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Thursday, November 11. 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Stressed students get worry warts
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Warts are ugly, annoying and a source of embarrassment for many students.
That's why each semester about 350 KU students afflicted with warts seek relief at Watkins Memorial Health Center's wart clinic. The clinic is open every Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and has been treating students for free since 1987.
Any student may check in at Watkins and go directly to the clinic for treatment. Before the clinic opened, students waited in the lobby with others for the next available physician.
Warts are a virus commonly found in college students, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins. Warts usually are contracted when someone with a break in the skin comes into contact with the virus. The body does not recognize the virus as foreign, thus allowing the wart to grow.
Students who put stress on their immune systems by not getting enough sleep, eating poorly and consuming a lot of alcohol are more susceptible to warts. Yockey said.
Warts usually are on a person's hands or feet and painless. The social stigma attached to warts often is more painful than the warts themselves.
"They're just a social embarrassment and nuisance." Yockey said.
The appearance of warts often causes students to want to hide them.
Jody Woods, Watkins director of nurses, said, "Students will do anything in the world to get rid of warts. They come in and have cut them off with every size nail clipper in the world."
Woods said that students also had used scissors, razor blades and pocket knives to remove their warts. One student went so far as to hook up a needle to a nine-volt battery to rid himself of the pesky growths.
A former KU student nicked a wart on her ankle while shaving and continued to shave, which resulted in 300 warts covering her leg. Yockey said.
Woods said that slicing, pinching, cutting and picking at warts only spread them.
Vockey said that warts could be removed in a variety of ways but that the most common and successful method involved freezing the wart
War on warts
Warts are viruses that grow beneath the skin. The body does not reject them as foreign and allows them to grow.
Source: Kansan staff reports
They spread when blood
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spread to other
openings in the skin.
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with a brass rod dipped in liquid nitrogen. Other methods include applying a glue-like acid or acid tape, injecting the wart with irritating agents, removing the wart through surgery and burning the wart with an electric current, he said.
The purpose of such treatments is to decrease the viral count of the wart until the immune system kills it.
Factors such as stress may prevent warts from disappearing. A student who had warts near her fingernails went to the wart clinic for a year, and not until 10 days after graduation did the warts finally disappear, Yockey said.
Overdue books and unpaid bills return to haunt KU students during enrollment
By Brian James
Kansan staff writer
Students who have holds placed on their enrollments may have to dig deep into their wallets to clear their records.
Unpaid library fines account for holds on many students' enrollments and grades, said library and enrollment officials.
Gary Samuelson, fines and circulation director for Watson Library, said many students procrastinated paying overdue book fines that had been assessed earlier in the semester.
"It picks up during this time because students realize they might have a fine that is not getting any smaller," he said. "Or they may put it off until they have to enroll or pay fees. That's when they are really shocked to see a huge fine."
Kathe Shinham, director of the
comptrollers office, said an increasing number of students now are paying their bills.
"I suppose they think now is a good time to clean up their bills and get things straightened out," Shimhan said.
Holds prevent students from enrolling and receiving grades. Unpaid parking tickets, housing bills and health bills from Watkins Memorial Health Center also can cause holds.
Samuelson said that the library made a list of lost and stolen books and that about 25 titles appeared on it every week.
Samuelson said the phrase "I forgot I had them" was the most common excuse students gave for returning their books late. Lost or stolen books often turn up years later, he said.
"People might find some books at a garage sale or flea markets, see
the university name on them and return them to us," he said.
He said some fines have gone unpaid for years.
"I wouldn't doubt if there were some from 1977 or earlier," he said.
In the last fiscal year, University libraries collected $87,588 in fines from overdue, lost or stolen books.
Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of libraries, said that if a fine was not paid in 30 days, a $6 set rate was assessed for each overdue item.
After 60 days, the overdue book is declared lost, and $15 plus the cost of the book is assessed.
Most materials placed on reserve and periodicals carry a $10 maximum fine.
Hawkins said students or faculty who had been assessed fines could mail the bill or come to the library and pay it. After 60 days, the library turns over all unpaid bills to the comptrollers office.
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