UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 28, 1995
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
Splashing toward ecstasy
Robert Shutt, Topeka junior, and Amy KooB, Watertown, S.D. junior, have a water fight in the Chi Omega fountain. They were taking a break from their bike riding when they decided to cool off.
Watkins says get shots before running for border
By Billie David
By Billie David Special to the Kansan
Students who plan to travel abroad but don't get the required shots may end up stranded at the border.
Candye Waitley, a registered nurse in the education department at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that although some countries, such as Britain and France, did not require immunizations of visitors from the United States, other countries did.
Finding out what shots are required from a travel agent or the organization that is sponsoring the trip is important. Watkins can also supply vaccination information.
"We receive weekly updated requirements," Waitley said.
Other shots that may be required include typhoid, cholera and yellow fever. Immunization records are stamped in an immunization booklet.
Some students have been disappointed
when they went to Watkins for shots the day before they were scheduled to leave. Waitley said. The students did not realize some immunizations, such as cholera, require multiple shots spread over several weeks. Travelers also are often required to be immunized two weeks prior to departure so that the immunizations have time to take effect.
"Students should check ahead, long before they leave," Waitley said, adding that some students have been stranded inside the United States during winter break because of poor planning.
Students entering the United States from other countries, on the other hand, are not required to be immunized, said Daphne Johnston, associate director of International Student Services. However, they need to show proof of immunization against measles, mumps and rubella when they arrive at KU.
ered if students plan to be sexually active abroad. The cost is approximately $140 for a series of three shots.
In addition to the required immunizations, hepatitis B shots should be consid-
Hepatitis B is a viral infection involving inflammation of the liver. It is transmitted through exposure to an infected person's blood, semen, vaginal secretions or saliva. Ten percent of those infected run a high risk of developing cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer.
Like HIV, the hepatitis B virus can be sexually transmitted and has no cure. However, hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV. There is a vaccine for Hepatitis B, though.
Almost 300,000 Americans are infected with hepatitis B each year. It is more prevalent in Southeast Asia, South Pacific islands, sub-Sahara Africa, Alaska, the Amazon, Bahia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
"It is important for students to know their immunization status," Waitley said. "These diseases are preventable."
KU employee finds stitch niche on 'Kansas City' set
By Amy Southerland Special to the Kansan
Gerli Lamer confesses that when she goes to see the new Robert Altman film "Kansas City," she'll have a hard time paying attention to the story.
"If there's a pucker, it will be as big as my head," Lamer says.
And she's not talking about on-screen kisses.
Lamer was the draper for "Kansas City" which means she sewed all the house's curtains used in the film, now being shot on location in Kansas City, Mo. But usually other crew members hung the curtains, so Lamer is eager to see whether her curtains appear on the big screen bulge-free.
Lamer, office manager in the KU communication studies department, landed the job as draper because of a friend.
Her friend, who is a computer consultant, answered a call and found himself behind the scenes at one of the film's Kansas City locations.
Lamer's friend knew she had sewn the curtains and pillows for "Skylark," a made-fortelevision movie filmed in Emporia. While taking care of the computer problem, her friend mentioned Lamer to Altman's son, who is part of the production crew.
Susan Emshwiller, the film's set decorator,
contacted Lamer and hired her.
"Getting his movie makes me believe in fate," Lamer said.
Before filming began, Emshwiller gave Lamer the dimensions of the windows in all four houses being used in the film so that she could determine how much curtain fabric would be needed.
The first house required 13 sets of curtains. Lamer lost count after that as she sewed dozens of curtains for the remaining four houses.
One house doubles in the film and required two curtain sets. She estimated materials for the curtains cost about $20,000.
Lamer's sewing schedule was demanding and unpredictable. She had to sew the curtains for a quick turnaround — sometimes in one night.
On those nights, she transformed her apartment into a one-woman curtain factory, setting up a sewing machine and ironing board in opposite corners so she could work as efficiently as possible.
She did all this while continuing to work her full-time job.
The most elaborate task she faced was making bedroom drapes for the character played by Miranda Richardson.
The house is owned by a wealthy family, and a great deal of action takes place in this bedroom. It called for some serious curtains, Lamer said.
How serious? The bedroom had two side-by-side windows that required 52 yards of lush green fabric and 30 yards of trim. For these particularly difficult drapes, Lamer set up her sewing machine on the set for three days.
She shuddered as she described stapling the fabric to makeshift boxes attached to the wall above the window.
"This is so wrong!" she told Emshwiller. She was reassured that the curtains just had to look right.
According to Emshwiller, Lamer did a great job with the green drapes.
"Everybody that walked in was totally impressed," Emshwiler said. "I totally had faith in her. I'd draw little pictures and she'd know what I was talking about."
The sketches for the green drapes, one on a piece of notebook paper and the other on a Post-It note, are so rough one has to look twice to realize what they are. No directions, no dimensions — just rough pencil drawings that provide a general sense of the style Emshwiller was looking for.
Lamer always has worked for the state or federal government but has decided she needed some business experience before realizing her dream of becoming an entrepreneur. In July, she is moving to New England to take a management position with Osco Drug.
Lamer said she planned on letting the local film commissions near her new home know about her "Kansas City" experience.
In addition to earning the satisfaction of a job well done, Lamer was paid well for her work. While she wouldn't disclose exact amounts, she said the payment as a draper would fund her move to New England.
"Kansas City" should hit the big screen sometime next year.
But she will have more than the completed film to remind her of her work as draper.
"The first couple of times I see it, I'll just be looking at the curtains," Lamer said.
Carefully packed away in one of her moving boxes are all the fabric remnants from the film. Lamer is an experienced quilter, and she is going to make a Victorian crazy quilt that incorporates a piece of each fabric.
"That will make that quilt really special," Lamer says.
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