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University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 26, 1990
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Med Center ready for liver patients
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The University of Kansas Medical Center now is ready to perform the first liver transplant in Kansas, a Med Center official said.
Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration, said hospital officials anticipated doing the trans- Mar. March. No patient has been selected
"The operating room is finished, and the team is developed," he said. "We are now beginning to screen patients for the procedure."
Jameson Forster, assistant professor of surgery and head of the liver transplant program, said that finding a patient with complications as complicated as the survival itself.
"A good patient could come in tomorrow," he said. "There is no realistic way to tell when this will actually happen."
Forster said about 80 transplant centers operated in the United States, but most of them were in heavily populated areas.
"Kansas is certainly not the last state to have a liver transplant program," he said. Med Center officials said they patients to a hospital in Omaha, Neb.
Forster said most patients were taken to the hospital who knew the patient's medical history.
He said patients with one of the following conditions were sought:
■ End-stage liver disease, which means the liver has worn out.
A tumor confined strictly to the liver.
A metabolic disorder that affects the liver's function.
Forster said that after a patient was selected, the actual procedure was performed.
In the first operation, a healthy liver is taken from a donor. The liver is iceed down and treated with a liquid
that keeps the cells alive for about 24 hours.
"We are very fortunate because people in Missouri are very generous organ donors and that is a vital part of the program," he said. A healthy liver can be flown in from anywhere in the United States.
The second operation requires removing the unhealthy liver from the recipient. Forster said this was the most difficult part of the procedure, and they removed from four main blood vessels without damaging the vessels.
Finally, the healthy liver is implanted into the recipient. This is the most straightforward part of the procedure, he said, but the complex surgery allowed no room for error.
"All phases of the operation have to be 100 percent accurate — absolutely perfect," he said. "It's not like getting an 85 percent on a test and being satisfied. Here an 85 percent could mean death."
Forster said the operation could take anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending on the time and distance needed to bring in the organ. This is much longer than a normal kidney transplant, which would last about three hours.
The total cost of the operation was extremely hard to determine, but the Med Center would want $150,000 in advance for hospital costs, Forster said. Added costs include the surgery and the organ itself.
Staples said the procedure not only would strengthen the credibility of the Med Center but also would benefit the state.
"I think welfare will stop authorizing costs to send patients to Omaha for the procedure," he said. "This will save the state a considerable amount of money."
Stories help instructor teach
By Sandra Moran
Kangsa staff writer
Gerrv Rilev. Lawrence graduate student. tells a story during his Children and Adolescents class.
Once upon a time, at a university in the faraway land of Academia, there was an instructor who was not like the others. He didn't believe in lecturing to his classes.
He told them stories.
David Barney, Santa Fe, NM,
graduate student, is using a new
teaching technique in his social
welfare classes at the University
of Kansas and Haskell Indian
Junior College. He tells his students
stories, and, during the
semester, each student must pres-
ent a story of his own. The
students look for social meaning in
each story.
"What we're trying to do through storytelling is recognize the positive attributes of how we connect with other people," Barron said. "We're trying to add a genuine human quality to our interactions."
Barney learned the teaching method at a workshop in New Mexico and first tried it with classes in Fall 1890. He said he taught his students how to teach students learned better when they were told stories.
The storytelling technique was effective with American Indian students in New Mexico because of the important role storytelling has played in their heritage, Barney
Students remember the stories more than anything else about his class, he said, and the process of memorizing the material makes the class more intimate.
About 15 students are in Barney's introductory undergraduate class at Haskell, the only social welfare class at that school.
Robert Goombi, assistant dean of instruction at Haskell, said the students were excited about the class. This is the first time that a student has received such welfare class on the Haskell campus.
said.
Barney said, however, the approach was just as successful with his classes at KU.
"It was interesting trying it here at the University of Kansas with a mostly white student population," he said. "It worked just fine."
"The students were genuinely surprised the first day of class, especially my master's students," said Barney, who teaches a KU undergraduate- and a graduate-level course in social welfare this semester. "It's something they haven't done before."
He said initial student response, although positive, was one of shock.
Barney said that as the semester continued, the stories and the analysis got better.
Gerry Riley, a Lawrence graduate student in Barney's class, yesterday became the first in his class to tell a story.
Riley said that Tommy's father was from a clan of people called Angry who had the secret power of hitting.
He told of a boy named Tommy who had parents from different clans.
He took a deep breath, rubbed his hands together and began to speak.
Tommy's mother was from the clan who drank from the waters of
sadness and forgetfulness.
As a result, Tommy grew up in a house that had anger, sadness and forgetfulness.
One day, someone offered Tommy a magic herb that made him feel better. But then someone told him that smoking the herb was wrong. So the school called a meeting to talk about it.
Though he made up the story, Riley said the events really happened. He told the story to illustrator Nicholas Jenkins and adolescents and social workers
"Social work isn't just something professionals do in offices," Barney said. "Social work is here in the educational process."
Asians celebrate New Year tonight
East Asia is wearing a festive red today.
Kansan staff writer
By Ines Shuk
Tonight is New Year's Eve for about 1.76 billion people in at least 14 countries, or roughly one-third of the world's population. It is the most celebrated of all East Asian holidays.
East Asia is wearing a festive red today. People, houses, marketplaces and streets from Tibet to Taiwan are shining in red — the color of fortune, luck and happiness — because the last day of the lunar calendar year has arrived.
"The Chinese New Year is a movable feast, like our Easter," said Wallace Johnson, professor of East Asian languages and cultures. The celebration starts 15 days before the first full moon of the year.
Emperor and usually falls in late January or early February.
This traditional holiday goes back about 5,000 years to the times of the legendary Yellow
Tonight's celebration will mark the end of the Year of the Snake and the beginning of the Year of the Horse. In Oriental mythology, the horse means looking ahead, advancement, moving forward. The Chinese teach Taiwan graduate teaching assistant and consultant for the Chinese Student Association.
"On New Year's Eve, all the family gets together to worship our gods and ancestors. Later, we eat sticky-rice dumplings and other special dishes prepared by my mother." Syu said.
During the night, people burn firecrackers, a symbol of leaving behind everything from the passing year.
"It means a passover to a new year," Syu said. "Also, firecrackers are believed to scare
the demons.
"My parents always prepare a new set of clothes for all their children, and we wear them on New Year's Day. Since a new year will begin, everything must be new."
New Year's is the opportunity for children to collect their biggest fortune of the year; red envelopes full of paper money. Parents and relatives bestow these and other treats, Sya's gifts.
That first day of the celebration is committed to visiting relatives and worshiping the gods. The second day, married people visit their friends and family visits friends and neighbors. Not said.
The fifteenth day, which is the first full moon, the New Year's festivities finish with the celebration of the Lantern Festival. Colorful paper lanterns brighten parks and temples.
ASK suggests joining hands in Margin support
By Matt Taylor
Kensan staff writer
An Associated Students of Kansas board last night suggested a "hands-around-the-Capitol" event in coordination with Lobby Day on Feb. 15.
The ASK Advisory Board brainstormed at the meeting for additional ways to push for third-year financing for the Margin of Excellence. No official action was taken at the meeting.
"Something needs to be done for the Margin of Excellence besides Lobby Day," said Sherri Sweers,
Tobacco tax won't end woes p. 6
ASK campus director.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
Several board members supported the idea of circling students from state universities around the Capitol on Lobby Day to show state lawmakers their united support for Margin
Bill Moseley, board chairman, said he would call other ASK chapters across the state this weekend to gather their opinions about the idea. Sweeps the board should pursue the idea at its meeting Monday.
financing.
Michael Schreiner, liberal arts and sciences senator, suggested transporting KU students to the Capitol in buses.
"We'll try to get a lot of news," he said. "We'll need to get there early in the morning so all the networks are there."
"Students are supposed to be rabble-rousters. Why can't we?"
No funds have been allocated for such an event, although board members said they might ask Student Senate for money.
Christine Stanek, off-campus senator, said the faculty also should participate.
"We need to get the faculty actively involved," Stanek said. "Let them cancel classes and let the students go to Topeka."
Sweers said more than 200 students had signed up for Lobby Day.
KU council revises grade appeals steps
By Pam Solner Kansan staff writer
Before yesterday, the only way a student could appeal how his final grade was figured was to accuse his professor of academic misconduct.
The amendments to the University Senate Rules and Regulations allow students to appeal a final course grade if they believe that the instructor did not follow the grading procedure explained in class.
Student Senate approved the measure last month. In discussion yesterday before approval of the amendments, William Sanders, vice chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said it was not Student Senate's intent to deny faculty members their rights to issue the amendment, and said the amendment would provide an impartial forum for students.
"That is the principle on which our court system is based," Sanders said.
Michael Schreiner, SenEx representative, said there were no written procedures for grade appeals. He also presented formalized an informal process.
This proposal would add credibility to the grade appeals whether the decision was for or against the student," Schreiner said.
He said the only other way to appeal was to accuse the instructor of academic misconduct.
"To me, it seems ridiculous that a student would have to go to that extent, to attack the integrity of a professor," he said.
According to the Senate Rules and Regulations for academic work and its evaluation, instructors must tell students how their work will be graded and what the course requirements are.
This information can be revised, but part of the new amendment requires instructors to give students timely notice of the revisions.
The largest portion of the amendments allows students to appeal a final course grade if they believe that an instructor did not follow the grading procedure explained to the class.
If a student still seeks an appeal, he should follow the procedures established by each school or college in the University. The amendment also requires each academic unit in the University to publish its grievance procedure for appealing a final course grade.
If a student still is disaffected, the appeal is to the judicial board, an appeal to the school board.
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