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TUESDAY AUGUST 27, 2002
Union changes bring businesses
By Doyle Murphy Kansan staff writer
Haircuts, plane tickets and cell phones are among the new products and services coming to the Kansas Memorial Union this fall.
Great Clips and a soon-to-be-named cell phone company will open in remodeled space previously occupied by the Hawk's Nest on the third floor of the Kansas Union.
STA Travel will move into the location vacated by Mail Boxes Etc. on the fourth floor. Although no official dates have been set, the businesses hope to open before Nov. 1.
Steve Curd, vice president and part owner of Carpe Diem Inc., said his company owns seven Great Clips in Lawrence, the Kansas City area and Paola, but a campus location was unique.
"It's the first anywhere in the country." Curd said. "It's a big test, experiment."
Each business signed three-year leases with two one-year renewal options. The deal is expected to bring in $15,000 to the Union, said David Mucci, director of KU Memorial Unions. He said the $20,000 needed to remodel the space came out of the Union's standard operating budget.
"There won't be any budget overruns on this at all," Mucci said.
Austin Turner, Shawnee junior, said the convenient location of the new businesses won't lure him away from his local barber shop.
"There's already like four places on Mass, that are pretty cheap." Turner said. "I'm sure lots of people could use it, just not me."
If the new businesses do not bring students to the
Union, David Johnston, marketing coordinator for KU Memorial Unions, said he hoped the opening of the new Hawk's Nest would. The Hawk's Nest, now located on the first floor, features a big screen for movies or sporting events, an outdoor patio and Wheat Wavers, a snack bar.
Eric Braem/Kansan
The Hawk's Nest is part of Phase III of a plan to renovate the Union that began in 1988.
The $5.6 million project includes a new central stairway, a covered walkway to the parking garage and added office space for Organizations and Leadership Development. Phase III is scheduled to be completed by the middle of October.
Contact Murphy at dmurphy@kansan.com. This story was edited by Adam Pracht.
Students will soon be able to get a haircut and plan a spring break trip — all in one trip to the Kansas Union. Several new businesses, including Great Clips and STA Travel, are set to move into the Union when construction is completed.
Med Center offers new cancer treatment
By Lindsay Hanson Kansan staff writer
In terms of cancer treatment, the University of Kansas Medical Center has caught up with other academic treatment centers across the country.
this June, the school began treating patients with intensity modulated radiation therapy, IMRT, which minimizes side effects by pinpointing cancerous tumor cells to the millimeter. Older radiation equipment—the only form of treatment at many nonacademic hospitals—uses one sweeping radiation beam to destroy cancer cells.
IMRT technology uses a computer to define a tumor as a three-
dimensional object, painting its contours with radiation beams as closely as possible to avoid affecting healthy cells.
Although nonacademic hospitals have not caught on to the IMRT trend, university treatment centers have been using it for awhile, said Fen Wang, instructor in the department of radiation oncology.
"Most academic institutions already had this technology ten years ago," he said.
But the University is still ahead of schools in Kansas.
Wang said the only imRT machine in the state was at Kansas City Cancer Centers-Southwest, 12200 W. 110th St., Overland Park. The Varian SmartBeam IMRT Web
site lists 98 institutions nationwide that apply IMRT. However the listings are voluntary and incomplete, and neither of the Kansas locations appear on the list.
Adding IMRT technology to a radiation therapy machine costs about $500,000, said Rajendra Kurup, director of medical physics and spearhead of the campaign to bring IMRT to the Med Center. He said the Med Center's new machine cost about $1.5 million with IMRT.
"It's like getting air conditioning in your car or leaving it out," Kurup said.
"Tylonel is good, but you don't give
Tylonel for every disease."
Not all cancer patients qualify for IMRT, Kurup said.
Before IMRT, a person with tongue cancer would suffer dryness in the mouth, said Leela Krishnan, professor and chairwoman of the department of radiation oncology at the Med Center. She said the patient would be seated between two radiation beams, one coming from either side of the mouth. As the beams pass through the cheeks, they would vaporize cells in the parotid, or salivary, glands, Krishnan said.
"Compare it to Tylenol," he said.
Contact Hanson at ihanson@kansan.com.This story was edited by Chris Wintering and Amy Schmitz.
New Med Center dean implements changes
By Lindsay Hanson Kansan staff writer
When the University of Kansas Medical Center lost its dean of medicine and the chairman of the same school last year, the school faced a dilemma.
Because of budget constraints, the school could fill only one position at the time, said Glen Cox, the school's senior associate dean for academic and educational affairs.
"You have to decide whether to recruit a chair or recruit a dean, and the school went with the dean," he said.
That new dean is Barbara Atkinson, who took office as the executive dean and vice chancellor of the School of Medicine Aug. 1. Atkinson will earn $292,055 this year, matching the salary of her predecessor, Deborah Powell.
That seems like a large salary, said Kevin Boatright, the associate executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, but 43 percent of that comes from sources outside of state funding.
"A good chunk of that is funds that come from grants written in support of that or from the Endowment Association," Boatright said.
Atkinson said her primary goal was to work on forging new partnerships between different Med Center campuses and the hospital at the campus in Kansas City, which is under independent public authority.
Cox said that the partnership would produce better Kansa health care providers.
"Barbara brings the opportunity to improve our ability to train residents by providing health care to Kansans through partnerships." Cox said.
KU implementing changes. First, she appointed Cox to the senior associate dean position, who will now oversee admissions and curriculum development. Atkinson also appointed Joan Hunt, research scientist in human reproduction, to become the senior assistant dean for research.
Atkinson began her tenure at
In addition to forging new partnerships, Atkinson said she looked forward to dealing with other challenges this year.
"We're going to have some issues with managing the state budget, just like every other department," she said.
Even with budget problems. Atkinson said she would expand life sciences research at the Wichita branch. She also said she wanted to do more joint projects on neurosciences, cancer and human development in aging with the School of Allied Health and the School of Nursing. Also, Atkinson said she wanted to expand clinical programs and build on the human genome project that focuses on decoding DNA.
Atkinson served as dean at the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia from 1996 to 1999. She said she worked the school through bankruptcy problems and left afterward to find an institution that was more financially stable.
Her first leadership position at a university came in 1978 when she became director of the University of Pennsylvania's cytopathology laboratory, which specialized in cancer diagnosis.
Contact Hanson at ihanson@kansan.com This story was edited by Matt Gehrke, Amy Schmitz and Sarah Hill.
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