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ADVISING: Finding help tough
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For example, Johannes' adviser, Allan Hanson, is on sabbatical for the year and isn't around to help her.
Even without an organized advising system, students are making their way to graduate school. Scott Roberts, Arma senior, said that he hadn't had any serious problems getting ready for his next step in education.
"I just found people who were in the area I'm interested in, and they were all pretty helpful." he said.
Though his applications are in, he said that he would definitely be interested in going to an advising center, if the University had one.
Both McAnally and Houston said that they would like to see the University create an office for pregraduate school advising.
"I think there needs to be some coordination to find the gaps in help," Houston said. "But it's hard to find the resources to do that."
Though they have talked about it with their coworkers, neither McAnally nor Houston has discussed improving pre-graduate school advising with any administrators vet.
Marlesa Roney, the University's new vice provost for Student Success, said that the traditional model of having students talk to their professors worked well. However, she said, there was
always room for improvement She said that the new Student Success organization would explore ways to provide better service to students in this area.
Given the resources, McAnally said UCES could expand its services to include an office for pregraduate school advising. The advantage of this plan would be that advisors could not only help students figure out how to get to graduate school, but if they even need to go to graduate school in the first place.
He said a lot of people went to graduate school for the wrong reasons — the slump in the economy being a popular one right now.
"It's an excuse, not really a good reason to go," he said. "If you know you want to go, that's great. But if you just think you can't get a job, think again."
Johannes wants to go because she still isn't sure what she wants to do with her life.
"I haven't decided yet, and I'm just hoping that two years in grad school will help me figure it out," she said.
Johannes said that finding her way to graduate school to "figure it all out," would be made much easier if she had somewhere she knew she could go to get advice.
"If they started that place, I'd be the first one in line," she said.
— Edited by Abby Sidesinger
SEPT11: Americans still scared
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debris into the city streets. Official figures put the number killed in the Trade Center attacks at 2,819. Of this number 1,717 families of victims received no remains.
Two years have passed since the attacks, but recent polls show Americans are just as fearful today of terrorist attacks as they were in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Antonio said.
"The American state of mind has undoubtedly changed in the two years since the attacks," said Antonio. "Just the intensity of
feelings involved with being an American is different."
Kristen Reynolds, Atlantic City, NJ senior, has mixed thoughts.
"It's still scary when I fly sometimes. The thoughts are always in the back of my mind. I do feel safe for the most part though," Reynolds said, standing in front of the Kansas Union with a few other students.
A plane flies by overhead and a few people look up to see it. One stares until it disappears, safely for now, over the Western horizon.
— Edited by JJ Hensley
Video of bin Laden aired
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The first video image of Osama bin Laden in nearly two years was broadcast on Al-Jazeera TV yesterday, the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Al Qaeda leader was shown walking through rocky terrain with his top aide, both carrying assault rifles.
In an eight-minute audiotape accompanying the video footage, a speaker identified as bin Laden praises the "great damage to the enemy" Sept. 11 and mentions five hijackers by name. On a second tape, a voice said to be that of chief deputy Ayman al-Zawahri threatens more attacks on Americans and calls on Iraqi guerrillas to "bury" U.S. troops.
According to terrorism experts, such tapes reassure Al Qaeda sympathizers that the terror network is still a force and its leaders still active and in seeming good health. A tape showing bin Laden would be crucial to that effort and the timing — a day before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, blamed on Al Qaeda — highly symbolic.
Al-Jazeera said the tapes were produced in late April or early May, but the Arab satellite channel did not say how or when it obtained them. The backdrop in the video resembled the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where U.S. officials believe bin Laden is hiding out.
U. S. intelligence officials will review the tapes to try to determine if they are authentic and when and where they were made, officials in Washington said.
Messages from Al Queda leaders are sometimes viewed as pre-
saging an attack. Press reports from the Mideast over the last week had suggested a new bin Laden video was set to air yesterday, one U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The Department of Homeland Security previously said it did not plan to raise the national terror threat level above its current position at yellow, signifying an elevated threat of attack.
The voice identified as bin Laden praises the Sept. 11 hijackers.
He makes no direct threaten-
ing remarks, but the voice said to
be al-Zawahri threatens more
attacks on Americans.
In an audiotape, the speaker said to al-Zawahri refers to U.S. troops in Iraq — an indication that it was made after American troops entered Iraq last March.
Numbers deemed deceiving
The Associated Press
WICHITA — The state's claim that only 18 human cases of the West Nile virus have been found in Kansas is misleading and is keeping people from being tested for the disease, a Wichita doctor said yesterday.
State officials acknowledge that the narrow criteria used to record human cases severely underestimates the number of Kansans who likely have contracted the virus — perhaps by thousands. But a vast majority of those cases are mild, with many people not ever developing symptoms.
Nonetheless, Governor Kathleen Belelius said Wednesday that health officials were evaluating the state's decision to record only West Nile cases that develop into encephalitis or meningitis.
taking the calls, how the cases are being counted and reported," the governor said. "We want as accurate a figure as possible, and (health officials are) concerned that we figure out if it's been done properly and, if not, correct the protocol."
"There are issues under way right now about assessing whose
Tom Moore, an infectious disease specialist in Wichita, called the state's recording only 18 cases "laughable."
"It is misleading to the public," Moore said. "And that is disconcerting because a majority of people I'm speaking to aren't taking precautions against the virus. They are very dismissive of West Nile, and that could be because they are hearing that it's very, very rare in Kansas."
Moore said he had lost count of the number of West Nile cases he had treated this summer, but he had seen "easily three dozen cases in the last two weeks." He said most patients — and some doctors — believed the headaches or fevers reported by the patients are simply the flu. Headaches and fevers are among the main symptoms of West Nile.
"Given the lack of information, because nobody is gathering data on patients, there is no way to know how many have West Nile," Moore said. "It is easily within the realm of possibility that several hundred, possibly thousands, of Kansans have symptomatic West Nile."
Sharon Watson, a representative for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said the federal government gave states wide latitude in how they count West Nile cases.
For example, as of Tuesday, Colorado reported 1,252 cases of the virus, the most in the nation. But that state counts all West Nile cases that develop into fever, meningitis and encephalitis — with 77 percent of its cases involving only fever.
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