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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Thursday September 17,1987 Vol.98,No.19
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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Med workers are more wary of infections
Staff writer
BY AMBER STENGER
More health care employees at the University of Kansas Medical Center are making an effort to protect themselves from contracting infections diseases, especially AIDS, employees say.
The Med Center has not changed its infection control policy because of AIDS, said Marcia A. Gillandil, infection control coordinator. It's just that more employees are complying with its recommendations.
“Our philosophy really has 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 less likely to get anybody who used to be very lackadaisical when they got a little blood on their hands, is using gloves more now.”
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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应加注意 masks and goggles. Blood, body fluids, mucous membranes and unattached skin are potentially infections.
Gillard said gloves were the most common protective clothing employees wore.
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
--or succession is relegated.
According to the students' recommendation, to be admitted to a state university in fall 1991, freshmen would have to:
Students favor tougher policy for admissions
By 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 student advisory committee consists of the student body presidents of the Regents schools.
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 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 the number of 23 or better, and ranking in the 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.
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Naturally, the other networks were trying everything short of murder to knock the champion off its Wednesday night perch. So, in that respect, this Wednesday was not unlike any other Wednesday.
ABC was using its old standard fourth-place show followed by its tenth-place show which, naturally, was followed by its Emmy award-winning, critically acclaimed twenty-first place show. It was a shuffling of some familiar, successful and proved formulas. The network was taking quite a chance; to create this line-up, ABC had broken up its early Monday shoot-in and its late Thursday clincher.
But it was worth the risk.
For NBC, it was a night to sweat bullets. Two weeks of intensive campaigning would hopefully pay off tonight. It had spent a multi-million dollar budget, which it really couldn't afford, on one (allegedly) epic television spectacular. Virtually every hour for the last two weeks, one of twenty different plugs for the three-hour presentation had aired. It was sink or swim. All bets were placed on this one horse. The jobs of many high-ranking NBC executives balanced precariously on the buoyancy of this show.
But it was worth the risk.
The Fox Network still didn't have enough programming to dill each day, and thus didn't qualify as a "network" according to FCC regulations. So, Fox decided that this fight be left to the big boys. Its day would come soon enough.
After the first hour, NBC rejoiced. From what they could tell, they were in second place. The numbers were good. They weren't in first, but at last they had a change.
But no one at NBC had gone home, just in case they needed to pack up their belongings. Spies relayed the Nielsen figures on a minute by minute basis.
It just wasn't worth the risk.
So, the fight began at eight o'clock Eastern Time. ABC, CBS and Fox Network executives were home, having dinner with their families.
"They better make it quick," said the executive producer, having calmed down a bit. "We can't expect our viewers to stay up much past eleven; that's news territory."
"What is this?" screamed the executive producer whose idea this first-place-three-hour epic was.
"Must be somethin' bad," said another, flipping through the channels. "Even CBS pre-empted their shows."
a chance.
As nine o'clock Eastern time passed,
however, the unexpected happened: a
special report.
The announcer, their best, told them what was happening. He really didn't
need to tell them; they could tell by his appearance, by his voice, by the emotion that he couldn't control that this was something of unbelievably grave nature. It was.
"Nuclear war?" someone in the room said
Someone else whispered, "I didn't think it would happen. I hoped it wouldn't happen."
The president made a very brief statement, then turned the networks over to their Emergency Broadcast System programming. Well, that's what they were supposed to do.
"Now look," said the executive producer, with the sort of swagger that would imply he was the only one in the room with any ammunition fiber. "I know how all seems all seems."
"How bad it SEEMS?" another executive screamed, practically in tears. "This is it. This is the end!"
“OK, OK, that’s a given. But we can turn this to our advantage.”
No one could believe what was happening. War was breaking out, the president admitted that it was probably only a matter of hours before the bombs would fall, and here sat the high executives of one of the three major networks still raving about programming strategy.
Everyone in the room was stunned into silence by a mixture of impending doom and utter incredulity. Finally, someone said, very quietly, "What do you mean?"
"Well, the other networks will be showing where people should go, and what precautions they should take, so that we don't misuse them." What about the people who already know what to do?"
"Do you mean to imply that we disregard our civic duty and continue with normal programming?"
"Nobody cares NOW how this stupid show ends."
The executive producer snapped, leaping across the finished curly table top and grabbing the older executives by the lapels. I worked my butt off on this one! Put my job on the line!! I'm gonna do everything in my power to see that we get the best ratings possible! For crying out loud, this is our last chance!!"
"What's going to happen? Will they take our license away?" He giggled. "We'll be performing a civic duty by giving the people an escape from oncoming oblivion." "You're nuts, an older executive said. The last thing in the world people be thinking about is what sort of临危教 programming that those networks have."
They tried to calm him down, but he was like a man possessed. All that seemed to matter to him were the ratings. And
although they didn't want to openly admit it, many saw the logic in his reasoning. It was a tempting proposition.
The phone rang.
The phone ring.
The chaos that had been prevailing subsided. Each stared at the phone as he had never seen one before. The situation just seemed to get more and more unbelievable.
In every mind, the thought occurred that it was a wife, or a child, or a girlfriend calling, disbelieving, wanting that person to be home. The executive producer answered it.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this is the switchboard." He had forgotten that NBC had decided to keep the lines open to see if the show solicited any public response. The voice on the other end continued, very matter-of-factly. "I know I don't get paid that much, and my job's kinda low in the deck; but I'm the only one down here, and I'm being swamped by calls."
Somehow, it didn't occur to the executive producer to be astounded at the fact that the switchboard operator didn't realize the world was going to end. "What is it that the people are saying?"
"Well," the voice continued, almost surprised that the person on the other end cared about the drollery of his job. "A lot of it I don't understand. I guess for some reason, we've stopped showing our show. But anyway, most people want to know how it ends up."
"The consensus seems to be that they want to see the rest of the show."
The executive producer turned to the silent figures in the board room. "We've been deluged with calls about the show." He glowed with the pride of a new father. "They want to know how it ends."
So, they decided to show the rest of the show, running a message along the bottom of the screen throughout informing the viewers that if they desired information about the approaching apocalypse, they could switch to one of the other networks. They even skipped the commercial breaks. And the calls kept coming in.
By eleven o'clock Eastern time, they had found out that NBC had nearly cornered the ratings market. They scored the highest in television a single show in and of television history.
To celebrate, the executives broke out some champagne.
"Here's to being on top," the executive producer toasted before opening the bubby. "It's where we belong." He popped the cork, and simultaneously there was a flash.
And that was that.
"Looks like we're being pre-empted." And that was that.
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'ade in make-up courses (high school or subjects in the Regents recom-m that were missed in high school. ommandment also states that fresh- two years of foreign language in high site attending the university.
could make exceptions for special exceptions could total no more than 10 or entering freshmen. Admissions for Kansas residents 21 or older with ma, and admission requirements for s would be left to each university
legislative director for Associated a student lobbying group, said he did students' recommendation to be a policy
g courses that you can choose to take issuations. "Tallman said. 'It's still a
ident body president at Kansas State I'm concerned that the Regents are
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sity, said he was not opposed to
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we were two schools of thought behind us standards. The first is that the usas needs to restrict admissions any students and not enough money. it some students who enter state prepared for college, so something elp them become more prepared. He nittered a recommendation to usas.
ng Bork
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 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 Sen. Dennis DeConcini, 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.
DeConcini, 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 death penalty 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 funding and "nation's intuition and wouldn't 'ever dream of overruling' the 1954 decision.
KANSAN MAGAZINE September 16, 1987
Bork received kind words during the hearing from Senate Republican Whin Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
"It it seems to be the extremism has been in the rhetoric of opponents of Judge Bork." Simpson said.