THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.72
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
December 10. 1975
Fest revived for children
By DAVID HAUBER
Staff Writer
The sleigh began arriving at 7:30 p.m.
Out of them poured about 30 children anticipating a night of carolling around a Christmas tree near a crackling fire.
Surprise-laden stockings filled with candy and cookies, while close by, Santa adjusted his beard.
It wasn't really Christmas, and nobody seemed to notice that the sleighs were really cars driven by Pih Gamma Delta Drivers. It was the spirit of the occasion was present.
The event was a Christmas party last night for needy children of the Lawrence area sponsored by the fraternity and Pi Society of a revived tradition of those two groups.
ACCORDING TO JERRY MANGAN,
social services chairman for the fraternity,
the tradition of sponsoring a Christmas
party for needy children by the Phi Gamma
Beta Phi sorority was up in smoke when
the fraternity burned down in 1967.
Mangan said the fraternity decided to revive the tradition when some members of the house were going through an old book and discovered pictures of past parties.
Jean Vawter, philanthropy chairman of the sorority, said that after a phone call from Mangan last month, both groups planned to arrange with the Ballard and St. Louis schools works with children from low-income families, have the children come to the fraternity.
Christmas decorations, including wreaths and pine boughs, hung throughout the living room and hallways of the fraternity. The punch were set out on an accessible table.
MEMBERS OF BOTH GROUPS stood waiting for the arrival of the children. Vawter said that male and female pairs of the two groups would accompany individual children around the fraternity once they arrived.
Waiting upstairs for the children's arrival was J, V. Allen, the Santa Claus for the children.
"This is hot," he said. "Everything's hot.
These costumes weren't made for halloween."
Allen said he was a bit apprehensive about his pending potrait.
The children ranged in age from 6- to 12-years-old.
don't want any disbelievers in the crowd, he said. "It would be tough. Boy, I will have to learn."
Allen added, however, "1) enjoy doing something like this. It helps the little kids out."
Allen wasn't the only nervous person. Mangan, who was newly elected to his post, was fretting about the event being carried out smoothly.
"I'm NERVOUS," he said. "This is the first time I've got something together by myself. I'm just kind of worried about everything, whole thing will go off on schedule."
The ice was broken when five children slipped through the door about 7:30 p.m. and scrambled into a corner gingerling. In a room with a window, by sorority and fraternity members.
See CHILDREN page ten
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Christmas fun
Amid mistletoe and evergreen wreaths, Lisa Adair, 10, gets a better view of Santa with the help of Stephanie Barr, Lawrence junior, at the Phi Gamma Delta Phi Beta Christmas party. The fraternity and sorority arranged the party in conjunction with the Ballard Community Center for the benefit of children from lower income families.
Med Center heart surgery is halted, may be unsafe
By BILL SNIFFEN and DIANE WILSON Staff Writers
The investigation by a panel of medical specialists into allegedly unsafe operating conditions at the University of Kansas Medical Center could lead to an end of heart surgery there, according to Robert L. Reis, chief of cardiothoracic surgery.
It's "common knowledge to all of us
working with the equipment that it's in bad
condition."
The investigating group, Reis said, "will find the situation in considerable need of funding."
Specifically, Reis charged that the ventilation systems in two of the Med Center's seven operating rooms were insufficient for the frequent air-changes required when heart surgery is being performed.
Reis also charged that Loren Humphrey, head of the surgery department, admitted two patients with "gross infections" to the intensive care unit last week, creating a health hazard to heart surgery patients recovering there.
David Robinson, acting executive chancellor of the Med Center, ordered a halt to all heart surgery operations at the Med Center on Saturday.
After the incident, Reis and an associate,
Hammer Hannah, refused to perform further heart operations until conditions improved.
Yesterday, Chancellor Archi R. Dykes said a panel would be appointed to investigate operating room conditions and injuries, if any, of further heart surgery there.
It's possible no further heart surgery will be conducted at the Med Center. Dykes has
"I hope that won't be the case," he said.
"I don't know until the investigation is completed."
ACCORDING TO RUSSELL C. MILLS, associate vice chancellor for the Med Center, the investigation won't begin until a panel is selected.
"we haven't planned the specific procedures to get them (the specialist),"
In the meantime, patients who need heart surgery will be advised to go to other hospitals.
But that shouldn't jeopardize persons seeking heart surgery because other hospitals in the Kansas City area perform heart surgery and at comparable costs, Mills said.
Dykes said the lack of funds prevented immediate correction of the Med Center's PICU.
In October, Dykes requested, and the Board of Regents approved, a proposal to raise patient costs at the Med Center. State officials agreed to raise patient costs before any rate increase can be made.
"We need more money," he said. "We need authorization to spend the revenue the company is generating."
Reis said he thought there were two or three other hospitals in the Kansas City area that performed heart surgery. Until two months ago, there were about eight, he
said, but some of the hospitals stopped heart surgery.
Reis said hospitals couldn't offer "every kind of treatment" without creating a "redundancy of services," requiring increased medical costs to the patient.
"Not every hospital should be conducting a heart surgery program," he said.
Instead, regional centers with specialized functions should be set up, he said. Heart surgery could be performed in one center, kidney transplants in another, he said.
"The need (for specific services) has to
be assessed within the population area," he said.
Reis said he would rather see good heart surgery in one hospital than poor surgery in another.
Besides the quality of operating conditions at the Med Center, the panel should investigate the administrative structure and quality of the Med Center, Reis said.
"The Med Center is practicing 1960 medicine. The students who graduate in 1975 are 15 years behind in cardiac surgery," Reis said.
Sanitation workers walk out of meeting
By BRUCE SPENCE
New city sanitation rates were approved last night on first reading by the Lawrence City Commission, but debate on proposed wages for city sanitation workers became so intense that most of the sanitation attended the meeting stormed out in anger.
A report prepared by the city staff offered a 10 per cent increase for sanitation laborers' and drivers' wages, but apparently, that proposal was enough to convince many city sanitation workers that there was no understanding with the city had been violated.
The report, presented by City Manager Buford Watson, presented the proposed wage increases as sufficient to bring Lawrence sanitation workers up to be responsible for cities of sanitation workers in cities in Kansas that also have public sanitation systems.
A SALARY BOOST had been promised when they agreed to drop the incentive system, which scheduled the men on four 10-hour shifts and allowed them to leave work when the firm finished Lawrence *Sanitation Employees Association*, however, contended that the new wage proposals, which put the men on four shifts, resulted in a pay cut for sanitation workers.
Watson Library and the Kansas Union will maintain through Dec. 20. For other building hours see story page two.
Today's edition of the Kanan is the last this semester. He resumes Jan. 26, the first day of class for the spring semester.
Kansan ends publication
The report, which listed 10 cities, showed
an average wage range of $42.3-7.8 for
cities with a median wage of $20.9.
The proposed 1976 range would lift salaries of laborers from $2.99-$3.49 to $3.24-$4.14, and of drivers from $3.12-$3.99 to $3.75-$4.81. The 1976 wage figures include a nine per cent cost-of-living pay raise which all city employees will receive on Jan. 1.
Phil Bohlander, secretary of the sanitation association, presented the opening argument against the proposed wage increases.
Reading a prepared statement,
Bohanna, the author of the proposal by the association.
—It will reduce current earned wages on the average of 68 cents per hour.
—The employee had a firm understanding that they wouldn't lose any pay if they were fired.
—The employees had a firm understanding that the new pay proposal would be worked out through meetings between management and employees. (The statement said such meetings were sought, but Watson refused to meet with sanitation representatives.)
"What is taking place is that employees are asked to work approximately 35 per hour, and then to take collection routes over and above the previous routes, Bohandler said, "as well as to take on additional work assignments and to give up a substantial amount of pay."
He said the proposal was rejected because sanitation workers couldn't afford such a tremendous loss of income in this period of inflation.
CITTING FIGURES from Jan. 1 to June 7,
Bohlander said the average overtime pay earned on the incentive program was 96
an hour or $163 a month for that period.
Walson pointed out that the staff hadn't tried to figure overtime pay into the salary increase because overtime pay was unevenly distributed among employees.
"At no time did we say we would have salary increase equal to overtime money,"
See SANITATION page twelve
Shocklev confrontation, beer top KU stories in 1975
By DEBBIE GUMP JENIFER OTWELL and CARI YOUNG
A debate involving William Shockley, proponent of a theory that blacks are gentilly inferior to whites in intelligence, was part of a 1923 campaign for campus story of the year by journalist
Shockley, professor emeritus at Stanford University, and co-winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics, was to participate in a SUA sponsored debate with Richard Goldsby, a professor of chemistry and microbiology at the University of Maryland.
editorial and interpretative writing students.
The SUA canceled the debate because of what they called the possible detrimental effects and divisiveness that might arise between blacks and whites. Shockley then offered to appear without charge to discuss his theory.
He was then invited by the History of Science program to speak to graduate students and faculty but a demonstration prevented him from finishing his speech.
More 1975 stories on pages four through seven
entail the elimination of scholarships designated by sex and single sex honor societies. Women athletes, however, appear to be more successful in national support for their programs.
The demonstration began at the Military Science building, where the speech was beaten down, and moved to Strong Hall. The next day the members of the marchers mounted down Jayhawk Boulevard.
An investigation was begun to examine the possibility of charges being made against the Student Code of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities. The code provides that a student could be suspended or instrumental disruption of University activities.
most important campus story. HEW guidelines to Title IX all schools getting Federal funds barred from giving "significant assistance" to organizations that discriminated on the basis of sex and promoted equal opportunities for women
The second biggest campus story was a result of crowds at three local tauren east of campus. The Wagon Wheel Cafe, 507 W. 14th St., the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., and the Bierstube, 1344 Tennessee St., were asked by the Lawrence City Commission to build a new 24-story rowdy crowd game because of the large and sometimes rowdy crowds that gathered in the area.
An argument over an alarm clock in the basement of Lewis Hall last February was voted the third biggest story. Two freshman women charged that they had been touched in a "rude, insolent or angry manner" by several other students.
The fifth highest number of votes was received by the various construction
The $51 million clinical facility at the KU Medical Center, which is scheduled for completion in 1978, the largest construction project in Kansas history. And a $4 million
the District Court, which nullified the conviction and, later, the case was dismissed against three of the students. The fourth was acquitted.
projects at KU, which leads all U.S. universities in new construction.
Congressional passage in July of amendments to The IX of the Higher Education Act.
The Board of Regents was asked to approve the sale of 3.2 beer at the six state-supported colleges and universities. After the K-State football game, the University of Kentucky held a beer on campus. About 250 students attended the opening at the Kansas Union.
Many feared that the guidelines might
Four KU students were found guilty in Douglas County Court of a misdemeanor felony.
See TOP page five
A compromise was reached and an ad was placed in the Kansan that set guidelines for the crowds. It seemed to alleviate the tensions the taverns were allowed to remain open.
By DEBBIE BAUMAN
Gay liberation gives hope to homosexuals
Staff Writer
It's starting to realize that in a city as large and accommodating as Lawrence a large number of residents are forced to live in closets.
The "closet" residents of Lawrence are homosexuals—members of an isolated but cohesive community who hide their sexual identity. They live this way not by choice, but out of necessity in order to avoid persecution. They are the "straight" or heterosexual majority.
OLDER MEMBERS of the Lawrence gay community say that for many years, the closet existence was the only choice for a homosexual who hoped to retain a job and a life in society. The close structure. Heterosexual attitudes toward the gay community haven't changed drastically. Today, however, the older members observe from their dark and optimistic attitude and anticipation as younger sexuales strive for acceptance in society.
Young adult homosexuals are coming out of their closets- or refusing to go in there in the first place—and it's not because of claustrophobia.
"When I first came to Lawrence I assumed a existence because I feared the persecution if anyone was to know my name and that would be a member of the Lawrence gay community."
"IHAD SEEN other homosexuals blackmailed, fired from their jobs and severely beaten by straights. I was willing to avoid that at all cost.
"Then I began to look around here and realize that although homosexuals were not readily accepted in all sections of the Lawrence community, they were making their presence known to straights without violence. Members of the active gay community in Lawrence are trying to help them find support. The Lawrence gay community is trying to work things out and I'm going to stick around and help it happen," he said.
At the outset of gay activism at the
In following months, a law suit was brought against the University for refusal to accept a position as an adjunct faculty organization. F flowers described this time of legal involvement as the climax of political activity in the LGL. It began to subside when the university refused to hear the case on appeal, he said.
Marches on Jayhawk Boulevard and propaganda posters characterized the activities of the first organization, Flowers said. When the LGL began pushing for recognition from the KU administration, flowers mounted and a legal struggle ensued.
University of Kansas in 1971, Lawrence Gay Liberation (LGL) was formed. Although still in existence today, it is much less political than in earlier years, according to the organization's general coordinator, Ron Flowers, Lawrence graduate student.
FLOWERS CAME TO LAWRENCE in the fall of 1972 and the following spring he said he noted a change of perspective within the LGL.
Activities became less political and the fight for recognition was no longer the focus of the mission he said. The focus of activities shifted to establishing better educational and gay counseling services, as well as the training of educators at the entire University community, he said.
TODAY, THE LGL is essentially an informal organization of male homosexuals who plan social activities for the gay community. An educational speakers has also been formed for the development and communication between straight and gay
Recognition is no longer high on the list of LGL priorities.
Because the gay organization isn't recognized by the University, it receives no funding from the Student Union Activities fund. Operating funds are primarily raised through fundraising functions, according to Mark Sramke, Lacombe and a coordinator of LGL social activities.
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