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Morning-after pill brings little change
Watkins birth-control policies remain same
By Chris Fickett Kansan staff writer
（USPS 650-640）
The Food and Drug Administration's approval of the "morning-after pill" probably won't affect Watkins Memorial Health Center's procedures, said Henry Buck, gynecologist for Watkins.
Buck said that the new drug was similar to the emergency contraception method that Watkins uses.
Emergency contraception is used mainly when traditional forms of birth control fail. Buck said.
If a patient requested emergency contraception from Watkins, a pregnancy test would be given to assure that the patient had not become pregnant more than 72 hours beforehand, Buck said.
If the test were to come back negative, he would prescribe Ovral, which is an
emergency birth control pill. The patient would take four pills, two at first and two more 12 hours later.
The FDA approved the use of six brands of birth control pills for emergency contraception in February 1997. The morning-after pill, which is marketed under the name PREVEN, needed approval because it was a new product.
Women who think they may have become pregnant must use emergency contraception within 72 hours for it to be effective, Buck said.
The new drug will be available with a doctor's prescription, but women should not view the morning-after pill as an alternative to traditional birth control methods, he said.
"We recommend that people do not rely on using it." Buck said.
"If you screwed up, then you deal with it," she said.
iris Borem, Tulsa, Okla., junior, said that she thought that couples who had unprotected sex should not rely on the drug as a method of birth control.
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"It's not only a scientific but an ethical advance. Women now have more options and have long deserved to have the rights to prevent unplanned pregnancies."
Arthur Caplan Director of the Center of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania
FDA approves contraceptive
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — The Food and Drug Administration yesterday allowed the first-ever sales and marketing of a kit of emergency contraceptive pills that women can take the morning after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.
The PREVEN kits will be available by prescription by the end of September, said Roderick Mackenzie, chairman and founder of Gynetics Inc. of Somerville, N.J., which won the first approval to advertise and to sell morning-after pills.
The FDA has long told women and doctors how to use standard birth-control pills in this manner, and the agency last year gave out specific information about which pills and dosages were effective as contraception up to 72 hours after unprotected sex.
But today's approval allows a pharmaceutical company to advertise and to sell special morning-after packets
that women can keep in their medicine cabinets.
"It's not only a scientific but an ethical advance," said Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "Women now have more options and have long deserved to have the rights to prevent unplanned pregnancies."
Anti-abortion groups, however, have criticized the method.
The morning-after pills are different from RU-486, the French abortion pill, which actually ends a pregnancy several weeks after it has begun.
Gynetics had said the company would market the emergency kit last year, becoming the first U.S. company to take action since the FDA approved using contraceptive pills for emergency birth control.
In February 1997, the FDA said six brands of birth-control pills were safe and effective as morning-after pills,
See MORNING on page 2A
Over the top
Nathan Rodriguez, Lawrence sophomore, falls backward while taking a shot over Tom Seymour, Lawrence sophomore, Rodriguez and Seymour played in a pickup basketball game yesterday at the Veterans Park basketball courts. See page 3B for article and photo about pickup basketball. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
The Great Outdoors
Do you like being outdoors? Do you need something to do during the holiday? You can find a guide to outdoor activities in Lawrence inside the sports section. See page 3B-6B
School of Law to lose dean
Bv Sarah Hale
Students and faculty members are disappointed and surprised that the dean of the School of Law announced his intent to resign Tuesday.
Kansan staff writer
Hoefflich does have plans to remain at the University as a full professor and as a distinguished member of the faculty, but his plans for the future are full of options, Eglinski said.
Michael Hoeflich will resign June 30, 1999 for personal reasons, but he wanted to leave plenty of time for the school to find a replacement, said Geogann Eglinklis, associate dean.
"It was a real disappointment to myself and the staff," she said. "My sense is that the faculty feels a sense of loss."
Jason Lacey, Lawrence second year law student, had Hoefflich as a professor
and was his research assistant last spring.
"I appreciated his approach to teaching and the effort he made to always be in contact with the students," Lacey said. "I think he's made a very successful effort to improve the law school in the four years that he's been here. I'm sorry to see him go, and I wish him well."
Webb Hecker, professor of business and corporate law, said that Hoeflich would be hard to replace.
"He's always been very supportive of the faculty and anything that we've wanted to do that has merit," he said. "He brought us into the 21st century."
Hecker said that Hoelflich's reasons for leaving were personal.
"It has nothing to do with his dissatisfaction with the Law School or the Law
School's dissatisfaction with him," he said.
Eglinski said that the process for selecting a replacement was long and complicated. She said that the school would begin a formal search for a dean that would take at least a semester.
"We are very open to looking at the outside as well as the inside," she said. "The faculty would not be opposed either way."
Hoefflich came to the University of Kansas in 1994 from Syracuse University, where he was dean of the law school and a professor.
Hoefflich also has worked at the University of Illinois' law school and in private practice in Champaign, Ill.
He received his law degree from Yale University and master's degrees from Cambridge University and Haverford College.
In addition to his position
as dean, Hoeflich has taught various courses at the University and has edited or coauthored five books, with three more in progress.
This semester he is teaching "Murder more Foul: Legal, Literary, Historical and Biological Aspects of Murder" in Templin Hall as part of a seminar, Eglinski said.
Hoeflich was selected as the Kane distinguished professor of law in 1997, which was the first endowed professorship in the school.
Eglinski said that Hoeflich's expertise in technology, his desire to bring in international scholars and his speciality in legal history had been important to the school.
"No matter what he does,
I expect that he will continue to teach others," she said.
Hoeflich could not be reached for comment.
University aids Haskell's housing woes
By Sarah Hale
Kansan staff writer
Waking up late for class is a nightmare most students experience at least a couple times during their scholastic careers.
If the students are in the residence halls, they simply have to roll out of bed and catch the next bus to the Hill.
But 24 students living in the residence halls have to get in their cars and drive across town to Haskell Indian Nations University.
Once those students are on campus, they usually don't head back to McCollum Hall until after dinner.
Nicole Dauhiniphi, a Haskell Indian Nations University sophomore, watches television in her McCollum Hall room. A group of Haskell students are staying at McCollum because of renovations at the Haskell dormitories. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
"It's definitely a disadvantage to have to drive to class every day," Nicole Dauphainais, Atlanta Haskell sophomore, said. "But like it because we have more freedom here."
Dauphinais said that she usually stayed on campus after her morning classes, visited her friends or went somewhere to study before heading back to McColum.
"I feel like I haven't met a lot of people," she said. "It's hard, because I'm never here."
Because enrollment was unexpectedly high, Haskell's residence halls did not have enough room to house all of their students. Also, renovations to two of the Haskell residence halls, Osceola-Keokuk and Winona, reduced the amount of housing available.
Although the Haskell residence halls will be open in August 1999 students such as Perry Biglefhand, Lamedeer, Mont. must live at the University of Kansas for at least this semester.
Bob Martin, president of Haskell, said that if enrollment decreased by the spring semester, the Haskell student living at the University probably would be able to move into Haskell's residence halls.
"I never thought that I'd be staying here in a big college dorm," said Biglefthand, who is in his second semester at Haskell. "I like it though. It's a different experience from what I was expecting."
Students who live at Haskell do not have to pay housing fees. Marti, said that Haskell paid the additional expenses of its students living at McCollum.
Stoner, director of KU Student Housing Department, said that the University always should be
"Without the additional housing at KU, it is unlikely that these students would be able to continue their education," Martin said. "I really want to thank KU, especially Ken Stoner, for helping us find a remedy to this problem."
In the past, Haskell students had never had to stay at the KU residence halls, but they have staved in apartments.
willing to help neighboring institutions.
"If it came down to staying here next year or going to the Haskell dorms, I'd rather stay here," Dauphinais said. "It's more comfortable."
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