On the mild side
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
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 infectious diseases, especially AIDS, employees say.
The Med Center has not changed its infection control policy because of AIDS, said Marcia A. Gillandl, 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.
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.
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 infecti-
KU tries
Students favor tougher policy for admissions
By NOEL GERDES
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 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 head president, opposed part of the Regents proposal
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to
the students' recommendation to be an university in fall, 1991, freshmen
enter the competition. In the town of less than 20,000 people, Killen's congeniality and talent for performing were known.
John Neil, Killen's boyfriend of one year and Hays junior at KU, said that competing in and winning such contests weren't important to the talented 20-year-old, but the pressure to enter had won out.
"It just doesn't dominate her life. A lot of people put pressure on her to enter and a lot expect her to do really well," Neil said. "But it's just not that important to her. She's not doing it for the glamour."
gamification
Neil and close friend Julie Heaton, Topeka
junior, travelled to Austin in June to watch Killen
compete.
Heaton, who described her one-time college roommate as people-oriented, fun, talented and intelligent, said Killen was handling the competitions well.
"There's a lot of pressure but she's not the kind of person to let it go to her head." Heaton said. "She's such a strong person that she'll be the same Katherine we new before when she comes back."
Bait and how did a native of Minnesota end up such a loyal KU student? She followed her three brothers, Mark, Steve and John, who ran track for the University. Numerous visits to campus convinced her that KU was the logical choice for her home away from home.
But Killen is not an athlete. Singing is her game and she does it well, well enough to win the talent preliminary in the Austin contest singing "My Man" from Funny Girl. Since that is such a popular choice for the national competition, she's chosen to change her style a bit, doing an original arrangement called "Tonight" from Westside Story.
Although the contacts she's made through the pageants so far would be enough to get her started in show-biz — she was offered a modeling position and even a position teaching at a modeling school — movie stars are not the stars she's reaching for. Killen has set her sights on a career in international relations rather than a lifetime of signing autographs.
sighting I didn't want to be a professional model or actress, I definitely want to come back to school and then get into international relations. I've always been interested in any public relations job — working with people," said Killen, who has a double major in political science and history.
table major in political science and the University. Killen added that between the traveling she'd done in the last year and private trips to Western Europe she'd learned to love traveling and looked forward to working with people from different cultures."
The pageant has taken her a long way toward her career goal. She described the Miss America competition as unique in that any money award is in the form of a scholarship and winners must prove they had spent the winnings on their education. Killen, and every state winner, already has received $4000 in scholarships.
Her professed love for traveling could quickly be extinguished by the number of miles Killen has traveled in her own state and countless others during the last year. After the Miss Minnesota pageant, she was on the road for three solid weeks, performing in pageants, appearing in parades, even singing the Star Spangled Banner and throwing the opening pitch at a Minnesota Twins baseball game against Detroit. Since then, Labor Day has been her only weekend at home.
"You get tired of it (traveling) after awhile," she said. "It's difficult because I'm not with anyone my own age as long as I am in my job as 'Miss Minnesota.' I'm not like that... I just see myself as 'Katherine.'"
"And when I miss friends and family it botheres me. But it only takes a phone call or sitting down to write a letter to cheer me up."
And many of those friends are in Lawrence. Killen said a recent surprise visit to the KU chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, of which she is a member, was almost a mistake because she realized how much she missed her friends.
"They've been trained since they were small and they're there to win," she said. "I've heard the competition there will be more cushtrout. I'm just going out to do the best that I can. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance that not every girl gets to do. I need to feel happy about myself, and I hope I do well."
Win or lose in Atlantic City on Saturday night, the pageant experience has been a good one for Killen.
Neil and Heaton both said that so far the competitions haven't changed Killen at all and are confident that even becoming Miss America, and the 2004 Olympics will all over the country, would not change her.
Up until now the competitors have been nice, Killen said, but she doesn't expect that to remain the case.
"It makes you grow as a person because you have to rely on yourself," she said. "You find out all about yourself."
But mostly, whether this September or next,
she hopes to go back to being "just Katherine."
"It'll be so good to go back to being myself, and I hope people will let me."
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school four years of English and
social studies and math with 4
average of 2.0 on a 4 scale; or
GPA in nine hours of prescribed
ge-level work before their first
- in make-up courses (high school subjects in the Regents recom- it were missed in high school.
mendation also states that fresh- years of foreign language in high e attending the university.
idk make exceptions for special eptions could total no more than 10 of entering freshmen. Admissions Kansas residents 21 or older with a foreign equiv degree could be left to each university. isolative director for Associate.
hive director for Associated student lobbying group, said he didients' recommendation to be a offer
jurses that you can choose to take ons." Tallman said. "It's still a
were two schools of thought behind standards. The first is that the needs to restrict admissions y students and not enough money. some students who enter state prepared for college, so something more prepared. If three made its recommendation to more prepared.
at body president at Kansas State concerned that the Regents are blame at KU."
uck, student body president at Fort y, said he was not opposed to different schools.
g Bork
use devise a strategy to "stonew-" by defending the principle of active privilege
I never divorced the White House to meet, how to deal with the iterateg special prosecution case." Bork said. He said he did act orders from then-Attorney Gen. Richardson to seek a compromiseween Cox and the White House in executive privilege.
"We never achieved an accommodation." Bork testified.
watergate issue, book also sought reassure Sen. Dennis DeConciani,riz, that he is not antagonistic to rights of women. "As solicitor erial I argued positions for the tection of women broader than Supreme Court would accept,"k said.
eConciuni, a key swing vote on the umittee, also suggested Bork's tions on poll taxes, integration of lic accommodations and other es over the years might cause ks some alarm.
rk responded, "If I were a black but knew my record, I don't I'd be concerned because it's a civil rights record."
II. Bork said he is troubled by the tитual rationale for a case Court ruling ordering the president to appear in the act of Columbia in 1954.
have not thought of a rationale the ruling, Bork said. But after a recess, he said he wanted to it clear he does not support a segregation in the nation's team of ruling," the 1964 decision.
k received kind words during during from Senate Republican Alan Simpson of Womong.
beems to be the extremism has
n the rhetoric of opponents of
Bork, "Simpson said.