10A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
SPEAKER
Date Doctor to assist hopeless romantics
BY DEJUAN ATWAY
datway@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Was Valentine's Day a complete disaster? Did it not go the way you and your significant other envisioned? Did it start with pessimism or finish in disappointment?
Perhaps an appointment with David Coleman, The Dating Doctor, is in order.
Coleman will give a lecture, titled "Making Relationships Matter," at 7:30 p.m. at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Student Union Activities is sponsoring Coleman's appearance, which is free to the public.
"His programs are very interactive with the audience; he is very funny and doesn't talk down to people like Dr. Phil," said jenny Kratz, social events
coordinator for SUA. "The movie 'Hitch' is loosely 'based about him.'"
Coleman obtained his bachelor's degree in speech pathology and audiology from Bowling Green State University in 1983.
He has written four books, on topics ranging from leadership qualities and facts freshmen should know to maintaining romantic relationships.
In addition, Campus Activities Magazine has named Coleman the national speaker of the year six times.
Carol Kennedy, director of health education and counseling at the Lafene Health Center at Kansas State University, said she and several other members of the Lafene staff had heard Coleman speak before.
She said she recommended
that Coleman be added as a guest speaker at the University
"He offers sound advice and is very entertaining." she said. "We thought it would be a great educational opportunity for K-State students to hear his message about building relationships."
Although this will be Coleman's first lecture at the University of Kansas, he has given numerous speeches at colleges and conferences around the country.
He's made regular appearances on radio stations and newspapers have written dozens of articles about his romantic philosophies.
For more information about upcoming Student Union Activies events, visit its Web site at www.suaevents. com.
Striking all the right chords
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 2006
Brian Campbell, Wellington, Mo. third-year doctoral student, performs under the instruction of James Higdon, professor of organ, at the Bales Recital Hall Tuesday afternoon. Campbell has been playing the organ for 12 years and would like to someday teach at the university level.
Roommates
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Sheryle Gallant, associate professor of psychology, said living with the opposite sex worked if the personalities work well together. She said because it's economically advantageous to have a roommate, students should exercise a degree of tolerance, assuming that they won't be living together forever.
The romantic relationships of mixed-sex roommates also can pose problems. Black's roommate had a girlfriend who wasn't fond of him living with another girl. She said that after the two broke up, he told Black that his girlfriend
had been too intimidated to come over.
Landon Streed, Gardner senior, said his previous
rominate,
female, was
always with
her boyfriend.
He said her
relationship
had strained
the living sit-
uation, and he
basically had lived alone.
"I'd rather live with a girl. They're just more fun and less smelly."
Streed's major pet peeve was sharing a bathroom with a female. He hated waiting while she got ready. He also didn't like that he barely had space to put his things.
Black said she had plenty of room for her things in the spa.
cious town home built for four tenants.
"I'd rather live with a girl. They're just more fun and less smelly," she
Melissa Black Wichita senior
Streed said,
"It's just so much better living with a guy because you have so much more in
common, like going out to the bars with boys, talking about girls, poker nights and video games."
Black said although her roommate hounds her to go out, at least he always buys the beer.
Edited by Kathryn Anderson
The doctors had been brought in by a federal judge after Morales' attorneys argued that the three-part lethal injection process violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The attorneys said a prisoner could feel excruciating pain from the last two chemicals if he were not fully sedated.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Doctors refuse to excute inmate
U. S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel gave prison officials a choice last week: bring in doctors to ensure Morales was properly anesthetized, or skip the usual paralyzing and heart-stopping
"Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical," the doctors, whose identities were not released, said in a statement. "As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process."
BY LISA LEFF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — The execution of a convicted killer was postponed early Tuesday after two anesthesiologists refused for ethical reasons to take part, renewing the long-running debate over what role doctors may play in the death chamber.
Michael Morales, 46, was supposed to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. But the execution was put off until at least Tuesday night after the anesthesiologists objected that they might have to advise the executioner if the inmate woke up or appeared to suffer pain.
drugs and execute him with an overdose of a sedative.
The judge's ruling renewed an ethical debate that has persisted for many years about the proper role of doctors in executions and the suitability of the lethal injection method
Prison officials planned to press forward with the execution Tuesday night using the second option.
used in California and 35 other states.
The American Medical Association, the American Society of An-
Morales stood to become the 14th murderer put to death since California reinstated the capital punishment in 1977. He was condemned in 1983 for killing 17-year-old Terri Winchell, who was attacked with a hammer, stabbed and left to die half-naked in a vineyard.
Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical."
Morales had plotted the killing with a gay cousin who was jealous of Winchell's relationship with another man. The cousin was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Statement by unidentified doctors
esthesiologists and the California Medical Association all opposed the anesthesiologists' participation as unethical and unprofessional.
The anesthesiologists ultimately withdrew after the judge wrote that they might have to demand that the executioner administer more sedatives through a separate intravenous line to make sure the prisoner is unconscious.
The anesthesiologists would have joined another doctor who is on duty at all California executions to declare the prisoner dead and ensure proper medical procedures are followed.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never directly addressed the constitutionality of lethal injection or whether it causes inmates excessive pain.
The 24-hour death warrant
for Morales was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. After that, state officials would have to go back to the trial judge who imposed the death sentence in 1983 for another warrant.
However, the judge, Charles McGrath, joined Morales this month in asking Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency. McGrath said he no longer believed a jailhouse informant whose testimony helped land Morales on death row.
Nevertheless, Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for California's attorney general, said the judge was bound by law to sign a new death warrant, if one was requested.
When Morales was told of the delay, he was "nonchalant," according to prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon.
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