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A world without wires Although costly, wireless Internet access is increasingly becoming commonplace. Today, Student Senate will discuss the possibility of increasing wireless Internet access at the University. PAGE 3A
New direction
New direction University Career and Employment Services has a new director and plans to reorganize its program. PAGE 3A
Padgett out, Graves in
Despite his ankle injury Sunday,
David
Padgett seems to be
recovering quickly, coach Bill Self said, but he will probably not play against Nebraska. PAGE 1B
Ballard's new job
Instead of watching Kansas men's bas
ketball games courtside, Brett Ballard now spends games in the rafters of Allen Fieldhouse, serving as a student assistant. PAGE 1B
No vote for students The University of Kansas Athletics Corporation Board of Directors voted to reduce the number of board members from 23 to five. Students will no longer have a vote on the board and will take on an advisory role. PAGE 1B
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IN ITS 100TH YEAR AS THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Vol.114 Issue No.104
By Lisa Coble
lcoble@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
KANSAN
University students lacking awareness of sex and STDs
March 2, 2004
About 300 students at the University of Kansas had chlamydia in 2003, according to reports from Watkins Memorial Health Center. While the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases on campus is low, the lack of students' awareness about STDs may be cause for concern.
STD statistics released
"Many students who come in here with STDs don't know what they are," said Henry Buck, Watkins gynecologist.
Chlamydia, an STD that causes painful urination, is the most common STD on campus, according to Watkins' records.
This is the first year the gynecology and men's clinics have gathered statistics on STDs other than chlamydia.
Human papillomavirus, an STD that could be pre-cancerous, is the second
HPV lesions. Most students with chlamydia and HPV have no symptoms.
most common, with 255 students having HDV lesions
HPV have no symptoms. If lesions are present on the genitalia, the patient is sure to have an STD, most likely HPV, Buck said.
Chlamydia, HPV, herpes simplex and molluscan contagiosum are the four most common STDs treated at Watkins.
Buck said that these statistics refer to only the patients of the gynecology and men's clinics at Watkins. The clinics had 7,138 visits in 2003, up from 6,157 in 2002, according to Watkins' records.
There were 436 HIV tests done in 2003 and zero positives.
Buck performed 2,526 Pap smears last year,9 percent of which were abnormal. An abnormal Pap smear may indicate that a person has a STD or pre-cancerous cells.
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Information from Watkins Memorial Health Center's gynecology and men's clinics from 2003. All numbers refer to the number of confirmed cases at the clinics.
CAMPUS STD STATS
Chlamydia: 295 Transferred by vaginal or anal sex. Usually no symptoms.
Women: pain in cervix, painful urination, heavy discharge. Men: urethral discharge, painful urination.
Human Papillomavirus (HPV): 255 Transferred by touch. Usually no symptoms, but some people experience itchy lesions.
Herpes Simplex: 110 Transferred by touch. Fluid-filled blisters will appear and may rupture. Extremely painful.
Molluscum Contagiosum: 62 Transferred by touch. Symptoms include small, round, itchy lesions
Source: Henry Buck, gynecologist at Watkins Memorial Health Center, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: What Everyone Should Know brochure
Daily grind
Tyler Balsman, Uniontown, Mo., sophomore, ground pieces of metal last night. The project was for his architecture studio class.
Beloved 'singing chancellor' dies at 83
By Jodie Krafft jkraft@kansan.com jkraft@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
W. Clarke Wescoe, former professor, dean and chancellor of the University of Kansas, died Sunday. He was 83.
Wescoe came to the University in 1951 as a professor of pharmacology and experimental medicine in the
School of Medicine. In 1952, at the age of 32, he became the youngest dean in the nation. A year later, Wescoe was appointed as director of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Wescoe replaced Franklin Murphy as chancellor in 1960
Wescoe
chancellor in 1969. As chancellor, Wescoe had an unique sense of humor and interacted closely with faculty and students, said Marilyn Stokstad, distinguished professor emerita of art history.
Stokstad recalled a formal event in which she was to receive an honorary doctorate degree. She said Wescoe showed up with a KU baseball cap on his head and a grin on his face.
his head at a very subtle but very wicked sense of humor," Stokstad said.
Wescoe also enjoyed surprising people, Stokstad said. During the University's 1966 commencement, Wescoe delivered his speech, "I Could Have Talked All Night," and was accompanied by the band, playing, "I Could Have Danced All Night." Wescoe became known as the "singing chancellor," according to a press release from University Relations.
"Everyone was just dumfounded, but after he did it once, people waited for his next performance," Stokstad said. "It takes a certain kind of person to think of that in the first place and then get away with it."
Bob Basow, associate professor of journalism, said he remembered hearing about Wescoe as a freshman during orientation. The speaker at orientation spoke of the time period B.O.C Before Our Clarke.
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Senate boards not all meeting
Student senators confused about boards' missions
By Andy Marso
amarso@kansan.com
Kansan staffwriter
At a recent meeting, the Senate Finance Committee asked for nominations for a senator to fill a vacancy on one of its boards.
Student Senate has more than 30 boards, committees and subcommittees that senators serve on. While most of these groups have regular meetings and solid attendance, there are a handful of boards that haven't met all year, leaving some senators confused about their mission.
After a long pause one of the senators nominated himself but was told he had to withdraw his nomination. He was already on that particular board.
Jeff Dunlap, vice chairman of the Finance Committee and KUnited's vice presidential candidate, said such boards were the exception, not the rule.
"The vast majority of them meet, do their job perfectly well, and everyone knows if they're on them." Dunlap said
Dunlap serves on five boards and is
STUDENT SENATE BOARDS
Source: Student Senate office
2. Long Range Planning Committee.
3. Recommendations for the Commission on the Improvement of Undergraduate Education.
Boards that have not met this year:
1. Newspaper Readership Advisory Committee.
Dunlap's vice presidential opponent, Kevin McKenzie of Delta Force, said he served on four boards. Two of the boards meet regularly and some haven't met all year.
chairman of the Transportation Board which meets every two weeks. The board organizes the KU buses, among other duties.
"If you didn't know you were on the Transportation Board, someone would tell you within a week that you needed to start showing up," Dunlap said.
For instance, McKenzie knows he serves on the Long Range Planning Committee, but the committee hasn't met all year and McKenzie isn't sure what it's supposed to do.
"I wouldn't think it would be responsible for the long range planning of the entire university." he said.
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Sorority members may lose parking
Some members of Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega and Sigma Kappa buy yellow permits and regularly park in the lot behind JRP Hall because their chapter house lots are too small. The parking department is reevaluating the parking situation in the lot after receiving complaints from commuters who have to fight for spaces there every morning.
Members of the three sororities on West Campus Road may soon have to find somewhere else to park their cars.
By Azita Tafreshi
atafreshi@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students and staff who frequent JRP have complained that too many of the spaces are being occupied by cars that remain in the lot overnight, said Donna Hultine, director of the parking department.
Johnson said visitors of JRP suggested that sorority members park in lots near Memorial Stadium or the Kansas Union
ment.
Fifty to 80 sorority members park in the yellow lot overnight, said Kyle Johnson, parking commission student representative. The Wichita senior said the complaints he has heard centered on the fact that a yellow permit is technically a commuter permit, which means you're driving to and from school. But there is no limit to how long a car can be in any lot as long as it has the correct permit, Hultine said.
PARKING CRUNCH
Sororities Live-in members Chapter parking spots
Chi Omega 84 40
Gamma Phi Beta 80 48
Sigma Kappa 68 30
Source: Parking Department and chapter presidents
Sororities on West Campus Road have limited space in their chapter house parking lots and some members are forced to park in to the lot behind JRP Hall. There are 185 spaces in the JRP lot.
Moving sorority members to the stadium lot won't solve the problem of insufficient parking, Johnson said. He said asking the women to park farther away would just create a safety issue.
"I think that if the people who are visiting JRP would really like to find a parking spot then they can either get there earlier, or they can walk up the hill," Johnson said. "At least it's during the daytime."
instead.
daytime. Jenni Waring, president of Chi Omega, said she wasn't comfortable with the sophomores in her chapter being forced to walk farther than they already had to at night.
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