University Daily Kansan, April 29, 1982 Page 13
Fund-raiser to finance film on epilepsv
By JAN BOUTTE Staff Reporter
The Delta Tau Delta fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority will celebrate the last day of class tomorrow with an afternoon and evening party to benefit a KU educational film project.
Proceeds from the party, called the Delta Yahoo, held in the Delta Tau Delta parking lot, will be donated to the KU Bureau of Child Research's fund to finance the children an educational film about enilpies.
The film was started by Ross Copeland, a senior research scientist with the bureau until his death from cancer last fall.
Gib Kurschner, Yahoo chairman and Glencoe, Ill., senior, said that
the film was about 80 percent complete when Copeland died.
Kurschner said that about $3,000 would be needed to complete the film, which was intended to inform people about the nature of epilepsy and what a bystander can do to help someone suffer a seizure.
The Delts and Delta Gammas hope to raise the $3,000 with Yahoo by charging $3 for an advance ticket and $4 for tickets the day of the party. Ticket holder can drink beer all afternoon at the party and participate in other scheduled events throughout the day and night.
Kurchersh said the houses planned to have a mechanical bull, a "Dunk the Delt" tank and a "Miss Yahoo contest.
Kurschner said that Copeland first became concerned with educating the public about epilepsy when he
witnessed Kurschner having a seizure at the Delta Tau Delta house three years ago.
three years ago.
At that time, Copeland was the chapter adviser for the fraternity, and Kurschner was a pledge.
Kurchers said that after about three days of not taking his medication regularly and studying late nights, he felt a seizure coming on and told his roommate, but hismate did not know how to react.
Kurschner said there were many degrees of severity of seizures, ranging from a hand tremor or loss of memory to a seizure involving all muscles. The incidence of seizures and epilepsy were more common than most people realized.
"A lot of very good friends and family could be epileptic and you'll never know," he said.
Kurserer is part of the cast of the uncompleted film, in which he demonstrates the normal daily life events who happened to be epileptic.
The film demonstrates how to help a person suffer a seizure. Kurscher said that many actions could be taken if the victim putting a pencil in the victim's mouth to keep him from suffocating. He said that the seizures can be so violent that the victim could break into the pencil, injuring the inside of his mouth.
He recommended using something soft, such as a wallet or a notebook. Kurscher also said to move any sharp objects, such as furniture, out of the vicinity to prevent injuries and also to hold the head of the person so they do not bang them upside up during the seizure.
On the record
Two KU students charged with the March 27 stabbing of another KU student were put in Douglas County Court on $30,000 bond yesterday following a preliminary hearing in Douglas County District Court.
Kaitvan Shushtarian and Nasir Habib Charmchi, both freshmen from Iran, will have to stand trial on aggrigated
battery charges for the stabbing. The court will set a trial date May 7.
Shushtarian and Charmchi were arrested March 27 following the stabbing of another KU student outside a tahoe garage at 75 Massachusetts St.
BURGLARS STOLE a ring worth about $1,500 sometime between 2 and
4:30 p.m. Tuesday from a room at Oliver Hall, KU police said.
Burglaris entered the room while the residents were gone and took the gold ring, which was set with two small and two large diamonds, police said.
THEIEVES STOLE about $400 worth of office furniture sometime during the first two weeks of April from a lounge area in Green Hall, police said.
Police said thieves carried away three round office tables. There are no suspects.
THEIEVS STOLE a car sometime around midnight Tuesday from a residence at 2535 Arkansas St., police said.
Police said the thieves may have used keys to drive the car away. The car was worth $3,200. There are no suspects.
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