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University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, October 8, 1991
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KU Timetable is restructured to help students
Committee hopes chronological order, more graphics will decrease confusion
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
The Timetable of Classes has been redesigned to make reading easier for students.
Rich Morrell, registrar at the University of Kansas, said the timable had been redesigned for spring because previous issues had been somewhat confusing and dissatisfaction with the old design.
"Enrollment here is very complex because the University is so big. "He said, "So we've tried to meet it. Sometime as simple as possible."
The spring Timetable will be available beginning Monday at the Student Union Activities office on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Main enrollment begins Oct 25.
Morrell said the redesign committee had several goals in July when it began the project.
The committee wanted students to be able to reference material more efficiently.
Morrell said the committee accomplished this goal by adding tabs on the corners of all the pages that indicate section content.
The committee also wanted to improve the instructions for admission, advising, enrollment and registration and fee payment.
Morrell said the committee improved these areas by varying typefaces and adding more graphics.
Each page of the front section has boxed items and a series of "Hot Tips" that highlight certain material for students.
"Wetried to use charts more than ever before for easy reference," Morrell said.
The committee also wanted to make the order of the Timetable's contents more logical.
The admissions and add/drop procedures now are in the front of the Timetable rather than in the back.
Morrell said the front section of the spring Timetable followed a chronological order, explaining admissions first, advising second, enrollment third, registration and delivery and the add/droop process.
Karla Carney, associate director for communication services, said junior and seniors familiar with the old design might have a more difficult time using the new Timetable.
Morrell said the redesign committee probably would meet in the future for further modifications of the Timetable.
"But I think overall the process is explained more clearly in the new one," she said.
He said the class listings and the appendices still were basically the same in the spring edition that they had been in past editions and therefore could use improvement.
"Really, our work has only just begun," he said.
KU students will help ex-inmates readjust
Kansan staff writer
The School of Social Welfare will participate in a project designed to help people released from prison lead more normal lives.
By Mauricio Rios
The school is working with the State Department of Corrections and the Stop Violence Coalition, a Topekabased group.
Five graduate students from the University of Kansas will be participating in the program, which is scheduled to get under way next week, said Liane Davis, associate professor of social welfare.
Four of the students are working
with trees, and one is
working on a decontamination
"This program is just beginning," Davis said.
The idea started at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, where members of the Stop Violence Coalition confronted inmates and their families, Davis said.
The coalition was founded 10 years ago by Suellen Fried, president of the Kansas Committee for the Prevention of Pregnancy and Adoption inmates suggested the program.
Another goal of the program is to develop self-help groups run by
inmates, she said.
Davis said students would be working mostly with male inmates because the male prison population was larger than the female population.
Patrick Carpenter, program coordinator and an ex-emulate, said the Stop Violence Coalition encouraged inmates to participate in the program.
"It was made by inmates for inmates," he said.
"Only 15 percent of those people have come back to prison," he said. "We showed an enormous amount of success."
Carpenter said the KU students would work outside the prison system and would be responsible for helping ex-offenders get jobs.
The inmates' crimes range from burglary to attempted murder, he said.
Almost 150 ex-offenders have gone through the program since it began. Coca-Cola
Mental illness can strike anyone
"Everything you could imagine," Carpenter said.
Theemotional support also is important. Carpenter said.
"We will keep in touch with them," he said.
The students will work on the project for one year and earn six credit hours, DURING SEMESTER 1.
By Kerrie Gottschalk Kansan staff writer
National Mental Illness Week declared in effort to increase public awareness
No one is immune.
Consider Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Patty Duke, Vincent Van Gogh and many other notable people. They all suffered from a mental illness.
Surprised?
Well, chances are that you or someone you know does or will suffer from a mental illness.
As an effort to increase public awareness about mental illnesses, this week has been declared National Mental Illness Week.
In any six-month period, mental illnesses affect 27 million men and women 18 years old and older, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
About 20 percent of KU students are suffering from some form of mental illness, said Frank DeSalvo, director of counseling and psychological services.
Students can receive counseling and psychotherapy from the services, which are based in Watkins Memorial Health Center and in Bailey Hall.
DeSalvo said that some students did not recognize their symptoms as indicators of a mental illness and that some ignored or denied the symptoms.
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of mental illness is important, he
DeSalvo said a significant number of KU students sought help for depression. He said other illnesses, such as manic-depression and schizophrenia, occurred less frequently.
said.
Depression, sometimes called the common cold of mental illness, can happen to anyone, but one-fourth of depressed people suffer severely enough to need treatment, according to a study in *Clinica* a Toeika psychiatric hospital.
According to the American College Health Association, those who are depressed usually feel sad, hopeless, pessimistic and fatigued. They also lose interest in sex, food and school.
Other symptoms include thoughts of suicide, difficulties concentrating and physical symptoms that do not improve with treatment.
The good news is that depression, like other mental illnesses, is treated.
And the sooner it is treated, the better, according to the Menninger Clinic and the American College Health Association.
The type of treatment depends on the nature and severity of the illness, said Raymond Higgins, professor of psychology.
Treatment might include individual or group therapy, and sometimes other therapies.
What causes depression
The most common immediate cause of depression is the loss of personal worth and self-esteem. Frequently, this is brought on by external factors such as:
- academic or financial stress
- the breakup of a friendship or romance
• divorce or family separation
• death of a loved one
• academic or financial stress
- Loss of self-esteem and personal worth can also be caused by internal psychological factors such as:
- unrealistic standards and assumptions
- lack of coping skills
- a feeling of not getting enough support from important people
Do I need professional help?
You don't have to be "crazy" to seek professional help. In general, you should get professional support if your attempts at self-help are ineffective, and your depression:
- persists for several weeks
* becomes more severe
* leads to self-destructive thoughts and behavior
Professional help
Getting help is a sign of strength, not weakness. With professional help, you can speed up your recovery and short-circuit relapses. "Toughing it out" alone is unnecessary and keeps you tied to old ideas.
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Source: American College Health Association
Side by side
Diana Dresser, left, Lawrence senior, and Jennifer Jeffries, San Diego graduate student, rehearse for the theater department's version of the 1977 musical "Side by Side by Sondheim," which will run this weekend and next weekend at the Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall.
'Into the Streets' project reaches out to volunteers
Kanean staffwriter
By Heather Anderson
Students can get a taste of volunteering in Lawrence on Nov. 1.
That day is the kickoff for Into The Streets, a project designed to encourage students at the University of Florida.
The Center for Community Outreach, which is financed by Student Senate, is sponsoring the project.
The one-day volunteer projects will give students a chance to decide if they want to continue to volunteer in these projects or other volunteer activities, said Jill Fritzmever, co-director of the center.
She said she hoped students would want to volunteer for the rest of the year after they volunteered during the first day of the project.
For the next two weeks, the project's planning coalition, which is made up of KU students and community members, plans to put up posters and conference materials about the project, Fritzeneer said.
She said the planning coalition was attempting to locate volunteer opportunities for students in four main areas: environment, children and youth, domestic violence and homelessness.
Fritzemeyer said that the planning coalition picked the issues because they needed the most help from the other teams.
Into The Streets is a nationwide project that also will begin at other universities Nov. 1.
The national office decided to focus on 17 different issues. Local coaltions then chose the issues that were most relevant to them.
involved.
She said the coalition was discussing a possible volunteer fair at the Kansas Union sometime near Nov. 1. Students could talk to representatives from schools or sign up to volunteer permanently if they wanted.
Lanaea Heine, coordinator for the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, said the coalition had been working with her to find places that needed volunteers.
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