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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 31, 1990
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KU club jabs, hits in exhibit of karate
By Jonathan Plummer Special to the Kansan
John Triboli. Overland Park freshman, uses his forearm to break a board during a demonstration of karate techniques.
Demonstrating techniques as much as 1,500 years old, the KU Karate Club gave its semester last night at Robinson Center.
Members who were in the club for as little as one semester joined more experienced members in breaking boards using techniques learned at the school and developed in Okinawa, Japan, in the years of the feudal lords.
The members also showed the crowd of about 30 people the techniques of Kata, a practice in which they wield fights alone using specific moves.
The group showed Kihon, a basic Kata; Koryu, a more advanced and traditional kind of Kata; and Bunkai, a Kata for two neoble.
The club also had two sparring matches in Sport Karate, which awards points for blows to vital areas like the head and chest.
The exhibition ended as Chris Rogala, La Grange, Ill., junior, attempted to break eight cement bricks with his hands. He was able to split five on the first try and three on the second.
But some members said many of the things karate teaches are not so easily shown in an exhibition.
"It teaches you self-control and self-discipline. You really learn about yourself," said Bob Schluhsen, Lenexa senior and four-year member of the club. "I'm really afraid of myself that I stayed with it."
Schluben, a brown belt, said that
although he began studying karate to learn self-defense, he also learned self-control.
"Last summer, I had some guy challenge me, and I walked away," Schulben said. "I felt kind of stupid when it really did happen.
but when I thought about it, I felt that it really did work because I didn't fight. I felt that I really did win."
Jennifer Kohl, Northfield, Ill., sophomore and the group's only female member. said that none of
the traditional moves and blows were altered for women.
Kohl said that karate enhanced her balance and strength as a dancer. But she said karate and martial arts also helped her on a personal level as well.
"That's one thing I say to everyone, it builds self-confidence," Kohl said.
KU assessment delayed
Confusion adds to committee's decision to wait
By Pam Solliner
Kansan staff writer
In January, the committee asked all professional schools to identify the goals and objectives of their general education at their schools.
Diverse and confusing reports from KU professional schools forced the University Assessment Committee yesterday to delay its decision on how to assess general education.
David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and newly appointed chairman of the committee, said it was time separate units of the University were asked about their goals.
tutions were allowed to devise its own assessment plan, subject to the Regents approval. KU's four-year plan, which was approved in January 1989, includes a goal attainment survey, basic skills assessment, general education assessment and professional schools' assessment.
In Spring 1988, the Board of Regents mandated higher education assessment. The Regents wanted to get a jump on the mandate before the Legislature required assessment in response to taxpayers concerned about payoffs without proof of its performance.
Each of the seven Regents insti-
Now in the third phase of the assessment, the committee must decide to assess general education on a University-wide basis or by individual schools. Diverse assessments from the schools forced the committee to delay its decision.
Most of the committee members could not understand the schools' reports. Schools had responded with various terminology. They differed in goals, from general to specific. The confusion the confusing reports might have been caused by an assignment that was too vague.
"Part of the lack of agreement was that they don't have common constructs in mind," Shulenburger said.
To develop a common comprehensive plan is the goal of the committee, which was formed in Spring 1988.
schools," said Ray Hiner, professor of history and former chairman of the committee.
"I was a little disappointed, personally, that there isn't more commonality between the
The Regents wanted to get a jump on the mandate before the Legislature required assessment in response to taxpayers concerned about paying more for higher education without proof of its performance.
Shulenburger said, "My suggestion for getting out of this box is to form constructs like the architecture school."
Shulenburger appointed a subcommittee to develop a five-question form to clarify the intended general education goals of the schools. The subcommittee is expected to present the form to the committee at the meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Regents Room in Strong Hall.
He said the school's plan was the most comprehensive and had served as a model plan for some of the other schools.
Senate to consider increasing 2 student fees for next year
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Two of the six fees that students pay each semester may increase during the next fiscal year, a University Senate last night's Student Senate meeting.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said Senate would consider only two restricted fee requests at budget hearings in February.
Women and Non-Revenue Sports and Kansas Union representatives have asked for more money, Ambler said.
Of the $147 each student paid in fees this semester, $33 was allocated for Kansas Union fees and $9 was allocated for Women and Non-Revenue Sports fees.
Ambler said Women and Non-Revenue Sports asked for a $5 increase. He did not say how much the Kansas Union asked for.
Four fees will not increase. They are the Student Health fee, $71; Student Senate Activity fee, $28; Student Medical fee, $96; and Barreception Suffices fee, $9.
"I'm always impressed with how Senate handles this," Ambler said. "They'll pick this thing apart."
Amber said KU had the second lowest student fee requirement in the Regents system. Pittsburgh State University has a $138 fee.
heavily dependent on fee income would be affected by the University's efforts to stabilize enrollment.
Also during the meeting, Jayhawk Course Source was deleted from Hawkwick's database.
The Course Source is a publication that lists various courses offered at the University and includes class objectives, prerequisites, test formats and overall grading percentages.
The publication has not been financed by Senate for the past two years. Individuals have financed the publication since Senate dropped financing.
He said organizations that were
Opponents said removing the provision that established the advisory board for the publication would make it easier to bring the Course Source back later.
"As long as there is a possibility for it to exist, we might as well keep it," said Michael Diggs, an off-campus senator who opposed the bill.
Aaron Rittmaster, an off-campus senator who favored the bill, said, "We're removing an albatross from around our necks. We don't have the resources to produce it like it should be done."
Michael Moschini, AURH senator and co-author of the bill, said all the Senate's Course Source Advisory Board members resigned from their positions, and nobody had volunteered to continue publication.
Instrument calculates body's fat
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
Students wondering about their percentage of body fat will not have to wonder much longer.
A new device at the University of Kansas Medical Center soon will make this information more accessible and much more accurate.
Ralph Robinson, professor of radiology at the Med Center, said the device, called a dual photon X-ray absorptiometry, could do a full body weight and percentage of body fat with 1 percent accuracy.
This is a significant advance
behavioral concern about
heath and weight.
Robinson said the Med Center was the first institution in the Kansas City area to use the $75,000 device to measure fat. The device also can be used to obtain bone density measurements, which are helpful in diagnosing osteoporosis. The Med Center has had the device for about four months.
'This is a significant advance because of growing concerns about health and weight loss.'
— Alphob Robinson professor of radiology at the Med. Center
The device uses an X-ray tube that sends radiation through the patient. The radiation is picked up by a receiver that scans back and forth from the head to the toe of the patient for 10 to 20 minutes, recording the amount of radiation absorbed by the body. The greater the amount of tissue the greater the amount of radiation picked up by the receiver.
Robinson said the device caused no harmful effects to the patients. The device provides much more accurate results than the previous technique of submerging the patient in water and calculating the percentage by water displacement.
"Results from the device can be used in diet counseling, exercise and aerobics programs and in sports medicine clinics." he said.
Ann Davis, registered dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said she encouraged students to have breakfast when beginning a fitness program.
"A scale is not a good measurement in determining fitness," she said. "Women are very focused on the number they see on a scale.
"A typical college-aged female should have 19.5 percent to 21.5 percent body fat. If they can achieve a percentage of body fat in this range, they will not only feel good, but will also look good."
Davis said this information also would be useful to athletes on a fitness program and to ROTC students might have body fat requirements.
The device has not been given final approval by the Federal Drug Administration yet, but once the device will be more available to the public.
"I thought the FDA approval would have occurred already," Robinson said. "It could honestly come any day now. Then we will be offering it on a regular basis."
Robinson said that a physician's referral was preferred but that any referral could be approved.
Mel Allen, supervisor of the nuclear medicine department at the Med Center, said the treatment was relatively inexpensive. A complete treatment would cost about $145, he said.