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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, May 3, 1996
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Finals can exacerbate bad habits
Doctors say vices can be dangerous
By Teresa Veazey
Kansan staff writer
Biting fingernails, cracking knuckles and ingesting lots of caffeine.
While cracking knuckles doesn't cause arthritis as some people believe, Yockey said the habit could be a vicious cycle.
"The more you crack your knuckles, the stifter they get and the more you feel like they need to be popped," he said.
These habits can plague KU students during the semester, but bad habits such as these seem to manifest themselves during finals, said Charles Yockey, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
With nervous habits, or ticks, people do things subconsciously and often don't realize it. One such habit is nail biting, which can cause dental problems. Susan Hall, a Lawrence dentist, recommended that fingernails should not be part of a student's diet.
"When people get nervous, the electrical activity in the brain is heightened," he said.
"I see little nick and fractures in the teeth because the nail substance is so hard," Hall said. "They can get embedded underneath your gums and cause infection. You touch everything, and there's lot of bacterial contamination on your nails."
Cracking knuckles doesn't do any
“It's just something you do with your hands, just like smoking."
Luann Arnoldy radiological technologist
harm, but can be a problem for people who have arthritis, said Luann Arnoldy, radiological technologist at Associated Orthopedics in Lawrence.
"What caffeine does is distort your perception of your accomplishments," he said. "You can stay up all night and absolutely retain nothing."
As with almost everything, moderation is the key, Yockey said. That means drinking only as much caffeinated beverages in one evening as students normally do.
Other students chew the inside of their mouths, which brings trauma
"It's something to do with your hands, just like smoking," she said. "If it was painful, you wouldn't want to do it."
Late-night studying often means drinking coffee to keep awake, but Yockey said students who use caffeine to avoid sleeping could end up studying for hours and not remember a word of what they read.
to the mouth that can set up an infection.
"If you bite the inside of your mouth, it swells up," Yockey said. "The more you bite it the more it swells. If you do it enough, it can be infected."
Yockey said one of the most common habits students have was picking their nose, especially in class or
while studying. Yockey said that when you pick your nose, the mucus gets on your hand and is transferred to another person when you shake hands. When that person touches their eye for example, then the cold virus is spread.
"The only way to stop spreading colds is to stop picking your nose," he said.
LesBiGayS OK chooses new group name
Queers & Allies approved as title
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
After debating for more than an hour, LesBiGay Services of Kansas decided last night on a new name — Queers & Allies.
Twenty-one members of the group met at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union and discussed new names that would be more inclusive. They finally agreed on the group's full name, Queers & Allies serving LesBiGayTrans Services of Kansas.
The group had been called LesBiGay S OK for two years. It previously was called Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas but was changed to include bisexuals.
Samantha Korshin, Ballwin, Mo. senior, said the group wanted to include those people who either expressed themselves as the opposite sex or have had their gender surgically altered.
The motivation behind the name change was the inclusion of transsexual and transgendered people.
Tony Phillips, Lawrence graduate student, said that although he had no problem with the term queer, he was aware that it had negative connotations with many people
"A lot of people grew up knowing queer as a negative word," he said.
"But over the past few years, I think the word has undergone a generational shift."
Queer is being used by the group as a term of encompassing power, rather than something negative, and was selected for a specific reason, he said.
"It's all-inclusionary," Phillips said. "More people are using it in a more positive way these days."
Other names suggested were KU KUeers, KU Lambda Alliance, Queer Services Of Kansas and KU Queer Rights Coalition.
But whatever the name was going to be, the group decided "queer" needed to be in the title.
The group also discussed using the initials Q & A as its moniker, in part to stimulate discussion in groups who aren't fully aware of the group's purpose.
"We can constantly see opportunities to talk about it and explain what it means," Phillips said.
Assistant rejoins Hemenway
Mary Burg, Chancellor's aide at Kentucky, resumes role at KU
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
Although she knew relatively little about the University of Kansas, Mary Burg felt a sense of familiarity upon arriving in Lawrence last month.
"I don't know the institution yet," Burg said. "But I do have a fundamental understanding of the person I'm working for."
Burg, executive assistant to the chancellor, did not know the names of all the buildings on campus, but she did know Chancellor Robert Hemenway. Burg, who assumed her post April 15, came to the University from the University of Kentucky-Lexington, where Hemenway served as chancellor.
Burg worked as Hemenway's assistant to the chancellor for six years at Kentucky and continued that post after Hemenway's departure a year ago. Until now, Burg's position did not exist at KU, but Hemenway included the job in the new administrative structure announced in January.
"The basics of the job are pretty much the same," Burg said. "Dr. Hemenway is the same person he's always been. His values didn't change when he changed institutions."
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; Hemenway described Berg as his right-hand-person and said that she would act and speak with his authority.
"At Kentucky, I saw how really effective she was"
"Hemenway said, 'I think people here will see that, too.'"
Ann Garrity worked with Burg and Hemenway at Kentucky when she served as assistant to the chancellor for special projects. She said that Burg would be a great addition to Hemenway's office.
"She can read Dr. Hemenway's mind, and she knows what needs to get done," Garrity said. "She complements his skills very well."
Burg describes herself as a jack of all trades, working as office manager, issues tracker, liaison and chief of staff for the chancellor. She said that her varied background prepared her well for this position.
Mary Burg, executive assistant to the chancellor, works as Chancellor Robert Hemenway's right-hand person, managing his office and schedule. Burg started the position on April 15, 1996.
Burg wanted to be a mime when she was a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, worked as a newspaper reporter in Eden, N.C., and worked for the state arts council before managing a modern dance company and doing marketing at Penn State University. She then was hired as the assistant to the dean of arts and sciences at Kentucky in 1986 before becoming assistant to the chancellor.
Burg said she was acclimating quickly to Lawrence and felt comfortable with the people here.
"I still get a lot of grief for my Southern accent and for wearing purple, not knowing that was K-State's color," she said. "But I'm learning, and I already love Lawrence."
Lighting to improve on Daisy Hill
By Nicole Kennedy
Kansan staff writer
Parking permit costs for campus housing are rising, and the parking department plans to use the money to improve lighting in student housing parking lots.
Campus housing permits for next year will cost students $50, $15 more than this year's price, and some students are upset by the parking board's plans to use the resulting increase in revenues only to improve lighting in parking lots on Daisy Hill.
The parking board plans to spend the approximate $30,000 increase in revenues that will be generated from the price increase and about $7,000 in parking department funds to improve lighting in the Ellsworth and McCollum Hall parking lots this summer.
But some students who live in Jayhawker Towers said they were concerned about safety near the towers.
Allison Ford, Marion sophomore and Towers resident, said she wanted the board to consider relighting the sidewalk that led from Templin Hall to the Towers.
"I'm not going to park at Templin and walk down the hill at night in the dark all by myself," she said.
But lighting plans for this summer don't include that sidewalk.
Nor do they include plans to improve lighting at Oliver Hall, despite the fact that more crimes occur in the Oliver lot than in the Ellsworth and McCollum lots.
KU police officer Gayle Reece said that from Aug. 15, 1995, to April 19, 1996, 22 incidents of theft, burglaries of motor vehicles or damage to property occurred in the Oliver lot.
Only nine such incidents occurred in the Ellsworth lot, and 17 occurred in the McCollum lot.
Reece said theft, burglaries of motor vehicles or damage to property are the most common crimes that occur in the student housing parking lots.
Ward Cook, a student member of the parking board, said the board decided to begin relighting with
SOURCE: Officer Gayle Reece, KUPD Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
Ellsworth Hall because they knew exactly what the problems were in that lot.
"We knew the lighting was bad up there and we had a number of complaints," he said.
Jim Modig, design and construction management director, said lighting improvements already had been made in other student housing lots. Modig's department will be making this summer's lighting improvements.
"We've done lighting in the scholarship hall area already," Modig said. "We've also done some lighting improvements around Corbin and GSP."
The board also has agreed to commit $100,000 every year for the next five years to relight other student housing lots, but the group has not decided where lighting will be improved next.
Stevie Case, a student member of the parking board, said board members wouldn't decide which lots would be relit next until after the work was completed at Ellsworth Hall.