University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 31, 1989
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Wanted: Theater education major
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansas staff
Kansan staff writer
Wayne Kruse wanted to teach Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller to high school students. Now he's to teach Dick and Jane to kindergarteners.
The lack of a theater education major at the University of Kansas helped him make that decision.
Kruse, a Herkimer sophomore, wanted to major in theater education. Now he is majoring in elementary education.
"I wanted to teach theater to high school students," Kruse said. "When I was in high school I loved it and had a really good drama teacher. I was really excited about it, and"
"I wouldn't mind doing a theater major and an English minor. I just think it's awful that they're depriving me of what I really want to do."
wanted to teach kids about it so they could
give excited, too.
The School of Education offers a theater education program, but a student cannot major in it. However, a student can major in English and minor in theater education.
were certificates of thee Jeanne Klein, assistant professor of thea
KU did offer a theater education major from about 1985 to 1987, but it was discontinued. John Bushman, professor of secondary language arts in the school, said that there wasn't enough demand in Kansas for teachers who only were certified in theater.
ter and film, said, "The School of Education's rationale is that there are no jobs. My personal opinion is that the students should be allowed to major in whatever they want to major in. They may be told that it will be tough (to get a job) the first year, but they can still choose their own career."
Klein is on the executive board of the Association of Kansas Theaters. She said the Kansas State Theater has Education and training associated to create a theater curriculum for grades K-12.
theater Klein said that North Carolina recently mandated an arts education program that will begin next year in grades K-12. There is similar legislation in Illinois, Washington and Texas.
"In the '90s, there will be an increasing demand for theater teachers." Klein said. "I know that it is hard to find jobs in Kansas with a theater education major now. It's a catch-22 situation. Schools are not going to get the curriculum until they get high-trained teachers. It's a very complicated situation."
Bushman said that the school's goal was to prepare students for Kansas public schools and that there were very few placements for the teacher teachers only. Most of the teachers are used for split assignments, with English and theater being the most common pairing.
Bushman said that if Kansas schools emphasized theater programs more and hired teachers solely for the theater, the University probably would offer a theater education major again.
"I don't see that happening," Bushman said. "I see more schools that are trying to combine programs, not enlarge them."
If it did happen, the University would need a course on the methods of teaching theater, Bushman said. One of the reasons the theater education major was discontinued was because the school didn't have anyone on staff who could teach a methods course.
"Before we would start that as a major again, we would have to see more of a need, and we would need more resources than we presently have," Bushman said.
Genital virus epidemic flares
by Angela Clark Kensean staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Along with the epidemics of measles and mumps in Lawrence, there is an epidemic of genital warts, said Dr. Paul Watkins at Wattkins Memorial Health Center.
HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a virus that causes genital warts and may also cause cervical cancer. The virus invades the cervix and creates a precancerous condition called CIN, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
"There has been a terrific increase in the amount of HPV diagnoses," said Henry Buck, chief of gynecology at Watkins. "Health centers are being deluged. We need to know how to go about diagnosing and treating this virus."
10 solve the problem of diagnosis, an American College Health Association task force, headed by Buck, will publish a manual on HPV.
The task force has been working since last May, Buck said. The document will be designed for all college health providers.
The incidence of the disease is not completely known, Buck said, but the figures from 1983-84 show a 500 percent increase over 1973 figures. In 1984, 245 women and 500 men and almost 200 males have been diagnosed with the disease.
However, Buck said Watkins probably would not see all the cases now
at KU or that may develop here.
Fewer males have HPV. Buck said, because the virus tends to inhabit the cervix.
"The problem is that you don't have to have lesions to spread the disease around," Buck said. "It has a long latent period."
The period between infection and the appearance of the disease can be days, months or even years, Buck said. The disease is invisible to the unaided eye, and testing is strongly recommended.
The disease can show up as genital warts, but the small bumps may not appear in women if the infection is inside the vagina.
"They look like warts, some are a raise in the skin like a pedestal or a small cauliflower head," said Kathy Guth, a nurse clinician at the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department.
Department Buck advocates the use of condoms and spermicide to prevent the spread of HPV.
"Spermicides are there to kill the bugs, and the condom acts as a shoe for the penis. Just like when you walk over sharp stones, you cut your feet"
"Anyone who is not engaged in a mutual, monogamous long-standing relationship should act as if the other one has a problem," he said. "A woman should use a spermicide and a condom both.
you don't wear shoes. The penis can be nicked or cut through entry and create an entry spot for the virus."
Create an entry type for Yet the disease is not caught only through intercourse, Buck said.
"One can get it through non-penitative relations." Buck said. "It is transmittable through finger contact, tanning benches that may be wet, or from things like a wet towel!"
The treatments for the disease are cryotherapy, laser treatment, 5-FU cream and interferon. Cryotherapy freezes the warts and kills the virus. It is the cheapest and most effective treatment for extensive lesions.
This treatment costs $75 at Watkins, but in private offices the treatment can cost $200-$500. Buck said.
This care is desperately needed, Buck said. The disease is progressing faster, and occurring in younger women, than in previous years.
It is recommended that women have annual Pap smears after the age of 18, or earlier if they are sexually active. A Pap smear will pick up evidence of a precancerous condition but is less reliable for HPV, Buck said.
But this is not a problem, because the disease can be treated 85 to 90 percent of the time if it is caught in first or second trimester of life, said the disease may regress, but there is no certainty. Buck said.
Businesses protest new assessments
by Kathy Walsh Kansan staff writer
Kelly Arnold, city management analyst, said the letter informed business owners that the city would pay the workers whose accounts were not paid by Feb. 20.
The city prosecutor on Jan. 23 sent letters to the 110 businesses in the downtown district that have not paid their 1988 Business Improvement District assessments.
BID assessments began in 1988 and have been at the center of debate ever since.
Tom Graves, owner of Kwality Comics, 1111 Massachusetts St., was one of the recipients of the city prosecutor's letter.
Graves said he was protesting BID because, "I get absolutely no benefit from it."
"It is an extortion payment," he said. "It is downright theft."
Susan Millstein, owner of Sunflower Surplus, 842 Massachusetts St. said she did not have a problem with the amount she had been assessed.
But she said she was withholding her payment for another reason.
Business Improvement District
Businesses located downtown pay an extra fee to the city based on the following criteria:
- how many street-front feet they have
- their locations
- their trades
Retailers on Massachusetts Street are assessed a higher rate for front footnote than other locations. The money generated will go toward making the downtown area more attractive.
Source: City of Lawrence
Retail businesses on Massa chusets Street are assessed $15 for each foot of street-front space, to a maximum of $1,250. Retail businesses on other streets in the district are assessed $8 for each foot, Arnot said.
"This year, I am holding back my fee because I see a terrible discrepancy in the way the fees are levied," Millstein said.
Service and professional businesses are assessed a flat fee of $75, Arnold said. The fee is $100 for those located on Massachusetts Street.
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Milstein said fees should reflect the dollar value of the business, not the footage.
Mike Vieux, president of Downtown Lawrence, a Kansas Corporation, said the purpose of HD was to increase the downtown area more attractive.
Vieux said that most of the money collected from BID assessments was used for the 15 to 20 non-retail promotions that Downtown Lawrence had for it. The rest of the money was used for physical improvements, he said.
Monroe Dodd, managing editor of the Kansas City Times, and Jerry Holley, vice president of Stauffer Communications Inc., participate in a panel discussion about media and politics last night 1n Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Panel discusses media, politics
bv Thom Clark
Kansan staff writer
About 100 people gathered in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union •to listen to the four-member panel discuss the media's effect on politics.
"The Electoral College was put in at a time when no fast communication was possible."
He said electoral votes were no longer needed because the media had expanded and could report events more quickly.
Holley said he favored an election that would keep the polls open for 24 hours. He said the most desirable
system would open and close the voting polls at the same time in each time zone.
Holley also said politics had been influenced by political handlers.
media cover what the campaign directors want," Holley said. "Things have changed; television has made that change happen."
Morone Dodd, managing editor of the Kansas City Times, said the public had viewed the media interest candidate Dan Quayle as hounding.
Quayle was a lightweight in matters of national concern, Dodd said. He said the surface harshness of the media's coverage was actually a pursuit of Quayle's position on substantive issues.
Robert Stephan, Kansas attorney general, said Quayle had been
treated fairly by the media.
if treated fairly by the mentors,
"His accomplishments, or lack of,
should be presented to the American
 audience," Stephan said.
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said the media had to make decisions on which issues to cover, although he questioned the means by which to make them accountable.
accountant
"It is inevitable." Cigler said.
"The media can't cover everything,
and they must make some choices."
Pam Holley, student body vice president and daughter of Jerry Holley, said that Student Senate had chosen to sponsor the discussion because it was a current and relevant issue.
"We wanted to select a topic which was of interest to a great deal of people." Holley said.
KU vegetarians seek menu variety
by Candy Niemann
Kansan staff writer
KU's Campus Vegetarian Society is working with Kansas Union Food Services to establish meals for vegetarians.
The society wants to have meals for vegan vegetarians, who do not eat any animal products. Most vegetarians are lacho-voa vegetarians, who eat dairy products and eggs.
Possibly because of their smaller numbers, vegetarian变ives have more difficulty finding a variety of meal choices on campus.
real choices on campus The Kansas and Burge unions and
all residence hills provide alternative meals for vegetarians, but many of the entrees include dairy products and eggs. For vegan vegetarians, this puts even more limits on where they can eat.
they care for Delores Hickenbottom, manager of operations of production for Kansas Union Food Services, said that the Union offered a vegetarian entree and vegetarian soup every day.
"We like to prepare vegetarian dishes, but I don't have a lot of recipes." Hickenbottom said.
Ask. Great Bend senior
At a potluck on Saturday, Ask solicited recipes from members to donate to the Union.
The Campus Vegetarian Society is trying to solve that problem, said Sue
doubt to the culinary But Ask said that vegan vegetarians still had trouble eating meals at residence halls.
RESIDENCE HALLS
All residence halls are on the same vegetarian menu, which rotates every six weeks.
Nona Prescott, cafeteria manager at Hashinger Hall, said that Hasinger had the highest percentage of vegetarians. Between 50 and 75 vegetarian meals are served there each day.
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