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
Staff writer
More health care employee 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. Gillain, 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
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 canes and unattached skin are potentially infections.
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.
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KU tries
Students favor tougher policy for admissions
By NOEL GERDES
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.
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.
Staff writer
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.
Left, MCI pilot Doug Callowa follows the lakw in Sunday morning's competition. Below, four members of a chase crew ride in a trailer on the way to their balloon's landing site. Gene Brown and crew, below middle, pack up the Firehawk.
be students, recommendation, to be te university in fall 1991, freshmen
Left, Douglas and crew struggle with high winds during Friday evening's attempted illumination ceremony. Above, in spite of lingering storm clouds, several hundred spectators came to see the balloons Friday evening.
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Photos by DIANE DULTMEIER
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grade in make-up courses (high school or subjects in the Regents recom- that were missed in high school.
gh school four years of English and
science, social studies and math with
joint oweage of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or
2.0 GPA in nine hours of prescribed
college-level work before their first
first.
ommation also states that fresh-
two years of foreign language in high
school are required.
could make exceptions for special exceptions could total no more than 10 per 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 s.policy.
g courses that you can choose to take issions," Tallman said. "It's still a
e were two schools of thought behind ms standards. The first is that the usas needs to restrict admissions young students and not enough money. it some students who enter state prepared for college, so something more prepared. He muttered his more recommendation to me more prepared.
dent body president at Kansas State 'm concerned that the Regents are problems at KU.'
mack, student body president at Fort sity, said he was not opposed to for different schools.
ng Bork
House devise a strategy to "stonewave" the principle of executive privilege.
"I never advised the White Houseow to meet, to deal with theVatergate special prosecutionorce." Bork said. He said he did actn orders from then-AttorneyGeneralRichardson to seek a compromisebetween Cox and the White Housever executive privilege.
"We never achieved an accomoation." Bork testified.
Watergate aside, Bark also sought) reassure Sen. Demis DeConcini, *B-Ariz*, that he is not antagonistic to te rights of women." As solicitor general I argued positions for the protection of women broader than we Supreme Court would accept," Ark said.
Concini, a key swing vote on the demittee, also suggested Bork's sitions on poll taxes, integration ofblic accommodations and other ues over the years might cause aeks some alarm.
Bork responded, "If I were a black an but knew my record, I don't ink I'd be concerned because it's a贴 civil rights record."
Still, Bork said he is troubled by the institutional rationale for a preme Court ruling ordering the segregation of public schools in the strict of Columbia in 1954.
"I have not thought of a rationale" the ruling, Bork said. But after a reef access, he said he wanted to ake it clear he does not support hog segregation in the nation's pital system in the dream of houg" the 1954 decision.
Bork received kind words during hearing from Senate Republican in Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
It also implies that of fighting
it seems to be the extremism has
en in the rhetoric of opponents of
disease Bork." Simpson said.
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