Wednesday, November 15.2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Greek councils choose presidents
By J.D. McKee
Kansan staff writer
writer@kansan.com
Although the more famous national presidential election has resulted in mass confusion, the PanHellenic Council and Interfraternity Council elections went off without a hitch.
The PHC and IFC executive board members handed their positions to the next class of officers last night in a ceremony at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
Laurel Brinkman, Geneva, Ill., Junior, and Chris Mandernach, Lee Summit, Mo., junior, took over as presidents of the PHC and IFC, respectively.
Executive officers are elected by a delegate for each sorority and a delegate and the chapter president for each fraternity.
Both were looking forward to new challenges for the greek community.
"One of the main things I'm looking forward to is increasing the interaction with non-greek students," Mandernach said.
He said he hoped to encourage non-greeks to take part in the various philanthropies and community service projects the greek community was involved in.
Mandernach also was aware of greek stereotypes.
"We can't eradicate stereotypes," he said. "Stereotypes are based on lack of knowledge about the greek community. We want to make the public more aware of what we stand for."
Brinkman said one of the challenges the PHC would face next year would be the change in the recruitment process, which used to occur before school started.
"Next year, recruitment will be the two weeks following Labor Day," Brinkman said.
She said the PHC also must decide if it wanted to accept a new sorority in the next three
The outgoing board members were emotional in relinquishing their roles, but confident in the incoming officers.
years.
"It was a lot harder for me to catch up." MacRoberts said. "There was a big learning curve to overcome."
Sam MacRoberts, outgoing IFC president and Leawood senior, became President in April — as opposed to the traditional inauguration in November — after former IFC president Chace Ramey resigned because of his involvement with a party where minors were served alcohol.
Juliette Ast, outgoing PHC president and Wichita senior, said she was most proud of the changes made in the recruitment process and the dance-a-thon philanthropy for Habitat for Humanity.
"The potential for that philanthropy is huge." she said.
— Edited by John Audlehelm
Terminally ill don't want to be a burden
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A majority of terminally ill patients say the options of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide should be available to Americans although very few would consider such choices themselves, says one of a series of major new studies on how we die.
When it comes to improving end-of-life care, "euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are largely irrelevant," concluded Ezekiel Emanuel of the National Institutes of Health, who led the first study to track terminally ill patients' opinions on the subject during a number of months.
In fact, dying Americans have priorities — such as spending final time with loved ones and preparing for death — far more important than euthanasia, say studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
But "a collusion of silence," in which doctors and patients don't discuss impending death, means that too often people don't have time to prepare, said Timothy Quill of the University of Rochester.
Consider how one doctor struggled to tell a longtime lung-disease patient that he had only a few months left:
"Every day, I worried that he'd come in with pneumonia by ambulance in the middle of the night and I wouldn't hear until the morning that he'd been intubated," said the physician, identified as Dr. G. "...I knew this was not what he wanted, so I needed to get it settled."
It was weeks before doctor and patient finally got Mr. B's treatment wishes recorded.
got him B's treatment wishes recorded.
For children, it can be even longer: One study found parents realized, on average, 106 days before their child's death that cancer would claim him or her — while their doctors knew 100 days before that. It wasn't clear if parental denial or doctors' reluctance to break the news was to blame.
And many doctors don't realize other elements that dying patients list as most important to their last days, such as being mentally aware at the end, not being a burden on family and come to peace with God, another study found.
How to care for dying people, to ease their pain and try for the most peaceful death, is a growing concern. Nearly 80 percent of Americans die in hospitals or nursing homes, very often bedridden, incontinent and in pain. Yet very few write "advance directives" outlining if they want heroic lifesaving measures, and most "do not resuscitate" orders and moves to hospices are made just before death.
Such grim statistics fuel public debate over physician-assisted suicide. Polls suggest between 60 and 70 percent of Americans feel terminally ill people in pain should be able to end their lives, with a doctor's help if needed. Oregon is the only state where physician-assisted suicide is legal; 43 people have used the law to die since it passed in 1997.
To see how the terminally ill really feel about suicide, Emanuel tracked 988 dying cancer
patients for six months. Sixty percent said euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide should be an available option.
But initially, only 10.6 percent admitted considering it for themselves. Two to six months later, half of those people had abandoned the idea. Another 29 people who hadn't initially considered ending their lives had started considering it.
Only 1.6 percent of patients discussed the option with doctors, and 2.5 percent hoarded painkillers in case they decided to try suicide.
Of the 256 deaths during Emanuel's study, one patient died from physician-assisted suicide. Another tried to kill himself but failed. A third repeatedly asked her family and doctor for help in dying, but they refused and she ultimately died at home.
The surprise, Emanuel said: Pain wasn't the biggest influence on who considered suicide — depression and feeling burdensome to family were the biggest factors.
Anyone nearing death is sad, but full-scale depression needs treatment to improve the quality of remaining life. Emanuel stressed.
Better communication — among doctors, patients and caregivers — also is crucial, he added, citing a patient who considered suicide because she felt she was too much of a burden on her husband. "He was just heartbroken" when Emanuel revealed his wife's fear. "What could be more important for him than caring for his wife of 50 years?"
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