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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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. Aillandi, infection control coordinator. It's just that more employees are complying with its recommendations.
"Our philosophy really hasn't changed in regards to precautions," Gilland 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."
is using gloves now more. 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 infect-
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 and a former assistant dean of the college, said:
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to be successful is ridiculous," he said. "It should not be to believe that the
be students, recommendation, to be de university in fall 1991, freshmen
"I don't think a university can appeal to a Rhodes Scholar and at the same time appeal to students who barely make it through high school." Michael Barron, director of admissions
High school diploma: Yes
Min. score: 25 ACT/980 SAT
Class rank: Top 50%
High School GPA: No
The University of Iowa
High School Courses:
(Beginning 1990)
4 English, 3 math, 3 Natural Sciences,
3 Social Sciences,
2 Foreign Language
costs. Those costs are increasing all the time and I don't think that we can afford it."
KU administrators write off enrollment - caps as far from feasible and say they've been given only passing consideration.
Lowther advocates a serious look at enrollment caps for state universities. He said the Regents should look at a school's budget and classroom space to determine optimum enrollment. Once a school reaches its optimum level, students will be denied entry from that school but can attend other state schools.
"If you are better able to manage where students go, you wouldn't have the uneven distribution of students and it would make budgets easier to set." he said.
Ramaley linked an enron ment cap to a hydraulic press.
ment up. "If you stop up some place, something else will blow," she said. "You can't predict it."
special interests. While Regents, administrators and legislators will control the open admissions debate, the future of potential KU students hangs in the balance.
support in schools. The Regents will meet tomorrow to Topeka to discuss raising admission standards at KU and other Regents schools. The University Council will meet next week and will discuss the effects of selective admissions in a special meeting.
Educational excellence and opportunity can best be balanced, the administration contends, by taking steps to predict enrollment increases and taking the steps to accommodate growth.
It is students like Stephen Tonkin, who, under a selective admissions policy, might be excluded from KU.
included from HR.
Tonkin says that would be
wrong.
"I we deny admissions to a
person, we are saying they can't go
here...but you can go to another
state school."
Barbara Polk, director of admissions
High school diploma: Yes
Min. score: 800 SAT
Class rank: Special
High School GPA: No
"I know I messed around in high school, but I came up here to get a new start," he said. "KU is giving me a second chance. I will try my best to succeed here. If I make it, I make it. If I don't, at least I was given the chance to try."
mrgn School Courses:
4 English, 3 Math, 1 Science, 2
Social Science, 2 Foreign
Language
The University of North Carolina
"People really want schools with good reputations. When you raise admission requirements, you raise your prestige."
Marc Borish, director of admissions
High school diploma. Yes
Min. score: 18 ACT/760 SAT
Class rank: Top 50% or 3.1
High School GPA. No
High School Courses:
(Beginning 1988) 4 English,
3 Math, 2 Science, 2 Social
Science
The University of Oklahoma
"In Oregon, it makes sense to have a tiered system with various degrees of admittance requirements. We don't have the space to expand." James Buch, director of admissions
High school diploma: Yes
Min. score: If GPA is low
Class rank: No
High School GPA: 3.0
High School Courses:
4 English, 3 Math, 3 Science,
Social Science, 2 other college
prep courses
The University of Oregon
Illustration by TOM PAJKOS
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trade in make-up courses (high school for subjects in the Regents recommen-
that were missed in high school. commendation also states that fresh- two years of foreign language in high school during the university.
igh school four years of English and
science, social studies and math with
point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or
a 2.0 GPA in nine hours of prescribed
college-level work before their first
c or
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
could make exceptions for special exceptions could total no more than 10 ber of entering freshmen. Admissions for Kansas residents 21 or older with ma, and admission requirements for s would be left to each university.
we were two schools of thought behind our standards. The first is that the usas needs to restrict admissions many students and not enough money, it some students who enter state prepared for college, so something else was prepared. He committee made its recommendation to me more prepared.
dent body president at Kansas State
'm concerned that the Regents are
not meeting the requirements.
mack, student body president at Fortity, said he was not opposed to for different schools.
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 did act in 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 o recharge Sen. Dennis DeConcini-. -Ariz., that he is not antagonistic to he rights of women." As solicitor eneral I argued positions for the protection of women broader than he Supreme Court would accept," lark said.
CondeCinci, a key swing vote on the committee, also suggested Bork's ositions on poll taxes, integration of public accommodations and other auses over the years might cause 'aacks some alarm.
Bork responded, "If I were a black man but knew my record, I don't ink'd be concerned because it's a 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 r" the ruling, Bork said. But after a ief recess, he said he wanted to it clear he does not support hool segregation in the nation's courts, according toream of retelling" the 1964 decision.
Bork received kind words during a hearing from Senate Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
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imp pass on the prize.
"It it seems to be the extremism has en in the rhetoric of opponents of edge Bork." Simpson said.
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