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Pearson pauses
In a Noon Forum speech in Green Hall, Sen. James Pearson Held questions from about 130 students and faculty members. The questions covered a wide range of topics, including abortion and the treatment of women with an STD.
The Kansas Republican waded through about 20 questions in a Noon Forum speech at Green Hall yesterday, on topics ranging from abortion and Angola to world hunger and the energy crunch.
For almost 50 minutes, the dour expression on Sen. James Pearson's face rarely changed.
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Pearson talk casual, caustic
Pearson interspersed his comments with low-key humor that brought rilping laughter on several occasions from the crowd of about 130 law students and faculty members.
"I would like," Pearson said at the session's outset, "to either respond to or evade your attack."
He then proceeded to do just that, sidesteping several questions by bluntly saying he "didn't know" about certain issues. But he also expressed disbelief and insistence about several issues raised by students' questions.
The session had a casual atmosphere, with Pearson standing behind a lectern and answering questions at random. Some of the students munched on lunches; others popped open canes of soda.
"I noticed with some amusement that the President took that position recently and everyone disliked it," Pearson said. Smiling, he added, "So that makes me think it was the right decision."
Although admitting that abortion would be a very big question in elections this fall, Pearson chastised voters for making an emotional issue take precedence over what he called more important topics, such as the budget, the energy crisis and foreign relations.
He said he would support a constitutional amendment that would让 each state decide its own immigration policy.
Covert aid and action to stop the Communism movement in Angola received harsh words from Pearson. He said the Vietnam war should have demonstrated that small-scale aid often escalates.
"If you're going to have aid, let's not do it covertly," he said.
Foreign aid should be dispensed only when it is in the national interest, he said, not just to save face. Food, Pearson asserted, shouldn't be used as a display of wealth; rather was referring to several instances of the United States holding food from foreign countries to try to preserve those countries to adopt American viewpoints.
This is tragic when we're trying to move toward diplomatic good will between the haves and the harbors.
The World Food Conference of November 1974 came at a time when many nations were worried about hunger.
Pearson mildly criticized what he called the small- like approach the United States was taking toward developing a program to deal with energy shortages.
"Actually, a good deal of that was hysterical and, he said, by large and most of the talk the waiter had."
"We still don't have a strong conservation program," he said, "and we still don't have a strong program where we encourage production so we don't have to rely on foreign energy so much."
Pearson warned that nuclear expansion would have to be carefully planned. He said he opposed the random distribution of nuclear plants to foreign countries, especially those in the Middle East.
However, Pearson said he thought he would support the planned nuclear facility at Wolf Creek
Pearson said the Senate was pouring money into the development of solar energy.
"$10 billion—that's no token effort, even by Washington standards," he said.
Activities of covert agencies such as the CIA and FBI should be monitored by a small panel of House personnel, he said, and the committee should be involved in monitoring activities without having veto power over them.
"Punishment sent."
—He could make no specific cuts in the defense budget.
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He foresees either increased payroll taxes or a dinning into general revenue funds to pay for the military.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
2 Med Center doctors quit Reis, Hannah call investigation 'whitewash'
Thursday, February 12. 1976
The four members of a cardiothoracic surgery nurse team which worked with Reis and Hannah also charged that the evaluation had been unthorough.
By BILL SNIFFEN Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Heart surgery in the KU Medical Center, scheduled to resume Monday, can't because the two hospitals at the Med Center have resumed.
The two doctors called the evaluation "a well-orchestrated whitewash."
The surgeons, Robert L. Reis and Hammer Hanmah III, quit yesterday after an evaluation of safety conditions in Med Center operating rooms and intensive care units failed to support their claims that the facilities were unsafe for heart surgery.
BUT THE MEDICAL ID did report that "from our limited observations, equipment does not appear to impose restrictions on peri-operative care." The study was as the two Med Center doctors had claimed.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIER DYKSES, said, "I know nothing about those charges. I think the reputation of the men who came into the University is being questioned."
Dykes, in a statement released yesterday with the panel's report, removed Reis from his position as chief of the cardiothoracic surgery section, while praising him as "one
Reis also said he had quit but hadn't yet written his letter of resignation.
"I view this as highly irresponsible."
Hannah said, "I have submitted my letter of resignation. I'm going to find a place where I can work."
Dr. Frank Masters, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs, has been appointed acting chief of the cardiothoracic surgery section.
The three investigators Harold Laufman, Institute for Surgical Studies; David Sabiston, Duke University; and Henry Schubert, Duke University. The School found the intensive care unit's air handling system to be "substandard" as Reis and Hannah had charged. The committee suggested that patients recovering from surgery should be placed in isolation to prevent infection.
THE INVESTIGATION into the heart surgery halt was ordered by David W. Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, after Reis and Hannah refused Dec. to perform any further heart surgery because of alleged unsafe conditions.
of the country's truly distinguished cardiothoracic surgeons."
He heart surgery can't resume until new heart surgeons are found, Robinson said. The search will begin immediately, he said. "That's what they wanted. We really had."
Hannah said that if the unsafe conditions had been eliminated earlier he wouldn't have done it.
Both doctors had criticized the air-changing capabilities of the operation rooms. HWE specifications recommend 25 air-chains an hour. The Med Center's equipment must expose patients to 12 times an hour, with exposures to higher risks of infections. Reis said.
but the committee's report states that,
"although 25 changes an hour may be
desirable and optimal, it is not the
minimum required."
MOST CARDIAC OPERATING rooms have equipment allowing 12 air changes an hour, the report said. And KU's infection rate is low.
Hannah said the report had imputed it was all right because most hospitals do it that way. He disagreed with that philosophy, he said.
Reis and Hannah had also criticized the placement of infectious patients with patients recovering from heart surgery operations in intensive care units.
The report recommended that patients recovering from heart surgery operations be placed in isolated rooms to prevent infection.
The specialists on the panel made two visits on two separate days. The total amount of time spent with Reis and himself was about one hour. Hannah said.
Hannah said that decision could have been long before the Dec. 1 heartbeat.
"IT WOULD HAVE required the stroke of an administrative pen," Hannah said. "That's all it would have taken for us to have gone back to work."
But both Reis and Hannah, as well as the four members of the cardiothoracic surgery nurse team, attributed that finding to a lack of thoroughness by the visiting panel.
The report didn't support Reis' and Hannah's claims that operation room equipment endangered heart surgery patients.
"This committee was virtually hustled through here," Reis said. "Doctor Hannah and I had virtually no input in this. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever witnessed."
THE FOUR NURSES of the cardiothoracic surgery team said they weren't contacted by the committee members (all one said, "we have to work here")!
"The panel did not talk to anyone else in that department," one nurse said. "If they had talked to us, we would have shown them how to do it." The team was operating for awe, that needed repairs.
Another nurse said the nurses weren't consulted or contacted by the panel because "we'd tell them the truth. We've always been off somewhere else whenever somebody comes around. It's just another coverup like any other coverup."
"BUT THE WAY things have been going around KU," a third nurse said, "we weren't surprised that they tried to keep us in the dark."
Report says surgery OK
—A glass sliding door on a cabinet containing sterile equipment had been cracked for about six months. "Mysteriously, it turned up fixed the day of the investigation.
A couple of the nurses said the committee's two tours were staged:
—A cleanup operation was ordered by Mary Bortz, assistant director of surgery, the night before the panel's first visit, one of the three patients to be cleaned because of the night's light operation schedule. The end result was that the two operation rooms and their connecting rooms were "cleaner than usual, but not usually very clean," a nurse said.
—A supply of 78 heart valves was seen by the committee and cited in its report as "that a large investment has been made by the hospital for present time." Reis said that supply was the largest he had seen at the hospital in three years. Reis said the valves cost about $300
It took five to 10 minutes to fix," a nurse said.
"That's very unusual." he said. "It's strange we had it now."
REIS SAID the parallels were misled "They scrubbed that place from top to
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Dickes said a new director of the cardiothoracic surgery section would be appointed.
- air changes in the operating rooms (12 hours) are at a safe level for heart arrest
Societies' status remains clouded
—Temperatures in the operating room are also at a safe level for heart surgery.
Charges that the dean of women's office has attempted to force single-sex professional and honorary societies into work, according to people who both denied and renewed were here.
- the intensive care unit's air-handling system is 'substandard' - the patient appears to be undergoing treatment.
Equipment in the operating rooms is adequate for the safe performance of care.
By SHERI BALDWIN
Pam Horne, assistant to the dean of women, said she had not delivered ultimates to CWENS, Mortor Board and Phi Chi Theta that they go coeducational to comply with Title IX of the Federal Education Amendments Act of 1972.
Results of the study of cardiothoracic surgery indicate:
Reconsideration would be given to creating a separate department of car repair.
The University of Kansas is barred by the act from giving "significant assistance" to organizations that discriminate on the basis of sex.
—The infection rate in operating rooms at the Med Center is low.
Charges were reiterated by student members of Phi Chi Theta and Sachem, senior men's honorary society, that the dean of women's office was attempting to conform the groups without due process and intimidate them into going coed.
CWENS and Mortar Board were former sophomore and senior women's honoraries respectively that are now coed. Phi Chi Theta is a woman's business society.
Questions were also raised concerning a task force set up by the dean of women's office to determine CWENS' guidelines for coeducational memberships.
Jim Willis, Salina sophomore and member of the task force, said, "Pam Horne did definitely tell me CWENS had to coeducational because of 'TITLE IX.'
Wills said the dean of women's office had asked Don Alderson, dean of men, for names of people who could serve on the council. He said he believed in the possibility of a sophomore men's
Those charges had been narrowed to point Horne, who is also adviser to CWRE.
boniorary society, and Alderson had his name because of that.
There is no sophomore men's honorary society, he said.
He said he hoped an administrative solution would end the dispute. As a first step, Dykes he, had removed Robert L. Reis from his position as chief of the car company. He also failed to establish inability to perceive our medical center as an institution of limited resources."
Wilms said the task force wasn't set up with approval from the Student Senate.
Dykes also said the "infighting" which has plagued the Med Center in recent years.
Pinkston said she was shown a copy of a letter from Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to Marton Board on the Title IX issue, stating support if it retained single-sex membership
Laura Pinkston, CWENS president, said, "I'm really for the concept of the task force. I think if it had been initiated through the channels, then everything would be in order."
Wills said the task force was meant to have equal representation from all living groups, but has nine women and four men. Three of the men are Greeks, he said.
"We just took that as writing on the wall that we had to so coq." she said.
Pinkston said that Mike Davis, University counsel, had told Bonnie Ritter Patton, chairman of the Title IX self-evaluation committee, that CWENS had made a "reasonable interpretation" of Title IX's application.
"I don't recall having written any letters to the dean of women's office about the matter," Dykes said. "I have had complaints expressed to me from students."
Dykes said his letter to Mortar Board was merely quoting from the Title XIX legislation and the proposed resolution.
Ed Rolfs, student body president and Sachsen president, said the Student Senate is in charge of setting up regulations to define what student organizations are. He said that students should be violated with the dean of women's office, assuming the Senate's responsibilities.
KANSAS CITY, Kan—Canceller Archie R. Dykes, in a statement regarding cardiorhythmic surgery at the KU Medical Center, said yesterday a special panelists' report indicated that open-heart surgery could safely resume at the Med Center.
The Med Center's equipment, although "something less optimal, is similar to that in use in many other cardiothoracic units around the country." Dykes said.
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By KAREN LEONARD
A dozen long-stemmed red roses have traditionally made up the most popular bouquet for Valentine's Day, Gladys Garter, head designer for Nye's Flowers, said yesterday, but they will be in short supply this year.
'Be mine' said with roses, cards
By BILL SNIFFEN
Mixed bouquets of field flowers have replaced roses in popularity, she said, because they're bright and cheerful, longer and cost less than roses. Most mixed bouquets cost between $10 and $20, she said. Costs are $22.50 a dozen.
The gas shortage has forced greenhouse owners to reduce the size of their rice crops.
If you want to say it with roses this
Valentine's Day, you had better not cry.
"I'll probably be working overtime until I am, tonight and tomorrow night," Garcia said.
Staff Writer
But other types of flowers are plentiful and Lawrence Florists report that business
Garinger said most customers preferred to spend from $8 to $12 on a bouquet.
Although mixed flowers are popular with most women, men still ask for roses, she
Don Randel, manager of Owens Flower Shop, said his business increased three or four times during the Valentine's Day weekend.
Chad Lawton, manager of University Floral, said be expected to sell about 2,000 roses over the Valentine's Day weekend, with a general increase in business from 500 to 600 per cent more than a normal weekend.
"That's about the only type of flower they're familiar with," she said.
"Every Valentine's Day, our flower is almost completely consumed," she said.
Lawrence's greeting card dealers report the Valentine's Day is the busiest season for the card makers.
Bev Noyes, manager of the Town Crier, said that taste in Valentine cards varied between customers of the downtown store and customers of the Malls shopping Center store.
Student customers who shop at the
downtown bookstore prefer humorous cards, she said, and the Malls store doesn't even carry humorous Valentines. The Malls offer a variety of middle-age clientele, according to Noves.
Tina Black, Oread Bookstore employee,
said sentimental Valentines were selling
already.
She said people liked to buy cards that were cute but infessive.
"Anything that says 'the world's greatest lover' on it will flop," she said.
One of the first valentines to sell out had a picture of an irritable little dog on the cover and a caption that read, "You'd better be a bit fierce or I'll bite you on the leg," Black said.
If taste in flowers and cards are changing, Valentine's day candy sales seem to be heading up.
Richard Raney, owner of Raney Drug stores, said customers were still buying decorated, heart-shaped boxes of assorted chocolates. He said he expected to have his biggest season ever in Valentine's Day candy sales.
*Sales are already at more advanced levels than they have been in previous years.*
Valentine interruption
William L. Kelly, associate dean of admissions and records, was sarruried during meet day by a singing valentine
Staff photo by DON P!ERCE
presented by Alison Richey, Shawnee senior, and members of Alpha TK sorority. The sorority will be presenting the valen-
tial awards to all students who complete this year.