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University Daily Kansan, October 12. 1983
Program to find homes for students over break
By the Kansan Staff
Foreign students living in KU residence halls have an alternative to checking into a hotel when the halls close for Thanksgiving break, the office director of the office of foreign student services said yesterday.
The associate director, Diann Stewart, said foreign students who needed a place to stay during the recess could attend the University of Kansas' Homestay Program.
Homestay, she said, places about 50 foreign students, primarily from the Middle and Far East and Latin America, in the homes of Kansas families for Thanksgiving and spring break.
STUDENTS MAY ONLY participate in the program once, she said.
"We want to give everyone a chance to be it." Stewart said. "It's always a job to work with people."
Although the students must supply their own transportation to the families' homes, the families provide free room and board to their guest, she said.
The only requirement that family members must meet, Stewart said, is that they should be open-minded and receptive to different cultures.
Stewart also said that the office tried to place students in an atmosphere that
would give them a taste of an American lifestyle.
"I don't know if there's any such thing as a typical American family though," she said.
REGINA MOTTA, Rio de Janiero, Brazil, sophomore, participated in the program last year and said that meeting people outside of the University was an important part of the program.
The best thing about the program was "the contact with family as opposed to life in the dorm," Motta said in a Homestay evaluation form. "The student is more than students only, and the feeling of being part of that family for a while."
Although holidays are a difficult time to be away from family members, said Virginia Bastos, Caracas, Venezuela, junior, her Homestay family was like a second family to her. Since visiting last spring, she has written her Homestay family and they have come to KU to visit.
Stewart said the families did not have to live in the area. Many families from farming communities participate in the program each year.
Other than eating home-cooked meals, Bastos said, she especially enjoyed learning how to drive the vehicle by doctor and herding the cows into a van.
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Pre-menstrual syndrome hard to treat
Pre-menstrual syndrome is difficult to treat because most doctors don't yet understand it, a physician at Watkins Hospital told about 35 women in the Kansas Union last night.
Symptoms are varied, doctor says
McBride's speech, in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union, was sponsored by the Emily Taylor
Ann McBride, the physician, said pre-menstrual syndrome remained an undefined, and perhaps under-defined. The increased discussion of the topic.
BEFORE MENSTRUATION, many women experience a wide variety of symptoms that include abdominal bloating, chocolate cravings, headaches and mood swings, McBride said. These symptoms are grouped under the name of pre-menstrual syndrome or PMS.
Women's Resource Center. One man attended the lecture.
She said she was concerned that the acceptance of PMS would cause people to think women would be less able to take on responsibility.
"Mood swings and irritability do happen but I am not willing to accept it."
Because PMS symptoms are so varied, research into its causes and cures is difficult. McBride said.
"PMS consists primarily of symptoms described by the patients," she said.
She also said scientific research was hindered by the fact that doctors who treated patients with PMS could also treat irregularities their patients described.
FOR EXAMPLE, women who complain of abdominal bloatedness before menstruation seldom show a
weight increase on the scales, she said.
McBride, who said she had spent from 30 to 40 hours reviewing medical literature on PMS, said she found that no conclusive studies had been conducted about drugs that could treat the syndrome.
Such research includes double-blind studies, in which researchers give a control group a placebo drug that produces no effects and give a second group the drug being tested, she said.
"There are about 20 different therapies for PMS," she said.
Surgeons use body-chilling method in operation
By United Press International
BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins surgeons said yesterday that they had successfully removed a tumor from an adult using the unusual technique of chilling the body "suspended in water" to stop stopping all blood circulation for 40 minutes.
Reitz cooled the body temperature of Robert Crowe, 37, Alexandria, Va., to 66 degrees and removed a sausage-like piece from the leading from his kidney to his heart.
Fray F. Marshall, associate professor of urology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, said that last October he and cardiologist Bruce A.
The procedure, sedum used when operating on adult patients, was necessary because an operation so close to the heart would have been nearly impossible to perform because of excessive blood. Marshall said.
"He really was not kept alive on the machine, as there was no perfusion of blood through the body," Marshall said. "Mr. Crowe was just cooled down and in a sense was closer to a state of suspended animation."
CROWE'S HEART WAS stopped for the duration of the 41-minute operation after doctors used a pump to drain his
blood, until the operation was complete.
routinely in operations on children who weigh less than seven pounds because of the difficulty of working on their small organs while blood is coursing through their blood vessels, the doctors said.
When first told of the uncommon technique, his response was: "Let's go, let's do it." He returned to work after the operation.
BUT THE TECHNIQUE is rarely used on adults, especially to the extent used on Crowe. While most operations involve the use of body-cooling, Crowe's case is one of only two or three involving the complete arrest of the circulatory system, the surgeons said.
The procedure, known as hypothermia-assisted surgery, is used
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