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University Daily Kansan, March 11, 1982
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Med Center points out poisoning dangers
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-National Poison Control Month, during March at the University of Kansas Medical Center, is in full swing, the director of the Poison Control Center said yesterday.
Wayne Snodgrass, assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the Mid-America Poison Control Center, said the Med Center's promotion of public awareness began earlier this week.
"The purpose of the month is to call attention to the fact that poisonings are still a major problem not only in but also adults as well," Snodgrass said.
ACCIDENTAL POISONINGS, most frequently found among children from
age 18 months to 3 years, are often caused by things that are easily damaged.
The most commonly ingested poisons are found in the home, Snodgrass said.
Household items, such as lye, furniture polish and even house plants, are by far the most frequently ingested substances of small children, he said.
However, household products are not the most fatal poison taken by children.
"The most frequently fatal poison ingested by children in this county is iron." Snodgrass said. "Usually in the form of vitamins with iron."
Snodgress said that children's vitamins, which often taste and look like candy, were sometimes eaten by the handful and could be fatal.
Poisonings in adults are seldom the result of ingesting household goods, however. Usually, Snodgrass said,
TO HELP PEOPLE who might have accidentally ingested a toxic substance, the Poison Control Center operates a 24-hour hotline.
adults will mix alcohol with sedatives in a combination that can cause severe hypoxia.
The hotline telephone number is (913)
588-6633.
Nearly 90 percent of these calls were concerning children less than 6 years old who had been accidentally poisoned.
A bill pending in the Kansas Legislature that would make the hotline a toll-free number and separate from the emergency room. The bill was introduced by Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who is a nurse.
Currently, the hotline is answered during the evening hours by a medical student at the Med Center, Snodgrass said. However, that student will
graduate soon and there are no funds to pay a qualified person to take his place, he said.
Snoodgrass said that syrup of spec could be obtained in any drug store without a prescription for about $1.50.
After establishing what substance has been ingested in an accidental poisoning, the Poison Control Center hotline usually asks whether the family has any syrup of ipacel, Snodgrass leads. This syrup induces vomiting.
Before administering any medicine, however, Snodgrass recommended that a family doctor or the hotline be consulted if vomiting does not always help.
Also, Snodgrass said, instructions on containers should not be followed without consulting a physician because patients are outdated or entirely wrong.
Chinese masterpieces form calligraphy exhibit
By GINA THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Chinese calligraphy is a scholar's art, the coordinator of a special Chinese calligraphy exhibit at the University of Chicago's bachelor Museum of Art said yesterday.
Chinese calligraphy, an ancient system of detailed handwriting, has 400 000 characters. Stephen Addiss, associate professor of art history, said.
A special collection of Chinese calligraphy masterpieces will be exhibited at the Spencer Museum of Art from March 12 to April 18. Address helped coordinate the exhibit and prepare the exhibition catalog.
Until recently, he said, there was no general education in China because it was impossible to teach everyone so many characters. One must learn several thousand characters to be literate.
Those who learned the calligraphy became the scholars, he said. Even though general education came into being, this special group of scholars was still the only one that practiced the ancient art.
the masterpieces, selected from a private New York collection, were chosen by Kwan S. Wong, one of the authors of Chinese calligraphers, Addiss said.
The masterpieces displayed will be samples from the Sung and Yuan collections.
This period is the middle period for Chinese calligraphy, Addiss said, and represents the age of the great individualists.
During this middle period, calligraphers expressed their own individual personality in their pieces, he said.
"When you look at the art you communicate with the person honestly," Addiss said.
Some calligraphy pieces are wild, free, light and loose, he said, while others suggest tension and inner turmoil.
Addiss said Americans could sense the limitations without being able to read the words.
Americans, he said, are sometimes awed by calligraphy because they cannot read it. However, one can appreciate this pure form of art just by looking for a sense of movement and life, he said.
"Reading it does not have anything to
*to* the appreciation of it." Addis
Zachary said.
The colors and the meanings of the words are not the art's only attributes, he said. Calligraphy, a pure art form of line and shape, is also a rich art because it consists of so many varied characters.
The pieces to be displayed at the Spencer Museum are part of the collection of John M. Crawford of New York, the owner of the most important collection of Chinese calligraphy in the Western World, Addiss said.
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A DOUGLAS County District judge sentenced a 30-year-old Topeka man to two consecutive three-to-ten year prison terms yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
Burglar's store a computer terminal worth about $1,000 from Strong Hall sometime between midnight Tuesday and 8 a.m. yesterday, KU police said. Theves intercepter directed the interceptor to disconnect the terminal and remove it from the room, police said. There are no suspects.
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KU POLICE reported $300 worth of damage to a sign outside of Brewster Auditorium in Strong Hall sometime between 11 a.m. March 5 and 8:20 a.m. Tuesday. Police said vandals used a screwdriver or sharp tool to pry off the sign's letters. There are no suspects.
The fraternity did not report the theft earlier because they suspected a practical joke, Gordon Tateman, fraternity president, said yesterday.
BURGLARS STOLE $250 worth of signs sometime between March 2 and 11:30 a.m. Tuesday from Bill Barnes Construction, 3014 Riverview Road, police said. Burglaries removed four signs from construction lots, police said. There are no suspects.
Firefighters searched the building and found no fire or smoke. A maintenance man said workmen had been working on the furnace to keep it hot and dry, apparently came from the ignition of oil in the furnace, fire officials said.
LAWRENCE POLICE reported that $500 to $1,000 worth of property was stolen Feb. 19 from the Sigma Nu fraternity house, 1501 Sigma Nu a composite picture of the fraternity is reported missing Tuesday, police said.
THE LAWRENCE Fire Department answered a call to Oliver Hall about 4:20 p.m. yesterday after officials at Watkins Memorial Hospital saw smoke coming from the south end of the building and
John Foster Kimman received the sentence for two counts of felony theft.
called the fire department. Two engines and a ladder truck arrived at the scene as students were being evacuated from the building.
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KU affirmative action having goals reviewed
KU's affirmative action program is in the process of its first compliance review by the U.S. Department of Labor, Mike Edwards, director of affirmative action, said yesterday.
Edwards said that this review was to make sure the University's hiring policies and practices were consistent with the guidelines and University reports.
Edwards said the first stage of the process was the desk audit, when the University submitted plans for its affirmative action program. The final stage of review will be the offsite analysis.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program of the Labor Department conducts the review. Department officials on-site analysis, started this week.
During the on-site analysis, investigators meet with University officials and staff to ask them about
Edwards was unsure how long the on-site analysis would take, although he indicated it probably would be several weeks. The total review process usually takes about 90 days, he said.
recruiting policies in the various departments. They also check compliance with the affirmative action goals and plans.
Included in the review are the Goals and Timetables, recently completed by the KU affirmative action office, the hiring policies and the actual policies taking place on campus.
Edwards said the government routinely reviews the affirmative action programs of federal contractors. The University falls into this category because of the federal grants it receives.
Emporia State University is now undergoing the same process as KU.
Debaters qualify for nationals
Five area collegiate debate teams qualified for the National Debate Tournament by placing in the KU-sponsored district tournament, March
No KU teams competed in the district tournament because the University of Kansas already had the maximum number of two teams entered in the tournament. Debate Tournament, Donn Parson, director of forensics, said yesterday.
Parson said the top 60 collegiate debate teams in the nation would participate in the National Debate Tournament. Sixteen of these, including the teams from KU, received their records from the University because of their records. District tournaments determined 36 other participants.
A team from Northeastern Oklahoma State College placed first in the district tournament. Also earning berths in the National Debate Tournament were teams from the University of Texas at Arlington, Odessa College of Texas, Northwest Missouri State University and the University of Houston.
The National Debate Tournament will take place April 1-4 at Florida State University in Tallahassee. KU will be represented by the teams of Mark Gidley, Houston junior, and Zac Grant, Manhattan senior; and Paul Leader, Derby junior, and Rodger Payne, Sand Springs, Oklaw., junior.
Parson said 18 teams from 14 universities has competed in the district to win.
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