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TUESDAY
SEPTEMBER 25,2001
ISSUE 22 VOLUME 112
Student stays in Lawrence for treatment
Magario needs dialysis for kidney disease but lacks insurance
By Luke Daley Kansan staff writer
Rachel Magaria was supposed to take a flight home to Brazil today to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant.
She decided to stay in Lawrence instead.
Magario, a Sau Paulo, Brazil, junior, suffers from glomerulosclerosis, a kidney disease that requires her to undergo dialysis treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital at least every other day.
Part of the problem is that Magario does not have health insurance. She said she did not renew her policy and was trying to find a provider to
"The question is, how much is my life worth? I have the right to live and the right to life."
"The question is, how much is my life worth?" Magario said. "I have the right to live and the right to life."
"The
She said she wanted to continue dialysis in place of a transplant so she could stay in school and remain close to her friends.
Rachel Magario
Sau Paulo,
Brazil, junior
Doctors are testing Magario's mother to see whether she can serve as a donor.
Magario will eventually need a new kidney but getting one depends on finding a match.
"The doctor said that as long as I had dialysis every other day, I could go to school." Magario said. "Here, I have my sister and a bunch of other people."
Magario, who is blind, said she preferred living in Lawrence more than Brazil.
"Over there, blind people don't have such an independent life," Magario said.
She said if she could not find another insurance company, she would have to ask the Kansas Dialysis Board to pay for the treatments.
However, Magario said the Kansas Dialysis Board didn't want to help with the money because they would be liable.
She said she was frustrated with the run-around and hoped some of the fund-raising efforts — including the Rachel Magario Benefit Fund, which was set up by the KU Brazilian Student Association through Commerce Bank — would help to pay for the ongoing treatment expenses.
Magario's academic adviser, Charles Marsh, associate professor of journalism, said he hoped Magario would get her insurance problem taken care of so she could receive the right medical treatment.
"She takes advice, but anybody who knows her knows she makes up her own mind," Marsh said. "She needs to continue to get dialysis, whether in the U.S. or in Brazil. Nothing else matters."
Katie Clark, Wichita senior and friend of Magario, said Magario should go wherever she could receive insurance coverage.
"I want to see her get to feeling better," Clark said. "She wasn't feeling very well last week, but she was upbeat. She's always that way, though.
"I think she wants to stay more than she wants to go back."
Arabs remain at KU—for now
Schools across nation lose Arab students as parents ask them to return home
By Eve Lamborn Kansan staff writer
Nationwide, about 100 students from Arab countries are reported to have returned home, including about 25 from the University of Missouri.
Despite concerned parents and threats on campus, no international students from the University of Kansas have left school to return home.
Joe Potts, director of International Student Services at the University of Kansas, said he knew of two KU students from Kuwait whose parents were urging them to come home, but he did not know of any
international students who had left yet.
He said that parental concern was common lately, and that the University was taking steps to reassure international students.
"We've been communicating regularly." Potts said. "We're making sure students know that we want to help and whatever they want to do is OK."
Potts said the University would not try to convince students to stay if they did not want to.
"That's a decision that they need to make on their own," he said. "We just let them know that we appreciate them and we're glad they're here."
Lt. Schuyler Bailey of the KU Public Safety Office said he had received four reports of harassment from Middle Eastern students since Sept. 11.
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"There would be someone in the crowd saying someone should go home," he said. "There have been no direct threats."
Nora Onizan, Irbid, Jordan, graduate student, said she would not consider going home because of the terrorist attacks. She said she hadn't received any threats, but she had noticed some people treating her differently.
Shafeeq Ghabra, representative for the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington, D.C., said the embassy was not urging students to go home.
"We have encouraged the students to stay," he said. "Their parents back home in Kuwait are more anxious than they are. Some would like to be together with their children."
University of Missouri police representative Jack Watring said university police had received four to five complaints of harassment since the attacks. The incidents ranged from telephone calls to direct encounters.
One University of Missouri medical student reported receiving a threatening
e-mail: "I'm happy to see the world turning against the Arab pigs of the world. We will kill you all."
Missouri College of Engineering Associate Dean Jay McGarragh said the United Arab Emirates was encouraging students to return home. All but three of the Missouri students from the Middle East who have left are from the United Arab Emirates.
At Washington State University, 47 students from the United Arab Emirates have left. Joe Potts said only one KU student was from the United Arab Emirates.
The American Council on Education reported that 40,000 students from the Middle East are studying in the United States.
- The Associated Press contributed to this story
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AND THE BEAT GOES ON
AABDN SHOWALTER/KANSAN
A gathering of drummers young and old provides a rhythmic treat for people downtown on a beautiful September evening. Participants said they hoped the jam session last night in front of C & C Drum and Guitar, 1023 Massachusetts St., would become a regular event.
Teachers profit from sale of free books
Promotional texts sold to unaware consumers
By Brent Briggeman Kansan staff writer
It didn't take Lisa Loewen long to realize she paid $41.95 for a book that never should have been on the shelves.
But Loewen, Topeka graduate student in journalism, didn't open it until she had already left Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road.
The orange words saying the book was a "free copy" for faculty was printed all over the first page.
The book Loewen purchased was intended to be a complimentary copy, a sample book likely sent from a publishing company in hopes of a professor using it for a class.
The book was not intended for student use and was not supposed to be sold for profit.
Loewen couldn't use the book because it was a different edition than the one used in class.
"It was no different than any other book," Loewen said. "It had a used book sticker and was on the shelf with all the other books for the class."
Loewen was one of three KU students taking a Mass Media and Popular Culture class to buy a teacher's edition book.
Ann Brill, associate professor of journalism who teaches the class with fewer than 20 students, said she had never encountered such a problem in her teaching career.
"I've never known of a teacher who sells back the free books they get," she said. "It's just too bad for the student because they not only get a textbook they can't use, but they can't sell it back either."
Brill explained the problem to McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, which sent new books to replace the teacher's editions. Jayhawk Bookstore, where all three books were purchased, said professors and students were responsible for keeping such books out of circulation.
"The teachers make the decision to sell these books to used book collectors, and the students make the decision to buy them," said Keith Kielman, textbook manager at Jayhawk Bookstore. "When we order 50 books from a used book dealer, we don't know exactly what we'll get with each book. The students want used books, so we provide as many as we can for them."
Before the books get to the bookstore, they are sent to the professors, some by request and some unsolicited. Some companies request that the professors return the books after viewing them, but most give out the books as a gift.
Used bookstores send representatives to campuses once or twice a year to offer the books to the professors. Even though most of the textbooks come with a letter explaining the books are not to be sold, clearly some professors ignore the warning to pocket a profit.
It comes down to an ethical question for the professors, one which Russell Shafer-Landau, associate professor of philosophy who teaches ethics, said had two sides to it.
"If the teacher requests the books, then they have a responsibility to the company not to distribute it," Shafer-Landau said. "But if the book just shows up on the professor's door, then they're not doing anything wrong by allowing someone to use it."
"It's just too bad for the student because they not only get a textbook they can't use, but they can't sell it back either."
Ann Brill
Associate professor of journalism
However, Shafer-Landau said it would be unethical in all cases for a professor to profit from a book given as a promotional gift.
He said the unethical behavior leaves money in professor's pockets, and students like Lisa Loewen scrambling to find another textbook.
"This worked out because the publisher is working with us," Loewen said. "But if they hadn't, I would have had to buy another book because the book company would never buy it back."
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