UN I V E R S I T Y DA I L Y K A N S A N
Wednesday, October 16, 1996
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Judy Hancock breaks rules
Candidate for third district reveals her campaign strategy
Tyler Wirken / KANSAN
By Neal Shulenburge
Kansan staff writer
Judy Hancock, a candidate for the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, is greeted by Bob Fluker, Lawrence resident and former KU faculty member. Hancock spoke at a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce- and Sally Mae-sponsored luncheon yesterday.
Judy Hancock, a candidate for the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, broke her own rules of campaigning yesterday.
Hancock told 63 people who attended the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce- and Sally Mae-sponsored luncheon at the Lawrence Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive, her campaign strategy.
Hancock said her strategy had two parts. She said her first task was to make the differences between herself and Snowbarger clear.
"I believe that this contest between Vince Snowbarger and myself represents a classic contest," Hancock said. "Vince and I just profoundly differ on a lot of issues, and I'd like to tell you what my campaign strategy is — violating all of the rules of campaigning."
"I think that when that choice is made clear, the vast majority of the people in the district will agree with me," she said.
Hancock, cited her opposition to the Republicans' budget plans, which include cuts in the Department of Education and student loans, as an example of issues on which she thought the public agreed with her.
Hancock said the other part of her strategy was to convince moderate Republicans and Independents that she was sane.
Hancock answered several questions after giving her speech, and not all from people who wanted her to win. One audience member asked about Snowbarger's allegations that most of her campaign funds came from a group of trial lawyers called Emily's List.
Hancock replied that Emily's List was a grass-roots organization of women who didn't believe other women should be thrown in jail for having
abortions.
"I'm proud to receive contributions from such a group," she said.
She then told the audience that most of Snowbarger's contributions came from the National Rifle Association.
"I'll pit the women of Emily's List against the National Rifle Association any day of the week," she said.
Forest Swall, chairman of the Lawrence Democratic party and assistant professor of social welfare, said he thought Hancock had a good chance of winning the election.
"Judy Hancock is so well informed on the issues, and she has it organized extremely well," he said. "She did an excellent job of answering the questions. It was just an excellent presentation."
Students to discuss ethics of euthanasia
By Stephanie Fite
Kansan staff writer
Several KU students will con front death next week.
Bill Colby, KU law school graduate and Missouri attorney, will speak 6:30 Tuesday in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. His topic, "Who decides when you die?" is intended to help students explore the ethics of the right-to-die.
"I hope I give everyone something to think about," Colby said. "I want young people to think about these issues because, at some point, students will have to face these important decisions."
The formal lecture and discussion is sponsored by the KU Bioethics Club. The discussion, which is open to all KU students, will address the reasoning behind the decisions that lawyers and physicians make.
Mike Antha, Topeka senior and vice president of the club, said he thought the lecture would provide information about the legal- and medical-decision process.
"We don't deal with death and dying on a daily basis," he said.
Kyle Krehbiel, Salina junior, revived the club last semester to bring real-world topics and problems, such as the right-to-die issue, to the KU campus.
"This will allow students to make informed decisions about the subject." Krehbiel said.
Right-to-die is a broad term
that. encompasses different forms of euthanasia, he said.
Colby was the first person to bring the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court with the case of Nancy Cruzon vs. Director, Missouri Department of Health in 1990. Cruzon's family provided compelling evidence that she would have wanted her life support systems disconnected.
That case introduced the difference between the legal and ethical issues of the right-to-die. And it brought forth ethical issues about individual liberties versus the rights of the government to control medical treatments. Colby said.
While he supports individual liberties, Colby said the government should interject in extreme cases of improper decisions. However, the family should have the right to interject if all medical treatments have proven futile.
Discussing the Cruzon case and the morality of the right-to-die will allow students to face difficult questions, Colby said. He will not charge the club for his speech.
"I want them to confront the issues of what is right and what is wrong," he said.
The club does not take a stand on the issue. Antha said.
The organization provides an opportunity for students to examine medical-ethical and legal-ethical issues lawyers and physicians face, Krebbiel said.
Chemists research drugs and placentas
By Bradley Brooks Kansan staff writer
A KU pharmaceutical chemist is developing a way for researchers to study how drugs cross a mother's placental barrier and how those substances affect the fetus.
Kenneth Audus, associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, is studying how to grow placenta in a lab. While this is not a scientific first, Audus has added a step.
"We hope to have an in vitro system that will allow us to evaluate drugs of abuse." Audus said.
Audus said he was developing a rig to fit around the dime-sized placenta specimens he grew. This rig would allow researchers to analyze drugs before and after they crossed the placental barrier.
Audus said the placenta essentially was a filter that allowed the nutrients a mother absorbed in her blood to be passed to the fetus. Because it is one cell thick, the membrane is not effective in protecting the fetus from harmful substances.
"There is serious interest in how drugs of abuse interact with
the fetus. We are trying to make it easier to do those studies without looking at live subjects," Audus said.
Audus will be looking at drugs, such as cocaine, nicotine, alcohol and morphine, that have devastating effects on a fetus.
Audus is in the third year of the planned five-year study that is financed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Institute is spending $1.18 million for the research.
Other KU faculty members also are involved with the research
John Stobaugh, associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, is a bio-analyst for the project.
This process will help researchers learn how to design medicinal drugs that can affect the mother without harming the fetus.
Jim Carroll remembers vomit, roach
"Ken devised the system. I am responsible for devising methods of analyzing the drugs that pass through the placenta," Stobaugh said.
The first two years of research were spent attempting to grow a placenta that was as identical as possible to an animal or human placenta.
By Jeff Ruby
Kansen staff writer
Jim Carroll, in his black leather jacket, worn jeans and self-conscious swagger, epitomized the New York street artist at his poetry reading yesterday night at the Lied Center.
Wandering on stage a half hour late, Carroll had the low, nasal monotone of a man who had been awake too long, seen too much, and could not be surprised by any occurrence, no matter how obscene or outrageous.
A renowned poet, rock star and voice for New York junkies, Carroll is best-known for his 1978 book The Basketball Diaries, which recounted his high school days as a drug addict. But yesterday, Carroll was an all-professional and engaging story teller.
Carroll read poems to about 750 people from several of his works, including the poetry books *Fear of Dreaming and Forced Entries*. Subjects ranged from his irrational, but intense fear of a particularly fat bat wreaking
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"During a storm in New York,people actually agree with things you say."
Jim Carroll writer
havoc in his apartment, to a sad, graphic poem asking Kurt Cobain why he chose the barrel of a gun rather than the joys of art.
In one story mocking the tragically hip New York art crowd, Carroll explained how he woke up with his
In between raspy coughs and sips of mineral water, Carroll spat his satire at the audience, drawing on his 46 years of street experience.
head on a toilet, worried that he had not yet come up with a topic for his three-minute performance art piece that was to be given at a packed bar in an hour.
Carroll recalled how he found a cockroach while cleaning vomit off his chin and put it in a paper bag. For his impromptu piece, which he called Tiny Tortures, he proceeded to spray the spirited cockroach with a can of Raid, finally finishing the job as his three minutes ran out.
"The hip supporters of the arts turned into crazed rednecks in the heat of a cockfight," Carroll said, adding that one misguided review of his last-minute art called it a non-verbal demonstration of the horrors of Vietnam.
In a piece entitled During the Storm, Carroll examined the mood a thunderstorm created in New York, saying it actually brought people together socially to congregate in the warm, dry shelter of the shops.
"During a storm in New York, people actually agree with things you say."
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he said with a smirk.
Jim Carroll read his poetry last night at the Lied Center.
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Carroll's stories and verse succeeded in captivating the audience, not because of their flowing brutality, but because Carroll revealed himself to be just a regular guy who happened to have a microphone, interesting stories to tell and an audience curious enough to hear him speak.
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