UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 7,1995
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Homesick? You're not alone
Missing loved ones causes emotional, physical pain
By Phillip Brownlee Kansan staff writer
Seeing family and friends on Parents Day was a double-edged sword for Hilary Johnston.
Photo illustration by Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
"I wished I had gone home with them," she said.
On one hand, the Belleville, Ill., freshman loved carcing up with her friends and showing her family around campus.
But on the other hand, Johnston felt miserable when everyone left.
Johnston was feeling the heartache of homesickness, an emotional and sometimes physical condition experienced by many KU students.
"It's a common problem," said Linda Keeler, psychiatrist for KU Counseling and Psychological Services. "It's perfectly normal to miss things that are familiar."
Homesickness becomes an increasing problem for KU students as the semester progresses and family and friends visit. The emotional strain can cause physical problems in some students.
To deal with homesickness, Keeler said she recommended that students create structure and regular routines for eating, sleeping and leisure activities.
Alinee Felix, Wichita freshman, said structure and keeping busy helped her keep her mind off what she missed most — her boyfriend.
"Structure can give you a way to go on when you're not feeling good," she said.
"Whenever I walk around campus and see people holding hands, I'll start missing him more," she said.
Keeler also recommends paying attention to what time of the day or week was particularly distressing, then finding ways to combat those down times.
Johnston said her worst times were the weekends when she was by herself.
"My friends here have gone home, and I'm left alone thinking about my friends back home," she said.
When this happens, talking to others is often the best antidote, Keeler said.
"Often other people have had those feelings in their lives and can identify with them," she said.
Johnston said sharing with friends had helped her
Johnston said sharing with friends had helped her "We get together and have our cries." she said
"We get together and have our cries," she said
But homesickness can be more serious than occasional tears. Sometimes it has physical consequences.
"It's a real problem," said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center. "It usually has stress-related symptoms, such as headaches, insomnia, upset stomach, diarrhea and occasionally hives."
Yockey said his staff told students that homesickness was the cause of the symptoms and made suggestions for managing the stress.
But whether it's physical or emotional, homesickness can cast a dark, cold shadow, leaving a sense of emptiness that isn't easy to shake.
"It's a feeling of being alone in a place you're not used to," Johnston said.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
AXIOMS TO REMEMBER FOR COPING WITH HOME-
SICKNESS
Home still will be there when you return.
Develop healthy habits of coping.
Remember to eat.
Don't be afraid to let others know that you are struggling.
Get psychological or medical help if you're truly miserable
Company urges FDA to approve AIDS drug
The Associated Press
SILVER SPRING, Md. — An experimental AIDS drug safely boosts the effect of the standard treatment AZT so much that the combination should be tried routinely before AZT alone, a drug company told government scientists yesterday.
The advisory panel of scientists is deciding whether to recommend Food and Drug Administration approval for Glaxo Wellcome to sell the drug 3TC for use in a combination AIDS therapy for adults and children.
Early data support the argument for initial aggressive therapy, said Glaxo
research chief Marc Rubin. "3TC-AZT was consistently associated with a greater and more sustained response."
And patients who used the combination before trying AZT alone did best. he said.
The experimental drug is in the same family as AZT, the standard therapy. These drugs work by blocking a protein vital in the early reproduction phase of HIV, the AIDS virus.
But patients develop resistance to AZT's effect rapidly. Early data indicate that adding 3TC to AZT postpones that resistance — and might even restore AZT sensitivity in some patients, Glaxo said.
Tests of several hundred patients show the combination boosts the level of vital immune cells called CD4. It also reduces the amount of HIV in the blood by 85 percent to 92 percent, a drop that lasts at least six months, Glaxo said.
In adults, 3TC does not appear to cause more side effects than AZT alone. But in children, it's possible that the combination causes dangerous pancreatitis, the tests indicated.
pany wants to sell 3TC not only to obviously sick people in later stages of AIDS but also to healthier people infected by HIV.
Glaxo is seeking approval under a special FDA program that allows drugs for fatal diseases to undergo less rigorous testing than usually required. The com-
AIDS activists support the drug but urge caution in its use.
Some criticized Glaxo for not conducting tests to see whether 3TC works equally well in both early and advanced patients and to determine the best time to start taking it.
"Just find out when I am supposed to start taking therapy and if that is going to help me live a longer life," said David Barr of the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Rabin assassin defends killing
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — Yltzhak Rabin's confessed assassin told a judge yesterday he made a cold-hearted decision to kill the prime minister to stop the peace process.
Police were investigating whether Yigal Amir and his older brother were part of a right-wing conspiracy.
Magistrate Dan Arbel ordered Amir, 25, held for 15 days as the investigation continued. His 27-year-old brother, Hagai Amir, who admitted giving Yigal 20 bullets of the type used to shoot Rabin, was ordered held for seven days.
Unshaven and clad in the same clothes and skullcap he wore when he fired the fatal shots Saturday night, Yigal Amir told the judge he drew his ideas from the Halacha — the Jewish legal code.
"According to the Halacha, you can kill the enemy," he said. "My whole life, I learned Halacha. When you kill in war, it is an act that is allowed."
In an even tone, Amir described the shooting. "I tried to get as close as I could," he said. "The police jumped on me and hit the pistol.
"I did this to stop the peace process," he said. "We need to be coldhearted."
The judge asked Amir whether he acted alone. "It was God." Amir replied.
Hagal Amir said at a separate hearing that his brother had asked him several times whom he should kill to stop the Middle East peace process. He said Yigal Amir also had reported to him his two aborted plans to assassinate Rabin.
Hagai Amir said he had modified 20.9mm bullets to make them more accurate by boring holes in them to insert iron pellets. He said he had given some to his brother. One of the bullets removed from Rabin's body was the modified type, Israel radio quoted police as saving.
Hagai Amir denied knowing that his brother planned to kill Rabin and said he hadn't known the bullets were intended for murder.
A police representative said investigators were trying to determine whether the brothers acted in the service of the Kahana Chai movement — an offshoot of the outlawed Kach movement founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Hagai Amir denied any membership in radical groups, but he and his brother are known to have connections with such groups and with far-right settlers in the West Bank.
Security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Yigal Amir was believed to be close to the radical group Eval.
Police have questioned several dozen known Jewish militants and are seeking to question others who have gone into hiding.
Yigal Amir faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted of the killing. The death penalty in Israel is reserved for those convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Authorities said his brother, Hagai Amir, could be charged with not preventing a murder and assisting in the planning of a murder.
Haskell students find transition to KU to be rocky at times
Native-American group advisers ease the move
By Hannah Naughton
Kansan staff writer
The path that leads from Haskell Indian Nations University to the University of Kansas is becoming more crowded.
More students are going to KU after graduating or transferring from Haskell. However, the transition between the two schools sometimes is rocky because of the difference in schools.
"I felt lost up there," said Yolanda Riddle, Wichita junior. "I was over-whelmed."
Riddle attended Haskell from Fall 1990 through Spring 1992. She then attended KU in the fall but withdrew the same semester.
"I didn't know anybody, and there weren't as many native students," Riddle said. "At Haskell, it is like a big family. The teaching styles were different, too. I had to learn to incorporate native views and native ways into my own learning."
Riddle said she had to regroup before trying KU again, which she did by returning to Haskell for a semester. She returned to KU this semester.
"The support is better," she said. "I have better networking with more native students. Also, I'm in the Native American Student Association. I meet a lot of native students there."
Riddle said she thought relations were improved between Haskell and KU in the past three years. A task force was created in 1992 in the Office of Academic Affairs to evaluate KU-Haskell relations, said
Hannes Combest, executive education assistant to the president at Haskell.
Riddle said that places like the Multicultural Resource Center and a stronger Native-American student organization helped build support.
James said that many factors could have contributed to the difficulty of her move. One reason could have been the difference in cultures, going from an all Native-American population to the mixed population at KU. Another could be attributed to the difference in school size, she said.
"I thought my transition would be really easy," said Bessie James, Carnegie, Okla., junior and president of the Native American Student Association. "It was really hard. I don't know what it was, but now I'm used to it."
KU is more demanding, while
Haskell is more laid back, she said.
James said the McNair scholar's program helped her in her move. Through the program she meets with an adviser regularly to discuss problems she encounters at the University. She said that she also was aided by the Office of Minority Affairs.
"To me, they really have opened their doors to minorities," James said.
Melissa Miera, Sioux City, Iowa,
Junior, graduated from Haskell and
transferred to KU last spring.
"I've always known, since I was a junior in high school, that I would go to Haskell and then transfer to KU," she said.
Miera said that Haskell enlightened her about the different traditions and cultures of other tribes. Although she did go to public schools before going to Haskell, she
had culture shock after she came to KU.
"Haskell is a smaller school, you know more of the people," Miera said. "There was this coldness. You didn't really approach anyone, and no one approached you. People were too busy getting to classes to stop and talk."
Miera said that her adviser at Haskell, who had been a KU student, helped her prepare for the change by telling her which classes would transfer and help her at KU.
The Native American Student Association also helped make the transition smoother, she said.
Miera said that although she liked KU, she missed Haskell's personal touch.
Riddle agreed.
"Although KU isn't fully like that, I'm very proud to be a Jayhawk."
The beaten path from Haskell to KU
The move of students from Haskell to KU classes has increased over the past five years. Enrollment of Native students on the whole is growing as well.
Students who reported Haskell as the institution last attended before KU
Fall 1991 45 students
Fall 1992 47 students
Fall 1993 41 students
Fall 1994 50 students
Fall 1995 74 students
Native-American enrollment at KU over the next five years.
Riddle said. "Maybe I have a better connection and more support as compared to three years ago."