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HEALTH
Officials prepare for influenza spread
BY DANAE DESHAZER
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As students return to campus, the germs and illnesses from their hometowns follow.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reported sporadic influenza activity in the south-central and northeast areas of Kansas. Although the flu hasn't hit Lawrence hard yet, it's predicted to hit soon.
"We haven't seen a lot of cases yet," said Patricia Denning, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center. "We are waiting for prevalence."
Denning said a significant amount of flu, cases were reported in Kansas City during winter break and now that the semester has started, she anticipated it will be on campus soon.
Denning would not release an exact number of flu cases at Watkins; however, she said there were few reported so far this year. About 100 flu vaccinations are still available at Watkins, which Denning said was normal for this time in the season. Sheryl Tirol-Goodwin, communications coordinator for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, said there was still
plenty of the vaccine left at the local health department, 200 Maine St.
Tirol Goodwin said the flu season typically ran from October to March, but seemed to peak in January and February.
"We do have few cases of flu in the county, but just because we have a few, doesn't mean that number can't grow," Tirol-Goodwin said. "It's really unpredictable."
virus. However, the influenza virus changes through time and KDHE recommends yearly vaccinations. The flu vaccine at Watkins is $15 for students and $21 at the health department.
Denning said it was not too late to get a vaccination, and that she urged every student to do so. The state health department reported that the vaccine was about 80 percent effective in preventing illness from the
If students aren't interested in a vaccine, Tirol Goodwin urges them to practice healthy habits, such as washing their hands and covering their mouth when they cough.
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@kansan.com.
Edited by Stacey Couch
TRANSPORTATION
Photo Illustration by Lisa Lipovac/KANSAN
Some KU students choose to car pool to school because of the economic advantage of sharing transportation expenses. AfterNetRides.com provides a forum for students looking to share rides.
Pooling their resources
Students use Web site to help others get a ride to campus
BY ERICK R. SCHMIDT
Even as winter weather slows transportation, Charles Cook knows he has a ride to school if the roads are passable.
Cook, Lenexa senior, shares driving duties with two friends in
Sometimes, he doesn't even have to drive.
their daily commute from Johnson County to Lawrence. Fellow seniors Julie Wolfe of Shawnee and Joel Bakian of Overland Park comprise the traveling group along with Cook. The group has been traveling together for three years. All three are pharmacy students and have similar class schedules, so timing isn't usually a problem.
"In any car pool, there's usually that one person who's not on time, who you have to wait around on," Cook said, looking at Wolfe and laughing. "But we've never had a real problem."
Margretta de Vries, administrative associate for the Parking Department, said that car pooling on campus hadn't been as successful as she would have liked, but that several options had been considered. She said that there was room in the department's rules to develop a plan that would give students incentive to car pool, but
that no decision had materialized on how to go about such a change.
"There would be more use if we had more car pooling permits or a program," de Vries said. "But we don't have it worked out. There are so many ways to do it."
Some possible plans could save students money because the cost of a permit could be divided between multiple users.
"Not many universities have those programs, so there are only
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ROTC
Surge leaves cadets in class
BY TYLER HARBERT
President Bush's push for an influx of more than 20,000 troops in Iraq will not change the ROTC program protocol at the University of Kansas.
"We're a four-year program," Maj. Gary Farley, executive officer for the KU Army ROTC program said. "We're not accelerating; we'll have the same curriculum, the same standards."
The purpose of the ROTC program is to train cadets to become "warrior leaders," while earning a four-year degree. That philosophy hasn't changed since the president's highly-debated announcement, Farley said.
"If anything there's more relevance or purpose to their training," he said.
The program gives cadets hands-on on training to equip them with the leadership skills necessary for active duty, he said.
Farley said he hadn't noticed an increase in anxiety among cadets about the up-coming troop surge.
"The ROTC cadets know we're a nation at war up-front," he said. "They know what they're getting into."
Two cadets, Lt. Col. Noah Rees, battalion commander and Lecompton senior, and Sgt. Maj Mark Anderson, Mission Hills junior, said they were indifferent to the surge.
"What happens with war doesn't affect the ROTC program at the rate we progress through it," Rees said. "Even if not in Iraq, I'm confident I'll have to serve and I'm willing to do whatever is necessary."
Graduated cadets come out of the program as second heutenants, but their training isn't complete. Farley said. From there they go to more specialized training, which could last for up to a year before being stationed with a platoon.
Cadet Major Mike Beamon, battalion executive officer and Lenexa senior, said there were no definite odds on whether he would go to war because of the training time line.
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Student to share African experience
BY BRIAN LEWIS-JONES
Although her street flooded constantly during a two-month rainy season, Sarah Smiley sees many positive things after living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Smiley, Lexington, Ky., graduate student in geography, researched urban life in the east-coast African city and lived there from October 2005 until August 2006.
She said more accessible drinking water and improved electricity exemplified improvements in the sprawling city of three million people.
"The point is to look at this
in a different light and look at what's going on, what's working, what's positive."
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Smiley will speak at 11:30 a.m. today in the Kansas Union at Ujamaa Brown Bag, a lunchtime discussion of African experiences. She will also speak Feb. 15 at the African Studies Seminar.
apartment building in the heart of Dar es salaam. Smiley spent most
"The point is to look at this in a different light and look at what's going on, whats working, what's positive."
"Cities in Africa: Overcoming Stereotypes & Legacies of Crisis."
SARAH SMILEY
Lexington, Ky., graduate student
"So many people wanted to talk to me and share their lives." Smiley said.
of her days talking to people in the city to learn how they lived
While living in her four-story
Manypeople worked several jobs, including
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Sarah Smiley, KU graduate student in geography, sits at a marketplace in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Smiley recently traveled to the east-coast African city to research urban life and segregation in the area.
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