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Stress fracture causes Pollard to sit out month
A stress fracture in his left foot has taken Kansas senior center Scot Pollard out of action for about a month.
According to a release by Sports Information, Pollard felt pain in his left foot after Wednesday's 89-60 victory at Allen Field House against Texas A&M.
Scot Pollard
The stress fracture was discovered in X-rays taken yesterday.
"I'm extremely disappointed for Scot personally but also for our basketball team." Kansas head
coach Roy Williams said in a statement, "Everyone will have to elevate their play a little, just as our team did in the first part of the season to make up for the loss of Jacque Vaughn."
Pollard is expected to use crutches for two or three days. He will wear a "fracture boot" as a major part of his rehabilitation.
Pollard has started all 19 games for the undefeated No. 1 Jayhawks. He has averaged 11.4 points and leads the team with an average 8.6 rebounds a game this season.
Wednesday night, he became the third player in Kansas basketball history to register 200 career blocked shots.
Williams is optimistic about Pollard's return to the court in one month.
"We hope to have Scot back at the tail-end of our season and see him finish out an outstanding career," he said in the statement.
Williams and the Kansas players will not be available for additional comments until after Sunday's game in Boulder against No. 18 Colorado.
—Kansan staff report
Blood clots kill tumors in mice, possibly people
WASHINGTON — University of Texas scientists are destroying cancerous tumors in mice by engineering blood clots that stave the tumors to death, an advance that could be tested in people within two years.
The therapy, much like killing a plant by cutting its roots, caused rapid cancer-cell death within 24 hours, Philip Thorpe, M.D., of the university's Southwestern Medical Center reports today in the journal Science.
After two weeks of treatment, tumors had disappeared in 38 percent of the mice and had shrunk by more than half in another 24 percent.
—The Associated Press
Preventing frozen pipes
Much of your plumbing is in the outer walls of your home, so it is exposed to colder air than your thermostat. That means your pipes can freeze and burst even if your heat is set well above the freezing level.
Leave your faucets on so they drip constantly. That will keep the water gradually moving through your pipes so they can't freeze.
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Senate grants BSU's request
Some members question vote
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
Wednesday night's Senate finance committee proposal that the Black Student Union be granted block-allocation status passed the Senate by a one-vote margin, but some finance committee members still question the organization's need for block-allocation status.
Art Yudelson, Lawrence senior and finance committee member, said BSU did not deserve blockallocation status because of the group's managerial and financial practices.
"Their leadership over the past couple of years has been rocky," he said.
Although Senate regulations do not require that an organization receiving block-allocation status have sound managerial practices, Yudelson said BSU's leadership history concerned him enough to question its request for such status.
Block-allocation status allows a group to request a lump sum of money to be used for two years. Last semester, the finance committee recommended that BSU not receive block-allocation status because the group had overspent its account by $420 three years ago, and the group did not put the Senate logo on some of its printed material.
"We're not talking about rocket science," Yudelson said. "We're
talking about the ability to balance a checkbook."
Last semester the finance committee sent a bill to the Senate recommending which groups should receive block-allocation status. The committee left BSU off of that list.
The Senate rejected the bill because it did not recommend that BSU receive block-allocation status. That action forced last night's discussion and vote.
BSU president Andrea Lockett and faculty adviser Julius Williams told the committee last night that the group's problems had been addressed and remedied.
Most other student-based groups must receive money through lineitem allocations, forcing them to request a specific amount for specific events.
But the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, HALO, also receives block-allocation funds.
Most groups that receive blockallocation funds are community-based and have professional staffs, Yudelson said.
Lockett said that BSU had between 60 and 80 members. Her organization received $23,500 this year and is requesting $27,750 for next year. She said BSU needed block-allocation to give it flexibility and freedom in planning future events.
Sasha Flores, last semester's HALO president, said block-allocation funds allowed HALO to plan events in advance and fund community outreach programs such as Hispanic Heritage Month. She said HALO had 45 members. The group received $9,385 this year and is
requesting $14,624.50 for next year.
Michelle Dennard, Abilene junior and finance committee member, said that block-allocation status was a privilege for student groups.
"They are pioneers with this," she said. "They set an example for other organizations."
Kelly Huffman, Bellevue, Neb., junior and finance committee chairman, said he supported the groups' block-allocation status. But, he said, because student organizations usually did not receive block-allocation status, deciding which groups to grant the privileged status to was difficult.
"It really does throw something different into the system when you have student organizations rather than community organizations receiving block-allocation status."
Dennard agreed.
Theta Chi house demolished
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
Crews from Jayhawk Excavating Inc. started tearing down the Theta Chi fraternity house, 1011 Missouri St., yesterday. The crews plan to continue demolition of the fraternity house today. The University of Kansas chapter of Theta Chi fraternity was founded in 1954 under
the local chapter name Delta Psi. The national Theta Chi organization was founded in 1856, with three chapters on the roll. By 1923, Theta Chi's list of chapters had grown to more than 20.
Standardized evaluation forms nixed
Kansan staff writer
By Kevin Bates
Forms for students to evaluate their instructors will remain the same at the University of Kansas, at least for now.
The evaluations that students now fill out are different for each department. The committee's proposal would have made faculty evaluations the same across the board, allowing a student in an engineering class, for example, to fill out the same form as a student in a physical conditioning class.
The University Council decided yesterday to reject a proposal made by the Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committee that would have created a single, University-wide form for faculty evaluations.
ment's evaluations, said Laurence Draper, University Council president and professor of microbiology.
The council recommended that the Faculty Executive Committee create an ad hoc committee to write guidelines for each depart-
All new guidelines must be approved by Provost David Shulenburger.
The faculty rights committee's proposed evaluation forms would have included four parts. Students would have completed the first three parts, and a fourth part would have included information provided by the instructor.
"It will probably come up again at the next FacEx meeting," Draper said. "But I don't know what's going to happen then."
The first part would have included 18 questions. The first 13 questions asked the student to evaluate the instructor on a five-point scale regarding enthusiasm, organization, accessibility, grading and respect for students. The last five questions were designed to control bias in the evaluation and
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ask statistical and demographic information, such as year in school, grade point average and attendance.
The second part of the form would have consisted of optional questions provided by the department and instructor. A student comment sheet and other data provided by the instructor, such as class size, student attendance, respect and preparation, would have completed the proposed evaluation form.
Shulenburger said he couldn't guess about the makeup of future evaluation forms.
"I really didn't know what would happen tonight," he said. "I'm content with it either way — using University-wide or departmental forms.
"There's nothing magic about University-wide evaluations. But the important thing is that we need to take it seriously no matter what we do."
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Experience helps Ballard land position
By Ann Marchand
Kansan staff writer
Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center at the University of Kansas, said her four years of seniority had helped in the
State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, landed a spot earlier this month on the Appropriations Committee in the Kansas House of Representatives.
appointment.
Now in her third term, Ballard has gained respect and praise from colleagues on both sides.
The Appropriations Committee recommends spending guidelines to
Barbara Ballard
the legislature for all state offices, agencies and adjunct organizations
Rep. Phil Kline, R-Overland Park, said he was glad to have Ballard on the appropriating panel.
"I consider her a very level-headed person." Kline said.
The ranking member of the committee, Rep. Henry Helgerson, D-Wichita, echoed Kline's praise.
"I think Barbara brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the committee that will be very beneficial to all members." Helverson said.
Ballard said her diverse background was beneficial in her new role.
"Having served on a variety of committees before is extremely helpful," she said.
Members of Ballard's staff at the University thought she was skilled in legislative and administrative duties.
Rachel Lee, Lawrence graduate student, has worked at the women's resource center for more than four years and said she had grown accustomed to the absence of her supervisor as the legislative session got under way, but she said work at the center had changed little.
"It's still pretty much the same," Lee said. "She calls in several times a day from the Legislature and stops in often in the evening when she comes back."
Ballard is now on unpaid leave from her job at the center.
Regents guidelines prevent University employees from holding political office simultaneously with a University position.
Before the session, she developed an outline for programming and goals during her absence. She meets with her staff regularly to ensure that things run smoothly.
"Even though I'm on leave, I still have a job, and I oversee things," Ballard said. "When I come back, it's like I've never been stone."
Lee said she thought that students benefited from Ballard's position and that Ballard made government seem less intimidating.
"I think that students feel like Topeka is a little bit more accessible because of her," Lee said.