Thursday, September 10, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 3
The professional touch
Lakeshia Jackson, St. Louis junior, gets a make-over at the Seventeen magazine booth. The magazine also held a model search from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.yesterday in front of the Kansas Union. Photo by Daniel Sutor/KANSAN
KU alumnus, movie director Labute phones home to KJHK
By Augustus Anthony Piazza
Kanson staff writer
A KU alumnus has made a name for himself in the field of chemistry.
Neil Labute, a writer and director, has had two critically acclaimed movies released in the past two years — In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors.
"There's a growing popularity of art-house movies," he said.
Labute was the call-in guest on the KJHK show Real Alternative Radio yesterday.
Labute: Directed Your Friends and Neighbors.
ing," said Rachel Robson, Baldwin junior and host of the show. "I just personally wanted to chat with him. I thought, what kind of a person can make a movie like that?"
"I think he's interest-
Labute's newest movie, *Your Friends and Neighbors*, stars Bent Stiller and Jason Patric.
The movie has been criticized for its cynicism.
Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post said
that Labute's newest movie was misanthropic. On the KJHK show, Labute said his movies were for movieiegoers who enjoyed good films.
Labute was in the theater department when he attended the University of Kansas.
He said on the show that he always had been a closet writer and that when he attended the University, he would walk around campus looking for places to perform his plays.
KU students, professors to help Lawrence survey public opinion
Two University of Kansas professors are working with their students to develop survey questions geared toward the public's opinion on traffic safety and public transportation in Lawrence.
After the broadcast, Labute offered some advice to students. He said that in order to be successful, students had to have tenacity.
The graduate classes and their professors will write the questionnaires and compile the data for the Lawrence citizen survey, which is administered biannually.
He also said that students should be passionate about their goals.
Steven Maynard-Moody, chairman of the department of public administration, Kurt Thraieral, and associate professor of public administration, teach two sections ofPUAD 836.Introduction to Quantitative Analysis.
Your Friends and Neighbors has not reached Lawrence vet.
Stephanie Wachs, a manager at Southwind 12,33rd and Iowa streets, said Your Friends and Neighbors wouldn't be seen in Lawrence for at least two weeks.
By Chris Fickett Kansan staff writer
Roughly three-quarters of the 100 to 115 survey questions will be identical to those of previous surveys. The focus of the remainder of the survey questions will be determined by the Lawrence City Commission and written by Maynard-Moody and Thurmaier's classes.
"If you don't feel like you have to do it, then don't do it." he said.
Wachs said the movie might be difficult for the theater's booker to obtain because there are a limited amount of copies.
Tuesday, Maynard-Moody asked the commission for their input on what
"The movie would most likely be shown in the Plaza 6 movie theater if the booker gets a hold of it." Wachs said.
Maynard-Moody said that traditionally the commission had stated an area of focus for the survey. He said the last survey focused on recreation issues.
issues these questions should target.
Commissioner John Nalbandian, who also is a professor of public administration, said he would like to see people's preferences about public transportation in the survey.
Particularly, he said he would like to know how the public would react to spending money for public-transportation improvements.
Commissioner Bob Moody was interested in the public's opinion on traffic safety.
"I would like to know what the public thinks are our worst intersections," he said.
"The task at hand is getting the questions ready for the survey," he said.
Maynard-Moody said that with the commission's input, professor Thurmaier's class and his class could begin drafting the questions.
The standard questions already written range from how well citizens are
Sarah Hannah, Billings, Mont., graduate student, said that she wanted to work as a city manager after she received her master's degree and that one of the requirements of being a city manager was to use public-opinion data.
pleased with city services, such as police, fire, sanitation and parks, to how they would rate the quality of their neighborhoods, schools, cultural activities and the city as a whole.
"This experience is to learn how surveys work and learn what to look for from data as city managers," she said.
Thurmaier, who has worked on the last four surveys, said those questions remained the same from survey to survey so that an analysis of public opinion through the years could be made.
Once a draft of the questionnaire is commented on by the commissioners and the city manager, the survey will be conducted by phone from Oct. 5 to 18 and the results will be published in January or February, Maynard-Moody said.
One of the students who will be working on the survey said she would gain valuable experience for her future career.
It's immunization or held enrollment
By Sue Franke
Kansan staff writer
Students who have not yet provided proof of having had their measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccinations will have a hold put on their enrollment for the spring semester.
The first vaccination for MMR takes places between 12 and 15 months of age. It's the second vaccination that some students, particularly older, non-traditional students, may have missed.
People born in or after 1978 usually have had the second vaccine. Often, those born between 1963 and 1967 have not been immunized and need to do so, said Diane Hendry, supervisor of required immunizations at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Watkins provides a health history form that must be completed and signed by a physician to show documentation of vaccination.
"The best thing to do is to just call us to make sure you have turned in everything you need to and it's in order." she said.
Last fall, 10 percent of the records of the 25,108 students enrolled were on hold for failing to show vaccination
documentation.
Students may choose to be exempt from the vaccination for medical, religious or personal reasons. However, they need to indicate the exemption on the health history form.
The form states that in the event of an outbreak of one of these diseases, exempted students would be subject to exclusion from school and quarantine. In addition, students who have not turned in documentation would be asked to leave the University in the case of an outbreak.
Hendry said that the older a student was, the more serious the diseases could be.
hearing loss and in rare cases, sterility," she said.
Hendry said that pregnant women who had contracted rubella, also called three-day measles or German measles, were at risk for delivering a baby with severe birth defects, such as mental retardation, blindness and deafness.
Measles, mumps and rubella are spread by droplet infections, such as coughs, sneezes, direct contact with the saliva of an infected person or contact with contaminated materials.
In the worst case scenario, measles can cause death. Mumps can cause
"Students who need an immunization shot can get one for $10 at Watkins, which is significantly less than what a private-practice physician would charge," said Randall Rock, Watkins chief of staff.
Vaccination Information
People born after Jan. 1, 1957 who have not received the MMR vaccination after one year of age or who have never been diagnosed with measles, mumps or rubella must be immunized
- Students born between 1963 and 1967 who received the vaccine must be re-immunized because of an ineffective vaccine given during that period.
Students can go to Watkins for vaccination shots from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday without an appointment
■ For those who are not sure they have the correct documentation, call the Watkins Immunization Department at 864-9533.
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