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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Sports: The women's basketball team worked on strength and agility this summer.
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Inside: The Kansan's guide to the candidates and issues that will play a role in elections.
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Students discuss final debate
Hundreds of students packed into the Kansas Union ballroom last night to watch the final presidential debate. One of the debate's hot issues was education and how to improve the nation's schools. Photo by Craig Bennett/KANSAN
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By J.D. McKee
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
With the presidential election just three weeks away, and the race too close-to-call, the last presidential debate once again yielded mixed student reaction.
About 500 students filled the Kansas Union ballroom to watch the final debate last night and to discuss the issues presented. Debate Watch, a national project based at the University that studies nationwide voter reaction to the debates, sponsored the event.
Shawna Smith, an assistant to Debate Watch director Diana Carlin, said the out was about.
what the group had expected.
"We're probably hosting the largest debate watch in the country," said Smith, Hays junior.
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Last night's debate targeted undecided voters.
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Danielle Willey, Junction City sophomore, said she didn't know much about politics, but she thought Al Gore, the Democratic presidential candidate, did better than his Republican counterpart, George W. Bush.
"He tried to get Bush to admit things, but Bush talked around the issues," Willey said. "Gore made his points more clear."
Willey said that although no one issue was the most important to her, education was a major priority.
"Gore wants more teachers," she said. "I've had classes with hundreds of students, and I didn't feel part of the class. We'd all get better learning experiences if we had more one-on-
one teaching."
Heather Fuqua, Olathe freshman, said she had to go to the debates for an English class and had no opinion beforehand. After the debate, she said she liked Bush better than Gore.
"Gore was defensive on the issues," she said. "Bush was really calm about waiting his turn to answer. Gore would jump up and say Bush was wrong."
Fuqua added that health care was the most important issue to her because of her family
background.
"My family didn't have health care until the state paid for it," she said. "If families go without health care, it's not a good situation."
Ray Miller, Wichita sophomore, said he thought this debate was similar to the previous two debates in that neither candidate wanted to answer the questions.
He also thought Gore was too liberal with his spending plans.
"It seems like Gore is spending money in every one of his solutions," Miller said.
"He's like a teenage girl who found her dad's credit card."
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Crime worries Orchard Corners residents
Violence, burglaries plague complex some students say
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
One of the clippings is about the two amps and subwoofers that were stolen from Lakin's car last week.
Chris Lakin and his roommates have a bulletin board to hang all the newspaper clippings about the criminal activity this year at Orchard Corners apartment complex.
Lakin, Lake Quivira sophomore, only has lived at the complex since August, but he said he would not live there again next year.
He said he chose to live in the Orchard Corners apartments at 15th Street and Kasold Drive because he heard it was a nice
place to live, it was on the bus route, and there were parties.
“It’s a good place to live during the week, but on most weekends it’s a big party scene, and it becomes trashy.” Lakin said.
Jared Langford, Tecumseh sophomore, attended an Aug. 20 party at the complex where shots were fired during a fight in the parking lot. Langford said two uninvited men and two uninvited women showed up at the party to beat up a woman who was there. A fight began between the uninvited guests and about 20 people at the party. One of the uninvited men fired shots into the air, trying to protect his friend.
The people who held the party did not know the four people who showed up, Langford said.
Langford said this was not the first time problems had started at an Orchard Corners party. Langford has gone to about 15 to 20 parties at the complex and said things had gotten out of control
during, at least half of them especially on weekends.
"It's usually pretty well known that Orchard Corners' parties get pretty wild," Langford said.
two people were stabbed in the parking lot during a party on Oct. 1, Lawrence police said. Kenneth Berry, an 18-year-old Johnson County Community College student, was stabbed in his lower back.
Berry said he and his friends had been in the parking lot getting ready to leave when six men showed up and began making gestures and comments at him and three other people.
"two of them jumped my friend," Berry said. "I pulled them off, and that's when I got stabbed."
Berry said no one at the party knew who the six were.
Bobbie Wintle, Mastercraft manager, said the complex management was aware of the situations that occurred.
"Crime does happen all over the
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place," Wintle said. "Unfortunately, we have had situations that are nonrelated to our residents. We put out fliers to notify our residents or put it in our newsletter to make them aware of
the situation and tell them things they can do to protect themselves."
Wintle said management had done some internal checks that
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Veterinarians treat drunken, drugged-out pets
Special to the Kansan
By Chrissy Bowers
University of Kansas students may be responsible drinkers, but what about their pets? Yes, their pets.
Local veterinarians say they see drunk dogs more often than they would like — and those pets often belong to students.
"We see situations where college kids feed beer to their animals, mostly dogs, and will get them drunk," said Kristi J. Bradley, a yet at Free State Veterinary Hospital.
She said that too much booze could lead to alcohol poisoning and possibly death. But there are long-term effects as well.
Lawrence veterinarians say they see an abnormally high number of pets who are under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Drugs and alcohol have the same effects on animals as humans. Photo illustration by Christina Neff/KANSAN
"They become wobbly and weird," Bradley said.
"I don't know that dogs can become alcoholics, but they do have the potential for liver or kidney damage," she said.
The short-term effects are similar to those experienced by humans. Bradley said.
Alcohol isn't the only source of animal inebriation that veterinarians witness.
"We do see dogs that eat marijuana," said William Bayouth, a veterinarian at Animal Hospital of Lawrence.
The common scenario is where the owner leaves out a stash and the dog eats it, Bradley said.
She said the reactions varied from hyperactive pets to nearly comatose pets.
H. D. Lewis of the Lewis Veterinary Clinic said that in the cases he had seen, "The dogs are basically stoned."
Again, there are long-term effects with animals that consume marijuana, including damage to the nervous system, liver and pancreas, as well as death if they eat
enough, the vets said.
The cases get stranger.
roommate and his cat.
Robert Warren, Overland Park junior,
recounted the days of living with his ex-
"My roommate would blow marijuana smoke into the cat's ears everyday," he said. "The cat would become very docile at first and then get an ungally'amount of energy."
Warren said he didn't know his roommate's motivation.
rhe seemed to think the cat liked it," he said. One dog took on more than he could handle. Bradley said.
"I had a Chihuahua who had had multiple drugs, including cocaine," Bradley said. "He was agitated and began having seizures. His respiration was badly affected."
The owners had to put the dog to sleep.
The owner's had to put the dogs out. But by far the worst cases any local veterinarian had witnessed were with the weight-loss drug Metabolife. People have accidentally left out bottles of the drug and dogs have eaten the pills. Metabolife increases animals' blood pressure, causes immediate seizures, and depending on the number of pills consumed, can kill a pet, Bradley said.
she said the reactions were so intense and rapid that it was almost impossible to save the animals.
Perspective pet-adopters might worry whether their new animal has been abused with drugs. Midge Grinstead, the Lawrence Humane Society's executive director, said that the society had no way of performing drug tests.
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"We're kind of in a bad situation," she said. "We don't have the money to test." Edited by J. P. Mandaza
Planning, sleep help students to minimize midterm stress
By Meghan Bainum
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
It's that time of year again — midterm time — and a lot KU students, men and women alike, find themselves suffering from PMS — Pre-Midterm Stress.
Even though Carver has learned ways to better handle the stress — like going to class everyday — he said he wasn't quite sure how he did on his midterms.
Mike Carver, Chicago sophomore, said he could tell when his stress started because of a feeling he got in the pit of his stomach.
But, with the exception of 'un in
inout', others aren't as lucky.
"You never really know how you did until you get it back," he said.
"Right now, I'm procrastinating hardcore," she said. "I'm spending a lot of time outdoors and napping."
Shik said that she had a sure fire way to get everything done — not sleeping.
Sarah Shik, Overland Park senior, has two midterms and two papers to turn in within the next week. Still, she hasn't started working on anything.
"At this point, if I don't do it, I'm
going to fail,
she said. "You
get to the end
of the line, and
nothing is
left."
Shik is not the only student suffering from PMS. The libraries are packed late into the night, and many students are stumbling around campus with glazed eyes and bewildered expressions.
Avoid all-nighters
STAYING HEALTHY
Keep sleeping and eating schedules as regular as possible
How to stay healthy during midwives:
■ Plan ahead.
Avoid excessive use of coffeeine
When finished with finals, don't go out and party. Take time to catch up on sleep.
Be safe on camp at night. Use Saferide, or walk with friends.
Source: Randall Rock, Watkins' chief of staff
stressed-out and sleep-deprived might be compromising more than their 8 hours of rest — they might be compromising their health.
"Some amount of stress or deadlines can be motivational and give us the strength and endurance we need to finish projects or prioritize," Rock said. "But in excess, stress can compromise efficiency and may take a physical toll."
Rock said that prolonged stress could make the immune system less efficient, and therefore, make students more susceptible to sickness.
Rock also said that art and architecture students experienced a special midterm danger.
"Late nights on projects and Exact-o knives are a combination that occasionally result in injury," he said. "It potentially puts the project at risk of contamination as well."
Rock said that the best way to get through midterms with all fingers attached, as well as the least amount of stress, was to plan ahead, eat right, sleep well and make sure to keep caffeine consumption down to a minimum.
Some students, such as Brandon Schminke, Dodge City sophomore, have conquered midterm stress problems by keeping up in all of his classes.
"The sooner I get it done, the easier it'll be," he said. "I won't get as stressed, so I just kind of sit down and make myself do it."
Students don't get much of a break before finals. That, said Jenny Griffiths, Leawood junior, is something she doesn't want to think about.
"I have to get over the whole midterm stress thing before thinking about finals," she said.
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