MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
ON THE RECORD
An employee of City Wide Security reported five lamps valued at $250 and two end tables valued at $200 stolen sometime between 10 a.m. Sept. 15 and 2 a.m. Sept. 16 from 1501 Sigma Nu Place.
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- A 20-year-old KU student reported an estimated $150 in damage to a car door sometime between 10 p.m. Sept. 10 and noon Sept. 12 at the 1000 block of Indiana Street.
♦ A 19-year-old KU student reported a blue Giant mountain bike valued at $120 stolen sometime between 2:40 and 4:35 p.m. Sept. 14 from the Jayhawker Towers.
♦ Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority will sponsor four events this week:
"Much More Than a Beautiful Tan on the Beach," a showcase of the accomplishments of Latinas, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow on Wescoe Beach
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Informational session on the Latina-based multicultural sorority, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union
Breast cancer awareness program, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union
Showing of an episode from the PBS series "American Family" followed by a discussion, 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union
♦ Merrill Gilfillan, poet, essayist and fiction writer, will read from his recent work at 4 p.m. Thursday at Oread Books, Level 2 of the Kansas Union.
Ken Carter, the California basketball coach whom the movie "Coach Carter" is based on, will deliver a free lecture at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Note: The University Daily Kansan prints campus events that are free and open to the public. Submission forms are available in the Kansan newsroom, 111 Stairwater-Flint Hall. Items must be turned in two days in advance of the desired publication date. On Campus is printed on a space available basis.
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Friday's University Daily Kansan contained an error. In a picture caption on the front page, Joe Glowacki, Overland Park senior, is president of the KU Motorcycle Club.
Patients compete for face transplant
SCIENCE
Surgeons in Cleveland seek recipients for experiemental facial surgery
BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND — In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that's never been tried anywhere in the world.
They will smile, raise their eyebrows, close their eyes open their mouths. Dr. Maria Siemionow will study their cheekbones, lips and noses. She will ask what they hope to gain and what they most fear.
to gain and what the other person will then she will ask," Are you afraid that you will look like another person?"
Because whoever she chooses will endure the ultimate identity crisis.
Siemionow wants to attempt a face transplant.
This is no extreme TV makeover It is a medical frontier being explored by a doctor who wants the public to understand what she is trying to do.
It is this: to give people horribly disfigured by burns, accidents or other tragedies a chance at a new life. Today's best treatments still leave many of them with freakish, scar-tissue masks that don't look or move like natural skin.
These people already have lost the sense of identity that is linked to the face; the transplant is merely "taking a skin envelope" and slipping their identity inside, Siemionow contends.
Her supporters note her experience, careful planning, the team of experts assembled to help her and the practice she has done on animals and dozens of cadavers to perfect the technique.
scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before.
But her critics say the operation is way too risky for something that is not a matter of life or death, as organ transplants are. They paint the frighteningly surreal image of a worst-case
Such qualms recently scuttled face transplant plans in France and England.
Ultimately, it comes to this: a hospital, doctor and patient willing to try it.
The first two are now in place. The third is expected to be shortly.
Amy Sancetta/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The "consent form" says that this surgery is so novel and its risks so unknown that doctors don't think informed consent is even possible.
Here is what it tells potential patients:
Your face will be removed and replaced with one donated from a cadaver, matched for tissue type, age, sex and skin color. Surgery should last 8 to 10 hours; the hospital stay, 10 to 14 days.
Complications could include infections that turn your new face black and require a second transplant or reconstruction with skin grafts. Drugs to prevent rejection will be needed lifelong, and they raise the risk of kidney damage and cancer.
Dr. Maria Siemionow, a reconstructive plastic surgeon, performs micro-surgery at the Cleveland Clinic last month in Cleveland, Ohio. Siemionow wants to attempt the world's first face transplant.
After the transplant you might feel remorse, disappointment, or grief or guilt toward the donor. The clinic will try to shield your identity, but the press likely will discover it.
all of the little things that make up facial expression — mannerisms like winking when telling a joke or blushing at a compliment — are
The clinic will cover costs for the first patient; nothing about others has been decided.
Another form tells donor families that the person receiving the face will not resemble their dead loved one. The recipient should look similar to how he or she did before the injury because the new skin goes on existing bone and muscle, which give a face its shape.
hard-wired into the brain and personality, not embedded in the skin.
Some research suggests the end result would be a combination of the two appearances.
Surgeons will graft skin to cover the donor's wound, but a closed casket or cremation will be required.
ket of cremation.
It took more than a year to win approval from the 13-member Institutional Review Board, the clinic's gatekeeper of research. Siemionow assembled surgeons, psychiatrists, social workers, therapists, nurses and patient advocates, and worked with LifeBanc, the organ procurement agency she expects will help obtain a face.
obtain a race.
At first, not everyone was on her side, acknowledged the board's vice chairman, Dr. Alan Lichtin. After months of debate, Siemionow brought in photographs of potential patients.
patients: Looking at the contorted images, Lichtin said he was struck by "the failure of the present state of the art to help these people."
to help these people. If a transplant succeeds, many people who live in misery could benefit, surgeons said.
THIS WEEKON CAMPUS September 19,2005 funded by SENATE
Are you learning Portuguese?
Do you like Brazil?
Come to the BRAZILIAN TABLE (mesa brasileira)
Every Wednesday, 6:30pm
Hawk's Nest (1st floor Kansas Union)
We'll talk about Brazil and help you practice your Portuguese!
Invite your friends!!
Are you Brazilian?
http://www.ku.edu/~brasa/sponsored by BRASA (Brazilian Student Association)
Mentoring In the Lives of Kids is an after-school volunteer program that works with 8 different elementary and junior high schools
*For only one hour a week, volunteers can tutor, be in a class, or work one-on-one with local students.
*Times are 3:30-5:00 MTRF,
1:30-5 W
*Volunteering hours and locations are very flexible. Feel free to bring your own activities and ideas to your school site.
The sky's the limit!
*Also currently looking for a publicity co-ordinato
Contact milk@raven.cc.ku.edu or (785) 864-4072; SILC offices 410 Kansas Union
Check out our Web site for more information
at www.ku.edu/"Justify or email ku.edu/justify
- Information on the KU Hillel Foundation
Looking for a good lunch on campus?
Drop on by!
Wednesday, September 21st
11:30-1:30
Wescoe Beach
ABWA
BANKING MONEY & WORTH SYSTEMS
$2 Falafel
Start climbing the ladder to success
American Business Women's Association
Career Fair Workshop
September 20th
Tuesday 7:00pm
Summerfield Room 127
A presentation brought to you by the Hong Kong & Macau Student Association
It is Time to Care
- a speaker from Hallmark Cards, Inc. will speak about the motivation and success behind their signature Greeting Cards,the many kinds of products they create, product licensing,business management, etc.
- you will also learn about Hallmark's highly acclaimed summer internship program
Friday, September 23, 4:30pm
CIVIC LITERACY WEEK
Tonight, Monday 19th
Coach Carter Feature Film Presented by SUA@ 7pm
Tomorrow, Tuesday 20th
Jubilee Cafe- Help feed Lawrence @ 6am First United Methodist Church of Lawrence 10th & Vermont
sponsored by the Center for Community Outreach
Coach Carter Lecture, Presented by SUA@ 8pm
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