Tuesday, February 13, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Powdered soap irritates students
By Sarah Warren
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
White powdered soap clumped into gooey piles — the residue of many hand washings before confront the bathroom users of Wescoe Hall.
Abrasive and messy, the powder, called Borax and distributed by the Dial Company, coats the sinks of many bathrooms on campus and has become a cause of annoyance for some at the University of Kansas.
Paul Bowlin, St. Paul, Minn., sophomore, said that he would rather avoid the stuff if at all possible.
"I don't think it's a very high-quality soap," he said. "It doesn't make your hands very clean."
Bowlin said he had never heard of powdered soap before he went into a University bathroom as a freshman.
I never seen stuff like that before I came here," he said.
"The first time I used it I thought that the machine was broken and that the stuff was really old or something, so I went to a new machine, but that's how it was supposed to be."
Megan Buker, Leavenworth sophomore, said she was not sure the soap did its job.
"It's hard to use, and I don't think it's getting my hands clean," she said.
Lorene Damewood, assistant director for housekeeping, said that a few key factors played
into whether a campus building had powdered or liquid soap.
She said that soap dispensers differed depending on a building's age and what the faculty in each building preferred.
"It used to be that all soap was powder, and it was called pink luron." Damewood said. "When they renovate a building, they may change the soap and towel dispensers. Also, the people in charge of a building are those who are in charge of what goes in each building."
She said that contracts determined what supplies the University had available.
"We don't have a choice," Damewood said. "It's not like we can go to the grocery store and buy it."
Each building, depending on the type of dispensers, can have three options for soap, she said.
The University has contracts for two types of lotion soap, a product called Gentle Lotion Hand soap and a product that is produced at the state penitentiary by Kansas Correctional Industries.
Damewood said that while there were three options, powder was still used in most of the buildings.
Bowlin said that annoyed him. "Most of the bathrooms I've been in have the powder," he said. "I much prefer lotion soap. You can work up a lather and that makes you feel cleaner. The powder just seems to wash off and not do anything, but it's tolerable."
Many KU students find the powdered soap, which is found in most University bathrooms, annoying. Lorene Damewood, assistant director for housekeeping, said that the type of soap in each building depended on the building's age and what the faculty of the building preferred. Photo Illustration by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
— Edited by Melinda Weaver
Week to promote sex smoking responsibilities
By Livi Regenboum writer@kansan.com Kansan stuff write
Watkins Memorial Health Center is teaming up with the Emily Taylor Resource Center and the Association of University Residence Halls to sponsor "Protect a Sweetheart Week," to educate students about sexual responsibility and healthy relationships, and "Save A Sweetheart Week," to inform students about the risks surrounding
Throughout the week, information tables will be set up at Wescoe Beach, Wescoe Terrace and the Kansas Union.
"Our goal is to increase people's awareness about sexual health issues because often times those are subjects we don't want to talk about," he said.
ACTIVITIES
Bill Smith, health educator at Watkins, said "Protect A Sweetheart Week" was a way for students to comfortably learn about safe sex.
■ Friday: Information tables: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Union and Wesco Beach
**Thursday:** "Sexual jeopardy" presentation from 7 to 9 p.m. at Hashinor Hall theater
- Tomorrow: Information tables: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Level 4 in the Kansas Union and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Wesco Beach
Smith also said an interactive presentation at Hashinger Hall would focus on the relationship between sex and alcohol through activities like "Sexual Jeopardy" and discussion about relationships.
Tyra Babington, coordinator for peer health promotion, said safer sex kits would be distributed at the tables. The kits will include condoms, coupons for $10 off HIV screenings and brochures on sexual health education for students.
Jenny Foster, Shawne Mission junior, said she didn't think distributing information would be very effective.
"Ideally it sounds beneficial, but I don't know whether the info will get to those who would potentially be at risk to spread STDs." she said.
Randall Rock, physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said "Protect A Sweetheart" week celebrated relationships that involve responsibility to ourselves and to others.
Panel: Napster might be liable
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buy CDs regardless of whether Naspter shut down.
— Edited by Jennifer Valadez
Napster can stay in business until U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel retooks her injunction, which the appellate court's 58-page opinion called overbroad. In fact, minutes after the panel's decision, thousands of Napster users were still trading music files on just one of the company's more than 100 servers.
The panel said Napster might be liable if it did not actively prohibit its users from swapping protected material. Rather than placing the entire burden on Napster,
however, the court said the recording must warn Napster that copyrighted work was on the service before the company was found liable.
The court did not specify what kind of sanctions Napster might face.
In a statement, Napster said that it was disappointed by the ruling and that it would appeal.
The judges said it was apparent that "Napster has knowledge, both actual and constructive, of direct infringement," adding that the recording industry would likely prevail in its suit against the fileswapping service.
Napster argued that it was
not to blame for its subscribers' use of copyrighted material, citing the Sony Betamax decision of 1984, in which the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hold VCR manufacturers and videotape retailers liable for people copying movies.
Fearing an immediate shutdown of the service that has changed the face of music, millions of users flooded the company's computer servers this weekend to download free music. Napster has an estimated 50 million users.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
- Edited by Melinda Weaver
Some want board's position to evolve
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Mary Douglass Brown, who supported the current standards and were defeated in the August Republican primaries.
Incumbents Bill Wagon, a Topea Democrat from District 4, and Bruce Wyatt, a Salina Republican from District 6, successfully defended their seats.
Both have promised that the board would change the current standards.
Incumbent Steve Abrams, a Republican, was also re-elected. He defended the current science standards throughout his campaign.
Steve Case, director of the Kansas Collaborative Research Network, which is
The election switched the board's position to 6-4 in favor of evolution.
Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, said that teaching evolution would give more value to the education students throughout Kansas receive.
"The restoration of sanity will make Kansas look better." Melott said.
affiliated to the School of Education, said there was a need for good science standards.
He said the current standards were hurting students in several ways, including their potential chances of getting admitted to colleges and being accepted for jobs.
'The standards have been damaging students 'ability to compete,' Case said.
Nathan Kolarik, Bellevue, Neb., graduate student, said he went to Darwin's birthday party because he thought the scientist was a great intellectual and historical figure.
Kolarik also said that evolution needed to be taught.
Christopher Bowman, Leavenworth freshman, said he thought the celebration was interesting.
"It doesn't help to teach that evolution is less than creationism." he said.
"It gave me an idea for a paper I have to write," Bowman said. "I'm going to write about evolution."
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