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University's oldest student keeps busy to stay young
By Zack Hemenway
zhemenway@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When Dorothy Resco graduated high school in 1947, she registered for classes at the University of Kansas. Fifty-four years later, she entered a classroom as a KU student for the first time.
Resco, who is both a senior and a senior citizen, gives new meaning to deferred enrollment. She is the oldest full-time student at the University. Her exact age, however, will remain a mystery.
"I'll never tell my age," she said. "Anyone that tells their age, they'll tell you anything."
they inco conceded that she is on the fair side of 70. She said her initial plans to attend the University were derailed by financial difficulties in her family. They couldn't afford the tuition, then $220 per semester.
the family. But when her youngest child graduated from the University, Resco finally had an opportunity to attain her long-lost dream of a college degree.
With college out of the question, Resco stayed in her hometown Linwood, eventually marrying and raising a family. She said that she never thought about her abandoned degree as she raised her son and two daughters, working two jobs to help support
"My daughter graduated, and she said, 'Mom, now it's your turn.'" Resco said.
Resco had her family's support, but she had a hard time convincing her friends.
"They all thought I lost my marbles," Resco said. "They said, 'You're retired, why would you want to go to college?'"
After a two-year stint at community college, Resco enrolled at the University in the fall of 2001. She admitted to being apprehensive at first.
"I called up the registrar's office and asked them if they had an age limit," she said with a laugh.
students write resumes and find post-graduate employment.
Resco has adapted to University life with ease. She takes 12 or 13 hours each semester and is making consistent progress toward her degree in human development and family life, with a fitting emphasis on gerontology, the study of aging.
the study's导入. Resco's classmates were often surprised to see her on the first day of class. This was especially true in "Job Strategies," a class that helps
"It was weird at first since she's already retired once," Angela Loucks, Newton senior, said. "But now we come in and bitch about parking."
Resco's return to school coincided with a return to the workplace. Resco worked for the housing department before retiring, and when she began taking classes at the University, she became a student crew leader at Mrs. E's.
Dorothy Resco, Linwood senior, took notes about the theories of Freud during a developmental psychopathology class on Tuesday. Resco is the oldest student at the University of Kansas and will graduate with a degree in human development and family life.
When Resco graduates, she said she planned to use her degree to find a job working with the elderly. This fall, she is working in the Douglas County Senior Center to satisfy a 12-hours-per-week practicum.
"I've been blessed, and I'd like to be able to help others," she said.
Between her job, practicum, classes and her free time activities, she lists quilting as her primary hobby and she keeps herself busier than most "retired" people. She said her level of activity helped her stay young.
"People retire, and six months later, they're dead," she said. "I don't have time for that."
Resco said that she would
graduate in May, "If the good lord's willing, and the devil doesn't care." She has proudly adorned her bookbag with a buttion emblazoned with the slogan "Are you N.U.T.S.?" The
acronym is defined in bold red letters: Not the Usual Traditional Student, Resco, whose days begin at 5 a.m. and ends only after the last chapter has been studied, has to be a little
"nuts" to reach her goal.
"I have unfinished business," she said. "I'm after that degree I didn't get when I was a kid."
Edited by Doyle Murphy
University department warns of alcohol poisoning
By Joe Hartigan jhartigan@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Natalie Bock had a friend her freshman year who was taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning five times.
Bock, Merriam senior, said she would find her friend unconscious on the bathroom floor.
to the hospital
"She was just kind of white-faced and chalky." Bock said. "Sometimes she'd have convulsions."
Bock said her immediate reaction to finding her friend this way was to find a resident assistant and call 911 so her friend could be taken
She said her friend never really learned from the incidents.
"Obviously not if she did it about five times." Bock said.
Her friend would often have to have her stomach pumped, she said.
October is National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Month. According to the Harvard School of Public Health Web site, 44 percent of college students are binge drinkers.
Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks in a sitting for males and four or more drinks in a sitting for females.
Melissa Smith, director of the
"She was just kind of white-faced and chalky. Sometimes she'd have convulsions."
Natalie Bock Merriam senior
University Health Department, said that students needed to be more aware of the dangers of alcohol poisoning. She said anyone who was suffering from alcohol poisoning needed immediate attention.
"The main symptom is unconsciousness," Smith said. "They might look like they're sleeping and can't wake up."
Smith said students should never take someone who was unconscious for granted.
"Unconscious is always a life-threatening condition," she said.
Other symptoms of alcohol poisoning, Smith said, included cold, clammy, pale or blue skin. She also said those suffering of alcohol poisoning often breathed very slowly, sometimes as few as eight breaths per minute.
The first thing to do after finding someone suffering from alcohol poisoning is to call 911, Smith said
After doing that, Smith said the victim should be given the Bacchus maneuver, in which the victim is placed on its side with its uppermost fist underneath its chin. The victim's head should be resting on its other arm, which should be out-stretched beneath its head. The victims legs should be extended out, and the top leg should be bent at the knee and resting on the ground to prevent the victim from rolling over
Smith said the Bacchus maneuver should not be administered unless it is obvious the victim is not suffering from a head or neck injury.
Because slowed or halted breath is often a symptom of alcoho
poisoning. Smith said those attending to the victim should preform CPR if they were properly trained.
Smith said she worried that a lot of students were afraid to report alcohol poisoning because they didn't want to get an underage drinker in trouble.
"If somebody is underage," Smith said, "They won't punish you for doing the right thing."
She said the best way to prevent alcohol poisoning was to go out with friends you trusted, never drink on an empty stomach and avoid drinking too quickly.
— Edited by Doyle Murphy
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