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VOL.116 ISSUE 126
STUDENT SENATE
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Fees take over senate debate
BY NICOLE KELLEY
nkelley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Instead of asking about platform issues at Wednesday's Student Senate debate, most student questions focused on the ballot referendum to reduce required campus fees.
Jason Boots of the student political organization Ignite addresses a crowd in front of Wescoe Hall during a debate for the upcoming Student Senate elections. Several students asked questions concerning budget priorities and funding for student related activities. Elections will be April 11-12.
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Presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Ignite, Delta Force and $100 Fee Cut coalitions met on Wescoe Beach for the informal debate.
Dennis Chanay, Paola sophmore and presidential candidate for $100 Fee Cut, told audience members not to vote for him as a candidate at the top of the ballot. He said instead he wanted students to focus on the bottom of the ballot and vote yes for the referendum that would reduce campus fees by $46 a semester.
Chanay is running with Johnathan Wilson. Paola freshman and vice presidential candidate for the coalition. $100 Fee Cut was created for the sole purpose
of giving publicity to the referendum it supports, Chanay said.
Jason Boots and Mel Horen of Ignite and Studie Red Corn and Bridget Franklin of Delta Force also gave their opinions of the fee cut.
Franklin, Topeka senior, said she was against cutting the fees that support services such as those at Watkins Health Center. She said that it could hurt those students who can't afford health care anywhere else.
Boots, Plano, Texas, senior, said he didn't think that the $100 cut was necessary because it didn't actually affect the decision of students to attend the University of Kansas. He said that the beautiful campus and high academic standards were what made up his mind about the University and he thought that was probably the case for others as well.
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MED CENTER
Students vie for $1,500 award
BY CATHERINE ODSON codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Student researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center will compete for $1,500 in award money today at this year's Student Research Forum.
More than 100 student presentations highlight this year's forum, which includes a day of research presentations, a keynote lecture and an academic workshop. The workshop, "Current Trends in Scientific Publication: The Role of Open Access," will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in the Lied Auditorium on the Med Center campus.
The 12-minute presentations allow students to practice presenting scientific information as they will later in their careers, Nicholas Tejeda, Wichita graduate student and one of the event's student organizers, said. Students develop their research projects under the direction of a faculty member and complete what Tejeda called "not your cookie-cutter research."
For students that participate in the forum, their presentations will resemble the same format
as a national research meeting, said Joseph Bast, associate dean for graduate studies. Students present formally to a panel of faculty judges, who select the top presenter in each of 15 categories and the four schools on the Med Center campus — Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine and the Graduate School.
The forum's current structure, open to any researching student on the Med Center campus, has been in place since 1979. The event is 99.9 percent run by students, Bast said. Participating students are included on 13 committees, and are the two event cochairpersons and 107 presenters.
This year, participants registered online, and judges will enter their scores electronically. The keynote lecture and workshop presentations will be digitally recorded and archived, Tejeda said.
Students not presenting during the day sessions will present posters during the wine and cheese reception at 5 p.m. in the Varnes Center. The awards banquet will be at 6 p.m. Friday at the Intercontinental Kansas City Hotel.
Edited by Meghan Miller
Mumps count rises
HEALTH
BY FRANK TANKARD
flankard@kansan.com
KANSAN SENIOR STATE WRITER
The count of mumps cases at the University of Kansas rose to seven Wednesday, with six probable and one confirmed. Four other probable cases have been reported in Douglas County.
Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, called the situation an "outbreak" in a press conference and said local health officials weren't sure why people who had been vaccinated were contracting the viral infection.
Kim Ens, disease control program coordinator for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said mumps could be spreading to Kansas from Iowa, where 300 cases have been confirmed as of Monday.
The KU student who has been confirmed with mumps is a 19-year-old female student living in McCollum Hall. Denning said one student with a probable case of mumps lived in Oliver Hall, and that three others belonged to the same sorority. Though she didn't say which sorority or whether they lived together.
Denning said that the first of the seven cases at the University occurred in early February. The one person with a confirmed
Could you have the mumps?
Seven mumps cases, including six probable cases and one confirmed, have been reported at the University of Kansas, officials announced Wednesday. Here's some information about the mumps:
What are the symptoms?
Fever, swelling and ten-
derness to at least one of
the three salivary glands,
which are located below the ear, under the tongue and beneath the chin. The gland below the ear experiences tenderness most commonly.
When do symptoms occur? Usually 16 to 18 months after contracting the viral infection.
How is mumps treated?
Because mumps is a viral illness, there is no treatment and antibiotics are not effective.
Does a past mumps infection make you immune?
Yes, most likely.
How is mumps spread? Like the common cold,
case of mumps tested positive on March 19, though Denning said the University didn't find out until Monday because the student went to an off-campus doctor.
"That's just not something that docs had seen laterly," she said.
What should I do if I experience symptoms of mumps? Call Student Health Services at (785) 864-9507 or your own doctor to make an appointment.
Can mumps cause sterility?
Testicular swelling in men in 15 to 25 percent of infected men. Those who experience swelling rarely become sterile.
through saliva, the throat and the nose.
Denning said no one could be sure how many KU students had mumps because many went to doctors who don't report to the University. Ens said area doctors were caught off-guard by the mumps cases but should now be aware when diagnosing patients.
Douglas County had a large
How long do symptoms last?
They've lasted five days on average in a recent 300-person outbreak in Iowa.
outbreak of mumps from Oct. 1988 to April 1989, with 269 cases reported, Ens said. Mumps vaccines have been offered since 1967 and vaccinations are required for students attending Kansas public schools. In Iowa, 68 percent of those who developed mumps symptoms were fully vaccinated.
Denning said mumps, like other communicable diseases, is spread easily at colleges because of the proximity of students in residence halls and classes. In Iowa, college students account for 21 percent of its 300 reported cases, and the median age of the people showing symptoms is 21.
Sources: KU Student Health Services, Iowa Department of Public Health
Denning urged students experiencing symptoms of mumps to visit Watkins Health Center and to stay home from school and work.
"Do not panic," Denning said. "Mumps is an unpleasant infection. People feel bad and it hurts ... But the good new is it's not common to develop serious complications, and fatalities are very rare."
— Edited by Timon Veach
April flowers,not showers
Michelle Grittmann/KANSAN
A view from the second floor of Strong Hall overlooks students passing by the tulip garden. Warmer weather brings new scenery to campus as the landscapers plant new flowers along Jayhawk Boulevard. Day's afternoon temperature was 80 degrees.
TRANSPORTATION
Wheelchair-accessible buses roll to campus
The Lawrence City Commission passed a proposal Wednesday night which gave the OK for the University of Kansas to receive five new Optima wheelchair-accessible buses.
The buses have lower floors than regular buses and have a powered ramp that extends to three inches above the pavement.
This allows the wheelchair to enter the bus and, because there are no stairs in the entrance,
wheelchair-users are able to ride safely from place to place.
Melissa Manning, associate director of disability resources, said that students with disabilities used a
Manning
lift van if they required assistance in getting to and from class.
Approximately 15 to 20 students per semester use the
which makes about 60 trips a day.
Federal money will cover 80 percent of the costs of the new buses. Manning said that she hoped the new buses would alleviate traffic on campus.
Some of the students will not be able to use the buses because they must be picked up from their homes because of their disabilities, Manning said.
The new buses will also serve as an express shuttle that will be
free to students on campus. Students needing a lift from class to class may use the shuttle free of charge. There will be a shuttle every six minutes.
A new Park and Ride lot is the reason the buses became a feasible plan.
The new lot will be located at 23rd and Iowa streets.
The buses will travel through Irving Hill Road, Sunnyside Avevenue, Sunflower Road and down Jayhawk Boulevard.
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