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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Feb. 10, 1986
Cancer funds and awareness raised
By Lynn Maree Ross Staff writer
The Kansas division of the American Cancer Society raised over $2 million last year, and at the same time educated people about cancer and cancer prevention.
"Until cancer hits you, you close your ears to it. When it does hit you, you don't know what to do," said Virginia Long, public information chairman of the Johnson County American Cancer Society.
Long was one of 10 people who spoke at a Douglas County cancer society meeting Saturday at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. The meeting focused on the need to further educate the public and how to accomplish that goal.
Visibility of the society through fund-raisers is one way to make the public more aware of cancer and cancer prevention, said Natalie Haren, chairman of Kansas division standing crusade committee.
committee. The best fund-raisers are those tailored around a community, she said. The University of Kansas is part of the Lawrence community.
Two KU students, Keith Ott, Overland Park junior, and Lisa Bixby, Chanute junior, are working together this semester to raise money for the society.
Ott, president of the Owl Society at the University, said the junior honorary society donated money to the cancer society every year, but he would like to see it organize an annual fund-raiser. Two years ago, the Owls sold daffodils for the society, but last year the group didn't have the time or the resources to do it again.
Bixby said she was recruited by the local cancer society to help with fundraising in the residential community. She and Ott decided the task would be easier if they worked together.
Ott and Bixby are organizing Daffodil Days, which is part of the society's fund-raising crusade. The state society provides the order forms and handles delivery of the flowers to the groups that participate.
Ott said he and Bixby planned to approach as many local businesses as possible. Their hope is that the businesses will buy the flowers and donate
Restaurants also are on the list, he said. Ott and Bixby said they hoped the restaurants would buy dappers to put on tables and near cash registers.
them to local nursing homes.
Ott said he didn't know how students at the University would respond to Daffodil Days. Members of the honor society will to go to fraternities, sororites and residence halls to tell the students what the group is doing.
Lyn Walther, president of the Douglas County cancer society, said Ott's and Bixby's enthusiasm for the fund-raiser was much appreciated.
Most people don't realize that good nutrition, a positive attitude and exercise are important elements in preventing cancer, Walther said. And students will be more likely to listen to their peers than anyone else, which is why getting young people involved in promoting the society is so important.
"So much can be done from a preventative stand point," she said. "If we've done nothing but save one or two lives, we've really accomplished something."
Kansas Alumni magazine may be revived, editor says
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communications director for the University of Kansas Alumni Association said yesterday that she thought publication of Kansas Alumni magazine, suspended last year, would be renewed in June.
On Campus
■ Virginia Gathercole, professor of linguistics at Florida International University, will speak about "Does Frequency of Input Play a Role in
The Student Assistance Center will sponsor a speed and comprehension reading class from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Multipurpose Room in Robinson Center.
"It looks like we're going to do a magazine in June, but it will be different from the old format," said Jennifer Jackson, communications director and Kansas Alumni editor.
Publication of this year's January and June issues of the semi-annual magazine was suspended last July by the Alumni Association's board of directors because financing was unavailable and the board wanted to find a format that would better serve its readers.
The University Placement Center will present a workshop, "Interviewing II: How not to interview," at 3:30 p.m. today in Room 3 Lippincott Hall.
The Alumni Association published a newsletter in January and then published a tabloid this month. It also plans to publish tabloids in March and April.
The Student Assistance Center will sponsor a program, "Dealing with that Uneasy Feeling," at 6:30 p.m. today. The program will focus on becoming more comfortable in
Award winners were announced Jan. 15 in Kansas City, Mo., at the annual District VI meeting of the council. District VI includes 200 universities, colleges and independent schools in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
The Kansas Alumni magazine and tabloid last month won seven awards, including five first-place awards, in a regional competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
The KU Kompo Karate Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the
The magazine won a first-place award for alumni magazines, and the tabloid won first place in the alumni newspaper-tablio category. Dan Reeder was editor of both the magazine and tabloid.
the tabloid also won first place in the visual design, complete unit or series category. Christina Jepsen was art director for the tabloid.
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Kansas Alumni magazine-writer Valerie Mindel won first place in the feature-magazine article category, for her article, "The Great Sheriff Race of 1970." Reeder said the story was about George Kimball, who ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Lawrence in 1970.
Magazine writer Chuck Marsh won first place in the in-depth analysis category, for "To The Core," about KU core curriculum.
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The magazine won a second-place award in periodical cover design, for the cover on its June 1985 issue.
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