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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2005
2A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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BY ERIN CASTANEDA
editor@kansan.com
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MOST COMMON OFFENSES THAT LEAD TO STUDENTS' ARRESTS
10. OUI
9. Open container
8. MIP
7. Urinating/Defecating in public
6. Theft, loss of less than $500
5. Theft, misdemeanor
4. Noise disturbance
3. Littering
2. Speeding and other traffic-related offenses
1. Parking
Source: Sgt. Dan Ward, Lawrence Police Department
Library supervisor overcomes cancer
WASHINGTON - A puzzling outbreak of respiratory disease in dogs has been tracked to a virus that has infected horses for decades - a transfer researchers say is rarely seen.
NATION
The illness first drew attention sweeping through kennels of racing greyhounds in several states and has also been found in household dogs in some states.
Canine respiratory virus spreads quickly
The flu kills between 5 percent and 8 percent of infected dogs, Dr. Cynda Crawford of the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine said at a briefing Some dogs get a cough, runny nose and fever while others show no symptoms at all.
Nancy Hawkins, Media and Reserve Supervisor at the Music and Dance Library, survived a two-time battle with breast cancer and a brain tumor. Hawkins is an alumni of KU and KSU, and has lived in Lawrence since 1973. Hawkins said that her husband Alan Hawkins, a retired professor of bassoon at KU, was her main support during her struggles. Hawkins said that there was no way to prepare for cancer, but that she takes her life one day one at a time.
The flu can cause symptoms similar to the common illness known as kennel cough, Crawford said. But kennel cough is usually caused by a bacteria while the new illness is caused by a virus.
Photos by Candice Rukes/KANSAN
Dr. Brad Fenwick, vice president for research at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, said he thinks mortality from this flu is even less than estimated by Crawford. If infected dogs are treated, mortality can be much lower, Fenwick said in a telephone interview.
While the new virus is easily transferred between dogs, Crawford said people should not panic.
ON THE BOULEVARD
Owners of dogs that have a respiratory infection should keep the animal home for at least two weeks, she said.
- The Associated Press
BY FRANK TANKARD
fiankard@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Nancy Hawkins will persist.
The 55-year-old Hawkins sits in a study room of the Music and Dance Library where she works as the media and reserve supervisor, a blue button-down shirt hanging loosely on her body, a silver Jayhawk necklace from her husband lightly hugging her neck.
A very small fraction of her
1972: Graduated from Kansas State University in her hometown of Manhattan with a bachelor's degree in music performance in organ.
memory is gone,
but you'd never
know it. She's so
meticulous, telling
her story and
reciting dates like
they are the al-
phabet:
1978: Took a job with the University of Kansas Libraries.
1979: Married Alan Hawkins, a KU bassoon professor.
1986: Earned a master's degree in journalism from the University.
But what she's here to talk about is her fight with cancer.
1992: Cancer of the left breast
Hawkins didn't have a family history of cancer; diabetes and heart disease, but not cancer. Yet she wasn't surprised when her doctor said the lump in her left breast was malignant.
"For some reason I was expecting it," she said. "I don't know why."
She chose to have a mastectomy and was spared chemotherapy. She recovered quickly.
The same year, Hawkins saw a graduate student she worked with named Jay Atwood fight a brain tumor, weaken and die. She wouldn't forget him, or the other people she met who died of cancer. She felt so helpless.
"Unfortunately, we don't have all the answers," she said.
After that, life went on as normal. Every year for more than a decade, she'd go in for a mammogram. Every year, her doctor would tell her she was cancer-free.
Then, on a spring day in 2003 she was checking out Lawrence's new Home Depot for the first time with Alan, when something weird happened.
"I noticed all of a sudden that out of the right side of my peripheral vision I couldn't see the shelves," she said.
The same year, Hawkins saw a graduate student she worked with named Jay Atwood fight a brain tumor, weaken and die. She wouldn't forget him, or the other people she met who died of cancer. She felt so helpless.
2003: A brain tumor
Hawkins' doctor advised her to go to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a CT scan. There a doctor found a tumor nearly the size of a tennis ball in the center of her forehead.
Nancy was too. They wouldn't know until after the surgery whether it was benign or malignant, whether she might need
It had probably been growing for years, and had permanently squeezed her brain back. She wouldn't have noticed it, except it had finally grown to the size where it was pushing against her optic nerve, causing her vision problem.
"I was shocked," Alan said.
more surgeries, chemotherapy, who knows. She thought of Jay Atwood.
The surgeon told her he'd have to "tickle her brain" to remove it. That meant she'd lose a few cells from her frontal lobes, and with those cells, a few memories.
The surgery was successful. The tumor was benign, a gentle giant. And she was relieved, though a little loopy from the drugs they gave her. She has no memory of seating off the alarm in the recovery room by walking out the door in search of the newspaper, or calling the University the day after the surgery to say she was ready to come back to work.
"It's quite an adventure when they're messing with your brain," she laughed.
A year later, she was back under the scalpel. No decade-long reprieve this time.
2004: Cancer of the right breast
Unlike the first time she got cancer, this one surprised her. It was so soon after the brain tumor, in May of 2004.
need chemotherapy, once again proved her toughness.
She once again had a mastectomy, once again didn't
"She's just been unflappable these last several years," Alan said.
She chose not to have reconstruction; she's doesn't want another surgery.
"Hopefully I'll not have to see the inside of a surgery ward again," she said. "But you never know."
2005: Doing her part
So now she's here, in the Music and Dance Library, full of plans. She's determined to help find a cure, any way she can.
of women from the community and co-founded a breast cancer support group called Breast Cancer Awareness of Douglas County. The group still meets every Monday at Presbyterian Manor.
The first time she got cancer, she corralled a large group
"It's really to her credit that the group got together," said Jaye Cole, director of rehabilitation services at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and one of the other founders of the group.
She's serving on a committee with the American Cancer Society that will help decide who'll get research grants in the upcoming year. In a couple of weeks, grant applications will start flooding her mailbox.
She's eager to pour over them before her 10-person committee meets this January in Atlanta.
She's one of two "stakeholders" - non-experts with a personal stake in the research on the committee, and one of only 20 stakeholders in the nation selected by ACS. It's important work, controlling the purse strings of the biggest national fund providers of cancer research besides the government.
She just doesn't want to see any more Jay Atwoods.
"I've seen too many," she said.
— Edited by Erick R. Schmidt
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Erev Rosh Hashanah Dinner
Monday, October 3 at 6 p.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
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by Friday, September 30
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Monday, October 3
7:45 p.m. - First night Rosh Hashanah services.
Shiray Shabbat, contemporary musical service downstairs; conservatory twice upstairs
2 pm. - Tashliq, Lawrence river
7:45 pm. - Warning services
Tuesday, October
Wednesday  October 5
9:30 a.m. second day Rosh Hasha
Wednesday, October 12
7:40 p.m. Koln Side
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9:30 a.m. - Yom Kippur Services
11 a.m. - Yiskor
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