally known for making higher education their first priority.
"We're trying to find out who is in opposition," said Tyler Kilroy, Leawood junior. "No one is going to come out and say, 'I'm against higher education.'"
ASKco-chairperson John Schwartz, Topeka senior, said that State Sen Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, was responsive to his concerns about higher education.
However, Schwartz said that in a morning meeting Kerr had played devil's advocate to give Schwartz a realistic picture of what was in store for the Regents universities.
"He was saying that higher education is going to be constantly under attack," Schwartz said. "He asked difficult questions. I wish more legislators would do that. Sometimes students think they always have the right angle, and it is good for us to see different angles."
KU's members of the Associated Students of Kansas talked with State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, about higher education during Lobby Day yesterday. Clockwise from left are Chad Bechard, Overland Park freshman; Scott Williams, Fargo, N.D., freshman; Ben Schwartz, Northbrook, Ill., junior; Ed Austin, Olia mathei; and Nicole Roberson, Elsworth senior.
Teacher devotes career to family unit
Kansan staff writer
By Jess DeHaven
Sadye Logan sits in her incense-scented office.
She speaks quickly, and her eyes dance with excitement as she discusses her favorite subject - family.
Logan, associate professor of social welfare, has been an instructor at the University of Kansas for nine years and has spent those years studying the family unit.
Logan said that the family was the most important factor in shaping an individual and that this was why she decided to study the subject.
"For me, everything begins with the family," Logan said. "It is a major institution. It is still the seed of hope for future generations, for the country, for the world."
Logan holds a particular interest in African-American families.
She said that all types of families had problems but that some more strongly affected African-American families, such as the rise in single-parent families, increasing poverty and unemployment, inequality of income and substance abuse. Logan said that despite these problems
"They have a hopefulness that's born out of an inner strength." she said.
Logan said that despite these problems, African-American families had an amazing vitality and resilience.
Students in Logan's Social Work Practice II course praise their instructor and her
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Marsha Page, Lawrence graduate student, agreed that Logan primarily was interested in student needs and described her style as interactive.
"She attempts to create a very easygoing atmosphere," Page said. "That's really a great approach for this course."
teaching style.
"I don't really feel like she is a lecturer," said Christy Shunn, Lawrence graduate student. "Her agenda is our agenda. It's student-based and conforms to what we need."
"I think she's marvelous," said Eleanor
Logan spent her early years in Charleston, S.C., before moving to New York City, where she said she matured and grew up. She received an undergraduate degree in psychology and speech therapy from South Carolina State College.
Sadie Logan, associate professor of social welfare, has spent years studying the family unit. Logan says that African-American families are resilient despite their problems.
Woold, Independence graduate student. "Very open, very informal,very warm,very accepting and supportive."
She later received a master's degree from Hunter College in New York City and a doctorate from Columbia University.
After finishing her education, Logan taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
"I look at what I had done prior to teaching as preparation for what I'm doing now," Logan said. "I do this because I enjoy it."
Job market looks better for new grads
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — In this year's recruiting season for college graduates, nurses are hot, but aerospace engineers are not.
Companies hope to hire more college graduates this year than in 1992, but only a few fields are expected to benefit, college placement officers say. With many companies restructuring and eliminating jobs, fewer openings are available for job-seekers right out of school.
Health care is one industry that is hiring, said Dawn Oberman, a statistical services specialist at College Placement Council Inc in Bethlehem, Pa.
Jobs also are available in management information systems, for people who teach others how to use computers.
Rod McAdams, program director for health services administration at KU, said the demand for pharmacy and physical and occupational therapy graduates was high.
"They are projected to be good for the next 10 years," he said.
"Health-care administration is good, but the demand is differing from strictly hospital to other areas such as clinic management and long-term care administration."
The focus on the environment has created a demand for civil and chemical engineers, said Julie Cunningham, director of KU's engineering career service center.
"That's one of the few strong areas in a very tight job market," Cunningham said.
Cunningham said students with civil and chemical engineering degrees had been hired to work as environmental engineers.
A survey of 316 companies last fall by the College Placement Council found 54 percent of employers planned to hire more graduates in 1993 than last year.
Despite the increased demand for those types of engineers, overall demand for engineering majors has decreased, Cunningham said.
Respondents predicted they would hire 7.7 percent more graduates in the 1992-1993 school year than a year earlier. Actual hires were projected to rise from 65 to 70 per company.
However, companies surveyed by College Placement said they planned to visit 11.3 percent fewer campuses this year.
Worsening matters, colleges are turning out more graduates to compete for fewer jobs. Dan Hacker, a U.S. Labor Department economist, said that from now until the year 2005, the number of college graduates would outpace the number of available jobs by 20 percent each year.
There are some bright spots. While big companies are cutting back, jobs are opening up in smaller companies. But these are hard to come by and tend to be at companies that cannot afford to send recruiters to campus. So college students and recruitment officers have to be more aggressive, placement officials said.
Kansan staff writer Will Lewis contributed to this story.
Where the jobs might be
Jobs Wiff highest demand:
civil engineers
geologists
biologists
 civil engineers
A survey of 316 companies found 54 percent of employees planned to hire more graduates than last year.
Hard areas to find jobs:
■ aerospace engineers
■ nuclear engines
■ financial jobs
■ banking jobs
Colleges are producing more graduates for fewer jobs. From 2015 until the year 2005, graduates will outnumber jobs by 20 percent.
Source: Dawn Oberman, Vicki B. Lynn Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Cancer not just a disease for the old
The University of Kansas is benefitting from the installation of a $530,000 mass spectrometer in the basement of Malott Hall Researchers say the equipment, which analyzes molecules and ions, will help keep the University competitive with other institutions.
Molecular magic
By Vickl Bode
Kansan staff writer
Tim Baine thought only old people contracted cancer.
Like Baine, many KU students do not think cancer can affect them, said Mark Heidebrecht, president of Forming Awareness of Cancer Through Students. FACTS.
The discovery shocked him because cancer was not something he had ever thought about, said Baine, a St. Louis junior who monitors the disease with visits to the doctor every six months.
However, when Baine was 15 years old, doctors told him he had Hodgkin's disease, a lymphoma cancer.
However, one of three people in the United States will contract cancer some time in
"I don't think students are aware of it enough," Baine said. "More students are aware of it recently, but we still have a long way to go."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that some cancers had no cause and could be detected but that many had known causes and were preventable.
"People are just like a car, which comes with a maintenance schedule," Yockey said. "People have to follow those same type of rules every day."
He said some cancers typically affected people younger than 35.
Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer for men between 18 and 35. A symptom of the cancer is a small, painless lump in a testicle or an enlarged testicle.
The cancer can start as pea size and spread all over the body in a matter of minutes.
But, if detected early, testicular cancer has a 100-percent survival rate.
While breast cancer is common among older women, it is rare for a woman younger than 35. They are most likely to get leukemia or a lymphoma cancer, such as Hodgkin's.
skin cancer has become the most common form of cancer for both men and women.
disease, Yockey said. Hodgkin's disease also is common among young men.
"Probably 50 percent of cancers could be eliminated if people didn't drink or smoke."
Wearing a hat and long sleeves and using a sunscreen with a sun protection factor of 15
More than 600,000 new cases of skin cancer are reported each year, said Paula Lang, cancer program coordinator at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer, and 32,000 new cases are reported each year.
Although some cancers generally develop in older persons, precautions against those cancers can be taken during college, Yockey said.
"Moderation of alcohol, caffeine and fat will help reduce incidents of cancer later in life," he said. "We see students who claim to be very health conscious, but they drink on the weekends."
Men ages 18-35
Common forms of cancer
Testicular cancer is the most common. Also, lymphoma and leukemia are common.
Women ages 18-35
Lymphoma and leukemia are the most common.
Seven warning signs of cancer
1. Charge in bowel or bladder habits
2. A sore that does not heal
3. Unusual bleeding or discharge
4. Thickening or lump in the breast or elsewhere
Skin cancer is becoming increasingly more common among both men and women.
5. Indigestion or difficulty in swallowing
6. Obvious change in wart or mole
7. Nagging cough or hoarseness
Source: American Cancer Society
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