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SPORTS
The Kansas football team has this week off to prepare for its matchup with Kansas State next Thursday. Page 1B.
CAMPUS
More people are tuning into scanners to follow weather, police and fire activity. Page 3A.
SUNNY AND MILD High 73° Low 47° Weather: Page 3.
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104,NO.26
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
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Two-day meeting to examine Russia's future
Global role of Russia highlight of conference
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UNITED NATIONS — Russian President Boris Yeltsin told world leaders Monday they must accept Russia as a "great power" and called for a treaty on ending the production of nuclear weapons material.
Yeltsin said he would welcome U.N. involvement in former Soviet states beset by civil strife but warned that "the main peacekeeping burden in the territory of the former Soviet Union lies upon the Russian Federation."
The Russian leader's speech was part of the three-week U.N. general debate, the largest annual gathering of world leaders. About 180 diplomats will speak, including 47 heads of government
Security was extremely tight, with police blocking off the street in front of the building and U.N. guards closing access to two floors.
In an earlier speech, President Clinton praised the cooperation between the United States and Russia and said the two nations were working to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
Clinton also announced the United States was lifting all sanctions against Haiti, except those that would help its military rulers, and indicated he would support the lifting of the U.N. economic embargo.
Yeltsin's plan to limit the spread of nuclear weapons included signing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty by 1996, extending the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, regulating weapons sales, initiating a treaty on nuclear security and holding a conference on converting military factories to civilian use.
"There is an urgent need for all nuclear states to participate in the process of reduction and limitation of nuclear weapons," Yeltsin said.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeline Albright, called Yeltsin's proposals "creative and intriguing," but said the United States would have to study them.
"The fact that we have gone together on this path, and the fact that President Yeltsin is bringing a package here I think is very important," she said.
Yeltsin said the treaty on nuclear security and stability should be signed by the world's five major nuclear powers — the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China.
He also called for ending the production of nuclear materials and nuclear munitions.
Yelstin urged nations to be more active in U.N. peacekeeping and said Russia was prepared to designate troops for a stand-by U.N. force.
The United Nations has long requested the creation of such a rapid-deployment force that could respond to emergencies without the United Nations first having to ask for troop contributions, a process that has often taken months.
President Clinton addressed the United Nations general assembly yesterday.
KNIGHT-BIDDER TRIBUNE
Deadly drawings
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Barbara Jarvis, Lawrence sophomore, draws a skeleton as part of her Drawing II class in the Fine Arts Building. Jarvis was one of 10 students drawing the skeleton in charcoal yesterday.
Freshmen are focus of new committee to improve KU life
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
A year-old faculty committee will begin interviewing freshmen and sophomores next month to determine how their academic experiences at the University of Kansas could be improved.
The 12 members of the Freshmen Sophomore Academic Experience Committee will visit living groups, conduct focus groups and interview individual students to assess students' perceptions of their education at KU.
The committee, which was formed last fall by the office of academic affairs, is responsible for evaluating and suggesting changes in the academic experiences of freshmen and sophomores.
Jim Hartman, acting chair of the committee and professor of English, said committee members met last year with faculty members, administrators and graduate teaching assistants to discuss what their expectations of freshmen and sophomores were.
"In October, we will begin talking with freshmen and sophomores about their experiences at the University," Hartman said. "We will be talking to some juniors and seniors as well because they can provide a retrospective view and are still close to the experience."
The committee is expected to make its recommendations sometime next spring. Hartman said he hoped the committee could remove unnecessary obstacles from students' educations and impart to students what the University's academic mission and academic expectations were.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, committee member and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the evaluation of the freshmen-sophomore academic experience was a national trend at universities.
"We're concerned with helping students make the transition from high school to college," McCluskey-Fawcett said. "We hope to facilitate students'success."
Issues identified by the committee for consideration include advising, academic preparation and student behavior problems, she said. Some changes recommended by the committee may be implemented as soon as fall 1995.
"I think KU is on the leading edge of improving the academic experience," McCluskey-Fawcett said. "The changes we're making are fine tuning. We haven't found anything horrific so far."
Students want to play a larger role in selecting a chancellor
Kansan staff writer
By David Wilson
Student senators Carey Stuckey and Mark Galus want students to have more leverage in the selection of a new chancellor.
Earlier this month, they co-sponsored a Student Senate resolution calling for more student involvement in the chancellor search, which began this summer with the formation of a 17-member chancellor search committee.
The committee is made up of professors, alumni, nontheaching University of Kansas
staff members and three students. The three students are Sherman Reeves, student body president; Jennifer Ford, Lawrence senior; and Garrett White, a student at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Stuckey said she feared that the three students on the committee would be crowded out by administrators and alumni.
"With only three students, they could be outweighed," she said.
Stuckey and Galus said they realized that the search committee probably wouldn't be reorganized to include more students but said they wanted to send a message to administrators. Don't forget the students.
In contrast to the current search committee, the 12-member committee that found Chancellor Gene Budig in 1981 had four student members.
"We're a big part of the University," Stuckey said. "If we weren't here, the University wouldn't be here."
"We want the chancellor search to involve the student body to the greatest possible degree," he said.
Galus agreed.
Stephen Jordan, executive director of the Board of Regents and a member of the committee, said the Regents wanted to have diverse representation on the committee. Jordan said that Chairman Frank Sabatini and Regent John Montgomery chose the committee members.
"The Regents were trying to balance interests," he said. "I think that students have good representation."
Sherman Reeves, student body president and a member of the committee, agreed.
"They had to make choices," he said. "You can't have a committee that's too large."
Reeves did not agree that students on the committee had been crowded out of the
search process.
"People on the committee respect what students have to say," he said.
The evidence would seem to support Reeves' opinion.
During the last search committee meeting, after Jennifer Ford recommended a wording change in the position description, Chairman Frank Becker joked that she should have written the description in the first place.
"Jennifer and I are very familiar with the governance process," Reeves said. "We bring a different perspective than say, a Frank Becker or a Wint Winter."
Student Union Activities is sponsoring a week-long Japanese erotic film festival. The event opened yesterday at Woodruff Andittorium. Page 30A
Mononucleosis takes a toll on student bodies
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
This semester, 25 KU students have been diagnosed with mononucleosis, about one-third more than is usual for this time of year. Physicians at Watkins Memorial Health Center are cautioning students to stay healthy and rest or risk sitting on the academic sidelines for the rest of the semester.
If you’re tired and sick, the reason could be more than midterms and cold weather.
Mononucleosis is a college-student disease, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins. Mononucleosis, a viral infection caused by a herpes-related virus, infects most people between the ages of 15 and 25 but only manifests itself when the body is in a weakened condition.
College students, of whom stay up late, rush from appointment to appointment, eat poorly and drink alcohol, fit that bill, Yockey said.
"That kind of stress takes its toll," he said. "The question is, how far can you push the envelope?"
Although the virus is contagious, most people are at little risk, Yockey said. He said most people already had the virus in their bodies. Those who caught the virus didn't show symptoms until at least three weeks after contraction, he said.
Cold and flu symptoms strike victims of mononucleosis first. The virus also brings an unending feeling of exhaustion, Yockey said.
But from there, the virus can get worse, he said. Once it's noticed, the victim must rest or risk getting even sicker.
"Undiagnosed and untreated, it can lead to severe complications, including death," Yockey said.
The vast majority of victims fall somewhere in the middle, Yockey said. He said no students had died of the virus in the eight years he had worked at the University of Kansas.
"You can't drive, jog, play football or cheer lead," he said. "We've had people step off a curb and rupture their spleen."
Students studying at Wescoe Beach yesterday said the virus was dangerous, but slowing down to avoid it could be difficult for many students.
To recover, victims need to drop part-time jobs, outside activities and any classes they might have fallen behind in to get enough rest to recover, Yockey said. He also said the virus can lead to swelling of the spleen, causing it to rupture if the victim moves too strenuously.
The group most susceptible to the virus is freshman, Yockey said. He said freshman were away from home and placed in an unstructured environment, which can weaken the body.
"You can cut the alcohol, but you can't cut some classes," said Gabriel Riviera, St. Louis freshman. "You have to go to them. Besides taking the bus, I don't think you can get much more rest than that."
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