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Tuesday, January 27, 1976
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Med Center ruckus
The vacation still goes on for heart surgeons at the Med Center. But unlike most breaks, this is one that everyone would like to see ended. And soon.
On Dec. 1, Robert L. Reis, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, and his associate, Hamner Hannah, refused to perform heart surgery until allegedly unsafe conditions had been operating. On Dec. 6, Meed Center officials answered the charges by canceling heart surgery for an indefinite period.
Now the physicians sit and wait. They sit in empty offices, facing empty desks, empty wards. And facing, perhaps, empty promises.
The physical facilities and future of the cardiothoracic unit are being studied by a panel of nationally known heart surgeons. When they make their report to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes in the next few weeks, a decision will be made on the resumption of heart surgery.
BUT DYKES HAS ALREADY stated that the purchase of new equipment to improve the operating room conditions depended upon legislation, a proposal, or additional fund request, which was approved in November by the Board of Regents.
This equipment isn't needed merely to provide convenience, it's needed to maintain life. A team of experts in infectious diseases is probing allegations made by Reis that heart patients may have contracted infection because of their lack of exercise or a personal system in the operating rooms that only changes the air from seven to 15 times an hour when 25 times an hour is considered to be the safe level.
One of those patients died, the other was placed in serious condition at another area hospital.
Reis has been at the center of controversy since he came to the Med Center. Gov. Robert F. Bennett said in a statement that the surgery halt was the result of a personality clash and amounted to an insurrection by Reis and had no satisfactory solution. The clash that Bennett spoke of apparently referred to problems between Reis and Loren Humphrey, chairman of the surgery department.
HUMPHREY FIRED Reis in July of 1873 but resisted him one month later.
1973 but reinstated him one month later. Reis and Hannah filed a $9 million lawsuit dealing with contract disputes and other questions in the open heart surgery unit against Humphrey, William O. Rieke, former vice-chancellor for the Med Center and the Board of Regents. It was thrown out of court in 2006 by City because of lack of federal jurisdiction, but attorneys have said they will appeal.
Every day that these personality clashes, unfuffled promises and faulty equipment keep heart surgeons from operating, another heart patient must be denied the surgery that could save his life. Dykes has said that heart surgery might be halted for good if funds can't be made available.
Hostilities between the two men continue to be in evidence in the current diplomatic
But the money must be found somewhere. Andrew Morrow, chief of the surgery branch at the National Heart and Lung Institute, said that KU was one of the "medical training centers" if it canceled its heart surgery program permanently.
The students of Kansas deserve better than that and, more important, so do the patients.
Following a long-standing Kansan tradition, I am missing my first deadline of the semester. New Kansans for their homes their husbands' educational hours after it was due, and this one is no exception.
Now that I have presented a brief view of what to expect from the Kansan this semester, I will turn to what this column is really about and introduce you to the staff.
It is a l.m. and everyone else is going home, but here I sit with a 28-inch hole on the editorial page to fill.
BETTY HAEGLEN, Atchison senior, is the associate editor. Betty subs for me on my night off and is in charge of the editorial page. She spent last week at Mt. Shasta County Record and just finished a two-week reporting internship with the Kansas City Star.
Please feel free to let us know what you think or if we have made a mistake, but remember that this is a student operation with a constantly changing staff.
YAEL ABUHOULAKAH,
Overland Park park, junior, is in charge of the Kansas's news gathering operation. His duties as campus editor include overseeing the reporters and putting items in the On Campus column. Yael has worked for
Welcome back.
This semester the Kansan will try to describe life at the University of Kansas through pictures, news, analysis and feature stories. The Kansan will concentrate on university news, as well as national and state stories that will affect KU.
"That looks like some kind of radio set." Gerald said.
It's definitely a big 10-4, Henry
"Sit down, Gerald," Henry said. "I want you should look at something. On my desk is part of the new technology."
"What's up, Henry?" Gerald said. "They said you wanted to see me."
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"Vell, Gerald, dis here's a 23-
channel Cobra, mit a turner
power mike and twin trumper's
earse ears!" Henry was happy.
"Come again, Henry?" Gerald was confused.
"I don't know if I can, Henry. It shore looks complicated."
"GERALD, DIS IS a Citizen's Band. radio. We are everywhere installing deen so we help us understand what you want you should learn to use it."
"Why'd you say that, Henry?" Gerald said.
"Oh, dat's how you make it the contact of other CBers. Vait, here's sometime!"
Henry twiddled the dial of the CB set. "Breaker, breaker, one nine . . . Dis here's Proboscis . c'mon"
"I vil explain, Gerald. Here is a complex terminology assay instrument. For instance, the dere is the name, 'hand', so BOP ers will show you doing it."
A VOICE CRACKLED over the CB. "That's a big 10,4 good buddy. This here's the Checkers, from near Shakytown. We need to make no mistake about that, for sure ... c'mon."
"Who was that, Henry?"
Gerald was definitely confused, for sure.
"Dat vas Nixon, calling from San Clemente, near Los Angeles!" He said okay, but we don't want to speak to mit dschielem! I'll tell him good-bye."
"Dis here's Proboscis. Ve
definitely got a big 10-4 on you,
good buddy. You got the green
stamps to definite get us real
money. We now 10-8. We on the
side.
"WHAT WAS THAT all about, Henry?" Gerald said.
"Vell, Gerald, I said that ve finally got the money to get a
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definitely tank you for dat information, Checkers. Seventy-threes and eighty-eights, for sure. Vee gone."
"Uh, what'd that mean," Gerald said.
"Gerald, we've got Brevznay from Moscow!" Henry chortled. "He didn't know we had a CB. Dis is a real coup!"
Henry grabbed his mike.
"Lucks...confident"
"I'll talk in front."
Crazyman from the house on
the big Penn Avenue. Ve
"I TOLD THE SCROWK good luck and love and kisses and that ve talk to him later. Let's see仗 else vc can get."
A voice could barely be heard through the static. "This here's Lucky Leonid from Vodakland, good buddy. I've got a big 10-4 on you, Proboscis. Didn't know you had ears. 'Cmon.'
"Breaker, breaker, one nine . . . Dis here's Proboscis . . c'mon."
Editor ignores deadline
"DIS HERE'S PROBOCIS, good buddy. We definitely give you a negatory on Strifeland-on the dark-continent action, for example," Whitey told Whitie to lay off. "Don't put the hammer down. 'Cmon."
"Lacky Leónid again, good buddy. We definitely want to get the 10 from you on our plans to go to Madrid." The dark-continent. We been helpin' the cigarmakers and their allies there, good buddy. What does Uncle Sam say to a 104 or a negatory "Cmon."
CB and that ve vere vaiting for him to continue."
"Brewzhen vants to expand his help to the Cubans in Cuba," he said. "Henry said. 'He vants a yes or no from us. I still him.'
"What was that stuff, Henry," Gerald said. "I don't understand."
"I just tell him not to do any more stuff in Angola. Den deepen Africa to Africa to keep their mits off, too. Den I tell him not to accept that."
"This here's Condor,
Proxiboxes, know what you're
hunting!"
Russian bear, Proxiboxes
Otherwise, you gone."
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Henry noticeably blanched.
"Gerald, dat's Frank Church!
"He's been listening to us!"
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Suddenly another voice crackled on the CB. Breaker, breaker, one noise there. Here's Condor. "c'mon."
"That's good, Henry," Gerald wisely said.
"GERALD, I KNOW will I tell?" Henry glryed well said. "I'll do it." Angela, we will be the CIA invaelg Angola, maybe Russia too!
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Working with Don are DAVID CRENSHWA, Overland Park senior, GEORGE MILLENER, Leavenworth sophomore, and JAY KOELZER, Fort Collins, Colo., junior of all whom have worked for the Kansan in the past.
Every Friday the Kansan Comment page disappears and in its place appears the Arts and Entertainment page. Co-editors of the entertainment page are EVIE RAPPORT, Lawrence graduate student and MARY REPORT, Professor Pete Village senior. Evie was the entertainment editor last semester, and Mary Ann is a former Kansan fine arts reporter.
DON PIERCE, Lawrence junior, is the photo editor. He has worked for the Kansan, the Kansan and the Wichita Eagle-Beacon.
Our staff artist is KEN
Walsh, a graduate of the
sophomore. Ken's work is
nationally syndicated by the
Trans-World News Service,
and he does cartons on state
boards for the Wichita Eagle-
Beacon.
The Kansan's CONTRIBUTING WRITERS, who will write an editorial and column every week, are John Johnston, Belleville, IL senior, Jeremy Baxter, ST. Marys senior, J. C. Hickey, St. Marys senior, and Jim Bates, whom I have mentioned before.
THE COPY CHIEFS, who supervise headline writing and copy editing, are Mary Ann Burke, the entertainment editors, Janet Majure, Shawne Mission senior, Gleem Meyer Waterloo, graduate student, and Alison Johnn, Prairie Village junior.
Henry turned to his CB. "Dis here's Proboscis, good buddy.
Dy you don't come to visit us, Lucky Leo? We'd get for you the bus. I won't go! Klutz and I have talked it over, good buddy. We definitely show you good time here on Penn Probes's Probestis savin' ve gone."
THE NEWS EDITORS, who lay out stories in the Kansan, are J. C Hickey, the con- friend of the professor, Wichita junior, and Theses Mendenhall, Bartlesville, Okla., senior.
THE WIRE EDITORS, who select and lay out the wire stories on page 2, are Kelly Scott, Wilmette, III. senior, Chuck Alexander, Wichita junior, Rachel Case, Lawrence senior, and Lorraine Johnson, Concordia senior.
City Star and has been a sports reporter for the Kansan. Ken was the sports editor of the Kansas City Star. He is also a Kansan sports reporter.
Besides the people I have listed here, many more put in long hours getting the paper out. These include the students in our business side, journalism faculty members and the printers at the University Printing Service.
And I am Carl Young, Lewis senior. I am a former campus editor, associate campus editor and administration reporter. I worked last summer as a staff member for Beacon and spent two weeks of Christmas break working for the Kansas City Times.
By now you are probably wondering where Lewis is, but I will save that for another 3.5 m. and I want to go home.
editor. He has been a spot-
reporter for the Topeka Capital-
Journal and the Wichita Eagle-
Beacon.
the Salina Journal and covers high school sports for the Lawrence Daily Journal-World. He has worked for the Kansan since he was a freshman, and was sports editor last semester.
Assisting Yael on the campus desk is GREG HACK, Lawrence junior. Greg, the associate
The associate sports editors are STEVE SCHOENFELD, MARY KOSTEK, JONATHAN STONE, Omaha senior. Steve covers KU sports for the Kansas
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campus editor, has covered the Student Senate and administration beats of the Kansan and had a Christmas internship with the Kansas City Times.
Also working on the campus desk are JIIM BATES and Steve Ridley. Both were Bend juniors. Both have worked for the Great Bend Tribute and Jim worked over Christmas break for the Wichita Eagle-Beacon. And they both have students. Student Senate for the Kanagan.
ALLEN QUAKENBUSH,
Beloit senior, is the sports
Some official in the reformed, semi-public U.S. Postal Service determine if a member of the locked the required number of square feet or some such and, after the protests of the inhabitants and the posturing of a policeman, desecution was carried out. The episode in the tiny Maine coastal hamlet won't surprise many who will take it as superfluous confirmation of security is a worthless, dirty rag.
Patrons lose in postal prattle
WASHINGTON — Another battle between the forces of largeness and the forces of smallness has ended. The village of Rockport, Maine, has lost the long fight to keep its post office where it’s been since PLO was established. It had always been the center of hot-stove social life during the long winters of short daylight.
What is surprising is that the people who run the country run the postal service as they do. Since Year I of the Constitution, we have been a tribe who loved the nation and hated the government that stands for it. The mail is the one activity
carried out by the Federal Leviathan that everyone from age 10 would come in contact with the eagle and taxes, people who otherwise manage to escape the eagle's talons, get mail and send it. The recent postage increase than about the income tax.
But knowing that mail service
much-praised partnerships between government and business, have seldom delivered on their promise. Freed of the need to come up with ideas for solutions, stockholders, businessmen can be unconscionably worse than politicians. Some of the politicians palver about honesty and public service,
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may influence more people's opinion about the quality of government than any other single Federal function, the honchos go ahead, raise the price of a first-class letter $3 per cent and turn it into tuition but cutting out Saturday deliveries, special delivery and lengthening the mail's arrival time.
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Federal level, is the least responsive organizational form our society has yet devised. Politically controlled institutions are in some vague sense disciplined by voters; business used to be, at any rate, profit; semi-public corporations are disciplined by neither, nor by anything else.
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It hasn't worked out that way, but then does it ever? Semipublic corporations,
When the old Post Office Department was abolished six years ago in favor of the present semi-public corporation, the councillors were arrested the mails and that the introduction of businessmen and businesslike efficiency would restore them. The reasons advanced weren't new. Businessmen would be better able to resist extortionate bargains from businessmen for high salaries, subsidies and construction and equipment contracts.
The semi-public corporation, be it at the municipal or the
Maybe that's why the House of Representatives has twice voted to abolish postal reform and return to the older, unsatisfactory arrangements. There is another sentiment—still a decided minority—to let the Service destroy it. Just abolishe its monopoly so that somebody else can get into the business and compete by providing better service at low prices.
dies, after all, run on oil and insides, but the business ethic is anything-goes as long as you don't go to jail.
Despite some admirable lurches in the direction of de-regulation, President Ford still appears in favor of using the semi-public corporation device in such huge fields as energy, agriculture and transportation. His myriad opponents agree. None of them recognize that as ye deliver the mail, so shall ye be judged.
One of the objections to allowing private business a wack at the job has been that the mails are sacrificed. We
The other objection is that private companies wouldn't service sparsely populated rural areas or less pleasant ones, like the ghettos. If that turns out to be so, it would be useful to make those areas that continue what we do now, which is to subsidize Time, Newsweek and the junk-mail industry.
know that's so much malarkey. The government reads our mail, and there isn't anything we can do about it. A private email service intrudes on his customers could be successfully sued.
About
our
columnists
The Kanas will carry two syndicated columnists this semester, Nicholas von Hoffman and James J. Kilpatrick. While neither are new to Kanas readers, von Hoffman hasn't appeared in this paper for several years. He is the author of "A Radical and Radical—angering both the Right and the Left at times." He was a reporter on the Chicago Daily News and later the Washington Post, where he began writing columns in 1969. He also has written several books, including "Fireside on the Life of a Republican View," are potent adversaries for von Hoffman. Kilpatrick has long been considered one of the most effective proponents of the Conservative argument. His column is syndicated by the Washington Star. The syndicated carousel of his column is distributed by New York Times syndicate. His pointed editorial commissary has been on the Kanas editorial page for several years.