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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 24, 1997
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Hillel will hold Shabbat dinner to celebrate beginning of spring
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
It may not feel like spring in Kansas yet, but some KU students will be celebrating the coming of spring tonight.
The KU Hilib Foundation is having a Shabbat dinner at 5:30 p.m. tonight at the Jewish Community Center, 917 Highland Drive, to celebrate the Tu B'Sbvat holiday.
"Tu B'Shvat is a time to honor the trees and wildlife in Israel, where there aren't very many," said Susan Elkins, director of the University Information Center.
Carrie Fleider, Hillel director, said that although Tu B'Shvat was a celebration of the coming of spring, it should not be confused
"Passover is religiously based; there is a Bible story that corresponds to it. Tu B'Bshvat is more of a cultural thing," she said.
with Passover.
During the holiday, Jewish families traditionally have a special meal with the first fruits of spring, such as dates, figs and caroons.
"For Tu B'Bshvat, my mother goes out and buys all these different fruits, which she puts on a big plate. Before we eat, we say prayers over the fruits and give blessings," he said.
Ophir Laizerovich, Dallas freshman, said that Tu B'Shav was similar to Thanksgiving because they give thanks to God for all the plants.
Beth Ackerman, Dallas senior and assistant director of Hillel, said the group would serve four kinds of wine and grape juice to represent
the four seasons at the dinner.
Ackerman said the program also included poetry reading, blessings and a traditional candle lighting ritual.
Laizerovich said that Israel lost a lot of its wildlife during the Desert Storm bombings and the terrorist attacks last year.
Another way of celebrating is to plant trees or make donations to the Jewish National Fund, which plants trees in Israel.
Lazerovich said that depending on how a family relates to Judaism, Tu B'Bshvat could be celebrated in different ways.
"My cousins celebrate it by planting trees either in different parks in Jerusalem or in the outskirts of the city," he said.
Dinner costs $2 and is open to the public.
Medical professionals are not all physicians
Watkins Health Center has four levels of people to assist sick students
By Emily Vrabac
Kansan staff writer
The alphabet soup of medical professions can be confusing. Patients are greeted by the C.N.A., who takes them to a consulting room. The R.N. comes in to diagnose the patients' problems before the M.D. can administer treatment.
Behind the letters are knowledgeable people who have differing levels of medical education.
A certified nurse's aide, or C.N.A., obtains a degree through a community college or nursing home. C.N.A.s have technical knowledge and often are in charge of setting up for procedures and taking histories and symptoms of patients, said Cheryl Hyckert, a nurse practitioner at Watkins and former nursing teacher.
Wattins Memorial Health Center employs four levels of medical professionals to assist students.
Watkins has two C.N.A.S; one who works in gynecology, and the other, Yolanda Gonzales, who is a general C.N.A.
"She kind of makes the place run," said Randall Rock, Watkins chief of staff. "She has good organization skills. Generally, she is the one that has a smile."
Registered nurses, or R.N.s, have an associate's or bachelor's degree and must pass a state test to be registered.
The main responsibility of R.N.s is to prioritize patients in the order of urgency. R.N.s also can diagnose patients, give first-line medical advice
and give medications when needed, Hyckert said.
Rock said, "They can integrate their educational background to make some decisions."
decisions.
Watkins has 14 R.N.s who assist patients before the nurse practitioner or doctor sees them.
With the recent addition of two nurse practitioners, Watkins now has four.
Nurse practitioners have a graduate degree, usually a master's, in nursing. They must first work as an R.N. Then they continue their education by doing research and performing clinical duties, Hvckert said.
The next step above the nurse practitioner is the doctor of medicine, or M.D. Watkins has nine M.D.s, all of whom are board certified, meaning that they have specialized training beyond medical school. Rock said.
Watkins nurse practitioners assess students' medical conditions and make decisions regarding treatment of the patients, Hyckert said.
To obtain an M.D. degree, students must complete a bachelor's degree. The degree need not be in science or premedicine specifically, but the candidate should take basic required science courses.
Next students must be admitted to medical school, which can last from three to six years, depending on the school, Rock said. Then the physicians have the option of doing a more specialized residency, which usually lasts three years.
About 20 medical professions exist, from radiology to medical assistants, physicians assistants to medical records personnel.
Rock said the medical industry is a growing and stable industry.
"It employs a lot of people in this country," he said.
Adults navigate Internet with aid from children
The Associated Press
WICHTA — When Bettie Duerksen, 56, wanted help with her Internet skills, she decided to attend a free class. Her teachers: schoolchildren, including some as young as second grade.
The classes are sponsored by L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet School. Any student can teach at the monthly classes, which are free and open to the public. More than 60 people came to Tuesday night's class to learn everything from how to get on the Internet to how to set up a Web page. The school began offering free monthly Internet sessions to the public about a year ago, drawing anywhere from six to 60 participants.
"I stumble around in it, and I just need a little direction," Duerksen, of Rose Hill, said Tuesday night, watching 9-year-old Anna Walter, a third-grader, explain the home page she set up in second grade.
Anna, who taught for the first time Tuesday night, encouraged questions and tried to explain what was happening on her computer screen. After the lesson, she admitted that teaching adults was fun but also intimidating.
"Teaching takes a lot of patience, and teachers have a lot of patience," Anna said. "I really don't have as much patience as a teacher does."
The classes recruit student instructors, some as young as second grade, during the school's closed-circuit morning television program, which also is produced by the students and broadcast throughout the school.
Students at L'Ouverture start learning how to use the Internet in kindergarten. By the end of third grade, they must have their own home page.
"They are very good at teaching the Internet to people. They understand it very well, but they can also talk in terms that adults can understand," said Principal Howard Pitcher.
At first, it can be hard for adults to learn something new from a 9-year-old, Pitler said. But that doesn't last long.
long.
"They sit down with the kids for two minutes, and then they are OK," he said. "From our kids' perspective, it builds self-esteem, and they learn something best by teaching it to others.
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