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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
AIDS
Library display raises AIDS awareness
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrecht@kansan.com
The display, "Reach Out: Scholarly and Visual Communication to Promote AIDS Awareness," opens on the third floor of Watson Library tonight at 5 p.m. and includes both new information on the disease and older University Daily Kansan articles covering its presence at the University in the 1980s, said Rebecca Smith, KU Libraries communications director.
A collection of posters for AIDS awareness, research on AIDS from the KU Medical Center and a scrapbook of undergraduate field study on AIDS in Uganda will all be on display in the newest KU Libraries exhibit.
Patty Quinlan, nursing supervisor at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she has seen a growing need for raising AIDS awareness and concern in the KU community since those articles were published.
In the 1980s, she said, students exercised more caution because they often could connect a face of someone they knew who had died from AIDS.
Now, she said, she has noticed that students no longer take AIDS as seriously, despite its continuing presence and threat at the University, because newer medications delay its onset in people who have contracted HIV.
"Prior to the early '90s, individuals died within weeks to months of discovering they had HIV", Quinlan said. "There's complacency because it has become a chronic disease with the amount of knowledge we have about the virus. It's not as feared as it once was. I think there's a strong misconception that it won't happen to the individual, that it's someone else's disease."
According to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, there were 300,400 people living with HIV or AIDS statewide.
Quinlan said Watkins always related results of positive HIV tests to students in person and that the reactions she has seen have consistently been the same. She compared them to the reactions people have when they lose their closest loved ones unexpectedly.
“It's no different.” Quinlan said, that stunned feeling. He had stu-
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WHO: KU Libraries
WHAT: "Reach Out: Scholarly and Visual Communication to Promote AIDS Awareness"
WHEN: Today, 5-7 p.m.
WHERE: Third floor of Johnson Library
Event is free and open to the public. RSVP to Courtney Foat, cfof@ku.edu
CAMPUS
Two students struck by vehicles yesterday
BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
Two pedestrian-versus-vehicle accidents near campus Wednesday sent two students to area hospitals.
Trevor Manthey, a graduate research assistant in social welfare, was life-flighted to Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka after being hit by a truck, KU Public Safety Office
captain Schuyler Bailey said.
Manthey was riding a bicycle when he was hit on Engel Road slightly south of 15th Street around 4 p.m., Bailey said.
No more information about Manthey's medical status could be obtained.
Anthony Livengood, Overland Park sophomore, was walking when he was hit near the intersection of Naismith Drive and
Crescent Road around 7:45 a.m. according to Lawrence Police representatives.
Hillary Hoffman, Overland Park junior, was the driver in the accident and was cited at the scene for failure to yield to a pedestrian, Kim Murphree, Lawrence Police spokeswoman said.
Livengood was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Dana Meredith, Lenexa sophomore and University Daily Kansan staff member, was walking on Jayhawk Boulevard at the time of the collision in which Livengood was hit. She described hearing the screech of brakes and then "an awful thud." She said she saw Livengood being turned face-up as he lay on the pavement and described his face as bloody and "very dazed."
By chance, Meredith also witnessed the scene of Manthey's accident. She said she did not see Manthey, but saw police interviewing the driver of the truck involved in the collision "for a good hour."
Brandon Sayers contributed reporting to this story.
Check Kansan.com for updates.
GETTING SMARTER
Toughening up admissions
Parkinson hopes to improve University's academic ranking by attracting better students
DANIEL JOHNSON
djohnson@kansan.com
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson wants the University of Kansas to improve its national rankings but he isn't asking football coach Mangino or basketball coach Bill Self to lead the way.
In a recent address to the Board of Regents, Parkinson called for the six state universities, Kansas, Kansas State, Pittsburgh State, Wichita State, Emporia state and Fort Hays State to improve their standings in national college rankings such as the US News & World Report.
Instead, the University is counting on students' ability to perform in the classroom.
"Our graduation rates have to be better," Lynn Bretz, University spokeswoman, said. "Improve these and rankings will follow."
Though the rankings are widely read and accepted, state officials still acknowledge flaws in relying on subjective rankings to judge academic success.
University officials said improved rankings could bolster the University's national reputation, keeping outstanding students in-state, attracting high quality out-ofstate students and strengthening employment opportunities for graduates.
"There are many ways to raise rankings without actually improving education," Kansas Regent Jill Docking said. "Any ranking system has flaws."
Parkinson addressed several University shortcomings that contributed to the University's low ranking in the U.S. News & World Report's annual college rank-
BIG 12 BREAKDOWN
Academic rankings/ Fall 2008 acceptance rates
2. Texas A&M - 61st
1. Texas - 47th
(70.1 percent acceptance)
3. Colorado - 77th
(78 percent acceptance) 4. Baylor - 80th
(51.4 percent acceptance)
5. lowa State- 88th
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(87.3 percent acceptance)
6. Kansas - 96th
(91.8 percent acceptance)
(91.8 percent acceptance)
7. **Nebraska** - 96th
(63 percent)
8. Missouri – 102nd (80.5 percent)
9. Oklahoma – 102nd (81.5 percent)
10. Kansas State – Tier 3 (84.4 percent)
11. Oklahoma State – Tier 3 (89 percent)
12. Texas Tech – Tier 3 (72.1 percent)
Note: Tier-3 schools are ranked between 134 and 196
- US News & Global Report
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