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Tuesday, November 21, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Directors examine student health care
By Melanie Matthes
Kansas staff writer
Health education, after-hours health care and other student health issues were discussed yesterday at a meeting of the directors of student health centers from the Big Eight universities and the University of Arkansas.
"We all have the same problems, but we all have different traditions and different ways that we deal with our problems," said James Strobi, director of Watkins Memorial Health Center.
The purpose of the meeting with the health directors was to discuss the varied ways of addressing student health centers. Shrub said,
Don Cooper, director of health services at Oklahoma State University, said that the directors at the meeting learned about the different ways that student health services deal with afterhours care.
He said that Oklahoma State was the only health center represented at the conference that did charge students for after-hours care.
Strob, however, predicted that Oklahoma State soon would have to charge for after-hours care or not offer it at all. He said that Watkins had offered after-hours
care as long as it could, but was forced to reverse the policy during the spring 1899 semester.
"We found that it was cheaper for the student to be taken care of at other health contacts than at our home," he said. "To close the night hours," he said.
The health center directors agreed that one area of student health care that was becoming more important was health educa-
In 1883 no health education personnel were at Watkins, Strobl said. Now there are four health educators at Watkins.
Cooper said one reason that health education was becoming so important was because of the increase of AIDS.
He said that Oklahoma State was working on plans to establish a comprehensive wellness center that would educate students about issues concerning their personal health.
The directors also agreed that student health centers often suffered because of the myth that delivered lower quality health care.
Strobl said he had been in the student health center profession for 17 years and thought the biggest change in student health care was the quality of doctors working at health centers.
Foreign students to share holiday
By Jennifer Metz Kansan staff writer
Families open doors for Thanksgiving
Kansan staff writer
Roommates, friends and families of some foreign students will open their doors this week to enable certain students to celebrate their first Thanksgiving.
Sara Martin, assistant director of foreign student services, said about 55 foreign students signed up for the Thanksgiving Homestay Program, which matches foreign students with U.S. families for the holiday. About 35 of the students have been placed with families.
"Several people have called in the past two weeks to host a student," she said.
Families who volunteer do not have to have a student at KU, she said, but more KU students volunteered this year than in past years.
"It enables a friendship that gets started at Thanksgiving to continue throughout the year."
The 20 students who were not able to be matched with families made alternate plans for the holiday, she said.
Annelieke Vandeven, Holland freshman, said she would spend her first Thanksgiving with her roommate.
"At first I thought it had something to do with religion, then my roommate said it had something to do with
Ravi Gargesh, India graduate student, said he had adopted the Thanksgiving tradition easily since he moved to the United States three years ago.
giving thanks." Vandeven said.
"Thanksgiving is a nice holiday to give thanks for all of the good things," he said. "You search your soul and realize how happy you are. There are a lot of things to be happy about, such as shelter, food, and being able to study at a good university. On a day like Thanksgiving, you have all those good things to think about."
Gargesh said that in India festivities were held after good harvests but that it was different from the Thanksgiving in the United States.
Yoko Harada, Tokyo senior, said
the holiday was a nice time for foreign students to pick up U.S. culture.
She said it was easy to understand why U.S. people celebrated Thanksgiving because many countries celebrate the harvest at the end of fall.
"At Thanksgiving, people are so nice," she said. "For foreign students like me, it is usually hard to get in touch with American families. Thanksgiving gives us a chance to look at the American family."
"We basically do what the Americans do, and we follow American culture," he said.
Garghes said he would follow typical U.S. tradition by celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and serving turkey.
Indians view holiday only as time for a break
By Cory S. Anderson Kansan staff writer
Unlike many students who see Thanksgiving as a day to be thankful, Gaylon Kelley, an American Indian, is mostly looking forward to the football games and the two extra days of vacation.
Kelley, a sophomore at Haskell Indian Junior College, said the Thanksgiving holiday meant little to him.
said. "There is really nothing to look forward to unless you are really hungry."
"It's just another holiday," Kelley
Kelley's friends agreed.
"It's no different from any other holiday," said Chuck Jacobs, Haskell sophomore. "We celebrate the same as anybody else, we go home, get together and eat."
Charles Gebee, dew of instruction at Haskell, said he didn't believe that American Indians were offended by the Thanksgiving holiday.
any real significance on being against it," Geboe said. "To me it's not a time to celebrate but to kind of be thankful for the things we do have. It's more of a personal thing than anything else."
Gebee said he didn't see anything wrong with the 'way American Indians were portrayed in the stories of the first Thanksgiving.
"I don't think a lot of people attach
"I don't think they are viewed as traitors, they did the humane thing," he said. "I don't think there is anything negative about that."
Jason Kelley, Haskell sophomore, said that from an historical perspective, American Indians did not have much to be thankful for.
"That first tribe messed up," Kelley said. "They shouldn't have been so nice."
Kelley said the holiday did not have the same meaning for him as it did for those who are not American Indians.
"They are probably more fired up
it." Karell said. "I wouldn't miss it
at all."
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