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Cigarettes may be drug of the'90s
If nicotine is listed as a drug, a proposal suggested two weeks ago by the Food and Drug Administration, smokers may see their favorite habit blown away.
someone who had just consumed an adducting drug versus a plane piloted by someone who had just had a cup of coffee and smoked a cigarette?" asked Robinson and Pritchard in the report.
Congressional hearings held on nicotine's status
By Angelina Lopez Kansan staff writer
According to a report published in the medical journal "Psychopharmacology" in 1992 by John Robinson and Walter Pritchard, smokers smoke because the nicotine causes increased mental alertness and physical relaxation.
This week, Congress began hearings on whether nicotine should be classified as a drug. This classification would make the FDA put tighter restrictions on nicotine.
Implications of tighter restrictions could range from cigarettes being outlawed altogether to cigarettes being banned in all public places or being available only through prescriptions.
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But according to ex-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's report on nicotine released in 1988, smokers smoke because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes. The report said the physical and mental addiction caused by nicotine was equal to the
Dave Brenton, editor of the American Smoker's Journal, said the nicotine in cigarettes helped him wake up in the morning and concentrate in times of stress.
"The quality of anything addictive is not the pleasure received, but the bad side effects," Strother said. "People addicted to heroin are doing it because of the bad side effects they have when they're not doing it."
One definition of addiction is that a person shows symptoms of withdrawal when he or she is without the addictive element, said Steven Bruner, physician at Lawrence Family Practice Center, 500 Rockledge Rd.
"Smoking doesn't relieve stress, but if I don't have it, I'm more stressful," said Jeff Combs, Newton senior, who has been smoking for five years. "I don't even like it right now, but it's adducting."
addictions caused by heroin and cocaine
But the 1992 Robinson and Pritchard report contradicted the nicotine-is-a-drug idea. They said although nicotine was addictive, it does not cause intoxication, decreased performance or a distortion of time and space like many drugs.
Myra Strother, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the primary reason that smokers continued smoking was to prevent the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal that came when they weren't smoking.
"You do not get high off nicotine," he said. "You get medium. You get more focused."
"It would have to be a gradual process," he said. "You can't immediately turn off thousands of addicts."
When smokers quit smoking and are cut off from their dose of nicotine, Bruner said, they experience jitteriness, irritability, sleeplessness, nausea and headaches.
A much more realistic approach, Bruner said, would be to gradually extract the amount of nicotine in cigarettes so that in five or 10 years, cigarettes would be nicotine free.
Brenton said claiming nicotine was a drug because of its addictive qualities was simply another tactic by the government to make cigarettes illegal.
"That would be Prohibition all over again," he said.
"How many people would board a plane piloted by
Bruner of the Lawrence Family Practice Center said cigarettes would not be banned.
Combs said that he agreed nicotine was a drug, but that he wanted it to be his own decision when he decided to quit smoking.
Proposal would expand the Board of Regents
"I want to quit," Combs said, "but I don't think it's the government's business to tell我我 to have."
TOPEKA—Lawmakers will take up a proposal after the legislative session ends to allow Topeka's Washburn University and all state community colleges into the Board of Regents's system.
The Associated Press
Legislators refused to pass a proposal to admit Washburn into the system this session. Their reluctance dooms the Partnership for Excellence, a plan to sweeten professors' salaries, because Gov. Joan Finney has repeatedly threatened to veto the partnership unless it includes the Washburn proposal.
Opponents pointed out that three of six Regents schools are within 60 miles of Topeka: Emporia State University, University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
The Board of Regents and officials from Regents schools tried desperately to convince the Legislature to pass the Washburn bill, arguing that the school has received state funding since 1961.
The new proposal would create two branches of supervision of the state's community colleges: local governing boards and the regents.
The proposal would provide an incentive for schools to join the regents' system, said Rep. Ed McKechnie, D-Pittsburg. Schools would get a funding increase of about 20 percent upon entering the system.
The new proposal would let Washburn, community college and vo-tech school officials choose whether they want to enter the regents' system.
Local boards would retain the powerto:
Recommend a chief administrative officer for their school.
Decide employees' salaries.
- Set student tuition, with a required range of $28 to $40 per hour for Kansas residents.
Decide curriculum for students.
The proposal would eliminate state and county out-of-district tuition. Instead, each county would have to impose a property tax levy of 1.5 mills. Tax levies in counties with regents' schools would be frozen at 25 mills.
In addition, the proposal would phase out some degree programs at Washburn, although its law school would remain intact.
ice cream shop offers weird flavors
The Associated Press
FREDONIA, N.Y. — After a long,
miserable winter, drymanym Scott
Aldrich decided to whip up the
perfect concoction to put his customers
in a summer mood: vanilla ice cream
with chili.
Aldrich's Beef & Ice Cream Parlor is serving up its annual April Fool's Day dessert today, a tradition that started 12 years ago with the truly awful flavor of beef gravy ice cream.
The idea started when Aldrich and some friends were talking about odd foods they'd eaten. The subject turned to gravy.
One year, Aldrich whipped up bacon- and egg ice cream. Last year, it was ice cream and olives, both black and green. Another year, he made sauerkraut and vanilla.
"That was definitely the worst flavor," said Aldrich, owner of the dairy and restaurant in Fredonia, 40 miles southwest of Buffalo. "The gravity sort of congealed in the ice cream. Why we kept going, I don't know."
His customers' favorite flavor was chocolate spaghetti — plain pasta with no tomato sauce.
"What can I say?" Aldrich said. "It's a cold, creamy bowl of chili. You taste the ice cream, you taste the chili, but instead of it being piping hot, it's cold."
This year, Aldrich brewed up 20 gallons of chili-flavored vanilla.
Though it sounds gross, chili-flavored ice cream might not be that sickening. Thirteen-year-old Adam Luce got a taste yesterday.
"I didn't really taste anything different," he said. "Just vanilla."
KU reaction to poll on minorities mixed
By Jennifer Freund Kansan staff writer
According to a recent poll conducted by the National Conference, formerly the National Conference of Jews and Christians, minorities harbor deep prejudices toward other minority groups.
And though many KU students and faculty members agreed that minorities at KU were more enlightened than the general population, racist attitudes by minorities still existed, they said.
"University people are generally more enlightened, and all these racist feelings are less overt at the University, but they're still there," said Sam Adams, associate professor of journalism.
Garcia said that she thought that many Mexican-Americans outside the University would agree with a statement from the poll, which said, "African-Americans, even if given a chance, aren't capable of getting ahead."
Kiki Garcia, Wichita senior, said that she agreed with Adams but that in the overall Mexican-American population there were still a lot of people who harbored prejudices toward African Americans.
"Yeah, people I know think that," she said.
Race relations
Thirty-three percent of Hispanics in the poll agreed with the statement.
Octavio Hinojosa, Hutchinson senior, said that although he was not prejudiced toward African-Americans, his personal experiences led him to believe that many in the Mexican-American community were.
"When I was in Oakland over Spring Break, I went to a taco stand with my cousin and a group of Blacks came up and everyone got really tense," he said. "I said, 'Let's leave before something happens.' We left. Then the police came and arrested one of the Black guys."
Adams also said that in an effort by minority groups, namely Blacks and Hispanics, to assimilate with the white community they often times attacked each other instead
A recent National Conference poll asked 3,000 people if they agreed with the statement, African-Americans "even if given a chance, aren't capable of getting ahead."
of the true oppressor.
"When I was at Watergate, Blacks had won some representation and Hispanics became upset, and rather than fight for equal representation, they fought against the Blacks," he said.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the office of minority affairs, said that while it was important to have an open dialogue regarding racial issues, he was concerned that the results of this poll may have a negative effect on the University.
While many at KU said that they noticed the rift between the two groups, Peter Braithwaite, Evanston, III., senior, said he didn't think a riff existed.
"I would probably disagree with the poll," he said. "I see more unity amongst students of color than with the mainstream population. I don't put much faith in these polls anyway."
Thompson said that he also doubted the validity, as well as the usefulness, of the poll in furthering positive relationships between Hispanics and African Americans on campus.
"This survey could trigger negative reactions at KU if it taken out of context," he said. "I think that the problems between Hispanics and African-Americans are exaggerated in this poll."
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