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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 11, 1992
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Candidate criticizes commission
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
The current Lawrence City Commission does not represent all citizens of the city and does not deal effectively with all of Lawrence's problems, said commission candidate Fred Markham.
At a news conference yesterday morning, Markham officially announced his candidacy for City Commission and outlined what he said he thought were the significant problems facing Lawrence.
Markham, 44, attended KU's School of Journalism from 1979 to 1981 and is
currently a teaching assistant in the psychology department.
Because Markham's speech is impaired by cerebral palsy, his attendant Cynthia Evans read his prepared statement.
In his statement, Markham accused the city commissioners of ignoring the needs of low-income areas of the city.
families of this town, from the uninformed victims of poverty to the educated. The rich, by contrast, have little interest in what I have to say. The majority of Lawrence citizens suffer under not only poor decision making by the commission, but in many cases outright indifference to their needs and ideas."
“Put simply, the City Commission of this town is misrepresenting you and me and making decisions of which we do not, democratically speaking, approve,” Markham’s statement said. “Over the past few months, I have talked to people ranging from university students to the middle-income
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Markham is the only person who has officially announced his candidacy for the City Commission. He was defeated in a City Commission race two years ago.
portation, recycling and the environment, employment and tax abatements. Markham said tax abatements, usually a 50-percent break on property taxes given over a 10-year period to large employers, should be available to small businesses in Lawrence.
Other issues outlined in Markham's statement included public trans-
"Small businesses must prosper in this town, and we must attract new businesses in order to maintain economic stability." Markham's statement said. "As commissioner, I would back large-business tax abating and emphasize small-business tax breaks."
Fred Markham of Lawrence works in front of his computer at home.
Physical therapist and athletic trainer Karen Loudon teaches Brian Call, Bouder, Colo, freshman, how to tape his wrist in the sports medicine clinic at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Sports clinic welcomes KU musicians, athletes needing specialized care
By Tiffany Lasha Hurt
Kansas staff writer
Student musicians with strained muscles from overuse or students with back problems are
Athletes are not the only ones who await treatment daily at the sports medicine clinic at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"We see a lot of things that don't really happen in sports, but they are a joint-strain muscle type of problem," said Mike Chapman, head physical therapist of student health services.
About 20 students a day, athletes and nonathletes alike, have been treated at the clinic since its opening seven years ago.
An interest in sports medicine prompted Chapman and Lawrence Magee, coordinator of the sports medicine clinic, to launch the clinic in Fall 1985.
"We thought it would give the students a little bit more specialized care." Magee said.
He said the majority of the students treated at the clinic were intercollegiate athletes and patients involved in athletic activities on their own.
The purpose of the clinic is four-fold
to diagnose the patient's injury;
- to enter patients into a rehabilitation period and inform them how to prevent future injuries;
- to learn more about the types of injuries the student population endures;
to separate the physical injury patients from those with infections.
"We wanted to have a special clinic to address the needs of the students," Chapman said. "We felt like they could be better addressed if we turned it into a special Clinic. And we would also get better at it. We're better now than we were in '85."
Before the clinic opened, there was not a separate department for patients with sports injuries, Chapman said. Patients had to sit in the lobby next to infectious patients with coughs or illnesses until a physician was available.
Before 1985, sports medicine was a part of the physical therapy department at Watkins. Physical therapy injuries treated at Watkins include burns, neurological disorders and orthopedic problems.
"Sports medicine is only about 10 percent to 15 percent of that whole field," Chapman said of physical therapy. "But because of the clientele here, we see mostly sports medicine patients."
But the clinic does not see all of the patients with physical injuries, Magee said. Some of the patients are treated in the general health department, and some students are referred from general health to the clinic.
Patients of the clinic mainly are treated by Magee, but Chapman and other physicians help out. Students from the University of Kansas Medical Center work in the clinic on occasion.
Students who need treatment from the clinic should get to Watkins early. The clinic is open from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday. Magee said that the hours were limited because he also was a physician at the general medical clinic at Watkins.
Chapman said the continuity of care at the clinic was important.
"It's more than getting through the acute phase of getting hurt and providing treatment," he said. "We try to teach them how to do things differently to prevent the injuries from happening again."
Advocate for homeless emphasizes compassion, friendship
Kansan staff writer
Michael Stoops, a national representative for the National Coalition for the Homeless, put a face on the homeless problem during a speech last night.
By Lynne McAdoo
Stoops spoke to an audience of about 30 people last night in the Big Eight Room at the Kansas Union as part of Homeless Awareness Week.
He gave several anecdotes about some of his best friends who are homeless and tried to communicate the urgency of the homeless problem.
"Homelessness is a growing problem," he said. "More people care for stray animals than for stray people."
kitchens. He thought people had to live among the homeless in order to understand and help them, he said.
Stoops has been a homeless-rights advocate for the last 20 years. During the first 17 years, he said, he lived in emergency shelters and soup
Stoops encouraged government, businesses and charities to get involved in solving the homeless problem.
"No one should have two homes until everyone has one," he said.
Tony Yaghmour, founder of the KU Homeless Coalition said, "Since we are a new coalition I hope he inspired and motivated our new members. I would like to see them get involved in lifetime goals and projects. I would like to see this University, in the long run, form a state coalition."
levels to the homeless problem—local, state and national,” he said. “Yes, there are 200 to 300 homeless in Lawrence, but there are 2 million to 3 million in the country. He reminds us of the larger problem and some of the structural causes of homelessness.”
Russ Testa, Topeka senior, said he thought Stoops focused attention on the national problem of homelessness.
"I think there are a lot of different
Stoops said the only way students could help the homeless was by reaching out and offering friendship.
"They need to personally get to know homeless people as friends," Stoops said. "They need to remember the goal is not to be rich, famous and successful but to help others. I see a greater altruism in college students."
Michael Stoops, of the National Coalition for the Homeless, delivers a speech as part of Homeless Awareness Week.
Students help KU employees learn to read
Stoops also criticized Sen. Nancy Kassebaum for not voting for the McKinney Emergency Shelter Program, which gives more than $1 billion to emergency shelters across the country. He praised Sen. Bob Dole for his support of the program.
Bv Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas took a step this summer to promote literacy by establishing a program that would teach its employees to read and write with the help of student tutors.
The program, called Partners in Learning, was previously financed by a two-year non-renewable federal grant and is now partially financed by Liberal Arts and Sciences and the executive vice chancellor's office.
KU students who enroll in Tutoring for Literacy class act as tutors for the program. Nine students are enrolled this semester.
Nan Hill, classification analyst for Human Resources, said that a pilot program started last spring was successful enough for the administration to continue it after the grant ran out.
"Istead of dropping the program, we realized that there is a group of employees at the University who attended classes with the tutoring experience," she said.
About 35 employees signed up to be part of the program, but only 26 could be accommodated because of the limited number of tutors.
Hill said about 25 percent of the national population could not read or
Diana Bolton, coordinator of the program and the class instructor, said that to her knowledge, the University was the first in the nation to have an in-house literacy program.
"KU has a training program for college students in which they apply what they learn with the KU employees that they tutor," she said. "So it involves the entire University community."
Bolton said she would like more students to enroll in the class next semester to make the program effective. Only five students have enrolled for next semester, she said.
She said the class was demanding and required commitment.
"It is a lot of work and a tremendous responsibility because other people's lives are involved," she said.
Employees meet with their student tutors twice a week for about an hour and a half. The employees can take the students on a schedule to be tutored on campus.
Jolene Fairchild, budget officer for the college, said it cost about $18,000 to finance the class, including salaries and computer and supply costs.
Jason Fletes, an Overland Park junior who is enrolled in the class, tutors two employees. He said the class gave him personal experience with people who needed help.
"It opened my eyes to the problems that thousands of adults have, as far as not being able to read or write," he said.
Suzan Moody, a graduate student from Greencastle, Ind., said she would continue tutoring after the class was over and would recommend it to students.
One 45 year-old KU employee, who did not want to be identified, said the program helped him improve his reading skills.
"I got to see a different part of America," she said. "The class has its ups and downs, but there is an overall feeling of being positive, and that pushes us all on."
He said he could now read some of the sports magazines he always wanted to read. He said he intended to stay in the program as long as it lasted.
"I won't get out of the class until they drop it," he said. "I believe I missed out on a lot of things in life because I could not read or write."
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