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DREARY
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 86 No.100
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, March 4. 1976
NU loss drops Hawks closer to Big 8 bottom
See page 9
Ruun retires
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
Jim Ryum, who announced his retirement from the professional track tour, was asked by one reporter whether the media had
been fair to Ryun or had caused problems for him. Ryun said, "I don't think it was a problem for me," problems I think I've enjoyed working with the media.
Injury, Jesus lead Ryun to retire
By KEN STONE
Associate Sports Editor
James Ronald Ryun entered the Trophy Room in the Allen Field House annex yesterday morning, passed through a building and turned around to down and remarked, "Is this for real?"
The former University of Kansas distance star then tied a small microphone around his collar and said, "I thought probably the best thing to do, to sort of bring this all to a conclusion, is I've decided to retire from actively running with the professional track
Amid the whir and clicking of cameras, Kyun explained why, at the age of 28, he had been stabbed in the chest by a bullet.
"AT THE OUTSET," he said, "I should say this is going to sound like a Billy Graham crusade or a witness or a testimony, but it's the only way I can truthfully be able to share with you the conclusion I've come to."
Beginning with his decision to "accept Jesus as my personal savior," Ryun described a series of events that brought him to the 10 a.m. press conference.
"About six months ago," he said, "I made the decision to return to Kansas and to get into heavy training, and to make a decision to whether I could run well this year."
"I felt that if I was to run, I had to run to my highest potential. I had a lot of training to do, so we [his family] packed our things and came back here."
"IF THAD decided to retire at that point, it would have been a very difficult decision because I still depended on running. It was a central part of my life."
Ryan then began training with the KU cross country team, under his former high
school and college coach, Bob Timmons. He said he felt he was making good progress.
But on Feb. 20, at the first meet of the International Track Association (ITA) season in Salt Lake City, he reinjured his Achilles' tendon.
Ryun said that, unlike the feeling of despondency he usually had after a bad race. "At that point I felt (a tremendous peace about the whole thing)."
Ryan said God spoke to him while he was praying a short time after the Lake City State
"About a week ago, he spoke to me and gave me some words: 'You've fought the good fight, you've run a good race. It's finished.' I remember I broke down and cried at that point. It was the total release that, through the years, I hadn't.
"IF THAD walked away from it (racing)
six months ago, I would have been very
antagonistic toward it, but I can leave and
retire now, knowing there's a great amount
Ryun also denied an interest in a KU assistant track coach's job that has been vacant since Thad Talley resigned last week.
"Contra to the speculation, I won't be taking over the role of assistant coach here," he said. "I really don't know what he has learned from us. He has the victory, and is leading my life."
Ryun was one of the original seven track albums to sign with the TIA when it began in 1967.
"I Mike was sorry to see me retire. He offered me a chance to come back later to compete. But there wasn't any pressure from him, like我 me change my decision."
"I don't leave professional track with bitterness," Ryan said. "I've had a lot of fun with it. I wish it a lot of success and I hope it succeeds."
THE KANSAS runner, who had a hand in six world records while he was a KU student
between 1965 and 1969, reported the reaction of Mike O'Hara, the TTA organizer.
See RUNNER page 7
Faculty and OOE raises cut by House committee
By SHERI BALDWIN
TOPEKA—The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday voted to cut merit faculty salary increases to 8 per cent and increase operating expenditures (OE) to 10 per cent.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett, the Board of Regents and University of Kansas administrators had requested a 10 per cent increase in OEE expenditures.
Del Shanker, executive vice chancellor,
said, "I had hoped we were going to get the 10 per cent. I think we made an adequate and a strong justification.
"I'm pleased they came up to 8 per cent from the earlier lower figure (5 per cent) some legislators had talked about, but 8 per cent more need to keep up with the grapples of infiltration.
SHANKEL SAID KU administrators would begin preliminary distribution processes today to allocate the expected budget for the Lawrence campus.
Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, made the motion for a 9 per cent faculty salary increase at Fort Hays State College and an 8 per cent increase at the other Regents institutions. Fort Hays was an exception because there were the lowest of the state schools.
Rep. Kefir Farrar, R-Hugoton, made a substitute motion of a 6 per cent salary increase for all schools but Fort Hays, for which he recommended a 7 per cent increase. Farrar said he would rather have an amount of 5 per cent. The motion was defeated.
Farrar said a letter he'd requested from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had convinced him many of the faculty weren't being lost at KU because of inadequate salaries.
"ONLY 10 OF 40 who resigned in 1975
stated salary as the reason. That's a very small percentage of the faculty there." he
But Rep. Bent Foster, R-Wichita, said the letter was a persuasive argument for faculty recommendations, and showed that faculty engaged and affected the retention of faculty at KU
Dykes' letter included a study that contrasted the number of faculty leaving for financial reasons from 1972 and 1975 with the total number of faculty leaving
FOSTER ALSO said he thought the reason the number of faculty leaving in 1975 was greater was that they were relying on the legislature to keep its commitment. By funding the third year of a Regents plan to upgrade faculty salaries with 10 per cent for new graduate universities and 11 per cent for the colleges, the commitment would be kept, he said.
Hayden made a substitute motion to exclude the KU Medical Center from the 10 per cent OOE increase until needs there could be studied further by a subcommittee. He agreed that the Med Center might receive an OOE increase of more than 10 per cent.
Although the committee cut Bennett's major recommendations on the salary and OOE issues, it increased other smaller items over Bennett's proposals.
BENNETT HAD recommended that $400,000 for library improvements be allocated to the schools on the basis of annual expenditures excluded Kansas State College at Pittsburgh.
The committee approved $130,000 for KU;
$85,000 for Kansas State University and
Wichita State University; $40,000 for Fort
Buckingham State College; $30,000 for PU-Sharsky.
Bennett's recommendations for KU was $166,000.
The committee rejected proposals to fund women's athletics, faculty research and classified positions on the basis of one for every three current unclassified positions.
The replacement of obsolete equipment also was rejected by the committee. KU had requested 1 per cent of its equipment inventory, which is $154,069.
ACTION WAS delayed on additional funding for utilities until updated reports of costs are received from state institutions later this month.
KU requested $1,029.018 to cover fiscal utility costs. Benns recommended $372.767.
The committee voted unanimously for wage increases for student employees that enable state institutions to continue paying payroll taxes when they increase to $2.30 Jan. 1, 1977.
An interim study committee was approved to analyze computer systems at the KREU system. The committee adequate to receive state funding. It was recommended that future computer requests be presented by line item in next week's meeting of being included in the OOE budget.
THE COMMITTEE cut K-State's computer allocation from $14,000 to $18,000; give $1,000 to Wichita State; $20,000 to Pittsburgh; and $5,000 to Fort Hays.
KU didn't request computer funding because of funds received earlier for the new IBM and Honeywell systems, for which contracts are now being negotiated.
Construction funds of $2,700,000 have been requested for the new computation center, however, and should be discussed by the teachers as a consider individual school budgets next week.
Tasheff proposes abolishing treasurer's office
Plans to eliminate the office of student body treasurer, appointment of a Satellite Union Task Force, and Student Senate members. Insolvencies were announced yesterday.
Teddie Tasheff, student body president, said she would introduce a bill at the Senate's March 24 meeting to abolish the treasurer's office. She said the current John House, had resigned, effective April 2, to look for the way to abolition of the office.
House said he hadn't resigned, but had merely sent Tashef a memorial telling her that his term expired April 1. He said he hadn't planned on replaying for the position, to which he was appointed a year ago.
Tasheff said her proposal would give the treasurer's policy-making power to StudEx and the responsibility of coor- treasury activities to the StudEx chairman.
"The persons who make the decisions will be those who know more about the groups," she said. "Instead of one person making the decisions, financial matters, StudEx will."
Tasheff said the bookkeeping, which was
done by the assistant treasurer, would remain the same.
It was also announced that Ed Rolfs, Junction City senior and former student counselor for the University of Texas at Santa Cruz and the Satellite Union Task Force, Julia Ruggs, Prairie Village freshman; Harry Wigner, Ladlei junior; Jon Josserand, Johnson Jr.; Kevin Lawrence, Lawrence junior, also appeared.
The task force will work with Union committees to determine the range, nature and costs of services and facilities in the satellite union.
It also will prepare reports and keep the Senate informed of the activities of the Union Memorial Corporation Board and its committees.
Also yesterday Tashfeff officially charged duties to the seven standing committees, to which Senators and non-Senators will be assigned.
Applications are due tomorrow for the committees, the University Judiciary Board, the university Events Committee, the Senate's executive secretary, public relations director and complaint service director. All students may apply.
The Academic Affairs Committee has been charged with a variety of concerns. It
The committee will investigate the 20 per cent student representation on policy-making, and will work with the Students' Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee by forming a task force to get better student for代表 representatives, she said.
Tasheff recommended that the Communications Committee develop a speaking schedule for Senators who constituents focus on focusing groups to discuss ideas and issues.
The committee is to create a liaison with government representatives, work on statewide activities, publish a brochure on student government and work with the University Daily Kansan and KJHK-FM on operational problems.
The Culture Committee has been charged with looking into the bar situation at 14th Street, where an officer was found to have
It also will research the advising system at the University, investigate the plans for pre-enrollment and look into the problem of grade inflation, she said.
Tasheff recommended that the student rights committee work on the 20 per cent representation issue and, if a lack of compliance with the rule is discovered, consider enforcement through University Judiciary.
The committee should also monitor the application of affirmative action guidelines, publish a sheet detailing the effect of the Buckley Amendment and handle general "house cleaning" of the Senate rules and regulations.
will have the opportunity, Tasheff said, to develop a section in the Curriculum and Instruction Survey that will help students select classes.
The committee also must audit the inventory purchases made by the Senate and be responsible for other auditing procedures.
The Student Services Committee has been charged with implementing a paper recycling program in the residence halls, helping with the transfer of Work Force to
Lives saved amid chaos
The Finance and Auditing Committee has been charged with supervising the budgeting procedures of the Senate and monitoring the use of the student activity
the university Chamber Series and the University Concert Series and working to improve the publication of cultural events on campus.
See SENATE page 5
Bv BILL SNIFFEN
Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.--Emergency facilities at the KU Medical Center are a panorama of controlled chaos done in pictures and sound.
A 77-year old woman, eyes fixed blankly on the ceiling, is wheeled in. She is the little girl at a child's birthday party.
A teenage girl waits to vomit the room. Excedrin she took to kill herself. Her face is blue; her father is a portrait of despair and resignation.
A young man screams with pain and demands that a doctor check his sprained ankle.
"She can't breath very long on her own.
No blood pressure. It doesn't sound like
she's in too good a shape. Snatch her (blood)
pressure in the hall . . ."
And the sounds:
"Did your baby have a fever yesterday?
Do old is he? How much did you give him?"
Last year, the emergency facilities at the Med Center treated 32,461 patients—an average of 80 a day. Of that total, 17,058 were classified as "true" emergencies<sup>1</sup> or "false" emergencies measures. Non-emergencies totaled 15,852; and 2,001 patients were return visits.
"AND SHE'S how old? Have you been
before? Last name. First. Middle
initiative."
The only typical about an "average day" at the emergency facilities is that it's full of surprises, says Collette Head, nurse from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends.
THE LOG of patients treated from 7 a.m.
Friday to 7 a.m. Saturday reads like a dictionary of medical problems. In included in that 24-hour period were four cases requiring psychiatric attention, three ear infections, two meningitis and miscarriages, one patient who was dead on arrival, one case of acute asthma and one rape.
The man was referred to a psychiatrist, who also played along. Poster said. The patient was suffering from a lack of blood to run, a common problem of old age, she said.
"There were some people who came up to the desk," she said. "With them was an elderly gentleman who was so well-dressed. He had on a vest; he even had on spats.
"THE HANDED me this note which
THEY HANDED me play along. He thinks he's here
to play."
Several years ago, she said, a chlorine tank at a swimming pool ruptured, she said. Six children were taken to the emergency facilities; all required oxygen.
"You think, 'This is really weird,' and you'll have a good laugh about it. But then you'll stop and think, and you can't laugh." Elizabeth Jobe, head nurse of the Med Center's emergency facilities, remembers two more serious cases.
And there are less common problems as well. Poster said. One of the most unusual mistakes is to overestimate your score.
Cases such as his are only half-funny, she said.
THE TOTAL number of children
requiring oxygen climbed to 47, she said, as more were rushed in.
More recently, a train deraliment sent 27 persons to KU's emergency facilities, she said. A lot of those victims were "crunches" the nickname for persons suffering from three or more physiological disorders. As a result, a crunch could require an orthopedic (bene) surgeon, a neurosurgeon and a general surgeon. Jobe
"It all went like clockwork as far as getting everything organized." Jobe said. "That's the main thing in any disaster situation—organization."
In crisis situations, an emergency room nurse can 'give to pieces', Jobe said, because she is always on call.
FOSTER SAID her reactions to crisis situations were automatic.
"It's just bing-bing-bing-bing. You don't even stop and think about it."
Because emergency room (E. R.) nurses have to be calm during crisis situations, many people think they are cold-hearted, Jobe said.
"That isn't the way it is at all," she said. "They (E, R. nurses) like to take care of these patients—patients who need immediate and lots of care to live."
After a crisis, whether it involved one person or several, the doctors and nurses must decide what to do.
See CONTROLLED page 7
"THAT'S WHEN a nurse lets her hair down," she said. "Usually you'll get together with the doctors and nurses and hash over the case. Get your mind off it."
Emergency
Emergency KU Med Center Emergency Facilities. Medical problems brought an elderly woman with a fractured hip is given top priority at the here range from colds to heart attacks.