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Paula Richardson, Lawrence senior, checks out the "Hybrid Twist" sculpture created by David Vertacnik, associate professor of design. More than 30 works of the design department's faculty will be on display until Friday, Nov.16, in the Art and Design Building gallery.
KC officials advise end to anthrax antibiotics
The Associated Press
The advisory comes after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines saying that merely finding traces of anthrax does not warrant taking antibiotics.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 250 workers and recent visitors to a Kansas City postal facility where anthrax was found can stop taking precautionary antibiotics, health officials said yesterday.
City and state health officials had advised the medications after tests at the underground Stamp Fulfillment Service center last week were positive for small amounts of anthrax.
No one has been infected, and officials have stressed that the public is in no danger.
Officials had suggested the employees and visitors continue taking the drug Doxycycline until hearing otherwise.
"We have determined that no employee or visitor to Stamp Fulfillment Services was at risk for inhalation anthrax," said Rex Archer, director of the Kansas City Health Department. "Therefore, we will follow the CDC's latest guidelines ... and recommend that these individuals immediately stop taking the medication."
Additional tests announced Wednesday turned up no new anthrax spores at the center—the nation's clearinghouse for the first-day cancellations prized by many stamp collectors.
The latest tests showed that the contamination was extremely small, said Maureen Dempsey, the director of the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
Officials still are waiting for the results of tests taken outside the structure, which is located in a cave near the Worlds of Fun theme park. Dempsey said those results would not be available until today at the earliest.
Choir to celebrate 25th anniversary
Inspirational Gospel Voices, a gospel choir, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a performance at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Victory Bible Church, 1942 Massachusetts St.
By Jessica Tims Special to the Kansan
Group member Howard Franklin II, Olathe sophomore, said the performance would feature alumni from the past 25 years as well as current choir members.
Franklin said Inspirational
Gospel Voices choir was originally named the Black Student Union Gospel Choir, which was formed by a group of students at the Ninth Street Baptist Church in 1976. The name of the group was changed to Inspirational Gospel Voices in 1985 or 1986.
"Gospel music is a critical part of the African-American culture," Baily said. "Most universities have a gospel choir and the University of Kansas deserved to have a choir, too."
Timothy Bailey, 1980 KU graduate, was working as the choir director at the Ninth Street Baptist Church when the group was formed. He said the choir was started to fill a need at KU.
have a choice.
Alison Case Franklin,
Wentzville, Mo., senior, said the group had been planning the anniversary performance since June and had tried to inform choir alumni of the event.
"We send letters to those we know and it has been a chain
effect," Case Franklin said. "It is going to be interesting to see how many people have received the invitations."
Case Franklin said any choir alumni was welcome to take part in the anniversary performance.
Tomorrow's performance is free to the public. For more information, e-mail inspirational_gospel_voices@hotmail.com.
Contact Tims at 864-4810
Senate plans 'better' KU Open House
By Paul Smith
Kansan staff writer
A larger and more successful KU Open House is being envisioned just one month after the University of Kansas held its first event.
event. The Open House played a major part in a discussion of University outreach and increasing KU's profile within the state during the University Senate meeting yesterday.
ing yesterday. Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for University Relations, said that the Open House in October was an example of the
Margey Frederick, associate director of admissions and coordinator of the KU Visitor Center, said that the University was not good at promoting itself. She had coordinated the Open House last month.
dents involved," Frederick said. She outlined her idea for a student committee designated for the Open House that would function like the student committee for Homecoming.
"We will do another Open House, and we will do it better," Murgiaa said. "It will be a real anchor event in promoting this University."
more productive inter-campus communication and cooperation that she wanted to foster.
Frederick solicited council members' suggestions, and Student Senators offered their perspectives.
"My biggest concern was that we didn't have enough KU stu-
The council members' questions took a different track when Amy Cummins, president of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition, asked why the University was devoting money toward its public image as opposed to education.
Murguia, who served as a legislative lobbyist for the Clinton White House, said the University's educational reputation was comparable to Ivy League institutions.
"A lot of students didn't know what the Open House was about," said Katie Holman, Prairie Village senior and journalism senator. She said that students would be more likely to participate if they were better informed.
Contact Smith at 864-4810
Freshman recovering after fourth-floor fall
The 19-year-old KU student who fell out of a fourth-floor McCollum Hall window Oct. 19 is home from the hospital but is still in a lot of pain, he said.
By Courtney Craigmile Kansan staff writer
sun in our office,
Saad Saifeddine, Morocco
freshman, broke a bone in his
spine, ribs in his chest and back
and fractured his right shoulder
in the fall that happened about 3
a.m.
On Oct.19, ne was visiting friends on McCollum's fourth
floor. Saifedine said he went out the window to help someone who had been smoking on the ledge and was having trouble getting back into the room.
"All I remember was waking up in the hospital in the morning," he said. "I was expecting to wake up in my room, but I was in the hospital, and I couldn't move."
The KU Public Safety Office report said that Saifeddine had been drinking earlier that night, and alcohol might have played a role in the fall.
Saifeddine is staying off-campus with a friend, Marianne Hovgaard, Denmark senior, because he needs help doing certain things.
Saifeddine said he had two or
three beers around 8 p.m., after his midterm exam was finished. He said he was not drunk at any point that night.
makes it difficult to do even simple things.
things. The brace he wears covers his chest and stomach area, so it restricts his movement and makes it virtually impossible to get in and out of bed without assistance, Saifeddine said. His right arm is in a sling, which
pl thing
Hoygaard said she thought it was best for Saifeddine to be out of student housing while he recovers.
"We visited him at KU Med, and we realized it would be impossible for him to be at McCollum," she said. "Dorm life is not conducive to his condition."
Saifeddine does not have insurance, but his dad, who has insurance, was trying to work things out with the hospital.
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