UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 1, 1996
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Kangaroos spread the message
Students tell kids medicine not candy
By Stephanie Flt
Kansan staff writer
KU pharmacy students are dressing up like kangaroos to pass along the idea that prescription drugs aren't candy.
Throughoutthe month of October KU pharmacy school students have visited more than 23 Lawrence grade schools to warn first graders about the dangers of prescription drugs. They will finish their tour tomorrow at Deerfield Elementary School. 101 Lawrence Ave.
"It's just like fire safety, we have to show kids what could happen. Because we use the kangaroo, they
remember a lot of the ideas we present them," said Kerry Korsak, Academy Student Pharmacy organization volunteer. "We want to teach them that medicine is not candy."
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Katy the Kangaroo is a mascot for Katy's kids, an organization that is a part of the Academy Student Pharmacy organization at the University of Kansas. The Academy Student Pharmacy program was adopted by KU two years after it was started by a group of pharmacy school student att the University of Iowa in 1989.
The program's activities range from organizing patient/counseling competitions to inviting speakers to speak to pharmacy students.
To join, members of Academy of Student Pharmacy program must pay a $40 fee that is used to implement programs like Katy's klds.
pharmacy student, said that although the Katy's kids visit was only one hour, the impact of their visit lasted longer.
"This is a great opportunity for students to get involved in the pharmacy school other than class work," Korsak said. "It is also a great service organization for Lawrence because it teaches kids the dangers of prescription drugs."
Korsak, Emporia, second year
Sandie Derflinger, president elect of the American Pharmacy Association Academy Student of Pharmacy at KU, said the program targeted first graders because they were receptive to the message.
This is to make them aware of the differences of Halloween candy and prescription drugs, she said.
"The kids understand what medicine is and how they have to be careful with it," said Derflinger, Belleville, second year pharmacy student. "It's always fun to see them get involved."
"Because the students are allowed to interact with the kangaroo, we are able to transmit the ideas presented in a twenty minute slide show about the dangers of medication," she said.
Cathy Thrasher, faculty advisor of student health services in Watkins Health Center, said Katy's Kids was a good way for pharmacy students to become involved in the Lawrence community.
lawrence community it is a public service project that takes student motivation to keep it going. This allows students who are interested in pharmacy to interact with the community as health care providers." Thrasher said.
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Watkins to provide column on UDKi
By Ashleigh Roberts
Kansan staff writer
Timely and topical health issues will be brought to student's fingertips Monday morning as Watkins Memorial Health Center prescribes cynthiahealth education.
The health center will be linked to the UDKs Web site and provide weekly columns by in-house physicians.
Randall Rock, senior student health physician at Watkins, said the Internet was a great educational tool.
"It's another way for students to find out more about our services and for us to expand our education mission," he said.
The first column in the UDKi health and fitness section will discuss the flu shot. Each column will run for a week and will be changed every Monday, Rock said.
He said physicists had developed a list of topics relevant to students.
"Potentially there is some finetuning ahead of us, but it is exciting," he said. "A lot will be happening over the next couple of months."
Rock said the information network was not intended for diagnosis, but that it was a good question and answer format that would take a little time to develop.
"You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run, but technology is on the way," he said.
The UDK1 Web site will be linked
to Watkins' existing site. The UDKi site also offers information about local and regional health services. It soon will include information about Robinson Health Center.
Tm Brownlee, office manager of health promotion and education at Watkins, said the Watkins site was also growing. It soon will include a health education section, an AIDS infonet and an ask-an-expert section.
Brownlee said the ask-an-expert section would allow students to ask questions about all health issues.
we have a dietician and three health educators with different specialty sections," he said. "If it is out of their speciality, we have lots of physicians."
The AIDS infonet will provide students with basic statistics, a short quiz that tests student's general knowledge and a question section, Brownlee said. Local and regional information as well as volunteer opportunities also will be available.
Brownlee said the opportunity to join the UDKi Web site provided Watkins with expansion opportunities because the UDKi's server is more advanced.
"There may even be the possibility of setting up a chat room," he said.
The UDK1 homepage can be found at http://www.kansan.com and http://www.ukans.edu/home/watkins is the Watkins' website.
Wichita man decries decline of education
WICHITA — Jim McDavitt isn't running for office. His conservative beliefs — from the idea that the homosexual lifestyle is wrong to wanting to drastically scale back the federal government — aren't new.
urs the focus of his fury that has gotten people's attention this election year. McDavitt, the director of Kansas Education Watch Network, or KEW-NET, is at the center of a grassroots, loosely organized movement challenging the current public education system and the people he calls "educators."
He won't say how many pay the $60 annual fee to belong to KEW-NET, and McDavitt told The Associated Press he was too busy to contact any KEW-NET members to ask them to talk to a reporter about the organization.
McDavitt's rhetoric and campaign style prompted retiring state Sen. Dick Rock to take out a two-page ad last month in The Winfield Daily Courier, The Arkansas City Traveler and The Wellington Daily News. The ad was paid for by the Kansas Democratic Party and outlined the dangers of McDavitt's ideas, according to Rock.
"KEW-NET is not an organization working within the system in an effort to improve it," Rock said in the ad. "KEW-NET is an organization using the system in an effort to destroy it."
In a telephone interview yesterday from his Arkansas City home, Rock said he was concerned that McDavitt was advocating the establishment of a
Christian school system.
"Their objective is to destroy public education," he said.
McDavitt said he wanted to save it.
"The sum total of this ad is: Jim McDavitt is an activist Christian participating in conservative politics, and he's irritating the heck out of Dick Rock and the liberals," McDavitt said. "It is flattering, very flattering. I smiled all the way through it."
McDavitt is a former deputy sheriff and insurance salesman. He says he is upset with the status quo and even more angry that bureaucrats won't give him a chance to change it.
More than five years ago, he was kicked out of a curriculum meeting that was closed to the public. It prompted him to look into what public schools were teaching.
He was upset by what he saw: classes and assignments that weren't challenging, below mediocre test scores and material that attacked the authority of parents and ridiculed religious faith.
Five years ago, several Wichita merchants asked him to direct KEW-NET. Since then, McDavitt has worked to right an education system that he says is steering away from academic concentration into a politically correct, warm and fuzzy system of beliefs and values.
"The education system is committing slow-motion suicide, and when it hits bottom the whole nation will hit bottom," he said.
Survey, campus agree: Students love the U.S.
By Ashlee Roll
By Ashlee Roll
Kansan staff writer
Much like Converse's new basketball sneakers, students around the nation and here at the University of Kansas appear to bleed red, white and blue.
According to a survey by Converse, the athletic shoe manufacturer, nearly 40 percent of students consider themselves to be extremely patriotic. Students at the University agreed.
I believe in the American way," said Allen Harkleroad, Overland Park freshman. "I consider myself patriotic because of my hate of flag burning."
"America is great," said Charley Downey, Olathe junior. "It is the best country in the world."
"I'm not one of those people who thinks burning the flag is wrong," she said. "To me it's not controversial, it is freedom of speech."
but Stefanie Amundson, Engelwood, Colo., junior said she was not patriotic because she considered patriotism to be joining the military or working for the government.
"I think being a citizen of the universe is more important than being a citizen of the U.S," she said.
Julie Baker, Lawrence senior, said she did not think of herself as being patriotic either.
Almost half of the college stu
dents surveyed by Converse said they believed that America is worse off now than it was when their parents went to school.
we have made improvements and we have made mistakes," said Downey. "There are more opportunities for women and minorities, but there is also more crime and death."
The survey also said that more than 80 percent of students intended to vote in the election, with Bill Clinton favored over Bob Dole by a margin of 33.9 to 47.7 percent.
"Rightnow I would vote for Clinton. I don't agree with Dole, and I think he is out of touch with people our age," Amundson said.
However, Grant Winter, Lenexa junior, said that he intended to vote for Dole because he believed in Republican values.
"I'm not big on welfare," he said. "I believe in every man for himself."
"I admire my parents," said Harkleroad. "They both started in pretty poor communities, and now they are doing pretty well."
According to the survey, students most often cited their parents as the people they most admired in the world.
baker said the people she admired most were her mother and Maya Angelou.
"My mother is the wisest person in the world," she said.
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