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Members of the Commission on the Status of Women, (from left) Amanda Allison, Prairie Village senior; Meredith Pavicic, Leawood junior; Haley Miller, Kingman sophomore and Kelly Bogan, Overland Park senior, inform students about healthy sexuality and relationships Thursday. Students who visited the booth outside Wescoe Hall could also sign a petition to end the Title V Abstinence Education Program.
Club hosts CPR training class
BY CARLO RAMIREZ
cramirez@kansan.com
Pre-med Engineers was started last spring by engineering students who wanted more hands-on experience in the medical field. Jack Xu, president of the club and a junior from Fayetteville, Ark., said he thought it was important to have that experience.
The Pre-med Engineers want to be prepared in an emergency situation — which is why they are offering a free CPR certification class from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday in the Spahr Engineering Classroom in Eaton Hall.
Chemical engineering major Sean Parsel, a senior from Overland Park, is a basic life support instructor for the American Heart Association and will be teaching the CPR class.
"It's something worthwhile and can potentially save a life," he said.
Parsel became certified for his job at the University of Kansas Medical Center as an electrocardiogram technician. He said he saw the benefits of teaching proper technique after responding to multiple codes at the hospital and witnessing improper technique
FREE CPR CLASS
WHEN: Sunday, 4 to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Spahr
Engineering Classroom in Eaton Hall
on compressions.
"It could be easy to forget one's skills in an actual situation where someone's life is in jeopardy," he said.
Parsel has the credentials to certify all students who attend. He has taught about 10 classes so far, and said it is a skill that can come in handy at a moment's notice.
"Maybe you'll pull up on an accident on a freeway, or maybe someone will collapse in class or at work," he said.
Currently, 12 students are signed up to take the class. Jake Hopkins, a senior from Albuquerque, N.M., is planning to attend. He said this will be a good resume builder and an opportunity to prepare himself for any situation.
"My worst fear is actually having to use it," he said.
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domestic violence and human trafficking spoke out against the violence at Take Back the Night on Massachusetts St. last night. Audra Fullerton, director of community engagement at The Willow Domestic Violence Center, said this event occurred all over the nation to promote awareness of violence against women. She said the idea that a woman cannot go out at night "in a developed country is just ridiculous, so we are going to take back the night."
"We live in a very violent culture," Fullerton said. "We think of America as a very safe place, but it's not."
The leading cause of injury of a college-aged woman, 18 to 24, is from a violent partner, she said. But, that doesn't mean every person will report the violence. Only a handful of people report cases of domestic violence. Fullerton said domestic violence happens between two people in an intimate relationship. In more than 85 percent of domestic violence cases, the woman is battered by the man. She said domestic violence is a combination of "tactics of battering that have to do with power and control."
"It's happening at staggering rates." Fullerton said.
Meredith Pavicic, a coordinator of Take Back the Night and a junior from Leawood, said one in four college students will be sexually assaulted. Just like domestic
violence.
"It's easy for people to ignore," Pavicie said.
In Tebow's case, she said "the police laughed" at her because she didn't have any defensive wounds or evidence. She said she was unconscious during the incident and was unable to defend herself. The only way they would believe her was if they spoke with the friend who drugged her. Tebow was stuck. She said she waited
too long to go to the hospital to be evaluated for sexual assault.
But Chris Keary, assistant chief of police at the KU Public Safety Office, said a problem
is that sexual assault is a generic term, not a legal term.
"It's sort of ripe for abusive relationships come out of that," Fullerton said.
Fullerton said younger women are more likely to be victims of violence because they date often, which causes them to be exposed to many types of people. Batterers are attracted to someone they can easily control.
"Sexual assault is a catchall phrase used by people who don't really know what to call it."
rapid attachment, mood swings and emotional abuse.
Both women and men car
"Sexual assault is a catch-all phrase used by people who don't really know what to call it," Keary said. Sexual assault can range from rape to a person giving an inappropriate look to another, which makes it difficult to define legally. However, he said that domestic violence has a more straight-forward definition. According
violence, many students won't report sexual assault. It's something that people don't want to think about, but it affects everyone.
"We live in a very violent culture. We think of America as a very safe place, but it's not."
She said the definition of sexual assault tends to be fuzzy, especially when it comes to the law. Because of this, many students won't report domestic or sexual
CHRIS KEARY KU assistant chief of police
to the Kansas Legislature, domestic violence is when someone intentionally causes harm to a family or household member against the family member's will.
But, Fullerton said that physical abuse is not the most common form of abuse. Abuse doesn't usually start out with physical violence; it usually starts with economic, emotional and spiritual abuse. The early signs of a controlling relationship include
AUDRA FULLERTON Director at The Willow
and men can prevent these incidents from happening. It's important to recognize the signs of an unhealthy relationship, understand what it means to be in a healthy rela
tionship, recognize what early power control looks like and learn how to be supportive of people who are in this situation.
Students can get help. The Willow Domestic Violence Center focuses on shelter, help and hope. The Willow offers a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, advocacy services, court advocates and support groups. The victims of domestic violence will never be held accountable for their batterer's behavior, Fullerton said.
"We're here for you, we're here to support you and we're doing things to stop this from happening to other people."
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To further promote awareness, The Willow Domestic Violence Center will host a "Rally at Wescoe" on Oct. 1. Students can visit The Willow's website at www.willowdvcenter.org to learn more about events throughout the month. If a student needs help, he or she can call The Willow 24-hour crisis line at 785-843-3333.
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Settled: hot, greasy mess of a lawsuit
ODD NEWS
ALEXANDRA, Va. — A man has settled his lawsuit against a McDonald's restaurant that allegedly served him a sandwich that exploded with hot grease.
In 2005 when Frank Sutton ordered a fried chicken sandwich at a McDonald's in Duffield, Va, he said he suffered burns to his mouth and lips when it spewed scalding grease after he bit into it.
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fusing the curve, which requires a surgeon to join two or more vertebrae. Then, a spinal implant is inserted to keep the spine straight after the operation. Both surgeons and medical device companies will benefit from a model pediatric spine that allows them to make measurements and predictions.
"Different spinal surgeons approach how they would correct that disfigurement differently," Lewis said. "There is no cookie-cutter method or way of fixing it, because right now it's impossible to understand how different operations or implants will change and grow with a child."
Bioengineering is one of the fastest growing graduate programs at the University with 46 students after only three years in existence. Friis said every student she has worked with in a bioengineering lab has gone on to work in the field.
"The subject just really interests me," Lewis said. "Helping people and all the research — when I was in high school I tore my ACL and became really interested in medical devices and technology. I went into engineering knowing I wanted to go into the medical field."
The pediatric spine model may be a difficult project, but Fries is confident in her students' abilities.
"There are different and new challenges being brought up," Friis said. "But we have the experience behind us of making the adult model work that should really jump-start the project."
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Graduate student Damon Mar, from Lawrence, tests a piece of a human spine replica for movement on Wednesday in Learned Hall. The spinal research is part of a nearly finished project that has been funded and worked on for eight years.
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