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
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. Aillinland, 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.”
using drugs more than once. 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.
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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.
Students favor tougher policy for admissions
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
KU tries
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 the more 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.
the students' recommendation, to be university in fall 1991, freshman
"I think to say a student has to have a 23 on the ACT to be successful" its ridiculous". he said.
KANSAN
Volume 4, Issue 1
September 16, 1987 Volume 4, Issue 1
The Best of KU...11
There are a lot of things KU students like to do. And whether it be eating, sleeping, studying, or watching the stars, the campus crowd has found the best places to do them all.
Who needs wings to fly?...14
Gene Brown, a Topeka resident, and his Jayhawk balloon were a crowd pleaser this weekend at the Huff-n-Puff balloon regatta at Washburn University in Topeka.
Should KU admit everyone?...18
Crowded classrooms and overworked faculty are just two of the problems KU has faced with recent enrollment increases. Selective requirements for instate students might be a solution, and it has become a controversial topic among KU administrators, the Board of Regents and state legislators.
DEPARTMENTS
Trends...5 Interview...21
Spotlight...7 Fiction...22
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school four years of English and ence, social studies and math with at average of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale; or 1 GPA in nine hours of prescribed ge-level work before their first
e in make-up courses (high school subjects in the Regents recomat were missed in high school. amendation also states that fresh-years of foreign language in high le attending the university.
islative director for Associated student lobbying group, said he didents' recommendation to be a policy.
ourses that you can choose to take ions," Tallman said. "It's still a
mild make exceptions for special
eptions 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.
nt body president at Kansas State concerned that the Regents areblems at KU."
were two schools of thought behind standards. The first is that the needs to restrict admissions students and not enough money. some students who enter state repaired for college, so something them become more prepared. He then recommended to more prepared.
ack, 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 native privilege
"I never advised the White House $n$ to meet, how to deal with the (iterate special prosecution ce.) Bork said. He said he did act orders from then-Attorney Geneer-Richardson to seek a compromiseween Cox and the White House $n$ executive privilege.
We never achieved an accommodation." Bork testified.
vatergate aside. Bork also sought reassure Sen. Dennis DeConciini,riz, that he is not antagonistic to rights of women. "As solicitor eral I argued positions for the tecton of women broader than Supreme Court would accept,"k said.
eConcini, a key swing vote on the amittee, also suggested Bork'sitions on poll taxes, integration of lic accommodations and other over the years might cause ks some alarm.
ork respondd. "If I were a black
1 but knew my record, I don't
k'd I be concerned because it's a
civil rights record."
i. Bork said he is troubled by the ill. Bork argued rationale for a same Court ruling ordering the removal of an individual in the jail of Columba in 1964.
have not thought of a rationale the ruling, Bork said. But after a recess, he said he wanted to e it clear he does not support his claim in the nation's al and would "never dream of ruling" the 1954 decision.
ck received kind words during
earring from Senate Republican
Alen Simpson of Wyoming
seems to be the extremism has in the rhetoric of opponents of Bork, "Simpson said."