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CAPS helps turn hell to heaven
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With a new and more efficient system, people who call in to see one of the seven full-time professionals at CAPS can expect an appointment within seven to 10 days.
"In the past, we've had as many as 120 people waiting, which meant a two- or three-month wait," said Frank DeSalvo, director of CAPS. "This past semester, the largest number of people we had people waiting was 20."
Telephone Number: 864- CAPS
Location: Second floor of Watkins Memorial Health Center
Fee: No charge the first three sessions for full-time students. Every subsequent session is $7.
Other on-campus counseling centers: KU Psychological Clinic Location: 315 Fraser Hall Telephone Number: 864-4121
Fee: $6 per session for full-time students.
Transfer student is one of many to find comfort
By Meng Yew Tee
Kansan staff writer
The day that Dena Piscisite arrived in Lawrence was the day living hell began. At least it was hell for her.
Piscitie, Grand Junction, Colo., senior, transferred to the University of Kansas in January hoping to turn over a new leaf from a relationship that had gone awry and also to expand her academic horizon. But everything was going wrong.
Unfortunately, major setbacks began to take place, too. The day she moved into the residence halls, her luggage, purse and credit cards were stolen. At the same time, severe homesickness began creeping in.
She had just learned that her tuition fees were going to cost almost $3,000 more than expected. Her housing contract was not confirmed as expected. Being new in town, she had no place to live and no friends to turn to.
Piscioite, slipping into depression, knew that she was breaking down and needed to find help soon. Calls to her mother and to her friends were not helping anymore.
After a quick search, she picked up the phone and dialed 862-2277. It was the number for Counseling and Psychological Services, more commonly known as CAPS.
"It felt like everything was coming on you on all at once." Pisciote said, with a slight quivering smile. "I was ready to jump of the cliff."
It was January 14 when she sat down in front of a therapist at Watkins Memorial Health Center and let her feelings and tears flow. Ironically, it was that day that enables her to smile today.
"I didn't like doing it at first, but things got really bad," Piscitie said.
"I swallowed my pride and went to see somebody at CAPS. Now, I am a much happier and healthier person."
Last year, CAPS provided clinical and counseling services to more than 1,000 students — many who were going through difficult times like Piscito, CAPS, an
individual and group therapy sessions later, knows that direction.
"CAPS does not, solve problems for you. They taught me how to deal with different problems," she said.
"They taught me how to fish, instead of just giving me the fish."
However, the process never was easy. Three to four months ago, Piscottie still was struggling. Her eaturing and sleeping habits went topsy-turpys. She lost 18 pounds in less
agency within the division of student affairs and accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services, is designed to meet the growth and developmental needs of KU students.
than two months, and often she found herself staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. She also had picked up smoking again.
Pisciotte, six months and several
Things were going really slow then, she said, but at least she thought it was getting somewhere. She was right. Piscisio has
Pisciotte has
gained back about half of the weigh she lost. Smoking and sleeplessness does not dominate her life anymore. Now, every so often, a warm and infectious smile breaks through her pale but healthy looking face. She said that now she was more prepared to take on challenges, but she understood that there were always going to be some bad days.
"It has not been easy, but what they did for me at CAPS has really helped me to get my life together," she said.
KU helps Kyrgyzstan hit the press
University faculty teaches in former Soviet republic
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the newly freed and independent republics have been trying to put the pieces back together.
The University of Kansas and the School of Journalism are trying to help through an effort financed by the United States Information Agency and the Eurasia Foundation, a non-profit organization to help development in Europe and Asia.
A group from KU went to Kyrgyzstan, a country bordering the former Soviet Union and Asia, to teach students and journalists about American journalism. It consisted of Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism; Tom Volek, assistant professor of journalism; Chuck Marsh, assistant professor of journalism; Robert Basow, associate professor of journalism; Terry Weidner, associate director of International Studies; and KU graduate students Svetlana Novikova and Rodica Cinciei.
"The whole project went far more successfully than we ever hoped," Volek said.
After two days on a plane and one day visiting KU alumni in Istanbul, Turkey, the group arrived in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
The participants spent their first weekend in Kyrgyzstan hiking in the
tains south of Bishkek.
"That was a real adventure because it is a really rugged country," Marsh said.
Back in Bishikek, the group stayed in apartments provided by Kyrgyzstan residents.
The first Monday they were there, the hot
taught mass media issues, entrepreneur management, regulation and law, and writing for broadcasting, public relations and advertising. They spoke about the potential of starting newspapers instead of working for big newspapers.
Marsh said that Kyrgyzstan had good journalism and working news-
"The whole project went far more successfully than we ever hoped."
After washing up, the professors began teaching workshops at Kyrgyzstan Technical University. They
"It was like camping in the city," Marsh said.
water in Bishkek was cut off.
The participants spent their mornings boiling hot water on the stoves and rotated taking baths, Volek said.
Tom Volek assistant professor of journalism
papers, but it did not have an economic system to support journalism.
"We tried to keep the sessions as interactive as possible and to encourage lots of questions," Voleksaid. The workshops averaged about 50 people per session including a mix of Kuwaiters.
professors, media professionals and students.
The professors' English lectures were interpreted into Russian by a hired interpreter from Kyrgyzstan. The two graduate students from KU interpreted for the group when they were traveling around the country.
"It was a great teaching experience," Marsh said.
Kautsch spent his days meeting with government officials and evaluating their willingness to receive help.
In the evenings, the participants either stayed home, cooking their own meals with food from the bazaar in Bishkek, or visited local homes.
One evening they visited the home of the director of Kyrgyzstan Technical University. Another evening they visited the home of Svetlana Novikova, a KU graduate student who served as an interpreter on the trip.
"The country's motto is 'eat, eat, eat; drink, drink, drink.'" Volek said. Kautsch said the U.S. investment in that part of the world was not only important but necessary.
He said the former Soviet system purged Kyrgyzstan of its ability to develop, and he felt good because it seemed the group could make a difference.
They hope to return next May to begin implementing an advertising and public relations curriculum and also to install a small media center. This trip would depend on another grant that has not yet been confirmed.
After the first week of workshops, Volek, Marsh and Basow remained to visit, consult, and develop internship programs.
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