tuesday,november4.2003
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the university daily kansar
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Keep your eye on the ball
Kara Hansen/Kansan
Doug Timm, Big Sky, Mont., senior, prepared to hit a pingpong ball during a match at the Student Fitness Recreation Center yesterday evening. Timm played on one of two pingpong tables available at the fitness center.
JOURNEY: Therapy helps autistic son overcome disease
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children with autism," said Patricia M. Meinhold, research and staff development psychologist at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center.
Meinhold said studies done since the 1970s had shown that while the therapy didn't work in all cases, preschoolers with autism saw fewer autism-related problems after treatment.
The therapy uses a system of identifying behaviors that need to be learned and rewarding children for adopting positive behaviors.
"These behaviors are natural things children tend to pick up
on their own," Meinhold said. "Children with autism need direct instruction."
Meinhold said the therapy starts with 30 to 40 hours of therapy a week on social, developmental and lingual skills. As the child gets older, the child will ideally be able to catch up with other children and eventually regular school will replace therapy sessions.
On his walk, Sherman will spread knowledge about ABA and use funds to help parents who may not be able to afford the therapy.
He founded the non-profit organization RACE, Rescue Autistic Children through Education, in 2000. He planned his
walk across the country for 2000, but after his corporate sponsor went bankrupt, he spent the next few years planning the event without without corporate backing.
Now, he's funding the walk entirely by himself and plans to leave in April. He will begin by walking across Kansas, beginning in Kansas City, moving south to Wichita and then heading west to Garden City. After he walks across the state, he will begin in a city on the West coast, he's considering Boston or somewhere in Florida, and walk until he reaches California.
sonal growth while on the walk. The tapes contain advice for personal growth involving attitude, goal setting, time management, motivation, people skills and marketing.
Sherman will give interviews, seminars and free tapes on per-
Sherman said he wanted people to utilize the tools he offered them and reciprocate with donations to the autism cause. He will emphasize in his talks how helping children with autism can help the nation as a whole.
"We can turn these kids from tax drains on America to tax payers," he said. "We need to give these kids hope. It's almost like a prison sentence for them."
PAP SMEAR: Fewer tests needed
Alan Waxman, gynecologist and member of the college, said that a better understanding of cervical cancer and increased technology led to the new recommendations.
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The new technology includes better testing and more accurate ways of reading Pap smears.
Waxman said that expectation was unnecessary.
"We told the young girl who had sexual intercourse to run and get a Pap smear the next day," he said. "Safe to say, that didn't happen."
In addition, the college revised its recommendations for a woman's first Pap smear. In the past, it recommended that a woman get her first Pap smear by age 18 or immediately after having sexual intercourse for the first time.
The college now recommends that sexually active women put off Pap smears until age 21.
"And if you're not sexually active, there's really no need to get it done yet." Waxman said.
Lynch said she was glad to hear of the new recommendations but that she was a little apprehensive.
"I'm sure they know what they're talking about. And if they say it's safe then I'm sure it's safe," she said. "But it seems a little scary to go that long without going to the gynecologist."
Representatives for the college said that the new recommendations were not meant to discourage people from seeing their gynecologists. Yearly pelvic exams are still recommended.
Annual Pap smears are also still required for women refilling birth control prescriptions. The gynecology department at Watkins Memorial Health Center said it had no plans to change this practice.
— Edited by Ehren Meditz
SURVEY: Harvard releases findings
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people are getting sick of the Democratic Party, to tell the truth."
"From what I've experienced anecdotally from the students here," Haider-Markel said, "support for Bush, although I think it's a little bit softer than it was six months ago, is still fairly high."
In the last 10 years, college students have tended to lean more conservative, said Donald Haider-Markel, associate professor of political science.
Ben Abbott, Leavenworth freshman and a vice president of the University's Young Democrats, said the results didn't surprise him because the Democrats' message had been unclear.
If a similar survey were done on the KU campus, the numbers could be slightly higher, Haider-Markel said. In his estimation, approval of Bush's job performance could possibly be 66 or 67 percent at the University.
But now he has more confidence that his party can reverse the trend.
"I feel that over the past few months, when you look at what
each candidate is saying now, it's more of a singular message," Abbott said.
According to the Harvard study, of the college students who would vote Democratic, 17 percent would vote for presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and 16 percent for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. With a 2.8 percent margin of error throughout the study, the two candidates are essentially tied among college Democratic voters.
Even as Democrats are trying to choose their candidate for the 2004 election, Abbott said they should still respect the current president and the office.
"But that respect is not unconditional," he said. "With the job comes responsibility. Maybe people will see that in some of these responsibilities a failure has occurred."
McFarland said the Republican Party had not failed in sending its message and articulating core values.
Russian official criticizes U.S. position
"I think that most college students know that and they fall in line with those values," he said.
— Edited by Katie Bean
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia's foreign minister criticized the United States on Sunday for expressing concern about actions against the oil giant Yukos, but President Vladimir Putin's new chief of staff said he doubted the wisdom of freezing a large chunk of the company's shares.
Last week, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said-the Bush administration regarded the arrest and jailing of Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the freezing of 44 percent of the company's shares, as raising "serious questions about the rule of law in Russia."
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, speaking on state television, reacted angrily.
"The United States is trying to place the actions of the judicial organs of Russia in doubt. This is interference in the judicial affairs of another state that is not acceptable, and should not be, in the normal terms of democratic society." Ivanov said.
He noted that several massive financial scandals have hit the United States and he accused Washington of employing a "double standard" because "the State Department did not express its anxiety about any of those noisy scandals, did not interfere in the judicial process."
"To teach other people that's the fashion in Washington," Ivanov said.
The remark reflected the Kremlin's long-standing irritation with what it regards as official American arrogance, although it has largely held back
on such criticism as Russian-U.S. relations have become closer since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Russian officials have said the moves against Russia's biggest oil producer, which began in July when a top Yukos shareholder was arrested, are strictly a matter of investigating and prosecuting crimes. Khodorkovsky is charged with fraud, forgery and tax evasion.
But many analysts and politicians say the moves appear to be a vendetta against Khodorkovsky for his support of opposition parties.
The moves against Khodorkovsky triggered a sharp fall in Russia's stock market _ the benchmark RTS index dropped about 20 percent last week _ and analysts worried the actions could endanger the country's
recovery from the 1998 financial crisis.
"Consequences of actions that have not been carefully thought out will immediately affect the economy and stir up political affairs," Putin's chief of staff Dmitry Medvedev said on state television. "A question arises as to how legally efficient the sequestration of the Yukos shares really is."
Medvedev was appointed chief of staff late Thursday after Putin released Alexander Voloshin, who reportedly submitted his resignation after Khodorkovskiy's arrest.
Voloshin was the last major Kremlin figure from the Boris Yeltsin era to have been held over under Putin. His departure indicated that Putin was tightening his grip on the Kremlin by cutting out the old elite.
NEW YORK — Rosie O'Donnell said the editor-in-chief of her now-defunct magazine lied yesterday when she testified that the entertainer objected to a cover photo of her with her arms around other women because she is a lesbian.
The editor, Susan Toopfer, testified that O'Donnell objected to a picture that was shot for Rosie magazine's September 2002 cover. The shot featured two female stars of The Sopranos with O'Donnell between them and with an arm around each.
Toepfer, testifying at a trial in which O'Donnell and her magazine publisher are suing each other, said O'Donnell called her after seeing the photo and
As O'Donnell left court yesterday evening, she denied that she had ever made such a statement: "I have never in my entire life said, 'As a lesbian, pass me the salt. As a lesbian, blah, blah, blah.'"
"She said, 'As a lesbian, I'm uncomfortable being on a magazine cover holding another woman or touching another woman,'" Toepfer testified. "I said, 'You know, Rosie, that would never have occurred to me in a thousand years.'"
Both sides have agreed the photograph, which never ran, started the fight that killed *Rosie* magazine. Instead a photo featuring Lorraine Bracco, Aida Tuturor and Edie Falco was on the September 2002 cover — without O'Donnell.
The Associated Press
Rosie O'Donnell says former editor lied in court
screamed obscenities at her.
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