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The University Daily Kansan
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Sports: The Kansas volleyball team is preparing for tonight's battle against No.1 Nebraska. SEE PAGE 1B
inside: Construction near 7th and Michigan streets poses problems for students and a local business.
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Clinic cares for the uninsured
Dennis Sale, Lawrence physician, performs a checkup on Paul Gray, senior pastor of Heartland Community Church. Photo illustration by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
By Melissa Davis
By Melissa Davis writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Dennis Sale helps those who have nowhere else to turn.
If people are hurting, Sale offers relief—no questions asked. He gives medical attention to the uninsured — for free.
Sale, a physician at Prompt Care in Lawrence, started a medical clinic for the uninsured at Heartland Community Church, 619 Vermont St., because he wanted to make a difference.
Sale said he started the clinic in October 1999 in conjunction with Make a Difference Day, a national day devoted to caring. Since then, he and Peter Kimble, another local physician, along with a volunteer staff of nurses, have seen almost 300 patients.
Kimble has volunteered at the clinic, treating mostly non-emergency patients, since April, after moving to Lawrence from Oregon.
"When I first got in town, I wasn't seeing many patients on my own, so I asked Dennis if he needed help, and he said yes." Kimble said. "And I've been here since."
The church donates the space, and pharmaceutical companies around the country donate the medicine. Because the necessities are donated, the clinic does not charge its patients.
Heartland's pastor, Paul Gray, said the clinic saw anywhere from six to 20 people each day, many of whom are single parents or students.
Sale said he thought there were aspects to the clinic that made it bittersweet — especially when uninsured emergency patients come in and he doesn't have the resources to help.
"The majority of cases are generally people without health insurance who won't get help until it gets real bad," Gray said.
"Just knowing that I am sending someone with no insurance to Lawrence Memorial, and knowing that it will cost them and their families a small fortune — that is heartbreaking." Sale said.
Sale also said that no matter how heartbreaking the job was, it was still gratifying.
"The most rewarding part is to know that we are making a major difference in health care of the patients who otherwise have no means for health care because they have no insurance." Sale said.
The clinic is open each Tuesday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.
Sale said that the church wanted the clinic open full time, but that it wouldn't be possible without a grant, which the clinic is trying to get.
said. "And by the year 2002, we want to have an in-patient 24-hour clinic with half a dozen beds. That's why we are trying to get a grant."
"Our goal is to have a full-functioning clinic open four to five days a week," he
Another problem is staffing. The clinic is
now looking for volunteers. Anyone interested in helping out can visit the clinic during the clinic's hours or contact the Rev. Paul Gray at 832-1845 for more information. Edited by McDonald
— Edited by Erin McDaniel
Separating the boys from the men
R. W. Connell speaks about masculine gender roles yesterday in Alderson Auditorium. Connell, a professor of sociology at the University of Sydney in Australia, highlighted the The Boys Own Annual, a book circulated in the British Empire when schools constructed an educational program around the masculine qualities that were acceptable for boys. The cover, shown on screen, reflects the images of boys playing sports, in military situations and out on the frontier. The frontier images captured the most desirable form of masculinity for boys. Connell said. Photo by Melissa Carr/KANSAN
Groups aim to bolster student vote
Kursten Phelps
Kansan staff writer
To rock the vote in November, you have to register first.
Student Legislative Awareness Board and other campus groups are kicking off voter registration drives to get University of Kansas students signed up and to the polls for the Nov. 7 national, state and local elections.
Jessica Bankston, SLAB legislative director, said the board hoped to register 5,000 students during its "Rock Chalk the Vote" drive.
As part of the drive, SLAB will sponsor a voter registration table at Wescoe Beach with the KU Young Democrats, College Republicans and possibly the KU Green Party. The Wescoe Beach drive will start Monday and last two weeks.
Bankston said SLAB was trying to make registration to vote as easy as possible for students.
"We're having students give me the cards because often they'll fill out the card and forget to mail it in," she said. "With our drive, we'll pick up the postage, and a letter from Student Senate will be sent to them reminding them to vote and telling them what precinct they're in."
SLAB also will visit student organizations, living groups and classes to try to register more students. Bankston said she hoped that by visiting freshman honors tutorials and PRE 101, an orientation class, more freshmen would register to vote.
The group also will try to reach off-campus and nontraditional students using drop boxes in the Kansas Union and other high-traffic areas on campus. Though only Kansas registration cards will be available at the tables and drop boxes, Bankston said out-of-state students could download a federal form at the SLAB Web site so that students could register in their home states. Voting at home, however, is not
See GROUPS on page 7
Researchers, faculty bound by tutorial rule
Bv Jason Krall
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Some University of Kansas faculty members say KU expects too much from them.
They object to completing a new online tutorial the University requires of all researchers who deal with human subjects.
The tutorial fulfills a mandate from the National Institutes of Health, a federal organization that funds research at universities nationwide. The mandate requires that all researchers working on projects funded by NIH be trained in conducting research involving human subjects — including everything from medical tests to informal interviews.
The power-point style tutorial includes 100 slides of such information.
But the University will require the training for all research proposals involving people, whether or not they are funded by NIH.
"We wanted to apply the same standards to all of our researchers," said David Hann, coordinator of the Advisory Committee on Human Experimentation (ACHE).
ACHE must approve all research involving human subjects on campus. The new requirement applies to researchers proposing projects after Oct 1.
Norman Yetman, chairman of interdisciplinary studies, said it was unreasonable for the committee to require the same tutorial for researchers taking blood tests and doing medical examinations as for those who want to include findings from informal phone conversations in their research.
Students doing research involving human subjects are also required to take the tutorial. Professors wouldn't be able to answer questions from student researchers who had not completed it, Yetman said.
The tutorial is based on policies and procedures from Multiple Project Assurance, a federal document outlining ethical standards for human research.
Jama Lickeit, undergraduate coordinator for psychology, said she supported educating researchers on proper conduct in interviews and other human research — especially with graduate students reseaching using a pool of hundreds of Psychology 104 students.
"It's a good idea," she said. "If I was on the receiving end of an experiment, I'd want to know that the person conducting the experiment had done this kind of training."
Hann said he didn't think the measure was intrusive, especially since researchers could complete the tutorial online at their convenience.
"I don't think it's a big chunk of somebody's time," he said. "The idea is to educate people, to try to make it as easy as possible for people to do the right thing."
However, Hamm said he is concerned that graduate students with research proposals due shortly after Oct. 1, when the federal requirement takes effect, may not have time to complete the tutorial.
"This mandate came down in June, so we've had to deal with this on short notice," he said.
The tutorial can be found at www.research.ukans.edu/tutor.
— Edited by Clay McQuistion
Undergraduate Architecture program's future to be decided
Bv Jennifer Valadez
Kansan staff writer
The fate of KU School of Architecture will be finalized in two weeks.
Faculty and staff will be meeting soon to determine whether the school should eliminate the current undergraduate program and only provide a graduate curriculum.
John Gaunt, dean of architecture, said the transition would be a faculty decision.
"The architecture faculty will take
it under consideration and work on the program itself," Gaunt said. "The faculty sets the curriculum; it's really their determination."
Gaunt said faculty began considering the transition about 10 years ago, after seeing a national trend in adopting strictly graduate programs. He said the decision arose in the interest of the school's future.
"It came under discussion because we need to look into the future and do all the right things to determine the future of the school," Gaunt said.
Erin Himle, Hutchinson, Minn.
fourth-year architecture student.
said she didn't think the change would effect the current students.
"We're not sure how it's going to affect the degree we earn," she said. "As far as we know, we'll be fine."
James Gann, St. Joseph, Mo., fourth-year architecture student, said he didn't see anything wrong with the program becoming fully graduate as long as it didn't affect the futures of architecture students when they entered the professional world.
"I think it's a good idea as long as the students aren't hurt," he said. Gaunt said having a fully graduate
curriculum would change the length of the program from five years to six. But, he said students would benefit from a more expansive base of liberal arts subjects.
"There will be no impact on the current students," he said. "It will provide a broader understanding of the issues of the world at large."
Gaunt said the broader-based education would result in students attaining the characteristics that potential employers sought, such as good communication skills, comprehension of numerous issues and
leadership qualities.
Other Big 12 Conference schools that have adopted exclusively graduate architectural programs include Nebraska, Texas A&M and Colorado. Gaunt said the transitions at those schools went smoothly.
"Other schools have been able to transition without a problem," Gaunt said.
Gaunt said that faculty and staff of the school would meet in a couple weeks to make a final decision.
"We're at an appropriate juncture in examining the program and hope to get toward a decision," he said.
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- Edited by Kathryn Moore