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Calendar
Monday, Nov. 25
What: Molecular Biosciences Seminar
When: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Haworth Hall, 1005
About: Dr. Rohinton Kamakaka from the University of California-Santa Cruz will speak. Admission is free.
Tuesday, Nov. 26
What: School of Music Recital Series
When: 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Where: Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy
Hall
About: Concert featuring Stephen Preiser on trumpet. Admission is free.
What: Carillon Recital
When: Noon to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Memorial Campanile
About: Dr. Elizabeth Berghou will perform on the 53 bronze bells in the World War II Memorial Campanile.
What: Tuesday Nite Swing
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union
About: Admission is free and open to all ages.
TECHNOLOGY
2. Clean up any active social media by removing unprofessional or inappropriate photos, videos and posts. Don't forget: This includes
Wednesday, Nov. 27
1. Delete social media accounts that you aren't using anymore.
That old MySpace profile? Deactivate it!
Thursday, Nov. 28
What: Thanksgiving Break
When: All day
Where: All University
About: No classes
What: Thanksgiving Break
When: All day
Where: All University
About: No classes
PROFILE PROBLEMS
Social media activity affects employment, admissions
Wolfram recommends students take the following five steps to 'clean up' their social media accounts and ensure their online presence is positive.
Social media allows a student to brand therelselves, Wolfram said, and positive social media activity can make you stand out to emplovers.
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EMPLOYMENTS and universities use social media to profile applicants, according to a 2013 Kaplan Test Prep survey.
KAITLYN KLEIN
kklein@kansan.com
Although your party photos might not have prevented you from being admitted into the University of Kansas, they might prevent you from landing your dream job once you graduate.
Several universities across the country are beginning to factor social media into their admissions process according to a 2013 Kaplan Test Prep survey of college admission officers, and though the University isn't one of those schools, people are considering your social media as a part of your image.
"The University has very straightforward admissions requirements," said Director of Admissions Lisa Pinamonti Kress.
However, employers are looking. Erin Wolfram, Assistant Director of the University Career Center, said students should know that employers are Googling them. She said it's not enough to set your privacy settings high and assume employers won't find you, but just because they are looking doesn't mean they are looking for something negative.
Kress said that social media does not affect undergraduate admissions requirements for the University, which are set by the Kansas Board of Regents.
not only what you post, but also what your friends or followers post on your social media accounts.
4. Google yourself about once a month. Google your name, your phone number and your email to ensure that you know what other people are posting about you.
Pro tip: sign up for Google alerts that way you get an email each time your name, email address or phone number are mentioned.
3. Update your settings so that you can approve tags before they are attached to your account and make sure your privacy settings are as high as possible.
5. Post positive messages related to your desired career field. Share
articles, photos and interesting facts that show employers you are passionate about what you want to do. Pro tip: Start a blog to share things related to your career field.
"I would like to assume most students would rather get the job, than post an inappropriately funny photo." Wolfram said.
The University Career Center gives presentations on social media to student groups upon requests. Individual students can learn more by setting up an appointment with a career coach at career.ku.edu/appointments.
Edited by James Ogdem
PERSON ON THE STREET How do you feel about potential employers seeing your social media?
"It kind of makes me uncomfortable because I feel like that's a private part of us, but at the same time if an employer wants to see how you are normally I wouldn't be offended if they decided to look at my Facebook. If you really care about it you can make your stuff private, right?"
ELLIOT YOCHIM junior
"I see social media as marketing yourself so you should never put anything with red cups. Like I never have solo cups, drinking. I never cuss in my tweets because honesty you are marketing yourself on social media. Once you're in college employers are going to look at you once you start applying. And internships too—the they look at that. I know they look at that."
SHANNON MCGRAW sophomore
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and could not get up. Britton asked him if he was able to come downstairs and get something to eat or drink.
"I was thinking that sometimes when you're not feeling well you just have to get up and get moving," Britton said.
Britton decided to call Watkins Memorial Health Center and described Marso's symptoms, and he was advised to bring Marso in. Britton, along with the help of one of his friends, got Marso dressed and out of bed, and helped him downstairs to Britton's car.
When they got to Watkins, Britton again asked if Marso was able to walk by himself.
"I thought maybe he'd be feeling a little better since he got some fresh air," Britton said. "But he said, 'No, I don't think I can.'"
The staff at Watkins quickly identified how sick Marso was. In a matter of a few hours, Marso was taken from Watkins in an ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, then flown to KU Medical Center in Kansas City, and by the end of the night his condition was critical.
Marso said that for the first few
weeks in the hospital, the doctors worked to stabilize his internal organs as he was "basically drugged into oblivion."
"It was basi-
cally 50-50 as to
whether I would
survive."
Marso said.
bit better, you could talk to Andy and he would sort of whisper a sentence here and there. It took quite a while
for him to have the energy to engage in a regular conversation again."
"It was basically 50-50 as to whether I would survive."
Because his limbs were without blood for so long, all the flesh on his fingers and toes was dying. He had a choice: amputate his limbs or try to save them by slicing and scraping off all the dead tissue.
So every other day for the next three months, he had treatments through the KU Medical Center burn clinic to try to get rid of the dead tissue. During his time in the hospital, he had eight total surgeries for skin grafting and amputations. His fingers and toes were not able to be saved, and had to be amputated.
ANDY MARSO
Author of "Worth the Pain"
After leaving the hospital, Marso spent the next year in rehabilitation, physical therapy and occupational therapy, learning to walk with leg braces and use his hands to do everything that he had used to be able to do without thinking.
While Marso was in the hospital, complete strangers came to visit him and talk. He said a man who had bacterial meningitis when he was 17 and lost his feet came and talked with Andy right before he had his toes amputated; seeing that the man had made it through gave Marso hope.
"In the beginning, the visits were all about [hoping that] maybe Andy would wake up for a few minutes and see that you were there, rooting for him." Britton said. "After he was getting a little
"I had to rethink everything," Marso said. "For the first year of rehabilitation, life became like a constant physics lesson."
Marso was in the hospital until September of 2004, and was "completely helpless" when hospitalized. He had a strong support system from his family, and said his parents, grandma, and two brothers moved to Kansas City while he was hospitalized. His friends also visited him often, including friends from Minnesota, where he grew up.
Other visitors like these, who could relate to Marso and let him know that it's possible to get through it, motivated Marso to do the same once he recovered.
"There were so many days when I thought, 'I can't take it. I'm not going to make it.'" Marso said. "I want to give people hope for the days they think are unbearable."
He said the first couple of years were difficult and frustrating because he could still remember how easy things used to be, but by now he's forgotten what it was like before;
this is the new normal.
Currently, approved bacterial meningitis vaccines in the United States protect against four out of the five main types, and Marso was infected with the type that is not protected by vaccines. He hopes that since every college student in the United States is susceptible to becoming infected, they will "raise their voices and make themselves heard" by pushing for approval of a vaccine that will protect against the other main type.
Today, Marso works for the Topeka Capital-Journal reporting on state government news. He doesn't let the changes in his body caused by the meningitis hold him back, and he does not dwell on it, said Britton.
"In some ways, after a while I didn't really see any changes," Britton said. "He's the same Andy; he's goofy, he's witty, he knows the words to almost every song on the radio. Those things were still there and came back. He's learned to be every bit the same person he was before."
Edited by Evan Dunbar
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