Thursday. September 25. 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Pharmacy students fill in at Watkins
By Sarah Nichols
When passing through Watkins Memorial Health Center, take a closer look behind the pharmacy counter.
Special to the Kansan
Pharmacy students, not licensed pharmacists, probably are filling your prescriptions.
Students in the Pharmacy Practice I course are required to have an internship at Watkins. Students in the School of Pharmacy have been filling student prescriptions for at least 25 years.
Because the pharmacy curriculum is extensive, it is important for students to make sure that being a pharmacist is what they want to do. Berger said
Hands-on experience for first-year pharmacy students helps them make a final decision about their selection of major early in their sequence of classes, said Christine Berger, the course's instructor.
The school requires two years of prerequisites before students can be admitted. Then students use the next four years in the school to take a variety of classes, and they spend a great deal of time at Watkins in the process.
Even so, high stress never has resulted in a mistake during her 25 years at the University of Kansas, Berger said.
"I think the fact that the students are filling a prescription for a real patient makes it a little more stressful," Berger said.
Nevertheless, when KU students found out that their prescriptions were being filled by fellow students, some were surprised.
"It concerns me because my treatment and well-being are put in the hands of someone other than a trained professional," said Matt Kern, Overland Park senior.
There is no cause for alarm, said Cathy Thrasher, Watkins head pharmacist. A licensed pharmacist supervises the students as they enter prescriptions into the computer and fill the prescriptions.
Pharmacy students Stephanie Moss, Sedalia, Mo., junior, and Dana Campell, Winfield junior, get hands-on training at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
"Everything they've done is checked twice before it actually gets to the patient," Thrasher said.
Hands-on training is necessary, said Laura Wvatt. Manhattan first-year pharmacy student.
"It's pretty vital since our whole curriculum is based around the drugs," she said.
Students said that working at Watkins is helpful from a training standpoint and for class discussions, said Joan Toben, Merriam first-year pharmacy student. Encountering problems while working with the drugs gives students more specific questions to ask instructors, she said.
Students in the class can sign up for as many
three-hour Watkins sessions as they need. By the end of the semester, the students must pass an exam with a perfect score because there is no room for errors in the field of pharmacy. Thrasher said.
aged by the time they spent at Watkins. Without it, they said, they would have no way to get a feel for their future profession.
Many pharmacy students said they were encour-
"It would be kind of like trying to be a firefighter without ever going through training." Wyatt said.
Student senator offers judicial-branch bill to rights committee
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A judicial branch of the Student Senate was introduced during last night's committee meetings.
During the Student Rights Committee meeting, a bill proposed by Kelly Huffman, Student Senate F...executive Committee chairman, outlined the formation of a Student Judicial Board.
The board's purpose, Huffman said, was to give a forum for grievances between students, student organizations and Student Senate which is unavailable now.
Huffman's bill has been tabled, meaning that it will be two weeks before the Senate can resume discussion on its format. Not enough committee members were in attendance at the end of last night's meeting to vote on the bill, Huffman said.
"I foresee the judicial board having its greatest impact on interpreting our own rules and regs," Huffman said.
The Student Senate Rules and Regulations is the operating code by which the Student Senate conducts its business.
Much like the Supreme Court deals with interpreting the Constitution of the United States, Huffman said he hoped his proposed judicial board would interpret the rules and regulations.
At the end of last year, a similar bill was proposed but vetoed by Chancellor Robert Hemenway. Huffman was on hand for that bill's failure and said that he had learned from its mistakes.
"The reason that we didn't go for it before was that it was written in kind of a hurried fashion," Huffman said. "I changed a lot of peripheral stuff, but basically, it's the same thing."
Jason Fizell, Student Rights Committee member, is concerned about the bill. Fizell said he supported most of the bill and helped write it, but he objected to a provision in the bill allowing election violations to be appealed to the proposed judiciary board.
"It's very open to manipulation because student senators are on it." he said.
Fitzell, a former student body-president candidate, objected to the bill last year because he said he felt the new judiciary was being formed solely to appeal Scott Sullivan and Malden's violations in last year's election.
Sullivan, student body president, said a judiciary board was a step in the right direction.
"I think it's a good way for students to have input into what goes on here," Sullivan said. "I think students are afraid this will be some huge ball of red tape, but it will be students dealing with student issues."
Three judicial boards already exist at the University: The departmental judiciary boards, the student-affairs judiciary and at the highest level, the University Judiciary. Huffman's bill would create a body below the University Judiciary.
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