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
Staff writer
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 A. Gillandil, infection control coordinator. It's just that more employees are complying with its recommendations.
"Our philosophy really hasn'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 membranes and unattached skin are potentially infectious.
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
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
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.
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 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 implies the more of 23 or better, and ranking in the third of a class.
By ANNE LUSCOMBE
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to be successful is ridiculous," he said.
The advisory committee considered the Regents proposal before making its own. Jason Krakow, KU student body president, opposed part of the Regents proposal.
Bob Valesente
More recently, I really thought Tom Landry of the Dallas Cowboys showed such commitment to an organization and had such a style of coaching.
Bob Valesente
Kansas football coach Bob Valente is beginning his second year as head coach, but he is in his 24th year of coaching. He has coached at Cornell, Arizona, Mississippi State and worked with the Baltimore Colts as a secondary coach for a season before coming to Kansas.
A: I have always admired Coach Lombardi — followed his career very closely, what he taught to his players, the procedures, what it takes to be a coach — and then of course, Knute Rocke. He was a man who was legend. He was ahead of his time in coaching and working with players. He was the essence of what coaching was all about.
But Valesente didn't become involved in coaching immediately after he graduated from Ithaca College in New York. Instead, he signed a major league contract with the Chicago Cubs for the 1962-63 seasons. At Ithaca, Valesente played football and baseball. As a center fielder, he won All-America honors and led his alma mater to a berth in the College World Series in 1962.
Here is a look at Bob Valesente, the coach and the man.
Q: Is there a particular college or professional coach that you admired as a child or any you look up to now?
Answer: My favorite pro team when
I was a kid was the Cleveland Browns.
Question: What is your favorite pro team?
Otto Graham and Jimmy Brown had such tremendous talent. Paul Brown was an outstanding football coach. I had two favorite teams, the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers. Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr, Timmy Taylor . . . Those were my ball clubs.
1 love competition. Competition is my life. I love to compete. I love to win. The whole idea of practice is to get ready to compete for the game itself.'
A: I walk, and I read. I go over game plans and personnel adjustments.
Q: Get much sleep before a game?
A: Oh yes, I love competition. Com
Q: What do you do the night before the game to relax?
Q: What do you think about Bo
Jackson and his new-found hobby?
Q: What were your reasons for switching from baseball to football?
A: I always loved football. Football is my life. I always envisioned myself as a pro football player, not baseball player. I love the contact. God gave me two gifts, one, that I love to hit, and that I had good speed. I didn't have a lot of talent, you know, and I was fortunate enough to build on those two gifts that I had and that's all. I never had a lot of talent, and I couldn't hit a curve ball. I started out, and I wanted to play professional football but no one would give me the opportunity. But they gave me the opportunity to play baseball. And then, when I was looking for jobs, the only way I could get to be a football coach was to be an assistant baseball coach. That led into being an assistant football coach. When it got to the point when I could get out of baseball, I did. But it came to the point there for four or five years when I was at Cornell University that I was eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner because I was coaching two sports. I was juggling two sports rather than being with my family. And to keep that from happening I got out of baseball. But football was my first love, other than my family and my religion. You better put that down, or I'll get in trouble.
A. Boy Jackson is a great athlete. About his playing pro football, I think if he had a chance to retract that word, "hobby," he would probably take it back because he knows what kind of commitment it takes to play both. Any athlete who has played in the Southeast Conference in football and was an All-American and made it into baseball knows the commitment it takes to play professional sports. He's taken enough verbal abuse about it. I wish him success.
and instructors, the state
Association of the students' recommendation, to be
formed for fourteen
petition is my life. I love to compete, I love to win. The whole idea of practice is to get ready to compete for the game itself. I'm excited about the games. I'm in a very competitive frame of mind. The competition and pressure keeps you young definitely. But you have to have special time with your family. You have to realize the difference between dedication and stupidity.
the students' recommendation, to be ate university in fall 1991, freshmen
gadget
A: Well, the day I took the top off the pen and I was diagramming something on the sidelines and I put the pen back in my pocket and I looked down about five minutes later and my whole shirt was covered with blue. Somebody came up to me and said, "Hey coach, are you bleeding blue? Are you really that much of a Jayhawk fan? You really must be to be bleeding blue."
Q: And after the game?
Q: Let's end this with a laugh. What is one of the most humorous things that ever happened to you during a game?
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A: I like to spend quiet time with my family. The family is the focal point of my life. There are lots of times when I need to take care of their needs first.
grade in make-up courses (high school for subjects in the Regents recom- mend that were missed in high school. commendation also states that fresh-two years of foreign language in high while attending the university.
high school four years of English and f science, social studies and math with point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or n 2.0 GPA in nine hours of prescribed college-level work before their first r or
could make exceptions for special exceptions could total no more than 10 ber of entering freshmen. Admissions to Kansas residents 21 or older with ma, and admission requirements for ts would be left to each university.
legislative director for Associated a student lobbying group,said he did students' recommendation to be a policyman.
ig courses that you can choose to take
sessions." Tallman said. "It's still a
course."
re were two schools of thought behind ons standards. The first is that the nsas needs to restrict admissions nany students and not enough money. at some students who enter state t prepared for college, so something help them become more prepared. He nmite made its recommendation to me more prepared.
mack, student body president at Fort
rity, said he was not opposed to
for different schools.
ident body president at Kansas State I'm concerned that the Regents are
House devise a strategy to "stonewall" by defending the principle of executive privilege.
ng Bork
"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.
Watgate aside, Bork also sought o reissue 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," lork 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 lacks some alarm.
Bork responded, "If I were a black man but knew my record, I don't sink I'd be concerned because it's a court civil rights record."
Still, Bork said he is troubled by the institutional rationale for a supreme Court ruling ordering the segregation of public schools in the district of Columbia in 1954.
"I have not thought of a rationale $n$" the ruling, Bork said. But after a reckess, he said he wanted to take it clear he does not support school segregation and wouldn't "ever dream of verringr" the 1984 decision.
Bork received kind words during hearing from Senate Republican bin Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
"It seems to be the extremism has seen in the rhetoric of opponents of edge Bork." Simpson said.