CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 1, 1993
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Planned Parenthood opens clinic
Office will serve women and men
By Chesley Dohl Kansan staff writer
Planned Parenthood opens an office today in Lawrence that offers both women and men another option for family planning services.
The office is located at Orchard Corners Shopping Center, 1420C Kasold Drive.
Tamara Morris, marketing assistant for Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City, said the services offered to women would include gynecological exams, provision of contraptives, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy tests and referral for options to manage a pregnancy.
"If a patient's pregnancy test comes out positive and she is not sure about her options, we will give our patients information about prenatal care, adoption and, if the need be, abortion referral," Morris said.
The clinic has a staff of full time medical professionals.
Services for men include a general health screening that includes examination for testicular cancer, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, provision of condoms and referral for vasectomies.
In 1988, Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City began looking at counties west of the Missouri state line to locate reproductive healthcare service clinics. Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Miami and Johnson counties were considered, but Patty Brous, executive director of Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City, said a review of statistics showed there was more of a need in Douglas County and its surrounding counties.
These figures do not include the women of the University of Kansas or Haskell Indian Nations University
Brous said there were about 25,600 Douglas County women between the ages of 13 and 44 who were considered "at risk" of unintended pregnancy. "At risk" women are those who are sexually active, fertile and not pregnant or trying to become pregnant.
Missouri National University.
"Lawrence was the most centrally located city to service Douglas County and the surrounding counties," Brous said. "Lawrence is not far from
Kansas City, so it will be the best place to make referrals."
Brous said the clinic would work with Watkins Memorial Health Center and other Lawrence health care services to provide quality, confidential and affordable reproductive health care. She said there would be no competition with the University in providing services.
"We anticipate a good referral relationship with Watkins," Brous said. "In case there should be follow-up work and check-ups, the students will be referred to the University clinic."
Henry Buck, head of gynecology at Watkins, said the figures Planned Parenthood used to determine the need for a clinic in Douglas County were two years old. He said that since then the Douglas County Health Department had opened a clinic.
Where to go
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Planned Parenthood
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Orchard Corners Shopping Center
1420 C Cosmoid Drive
Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday,
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday
8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday
"Alot has changed in Douglas County in two years time," Buck said. "We'll have to see if there's a demand or not for the clinic."
Buck said Watkins had more affordable and more complete reproductive health care services for students than Planned Parenthood could offer.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Burned KU student to return to classes
Travis Schupp, Valley Center sophomore, who was severely shocked while on a utility pole Oct. 24, was released from the University of Kansas Medical Center on Thursday after a four-day stay in the hospital's burn unit.
Schupp climbed the pole with a friend at a party at 1115 Louisiana St. and inadvertently came in contact with a live wire.
He said he would return to classes tomorrow after spending the weekend at home.
He said he was wearing a compression sleeve on his right arm to reduce scarring and that he had stitches in his left hip.
Kansan wins national award
The University Daily Kansan on Saturday was awarded the Associated Collegiate Press's 1992-03 Pacemaker Award, which is considered the highest prize for college newspapers.
The Kansan received the award for the second consecutive year. This year's honors, which recognized papers from Fall 1992 through Spring 1993, were given out at the 69th National College Media Convention in Dallas.
Brady Prauser, a Kansas staff writer during Spring 1993, won third place for the Los Angeles Times-Associated Collegeate Press Story of the Year Award. The story described former Kansas basketball star Wilt Chamberlain's reluctance to return to Kansas for a ceremony retiring his jersey.
Economy to improve, expert says
Four other newspapers also were recognized as the best daily newspapers for four-year colleges Indiana Daily Student, Indiana University; Kansas State Collegian, Kansas State University; Daily Pennsylvanian, University of Pennsylvania; and Daily Texan, University of Texas at Austin.
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With an expected increase of 1 percent in 1994 Kansas personal income, the state's recovery from recession will continue gradually through next year, a KU economic forecaster said Friday. The recovery is expected despite a slight increase projected in the 1994 Kansas unemployment rate.
Norman Clifford, forecasting director for the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, released the institute's economic forecast to an audience of 200 businessman, professors and public officials at the day-long 17th annual Economic Outlook Conference at the Kansas Union.
The conference also featured a luncheon keynote address by Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Hoenig said he hoped for continued stability of government economic policy to help business leaders make decisions in a controlled environment.
LESSONS FROM A MASTER
Compiled from Kansan staff reports.
Kiyoshi Yamazaki, left, seventh degree black belt master, instructs Chris Mayo, Lawrence sophomore, Yamazaki, a chief instructor of Japan Karate-Do Ryobukai, conducted a seminar for martial arts practitioners Saturday in Robinson Center.
Visiting black belt master instructs students to practice Karate ideals
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
"Ichi, ni, san, shi, go . . .
Kiyoshi Yanazaki, Anaheim, Calif., visiting seventh degree black belt master, surveyed 17 wined students as they sweated through a series of warm-ups Saturday afternoon in an otherwise empty Robinson Center gymnasium.
“... roku, shichi, hachi, kyu, jyu.”
The shouts of numbers one to 10 in Japanese echoed off the concrete walls as Yamazaki's karate disciples counted out each move, stretch and pull they made in the gym's dry, still air.
Stephanie Crawford, Yamazaki's manager and training assistant, said Yamazaki visits 15 to 20 countries a year leading karate seminars. Yamazaki is the chief instructor in the United States for Japan Karate-Do Ryobukai, a traditional style of karate that emphasizes basic defense skills and whose members refrain from violent behavior, Crawford said.
Finishing their preliminaries, the students began to practice the holds, kicks and punches Yamazaki said they must
learn to progress to black belt level.
For more than an hour, students paired up and repeatedly practiced the same four steps: right roundhouse kick to the left side of their partner's face, high left kick to the neck, right kick to the lower back and left kick to the stomach. The students kept their blows just short of their target but moved with increasing speed as the afternoon progressed.
"If you lose the target, you lose the point of concentration. Don't look like this," Yamazaki said as he turned his head away from a feigned punch. "Keep your eyes on the same spot."
After the class had finished their rite exercises, Yamazaki called them together to remind them that the focus of the nine-hour seminar was to help students learn some of the basics for self defense and to improve their reaction times.
"Before your opponent attacks, make sure you understand your opponent," Yamazaki said. "Your first move is important. It must be strong."
"With sports karate, you see with the eye more," Yamazaki said. "In self defense, you must concentrate more with the eye, ear and even the nose. The eye can't see behind for you, so what do you do? Use the ear. Look front and back at the same time"
Rather than focusing on the flashier moves of sports karate, Yamazaki said he wanted them to remember the basics of
self-defense karate. Karate should not just rely on vision to detect the presence of potential attackers, he said.
Yamazaki, 53 years old and a 35-year veteran of karate, said that as karate students age, they compensate in mental concentration what they lose in physical ability through correct technique and practice.
"When you practice karate,you need to practice the idea in different parts of life," Yamazaki said.
By attending the seminar, students learned not only the correct technique from Yamazaki but the importance of commitment to karate, said Seilichi Ishii, Sapporo, Japan, sophomore and president of Japan Karate-Do Ryobukai, Kansas Doio.
"It's not just commitment to a few hours in the classroom," Ishii said. "Eventually I think I could improve my discipline as well as improve in the sport."
Diversity center's planners optimistic
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Financial and location plans to create KU's first multicultural center are coming together.
From the financial side, Tim Dawson, Topeka senior and student body vice president, said last week that he would soon submit a bill to the Student Senate requesting funding for the center.
And from the location side, Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations, said the center's proposed location probably would be ready on schedule. He said construction for the new Supportive Educational Services office in Strong Hall would begin next semester as planned. The center will move into the current SES building, next to the Military Science building, after SES moved into Strong Hall.
All of this has made Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs and head of the committee, optimistic about the center's future.
"We're looking forward to making the multicultural center a showcase on campus," he said.
These actions end a two-year period of inaction in creating the center, which had been recommended by several task forces in the 1980s. Student Senate passed a resolution in November 1991 calling for a multicultural center. David Amber, vice chancellor of student affairs, announced plans to build a center in April 1992 and pledged $10,000 to its budget.
But since then, the center's creation has been delayed by uncertainty about its location. Originally planned as an addition to a rebuilt Hoch Auditorium, the center's proposed location shifted to a house owned by the University on Louisiana Street in 1992. Last summer, the proposed location was moved again to the SES building.
Thompson said that because the delays were now in the past, the multicultural committee could get together and plan the center's future.
"We want to make sure it has a KU personality," he said.
The committee will look at multicultural centers at other universities before deciding on the material the center would purchase and the programming it would provide, Thompson said.
"This is a campus-wide project," he said. "Many groups from the campus community are getting involved."
Representatives from groups such as the Black Student Union, Student Senate, Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Services of Kansas and the International Student Association make up the committee's membership, Thompson said.
Melanie Ignacio, a representative to the committee from the Asian American Student Union, said the center would foster cooperation between different minority groups on campus.
"Without it, you will just be segregated," said Ignacio, San Francisco sophomore. "You won't know what other clubs are doing. This way, you can have different activities from different groups."
Ignacio said she hoped the groups involved would help explain the need for a multicultural center at KU.
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announces that applications are now available for the sixth year of the Educational Opportunity Fund
All departments, units, and organizations of the University are eligible to apply. Applications and accompanying materials may be picked up at the Student Senate office, 410 Kansas Union or at the Financial Aid office, 50 Strong Hall.
All grants are for the 1994-1995 academic year. Any Questions? Call the Student Senate office at 864-3710
Submission of application and accompanying materials must be received no later than 5:00 p.m.. on November 8.1993.at the Student Senate Office.
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