4A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
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MONDAY,AUG.20,2001
Kansas Union renovated during the summer
THAD ALLENDER/KANSAN
New computer lab, food court, shop open for students
Among the many new renovations in the Kansas Union is the The Hawk Shop, a full service convenience store that offers students everything but gas. THAD ALLENDER/KANSAN
Jeremy Clarkson
Kansan Staff Writer
The Hawk Shop, a new convenience store in the Kansas Union, is open and ready for business.
The last phase of the Union renovations began late last spring, when the Information Center was moved to begin construction of the Hawk Shop. The Hawk Shop is on the fourth floor and is open 23-hours a day, said Mike Reid, KU Bookstore director.
Reid said the Hawk Shop would supply more items than the Information Center, such as pens, pencils, cameras, batteries and blue books.
He said he hoped students would be able to get supplies they needed when the bookstores were closed.
During the summer, a 24-hour computer lab was also set up on the fourth floor of the Union. Pat Beard, Building Services Director, said students wanting to use the computer lab when the Union was closed would need their KUID to get into the building. He said students would scan their KUID
and enter through the convenience store.
Beard said the store would benefit students.
"Now students can have a place in the late hours to have access to computers, coffee, sandwiches and anything you can think of," he said.
Beard said the food court had also been remodeled. The Market replaced the Hawk's Nest and will have a Burger
King; the Carvery; cafeteria food; Mill Valley, which will serve salads; and Peppersticks, which will alternate between Mexican and Asian foods.
Not everyone is pleased with the renovations, however. Because of construction of a new staircase, the Jaybowl will remain closed throughout the school year.
took a bowling class last spring and went to the Jaybowl frequently. He said he was upset it would be closed.
Jesse Atwell, Verdi junior.
"I'm depressed, because now if I want to bowl I have to go somewhere else and not get my money's worth," Atwell said.
Clarkson can be reached at 864-4810 or
writer@kansan.com
South African activist, editor remembered
Associated Press Writer
LONDON — Donald Woods, a veteran South African newspaper editor and apartheid opponent whose activism was chroniced in the movie "Cry Freedom," died yesterday following a long battle with cancer. He was 67.
Woods was the founder and editor of the Daily Dispatch newspaper in South Africa. His opposition to apartheid angered authorities and eventually forced him into exile.
He was a close friend of Steve Biko, a leader of South
Africa's Black Consciousness movement who died in detention after being tortured by apartheid-era security police. Their relationship was presented in the 1987 Richard Attenborough film "Cry Freedom."
Daily Dispatch staff and family members said Woods died yesterday at the Royal Marsden hospital in Sutton, just south of London.
Woods edited the Daily Dispatch from 1965 to 1977, when he was gagged by the government and placed under effective house arrest. He
escaped in 1978 by disguising himself as a priest and slipping past police guarding his home.
Woods fled to Britain where he waged a campaign for South African democracy through lecture tours and news articles.
South Africa's High Commissioner in London, Cheryl Carolus, described Woods yesterday as a "truly great son of South Africa."
In 1978, Woods became the first private citizen invited to address the U.N. Security Council. He also served as a consultant on South Africa to
the European Union and the Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies.
Woods was honored last year by Queen Elizabeth II for his human rights work.
Woods is survived by his wife of 59 years, Wendy, 60, three sons, two daughters and two granddaughters.
A funeral service is to be held in central London at an as-yet undetermined date, followed by a private cremation. The family will escort Woods' ashes back to his home in East London, South Africa, for burial.
Pharmacist worries one incident casts doubts on profession
Felony at pharmacy shouldn't spook KU
By Laurie Harrison
Kansan staff writer
Despite the much-publicized story of a Kansas City pharmacist charged with diluting life-saving drugs, students shouldn't be worried about similar problems at Watkins Memorial Health Center, University of Kansas officials said last week
The case of the Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist charged with
ing and adulteration of a drug is unusual, said Cathy Thrasher, chief pharmacist at Watkins.
"I it's aberrant behavior. I I'm appalled by it." Thrasher sai d, adding that she had never heard of this happening during her 26 years of practicing pharmacy.
Jack Fincham, dean of the pharmacy school, said the possibility of chemotheraphy drugs being diluted was a tragedy. Such an action not only could have shortened the life of critically ill patients, but also damages the reputation of the pharmacy profession, he said.
also inspects Watkins' procedures during its yearly audit, she said.
"It just decreases and diminishes the trust factor that is so important for health professionals to have." Fincham said.
University official's attest students of accuracy of medicine at Watkins
JAMIE ROPER/KANSAN
Thrasher said even though Watkins did not prescribe chemotherapy drugs, Watkins personnel checked each prescription for accurate dosage, labeling and price before students received it.
On Tuesday, federal prosecutors charged the pharmacist, Robert R. Courtney, with a felony for diluting chemotherapy drugs. Courtney graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1975.
The state board of pharmacy
Jennifer and Julie Shapiro,
Overland Park freshmen, said
the Courtney case didn'tmake them distrust Watkins. They received services at Watkins on Friday and said they planned to use Watkins during their college years.
Fincham said the school of pharmacy provided opportunities for students to
Students also discuss ethics in nearly every pharmacy course. Six student organizations also deal with professionalism, ethics and patient care, he said.
address
pharma-
ceutical
ethics.
Fincham said even though the offense of diluting drugs was unheard of during his 25 years in pharmacy, the profession was like any other field.
"In any profession, you're only as good as your weakest link," he said.
Harrison can be reached at 864-4810 or write@kanan.com
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