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November 13, 1997
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Vol. 108 • No. 61
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Freshman running back David Winbush is one of 12 Kansas football players from Texas. The 'Hawks play at Austin, Texas, on Saturday.
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Morning-after pill facts
- Must be taken within 72 hours of
Available at Planned Parenthood for $32.
Available at Watkins Memorial Health Center for $27.50
Is about 98 percent effective
Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, headaches and fluid retention
Group urges awareness of morning-after contraceptive
By Sarah Chadwick
schodwick@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Emergency birth control is something that many women still do not know about, said Shelley Rogers, marketing coordinator for Planned Parenthood in Lawrence.
Members of the University of Kansas Pro-Choice Coalition and Planned Parenthood of Mid-Missouri and Eastern Kansas discussed the morning-after pill at a KU Pro-Choice Coalition meeting last night at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 2104 Oread. Fourteen people attended, the majority of whom were KU students.
Rogers said, "More than anything, we are stressing that a lot of people don't know the medical aspects: how it works, where to go to get it. That's our problem."
Most people who have visited Planned Parenthood for emergency contraception did so because the regular form of birth control failed or because the woman was a victim of date rape, bev Rice, Planned Parenthood nurse practitioner. The pill is not meant to be used as a regular form of contraception. Rice said.
The morning-after pill was approved for use last February by the Food and Drug Administration, even though people had been using it as such for more than 30 years, Rice said.
The emergency contraception is a combination of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, taken in higher doses than conventional contraceptives. The dose consists of four pills taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse, Rice said. Another four pills are administered 12 hours after the first dose.
"The sooner they get in, the better and the more effective," Rice said. "The effectiveness rate is in the high 90's, probably 80 percent."
If the morning-after treatment is administered during the first half of the woman's menstrual cycle, it prevents the egg from being released, Rice said. If is taken mid-cycle, it prevents the egg from being implanted or fertilized.
Regan Cowan, Scottsdale, Ariz. senior, attended the meeting.
"I didn't know that it was prevention," Cowan, a member of the ProChoice Coalition, said. "I thought it was termination. I learned that they are different."
The pill will not terminate a pregnancy if one already has been established. Rice said.
Rice said side effects may include nausea, vomiting, headaches, fluid retention and dizziness.
CLARIFICATION
The morning-after pills, pregnancy test and counseling cost $32 at Planned Parenthood. Watkins Memorial Health Center offers the services for $27.50.
Because of incorrect information provided by a source, the "Kansan" reported that the deadline for applying for the Nike P.L.A.Y.CORPS is tomorrow. The deadline is Jan. 1. For more information, contact Drew King, Nike's student representative at the University, at: drew.king@nike.com
Senate OKs Pow-Wow request
Semester's largest finance bill passes by vote of 52-4
By Tim Harrington tharrington @kansan.com Kansan staff reporter
Last night Student Senate made peace with the Native American Student Association after the group said that its culture had been disrespected last week in the finance committee.
Student Senate made amends by approving the largest funding bill to go through Senate this year.
The bill to fund a Pow-Wow and
Native American writers convention, which will be put on by NASA, called for the allocation of $7,577.
Although last night's meeting did not include any cultural insensitivities, at least none so severe that NASA felt compelled to leave the room, as happened at last week's finance committee meeting, there was much debate about whether Student Senate should allocate roughly 17 percent of its unallocated account for one bill.
Scott Merchant, business senator, stressed that while Senate should finance NASA's Pow-Wow. Senate needed to careful with its money because of a reduced Senate budget from last year.
He wanted to amend the bill down to $4,500.
"We need to be financially responsible," Merchant said. "The budget's tighter this year, and we need to be fair to groups that are going to come through later in the semester."
Last year, Student Senate had $64,000 to allocate to groups and events. This year, because of a reduction in the Student Senate fee, it has only $54,000.
Rochelle Votaw, LA&S senator and bill sponsor, said she was pleased but there still was work to be done as far as cultural sensitivity was concerned.
After Jones spoke, Senate called for a roll-call vote. The bill passed 52-4 to a round of Student Senate applause.
Dion Jones, holdover senator, said he is usually in favor of reducing funding but in this case, he wanted to spend.
"For the whole year, I've been trying to make this point to Senate and to finance that we need to pay more attention to how these groups spend the money we give them." Jones said.
"They've gotten $10,000 from the chancellor. They've gotten money from the community. This event cost $30,000, and they're asking us for $7,000," Jones said.
"What more do we want them to do?"
Jones said that because NASA traditionally had managed its finances well, the group deserved the allocation it
asked for.
"This is a major triumph toward building a bridge between two cultures that have historically been alienated from each other," Votaw said. "Sometimes, it's easy to forget that we're dealing with a people who have a history and culture that is different from our own but has no less value."
Limited access: Computers keep lock on Learned
New technology system monitors lab security
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
New computerized locking systems are providing Learned Hall with a way to keep track of who enters the laboratories.
Students using the labs may be confused as to the point of the new system, but KU police and engineering department representatives agreed that the systems were becoming more and more common as a way to control access to sensitive equipment areas.
Glen Waterfield said, "They are not there so much to protect the laboratories but more to manage access in to the lab. I think they are very effective in managing the security and access." Waterfield is the director of laboratories for the engineering department.
The engineering department began installing the system less than a year ago. It is continuing to install new keypad devices on laboratories in both Learned and Snow halls.
"We are making a concentrated effort to have all the labs have keynads." he said.
Students in electrical engineering and computer science usually do not receive the codes. Instead, they rely on a graduate teaching assistant or professor to let them into the lab.
"The only time I used the system was over the summer, and we couldn't get into the lab," said Andrew Reeves, Lenexa junior.
"I thought the locks were put in to make it more convenient, but it wasn't. We were supposed to get the code from the TA, but we still couldn't get in unless the TA was there. I'm not sure of the point of the system," he said.
"The biggest thing this saves on is manpower and time," he said. "With a key system, people have to fabricate the keys, distribute the keys, keep tract of the keys and recover old keys."
Waterfield did not have available the exact price of the system, but he said he thought the computerized locks were more cost effective than a key-locking system.
With the older brass key system, Waterfield said rekeying a door took a lot of time and excess expense. The new keypad, push-button system allows doors to be rekeyed within minutes, he said.
The keypad locks installed in Learned and Snow halls by the engineering and computer science department accept multiple codes. It is up to the professor who uses the lab to decide which students receive security codes.
"The advantage with the computerized system is that a combination can be readily changed," Welsh said. "I'd say the flexibility of the system is the biggest advantage. We're seeing these systems being installed throughout the campus."
KU police officer Burdel Welsh agreed.
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A time to remember
Navy ROTC Derek Rader, Baldwin freshman, (right) and Sarah Beamer, Oakley freshman, stand vigil at the Vietnam Memorial at the University of Kansas campus. Tuesday's ceremony commemorated Veterans Day and began the 24-hour vigil. Members of the Air Force, Army and Navy ROTC tow turns standing vigil until 4 p.m. yesterday. Photo by Pam Dishman/KANSAN
Gobblers find sanctuary at farms
Sponsorship spares animals from knife
By Daniel E. Thompson
dthompson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Proponents of Animal Liberation have tried to forget turkey bowling for now. Instead, the group set up a table yesterday in front of Wescoo Hall to raise money for Farm Sanctuary, a national animal rights organization. Proceeds are to benefit the group's annual "Adopt-A-Turkey" campaign.
Holly McNulty, administrative director of Farm Sanctuary, said the nonprofit organization ran two farms, one in upstate New York and another in Northern California. Both farms housed recipe animals, like cows and turkeys, which otherwise are raised for slaughter. The two farms combined have about 225 turkeys living out their lives without pain and suffering, she said.
About a couple thousand people pay $15 to adopt a turkey every year, McNulty said. The turkeys live at the farm sanctuaries. Other people adopt a turkey and keep it at their home.
A fund-raising dance party Saturday night at 420 Indiana St. is intended to raise money for the cause, said Michael Schmitt, Harrisonburg, Va., graduate student. The door donation is $3 with a veggie canned good. The canned food will be donated to FoodNotBombs.
The Ellsworth Hall government executive board already has pledged to adopt a turkey. But that is not pleasing PAL.
"They wouldn't have ever known about that project, or thought to participate if it wasn't for PAL," Schmitt said. "It really seems like an admission of guilt."
The PAL information table yesterday was laden with pamphlets and filers like a Thanksgiving feast. But the sign said it all: Happy Vegetarian Thanksgiving.
"What we're doing is letting people know how poorly turkeys and other animals are treated and to make choices that help animals instead of hurt them." Schmitt said. "If you care about animals and want to help them, the most helpful thing you can do is become a vegetarian."
According to one of the pamphlets, turkeys (and other poultry) do not have to be stunned during slaughter. As a result, millions of turkeys slowly are bled to death.
Such treatment concerns members of PAL.
Industry reports indicate that the slaughter process sometimes is brutal. The turkeys are hanged upside down on metal shackles, the pamphlet said, and when the knife misses its mark, or the conveyor belt is moving too quickly, the birds are boiled alive in the scalding tank.
Such treatment concerns its members of PAL.
"It's not so bad that they eat the turkeys," said Sarah Yannaccone, Sterling freshman.
"It's the way it is produced. It's not like hundreds of years ago when turkeys and different animals were hunted and every part was used; the animals had some sort of life."
This is Tofu Tom
Join Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-a-Turkey Project
This "Tofu Tom" pamphlet is one of the ways Farm Sanctuary raises awareness of the group's concern for animals.
However, some students do not see any need for saving kurtys through adoption.
"Birds are for eating," said Katherine Lyddon, Liberal junior. "They're yummy. It's terrible the way they're treated, but it's terrible the way some humans are treated. They should concentrate on their own species. Instead of Adopt-A-Turkey, how about Adopt-A-Human?"
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