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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014
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The new lecture space in Marvin Hall was designed by architecture graduate students and features a green wall. Although construction on the addition to the building is complete, students are working on the design's final touches.
Marvin addition nearly complete
KYLE HICKS
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A class of architecture students have designed and built an innovative addition to Marvin Hall.
This year's class project, known as The Forum, consists of a new lecture hall and student commons that replaced the second floor jury room, extending from the south elevation of Marvin Hall.
The class is called Studio 804.
a year-long program which gives students a full experience of the design and construction process through a cumulative project.
Dan Rockhill, an architecture professor, said they chose to build a new 121-seat lecture hall to allow for larger classes.
"Twenty-three classes needed to be taken outside of the architecture school due to a lack of seats provided in Marvin Hall," Rockhill said.
All 18 of Studio 804's students began designing the project last August with the need for a lecture hall in mind. Rockhill said the actual construction began by fall break with the foundations finished around winter break. Rockhill also noted that due to the magnitude of the project, 12 students stayed and worked on The Forum over summer break.
"Not only will The Forum be a nice place to study and attend class, but I think architecture students considering enrolling here will want to be a part of something as great as this," said Perry Weber, a second-year student from Chicago in the architecture program.
Construction on the addition is complete, but students are working on final touches.
— Edited by Kelsey Phillips
Students donate blood on campus
MAEGAN BULL
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Someone needs blood every two seconds, according to the American Red Cross. All week long, University students have had a chance to participate in the blood drives happening across campus.
These blood drives have been hosted by both the American Red Cross, a nonprofit organization that services the entire United States, and the Community Blood Center, another nonprofit organization dedicated to serving Kansas City and the surrounding areas, including Lawrence.
When freshman Tim Svoboda, a first-time donor from St. Louis decided to donate blood to the Community Blood Center, he decided to donate only red blood cells. This process involves the separation of plasma, red blood cells and platelets in a machine which then keeps the red blood cells but returns the plasma and platelets to your body.
His advice to people who are thinking about donating is to "just do it and make sure to eat a lot the same day"
According to the American Red Cross website, they service more than 3,000 hospitals and make up 40 percent of the blood distribution in the United States with smaller blood centers and companies making up the rest. Bloodcenters.org states that an average blood transfusion uses 2.7 pints of blood and goes on to state that every one in seven people going to the hospital are in need of blood.
preshman Kendal LeBar, from Phoenix, also said to "just do it" because "it's for a good cause and it's not painful."
After the blood drives wrap up on Friday, the collection of blood will be sent to one of the many Red Cross and Community Blood Center locations where the blood will then be spun in a machine to separate the plasma, red blood cells, and platelets.
"Just do it... It's for a good cause and it's not painful."
KENDAL LEBAR Freshman from Phoenix
The test tubes of blood that were also gathered during the donation process will be sent to the lab for testing, according to the Red Cross.
The website states lab technicians will look for things like blood type and diseases. If any diseases are found, the blood will be disposed of and the donor will be given a call letting he or she know what was discovered. If the blood is free from diseases it will distributed to hospitals.
This will be the last opportunity to donate blood on campus until next spring.
Edited by Logan Schlossberg
Ebola-infected passenger was sent home from ER
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DALLAS — The airline passenger who brought Ebola into the U.S. initially went to a Dallas emergency room last week but was sent home, despite telling a nurse that he had been in disease-ravaged West Africa, the hospital said Wednesday in a disclosure that showed how easily an infection could be missed.
The decision by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to release the patient, who had recently arrived from Liberia, could have put others at risk of exposure to Ebola before the man went back to the ER a couple of days later, when his condition worsened.
A day after the diagnosis was confirmed, a nine-member team of federal health officials was tracking anyone who had close contact with him after he fell ill on Sept. 24. The group
of 12 to 18 people included three members of the ambulance crew that took the man to the hospital and a handful of schoolchildren.
They will be checked every day for 21 days, the disease's incubation period.
"That's how we're going to break the chain of transmission, and that's where our focus has to be," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press Wednesday.
The CDC reminded the nation's health care providers to ask patients with symptoms if they've traveled recently. The American College of Emergency Physicians planned to alert its members as well.
The patient explained to a nurse last Thursday that he was visiting the U.S. from Africa, but that information was not widely shared, said Dr.
Mark Lester, who works for the hospital's parent company.
"Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated" throughout the medical team, Lester said. Instead, the man was diagnosed with a low-risk infection and sent home.
He was prescribed antibiotics, according to his sister, Mai Wureh, who identified her brother, Thomas Eric Duncan, as the infected man in an interview with The Associated Press.
Duncan has been kept in isolation at the hospital since Sunday. He was listed in serious but stable condition.
Hospital epidemiologist Dr. Edward Goodman said the patient had a fever and abdominal pain during his first ER visit, not the riskier symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea.
But the diagnosis, and the hospital's slip-up, highlighted
the wider threat of Ebola, even in places far from West Africa.
"The scrutiny just needs to be higher now," said Dr. Rade Vukmir, a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 7,100 people in West Africa and killed more than 3,300, according to the World Health Organization. Liberia is one of the three hardest-hit countries in the epidemic, along with Sierra Leone and Guinea.
In Texas, neither the ambulance crew nor the children showed any symptoms. They were restricted to home while their conditions are observed. It was not exactly clear how Duncan knew the children, but his sister said he had been visiting with family, including two nephews.
At an address listed for the family in Kannapolis, N.C., a
man who identified himself as Duncan's brother told reporters the family was "just stressed out."
Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus. The disease is not contagious until symptoms begin. It spreads only by close contact with a patient's bodily fluids.
The man left Liberia on Sept. 19, flying from Brussels to Dulles Airport near Washington. He then boarded a flight for Dallas-Fort Worth, according to airlines, and arrived the next day to see relatives.
He started feeling ill four or five days later, Frieden said.
The CDC sent a team to Monrovia's airport on Wednesday to make sure health officials there are screening passengers properly. All people traveling from the outbreak zone are
"There were no signs of any disease when the gentleman boarded the flight," said Dr. Tom Kenyon, director of the CDC's Center for Global Health. "This was not a failure of the screening process at the airport."
supposed to be checked for fever and asked about their travel history before being allowed to leave. Plastic buckets filled with chlorinated water for hand-washing are present throughout the airport.
Since the man was showing no symptoms on the plane, the CDC stressed that there is no risk to fellow passengers.
Tests designed to detect the virus in the bloodstream are not typically performed on people who don't yet have symptoms, because tests done too early may miss the diagnosis, Frieden said.
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