CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 22.1993
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Valerie Bontrager / KANSAN
Careful craft
Harold Fakhouy, a glass blower, works with a glass tube for the chemistry department at the University. Fakhouy has been working at KU for 22 years. He produces the glassware used by chemistry labs throughout the state.
Watkins offers influenza shot
In October, the Kansas Jayhawk football team will take time out of their busy schedule to stalk a different kind of opponent - the flu.
All 100 players are required to receive a vaccine to safeguard the team from acute influenza, commonly known as the flu.
"The shot really isn't that bad," said Dan Eichloff, Ft. Lauderdale senior and kicker. "Just like drug testing, it's a pain in the neck. I guess they just want to prevent us from not being able to play."
Will not reduce chance of catching the common cold By Liz Klinger
Watkins Memorial Health Center will offer flu shots that cost $6.50 beginning Oct. 1. Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said the vaccine would protect students only from the flu and not the common cold.
"The flu is a very specific viral illness characterized by the sudden onset of severe headaches, severe sore throat, dry cough, severe muscle aches and fever," Yockey said. "That's what the flu shot prevents. It does not prevent the common cold, strep throat, sinus infections, pneumonia, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea."
Yockey said it was common for people to refer to a cold as the flu. But the true influenza virus is not that common.
By Liz Kinger
Kansan staff writer
Someone experiencing flu symptoms will feel them immediately, Yockey said.
Flu vaccines have been around since the 1960s. Each year a flu vaccine is prepared containing small doses of the viruses predicted to be prevalent that year, he said.
"It hits you like a train," Yockey said. While a person with the flu will know the exact time they became sick, someone with a common cold may become gradually worse during the next few days.
Watkins chief pharmacist John Baughman said the health center would offer a vaccine this year that would immunize a student against three different viruses: A/Texas, A/Being and BPana.
Last year 450 students got flu shots. Between the end of November and spring break, Watkins typically sees several hundred students with acute influenza. Yockey said.
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Yockey said the key to the vaccine's success was giving a person a large enough dose of the virus to form antibodies but not enough of it to make them sick.
Students who are typically healthy will usually recover from the flu within seven days. Yockey said health care professionals urged people over the age of 65 and those afflicted with congestive heart failure, emphysema, diabetes and cancer to get flu shots. The virus could prove fatal to a persons in these conditions.
General counsel, GTA representative to call witnesses
Testimony in the KU graduate teaching assistant status hearings continues today.
GTA representative Scott Stone is expected to call two witnesses, including administrative officer Jane Garrett of the department of English, before resting his case.
Yesterday, the University heard from its first witness. Betty Soppelsa, director of the Applied English Center.
University assistant general counsel Karen Dutcher said she anticipated presenting Howard Mossberg, dean of the graduate school, as her first witness. Two faculty members also are tentatively scheduled to testify for the University today.
Three GTA witnesses, including John Davidson, professor of physics and astronomy, and GTA Kathleen Chatman, also testified yesterday.
She testified that GTAs who taught in the English center received both practical teaching experience and income.
Hearing examiner Monty Bertelli said he expected the hearings to continue into the middle of next week.
Two teens charged in murder
Two more Topeka teenagers have been charged with murder and attempted robbery in the shooting death of a Lawrence man on Saturday.
Courtney Crockett and James Wadley, both 17, made their first appearance in court yesterday. Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Wells said the two were held on $500,000 bond at the Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention Center. A hearing will be held later to determine whether they will be tried as adults. Wells said his office had decided not to charge one of the suspects at this time.
Abraham Orr, 17, has been charged with murder and attempted robbery and is being held in the Douglas County Jail on a $500,000 bond. His next appearance in court will be Monday. Orr will be tried as an adult based on two prior offenses in Shawnee County. The four teenagers were arrested Saturday in connection with the shooting death of Edward Lees, 29, during an attempted carjacking in Riverfront Park.
Owner of Gumby's apologizes to Haskell
By Carlos Tejada Kansan staff writer
Brian Sipp,part owner of Gumby's Pizza faced an angry crowd at Haskell Indian Nations University last night.
Sipp sippe to about 150 people at Haskell Auditorium to answer charges that Gumby's, 1445 W. 23rd St., discriminates against American Indians. The charges led to a boycott of Gumby's last Wednesday.
"I feel rotten," Sipp said. "I feel bad for everybody. From the bottom of my heart, it's going to be corrected."
The owner of Checkers Foods, Jim Lewis, declined to appear and answer similar charges against the grocery store.
Checkers, 2300 Louisiana St., was
accused of illegally searching a Haskell student, Patrick West, Haskell sophomore and vice president of the Campus Activities Association, said some students had hired an attorney who would sue Checkers if the student was not cleared of all charges at a Sept. 30 hearing.
Although some Haskell students publicly praised Sipp for appearing, most were not satisfied with his answers.
"This is not an individual you're talking to," Regina Grass, Haskell sophomore and president of the Campus Activities Association, after Sipp said he could not please all individuals. "This is Haskell Indian Nations University you're talking to."
The adductor apppause.
The bovcott begin when Missy Willie.
former Haskell student and a former manager at Gumby's, told Haskell students last week that a cook mocked Haskell in front of her and performed the Tomahawk Chop when Haskell students ordered pizza. Willie also said certain managers sent drivers to deliver to other customers before delivering to Haskell dormitories.
Sipp said he was contemplating firing the cook.
Sipp also said he had met with the managers and they had told him they followed policy. He said Gumby's policy was to deliver pizzas in the order they were called in, regardless of location.
The crowd demanded that Sipp fire the cook, and some compared performing the Tomahawk Chop to wearing Ku Klux Klan
symbols.
Students also complained about rudeness from Gumby's managers and neglecting to put Haskell on the Gumby's T-shirt. The Gumby's shirt lists the universities that the Gumby's chain delivers to throughout the nation.
Sipp said Haskell would soon be added to the shirts. He also said he would buy ads in local publications to apologize.
Bob Martin, Haskell president, said he would support the boycott if the Haskell Student Senate or some other group made it official.
"If the Student Senate and the student body made the decision to boycott those businesses, from what I've heard tonight, I'd support you," he said.
Spanish-speaking community growing in Kansas
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
Puede hablar español?
If you can speak Spanish, then you are part of a growing community, said Eva Pereira, director of the Kansas Advisory Commission for Hispanic Affairs. The number of Spanish speakers in the state has been traditionally low, she said, but recent trends have sent the numbers higher.
"The southwestern part of Kansas is 10 percent Hispanic," Pereira said. "We're taking over the southwest quadrant."
And because the job requires a low amount of training and pays relatively poorly, untrained Hispanics from Mexico, Central America and the southwestern United States have flocked to take the jobs, she said.
The reasons are economic, she said. Meat-packing plants in Garden City, in southwestern Kansas, have experienced major growth in business. Pereira said the growth had required that the plants hire more workers.
Pereira said that more than 62,000 Kansans speak Spanish. She also said almost a fifth of them speak little or no English.
The numbers have given Hispanics political power, she said. Hispanic legislators such as House minority leader Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, have helped pass laws that require interpreters for Spanish speakers in fields such as health care and law enforcement.
"Now that we have legislation in the state, when they ask for something in Spanish they have a little bit of clout," Pereira said.
Most Spanish speakers choose to continue speaking Spanish despite the disadvantages of living in an English-speaking country, said Octavio Hinojosa, Hutchinson senior and president of the Hispanic-American Leadership Organization.
“It’s a matter of my self-esteem,” said Hinojosa, who speaks Portuguese and French in addition to English and Spanish. “To be able to speak Spanish is just something extra.”
It was not always so, he said. In kindergarten and grade school, he quickly realized speaking Spanish set him apart
"I felt like I wasn't like everybody else." Hinojosa said. "Looking back it was stupid, but I wanted to be like everybody else."
Hinojosa said that his mother soon realized what was happening and hired a Spanish tutor during their summer
Where Spanish is heard
Spanish speakers who speak little or no English
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Spanish, spoken by more than 62,000 Kansans, is the state's second language. The meat-packing industry near Garden City recently has drawn Spanish speakers from the American Southwest and Latin America.
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vacations in Mexico. Now, Hinojosa said, he is glad he learned to speak Spanish fluently.
Carmen Urdaneta, Topeka senior, said being bilingual helped her stay in touch with her family.
"All my relatives are in Venezuela, and I like to go back there and I like to sneak with them," she said.
The increasing Spanish-speaking population could help broaden the horizons of Americans who speak only English, Urdaneta said.
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