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Tuesday, November 15, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU professors create drug abuse program
Athletes learn the risks and alternatives
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
Two KU professors will give you the straight dope on drugs.
Assistant professors of health, physical education and recreation, David Cook and Raymond Tricker, have created a comprehensive drug education program and video cassette detailing the myths and risks of using performance enhancing drugs.
Freshmen athletes are required to take the drug education class HPER 707. Substance Abuse and Prevention, but it is open to all students. The NCAA has financed the production of a series of tapes that will be distributed to all 800 NCAA schools for use in classes.
Cook said the program teaches athletes to make rational decisions about drugs.
"Drugs and the College Athlete," a video prepared by two KU assistant professors of health, physical education and recreation, Raymond Tricker, left, and David Cook, is being distributed to NCAA colleges.
about ogs.
"We don't want them to just say no,
we want them to say, 'No, because I
have a better way,'" Cook said.
"Otherwise, it's just an emotional
decision."
decision.
A concern for the effects of drug testing without education led to the program. Cook said.
"Athletes were being tested and not being taught," he said. "Sure, testing is a deterrent, but there needs to be something else."
to be something else.
Sherlanda Brooks, a member of the track team, said she plans to take the course.
"Women especially don't know what they are doing to their bodies with drugs," said Brooks, a Chicago sophomore. "If they plan to have children, they could really be hurting themselves."
students.
After training in the program, athletes used the information they learned in class and spoke to elementary and junior high school students. Cook said.
themselves.
The program outlines the truths and myths about drugs and their effects, as well as the risks and alternatives, Cook said. By focusing on truth and education, rather than scare tactics, Cook said the program had met with positive responses from students.
"Some of the children had incredible problems."
"Those little kids asked some tough questions. They said things like, 'My parents get drunk every night and beat me,'" Cook said.
Although the athletes could not answer every question, they helped the children understand that they had choices, Cook said.
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Students in the program have responded well to the school visits. Many have offered to do more presentations at other schools, Cook said.
"Those kids really made an impression on them," he said. "There's no way to tell a kid to say no, when you're saying yes. They made them solidify their position and they came back with a solid philosophy."
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Tricker said the athletes take a test before and after the program that measures their attitude toward drug education. Athletes invariably finish the program with a more positive attitude, he said.
About 150 students have gone through the program, which has run for about a year and a half. It has been so successful that the NCAA agreed to finance the production of "Athletes at Risk," "Drugs and Ath-
"The NCAA put up the money and said they were making 1,200 copies," Tricker said.
letie Performance," "Recreational Drugs" and "Prevention and Intervention," a video project directed by Cook and Tricker.
Tricker said. Tricker said the NCAA would be sending copies to every athletic director at every member institution.
notables as former Kansas All-American Danny Manning, Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne, Penn State coach Joe Paterno and UCLA football coach, Terry Donohue, Tricker said.
In a national survey conducted by himself and Cook, Tricker said less than 5 percent of the nation's universities had a drug education program.
The video series features such
reflected the need for such a program. Tricker said he decided to take a fresh approach to the problem.
"If our aim was to cure the ones in society who are addicted, we'd be aiming in the wrong direction," he said. "Most of the people in society aren't drug addicts, and we're trying to get that majority to take their heads out of the sand."
Housing repairs planned for break
Bv Jeremy Kohn
Kansan staff writer
Because the results of the survey
Student housing residents with leaky faucets, clipped paint or other maintenance problems are invited to plan their winter break repairs with housing officials.
housing officials.
Terron Jones, associate director of student housing and head of housing maintenance, said that residence hall directors, hall managers and some maintenance officials have made about 2.300 maintenance requests for the "winter break maintenance blitz." A final list of the planned work will be ready in about two weeks, he said.
be ready in about two weeks, he said. Jones said that the current request list was from only housing officials and invited students to call him if they needed work done.
him if they needed work done.
"If students want to talk about specific problems, they can set up an appointment or contact us," he said.
Jones said that from Dec. 27 through Jan. 13, housing maintenance will repair electric, plumbing, refrigeration, furniture and kitchen problems in the Jayahawk Towers, Stuuffer Place, and the residence halls and scholarship halls.
The final list will include only the most important requests. Jones said.
He said the winter break was a perfect time to do the repairs because the residence halls would be vacant. Without special permission from the housing department, no one can live in the residence halls during winter break.
"These are the unique times to get into the buildings and fix problems," Jones said. "And that's anything from a missing screen to a hook missing in the closet to a leaky faucet."
"You take the most serious things that need to be done, and do those," he said. "You don't have the manpower, you don't the resources to fix all the requests."
Kim Madda, Oak Brook, Ill., freshman at Hashing Hall, and other residence hall students said they were impressed with Jones' invitation.
"I think that shows he really cares about what we have to say." Madda said.
we have to say.
Coleen Downey, Little Rock, Ark., freshman at Mills College, Hall, said that talking directly to maintenance officials would be more effective than requesting work through the hall manager, which is the normal procedure for maintenance requests in residence halls.
"Sometimes when we complain, we feel that it is in vain," Dodson said.
She said housing officials waited from late August to early October before they cleaned a splattered egg from her residence hall room window.
Other officials students can contact are Marion Temple, assistant director of student housing; Don McConnell, assistant director of student housing; Jeff Carmody, assistant director of student housing and head of custodial services and Carol V Tersch, coordinator of planned hall improvements.
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