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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004
Carbon monoxide risks rise in winter
BY CARLA WOODY
editor@kansan.com
SPECIAL TO THE KANSAN
While refinishing the hardwood floors in his home last winter, Lincoln Lewis began to feel a little dizzy.
After calling his aunt who is a nurse the Lawrence junior decided to go to the emergency room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Lewis had suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning because of a ventilation problem with his hot water heater. Lewis said afterwards he called the gas company to come and look at his heater, and the leak was fixed for free.
"The threat is real," said Rich Barr, Douglas County fire marshal. "With the temperature dropping there is increase in the possibility of poisoning."
The use of gas range stoves, now water heaters, furnaces and portable heating devices becomes more prevalent, and so does the potential for carbon monoxide to leak into the breathing air of living spaces. Barr said.
Jean Kozlowski, a pharmacist for Missouri Poison Control, said the first sign of poisoning was a headache that ran right across the front of the forehead. Soon, the headache will move to a throbbing pain in the temples.
Other signs include weakness, dizziness, blurry vision and a person can even collapse. More serious side effects are an increase in heart rate and breathing rate.
Once a person's carboxyhemoglobin, the amount of carbon monoxide in a person's blood, reaches 50 to 60
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Dialogue promotes diversity
BY NIKOLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFE WRITER
Before taking her SAT, Andrea Chao, Lawrence High School senior, checked two boxes: Chinese and Caucasian. She said she was sure it made the counting machines crazy.
"I never check one box," Chao said.
"I am two ethnicities."
Seventeen people attended the event last night, which was held from 7 to 9 at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union.
Corey Collier, Shawnee senior, said she always checked "other," but "other" was not her ethnicity. Collier's mother is white and her father is black. Her mother raised her to just be human, not white or black, she said. Collier said she knew she was different, but her ethnicity was never an issue.
The Diversity Dialogue, titled "Race: Check one only — What it means to be bi-racial or multi-racial in a one-box world," began with five panelists and a moderator discussing their challenges as bi-racial or multi-racial individuals. The event was one in a series of dialogues sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Peer Education Team.
What would Senate do?
Funding religious speakers a difficult task for senators
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGlia
francoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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Preacher-turned-atheist Dan Barker will speak at the University of Kansas on Nov. 17 without funding from Student Senate.
The Society of Open Minded Atheists and Agnostics said the speaker would give an academic lecture on the separation of church and state with background from the speaker's life and a question-and-answer session.
Last week student senators decided not to fund $1,250 for the group's speaker for two reasons: the advertisement senators saw contradicted the said purpose of the lecture and the speaker did not provide text from the speech
after a request from the finance committee chairman, Ryan Faulconer.
When it comes to funding religion there are no set lines, said Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president.
Senate has struggled with funding religious and political groups for the past two years because Appendix 1 of the Senate Rules and Regulations says Senate funds cannot be used to fund partisan activities or religious activities
Senate funds student organizations that are open to all students, but funding for speakers and special events has more regulations.
When considering funding a speaker for a religious organization, Dunlap said there was a distinction. The content cannot be evangelical, but Senate can fund academic lectures with a religious perspective. But still, he said, the line between religious perspective and religious indoctrination wasn't always clear
Arthur Jones, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, disagreed. He said deciding which reli-
glious organizations to fund isn't that complicated.
The speaker was Gary Haugen, the founder of the International Justice Mission. The International Justice Mission helps people suffering from injustice and oppression in the world, according to the mission's Web site, www.jim.org.
About 10 weeks ago, Senate decided to fund a speaker for Ichthus, a Christian organization. Jones sponsored the bill, which requested $900 for the honorarium and room rental costs.
Faulconer, Colorado Springs, Colo., senior, said he did not request text from Ichthus' speaker because the group assured the finance committee that neither a testimonial nor a religious service would be included in the lecture.
"We're not going to fund any group who either promotes or talks bad about any religion or religious ideals," said Jones, Dallas junior.
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FROM PREACHER TO ATHEIST
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This flier causes student senators to question whether speaker Don Barker would talk about his conversion or the separation between church and state. Senators denied his funding at last week's meeting.
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Tami, a nurse, administers a flu shot to a patient at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Watkins holds an annual flu clinic, which lasts until the vaccination runs out. The clinic began Wednesday, Myra Strother, Watkins chief of staff, said about 500 patients had received shots. She said she thought the center's supply was large enough to last until today.
Speaker to focus on right to love
BY NIKOLA ROWE
nrowe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The Kansas College Unity Coalition Conference will be hosted by the University of Kansas Queers and Allies this Saturday.
Robert Minor, the keynote speaker, will be focusing on progressive issues, fears that are outside of reality, and having the right to love who you want to love in his speech "Dealing with religion when you've tried everything else and nothing seems to work."
The conference will also include leadership workshops and education of social issues.
Minor wants students to not get side-tracked by the fears of society and to keep moving forward.
The government doesn't have the
KANSAS COLLEGE UNITY COALITION CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Noon — Lunch and welcome at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Orcad Ave.
1 p.m. — Keynote speaker, Robert Minor
1:30 p.m. — Session I: Issues and Awareness
2:15 p.m. — Session II: Building Stronger Groups
3 p.m. — Queer theatre and discussion
"My emphasis is on moving forward and not concentrating on the past," the professor of religious studies said.
4 p.m. — Group-wide meeting
p.m. — Dinner and shopping
6 p.m. — Dinner and snopping (students will be provided with a list of businesses that donated to Q & A and can eat at the restaurant of their choice)
8 p.m. — Lock-in party at ECM
Source: Queers & Allies
right to tell you who you can and cannot love. Minor said.
Students from the University, other Kansas colleges and universities and high school students are invited to the free conference at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., from noon to 5 p.m.
"It is a very simple issue," Minor said. "It just needs to be talked about."
"It's a good thing for KU students
because it is a chance to learn about diversity and different methods for leadership," Jimmie Manning, graduate student from Liberal, said.
Minor was appointed a professor in 1977 and is currently teaching "Living Religions of the East."
His most recent books are Scared Straight: Why It's So Hard to Accept Gay People and Why It's So Hard to be Human, published in 2001 and
uman, published in 2001, and
The Kansas College Unity Coalition began meeting last year at the University. It began with members of Queers and Allies wanting to have a leadership exchange among other Kansas universities and colleges, Manning said.
Gay and Healthy in a Sick Society, published this year.
The group has conferences every three months and is made up of mostly KU students, but students from other schools are starting to join.
"He is one of the biggest speakers in this topic area in the country," Manning said. "He is a real motivator."
Afterwards activities will continue throughout the evening with a lock-in party at the ECM.
"It's grown quit a bit from the first time we met." Manning said. "There continues to be more involvement and more participants every time we meet."
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