Tasheff says know-how her forte
By MARTI SCHILLER
Staff Writer
Tedde Tasheff,
candidate for
student body president
Vox Populares: Latin for people's voice. That's what Tedde Tasheff wants to be.
Tasheb, Wichita junior, is running for student body president. Steva Owens, Salina sophomore, is her vice presidential running candidate elections Wednesday and Thursday.
Tasheff and Owens said a major goal of their administration would be to make sure the 20 per cent representation that students receive is enough making boards at the University is utilized.
Student representatives to committees in departments and schools often aren't familiar with the way the committees work in the ground of issues involved, Tasheff said.
There is also a lack of emphasis on the honor of being a student representative, she said, and many students don't take the job until they've been on a board for a while.
"We want to start seminars and training sessions which will increase the effectiveness of student representatives in departments and schools." Taushef said.
Ideally, the chairman of a department could give new representatives the history
and background of a board at the seminar so the representative would have a good understanding of his job soon after he took office. she said.
Owens said he saw two new roles for the student body vice president in addition to the principal.
The vice president should be an adviser to first-term senators and the chief lobbyist for KU students in the Kansas Legislature. The vice president should be a leader of library hours and for women's athletics.
Tasheef said her experience in University government made her the best qualified doctor of nursing.
TASHEFF HAS BEEN in the Student Senate for two years and has been a member of StudEx both years. She was chairman of the Communications Committee, and is currently on the Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee.
Taseff is now a member of SenEx and University Council. She is vice chairman of the Board, and a member of the Committee of the University Council and chairman of the Athletic Seating Board. She is also the honors program representative in the English department's policymaking board.
Owens is finishing his first year in the
state and is a member of the Culture
Council.
He is a Summerfield scholar and a member of Phi Dla Delta fraternity. He is also on the Interfraternity Council's public relations committee and is a member of the force from the Office of Dean of Warwick University of a coeducational institution here.
ANOTHER PRIORITY of the Vox Populations platform would be working with the Web browser.
Owens also served as assistant Student
Union Activities treasurer last year
A summer employment placement center and an improved bus system are two goals she said she would pursue with city officials.
Tasheff said she would also like to start an experimental program for recycling University Daily Kansans in the residence balls and, later to expand the effort to other areas of the campus if the experiment was successful.
The Vox Populares Coalition also pledges to keep student fees down and to work for increased library hours and improvements in parking, traffic and security.
TASHEFF AND OWENS are encouraging
students to vote for the proposed satellite union in the referendum on this year's
Tasheff said there was a definite need for a student service facility in the west campus area. There isn't enough information or solid research available, but it can be achieved with facilities for less than the suggested 600 raise in student activity fees, she said.
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation ticket subsidy needs study, Tasheff said. She and Owens are in favor of a ticket subsidy if it benefits the students, but there are not available to indicate how much actually being a student body gets from the ticket subsidy.
There should be strong student representation on the Athletic Corporation to tell the board what students can afford to play in football and basketball tickets. Tasheff said.
There is also a need for an executive athletic board, she said. The large Athletic Corporation board has alumni members who are not as well-affected said, and doesn't meet often enough.
Students would have more influence on a smaller board that met more often, she
Steve Owens,
candidate for
vice president
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Springau frolic
Karen Kuhil, Lawrence, grabs for Kay Hansen, Lawrence, during a spring weather frolic Sunday afternoon above Potter Lake
Vol.86 No.87
KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KU Med Center study defended
Monday, February 16, 197b
By BILL SNIFFEN
THE CENTER'S research will focus on the development of new drugs for diseases of the central nervous system, such as cancer, stroke, and depression; departments of biochemistry, chemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacology at the Medical Center and human health, who will participate in the center's research.
"It (the Med Center) is not the greatest facility in the world," Harold Laufman, Institute for Surgical Studies in New York City, said yesterday. But he added, "I've seen many plants that are not as good as the one in Kansas."
CHARGES THAT the examination wasn't thorough were made last week by Robert L. Reis and Hamner Hanham III, former heart surgeon at Johns Hopkins and four-member cardiothoracic surgery nurse team. Reis and Hannah resigned after the panelists' report was released and called him an 'observer.'
One of three doctors who found the KU Medical Center's facilities safe for heart surgery yesterday denied charges that the examination was 'wrong' thorough.
Laufman said he wouldn't risk his reputation to do so, and called his opponents "unproductive."
Grant starts drug center
"He (Reis) has a personal investment in calling it a "whitewash." It certainly not
"He (Lauffman) can only evaluate what he has been shown." Reis said.
Nineteen professors and 30 new research assistants and graduate students will be involved in the center's research, which will begin April 1.
LAUFMAN, WHO VISITED the Med
Reis said he wasn't questioning Laufman's reputation or ability. Lauffman had been misled by Med Center administrators, Reis said.
"We interested in identifying what is wrong with a person with epilepsy, for example," Mertes said, "and what is the biochemical lesion that could cause it. We can locate the lesion, we design drugs to alter it and hopefully cure epilepsy."
MERTES ALSO said that the center
Higuchi said, "The real value of the grant is that it allows the University to carry out programs it would like to see carried out, and it demands on the University's resources."
The grant culminates a two and one-half year effort by Mathias Martes, professor of pathology, Dr. Michele Goldman, chairman and reagent's technician, medicinal chemistry and the late Edward Smissman, former chairman of medicinal chemistry to establish a center for drug research.
A $1.25 million grant given by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will put the University of Kansas in the national forefront of drug-related research, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said yesterday.
"We've been told, and we certainly do feel, that we have a unique situation here in being able to bring together a number of different disciplines," Filiuchi said.
Recognition of this ability and a previous NIH Health Science Advancement award based on experience.
By LYNDA SMITH
The five-year grant, which will be used to establish a KU center for drug design, was the first awarded for such research by the NIH. Shankel said.
SHANKEL ATTRIBUTED this ability to the geographical proximity of the depart-
Higashi said that the grant was intended to be a core around which other programs work.
Shankel said he didn't anticipate that the grant would bring in additional state funds, but that it would strengthen the University's capability to draw federal funds.
He said the interdisciplinary research would make the center unique.
missions involved (most are located in Maholt and Haworth halls) also for the departing states.
"One of the projects will involve seven professors and 10 research assistants, all of whom are from our area."
"Professor Higuchi's presence, as a regents' professor, has also contributed immensely to this spirit of comaraderie and cooperation." Skalek said.
Ronald Rizzo, heart-lung machine technician, said he would resign this week. The reasons for his resignation are what he describes as the lack of information and the availability of another job.
"Supplemental requests are being developed now." he said
would do research on some drugs now in use to make them more readily usable by the public.
The grant will improve teaching in the scientific disciplines, Hugucci said, because the material taught in the sciences has to be regularly renewed by relevant research."
"Within two or three weeks there won't be a cardiac nurse there." Reis said.
The nurses would either resign or be reassigned, he said, in an administrative move to eliminate any nurses that had been associated with him.
Higuchi said that KU had already demonstrated the effectiveness of research effort,
Center Dec. 19, was shown only what the Med Center's administrators wanted him to see. Rets said, and got an inaccurate picture of the Med Center's operating room equipment.
INSTEAD OF TALKING with himself and the technician who operated the heart-lung machine in rooms 512 and 514, Rizzo said, "he hadn't had one in three years, who hadn't operated one in three years."
Five doctors at the Med Center were interviewed. Laufman said he was at the Med Center one day and talked with Reis about one-half hour. The interviewees were selected by David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, because, Robinson said, the five were "the people most involved."
room and in the intensive care unit. The panelists' report called the intensive care unit's air handing system "substandard," and recommended that patients recover from open-heart surgery be placed in isolation to prevent infection. But the team at the equipment in operating rooms 512 and 800 heart surgery could be safely performed there. Reis said yesterday he expected more resignations at the Med Center.
The five doctors interviewed were Creighton A. Hardin, chief of general surgery; Frank W. Masters, chief of plastic surgery; Antoni M. Diehl, chief of cardiology; pediatrics; David Pugh, adult cardiovascular physician; and Reis.
REES AND HANNANA had halted heart
arteries operation. Doctors also
recommended the use of their operating
"They talked to people who don't know their assets from a hole in the ground," he said. "They talked to people who really knew nothing about it."
The nurses contacted by the panelists weren't those who were involved in the day-to-day operations of the operating rooms, Bizzo said.
Laufman ssaid, "We talked to about 12 maries—five or six alone in the intensive care."
Rizzo echoed Reis' charge that the investigation hadn't been thorough.
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But the nurses in the cardiothoracic surgery team weren't contacted, he said.
Beer drinkers aged 18 to 21 can cool their suds a little easier now that a state senate bill to raise the beer drinking age to 21 was killed in committee last Thursday.
18-year-olds can still drink beer
State Senate. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, said Friday that the bill was defeated by a 7-1 vote in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee. Dissenting from the vote was State Senate. John Vermillion, R-Independence, he said.
Booth said, "Some of us talked about increasing it from 21 to 85. I was just making damn sure it didn't have any support. I think we did the only responsible
State Sen. Wayne Zimmerman, R-Olathe, introduced the beer bill at the request of some people in Olaht "who apparently had problems with some beer," he said.
Booth said he had invited Ed Rolfs, student body president, to testify on the bill because Rolfs had been an advocate of 18-year-olds' rights in the past.
ROLFS SAID in testimony before the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee last Wednesday, "If you let me have the right to vote, the right to marry and the right to be a judge, I would sue and to die on a battlefield, I think it be asinine to not let me buy beer."
The principal proponents of the bill included the Rev. Richard E. Taylor Jr., executive director of the Kansas United Dry Forces, Booth said two law students from Washburn University and a student from Oklahoma State University in Glathe testified on behalf of the bill.
KUAC free ticket policy mulled
By JACK FISCHER
Staff Writer
Messer said the working press, parents of the athletes, KUAC staff members and recruits for various teams now received complimentary tickets.
Questions about the issuance of complimentary tickets to KU sporting events has sparked a report on the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation's (KUAC) The report is planned to be released at the Athletic Board's meeting in April.
Doug Messer, assistant athletic director and business manager, and Clyde Walker, athletic director, are preparing the report. Messer said last week that some change in the current policy probably would be recommended.
HOWEVER, THE TOTAL number of
"I have the list down here and if you came down I still wouldn't show it to you," Messer said. "What do you want me to say, that I give away a lot of free tickets?"
Fans who pay for their tickets receive the best seats to KU sports events, Messer sets.
complimentary tickets and its cost were unavailable to the Kansan.
"The complimentary ticket holders are scattered all over." be said.
However, Dave Shapiro, chairman of the Student Senate Sports Committee, said the complimentary tickets received by students and student recruits were "prime seats."
At football games about 209 recruits
received seats between the 29- and 40-yard
seats.
AT THAT TIME, he said. Walker announced that an "in-depth" study would be made.
"I asked at the (Athletic) Board meeting last spring, if we're concerned with the
inflationary crunch and trying to
economize. We are we giving away free
food for the poor.
Walker was unavailable for comment. The annual audit of KUAC reports the amounts budgeted and spent for completeness, audits and the Office of Sports Information.
A Student Senator, who asked not to be identified, said Walker "put up a brick wall" when asked about complimentary tickets.
Walker said that the total number of complimentary tickets would be released with the report, and that no other information would come out until then, according to the speaker.
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Chances of a similar bill reappearing in the future, Booth said, aren't likely.
Mark Boranyk, executive director of the Kansas Wholesalers of Malt Beverage Association, Inc., who lobbed to defeat the Lowe's "very little sentiment to change the law."
HE SAID THAT he had told the legislature that passage of the bill would compound problems of enforcing beer laws, that the total state population of 18-year-olds would be 325 million, and that problems wouldn't change and that by entrusting them under 21 with the power to
However, he said, "We feel it's dead for the session legislation, but we're going to watch."
vote the legislature should respect their maturity with respect to beer.
McDonald said future bills proposing age restrictions on the consumption of beer were always applied. He said the issue of alcohol is an arisen several times in the past few years.
Clifford McDonald, the local Budweiser distributor and treasurer of the malt beverage association, said he had been asked to test the vodka. Topekla until its defeat in the committee.
Fertility ritual
Staff Photo by JAY KOELZER
Between 200 and 309 people showed up for a midnight fertility mass at the Jayhawk statue in front of Strong Hill Friday. Captain Kansas (Tim Short, Pittsburgh second year law student) read 13 "Commandments" (left), while Eric Ehlredstrom, Kansas City, Kan., senior, bid underneath a sheet and Ray Sanders, Belville junior, (right) listened.