University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 12, 1991
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Hiring alleviates shortage of physicians at Watkins
Hospital is using a replacement for physicians serving in Persian Gulf
By Amy Francis
Kansan staff writer
A temporary staff physician began work yesterday at Watkins Memorial Health Center to help solve the two-door accident caused by the Perlod War.
Randy Rock, who was hired Jan. 9, will begin working on-call tomorrow. But his first day was a breaking in period in which he was shown how Watkins operates, said Jim Strobel, director of Watkins. Rock saw a few students in the afternoon on his first day.
Watkins was left understaffed when a doctor quit last semester to join the armed forces and when Charles Yookey, chief of staff for Watkins and a reservist in the Air Force, took on active duty about two weeks ago.
However, interviews for a physician began earlier.
Rock was in a group of people considered for a job last August, Stroh said.
quite some time," Strobl said. "You want someone who wants to come here."
"He has been applying here for
Randy Rock
Jim Boyle, assistant director of Watkins, said, "We kind of thought that Dr. Yockey might be activated. It turned out that Dr. Rock would even accept a temporary position. You don't have too many doctors who are willing to work temporarily. We were really fortunate in that aspect."
Rock said, "The job, the professional challenges and also the lifestyle have been attractive to me for quite some time."
He said part of that lifestyle included looking forward to a regular work schedule. Hock formerly lived at a family practice in Ottawa.
"I found my days quite truthfully without a beginning or an end." Rock said. "Babies usually aren't born between nine and five."
But how long the regular hours at Watkins will last is not certain.
Strobl said that the job was scheduled to last until the middle of August
but that with the uncertainty of when Yockey will return, Rock might be asked to work longer.
The decision will not be made until closer to August, when more information will be known. Strobl said.
Boyle said another physician might leave Watkins in May. If that happens, Rock might be offered a permanent position. But others who apply for the position also would be considered.
"It gives us an opportunity to look at him in a working situation," Boyle said.
KU residence hall food committee wants to satisfy students' cravings
Kansan staff writer
By Jonathan Plummer
If students who live in residence hills have craved chowder, yearn for yogurt or seek a certain cereal. The Hill Food committee wants to know.
Peggy Smith, associate director of student housing, said the committee worked as a conduit between students and the food service depart-
The committee has been helping students get the food they like most by offering surveys about once a month, she said.
Smith said that when she became director of food service at the residence halls about two years ago, she began looking for new ways to communicate with students and came up with the committee.
Students do not seem to realize the ability they have to change their living environment, she said.
"Students can be so powerful," she said. "It would be really frustrating for me when students would talk about things they wanted done and wouldn't tell them what to not tell anyone about it. Students don't realize what power they have."
For example, Smith said, the cafeterias were having trouble determining what sort of breakfast cereal residents wanted.
"We are offering about 30 or 40 cereals," Smith said. "We were trying to get an indication of what were the top 15. We need that input."
Sarah Blacketter, Olathe freshman and chairperson of the committee, said the survey showed the students were not as interested in high fiber, low-sugar cereals as they were in the past.
"I think Cap'p Crunch and Frosted Fakes were the overall winners."
The food service department was
unable to get some cereals that were written on surveys because the department does not have contracts to produce the cereals. Blacketter said.
"We had a lot of people ask for Cinnamon Life," she said. "It took a couple of years to get life, so we are suggesting they add cinnamon and
Blacketer said the committee included one resident from each hall and met once a month to discuss them they had heard or to begin a survey.
"They aren't in jail here," Smith said. "We need to be as competitive as any restaurant on 23rd Street because that really is our competition. We want to please the customer."
Smith said communication with the committee was one way the department could help the hall cafeterias become more appealing to students.
Kevin Price explains the Geographic Information System, which analyzes geographic features.
Center allows students, faculty to use geographical technology
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
A new center in 304 Lindley Hall will allow students and faculty to become familiar with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), an analytical mapping tool that highlights geographical features, such as land or water cover, elevations, vegetation and soil types.
The center opened Jan. 1. It is not fully operational but now is open to KU students or faculty who are interested in learning about GIS.
Kevin Price, associate director of the center, said the center would offer a library, research information and courses about how to use
Price said he thought the center also would be used by people outside of the department of geography.
"We want to create interdisciplinary cooperation between other departments, like the engineering or business school." Price said. "We need to make it possible for people who want to use this analytical tool."
Becky Burcham, an employee at the center. said it would be used
not only as a resource and research center but as a place for others to learn more about GIS.
"It has the capacity for people who want to do GIS application to come to us with an idea," she said. "They can brainstorm with the people in the center. It's sort of a support group."
Price said that GIS was on the way to becoming an important spatial analysis technology of the future.
"Cars of the future will be driven using data bases created by using software from GIS," Price said.
The department of geography also has developed a new GIS teaching lab last semester. There are about six different GIS courses and seminars within the department that use the lab.
The lab, which has five computers, is financed and supported by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"The lab's mission and goal will be to develop GIS applications and conduct research in both natural and urban environments." Price
used by geographers but that others used it as well.
Doctors use it to look at brain tissue, and farmers use it to predict the fertility of soil. Price said. Doctors also use it to diagnose workers also are using GIS.
“Anything that can be mapped can be studied by GIS now,” he said. “The GIS will do literally everything now but make your bed.”
He said that GIS mainly was
Price said that GIS could give information from around the world.
"It's for anyone who wants to know where something is located," Price said.
The computer provides two types of analysis. Overlay analysis allows different types of maps to be laid on top of other graphics at one time, such as topography, vegetation and soil types.
Surface analysis allows all of the information in one area to of a map to be viewed at a time.
The computer then gives an output in the form of a new map, table or a graph.
Reformer's life, legacy dedicated to modern dance
Kansan staff writer
By Michael Christie
When Alvin Ailey died Dec. 1, 1989, he left behind his legacy to the world — the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
The dance company, in existence since 1968, has had a powerful effect on modern dance and has played a major role in making it popular worldwide.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed in 45 countries on six continents, including regular performances in Kansas City. Mo. It tours 35 weeks out of the year.
African-American History Month
In 1878, Alley received the Scripps Dance Award, an award given for lifetime contributions to American modern dance. It included a $25,000 prize, the largest annual prize in performing arts.
Charles Reinhart, director of the American Dance Festival, gave the award to Alley.
"Alvin Alley's remarkable contribution to modern dance continues to make a significant impact on the field," Reinhardt said. "The language of his choreography, informed by the Black experience, is unique in its appeal. Mr. Alley has achieved a distinctive place in air culture."
Although the troupe is predominantly African-American, the Alvin Alley American Dance Theater was
Ailey said he did not want to make his dancer feels that they were "Black" dancers but that they were dancers.
racially integrated in 1962.
He wanted to show that African-American dancers could dance ballet and that white dancers could dance tap and jazz.
Ailey received criticism for having an integrated troupe a few years later with the move toward Black
nationalism, but he refused to make the move back to an all African-American company, saying "an integrated company enlarges the statement I've been trying to make."
Ailey was born Jan. 5, 1931, in Rogers, Texas. His father left his mother six months after Ailey was born. She moved to Los Angeles when Ailey was 12 and found work in an airplane factory.
Alley had a talent for foreign languages and wanted to become a teacher. He enrolled in college to study Romance languages, but he decided to become a dancer after several years of toying with the idea.
Alley was influenced by Lester Horton, a choreographer who had his own dance company. Alley joined the company in 1851 after working as a stuntman. The Lester Horton Dance Theater was the first racially integrated
dance company, and it also performed ethnic dance pieces. Both had an effect on Alley later with his own company.
Ailey went to New York in 1964 to dance on Broadway. He also began to choreograph, and after becoming a prominent dancer and choreographer, he decided to form his own company.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater gained worldwide fame throughout the 1960s and 1970s and was supported largely by grants from the U.S. State Department for international tours.
Ailey contributed to modern dance in many ways, including rejuvenating older works from modern dance pioneers and using contemporary choreographers' works for his company.
It was unusual to use works from other choreographers, but in doing so Alley allowed many young choreographers, including Bill T.
Jones, a chance to get started.
Throughout his career, Ailey worked to break down racial stereotypes and still establish African-American modern dance.
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