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Kansan
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October 14, 1999
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Vol. 110 • No. 40
Inside today
Board of Regents members enjoyed a mini-break as they viewed undergraduate research demonstrations by students at Nunemaker Center.
Sports today
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The Kansas volleyball team fell to archrival No.13 Kansas State 3-1 last night in Manhattan.
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Class shop'til ya drop
Some students enroll in classes after the final
By Nathan Willis
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Katie Bartkoski received 11 syllabuses the first week of class, but she only uses seven of them.
After all, she's enrolled in only seven classes. As for the others, she just wanted to try them out to see if they were worth taking or not.
tarkoski, Basehor junior, was class shopping — attending classes she wasn't enrolled in, deciding which of them she liked and enrolling only in those.
"It's good to see what's out there," she said. "Mostly I just look at electives."
Although she's class shipped every semester, Bartkoski always has picked her classes within the first couple of weeks, she said.
And administrators say that students who don't enroll in all their classes until late in the semester — or even after the semester is finished — are part of a growing trend across the University of Kansas campus that can cause headaches for professors, administrators and students alike.
But not all students do.
Bob Turvey, associate regis
trar, said hundreds of students were attending classes they had not enrolled in, and the University Registrar's office had noticed an increase in recent semesters.
Students don't enroll for a variety of reasons, he said, but prime among them is class shopping.
in some cases, frankly, they were shopping, looking for a class they could get an A or B in. "Turvey said. "It's a nice way to boost your GPA — to add a class after you've already got an A in it."
There are other, more legitimate reasons for students not to enroll in a class they are taking, Turvey said. Some can't afford to pay for all of their tuition at the beginning of the semester, he said, and they put off adding classes until they have more money.
"Some students are in binds," he said. "But those seem to be the small numbers."
Others don't know that when they change sections within a course, they need to let the Enrollment Center know, said Diana Carlin, interim assistant provost.
But regardless of the reason, students who put off enrolling or do the converse — enroll but plan for the possibility of dropping if their grades head south — create hassles for faculty, administrators and other
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Body art may carry unseen, painful risks
Infections, allergies can cause unwanted problems
Bv Amber Stuever
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Many students get tattoos and body piercing as a form of expression or for a personal statement.
This is why students who choose to receive a piercing or body art should brace themselves for the health risks and care that accompany a life-long commitment to their body art, said Randall Rock, Watkins Memorial Health Center chief of staff.
a form of expulsion.
Money isn't, however, anticipate it to be a source of pain or infection.
star. "I'd encourage people to see them as not just an art form or a form of expression, but also as body-altering, risk-taking processes that have potential consequences of permanently altering the body and breaking down the body's barriers to protection." he said.
BODY ART TIPS
sterilization samplers No matter how clean the parlor is, however.
Carlos Ransom, tattoo artist at Skin Illustrations, 740 S. Massachusetts St., said that all pattero artists in Kansas were regulated by the Kansas Board of Cosmetologists to ensure sterilization standards were met.
Tattoos:
- Stay out of the sun and use sunscreen to avoid fading.
Don't pick at the skin or at scabs that form after a tattoo, even if they itch.
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avoid tauting:
- Avoid swimming pools, lakes and hot tubs directly after getting a tattoo to avoid infection.
Piercing:
A piercing gun should never be used except for ear lobes.
Use only jewelry made from 316L surgical-implant gold, niobium or titanium.
Because they break the skin, body piercings and tattoos provide the opportunity for infections.
"We try to make people aware that there are things that could happen that aren't either of our faults." Ransom said.
Although problems with tattoos aren't as common, Watkins sees infections from body piercing on a fairly regular basis, Rock said.
If students are thinking about getting body art, they should consider consulting a doctor before
Don't use jewelry intended for pierced ear lobes for any other site.
there are health risks.
the risk of infection or allergic reaction occurs, Rock said.
Those who decide to go through with it should check out their artist and parlor thoroughly.
Michele Summers, Topeka junior, was pleased with the Padre Island, Texas, parlor where she had gotten her tattoo during spring break.
Lance Tuck, Skin Illustrations body piercer, said customers should feel at ease with the personality, hygiene, knowledge and technique of their artist.
"They explained how they were going to do it and gave me time to think about it," Summers said. "They overcharged because it was Padre, but it was a nice, clean place."
the most pain-free areas to tattoe are on the fleshy parts of the arms and legs. The most painful are the sternum, ribs and near joints.
"If you hit a nerve, you'll be hating life." Tuck said.
Those considering a tattoo or body piercing also should consider the pain factor.
"Mine's not huge, but yeah, it was pretty painful," said Summers, whose tattoo is on her lower back. "But it's worth it."
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A KU student displays his tattoo of a dragon enveloping a cross on his right arm. Despite the dangers of infection and other complications, many students decided to go ahead and get tattoos. Photo by Kate Levenson/KANSAN
University, Sprint claim merger won't affect funding
Millions of dollars of Sprint research money at the University of Kansas should not be affected by the company's proposed merger with MCI WorldCom, both Sprint and University officials say.
By John Audlehelm
Special to the Kansan
and University of Kentucky KU's Information Technology and Telecommunication Center has a number of research contracts with Sprint.
research contracts must "Those contracts remain in full force and effect, and even after the merger they would continue," said Russ Robinson, director of corporate communications for Sprint.
Robinson said he saw no reason for the relationship to change. But, he said, the future was impossible to predict.
nure was impoired Tim Johnson, executive director for opera.
Johnson said on average the center received 20 to 25 percent of its funding from Sprint. Last year the center spent about $6.5 million on research, but Johnson said he was not sure exactly how much of that was funded by Sprint.
tions and applied technology at the center, said he did not think the center's current contracts would change but that he would maintain a wait-and-see attitude for the future.
WorldCom, the name of the proposed company, would control 30 percent of the U.S. long-distance market.
Robinson said any change in the relationship would be because of the industry and
Petr said WorldCom may change this.
MCI WorldCom and Sprint announced the proposed merger Oct. 5. The $115 billion deal would be the largest corporate takeover ever.
not the merger.
"The cycle of research is constantly shifting," he said. "This is a very,very fast-paced industry."
David Petr, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, said asynchronous transfer mode was a new way of networking computers.
sprint and the telecommunication center are developing asynchronous transfer mode networks.
"Well, it basically replaces a telephone switch," he said.
A' switch is an place where individual phone lines connect.
Petr said telephone networks were adequate for uses such as phone calls and fax machines but could not handle video or high-speed information transfer.
He said telephone and asynchronous transfer mode networks were like different-sized pipes.
"They may choose to do their research interpolly." be said.
"When I make a phone call, I have the use of a little,, skinny information pipe," Petr said. "Nobody else can use that pipe, but I can't get anything but that pipe. With ATM, there's a big pipe, and a bunch of us are sharing it."
Sprint does not invest much in in-house research, Petr said. That means Sprint does not have many of its own labs and research organizations.
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"They rely more on partners, vendors and universities to accomplish the research they need to accomplish," he said.
Officials mourn ex-chancellor Nichols' death
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Nichols, 95, died Tuesday at Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence.
Described as a walking encyclopedia of KU knowledge by his friends, Nichols' career at the University spanned more than 70 years. He served as KU chancellor from 1972 to 1973.
University of Kansas administrators past and present continued mourning the death of former Chancellor Raymond Nichols yesterday.
Smith, 93, first met Nichols on March 17, 1941, when he arrived on campus for a job interview. After sitting across a table
"He worked 24 hours a day for this University," said George B. Smith, former dean of the University and longtime friend of Nichols. "He truly was the University of Kansas."
Nichols: served the University for 70 years
ring across a ta- and working together for more than 20 years, Smith said he knew Nichols almost better than anybody.
"He showed me around the campus in 1941," Smith said. "And then again every day since."
Smith said that the death of Nichols saddened him but that Nichols had been ill for some time.
When Nichols began at the University, Jayhawk Boulevard was a dirt road and only 3,500 students were enrolled. As the son of a Civil War veteran from Larned, he opted to serve at the University during both World Wars.
While obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1926 and his master's degree in 1928, both in journalism, Nichols worked as editor of The University Daily Kansan and the Jayhawker, the student yearbook, and he served as president of the Student Council.
After briefly working as a reporter, Nichols returned to the University where he worked for 43 years as executive secretary to the University, vice chancellor for finance and eventually as chancellor. He was instrumental in the growth of the student body and in establishing the KU Space Technology Center, on West Campus, which is named after him.
Nichols received numerous awards throughout his career, including the 1969 Distinguished Service Citation and the 1977 Fred Elsworth Medallion, the KU Alumni Association's highest award for service. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America, the Spencer Museum of Art, the Alumni Association, the state Council on Aging, the local Rotary Club and many other organizations.
Todd Seymour, former president of the Kansas University Endowment Association, also remembered Nichols with sadness yesterday. He, too, said the former chancellor was a leader not only at the University, but also within the Lawrence community.
He also loved Kansas basketball and only missed one game of the first 150 ever played at Allen Fieldhouse.
"When he retired (in 1973), everyone wondered how we would ever be able to replace him," Seymore said. "Ray, in many ways, was the heart of the University for many years."
Seymour said that Nichols served as a personal mentor to many KU chancellors — Chancellor Robert Hemenway included.
"When I was named chancellor, Raymond took time to explain the University's history and traditions in a way that I will never forget," Hemenway said.
Nichols' wife, Clytice, died Jan. 20, 1977. He is survived by a sister and a son, Raymond L. Nichols, of Australia.
A service is planned for 1 a.m. Friday at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. Private inurnment will be at the University's Pioneer Cemetery.
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