University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 11, 1989
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Monday
> The department of African and African-American Studies will present Ralph Crowder, history graduate student, who will speak on "Street Scholars: Self-Trained Black Historians" as part of an ACDC event noon at ACDC in the Kansas Union.
Dec. 11
> The Transcendental Meditation Club will have a group meditation at 5:30 p.m. at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. All students, faculty and staff who practice transcendental meditation are invited.
▶ The KU Hipanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will have a meeting and workout at 207 Robinson Center.
Tuesday
► The Graduate Executive Committee of the Graduate Student Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union.
> An all-student holiday celebration sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services
of Kansas will be at 7 p.m. at the Hashing Hall Theater.
Games of adventure great computer gift
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
"Are you a smooth, suave, single guy on the make, or maybe you fancy yourself the sleek, sexy femme fatale? Whoever you are, get ready for a look at the other side of life. In the case of Joey McCormick, sure Suit Larry III; Passionate Patty in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals, you're BOTH!"
Those are the words printed on the package of Leisure Suit Larry, one of the hottest computer games this holiday season. It heads the December sales list. A computer software dealer, and is selling strongly at other stores.
Other popular game categories this year include simulations and children's educational games.
Leisure Suit Larry is one of several new games that expands on an original computer game category known as adventure games. In the original adventure game, called Adventure and released during the 1970s, players explored a cave system, fought monsters and gathered treasure by typing simple commands such as GO WEST, GET SCROLL and KILL TROLL. Later variations added graphics and greater depth.
The Leisure Suit Larry games added a sense of humor and an adult theme to the traditional adventure format, said Kevin Underhill, a sales clerk at the Babbage's store in Oak Park Mall, Overland Park. Other adventure games have worked on improving sound and graphics.
"A lot of these games are starting to use digitized graphics and sound, which is great as long as it goes along with the game," he said. "But a lot of companies are spending more time on the graphics than they are on the
game play. Pretty soon, the game gets boring."
Shem Retaway, a sales representative at Computer Plus, 601 Kasold Drive, said not all of the new, flashier games were boring. He likes the game Mean Streets, a detective game set in 2033. The player's mission is to find the killer of a prominent university professor.
This trend toward realism also is seen in the increasing popularity of simulations. Games such as Falcon, an F-16 fighter simulation; F-19 Stealth Fighter; Test Drive II; and Sim City are popular year, said John Smilid, manager of B. Dalton's Software Etc., in Overland Park.
"You can go to a warehouse that the professor owns," he said. "You find the address in his house. When you get there, you have to go through a shootout before you can get in. Once you're i, you can search for clues and even break into his computer to get information."
Underhill said Sim City also was popular at Babbage's. Sim City allows the player to design and run his own city. He sets up housing, industrial and commercial districts, runs roads to connect them and sets up power plants and power lines. All of this costs money.
Then the fun starts.
People start moving in, buildings start going up, and cars start moving on the road. Police and fire protection and road maintenance must be budgeted and paid for with taxes. Otherwise, crime will go up, roads will break down, and people will start moving out.
Smidi said the game also was available for Macintosh, Commodore 64/128 and Amiga systems. The game is selling well on all three.
Handicapped students contend for easy access
By Mark McHugh Kansan staff writer
Transportation on campus, for most students, is relatively simple.
But for Nivene Young, who is visually impaired, this is not always the case.
She catches a bus near her apartment at 11th and Tennessee streets, rides to the front of Bailey Hall and steps off.
She has memorized routes to Bailey and Malott halls, where her classes are, and that helps her get around.
But that doesn't solve her accessibility problem.
"I'd like them to meet with and ask us really what we need and ask how they can serve us," she said. "When we go to class, no professor is going to say, 'Don't take this test because you have a disability.' We're competing against other students, and we're not getting an even advantage."
"When I first came to school, the Student Assistance Center provided me with a student from their office to help me out," she said. "And we tried different routes, but because of the (constriction) situation by Haworth, we were never able to pick out a route. He has graduated, and they've never offered me another guide, and I've just about given up.
Glen White, training director of the KU Research and Training Center on Independent Living, said that overall benefits were still able but that it could be improved.
"So basically, in my head. I put together the two routes we had, and I ask questions as I so along."
Young, New York City graduate student in special education, said, "We've been at the center provided her with transportation during the icy winter months.
Such things are helpful, Young said, but are not enough.
"I think more money could be allocated to retrofit buildings." he
White, who also is a member of the architectural barriers committee, cited the Dole Human Development example of accessibility awareness.
said. "We've done well, but we shouldn't stop. We need to continue to allow students with disabilities more access on campus."
"They should open up other areas of the stadium and give people some option where to sit," he said. "They don't have sections for Blacks or Jews, so why should we be any different?"
Robert Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said the geography of the campus was a barrier to accessibility.
The committee routinely reviews all plans for campus buildings.
Young said that a professor of hers once asked her what building was more accessible for her and then asked to have the class in that building.
White said that planners should make buildings easily accessible to people with disabilities and that the cost of improved accessibility would be less than 1 percent of the total building cost.
If a student with a disability has a difficult time getting to a class, the center will re-locate the class, Turvey said.
White said that seating in Memorial Stadium, however, did not comply with needs of people with disabilities and that he resented the fact that they were singled out and had to sit in a designated section.
"I think it's going to be a premier building," he said of the Dole Center.
Turvey said renovations at Snow Hall and Corbin Hall, which include new elevators and ground-level entries, would provide more accessibility to people with disabilities. He connected tunnel connecting Gertrude Sellhardt Hall and Corbin would be enlarged for people who used wheelchairs.
By Melanie Matthes Kansan staff writer
Kansas lacks minority doctors, med students
A low number of minority doctors in Kansas means that some communities are going without medical care, medical officials said.
"People in any profession tend to go back to practice where their roots are," said Dannie Thompson, former director of the Kaw Valley Medical Society.
And when there are a small number of minority students graduating from medical school in Kansas, that leaves a small number of doctors practicing in minority communities.
Although the number of underrepresented minorities enrolled at the University of Kansas Medical Center is increasing, some officials say there still are not enough minority students.
"Where you've done your training where you're likely to stay," he said.
"My goal is in five years to have that number of minority students," Williams said. "Eventually, one would think we would soon have a pipeline of minorities going back to serve the minority community."
About 17 percent of the first-year medical students are minorities, said Melvin Williams, director of Minority Affairs at the Med Center.
But Williams said he would like to see that number increase to 25 percent.
Although Kansas has a low minority population to begin with, the percentage of minority doctors is low compared to other states, he said.
Thompson estimated that about 5 percent of Kansas doctors, including Black doctors, were minorities.
He said that about 55 Black doctors were in Kansas and that the majority of them practiced in the Kansas City area.
And when there are no doctors to serve minority communities, Thompson said, those minorities don't need medical care outside their community.
"Either it's too inconvenient or difficult, and they choose not to make that effort." he said.
Williams said that the problem was similar to health care in rural com
"Those who can't afford it won't go to a doctor," he said.
munities.
Kansas lacks financial incentives to keep minority medical students in the state and, as a result, Thompson said, qualified minority students are going to schools where they can get scholarships.
minority students who graduate from medical school was lower than the average score for majority students.
Minority students with good grade point averages and good medical school admission test scores can go to college without paying, Williams said.
"They're recruited just like you
result your basketball and football
play."
But some minorities have a problem getting accepted to medical institutions because of admission qualifications, but admission test scores, Williams said.
"Some schools set up criteria that they feel nondiscriminatory," he said. "If a student has a certain GPA and a certain MCAT score, they can get into medical school regardless of race.
Schools in the forefront of recruiting minorities consider qualifications other than test scores when admit minority students, Williams said.
KU admits minority students on criteria such as academic career, personal background and living conditions, he said.
He said that studies have shown that the average MCAT score of
Some minority students who can't afford to study medicine choose to study other fields rather than leave the state, Thompson said.
Williams said that the Wesley Foundation Minority Scholarship Grant, recently given to the Med Center, worked perfectly with another grant that financed a program designed to prepare minority high school students for medical school.
The Wesley Foundation Scholarships will help minority students pay for medical school. It is the first scholarship at the Med Center that is designated specifically for minorities.
The Department of English Congratulates the Winners of the Fall 1989 English 101/102 Essay Writing Contest:
David T. Book George F. McCleary II Daniel J. Francis Michael C. Paul Laurie K. Kahrs Jill K. Whitfield Jay M. Williams
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