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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 31, 1991
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Linn Suderman, Lawrence, tests lenses of different colors on Crystal McCrery, Walker, Mo., sophomore.
Eyesight syndrome corrected by lenses
Kansan staff writer
By Patricia Rojas
Holly Eastman hid her book under the blankets, turned on a flashlight and started reading.
It was not a forbidden book. But the light in her room seemed too bright for her eyes.
Eastman, Topea sophomore, suffers from Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, a special light sensitivity that disrupts the interactions on the person's reading page.
Research has shown that about 15 percent of the population has some degree of SSS, said Linn Suderman, director of the Iren Clinic for Perceptual and Learning Development, 3301 Clinton Parkway Court.
But Eustain does not read under the blankets anymore. Instead, she wears a special kind of tinted lens that alters the intensity and amount of light she sees, a brownish-green lenses are specially designed to meet her needs.
After a two-hour diagnostic exam, professionals at the Irlen Clinic determine what color combination is appropriate to correct the specific perceptual distortions of each patient's eyes.
The color combinations also can be used in overlays. By placing a print page under the colored overlaid $SSS, they will appear percipitating as they read.
For Eastman, wearing tinted glasses has improved more than her reading skills. She said the lenses had improved her depth perception.
"I've always been called clumsy." Eastman said. "I'm the kind of person that walks into doorways and walks up stairs to a desk or a desk just trying to walk around it."
The symptoms of SSS vary from person to person, Sudderman said. Common reading difficulties that SSS sufferers experience include frequent strain, skipping of words or words and diminished reading comprehension.
Suderman said that, for a reader with SSS and no tinted lenses, reading required three to five times as much effort as an average person opened.
"Sometimes it will show up as a comprehensive problem because the energy has to go into perceiving the energy on the page first," Suderman said.
SSS symptoms often are confused with dyslexia. Suderman said that about 46 to 70 percent of dyslexies had some degree of SSS. Therefore, dyslexies sometimes can decrease visual distortions by using tinted lenses.
"We are not curing dyslexia," Suderman said. "But we are removing the scotic distortions."
She said that sometimes it was difficult for SSS sufferers to realize they had the syndrome.
"People don't know they have a problem because you only have your own eyes to judge with," she said. "You think that the war the world is."
Finney pledges continued support to the Higuchi Bioscience Center
By Joe Gose
Kansas staff writer
Gov. Joan Finney has proposed to eliminate the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, a nonprofit organization created to stimulate and promote high technology industries in Kansas.
Kansan staff writer
Finney said, however, that she would continue to support the five Centers of Excellence, the major research institutions throughout Kansas that KTEC currently helps finance.
The Higuchi Bioscience Center at the University of Kansas has been one of the corporation's five Centers of Excellence since 1987.
The center was developed in 1983 by the late Takeru Higuchi, a professor and director of pharmaceutical chemistry.
Charles Decdee, executive director of the center, said that Higuchi's goal was to develop new methods for identifying future drugs.
He said that because many drugs are now produced through genetic engineering and biotechnological processes, they closely resembled natural substances that a human body produces. Because of this, stringent testing methods are needed to assure that the methods is doing what it is supposed to do.
The Higuchi Center develops those methods.
"If a drug company is going to put these compounds in a human body, they have to prove that what is going in is only that compound," Decedue said. They also have to know where the body, and where it comes out.
"There's a great deal of testing, and that's very difficult to do, even with the existing drugs. It much with the drugs with the drugs being developed now."
Decedue said that Higuchi also started Oread Laboratories to act as a commercial outlet for some of the techniques the center developed.
Oread Laboratories uses the techniques developed at the Higuchi Center to analyze drugs that private industry has designed, he said. Through the help of KTEC, it now employs 70 people and is profitable
"The success of Oread Labs is a shining example of what can happen when you have a modest amount of resources," he said. "Those 70 jobs pay considerably above minimum wage."
"Our position is just to let our record stand, and if they determine that we haven't done our job, then we're gone," he said. "People have a lot of time on their hands." The jobs we create relate to high school graduates as well as Ph.Ds.
The elimination of KTEC would not
affect the center's field of research. Decedue said.
"All that would change from our perspective would be to whom we're accountable and the mechanisms by which we are accounted," he said.
William Brundage, president of KTEC, said that he was not worried about the program being eliminated, and that his role was misunderstood by some.
Finance Committee begins to prepare for budget hearings
"I'm assuming that there will always be KTEC."
Five groups plan to seek revenue-code status, Senate fund $ m_{i} $
By Michael Christie
Kesson staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Tonight the Student Senate Finance Committee will finish revenue-status hearings and begin preparation for its budget hearing.
Five groups are scheduled to request revenue-code status from the finance committee and Student Senate Executive Committee. Those groups are the Black Student Union, Lawrence Transitional School, and Four or Five Students, Rape Victim Support Services and the University Daily Kansan.
The Black Student Union is requesting $11,458 for next year.
Lawrence Transitional Care Services is requesting $9,663 for the next fiscal year. The organization provides care to women who are battered or in transition.
Stephanie Coleman Marks, a representative of the center, said that the organization served many KU students and that it had many advocates from the University of Kansas.
Rape Victim Support Services is requesting $18,700 from Senate for a new law that would $15,000 more than it received last year.
Cathy Reinhardt, treasurer for the organization, prepared the budget. She said that the level of services provided by the organization will increase if op permits in financing.
"The funding should be appropriate for our services," she said.
Legal Services for Students is requesting an increase of $28,438
interns work for Legal Services. They could make more money in the private sector, but Hardesty said the requested increase was not intended to make the positions competitive with private practice.
requesting an increase of $28,438.
Jo Hardesty, director of Legal Services, said the majority of the increase would be used to increase salaries. Legal Services receives all its financing from Senate.
"We want to be competitive with other state agencies and other offices on campus." she said.
The increase is needed to make the salaries more competitive, Hardesty said. Three attorneys and five law
According to the budget submitted by Audra Langford, Kansan business manager, advertising pays for the bulk of the costs of running the paper, which has an annual budget of about $1 million.
The Kansan is requesting $110,000 for next year.
By receiving revenue-code status, a group can receive financing on a two-year basis. Senate allocates money every year from the student activity fee, which comes from the $28 paid by KU students every semester. This year Senate has $1,288,150 to allocate.
Senate approves bill for financing of center for part-time child care
Bv Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
After lengthy debate, Senate voted 40-6 in favor of the bill.
Melissa Gratton, Stouffer Place resident, spoke in support of the bill. Gratton has worked to establish the Senate, where she came to Senate as a last resort.
Student Senate last night voted to allot $,115 to establish a day-care center for KU students who need part-time child care.
The money will be used to pay a full-time director and a part-time employee for the center for 15 weeks, Gratton said. Kansas law requires that a day-care center have a paid full-time director.
out a deep sigh. Tears welled in her eyes as she tried to speak.
As the final vote was called, Gratton collapsed against the wall and let
"I was concerned that they weren't concerned about the immediate concerns of child care," she said.
The goal of the Helping Hands Day Care Center will be to provide low-cost child care to KU students, Gratton said. Parents will be charged 50 cents an hour and will be allowed no more than 20 hours a week of day care. Parents also will be required to assist in the center's operation.
In other action, Senate approved a bill to give $4,000 to Student Union Activities so that students could purchase tickets at a discounted price for an upcoming concert. Branford Marsali, a jazz saxophonist, will perform April 11 in Hoch Auditorium.
Seth Traxler, Nunemaker senator,
said KU students would be able to
buy tickets with a KUID for $3 off the
regular price of $12. SUA will sell
only to students for the first week of
ticket sales.
The bill stipulates that SUA refund any amount of the $4,000 that is not used to subsidize student discounts. For example, if 1,000 students buy tickets, Senate will be refunded $1,000.
Senate also unanimously approved the appointment of eight new senators. They are: James LaSalle, law; John Gill, architecture; and Julie Crust, John Robertson, Art Satterfond, Jennifer Sauter, Allen Tiffany and Kenneth Kincaid, graduate senators.
New officers being trained in Lawrence
By Mike I. Vargas Kansan staff writer
Lawrence police have filled 19 of 27 police officer positions created because of a half-cent tax increase, beaten by Lawrence警报 Aug. 7.
Currently, the 19 recruits have completed the hiring process and are attending the 11th Basic Recruit Academy in Princeton, said Christ Muwilenu, finance police representative.
Karen DeGasperi, Lawrence administrative aide, said the city police officer recruitment process consisted of five steps: a written test, a physical fitness evaluation, an interview with a specially appointed panel, a psychological test and an interview with the chief of police.
Mulvenon said the recruits at the three-month training academy, which is in the Douglas County Judicial Law School. He said twice the amount of training time required by the state.
Recruits from surrounding agencies, including KU police and the Douglas County Sheriff attend the academy, he said.
Mulvenon said that although the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center, a branch of the University of Kansas, in Hutchinson provided excellent basic training, department officials preferred to train its officers in Lawrence.
"It's very important for us, once the recruits have the basic training, to learn our procedures." Mulvenon said.
After three months, the recruits will be assigned to a field-training officer whom they will ride with for at least three months and who will evaluate the recruits.
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