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Tuesday, February 20, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Hawkline counseling targets Med students
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
Students at the University of Kansas Medical Center have somewhere to turn when they are plagued by personal problems or the pressures of academic life.
The Hawkline is a 24-hour, student-run telephone counseling service developed to provide peer support with emotional or personal crises.
Bruce Liese, assistant professor of family practice at the Med Center, said the program was initiated about five years ago when he began providing effective help for medical students suffering from emotional distress.
Liese and a few students began the call-in counseling system. He said the program was not structured like most other crisis centers.
"There is no room with phones where students sit and answer calls." Liese said. "We have a pager set up through the Med Center switchboard to alert us that a person has called Hawkline."
One student carries the pager for about two weeks. During this time, the student responds to the pager by dialing the switchboard from the nearest phone. The pager then connects the two parties.
Liese said that at its busiest time, Hawkline received about two calls a day. During slow peri- dence, Hawkline received two or three calls a week.
Harlan Opie, second-year medical student and student coordinator of the program, said he got a call from Dr. Robert to be ing a two-credit-hour class called
Peer Counseling Training, which is a prerequisite to become involved with the program. About 12 students from the class volunteer for the program each semester.
"We learn a lot by helping people through their problems," Opie said. "Sometimes we experience a lot of the same things we talk to others about."
Opie said Hawkline dealt with a wide variety of student and faculty crises.
"It truly runs the entire spectrum," Olie said. "I've personally talked to people with roommate problems, family problems and stress-related problems that are involved with medical school."
Opi said the program was one of many offered to Med Center students and faculty through Student Support Services, an organization that designs projects aimed at helping students.
"I think the program is important because there is not really anything else of its type around," he said. "We are students helping other students, and we can empathize with many of the things they are going through."
Liese said the program provided valuable experience for those counseling their peers.
"This is their first snot at listening to others' emotional problems." Liese said.
Liese said the counseling class had increased in popularity since its inception and now had 160 students.
"I know these students are truly dedicated because the class is from four to six on Friday afternoons," Liese said.
SenEx proposal would cut finals period by two days
University of Kansas students may have six days of two-hour final exams in the 1992-93 academic year, depending on input from deans and department chairmen.
Kansan staff writer
By Pam Soliner
At yesterday's University Senate Executive Committee meeting, SenEx reviewed the Calendar Committee's progress toward increasing KU's instructional days.
Last month, the Board of Regens mandated that all of its institutions have at least 150 instruction days.
KU must add six days, and Wichita State University must add two. The Regents did not give any specific method for meeting the requirement, instead leaving the decision to the individual schools.
David Dinneen, chairman of the committee, sent SenEx the committee's two plans for meeting the requirements.
The plans also were sent to the deans of the 10 professional schools and to the University's department chairmen for review. Deadline for the reviews is Feb. 23.
In review. Deadline on the reviews is Feb. 4.
Both plans call for six days of final exams, with four
The plans differ in that an instructor may add a half-hour or hour time extension to the set two-hour exam period.
two-hour exam times on weekdays and three slots on Saturday.
In the second plan, the first final exam also would last from 8 to 10 a.m., but an optional 7 a.m. starting time could be added. An hour also could be added to the other exam periods. The 2 p.m. exam time would be amended to 3 to 5 p.m. to allow an hour between finals.
In one plan, the first exams of the day would last from 8 to 10 a.m., with the option of adding a half-hour. Three other exam periods would be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday would have only three exams.
SenEx members discussed the possibility of students having three exams in one day.
"That's an awfully punishing situation," said William Scott. SenEx chairman.
The plans might prompt professors to give more exams during the semester or to give take-home finals, Scott said.
Rash of skin disorders normal in winter, not tied to measles
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
Although no measles cases have been reported in Lawrence this semester, viral rashes hit most often during the winter months.
During last year's measles outbreak, Wattins Memorial Health Center officials treated eight to 10 viral rashes a week. This year; they have treated about three cases a week, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Wattins.
Lee Bittenbender, Lawrence dermatologist, said he had seen a recent surge in rash cases. He treated four students with viral rashes last week but normally treats only one case every two to three weeks.
Measles and chicken pox are well-known viral rashes.
He said most rashes looked similar but caused different symptoms. Symptoms include a sore throat, aches in the joints and itching.
Most of these infections are contagious three to five days before the rash appears, and most of the time the rash is visible. Yockey said.
but at least 30 different viruses can cause rashes, Yockey said
One reason viral rashes may be more prevalent in the winter is that people are indoors without much ventilation.
Ptyriaisia rosea is a less common viral rash that Bittenbender said he had treated recently. This rash appears scaly and pink on the skin and usually takes about six to eight weeks to run its course.
New program links cultures
Bv Christine Reinolds
Kansan staff writer
A new KU program to promote diversity and counter-cultural stereotypes through the matching partners" has its first meeting today.
The International Connection, which will meet at McCollin Residence Hall, will bring together U.S. and foreign students in the residence halls to improve communication and understanding among cultures, such as Laura Emery, coordinator of the program.
Emery said she already had matched 10 U.S. students with 10 foreign students. Ten other U.S. students have applied to be matched with students from specific foreign countries. Emery plans to go "door to door" to find partners for them.
It is patterned after a similar program at the University of Colorado called the "buddy system" and takes its name from the University of Oklahoma's International Connection program, Emery said.
The students will be matched first with members of the same sex and then by personal preferences, such as country, language and hobbies, she said. Some of the foreign students who have applied come from Yugoslavia, Taiwan, China. Costa Rica and Korea.
George Woodyard, dean of international studies and programs, said any kind of service the University could provide to make new students feel more comfortable was needed.
Emery said she hoped to extend the program throughout the University if it succeeded.
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