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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
RAIN
KANSAN
Vol.86 No.98
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, March 2. 1976
Policy changes help to reduce vandalism rates
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I.Q. group fails to gain following
By JIM COBB
Mensa, an organization of people with high IOS, isn't done well here.
To Join Mensa, a person must have a intelligence in the upper two per cent of the population
Membership in the international group members nearly 20,000 in 150 chapters in the United States. But a recent membership list lists only eight Lawrence members.
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
In 1972, a local chapter was organized by Charles Hartman, lawrenceSenior. He said Sunday that Lawrence was a bad location for a Mensa group because many members were busy students and lived here only temporarily.
Hartman said many different types of people belonged to Mensa, including students, doctors, prison inmates and housewives.
Getting to meet different people was his primary reason for belonging to Mensa, he
BUT ANOTHER member said he had mixed feelings about the organization.
John Trewolla, a research associate for the Bureau of Child Research, said he joined Mesa a year ago because he was curious to see if he would be accepted.
Because of that, Trewolla said, Mensa serves a social need. However, he said he was also "turned off" and uncomfortable at meetings because he was from a middle-class background in which "intellectual games" weren't accepted.
"Mensa provides a place where people can canvas and beat their cheat and show that they are not afraid."
"But that's involved in everything," he said. "If you don't have a healthy lifestyle, you are not."
Hartman said he also thought many Mena era men joined the organization to make mugs.
ALTHOUGH PROUD to be a member, he said, he didn't hang his membership certificate because it would easily be seen. He knew that his friends knew he belonged to Menpa.
Dennis Rorabaugh, a mathematics instructor at Lawrence High School, said he was a member but was too busy to attend meetings or contact other members.
Mensa, which is the Latin word for table, was begun in 1945 in Britain and has members in 14 countries. Most of the Lawrence group activities, before it was disbanded last year, were discussion sessions. Hartman said.
"You might say I'm a closet member," he said. "I had thought myself about it."
HE SAID HE, TOO, joined to see whether he would be accepted. He enjoys reading the national publications of the society, he said, but isn't very interested in the group.
Hartman said he became less involved in the organization in the hope that someone else would assume organizational responsibilities. No one did, he said.
He said he was too busy now with school to do organizational work, but would be interested in attending meetings if someone else reorganized a Lawrence chapter.
the nearest Mena chapter is in Shawne, and plans activities each week. The defunct Lawrence group included members of the university and nearby small towns, Hartman said.
There were about 20 members and nine others interested in joining when the local church was formed.
"IT TURNS A LOT of people on," he said. "Many people have heard of it, but don't know what it is."
anatomy. The anatomy lab is usually crowded because five cadaverys serve about 200 students.
Hartman said many people had bad
Sara Stevenson, Leaward sophomore, poses a question about the dissection process to Bob Chovetti, assistant instructor of
Anatomu lab
Cadaver dissection aids anatomy students in labs
By PAUL SHERBO
Staff Writer
The dead are teaching the living at the University of Kansas.
"It's a lot of hassle. It's a lot of work. But I think the anatomy students really learn anatomy by dissection on human cadavers," Bob Chiovetti Jr., graduate student in charge of anatomy lab assistants, said yesterday.
Chiwetti has been in charge of the assistants for three years. This semester he has been watching about 200 students as they dissect five cadavers.
The cadavers lie in stainless steel cases in the anatomylab on the sixth floor of Snow Hill.
Six fans blow continuously to remove the smell of the formaldehyde. Dark green lockers hold the students' lab coats and dissecting kits.
THREE PLASTIC skeletons hang in different corners of the room. In one corner are some boxes of human bones for study. These uses rest in jars on top of a row of lockers.
The cadmiums are under sheets that smell of formaldehyde, in cases with trays of wax or rubber.
There is a metal tag on the right ear of each cadaver to identify it. One body was 89 at death, two were 86, one was 70 and the other was 43.
There are two ways KU gets cadavers, Chiwietti said. Some people will their bodies for medical use and others die as wards of the state with no family to claim them.
"Lots of times it's interesting because we discover some of the causes of death," Chandler said.
Two of the causes of death were cancer and two were heart problems. One cause of cancer was smoking.
INCONGRUOUSLY, the cadavers wear socks. These are dampened every day to keep the moist because they are the last part of the body dissected. Ochielli said.
The students in the class appear to have handled the obvious problems well, he said.
cadavar dissection, they think, 'Oh my God,
I'm going to be cutting into a human
"A lot of people, when they think of a
But only one student has become ill in the last years. She dropped the class a week later.
"But then, I'd spent a lot of time in the operating room looking at the insides of a patient."
Chiwietti that because he had been a navy hospital corpsman, cadavers had put him in a coma.
"ALL OF THOSE students have to have anatomy to get their degrees, so we're really in a bind," he said. "The students are one I really feel sorry for."
Twelve or 13 students working on each cadaver has made conditions very crowded,
Students majoring in pre-nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and physical education must take the course. No experience with dissection is required
There is no substitute for the dissecting or the tagging and identification of human corpses.
During enrollment week every semester, a few lab assistants drive to the KU Medical Center with a pickup or flatbed truck and pick up five cadavers.
AT THE END of the semester, the body remains are taken back to the Med Center and cremated. Survivors sometimes ask for the ashes.
"They have a better appreciation for how the body works," he said.
After getting used to the cadavers, students sometimes show enthusiasm about the course, Chiwotelli said. One girl brought her parents to watch.
"The only thing we ask is that they not eat the cadavers and do their disrespect."
"It's kind of a desensitization process." Chiovetti said.
"They really enjoyed that," he said.
"Roy, they thought that was the nearest
thing."
STUDENTS WHO have taken the course sometimes forget back without help to help them complete their work.
"They just do it because they like it, I must be said. "I don't know what we'd do here."
Each anatomy dissection lab meets for three hours twice a week. The observation labs, which are for tagging and identification of the body, meet for two hours twice a week.
Books for the lab and lecture cost $74.
Oocovetti said Lab coat costs $74.
Lauper said Lab coat costs $74.
“It’s probably one of the most expensive courses on the hill.” Chiovetti said.
Computer choice announced today
By SHERI BALDWIN
A decision will be announced on the acquisition of computer hardware for an integrated system or two separate systems at the University of Kansas.
One or two companies have been selected by the State Division of Purchasing in Topeka, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
Bids were submitted for a system to handle administrative computer tasks, a system to handle instructional and research systems and an integrated system to handle both.
In addition, administrators are awaiting the outcome of Wednesday's House Wayas and Means subcommittee meetings, at which they will discuss the KU Medical Center will be studied.
The controversial merit salary percentage increase for faculty at the six central universities will begin this week by the entire House Ways and Means Committee. Other operating expenses and capital improvements also will be discussed so that a consistent policy for all faculty will be established.
The subcommittees meet for each of the
sequence schools to make recommendations
to the school administration.
SHANKEL SAID A contract-negotiation stage would follow the announcement of the winning bidder or bidders on the computer system.
Bids for all three systems were submitted by Sperry-Univac, IBM and Honeywell information Systems, Inc., and a bid for Microsoft was submitted. The data was submitted by the Control Data Corp.
A KU Evaluation Task Force studied bids submitted by the companies to evaluate the technical aspects of the various systems, to develop computer models for six years, to study environmental requirements such as what cooling systems are required and to estimate the lifetime of the computers. Such items couldn't be included in the value of the computer companies' bids.
The new computer system should help students by reducing the turn-around time, which is the time between the submission of a program and the return of that program. The turn-around period now takes from two to four hours.
THE COMPUTER companies were asked to bid on systems with specifications that would reduce turn-around time to 10 minutes. The company must run 20 minutes for 90 per cent of their work.
The system also would help to speed the
delivery of information from the computer system to various administrative office
All computer companies were asked to specify in their bids an alternative student records system to KU's present one. Such a system would help computerize pre-enrollment at KU.
Efforts to plan for the computer hardware began in fall 1971. Long-range needs were studied first, computer specifications were tested and evaluated, then analyzed for their actual dollar value
City plans water plant
Acting at the request of Buford Watson, city manager, the commission will vote whether to authorize Black & Veatch, a Kansas City, Ms., engineering firm, to prepare preliminary plans for the facility. The plans would cost $363,000.
The Lawrence City Commission will
the facility at its regular place.
Last Tuesday, Watson told the commission that completed plans would enhance the city's chances of receiving federal aid, if such funds were made available.
He said the facility, which would be built on Dragstrip Road, would treat water from Clinton Reservoir, which is now being built. The facility, he said, would provide an alternative to using water from the Kansas River.
The commission also is expected to authorize Kansas Filibread to repair Bowersock Dam water boards at a cost of about $10,500.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said yesterday that the repairs would increase the water pool behind the dam and provide more water supply, especially during the summer.
In other business, the commission will award $4,000 to the Douglas County Day School.
The funds, which were tentatively allocated Jan. 28, will be matched with federal funds to help support these centers: Hilltop Child Care Center, 1314 Oread; United Child Care Center and Nursery Center, 1316 Indian Center, Haskell Indian Junior College, and Children's Learning Center, Inc., 1000 Kentucky.
Grocery has electronic banking
Staff Writer
By JERRY SEIB
Electronic banking has reached the neighborhood grocery store in Lawrence.
Through the Money-Matic service operated by Capitol Federal Savings and Loan Association and Dillons' Grocery Store, 1740 Massachusetts, customers can do some of their banking with an electronic passcard at the store's service window.
Capitol Federal depositors can make deposits, withdraw up to $300 from their accounts, or cash checks through the computerized service, Dick Holmester, Capitol Federal vice president, said yesterday.
He said the remote banking service was unique in Lawrence, and one of only 13 such banks in the United States.
The heart of a remote banking system is the passcard, Holzmeister said, which Capitol Federal provides its customers in place of the traditional passbook.
EACH PASSCARD contains a magnetically inscribed account number. A
If a customer wants to make a withdrawal, he said, the store telephone the Capitol Federal central computer at the savings and loan's home office in Toneka.
Holzmeister said the computer verified that the customer had sufficient funds in his account for the withdraw. The computer give the balance in any individual account.
Dillon's employees operate the service, but Dillon has no access to balances or other accounts.
HOLZMENTER SAID the Money-Matic service was begun last summer and had been "very well received" by Capitol Federal depositors.
remote service unit at the Dillon's store reads the account number and checks it against a personal identification card that is owned by the person they can then make a deposit or cash a check.
The service allows customers to use their accounts seven days a week in a convenient way.
We did quite a bit of research before
Once the system is established, however,
it is relatively inexpensive to operate, he sa-
des.
Banks, as well as savings and loan associations, could establish such systems, be said, although a bank's operations would be the control of the Federal Reserve System.
Home cooks battle budget
Holzmeister said the remote service was the first step in converting to electronic transport networks.
(Editor's note: In the first
INITIAL COST for establishing the Money-Matic system is high, Holzmiester said, particularly for the transition from passbooks to magnetic passcards.
of a two-part series, the Kansas examines eating habits at the University of Kansas. Today's story concentrates on the cost of eating in apartments and houses.
He said Capitol Federal had applied to the Federal Home Loan Association, a government regulatory agency, for the right to establish another remote unit in one of Capitol Federal's 15 eastern Kansas locations.
Staff Writer
What's for supper?
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In a residence hall, fraternity or sorority, what's cooked and how much it costs are determined by the staff. But in apartments or houses, those responsibilities fall on the
By ANNE SIGMAN
picking the Dillon's store, he said. They have good traffic, and there aren't too many trucks.
A TOTAL OF 8,659 students at the University of Kansas live in apartments, according to a KU-housing survey. That's more than 40% of students at KU-and a lot of cooking.
Fifteen students interviewed recently by the Kansas said they spent an average of $11.50 each on food every week, not including money spent eating out.
One student, who previously lived in a residence hall, said he had problems with his roommate.
Gary White, Overland Park sophomore, said he and his three roommates who rent a house, ate together. They usually end up eating at the school cafeteria, spending about $13 a week each on groceries.
"One minute you're doing fine and the next you've got nothing to eat." Bill Carrm,
says.
"WHEN YOU GET OUT of the dorm system, you've got to budget yourself," he said.
Walt Burns, Wichita senior, said he and his two roommates had a group bank account for their apartment, which they used to pay rent, food and electricity.
"You can eat more nutritiously as a group," she said.
One student wasn't as concerned about the amount he spent as the others.
Joni Catiola, Clayton, Mo., junior, said she and her five roommates each put in $10 for the week. "I like it," she said.
Other students said they put money in a fund on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
"I'll cook a steak and have vegetables," he said.
Kenny Beck, Shawnee Mission senior,
said he spent at least $20 a week
Cram said he and his roommate a lot of hamburger, chicken and an occasional pie.
Sue Glaeter, Lawrence junior, said she and her roommate usually bought a meal of steak or pork chops for two meals when they shopping every 10 days. She said they also bought TV dinners and other foods for evenings when they had night classes.
BUT MOST STUDENTS said they ate a lot of burguer.
"About the worst that we get is macaroni and cheese," he said.
THE EAT yay-old bread to cut down on exposure to the salt, and letwetors for meals that are too salty.
Mike Gilliam, Prairie Village junior, said
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Selective shopping
One way to save on the cost of food is by comparison shopping. Sue Glaister, lawrence junior, compares prices on canned
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
vegetables in a local supermarket. Glatter also saves money by buying day-old bread.