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 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. 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 lackadaisalien when they got a little blood on their hands, is using gloves more now."
is using gives these new
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
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 body president, opposed part of the Regents promesa1
the courses in the student's recommendation to be
in attendance in fall 1981 freshmen
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to be ___ ridiculous" he said.
Self-fulfillment, not glamour attracts KU student to pageant
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
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The University of Kansas has its own rising star. And she's brighter than most, Katherine Killen, a junior at KU, will shine as never before as she represents Minnesota in Saturday evening's Miss America contest in Atlantic City, N.J.
But the 50 young women attracted from every corner of the United States to this prestigious contest have more realistic concerns in mind. Some competitors are driven by the glamour. Some crave the chance to be on television. Still others are eager to launch a modeling or acting career.
ost every little girl watches the Miss America pageant in wide-eyed wonder and dreams of gliding down that brightly lit runway, one hand steadying a crown and waving, the other cradling dozens of roses.
Although the glamour and glitter don't much impress Killen, a native of Owatonna, Minn., the idea of performing to the best of her ability makes it all worthwhile.
Unlike many of the Miss America contestants, Killen hasn't spent her life training in pageants for September 19th's competition. Killen's first pageant was the Miss Owatonna competition last September, although she has enjoyed performing and singing since age seven. From winning that local, preliminary contest hands down, she moved on to the Miss Minnesota pageant in Austin, Minn., June 20, in which she again topped the hopefuls entered. This most recent crown put her among the elite group of women eligible for the Miss America contest the nation will be watching on Saturday.
As with other contestants, Killen's rise to success was expected. A local Owatona pageant committee has urged Killen for several years to
KANSAN MAGAZINE September 16, 1987
school tour years of English and
ence, social studies and math with
a average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or
GPA in nine hours of prescribed
ge-level work before their first
e in make-up courses (high school subjects in the Regents recom- itate were missed in high school.
did make exceptions for special editions could total no more than 10 of entering freshmen. Admissions Kansas residents 21 or older with and admission requirements for could be left to each university.
relative director for Associated student lobbying group, said he did fents' recommendation to be a alice.
if we must insist that fresh- mendment also states that fresh- years of foreign language in high- e attending the university
courses 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 espared for college, so something more prepared. His made its recommendation to more prepared.
at body president at Kansas State concerned that the Regents are problems at KU."
eek, student body president at Fort y, said he was not opposed to different schools.
g Bork
use devise a strategy to "stoneew" by defending the principle of active privilege
I never advised the White House w to meet, how to deal with the intergate special prosecution见," Bock said. He said he did act orders from then-Attorney GenerRichardson to seek a compromise between Cox and the White House as executive privilege
'We never achieved an accommodation.' Bork testified.
Natergate aside, Bork also sought reassure Sen. Dennis DeConciani, ariz., that he is not antagonistic to rights of women. "As solicitorial I argued positions for the section of women broader than Supreme Court would accept," he said.
eConciere, a key swing vote on the umittee, also suggested Bork's tions on poll taxes, integration of lie accommodations and other es over the years might cause its some alarm.
I rk responded. "If I were a black
but knew my record, I don't
s'd be concerned because it's a
civil rights record."
II. Bork said he is troubled by the tittual rationale for a case Court ruling ordering the state to disband the court in the art 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 his own dream of stalemand and would never "tweet dreams of uplining" the 1954 decision.
k received kind words during daring from Senate Republican Alan Simpson of Wyoming.
teems to be the extremism has in the rhetoric of opponents of Bork," Simpson said.