Friday, September 4, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 5
Guide gives KU high marks
University ranks among best buys
By Melody Ard
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas ranked as a top university in the latest round of rankings from the Fiske Guide to Colleges and U.S. News & World Report.
The Fiske Guide rates colleges on a star system in three categories: academics, social life and quality of life. The University received four out of five possible stars in each category.
The University's accounting, theater, journalism, child language development, finance, film and television and architecture programs were identified as attributes. The
University's study abroad program and the scholarship halls also were praised.
"We are very glad that they singled out the study abroad program." Margareta O'Connell, director of study abroad said. "We are one of the top programs in the United States in variety of choices as well as quality of the program. It's important to have a strong study abroad program in order to attract qualified students."
The guide is compiled by Edward B. Fiske, The New York Times education writer. Three hundred colleges are chosen annually for profiles, which are developed from interviews, questionnaires and surveys.
Amanda Matthews, Salina junior, said she wasn't surprised he University ranked well on national lists.
"I think the individual schools here all produce strong students," she
said, "We've also got a lot of good professors who don't just work at KU but have activities all over the world."
The University was among only 21 universities nationwide that were listed as "Best Buys" in the guide.
Colorado topped the Big 12 with a five-star rating in two categories, followed by the University of Kansas and the University of Texas both with three four-star ratings.
Other Big 12 schools included in the guide were Baylor University, Iowa State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska, the University of Oklahoma and Texas A & M.
In addition to the Fiske Guide, the University of Kansas was ranked as No. 30 in the 50 best public schools and was listed in the second-tier overall for national universities in the U.S.News & World Report Guide
The University of Kansas received four out of five stars in the report on the rating system. Kansas also received three awards for its program and scholarship halls.
Colorado
Top 3 Big 12 rankings
Kansas
Received two five-star ratings
Received three four-star ratings
Received three four-star ratings
to Colleges.
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Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Iowa State, Texas A & M, and Baylor also were ranked in the second tier.
Tunnel visions hit Murphy Hall
By Mariana Paiva
Kansan staff writer
A 64-mile water tunnel will be reproduced in Murphy Hall this weekend.
The New York water tunnel is the theme of Marty Pottenger's ploy "City Water Tunnel #3."
The performance is part of the department of theatre and film's Labor Day celebration called "The Art of Work, The Work of Art."
Another part of the celebration is the inauguration of the Performance Resource Center and Laboratory in Murphy Hall.
The inauguration will take place at 6:45 p.m. today in Murphy's Inge Gallery. Pottenger will perform at 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow in the Inge Theatre. Tickets cost $5 and are available at the Murphy Hall box office.
"I characterized the play as a docudrama," said Leslie Durham, graduate student in the department of theatre and film. "She interviewed a variety of geologists, engineers, secretaries, all kinds of people. She characterizes
Pottenger based the play on a real construction project in New York that started 20 years ago and will take at least 25 more years to be completed. The performance highlights some aspects of this $5-billion project.
the real people involved in the project."
Pottenger gained her construction skills working as a carpenter and contractor in Florida and New York. She decided to write the piece when she heard two workers talking about the construction. Ten years later, Pottenger already has won an Off Broadway Obie award and traveled throughout the United States with her play.
Durham said the choice of the play was perfect for celebrating Labor Day because although Pottenger's play shows daily life in a New York construction project, labor is a universal theme.
The performance tomorrow is dedicated to the employees of the department of facilities operations.
"They are kind of invisible people who do everything for us and don't get a lot of recognition for it," said Sharon Sullivan, graduate student in theater and film and event organizer.
She decided to bring Pottenger to Lawrence after watching her in a Women and Theater conference last August in Chicago.
"Potterting sees beauty in labor, sees aesthetic in everyday's thing. She thinks labor is fascinating and appealing," she said.
Tomorrow Pottenger will participate in a workshop teaching her
Marty Pottenger, New York performing artist, practices for her upcoming show "City Water Tunnel #3." Pottenger performs as a storyteller and guide and takes the audience through the construction of the 64-mile long tunnel with personal stories of the people building it. Her shows are Sept. 4 and 5 at the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. Photo by Dan Elvsky/KANSAN
Only those who signed up in advance will be able to participate
in the workshop, but anyone can come to the brown-bag discussion with Pottenger between 11:45 and 1 p.m. tomorrow at 209 Murphy
Researchers meet to discuss laser therapy
By Sue Franke
Kansan staff writer
Health care professionals from 30 countries traveled to America's heartland to discuss uses of low-level laser therapy as a medical tool.
Doctors, researchers, physicists, therapists, nurses, acupuncturists and scientists came to Kansas City this week to talk about how low-level laser therapy works as a tool for pain management, tissue repair and wound and skin ulcer care.
The meeting of the second congress of the World Association for Laser Therapy began Wednesday and ends tomorrow at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
Low-level laser therapy is not approved for use in the United
States, although it has been approved in many countries including Canada and Japan, said Chukuka Enwemeka, congress chairman and professor in the School of Allied Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"The Federal Drug Administration has said it can be used on a clinical, trial basis as an investigational device, but you can't use it as a therapy and charge for the service, and no one is going to treat a patient for free," he said.
Enwemeka is leading a clinical study at the Med Center using laser therapy to promote the healing of leg ulcers. He said he hoped that his study would lead to FDA approval of low-level laser therapy in the United States.
"The FDA has more rigorous requirements than most countries." Enwemeka said. "The FDA wants to see, in their hands, a clinical study that is double-blind with good experimental controls done in the United States. Studies do exist outside the United States."
Semion Rochkind, neurosurgeon, Tel Aviv, Israel, and president of the World Association for Laser Therapy, said the regulation committee in Israel was similar to the FDA.
Health care experts and the FDA will talk about what needs to be done in a panel discussion tomorrow.
The FDA wants to prove that laser therapy is both safe and efficacious, said Glen Calderhead, secretary-general of the World Association for Laser Therapy.
Rochkind, a leader in the use of lowlevel laser therapy with fetal tissue for treating spinal cord injuries, said he was conducting double-blind studies and expects low-level laser therapy to be approved in Israel in one-and-a-half years. He said he thought the therapy also would be approved in the United States within the same time frame.
Enwemeka said that low-level laser therapy was first used as a medical tool in the late 1960s by Endre Mester, a Hungarian radiologist. Mester used the laser to try to eradicate cancer in rats.
Calderhead referred to low-level laser therapy as the medical tool of the millennium because it brings pain relief and reconfigures scar tissue.
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