UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 4, 1993
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Financial Aid at home in new office
Room 50 provides reception space, up-to-date phones
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
Room 26 of Strong Hall was clearing out fast last week.
In preparation for today's opening of the new Office of Student Financial Aid, staff workers carried desks, partitions and files down the hall from the old room in the basement of Strong Hall to its new Room 50 location.
In the new office, workers began to position blue-paneled partitions and scattered office chairs into place.
The opening of the new office marks the end of a three-year process for renovating the new space in Strong
Hall's east basement hallway, said Linda Mullens, assistant vice chancellor.
The University temporarily will use the now vacant space for storage, Mullens said.
"We just haven't been 'happy how students have been served in that space," Mullens said.
Diane Del Buono, director of the office, said she had anticipated the office's move for a long time.
"We've just outgrown the space available in here." Del Buono said from her former office. "We've been taking up a lot of different spaces. Our staff used to be split into two offices."
Because of the increased space available, the financial aid staff will have student files on hand in the office itself rather than in a separate storage room, Del Buono said.
The new office will provide other opportunities for improving service,
"Our old office had certain limitations," Del Buono said. "We didn't really have a reception area, and we were working with an old phone system."
Del Buono said.
The front of the new office has additional room to serve as a reception area, Del Buono said.
"We can have students form one line instead of the many we now have," Del Buono said. "The counter is back far enough so they should have some privacy, something we can't afford in the old office."
To avoid waiting and possibly missing scheduled appointments, students can check in with a reception area phone connected to the financial aid switchboard. Del Buono said.
Students calling the financial aid office also should notice improvement in the office's new phone system.
"We sometimes take some hostility with people who aren't happy with our phone system." Del Buono said. "With the new system, if a resource advisor is available to take a call, they will pick up directly."
The phone system will place callers who do not get through right away on hold, Del Buono said.
"Instead of being told that all lines are busy, callers can keep on the line until they reach one of our staff." Del Buono said. "Nobody gets hung up on and then has to call back. It will save a lot of hassle."
Despite some initial adjustments that she and her staff will need to make, Del Buono said her staff would be ready for the change.
"It should all come together," Del Buono said. "It may not come together the first day we're there, but I expect it should still be running fairly smoothly."
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Senate elections need more time
By Donella Hearne
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate will consider a proposal this week that would change the date of Senate elections and give candidates an extra week to campaign after spring break.
Elections are scheduled for April 13 and 14, leaving Senate candidates two weeks to campaign after returning from spring break.
Travis Harrod, Student Senate Executive Committee chair, proposed the plan and said that two weeks was not enough time for student coalitions to organize their campaigns and make themselves known to students.
"It's hard to get everyone motivated and get people to pay attention in that amount of time," he said.
Before last year, elections were held three weeks after spring break, but when the Board of Regents rescheduled spring break, the election dates were not changed, Harrod said. The proposal to reschedule the election again would give candidates three straight weeks to campaign.
"Last year the whole week before spring break was worthless," he said. "This gives people a chance to pick up steam and keep it up."
The Student Rights and University Affairs committees passed the proposal last week. Sherman Reeves, University Affairs Committee chair, said he thought the proposed change was a good idea.
He said the bill passed his committee without much disagreement, although a few committee members were opposed.
Chander Yajaraman, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said the proposed change would cause problems in other governance bodies that consisted of administrators, faculty and students.
It would back set back his progress because student senators could not be assigned to the governance bodies in time for meetings held during the first two weeks after spring break, he said.
"They will have to discuss the new business with the old senators or without any students," he said.
Jayaraman proposed that the elections be held before spring break and that spring break be rescheduled.
The University Calendar Committee, comprised of students faculty and administrators, hopes to gain some control over the scheduling of spring break, Jayaraman said.
"The Calendar Committee sent a letter asking the Board of Regents to allow us to have a say in when spring break is," he said.
Harrod said another reason for his proposal was to try to have elections during warmer weather.
"The nicer the weather, the easier it is to campaign," he said.
He also said that voter turnout was better when the weather was nice.
Jayaraman said that the weather should not be a factor in setting election dates.
"Big deal if it a little cold," he said. "It's an election, not a fashion show."
Despite his opposition, Jayaraman said the bill was likely to pass in Senate.
Students earn extra cash donating plasma
By Liz Klinger
Kansan staff writer
Steve Hudson, Omaha, Neb, sophomore, sold his plasma twice a week for six weeks to earn money for his spring break trip to Padre Island, Texas. He is one of many students who sell their plasma for extra income.
"I definitely think it's a personal choice," Hudson said. "Some people probably feel like they're doing something good for research. I was just doing it for financial gain."
Students in Lawrence can sell their plasma twice a week for $15 each visit at North American Biologicals Inc. medical center, 816 W. 24 St. Last week, 700 donations were made at the center, which collects the plasma for diagnostic and therapeutic products and research.
Approximately 10 million plasma donations were made last year in the United States, said David Gury, chief executive officer of the center. Gury said the center's 44 locations had 1.3 million donations last year and estimated that 30 to 40 percent of the donations were made by college students.
plasma products to the health care community." Gury said. "As young, healthy individuals, they're good sources for the material."
People donating plasma must be between the ages of 18 and 65, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in general good health, said Wayne Sharp, manager of the Lawrence center.
Gury said potential donors must undergo a rigorous screening process that includes a physical examination, medical history questions and blood tests for venereal diseases, hepatitis and AIDS.
"It's an opportunity to participate in a program that is vital in providing the
Sharp said that it takes between 30 and 90 minutes to remove plasma. Blood is removed from the donor's arm and passes through a spin filter, which separates red cells into one chamber and puts the plasma into another, Gury said. About one-third of a pint of blood, without plasma, then passes back to the donor.
Gury said there are a number of uses for plasma products, which contain a variety of proteins. Plasma donations are given to hemophiliacs to aid in blood clotting. Plasma products also provide the antibodies used in tetanus shots. Gury said that current research focuses on how plasma might be used to prevent HIV transmission from a pregnant woman to her unborn child.
Uses for plasma
- Increasing the life expectancies of people with hemophilia, a hereditary bleeding disease;
- Treating tetanus, rabies,
whooping cough, German
measles, smallpox and hernes:
- Protecting unborn babies of mothers with RH negative blood;
- Treating shock, open heart surgery and burns;
Researching the use of Interferon to fight cancer and other viruses.
Source: North American Biologicals, Inc
KANSAN
Although there are financial benefits for donors and health benefits for plasma recipients, Matt Henry, Wappinger Falls, N.Y., senior, said that he would not become a plasma donor.
"I just didn't like the idea of people taking stuff out and putting it back in my body," Henry said. "It wasn't worth the risk to me."
Donating plasma is an altruistic use of students' time, Gury said.
"What you're doing is taking that product and giving it someone who doesn't have it so they can live," Gury said.
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