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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 3, 1992
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Irene Lanier / KANSAN
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The Marching Jayhawks rehearse in the bleachers at Memorial Stadium. As high temperature neared 90 degrees yesterday afternoon, the band practiced for the pregame and halftime shows for the Kansas-Ball State football game Sent. 12.
Better late than never
KU student finally finds right career
By Joe Harder Kansan staff writer
A 49-year-old KU student has finally found her calling.
After postponing college for marriage and working for years as a secretary. Florence Middleton now nurses at the KU Medical Center.
Last spring, the fourth year nursing student was selected by the School of Nursing as its single nominee to be a national organization that supposes a
But the transition from secretary to student is one that has required some training.
"It been more of a challenge than I thought it would be," she said. "I've always been a good student, but I'm just so impressed by how much time you need to spend."
Being a Fuld Fellow afforded her the opportunity to travel expense-free to Vienna, Austria, in August for the Seventh International conference on
Cancer Nursing. Oncology, or the study of cancer, is Middleton's primary focus.
She was one of 50 nursing students to be selected from a nationwide pool of 300 nominees.
Rita Clifford, associate dean of the school, said that each school of nursing was allowed to nominate one student to the fellowship.
Changes in science fields have made much of what she learned in her high school courses irrelevant, Middleton said.
"I looked at my library for reference materials and nothing was current, I mean, things have changed so much," she said.
Waiting until age 45 to start a college education was not in Middleton's original plans. But her marriage was in the process of graduation in 1960 crimped her plans,
But she said she had always felt a natural affinity for helping people.
take care of them,' and that was my first thought of being a nurse. And then whenever someone would get hurt, they would call for me," she said. It was while working as a paralegal in the mid-1980s that nursing began to appeal to her as a career.
"In 1981 the AIDS epidemic hit, and thought. 'Maybe someone should
"I saw all the horror stories, the nurses that didn't pay attention to the mothers and let the IV tube drip too fast and too long and the child would die," she said. "My job was to type up the tape recording of the interview of that mother, and I was just distraught."
Although being out of school for nearly 28 years was an academic disadvantage, there were other advantages. Middleton said.
"I don't think I'm going to have burnout the way younger people might have because I've had a chance to have some other jobs in other fields," she said.
While earlier she would have been concentrating on climbing the career ladder, Middleton said that starting in life in had refocussed her priorities.
"Iwould be very satisfied just taking excellent care of the patients I have," she said.
Alternative newspaper publishes the bizarre
Student Senate reduces funding for Take This!
By Mark Martin Kansan staff writer
Which campus newspaper directs students to fruit trees around campus that can provide a safe dinner? Which campus newspaper offers a four-page pullout on the benefits of anarchy?
The newspaper is Take This!, published by the student organization Disorientation, which has been a Student Senate-funded group for seven years.
Gary Ashwill, graduate teaching assistant in English and one of the newspaper's editors, said Diorenation focused on alternative viewpoints and bizarre news.
"We look for weirder-radical-communist things of interest," he said. "Take This! tries to print things that challenge the status quo."
Disorientation will receive $1,341.96 year from Senate. But last spring *Take This!* was almost taken away.
In March, when Senate was finalizing its budget for this school year, the finance committee recommended cutting Disorientation's funding completely.
April/May 1992 The University of Kansas Free Press
"The finance committee looked at the value of each of the groups which asked for funding," said Lance Wright, student body vice president and a member of last year's finance committee. "We decided Take This! wasn't worth the money."
After a hurried petition drive and speeches to Senate by Ashwill and former member Chris Kromm, Disorientation was saved. But this year's money is much less than the $4,000 the organization received last year.
"The they really should fund more independent news on campus," said Ashilw. "When you look at the budgets set aside for the Kansan and KJKH, you'd think they could also provide more opportunities for other journalism students not interested in mainstream news."
Ashwill said that Senate's alloca
tions for this year would pay for two issues of Take This! He said Disorientation would try to get more money through donations and by selling advertising. He added that members of Disorientation had discussed becoming a financially-independent paper in the future.
Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies and the faculty advisor for Disorientation, said newspapers like Take This! were vital to the KU community.
"Of course the Kansan is the official voice on campus," he said. "But there is a definite need for a different point of view that offers different information."
Robert MacRae, Caney sophomore and member of Disorientation, agreed with Miller.
"Take This! is necessary because it can keep people informed about things they might not normally know about," he said. "In our last issue, we looked at some things concerning Earth Day, and we tied it in to chemical pollution in the Kansas River."
Ashwell said that Take This! has no impact on the KU campus and in Lawrence, and he added that it had been seen elsewhere.
Senate elects committee chairs
"We keep getting letters from Texas," he said. "I don't know how they're getting it down there."
By Stacy Morford
KU Student Senate elected chairs of three committees yesterday during its first meetings of the year.
Jeremy Haas, assistant Senate treasurer, said the meetings were basically training sessions in parliamentary procedure.
In a two and a half hour meeting, the finance committee elected Shannon Morford, Lenexa junior, and Catherine Bubb, Lawrence junior, as cochairs. The committee discussed five bills, four of which were passed. The other bill was tabled.
elected Kevin Jennings, Lenexa junior, to be their committee chair. Jennings said his plans for the committee included increasing Senate involvement in the completion of the Lied Center, supporting attempts to create a multi-cultural center and making sure a student art festival will take place next spring.
Minority affairs chair Tim Dawson, Topeka junior, presented his committee with three main goals: to get a minority affairs building on campus, to form a special orientation program for minority students and to recruit more minority students to KU.
The cultural affairs committee
junior, as committee chairs and appointed Travis Harrod, Topeka junior, Bridget Staker, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, Daron Sinkler, Bucks, Sarah Burks, Sulia junior, to the student rights and responsibilities subcommittee.
The human rights committee elected Andrew Shore, Glencoe, Ill., junior, and John Shoemaker, Topela
University affairs co-chairs Jason Macintosh, Lawrence senior, and Steve Miles, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore, supervised their committee's election of Kevin Sigourney, Overland Park senior, to Senate's KU Athletic Corporation position. The committee voted to table officer elections for the other seven positions until Sept. 11 so new senators could learn about their positions.
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