CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 26, 1996
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Med Center students get dose of reality
By Teresa Veazey
Kansan staff writer
It's a dose of reality that doesn't come from a textbook. That's what Nicole Anderson, Holton junior, said Wednesday after her first night working at a care center for people with disabilities.
Anderson, an occupational therapy major, and 11 other students at the University of Kansas Medical Center have started the semester working with different community organizations through the Community Outreach Program, a new paid-service organization for Med Center students in allied health, nursing and graduate studies.
involved applications and interviews for 24 students who applied for the 12 positions. In October, students found out if they were selected for the program. But it wasn't until this month that students began their jobs, which included $1,000 for 135 hours of work this semester.
The program, which was formed during the summer.
"It's important for students to get experience outside before they go out in the field," said Neda Leonard, Lawrence graduate student and the program's director. "What I wanted to do was figure out what's outside the classroom."
from Mercantile Bank. Students also sold books through a Kansas City company and earned $4,500 to help with financing.
Students were placed with various community service organizations, such as the American Red Cross, Bristol Hill Evening Care Center and the YWCA. To pay the student workers, the program received a $7,500 grant
Cathy King, coordinator of student resources and program adviser, said that in the past, medical students were the only ones with a paid-service organization. She said that she had visited with students and had felt they were interested in the program but that she had wanted to make sure it would be managed by the students.
Leonard said program was paid because she and others knew that it would be difficult to a student and pay for things without a job. She said the pay was considered minimal since students provided their own transportation and likely would work more than the minimum
hours.
Keri Magnuson, Iola senior, works at the YWCA with people who are infected with HIV. She said the work provided a dose of the real world.
"For one thing, a lot of us are sheltered from reality," Magnuson said. "We go and sit in class and learn about alcoholism and HIV. But as far as the real world, there's not always a sterile hospital room."
Magnuson said one of the most important parts of her work in the program was working with people outside of a hospital setting.
"It's hard for us to sit there and give them advice and never really know about what they're going through," she said.
Horoscopes both alienate and illuminate
Finding future in the stars is fun for some KU students
By Heather Kirkwood
Kansan staff writer
Opening a newspaper and turning to the horoscopes is like drinking a morning cup of coffee for many students, but most do it just for fun.
"My boyfriend and I always check ours," Laura Speaker, Oak Forest, Ill., senior, said. "There was one time that the horoscope said, 'Let your girlfriend be the child.' I had a lot of fun with that one."
While Speaker joked about reading her horoscope, she said she didn't shrug it aside either.
"Sometimes if it says, 'Don't balance your checkbook that day,' then I don't balance my checkbook that day, just in case." she said.
Linda Black said there was more to horoscopes than entertaining speculation. She has made a career fromforecasting the future in horoscopes appearing in newspapers across the country, including the Kansan. Based in Cambria, Calif., Black has been charting the position of the sun, moon, signs and planets since the early '70s.
It is a serious business to Black, who took an eight-hour exam to prove her charting and calculating abilities to earn certification from the American Federation of Astrologers.
Black said she hoped that readers gained a different perspective on their lives by reading her horoscope. But she stressed that they were only predictions and should not have been used as an excuse to make life decisions.
"Horoscopes are like the weather report," she said. "They are about that accurate, too. If you don't take a raincoat with you, that is not my fault. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, that's not my fault either."
Black said she believed that the field of astrology was valid because of theories concerning magnetic fields in space. She explained that these fields floated in relation to the gravitational pull of the sun, moon and the outer planets.
Stephen Shaw, professor of astronomy, viewed the theory with contempt.
"It's a bunch of crap." he said
Celestial bodies do have magnetic fields that extend far into space and changes do occur when these magnetic fields come into contact, but that does not mean there is anything to the theory, he said. None of these planets or magnetic activity come close enough to Earth to affect our lives, he said.
"Suppose for a moment there is something to it." Shawl said. "Doesn't that mean that everyone that is born on the same day should be affected the same way?"
Black, however, said she was not shaken by skeptics.
"They are welcome to their opinion," she said. "They don't know what they are talking about. It's okay with me if they are not interested in learning it. It's a big world."
Tyler Wirken / KANSAN
Tom Stidham, assistant director of bands, parks his car on a pile of snow in the parking lot behind Murphy Hall. "Instead of parking illegally, I just parked illogically," Stidham said.
Haskell students climb for class
Parking in a pinch
By Susanna Lööf
Kansan staff writer
Rowena Day's fingers gripped tightly to the plum-sized rock on the wall. Her shaking left foot rested on a slightly bigger rock.
After kicking her right foot through the air, Day located another small rock and climbed up another few feet. Her classmates watching below applauded spontaneously.
Day, Lawrence senior, and her fellow Western Civilization classmates from Haskell Indian Nations University climbed the rock wall in Robinson Center yesterday afternoon instead of spending class analyzing Locke's theories on government. Their professor, Evan Heimlich, who also is a KU graduate student, brought his class to teach them about team spirit and achievement.
"I have two goals with this," he said. "The first is to build a team and teach them to help each other. The second is to get them to challenge themselves, to push their expectations of what they can do."
Doe Guthrie, Haskell sophomore, who quickly made it to the top of the wall, said she thought the climbing exercise helped her realize how far she could reach. She said she had no doubt that she was going to make it to the top.
"I know I can do whatever it takes," she said. "I knew I could make it to the top because I wanted to make it to the top."
Heimlich said that his Western Civilization course followed the same syllabus as KU's Western Civilization program but that his class was different because it paid more attention to the Native-American perspective.
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Clint Sago, Haskell junior, climbs the wall at Robinson Center. Sago's Western Civilization class was doing a team-building exercise.
Another difference is that he sometimes does physical exercises with the class to illustrate different points.
For example, last semester Heimlich took the class on a walk without telling them where they were going. The purpose of the walk was for the students to better understand what the Hebrews went through in the story of Exodus.
However, Heimlich did not want the students to connect the climbing exercise with the material he teaches in the class.
Director Robe to speak at film retrospect
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Hollywood filmmaker Mike Robe has made his living behind the scenes, and Saturday night he will take center stage to receive credit for it.
Robe will receive a Distinguished Kansas Award from Chancellor Robert Hemenway at 8 tomorrow night at the Lied Center. The award is sponsored by KU's Hall Center for the Humanities and the Kansas Department of Commerce and Housing. The tribute is free.
The tribute will feature an introduction
After the film, there will be a casual dialogue with Robe and John Tibbets, associate professor of theatre and film, Andrews said.
by author Scott Turow and a 25-minute film retrospective of Robe's work.
"It will be a conversation between a skilled interviewer and an outstanding filmmaker." Andrews said.
Tibbett said that Robe's return to Kansas was not unusual and that Robe had spoken to his film classes many times in the past. Tibbett said he hoped to bring out Robe's commitment to young artists and the influence Kansas had on him.
"Because of the KU location, I want to bring out his background," Tibbetts said. "I want to bring out the sense of his connection with the area, and how does it shape him, because I think it does."
Robe received an bachelor's degree in journalism from KU in 1966 and a master's degree in broadcast and film in 1967. Before beginning his television writing and directing career in Los Angeles, Robe directed more than 30 documentaries for the BBC and Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Mike Robe
Robe made his television debut with the direction of *With Intent to Kill*, starring
Holly Hunter. Robe has written, directed or produced television films such as Go Toward the Light with Linda Hamilton; Guts and Glory—The Rise and Fall of Oliver North; and the seven-hour CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove.
He is now in Jacksonville, Fla., filming a CBS movie-of-the-week, Father's Day, starring Gregory Harrison.
Robe said he was thrilled and deeply touched by the honor.
"The University of Kansas lives near the core of my heart, even after 20 years in Hollywood," Robe said. "My Midwestern roots always have affected my work."
Robe's tribute is part of "A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of American Film" being held this spring at the University.