On the mild side
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday September 17,1987 Vol.98,No.19
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Med workers are more wary of infections
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
More health care employees at the University of Kansas Medical Center are making an effort to protect themselves from contracting infectious diseases, especially AIDS, employees say.
The Med Center has not changed its infection control policy because of AIDS, said Marcia G. Ailligan, infection control coordinator. It's just that more employees are complying with its recommendations.
"Our philosophy really isn't changed in regards to precautions." Gilliland said. "We've always taught that all blood and body fluids can be potentially infectious. What has happened is that people because of AIDS are more careful. And so somebody who used to be very lackadaisical when they got a little blood on their hands, is using gloves more now."
The AIDS virus can not be contracted through casual contact. The virus is transmitted through blood and body fluids.
The national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta recommend that health care employees wear gloves whenever they may be in contact with a patient's blood or body fluids. When health care employees are in a situation where blood could splatter, such as treating a serious injury, they also are urged to wear protective gowns, masks and goggles. Blood, body fluids, mucous cananes and unattached skin are potentially infectious.
Gilliland said gloves were the most common protective equipment used here.
Jim Mathes, left, of Baldwin City, and Bill Medlen, Lawrence resident, apply Bird/X to the ledge above the Natural History Museum's main entrance. The chemical, which creates a sticky surface, is designed to prevent pigeons from landing on building ledges.
KU tries
Students favor tougher policy for admissions
Bv NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
A student advisory committee today will recommend to the Board of Regents that Kansas high school students be required to complete certain courses to be guaranteed admission at the six state universities.
The recommendation would require freshmen, in addition to graduating, to have taken four years of English and three years each of science, social studies and math from an accredited Kansas high school.
The student advisory committee consists of the student body presidents of the Regents schools.
The Regents schools now have an open admissions policy, which means any Kansas resident who graduates from an accredited state high school is admitted automatically to any state university.
The Regents will meet at 9 a.m. today in Topeka to discuss tightening admissions requirements. Their own proposed requirements include a high school curriculum similar to the students' recommendation, but with two years of foreign language. The Regents proposal also includes an ACT score of 23 or better, and ranking in the top third of a class.
The advisory committee considered the Regents proposal before making its own. Jason Krakow, KU student body president, opposed part of the Regents proposal.
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to be successful is ridiculous." he said.
According to the students' recommendation, to be admitted to a state university in fall 1991, freshmen
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high school four years of English and of science, social studies and math with le point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or um 2.0 GPA in nine hours of prescribed college-level work before their first ter or
g grade in make-up courses (high school) for subjects in the Regents recommium that were missed in high school. recommendation also states that freshke two years of foreign language in high a while attending the university.
n. legislative director for Associated sas, a student lobbying group, said he did ie students' recommendation to be a ignious policy
rung courses that you can choose to take dmissions." Tallman said. "It still a s
tion could make exceptions for special se exceptions could total no more than 10 imber of entering freshmen. Admissions en for Kansas residents 21 or older with ploma, and admission requirements for ents would be left to each university.
here were two schools of thought behind sions standards. The first is that the Kansas needs to restrict admissions o many students and not enough money, that some students who enter state not prepared for college, so something to help them become more prepared. He committee made its recommendation to ecome more prepared.
student body president at Kansas State
"I'm concerned that the Regents are
not doing enough."
lve problems at KU." in Amack, student body president at Fort iersity, said he was not opposed to rds for different schools.
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House devise a strategy to "stonewall" by defending the principle of executive privilege.
"I never advised the White House how to meet, how to deal with the Watergate special prosecution force," Bork said. He said he did act on orders from then-Attorney General Richardson to seek a compromise between Cox and the White House over executive privilege.
"We never achieved an accommodation." Bork testified.
Watergate aside, Bork also sought to reassure Senn. Dennis DeConciin, D-Ariz., that he is not antagonistic to the rights of women." As solicitor general I argued positions for the protection of women broader than the Supreme Court would accept," Bork said.
DeConciyn, a key swing vote on the committee, also suggested Bork's positions on poll taxes, integration of public accommodations and other issues over the years might cause blacks some alarm.
Bork responded, "If I were a black man but knew my record, I don't think I be concerned because it's a good civil rights record."
Still, Bork said he is troubled by the constitutional rationale for a Supreme Court ruling ordering the U.S. to release prisoners in the District of Columbia in 1954.
"I have not thought of a rationale for" the ruling, Bork said. But after a brief recess, he said he wanted to make it clear he does not support school segregation in the nation's capital and wouldn't "ever dream of overruling" the 1954 decision.
Bork received kind words during the hearing from Senate Republican Whip Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
"It seems to be the extremism has been in the rhetoric of opponents of Judge Bork," Simpson said.
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