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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, August 28,1998
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Camp teaches kids about disease
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Most kids swim, hike and throw the Frisbee at summer camp.
This summer, a group of about 100 kids, aged 7 to 15, played, but also learned about cancer, diabetes or cystic fibrosis. They are siblings of children who have these diseases.
By Sue Franke
Kansan staff writer
These children are part of a research study led by Phoebe Williams, professor at the University of Kansas School of Nursing. She was awarded a three-year, $1.3 million dollar grant in July to investigate the effects of intervention for siblings of sick children through teaching and counseling.
attended the first camp in July, which provided only the social activities of camp. An August camp with 100 kids had social activities and added teaching and counseling by nurse clinicians.
The study involves kids spending a week at Camp Shawnee in Parkville, Mo. About 100 children
A third camp, which will have only social activities, is planned for July 1999. Parents, and their children who will attend that camp, are being evaluated for their level of understanding of the disease before the camp intervention.
williams said the children who attended camp learned from one another.
"They find out for the first time that there are other brothers and sisters just like them," she said. "By listening to those disclosures, they really grow up."
Carole Hafeman, a clinical nurse specialist from Children's Mercy
Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., counselled kids at the August camp on spina bifida, a defect in the spinal column.
"For the first two days, we looked at what systems in the body are affected by spina bifida," she said. "We used hands-on examples, so we used filters and different fluids to show how those fluids affect the kidneys."
rarents don't often openly discuss a chronically-ill child's disease with the rest of the family, said Anne Guthrie, doctoral student at the Beach Center on Families and Disabilities in Lawrence.
"One person said, 'It's like there's a big, pink elephant in the middle of the living room, and no one is acknowledging it's there,'" she said.
Gusfrie, whose boarder is man-
Gusfrie, whose boarder is man-
tally retarded and has worked with many siblings of sick children, said she had seen many common themes with the siblings.
"kids have the feeling that they probably caused the problem," she said. "Sometimes they wish they had the illness or disability to get mom and dad's attention."
Williams said reports indicated that as many as 26 percent of siblings of children with chronic illnesses develop mental health or behavior problems.
If the study reveals that the counseling and teaching are beneficial, Williams said the project would become a state program in Kansas and Missouri. Follow-up evaluations with parents and the children who attended the camps will take place to determine how the families benefited from the experience.
Yeltsin under pressure amid financial woes
The Associated Press
The president's new prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, claimed yesterday night that although the situation was not simple, it absolutely was controllable. But there was no sign Yeltsin or his lieutenant had begun to contain the crisis.
MOSCOW — Pressure mounted on Boris Yeltsin to resign yesterday as Parliament leaders proposed Soviet-style measures — currency controls, fixed prices and state ownership — to contain Russia's escalating financial crisis.
Exchange markets remained officially frozen, and the ruble's value continued to collapse in street trading, while ordinary Russians struggled to make sense of the situation. Should they withdraw savings in rubles? Stock up on groceries? Or assume they would get by somehow as they have during other post-Soviet crises?
Yeltsin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhemski vehemently denied that the president was preparing to step down. Both Washington and the Kremlin said yesterday that next week's Yeltsin-Clinton summit, set for Tuesday in Moscow, was still on.
It was clear that the Kremlin was now willing to consider solutions previously rejected — steps the West is likely to see as moving backward from a free market.
Chernomyrdin and other government figures held consultations with top Parliament leaders - most of them Communists and other hard-liners - who presented a draft plan for fixing the economy by bringing back Soviet-style economic controls. The possibilities include nationalizing major industries, controlling prices and fixing currency exchange rates.
"Privatization didn't lead to a restructuring of the economy and has failed to create an effective class of property owners," the draft said. "The situation demands increasing the role of the state in regulating the economy."
Kremilin officials took part in the deliberations, but it was unclear how much support the specific proposals may have from Yeltsin and his team.
Yeltsin: Faces political backlash from economic crisis
Communist leaders also continued to
pressure Yeltsin politically. Genndy Seleznoy, the Communist speaker of Parliament's lower house, said they were preparing a bill to lay out the privileges available to a former president, including membership in the upper house for 10 years.
Meanwhile, the financial markets continued to crumble. The Central Bank suspended all currency trading, saying the suspension would continue today — effectively freezing all trading through the weekend.
The last transactions Tuesday left the official exchange rate at 7.86 rubles to the dollar, but the street rate has continued to fall, dropping below 10 rubles to the dollar at exchange booths around Moscow.
Russian media said the cancellation of dollar sales signaled that the government was preparing to impose state control over the currency market, which could revive the black currency market.
The halt has generated a severe shortage of dollars both for banks and residents.
Renovations sound harmonious to Murphy occupants
By Mariana Paiva
Kansan staff writer
Lectures in Murphy Hall constantly are interrupted by voice and instrument rehearsals that take place in other classrooms. Soon, sounds from construction equipment will add to this symphony.
Students and professors in Murphy Hall will have to be patient with the two-year renovation and construction that will add 52,000 square feet to the building.
One of the major features of the project will be a 12,000-squarefoot library, which will include an upgraded and expanded computer lab. The library will be three times as large as the current one, said Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts.
"Also, there will be three major rehearsal spaces for orchestras, bands and ensembles." he said.
Thompson said that rehearsal space was so scarce that some students had to practice in the hallways.
"This renovation and construction is what they've needed for a long time." Thompson said.
Also, Steve Scannell, consultant services manager of design and construction management, said there would be improvements in building accessibility as well as fire system upgrades.
"For the first time, Murphy Hall will have an elevator that
will serve all five floors," he said.
The expansion will be to the south end of the building, which faces Naismith Drive. The current library will become office and classroom space and will be used for music therapy and music education.
The plan to expand Murphy Hall is not new. Thompson recalled participating in a committee to discuss the addition and renovation of the building in 1976. He said the project was designed in 1987 but was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents only two years ago.
Scannell said that $9.7 million had been designated for the renovation project, but estimated the project would cost at $7.6 million.
Scannell said the planning committee had not gotten a contract with a construction company yet but expected construction to start within a month.
Thompson said he knew the construction noise would bother many professors and students, but plans had been made to schedule the most disruptive work at times when classes were not in session.
Scannell said that most of the project should be complete by December 1999, with the remodeling of the current library set to finish by May 2000.
"We were looking forward to this moment, so I am assuming there won't be too many complaints." Thompson said.
The Associated Press
Deepening Russian crisis sinks U.S. stock market
NEW YORK - The Dow tumbled 357.36 points yesterday, which extended Wall Street's summer slide to 12.6 percent. The deepening crisis in Russia and doubts about a Japanese recovery jolted stock markets around the globe.
the Dow Jones industrial average's 4.2 percent drop to 8,165.99 marked a new low point in a sudden downturn that is now dragged the index of 30 major
companies 1,171 points below the July 17 record of 9,337.97.
Trading was extremely heavy, with more than 2 billion shares traded on all U.S. markets for only the second time in history.
It was the first time since last October's steep sell-off, which was also induced by fears that foreign economic troubles would hurt U.S. companies, that the Dow has finished a day more than 10 percent below its previous high, a loss commonly referred to as a market correction.
Thursday's point drop was also the third largest for one session behind the 554.26 points lost Oct. 27 during last fall's slide, and the 508-point Black Monday crash of Oct. 19, 1987. But in percentage terms, the loss was far smaller than the 22.6 percent drop on Black Monday.
The Dow, which at the July peak boasted an 18.1 percent gain for 1998, is now just 3.3 percent higher for the year.
Individual investors, who stubbornly have stuck with the market as their best bet for retirement savings, again appeared willing to ride out the latest drop.
"It doesn't make me sweat at all," said John Lampe, 33, of Denver. "Over the long period of time, it's going to go up."
The selling on Wall Street was triggered by a series of steep declines on key markets overseas.
declines of key metrics In Russia, stocks extended Wednesday's 14 percent plunge with a 9 percent drop as the government halted currency trading for the remainder of the week.
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