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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, October 20, 2000
Ambassadors aid in campus visits
Bv Debra Steele
Special to the Kansan
Nicole Mohman walked backward down Jayhawk Boulevard, rattling off KU trivia as she led a group of wide-eye high schoolers and their parents around campus.
Mohlman, Beloit sophomore, is one of 80 KU Ambassadors— volunteer students who give prospective students tours of the University.
"This is my first semester giving tours," she said. "I was a little nervous at first. I haven't tripped yet. That is my biggest fear."
Ten tours are given each week. Each ambassador gives at least one tour a week. Throughout the semester, ambassadors also work on question-answer panels and help with junior and senior visitation days.
After students are accepted as ambassadors, they receive a binder containing information about campus buildings and organizations.
"We work with some of the best and brightest students on campus," said Kelly Burnley, assistant director for On-Campus Programs and one of the supervisors of the KU Ambassadors. "Each ambassador goes through two sets of interviews. They are chosen because of their
enthusiasm and love for KU."
The ambassador program was started in 1980 by Paul Buskirk, who is now the associate director of the Athletics Corporation. He worked with former Chancellor Gene Budig to create a program that would get KU students involved with prospective students and their families.
In the fall of 1998, KU Ambassadors became a registered student organization with the KU Organizations and Leadership Office. The program is supervised by a graduate assistant and the assistant director for On-Campus Programs, but is a student-run organization.
Last spring more than 5,000 prospective students participated in campus tours. More than 60 percent of new KU students have had one of the tours.
"The Office of Admissions and Scholarships depends on the energy an dedication of the student ambassadors as part of our recruitment program," said Lisa Pinamonti, Associate Director of Admissions and Scholarships. "They are the key to the campus visit."
Students interested in becoming KU Ambassadors may call the office at 864-5819.
— Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
Patrick Nuss, Shawnee sophomore, leads a few potential KU students and their parents down Jayhawk Boulevard to better acquaint them with the campus. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
Experts arrive in Uganda to help fight Ebola virus
The Associated Press
GULU, Uganda - The highly contagious virus that has killed 41 people in Uganda has been identified as a strain of Ebola last seen in southern Sudan in 1979, U.S. experts said Thursday, raising speculation it may have been brought by Ugandan rebels based in Sudan.
pierre Rollin, the leader of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control team, said the virus was Ebola Sudan, one of three strains of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.
At least 41 people have died of Ebola and doctors fear 70 more may be infected, said Okat Lokach, the Gulu district health director.
Doctors and nurses immediately took steps to minimize infections and a radio campaign targeted the largely rural and illiterate population, informing them of what precautions to take.
Since then, experts from World Health Organization, aid workers from Doctors without Borders and investigators from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised the Ugandans.
Four epidemiologists and two microbiologists from the Atlanta organization brought laboratory equipment to separate those infected from people with similar symptoms, and to try to determine the source of the outbreak.
Three American women injured in Sri Lanka suicide bombing
There is no cure for Ebola, but patients treated with aggressive rehydration therapy have a chance of survival, Dr. Guenael Rodier, the World Health Organization team leader, said. Typically, between 80 percent and 90 percent of Ebola victims die, but Rodier said as many as 50 percent of the patients in Gulu may recover because of good, early medical attention.
The Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Shortly before her new Cabinet, a suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday, killing two other people and wounding 21 — including three American women.
The military said the bomber was a Tamil Tiger rebel who hoped
to attack members of President Chandrika Kumaratunga's Cabinet. The president campaigned for the Oct. 10 parliamentary elections on a promise to crush the Tamil rebellion.
"From now on you may see more and more rebel attacks in Colombo," Harry Goonetilleke, a former air force chief, said after
the bombing.
The bomber triggered explosives wrapped to his body after a police patrol challenged him. He died immediately, while a policeman and a civilian died later, said Dr. Hector Weerasinghe, director of the National Hospital.
The wounded Americans were identified in hospital records as
Pat Monteleone, Nansie Jubitz and Barbara Barker; Weerasinghe said they were out of danger. He said Barker suffered a chest wound, while the others suffered minor injuries.
Two of the women were volunteers for an American technical aid program, and the third was the wife of an official involved in the
program. Hospital records did not show the women's hometowns, and the U.S. Embassy declined to give any details.
"We saw a soldier with a rifle pointing to the park ... and then two seconds later there was a massive explosion and we were all hurt," Jubitz told local television. The bombing occurred near
Colombo's main recreation park in an area with popular tourist shops and office complexes. It is about two miles from where the Cabinet was sworn in.
Kumaratunga, whose People's Alliance won the parliamentary elections, went ahead with the installation of her 43-member Cabinet despite the bombing.
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