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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Nov. 4. 1985
Centennial celebration
Alan Hagman/KANSAN
Catherine Bennett Anderson, left, the oldest living KU Alphi Chi Omega alumna at age 86, chats with Ruth Miller Winsor and Lucille Evans Oxandale at a luncheon at the Adams Alumni Center. The three women graduated in 1922. The sorority celebrated its 100th anniversary over the weekend.
Halloween visitors swipe man's coffin
By a Kansan reporter
Trick-or-treaters passing by 3109 Ranger Ave. received a trick when they saw a picture of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team in a coffin or a Halloween display Robert Peppard up Thursday in front of his home.
"Trick or treat" is the motto of Halloween. But for one Lawrence man, that motto went awry Friday.
"We're not really sports fans, but we have some relatives in St. Louis, and we thought we'd send them a picture of the coffin telling them we were thinking about them," he said yesterday.
But People, owner of Everything But Ice, 616 Vermont St., woke up tricked when he found the coffin missing the next morning, he said.
People said he had placed the coffin, worth about $300, in the back of his pickup truck after he took the display down Thursday night. Sometimes between 12:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. Friday, the coffin was stolen.
He reported the theft to the Lawrence Police Department on Sunday.
"I'm not really that angry, and I'm not so old that I don't see the prankishness in it," he said. "It was stolen and I'd like to have it back.
"Someone took it as a praak, just
in case we set it up as a praak. I'd be
tucked in for the day."
He said he regularly sold coffins to customers who used them as pranks or as gun cabinets. One customer bought a coffin to use as a motorcycle trailer, he said.
On Campus
The Strat-o-matic Baseball Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in Parlor C of the Kansas Union.
■ Amnesty International will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the Wheat Room of the Union.
KU Sword & Shield will meet at 8 p.m. today in the Walnut Room of the Union.
The KU Men's Soccer Club will practice at 4 p.m. tomorrow and
Thursday at the soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
The KU Women's Soccer Club will practice at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday at the soccer fields at 23rd and Iowa streets.
A Biblical seminar, "The Bible today: A basic overview" will be at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Students taking pharmacology courses at the University of Kansas Medical Center next year may be able to spend more time at home, according to the chairman of the department of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics.
Pharmacy courses may be on disks
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
The department, which uses a computer-assisted teaching system (CATS), is planning to make courses available on computer disks next year for students to buy at the Med Center bookstore, Edward Walaszek, chairman of the department, said last week.
Computer-aided instruction has been used at the Med Center for the past 12 years to teach pharmacology to about 200 medical students, 120 nursing students, 36 graduate students and 30-150 practicing physicians each year.
Although 32 computers are available for students to use between 8 a.m. and 3 a.m. daily, Walaszek said, many students want to use the programs on their home computers.
He said that about 30 students had telephone modems to connect with the main computer but that only three telephone lines were available.
So everyone wants to use it at 8 in the morning and they can't," Walaszek said. "Not many can get into an open line."
He said other universities that used the CATS had made disks available to students through a
library. However, he said his department would rather sell the disks.
"You know how students are," he said. "They put their coffee on it, the mayonnaise on their sandwich. . .
"If they buy it, they might be more careful about putting the coffee stains and the mayonnaise on the table."
Walaszek said the program at the Med Center was the world's largest computer-based independent study program.
The CATS teaches about 100 pharmacology courses, he said, although not all of them have been taken.
The lessons vary from 20 to 45 minutes and are divided into four types: self-study, case histories, laboratory exercises and review questions. The department has almost abolished lectures.
"I don't teach lectures," Walaszek said. "Students come in to lectures and just fail asleep because they can't do it."
Walaszek said the pharmacology department gave a few lectures on material that would grab her interest.
Joy Diamond, Overland Park nurs student, said most students skipped the lectures and learned the material from the computer or from textbooks.
She said the computer aided instruction was a welcome change from reading books.
"Because right there in front of you are a lot of programs that apply to a hospital setting," she
Walzsak said the CATS was an effective way to teach. According to a study by the National Library of Medicine, the number of "A" and "B" cases decreased significantly among students who used the CATS.
However, computer aided instruction didn't seem to help students who were unmotivated and likely to fail in other courses.
"I wish it could help them, but so far it's been unable to."
"They're losers," Walaszek said. "They don't want to be helped anyway, at least not by the time Wang came."
said. "There are clinical situations."
Besides pharmacology, computers have been used for $4\frac{1}{2}$ years to help teach anatomy, said Stanley Nelson, professor and chairman of the department of anatomy. He said the physiology and biochemistry departments also had a few computer programs.
Other universities have adopted the CATS, however.
Walaszek said he couldn't predict whether CATS would be established in other departments.
"Sometimes you have to drag them screaming into the 20th century," he said.
School leaders will learn about asbestos
More than 65 domestic and foreign schools are members of the CATS Consortium, which was started at the Med Center in 1974 to share the philosophy and teaching materials of CATS, Walaszek said.
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Asbestos awareness will be stressed to Kansas school administrators at a KU National Asbestos Training Center conference Nov. 12-13 at the Wichita Hilton Imp-Airport.
Sandra Hick, program manager,
said yesterday that the conference
would teach school administrators
how to address asbestos problems.
Hick said the conference would inform school board members, school administrators, maintenance supervisors and asbestos abatement coordinators how to assess and solve asbestos problems in their buildings
The KU National Asbestos Training Center was established in October 1984. Through the Environmental Protection Agency, Congress gave KU and schools in Boston and Atlanta money to finance asbestos centers. KU's center is run by the division of continuing education.
Wallace May, associate dean of the division of continuing education, said participants in the conference would be informed of the hazards of asbestos.
Asbestos, a known carcinogen, was once a common insulator for buildings. Since its hazards have become known, school administrators have increased efforts to remove it from classrooms.
Hick said asbestos removal still was going on in many schools. She said that in certain cases the asbestos could stay but that it had to be sealed.
Part of the conference, Hick said, would deal with how to seal and map the asbestos so it could be dealt with properly in the future.
Hick said some of the speakers at the conference would be from state agencies that were responsible for asbestos issues. A representative of the state attorney general's office also was supposed to attend to discuss legal questions concerning the removal of asbestos.
Wolfgang Brandner, asbestos director for the regional EPA office in Kansas City, Mo. was one of the experts scheduled to attend.
Brandner, who spoke at the KU center's conference in Iowa, said he planned to give a comprehensive study on asbestos problem in Kansas schools.
He said 76 percent of the secondary schools in Kansas inspected by the EPA since 1983 were in violation of the asbestos-in-schools rule.
The asbestos-in-schools rule requires secondary schools to post warnings if asbestos is present in a form that poses health hazards.
Brandner said he also would inform school officials on where to look for asbestos. He said asbestos was
not only in insulation but in some sound-proofing material and even in
Hicks said the conference came about after a meeting last spring of EPA Region 7 officials. Region 7 consists of school officials from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri
KU's center also will be the host of a regional safety training session Dec. 2-5 in Arizona.
would train persons involved in the removal of asbestos. He said architects, school administrators and contractors would attend the two day conference.
He said the training session would include detailed presentations on asbestos health effects and worker safety precautions. Participants would learn how to use respirators and other safety gear and how to monitor air quality at job sites.
May said the December session
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PICNIC
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.,
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Adults $5.50
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9:30 a.m., Saturday, November 9
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