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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THINK?
BY ESTUARDO GARCIA
editor@kansan.com
KANSAN CORRESPONDENT
What do you think is the biggest challenge foreign graduate teaching assistants face when they teach at the University?
Courtney Crays, Fort Scott sophomore.
The language barrier. It's hard for students to understand and to communicate with them at all.
I think it's all the immigration paperwork they have to do, and then maybe the language.
Regan Postma, graduate teaching assistant, Spanish and Portuguese department.
Accents or speech and stuff like that. I can't understand them sometimes, but I'm from somewhere else anyway. I was born in Sudan.
Robel Yemane, St. Louis sophomore.
Language. Students may not understand how teachers talk. Students may tease the teacher. I have never been in a class with a GTA, so I don't have that experience, but I think they work hard.
Tzu-chi Liu, Kelsiung, Taiwan graduate student.
Students urged to vaccinate
STUDENT HOUSING
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT
trobinett@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Nineteen percent of students living in the KU Department of Student Housing buildings, a total of 854 people, have not complied with the University's meningitis vaccination policy.
In order to enroll for the Spring 2006 semester, those students must either receive a meningitis vaccine from Watkins Memorial Health Center, give Watkins a record of previous vaccination or sign a waiver acknowledging they refuse to be vaccinated.
"I just haven't gotten around to it," Seth Metzler, Newton freshman, said. "I guess I'll do it when it comes to the point that I have to."
Cathy Thrasher, clinical coordinator of support services at Watkins, said that when noncompliant students tried to enroll, the Kyou portal would show "IMM hold," which means immunization hold.
Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins, said she would like students to comply with the policy now so they would be able to enroll without trouble and avoid a potentially long line at Watkins.
Thrasher said Watkins kept track of who had complied through its health center operating software.
When a student is vaccinated, brings in a record of vaccination or signs the waiver, a record of it is entered into the program.
Watkins will send letters to noncompliant students. Thrasher said students should get them next week.
She said students who did not know whether they had complied with the policy could call the compliance office at 864-9533, and that students who wanted to get the vaccination could call 864-9507 to
make an appointment.
For students who do not want to be vaccinated, a waiver is available at www.ku.edu/~shs. Students can print out the waiver or pick one up at Watkins.
The waiver contains information about meningitis that lets students know what they are waiving, Thrasher said.
Sam Williams, Topeka freshman, said she knew the possible consequences of not receiving a vaccine.
"I'm not crazy," she said. "I like my limbs. I'm kind of fond of them."
— Edited by Erin Wisdom
Jumping for joy
Treagen Haas, left, and his sister Sierra, 5, bounce on a trampoline during a Kansas sunset Tuesday near Zurich.
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ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Seating in Arrowhead Stadium
SOURCE: KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
STUDENT SEATING Nearly 3,000 seats
Assigned seats coming at Arrowhead Stadium
BY RYAN SCHNEIDER
rschneider@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Finding a seat with friends at the football game against Oklahoma won't be as easy as it is on a typical game day on the hill.
Unlike home games at Memorial Stadium, where student seating is general admission, students will have assigned seating at the Kansas-Oklahoma game Oct. 15 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Mo.
Ryan Schneider/KANSAN
"The ushers and staff at Arrowhead are just not equipped to handle general admission
Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said the change in venue caused the change in the student seating policy.
Marchiony said students would sit in sections 132, 133 and 134 on the lower level
seating," Marchiony said.
Joe Michaelsen, Omaha, Neb, brittish, disagreed with the decision to put students in assigned seats at Arrowhead.
"It should be just like home games here," Michaelsen said. "We should be able to have open seating."
Ben Suing, Omaha, Neb., freshman, was also unhappy with the seating situation.
Despite Oklahoma's 1-2 record entering Big 12 Conference play, Marchiony wasn't concerned that the Sooners' slow
HOW TO SIGN UP FOR GROUP SEATING
"It's a bad deal," Ben Suing said. "It's going to be hard to sit with a lot of friends."
Students who want to sit with friends at the Kansas-Oklahoma game at Arrowhead Stadium have three options:
Go together to the Athletic Ticket Office, located on the west side of Memorial Stadium, and fill out a group ticket form by Oct. 7.
group to the ticket office with the other members' KUIDs.
All pick up tickets at the same time once tickets are available Oct. 10.
Send one member of the
Groups are limited to 20 students each.
Source: Kansas Athletics Department
start would affect ticket sales.
"I think they'll get back on track," Marchiony said. "We're not worried."
More than 43,000 tickets to the game have been sold, Marchiony said.
Students who purchased tickets to the Oklahoma game can
pick them up starting Oct. 10
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Athletic Ticket Office. Ticket distribution will end Oct. 14.
Students must present their KUIDs and tickets at Arrowhead to be admitted to the game.
Edited by Erin Wisdom
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