Kansan Summer Weekly/Wednesdav. July 1, 1987
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Local Briefs
Friday classes canceled for July 4 holiday
The University of Kansas has canceled classes for Friday, July 3. in observation of the July Fourth holiday, all office offices also will be closed Friday.
The Watson and engineering libraries will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday and open from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. The Spencer Art Library and the music library will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and closed Saturday and Sunday. The science library will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The math library will be closed all three days.
Free children's show to emphasize safety
A free show on safety for children, sponsored by area emergency departments, will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., Thursday, at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Each of the four departments — ambulance, police, fire and emergency preparedness — will handle a particular area of safety.
"We're not going to lecture the kids but give them a balance of information and entertainment," you may say, one of the event's organizers.
Mayo, a paramedic with the Douglas County Ambulance Service, will play the guitar and sing songs about safety. Other skills will include McGruff, the crime dog, and a remote control robot. The grand finale will be a joint simulation by all four emergency departments in which a trapped child is rescued from a burning house.
Correction
For more information about the safety show, call Liberty Hall at 749-1912.
Campus and Area
Due to an editor's error, a story in the June 24 Kansan incorrectly reported the times of public sky-observation sessions sponsored by the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence. The July 3 and July 10 observation sessions at Broken Arrow Park, 31st and Louisiana streets, will begin at dusk and end about 11 p.m.
Clarification
A story in the June 24 Kansas reported that the Lawrence City Commission voted June 23 to approve an ordinance establishing a Business Improvement District in downtown Lawrence.
The story failed to specify that the June 23 vote was on the first reading of the ordinance. The ordinance must be approved a second time and published in an official newspaper before it becomes a law. The second reading will be July 7.
New associate dean
Rv MARK IOST
Special to the Kansan
The new associate dean of pharmacy at the University of Kansas will bring a variety of experiences from both the academic and professional worlds to his position.
Matchett has taught at KU since earning his doctorate in pharmacology here in 1976.
Jeremy Matchett, 53, associate professor of pharmacy practice, will become the associate dean of pharmacy July 18.
"He is not an unknown quantity," said Howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy. "He knows the school as well as the faculty, very faculty committee in the school."
Matchett, who is also director of pharmacy continuing education, worked 14 years in the private sector. He was, at various times, chief pharmacist at the Topeka State Hospital, staff pharmacist at Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka, and owner of The Prescription Center, a pharmacy prescription shop in Topeka. He was also chief of pharmacy services at the U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Meade, Md.
"The advising process is complicated," Matchett said. "I want to improve its efficiency."
Matchetch, who will continue to teach several classes, said he took the position because he wanted to be involved in decision-making about the school's direction and administration.
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
Jeremy Matchett, associate professor of pharmacy practice, will become the new associate dean of pharmacy July 18.
The associate dean is primarily responsible for dealing with student admissions, graduations and all the problems that occur between, Mossberg said. The associate dean also serves on two faculty committees, schedules classes and counsels students.
"He's a very approachable person," said Ruth Carter, Chanute senior and president of the Academy of Students of Pharmacy. Carter has worked with Matchett on several fund-raising efforts.
"Dr. MATCHet is a very understanding person, a very caring person. I think he'll function well in that role." Carter said.
University shows approval for Regents policy on AIDS
By STORMY WYLIE
Policy says institutions 'have obligation to help educate'
Staff writer
The Kansas Board of Regents recent policy regarding AIDS is being accepted with approval by KU administrators and campus groups.
The Regents policy, which was adopted June 26, says its institutions "have an obligation to help educate their students, faculty and staff" about acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare and former adviser to the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said yesterday that the Regents policy was rational and humane.
"I can't imagine a more humane policy to have," he said. "The issue now is whether student health services are prepared to provide the biological care necessary for someone who has been diagnosed with AIDS."
Dr. Kermit Krantz, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said the Regents policy was already being carried out at the Med Center
"We will educate anyone on the various aspects of AIDS," he said. "This is part of our obligation. We
don't turn out doctors ignorant of syphilis or gonorrhea, either."
"We thought a statement on AIDS
appropriate at this time," he
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The Regents adopted the AIDS policy at the recommendation of the Governor's Task Force on AIDS to help raise the public's awareness of the disease, said Stanley Koplik, executive director for the Regents.
Norman Jeter, a Regents member from Hays, said, "This statement was just something the Regents wanted to do to remind the campuses of their obligation on the part of the school. We have an obligation to help people understand the nature of this problem and how to prevent it."
The Regents institutions are Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Pittsburg State University, Kansas State University, University of Kentucky, University of Kansas and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Each of the seven Regents institutions will develop its own policy on educating people about AIDS and assuring confidential and non-discriminatory treatment of persons diagnosed with AIDS, Koplik said.
KU will create its own AIDS task
force before the fall semester to define what kinds of educational programs would work best for students and employees, said David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
The task force will include members from the faculty, students and health services staff, he said.
The University does not have a set
policy regarding student health care,
directors of student health services.
Strobl said, however, that two nurses and a nurse health educator were available to speak to student groups about AIDS. The health services office also has available various informational pamphlets and videotapes about AIDS.
Two of those videotapes were made by Dr. Richard Keeling, chairman of the American College Health Services Task Force on AIDS. Keeling was at KU last spring to speak at a three-day workshop that examined possible policies and procedures on how to deal with AIDS. Ambler said.
Keeling will return to KU this fall to give a free lecture about AIDS. The Academy of Students of Pharmacy, a KU pharmacy students' organization, is sponsoring the lecture, which will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 18.
Magician escapes bonds and boredom of 9 to 5 job
By KATHLEEN FADDIS
Special to the Kansan
Mario Manzini found his calling at an early age.
When he was five, he entertained his friends by slipping out of hand-cuffs and ropes. His idol was the writer Harry Houdini and escape artist Harry Houdini.
"Since I was a kid, I knew what I wanted to do, and I'm doing it," he said last week.
Thursday, he slipped out of thumb cuffs, leg and neck shackles and eight pairs of handcuffs while underwater at the Elks Club swimming pool. 3706 W 2rd St. It took him only a minute to get inside his magic and escape stunts Monday night at Hoch Auditorium in a show sponsored by the local Elks club.
It was the latest stop of a career
that came before he graduated from
high school.
"I felt something when I went in there," Manzini said. He talked to the circus manager that day and walked out with a job as an escape artist.
One day he and his friends were walking home in New York City when they passed Hubert's Museum and Circus. They went in to see the show.
At the age of 16, he ran away from home and found a traveling job with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He stayed with the circus six years.
Joseph Bonomolo of Long Island,
N. Y., grew up with Manzini. As a child, he said, Manzini once spent a week in a movie house watching "The Great Houdin".
"He is the most motivated and driven person I've ever known," Bonomolo said. With his intense concentration, Manzini "seemed to will himself to escape."
Manzini grew up in the Bronx, the only child of parents who wanted him to be an electrician. Even though his father had once been a racecar driver, Manzini's parents disapproved of their son's dangerous ambitions.
Manzini travels the world performing with Dina, his wife of 13 years, and two Siberian half-breed wolves.
"I used to think he was crazy.
Manzana. On them.
She looked like a teenager."
His wife has participated in the shows since magic was added to the act a few years ago
"I wouldn't care to do the tricks — that's for him," she said. She rarely worries about whether her husband will get hurt.
But he has been hurt, and he is aware of the danger. Manzini said the scariest thing that has happened to him was in 1972, when he was hanging over a lover of love, who had sharked as he swam for his life. He was not injured.
In 1978, he was performing at the Circus World Championship in London. He hung by his feet upside down
on a burning rope, shackled with handcuffs and wearing a straitjacket. The rope broke faster than he expected. He fell 25 feet and broke his leg in three places. He spent more than a year recuperating physically and mentally before he could perform again.
Manzini said three other escape artists had been killed trying that stunt.
Despite the risks, the Manziniis said they would never be happy with a nine-to-five job. They enjoy the freedom of the road too much.
"If I stay home for three weeks, I go nuts," Manzini's wife said.
The Manzinis have no children. "I can't see myself with kids anymore," she said. "I'm happy the way we are."
In 25 years of performing, Manzini said he had been arrested for a stunt only once, when he jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge. The police thought he was attempting suicide. Later the same evening, he went out for a beer with the officer who arrested him, he said.
For his next stunt, he is planning to be cuffed and chained inside a barrel and dropped into the Niagara River. He hopes to free himself from his bonds and escape by grabbing a rope from a waiting helicopter before the barrel plunges over the Niagara Falls. If he pulls it off, he probably will be arrested again, he said.
Dale Fulkerson/KANSAN
Escape artist Mario Manzini prepares to jump into the Elks Club pool, 3705 W. 23rd St. Off-duty Lawrence police officers made sure the cuffs and shackles were put on properly. Manzini completed the escape in 18 seconds Thursday.
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