THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Kansan
Sunny tomorrow.
Tuesday
September 21, 1999
Section:
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Vol. 110 • No. 24
Free coffee, tea, donuts and bagels
Campus today
Free coffee, tea, donuts and bagels — with a voluntary donation, of course — will warm up chilly mornings for students walking to class on Oread Avenue this semester.
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Sports today
Kansas soccer player Hilla Rantala will return from an ankle injury in today's game at Southwest Missouri State.
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Students swap blood for beer, quicker buzz
By Amber Stuever writer @kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Replacing a pint of blood with a pint of beer may make blood donors who drink alcohol a little more loopy than usual.
With the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation blood drive in full swing this week, donors who drink alcohol 48 to 72 hours after giving will, intentionally or not, get inebriated more easily.
Ray Pallanich, Lenexa senior, said he had given blood and gotten drunk that night, knowing the effects of alcohol on donors.
"I got really drunk, really fast," he said. "It just kicks in really fast."
"Basically, drinking can lead to the same things, like alcohol poisoning if you're not careful after you give," Johnson said.
Kari Johnson, collection supervisor for Kansas Blood Services, said combining alcohol consumption with blood donation can cause the same problems as normal drinking only quicker.
David Oxandale, Lawrence sophomore, said he felt the effects of alcohol after donation blood.
he felt the effects of alcohol after tasting blood. "I normally don't get sick when I was drinking, but I did that night," he said. "After giving blood and getting drunk that night, I think that's about the closest to rufied I'll ever get," he said, referring to the highly intoxicating drug called Rohypnal.
Donating blood heightens the effects of drinking because the body's fluids are lowered and replaced with alcohol. A woman's body normally holds eight to 10 pints of blood and a man's holds 10 to 12. When people donate they give a pint of that blood, causing alcohol to be more concentrated in less fluid.
"One drink will make them feel kind of flakv when they didn't before." Johnson said.
How vulnerable to alcohol a donor is depends on body weight and gender, but the effects are heightened for everyone.
Kansas Blood Services recommends donors eat a full meal before consuming alcohol although the effects can last for two to three days.
Giving plasma has the same effects on drinkers as donating blood.
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Ty Lower, Phillipsburg junior, said as a freshman, he would give plasma to intentionally get drunk easier.
"It took about two or three drinks because you're dehydrated," he said.
However, Lower said he would get headaches the next day and would drink a lot of water but still feel dehydrated.
Johnson said she recommended students take the proper precautions to avoid the normal but accelerated effects of alcohol and hangovers.
Students can donate blood at Allen Farm
house every day this week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
— Edited by Ronnie Wachter
Indecent exposure cases linked through common descriptions
STREAKER SIGHTINGS
Alpha Delta Pi, 1600 Oxford Road
1. August 25
2. August 26 — This man was
2. August 26 This man was not naked.
1300 block of Tennessee Street 1. September 18
OTHER SIGHTINGS
May 14, 200 block of Hanover Place; A man exposed himself.
June 19, 800 block of Mississippi Street: A naked man walked outside a house.
July 11, 300 block of West Sixth Street: A man masturbated on a porch.
July 13, 1400 block of Kentucky Street: A naked man walked by a house several times.
July 23, intersection of 16th and Tennessee streets: A man was spotted naked.
Professors use real experience instead of virtual reality
Some say teaching technology don't mix
By Todd Halstead
Kansan staff writer
Students follow him around, experiencing different aspects of campus through all the senses — whether it be splashing around the Chi Omega fountain to learn about its meaning or viewing paintings at Spencer Art Museum. Johnson's guidance allows his students to develop and nurture their own thoughts and beliefs.
Watching Ted Johnson Jr. teach is like observing the ancient philosophers of Athens guide their pupils through a journey of mind and body to attain knowledge and revelations about the world — right down to the technology level they use.
Johnson has been a professor of French and Italian for more than 30 years, and said he was different from professors that use PowerPoint and other forms of technology to teach classes. Instead, he chooses to guide his students through discussions.
Experience cannot be downloaded. Though he's no technological Luddite, Theodore Johnson Jr., professor of French and Italian, prefers personal intellectual exchange to PowerPoint. Photo Jiamie Roper/KANSAN
to graduate
"I tend not to profess. I bring students to profess," Johnson said. "For me, that is very important — that they profess and develop their individual, authentic and authoritative voice."
Johnson is among a group of professors at the University of Kansas that dismiss using computer technology, including PowerPoint software, to instruct students — and disregard it as a comprehensive tool for research.
much as he possibly can, Johnson has disdain for the computer as a substitute for experiencing objects and subjects firsthand.
The insignificance of technology in Johnson's life is evident by a glance into his office.
authoritative voice. Avoiding the intrusion of technology as
"As you can see in my office, there is a computer over there," Johnson said. "You can see all the stuff on it and realize I have not turned it on for some time."
Amid walls stacked with books, papers and folders sits a computer, its opaque screen staring lifelessly from the recesses of Johnson's office.
not only has he avoided turning it on, but Johnson never has employed it in the two years that it has sat in his office.
Johnson said that he was dissatisfied with electronic means of communication because it cannot replace the time spent in discussion with his students.
"That exchange is invaluable, and there is no way that e-mail, typing words back and forth, would ever work in the sense that ideas are born — and it's very delicate," Johnson said. "You have to be with someone when an idea is born to work it
Dennis Prater, professor of law, said that he believed research on the Internet could cause students to access misinformation.
out and develop it."
Johnson said that he tried using the Internet for research but abandoned it after his search came up with more than three million possibilities.
"I think people who rely on the computer for research are going to miss very important points." Prater said.
Although the computer can be a useful tool, Prater said it was damaging to the extent that students are abandoning library research.
"I think research via computer takes you out of the library, and I think knowing how to use a library and how to do research through a library process is invaluable." Prater said.
On rare occasions, Johnson takes a CD player or 1960s-era record players that he salvaged from the trash to class to play music for the students. He said he thought computers made students passive and less engaged in classroom discussion.
Keith McMahon, associate professor of Chinese language and literature, said that he does not teach with computer programs but that he may in the future.
"I find that I'd rather teach with what I can do with my voice — my own presence in the classroom," McMahon said. "I don't oppose teaching with computers, but I
don't think it should replace the ways that already have proven to be good."
McMahon does not believe that research on the Internet alone will allow students to gather the minimum amount of information needed to do research.
"I think the general tendency these days
is to not go in-depth, no matter if they're using a book or a computer," McMahon said. "But it is a tendency for the computer to give you way too simplified a rendition of things."
Edited by Mike Loader