Tomorrow's weather THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 3585 TOPEKA, KS 66601-3585 Tomorrow will be partly sunny kansan Thursday November 20, 1997 Section: A Vol. 108 • No. 66 31 Vol. 108·No.66 Online today The standoff in Iraq may be nearing an end. Check out the UDKi for updates throughout the day for details. Sports today www.kansan.com/news/nation The Kansas men's basketball team defeated Western Kentucky 75-62 last night in the first round of the Preseason NIT. SEE PAGE 1B Contact the Kansan News: (785) 864-4810 Advertising: (785) 864-4358 Fax: (785) 864-5261 Opinion e-mail: opinion@kansan.com Sports e-mail: sports@kansan.com Advertising e-mail: onlineads@kansan.com WWW.KANSAN.COM THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS The Great American Today is the Great American Smokeout, a campaign sponsored by the American Cancer Association that aims to get people to give up smoking. Photo Illustration by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN Smokers kick butts for day By Sarah Chadwick By Sarah Chadwick schadwick@kansan.com Kansan staff writer If the American Cancer Society gets its way, the air will be a little cleaner today because of the 21st annual Great American Smokeout. The Great American Smokeout is a one-day event that health officials hope will turn into a lifetime commitment for participants. (USPS 650-640) "The hope is that one in five smokers will quit," said Teresa Chapin, director of nursing at the Lawrence/Douglas County Community Health Center, 336 Missouri St. "If you can master it for 24 hours, then push yourself back to 48 hours. If you make if 48 hours without having a nervous breakdown, try for 72 hours. You have to go into it with a mind set that you're going to give it up for good." The goal of the Smokeout is for smokers to not have any cigarettes from midnight last night until midnight tonight. The society estimates that 12 million smokers will kick the habit for the day. Only 6 percent of people participating in the Smokeout will make it beyond the first 24 hours, the society estimates. For many of those who quit, friends play an important role in helping smokers stay committed to quitting, said Candyce Waitley, Watkins Memorial Health Center health educator. "We actually have adoption papers," Waitley said. "It begins with a commitment from a nonsmoker to help the person not to smoke during the Smokeout. Bribe them, support them, praise them." Waitile said that if smokers have somebody supporting them beyond the initial 24 hours, there is more incentive to not continue smoking. Adoption papers, as well as pamphlets about how to quit, can be picked up at Watkins. The American Cancer Society reported that more than 400,000 Americans die each year from tobacco use, and smokers lose an average of 15 years of their lifespan. Yet each day, about 6,000 teens try a cigarette and 3,000 teens become regular smokers. Chapin, a smoker herself, plans to quit during the Smokeout by munching on carrot and celery sticks or by chewing sugarless gum to curb the urge to smoke. "You really need to avoid your friends that smoke," Chapin said. "If you always go out to the back lot to smoke on break, don't go there on break. It really is social. That's one of the reasons it's so hard to quit. I know I will change my patterns to keep me from smoking." According to the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a smoker begins to benefit within minutes of quitting. After 20 minutes: - Blood pressure, pulse rate return to normal 24 hours: - Chance of heart attack begins to decrease 48 hours: - Nerve endings start regrowing - Senses of taste and smell are enhanced 1 to 9 months. 1 to 9 months - Body's overall energy increases - shortness of breath decrease 1 year - Coughing, fatigue, congestion, shortness of breath decrease Source: American Cancer M.D. Bradshaw/ KANSAN Disease Control and Prevention Choice to quit smoking habit up to individual By Emily C. Forsyth Kansan staff writer Bv Emily C. Forsyth John Ginn lost part of his lung as a result of exposure to secondhand smoke. Ginn, Knight distinguished professor of journalism, was a smoker for nearly twenty years, smoking two packs a day at the height of his addiction. Although Ginn's smoking habit made him more susceptible to lung cancer, doctors discovered through medical testing that secondhand smoke was the cause. Two years ago, Ginn underwent surgery to remove one node from his lung and then had to have radiation treatment and chemotherapy. He now uses this experience, which he said was the worst ordeal of his life, to warn his students who smoke about the dangers of this addictive habit. Ginn said he found it difficult to restrain himself from harping on students about smoking. "I hate to see people I know and admire, including my students, continue with such a life-threatening and painful habit," Ginn said. Like Ginn, other professors have made comments to students about the hazards of smoking, said Patrick Giroux, Leawood junior. "I've had professors approach me if they see me outside and say 'That'll kill you' or just little disapproving remarks in a joking fashion but actually caring." Giroux said. Ray Beeson, River Forest, Ill., freshman, said that an English teacher spoke about the dangers of smoking before class. "She just tells me that it's bad for me, and I understand that," Beeson said. "As an adult, she feels it's probably her job to say something to the younger generation." Unlike Beeson's teacher, Jeanne Klein, associate professor of theater, said that she does not discourage students from smoking because she thinks that it is each student's choice. "Everybody knows that smoking will kill you," Klein said. "It's up to each individual to choose to die from smoking or not." Klein said that she will not participate in the Great American Smokeout today because she had no desire to quit smoking. "I think it's stupid to say I'm going to quit for one day if I'm not going to quit for good." Klein said. Ginn said he knew several people who had successfully quit smoking on the annual Smokeout. Although he empathized with people who were struggling to quit smoking, Ginn said that the benefits provided more than enough incentive to kick the habit. "While I recognize it is difficult for people who are addicted to smoking cigarettes, it is not nearly as difficult as having chemotherapy treatments and radiation treatments and undergoing surgery to have a lung removed — that's very painful," Ginn said. "Quitting smoking is pretty easy compared to those things." Fraternity faces sanctions Beta Theta Pi punished after hazing-incident investigation The KU chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity is facing sanctions from the KU Interfraternity Council and possibly from the University of Kansas as a result of a hazing complaint filed last month. By Sarah McWilliams smcwilliams@kansan.com Kanson staff writer The fraternity received the sanctions Nov. 10 from the Interfraternity Council, and the fraternity had until Monday to appeal the sanctions. The fraternity did not appeal the sanctions. The University also may take action against the fraternity. The IFC has ended its investigation and has sent information about the complaint to the department of student life. No parties involved would comment about the specific nature of the IFC's sanctions. The sanctions resulted from a hazing complaint filed in October by a parent of a fraternity member who had left the chapter, said Bill Nelson, an adviser for the IFC. The complaint claimed that members of the fraternity had violated the hazing bylaws of the council. Brian Karney, president of the Interfraternity Council during the investigation, said that the council's executive board interviewed several members of the fraternity last week in an investigation of the alleged hazing. Karney is no longer the president of IFC, as it held its annual elections Tuesday. The bylaws state that hazing violates a student's rights. Hazing includes activities that threaten the mental or physical health of a student, cause the student excessive fatigue and physical discomfort or subject the student to extreme embarrassment or ridicule. "We spent time with all parties involved, and we found a middle ground on what sanctions to give," he said. See BETA on page 2A Poetic speech John Musgrave, a retired Marine and Vietnam veteran turned poet, addresses a group of Navy and Marine ROTC students in Stauffer-Flint Hall. Musgrave read poetry yesterday that he wrote in Vietnam. He addressed issues such as racism, pride, honor, loss of innocence, civil responsibility and horrors of modern warfare. Photo by Geoff Krieger/KANSAN Native Americans want logos to change Sports teams' use of mascots is insulting By Ryan Koerner Sy Ryan Koerner rkoerner@kansan.com Kansan staff writer The Kansas City Chiefs, the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves and the University of Illinois Fighting Illini are misrepresenting Native Americans, said one Native American activist. Cornel Peweardy, assistant professor in the School of Education's department of teaching and leadership, used these examples and more during his multimedia presentation yesterday at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The presentation focused on the incorrect portrayal of Native Americans as athletic-team trademarks. "Team mascots create stereotypes of Native Americans," Peewardy said. "When real Native Americans don't look like what is portrayed in the media, we become suspect as a people." Pewewardy, a Comanche, has presented his research findings on the use of Native Americans as mascots and logos to the Kansas Board of Education and the National Indian Education Association. "A lot of the issues in fixing the problem are money issues because the mascots of the athletic teams are trademarks," Pewwardy said. "It costs a lot of money to change a trademark." Regina Grass, president of the Native American Student Association and Vian, Okla., graduate student, agreed that change would be a long time in coming. Gloria Flores, coordinator of the Multicultural Resource Center which sponsored the event, said that Peewardy had been a helpful resource for Native American issues at the University of Kansas. "It is wrong to use our people as mascots, but that won't change any time soon because what is dominating that is capital." Grass said. Pewewardy said that Ohio's Miami University had done away with its insulting mascots and others should follow. Miami University has changed to the Red Hawks from the Redskins. "Saying 'Redskin' is like using the 'n-word' to refer to an African American," Peweward said. "A lot of people don't understand that." Peweyward said his goal was for all schools and professional teams to eliminate the use of Indian mascots. “This is a dialogue on racism,” Pewheward said. “Many people are very much not conscious of how they portray other peoples.” While Peweward continues to give presentations like the one yesterday, he said he also hoped to educate other Native Americans about the misrepresentation. "There are still a lot of Native Americans who endorse Indian mascots," Peewewardy said. "What I do in my classroom is teach future teachers to combat this mentality." Pewewardy shares his research about Indian mascots with his students so that they might pass it on to the children they teach. "Education is the key to everything, whether it's a mascot or cultural insensitivity or racism," Grass said. "Education is definitely where it's got to be." Correction: A story on the front page of yesterday's "Kansan" incorrectly identified the president of Haskell Indian Nations University as Bob Minor. His name is Bob Martin.