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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, April 29, 1986
Insurance may put riding course to pasture
By Debra West
Staff writer
Saddles, bridles and blankets hang in rows on the walls of the old storage house, and worn boots and riding helmets are piled on the floor.
Outside, in the center of the arena, Joy Underdies sits on a milk crate holding court. Two students trot their horses around the arena with bark wood barks instructions at them from her seat.
Underwood has been teaching HPER 108, Basic Skill Instruction in Horsemanship, at Stable of Joy, near the southwest edge of Lawrence, for the past six years. Besides teaching 30 KU students, Underwood has 30 private students who take lessons.
But unless Underwood can find a good insurance company, there may be no any more
Her problem began in August when the company she bought insurance from through Charlton Manley Inc., an independent insurance representative, decided to stop selling liability insurance for riding classes and horse
"Most companies have stopped doing it; it's a high risk," she said recently. "The only one I can find that will wants $8,000 a year. That's a third of my income."
Wayne Osness, chairman of health, physical education and recreation, said no other HPER courses had the problem.
"All the classes that are held on campus in University facilities are covered by the general University policy." he said. "Horsesmenship is one. one that isn't held in University facilities."
Anne Leaf, office manager at Charlton Manley Inc., 910 Massachusetts St., said most insurance companies were tightening the areas
"They are getting rid of the areas with high liability exposure," she said. "When interest rates were high, companies could make a lot of money in those areas but live low now and they need to cut their losses."
they would insure.
"We have to protect our students," he said. "But they could take private lessons."
If Underwood can't get the insurance, Oness said, students could continue to take riding lessons from Underwood, but not through the University.
If Underwood isn't able to get insurance by August, the class probably will be canceled and she may have to quit giving private lessons as well.
"The horses I use for classes belong to the Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council," she said. "I use them for my classes, and in return I feed them and keep them here for free. If I can't
give KU classes anymore, I can't afford to keep the Girl Scout horses."
Underwood said that if she had to quit giving ridings lessons, she would continue to board the team.
"I've ridden on and off since I was 10," she said. "I wanted to take the class for fun."
"I'll lose the money I make from lessons, but I won't have the overhead I have now with takings."
Anne Ise, Arlington, Va., senior, took the class from Underwood for three semesters and sometimes rents a horse to ride.
Underwood says she teaches her students how to groom, saddle and bridle a horse and how to ride properly at a walk, trot and canter in either English or Western English riding. Underwood knows how to bowl and Western intermediate rides; barrel racing and reining patterns.
Center furnishes crisis counseling
By Peggy Kramer Staff writer
When someone thinks of headquarters, the image of an army general's 'meeting place may come to mind. But in Lawrence, the blue and bubblegum-pink two-tower building Massachusetts St., is Headquarters.
Headquarters is a 24-hour crisis counseling center which has never closed in more than 16 years. During that time about 1,000 K students and Lawrence residents have over 300,000 hours of their time.
A listening ear is only one of the ways in which Headquarters assists people with concerns. Walk-ins often stop by to talk or use the phone, the center of interest of a night of emergency housing to people in need.
"The volunteers receive every kind of call imaginable," Terri Johnson, vice president of Headquarters, board of directors, said recently.
If the trained volunteers don't have the exact information, they refer the caller to other counseling and support services that do.
Someone is at the crisis and short-term counseling center night and day to handle calls about suicide intervention, drug information, sexuality concerns and relationship problems.
The majority of callers are University or high school students, Johnson said.
Larry Carter, assistant director of Headquarters, said the most frequent concerns of callers are "fear of being expressed or just wanting someone to listen.
ine atmosphere at Headquarters is unlike that of a doctor's office or a clinic. Well-worn couches, plants and a large oval coffee table create a homelike atmosphere.
The phone room is on the first floor. Near the two telephones are
a small reference library and a file cabinet that provide easy access to information on prescription drugs, agency referrals and health.
Johnson began working at Headquarters as a KU graduate student in 1980. She has been on the board of directors for more than a year.
The volunteers must make commitments to work 300 hours before they are accepted. This includes 70 hours of training, Marcia Epstein, head of the Headquarters, and wrote the Headquarters training handbook used in the sessions.
The training sessions usually start at the beginning of each KU semester, Carter said. In addition to studying the handbook, the students will also participate in individual role playing, small group discussions and observation shifts.
Representatives from such organizations as Rape Victim Support Service, Women's Transitional Care Services, and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas coordinate presentations and offer perspective viewpoints, Johnson said.
Once the volunteers are accepted, they commit eight hours each week for eight months to the center.
When Headquarters was founded in 1969 it was primarily a center for drug information, Johnson said.
Most of the time two people are on the shifts. There are 70 shifts each week. The volunteers usually cover the night to 8 a.m. shift,
Randy Bloom, Kansas City, Mo. junior, has been a volunteer since October. He is a psychology major and works a four-hour shift once a
The work takes a certain type of person, he said. It's not for everybody.
Stress leaves its mark on students
"The work helps me 100 percent, not only in education but in everything," he said.
By Lynn Maree Ross
Stress shows up in the most unlikely places.
For Lloyd Davies, Lenexa graduate student, finding a place to park on campus is enough to make him swear.
"It drove me about half nuts driving up here trying to find a space," Davies said recently. "It was a 200."
Stress can't be relieved with smoking, alcohol or drugs, but biofeedback can help a person relax, said Dr. Richard W. Olsen, an psychologist at Watkins Hospital.
But Davies is not alone. Many students experience stress at some time in their lives. For example, students often experience stress as the first thing they begin to worry about class projects, term papers and finals.
Kerkman teaches students to pinpoint sources of stress and to use biofeedback for relaxation. He said he was busiest at the beginning of the
semester, as students adjusted to campus life, and during the week before finals.
Often when a person encounters stress, his muscles tense and his heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration increases. Through biofeedback, people can actively control some responses to stress. Kerrigan said
Kerkman uses two machines to show his patients how to become aware of stress. One machine measures the pressure and the other measures muscle tension.
People can control the symptoms of stress. Kerkman said.
Hand temperature. Kerkman said, is the window to the autonomic nervous system.
When someone experiences stress, his hand temperature decreases because the blood vessels in his arms and legs constrict. Keratinization of the major organs and is part of the flight or fight response.
When the patient's stress goes away his temperature returns to normal.
The next step, Kerkman said, is to help the patient determine what is causing the stress by talking about his life. When the machine registers a decrease in the patient's hand temperature, Kerkman explores the topic he and the patient were then discussing.
Once Kerkman determines the cause of the patient's stress, he uses the same technique to look for images that will help the patient relax.
The other machine, which measures muscle tension, is attached by sensors to the patient's forehead. The amount of tension is translated into sound — the greater the tension, the louder the sound.
Pamela Cater, Topeka law student, went to Kerkman because she suffered from tension headaches, stomachaches and sore jaw muscles caused by grinding her teeth at night.
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