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THE UNIVERSITY DARY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2006
》ORGANIZATIONS
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Christian Beer, Wunsiedel, Germany junior and KU cycling club vice-president, trains on his stationary bike Sunday in his living room. The cyclists train year-round and move training indoors to avoid riding in cold and wet weather. The season runs year-round with March through May being the road-racing season. Thirty people are in the group.
Cycling team bikes inside to escape winter weather
Team practices on training bikes to prepare for spring
BY MATT ELDER
With the inclement weather of winter fast approaching, the KU Cycling Club is preparing to move its training indoors.
The wet and often snowy weather patterns of Kansas have already forced members of the team to use stationary trainers to begin the offseason training process. The National Collegiate Cycling Association, or NCCA, season begins in the spring.
"In the winter its all about time and miles on the bike," said Christian Beer, Wunsiedel, Germany, junior and team vice-president. "Near the end of winter, we'll incorporate a lot of anaerobic intervals, sprints and climbing drills again for the spring season."
With the riders' attention focused primarily on endurance training during the winter, stationary bikes become a staple. Beer said the team would hold "spin sessions" often at teammates' houses or at Sunflower Outdoor and Bike, 802
"In the winter, probably three days out of the week I'd be on the stationary bike."
Kathy Kabalc, St. Louis senior and team president, said the change
Massachusetts St. The spin sessions typically include only a handful of members in Beer's garage during the winter, but often 20 team members can be found inside Sunflower's shop where the team trains twice a week in the winter.
in weather played a large role in her training. With weather limitations imposed more often in the winter, her weekly schedule includes an assortment of other activities.
Kalbac also said that she and other members of the team relied on the same sorts of entertainment while maintaining their base miles indoors. She said members of the
ignore your legs that are screaming at you." A season of Family Guy is the distraction most often used at Beer's house.
KATHY KALBAC cycling team president
"In the winter, probably three days out of the week I'd be on the stationary bike," Kalbac said. "I'd probably have a rest day, a cross-training day with either running or swimming and a day of weight lifting."
team often met at Star Signs and Graphics, 801 N.inth St., for spin sessions, where a large portion of the team would watch KU basketball games "keeping up our ballage and base fitness level."
Both Beer and Kalbac acknowledged the monotony of working out on a stationary trainer and the need to find a source of entertainment when indoors. Beer said that he and his roommate, who is also on the team, often relied on DVDs and music to "help the time pass and
For now, Beer's garage is overflowing with tools and more than a half dozen bikes and wheel sets. Training and spin sessions for the team will begin with the first signs of winter in the next few weeks.
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@ kansan.com.
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SAFETY
Dispatchers exceed standard
BY ANNA FALTERMEIER
Anna Faltermieer/KANSAN
You usually think of the police officers or firefighters as the lifesavers, not the dispatchers who send them. But with medical training,dispatchers can save seven lives per one thousand calls, and aid countless more, estimated Vance Collins, emergency communications supervisor and Emergency Medical Dispatch program manager at Douglas County Emergency Communications.
KU Public Safety Office dispatcher Carol Supanicu works Thursday afternoon at the public safety office. Supicanic has worked as a dispatcher for 16 years. She was working at the KU Public Safety Office in 2004 when emergency medical training was implemented for dispatches in Douglas County. Kansas is one of 30 states that doesn't require dispatchers to have medical training.
In September, Maine became the 20th state to require dispatchers to have medical training. Kansas doesn't require it, but the KU Public Safety Office and Douglas County Emergency Communications have required the training since November 2004.
The KU Public Safety Office employs eight dispatchers. Douglas CountyEmergencyCommunications employs 15 dispatchers and is training two more.
Collins and Mies both said they hoped medical training would one day be required for all dispatchers.
"I think it should be and it will"
Mies said.
Kansan staff writer Anna Faltermeier can be contacted at afaltermeier@kansan.com.
"We felt it was a necessary service we needed to provide to citizens," Collins said. "Frankly it's become the national standard of care."
Collins said there could be a lawsuit for agencies that didn't require medical training for dispatchers.
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He said the training allowed dispatchers to provide callers with much better direction and assistance during a medical emergency.
It is the public's impression that dispatchers have the training, Collins said.
The KU Public Safety Office and Douglas County Emergency Management receive the same medical dispatch training.
and diabetes-related problems.
Training consists of an eight-hour-per-day, three-day certification course. Dispatchers are required to pass an exam at the end of the medical training.
Dispatchers are recertified once every two years.
Kevin Mies, communications supervisor at the KU Public Safety Office, said the training required dispatchers to determine the chief complaint of a caller and respond using a protocol book of advice for specific medical emergencies.
He said typical emergencies were choking, seizures, heart problems, heat or cold exposure, electrocution
growth to become noticeable, a girl as young as nine years old could already have the disease," Osburn said.
The panel was part of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center's involvement in and promotion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Week.
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Kansan staff writer Ben Smith can be contacted at bsmith@kansan. com.
disease. Months and years later, however, she would discover that cancer had returned. In 1999, the cancer spread to her liver, necessitating further treatment. Laughlin underwent surgery as recently as last year to remove a tennis ball-sized tumor from her liver.
"It is pretty much a chronic condition with me," Laughlin said. "It's not a question of if it comes back, but when."
Sarah Watts, 26, was diagnosed a year ago. Watts, who has a family history of breast cancer, immediately contacted her doctor when she discovered a lump. One in seven people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in his or her lifetime.
"I had had a feeling I would be diagnosed," Watts said, emphasizing that this was not just an "old woman's disease."
Maggie Osburn, Lawrence Memorial Hospital staff and a member of the Board of Director of Breast Center Awareness of Douglas County, said breast cancer had been diagnosed in patients as young as 17.
"Considering that it takes an average of eight years for a cancerous
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Hardly anybody is properly taught what evolution is, he explained in his speech
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Although the theory of evolution might seem highly improbable, it was not impossible, he said. If the odds of life arising were one billion to one, Dawkins said it would still occur on a billion planets.
To make his point, Dawkins
showed a phony front page newspaper article that chided that "Storktelligent Design," the theory of the stork, would soon be taught alongside pregnancy in Kansas schools.
After picking on the state, Dawkins said that he sympathized with Kansas science teachers.
"I know that you here are in the
front line trench against powerful forces of darkness," he said. "I salute you. I sympathize with you. Fight the good fight."
Kansan staff writer Darla Slipke can be contacted at dslipke@kansan.com.
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ELECTIONS
Kline brings up old harassment suit
BY JOHN HANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOPEKA — Republican incumbent Phill Kline made a former employee's 15-year-old allegations of harassment against Democratic challenger Paul Morrison an issue Monday in the attorney general's race, prompting Morrison's wife to say Kline "has just gone too far."
Morrison paid no damages in two federal lawsuits filed by a woman who worked for him as Johnson County district attorney and claimed he made a drunken sexual advance at her during a 1990 office gathering at a bar.
The first case went to trial in July 1992, but a judge dismissed it before the trial ended. Eight months later, the parties agreed to the dismissal of
Kline and Ron Freeman, the state GOP's executive director, said the lawsuits are a legitimate issue because Morrison has said there's been no hint of scandal associated with his 18-year tenure as district attorney. Also, Kline said, Morrison has criticized him unfairly for hiring a nephew who had two criminal offenses in his recent past.
the other lawsuit.
The two Republicans had a news conference outside the Topeka zoo.
"At the Topeka zoo, we have no weasels, and we believe we don't need a weasel in the AG's office in Kansas," Freeman said.
Kline first mentioned the lawsuits against Morrison in a debate last week, and he told reporters Monday that he'd known about the cases for some time but was reluctant to
talk about it. On Monday, his staff had copies of documents ready for reporters.
"There's a mean-spirited, deceptive campaign trying to fool the voters of Kansas with his constant falsehoods about the record," Kline said.
Morrison's wife had her own news conference outside the zoo immediately after Kline's, describing his comments as "a malicious attack on the integrity of our marriage."
Shortly after her remarks, Morrison's campaign issued a statement saying a new poll showed the Democrat with a lead.
"It's disgusting that Phill Kline would say such things knowing they're not true and that they're incredibly hurtful to Paul and his family," said Morrison campaign manager Mark Simpson.
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