UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 16, 1995
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Council takes aim at frivolous complaints
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
A recent unanimous University Council recommendation, supposedly spurred by School of Engineering faculty tired of being hectored by grievances they saw as frivolous, is on its way to becoming policy at the University of Kansas.
An Aug. 7 memo from Chancellor Robert Hemenway said that Hemenway had approved a recommendation to give a vice chancellor the power to deny for up to five years a faculty member's ability to file grievances if he or she is seen as having a history of filing frivolous complaints.
If leveled at an individual, the
suspension could be appealed.
The decision comes on the heels of a controversy in which a professor had been filing dozens of grievances against his peers.
Hector Clark, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has been filing grievances, in particular against Terry Faddis, professor of mechanical engineering. Faddis in January was issued a sanction by a judicial board for allegedly claiming authorship of several papers listed in a University publication, and since then Clark has flooded the judicial system with his complaints.
and as a waste of time.
Clark's regular use of the system angered some professors in the School of Engineering. They saw his grievances as disruptions
"I'm committed to the profession," the Lawrence JournalWorld reported Clark as saying. "If people are not performing to the academic norm, I want to know why, and I want it stopped."
Clark's justification?
Faddis declined to comment on the situation.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, also would not comment on Faddis and Clark, but he said that Faddis's sanction was closest to a warning as described in the faculty handbook on rights, privileges and responsibilities. A warning is a "notice in writing that continuation or repetition of conduct found wrongful, within a
period of time stated in the warning, may be cause for more severe disciplinary action."
"A warning can be taken in many different ways,depending on the circumstances."Locke said.
Clark could not be reached for comment.
The recently passed policy says that any faculty member who "establishes a pattern of repeatedly filing frivolous grievances that harass colleagues and/or abuse the grievance system" will be asked to stop such actions. If the person persists, then the head of the Judicial Board will recommend to the appropriate vice chancellor to "deny the right to file grievances for a specific amount of time."
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STDs overlooked in AIDS awareness
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
Another negative side effect can be added to the long list of complications related to AIDS: Other sexually transmitted diseases have been shoved out of the media limelight.
According to a recent study commissioned by the American Social Health Association, one-third of respondents could not name an STD other than HIV. But, despite diminishing attention, STDs such as herpes and gonorrhea have not disappeared.
"In the United States alone, an estimated 55 million people have STDs, with 12 million new infections each year," said health association president Peggy Clarke. "Clearly, the medical community is not providing the information and counseling that people need to protect against infection."
Janine Gracy, coordinator of health education at Watkins
Memorial Health Center, agreed that the medical community has a responsibility to educate, but she said other factors were related to the lack of knowledge about STDs.
"Doctors are very busy, but patients are also embarrassed to ask the necessary questions," Gracy said. "People need to take a personal responsibility to educate themselves and their friends."
Tricia Amberg, Peoria Ill. senior, said that she had learned about STDs from school and friends, but she had noticed a decline in media coverage of diseases other than HIV.
"You never see public service announcements about any diseases other than AIDS," Amberg said.
Almost three-fourths of the respondents in the survey said that they were not getting their information about STDs from friends, family or health-care
providers but from television, books or magazines.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said that, while the media had been effective in informing people about HIV, students should seek out other sources of information.
"You never hear about herpes or gonorrhea anymore, but they are still out there," Yockey said. "They just got replaced in the news by HIV."
Yockey said that college students probably were better educated about STDs than the rest of the community because the information was readily available, but this knowledge had not led to a decrease in infected students.
"The biggest problem when it comes to health is that knowledge does not translate into behavior," Yockey said. "The key for us in 1995 is to empower people with enough knowledge to make the right decisions so they do not have to live with regrets."
The STDs
Chlamydia — One of the two most common STDs among college students. Women often do not show symptoms, while men suffer from swollen testicles or painful urination. HPV/ Genital Warts — HPV causes painless growths on the genitalia. It can be transmitted by intimate contact without the exchange of fluids.
Herpes/HSV — Herpes simplex virus causes blisters on the infected person. HSV can be transmitted through intimate contact even when there are no visible lesions. Gonorrhea — STD caused by bacteria that often can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease in women and is transmitted by the exchange of fluids.
HIV/AIDS — HIV may be transmitted by sexual contact, sharing contaminated needles, or, less often, from blood transfusions. Syphilis — STD that, if left untreated, may lead to serious neurological and vascular disorders. Syphilis is transmitted through the exchange of fluids.
Crab lice — Crab lice are parasitic insects spread through close physical contact. All viral STDs are treatable, but not necessarily curable.
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