THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.71
December 9.1975
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Clown holds key to world of wonders
By JIM COBB
Staff Writer
"Boo Boo Wears Seven Hats" was the
heading of another newspaper "was
on an article about a girl who
Boo Boo is Patnole's trade name and the seven hats refer to the number of jobs he was involved with at the time. Since coming to Lawrence, Boo Boo has retired several of his hats but he still has many interests, including the art of clowning.
Patnode, the owner of Sta-Kleen Janitorial Service and night supervisor of custodial services in the Kansas Union, still dons the red nose, face paint and zany costumes of the clowning profession. Most recently he wife and two children attended a Haitian training at Cardinal School and that evening entertained patrons of some Lawrence bars.
BOO BOO WAS created in 1959 when Patrowde was 26 years old. Patches, a notable clown on the West Coast and in Alaska and a family friend, asked Patrowde to clown with him and he's been doing it ever since.
"Glowing is a beautiful thing," he said in a recent interview. "I just want to make *deep* connections."
Patnode, as Boo Boo the clown, has appeared in rodeos, parades, circuses, fairs, on stage, at charity events and in "garden opening" commercial promotions. He also had a children's television show in Anchorage, Alaska, in the early 1960s.
"I always wanted to be a comedian," he said, "and I still do. So I become a clown."
In LAWRENCE Patnose has been joined in clowing by his wife, Pat, Bill Evans, Lawrence senior; Paula Southern, Lawrence special student and secretary at the Union bookstore; and Joan Grosdidier, employee and employee of the Union catering service.
Of medium height, with slicked-back
burning hair and no facial wrinkles. Patrole
is indeed well visible.
But when he laughs— a jolly, clownish,
Santa Clause bells laugh— it easy to
imagine
Born in Seattle and raised in Alaska, Patnude attended military school in Portland, Ore., served four years in the Air Force and worked at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, before beginning his clowning career.
THE HAS CLOWNED throughout the
northeast, from Florida to Canada, mainly
in Alaska. Hawkeye and Calhoun.
His first clowning experiences came on the rodeo circuit as a rodeo clown. A rodeo clown's primary purpose is to protect the cowboys by distracting bulls. He also performs skits between riders and shows, Patrode said.
While in California from 1962 to 1970 Patrone found much success as a down. In Hesperia he founded an independent five-member troupe called the Hesperia Clowns and because of the great demand for clowns in the movie industry, they performed frequently, he said.
BRAHMAN BULLS are the meaniest and most dangerous to work with, Patronode said, because they can jump a six-foot-floor fence. A clown once worked with was horned in the rear while running from a bull never clawed with a bull again, he said.
Patnode said he considered his appearance in the televised Santa Claus Lane Parade in Hollywood on Christmas Day, 1969, as the peak of his career. It was an
"It works fine unless he mad," he said, "but you'd better made damn sure you did."
Working with bulls could be dangerous, he said, but a clown can outmaneuver a bull or bib it back by pushing his hand against the animal's nose. Another tactic is to run ahead, stop abruptly and wheel around to meet the bull face-to-face and bib it back.
See CLOWN page nine
Staff Photos by DON PIERCE
Clowning around
Dennis Patmode, owner of Sta-Kleen Jumitorial Service and night supervisor of custodial services in the Kansas Union, demonstrates his transformation into Boo Boo the clown. Patmode first applies a layer of greasepaint, dusts it with powder, and adds a personal touch by drawing two large teeth on her lower lip. Patmode 'clown face' is registered.
Exploratory surgery due on Med Center charges
BY DIANE WILSON and BILL SNIFFFEN Stuart Writhers
An "intensive assessment" of circumstances surrounding the KU Medical Center's halt of heart surgery will be conducted by David Robinson, acting executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, according to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes.
Specifically, the investigation will look into charges by Robert L. Reis, chief of cardiovascular surgery, that atmospheric conditions in two of the seven operating rooms of the Med Center are unsafe for heart surgery. Dykes said yesterday.
DYKES SAID the purchase of new equipment to improve operating-room conditions depended upon legislative approval of a $1 million additional fund request, which was approved last month by the Board of Regents.
Saturday, Robinson ordered the halt to heart surgery after Reis and his associate, Hammer Hannah, refused to perform the operation allegedly unsafe conditions were corrected.
That increased request was necessary, Dykes said, to pay for rising costs of materials and supplies, the increasing number of patients treated by the Med Center and "increase in the sophistication of medical care."
Patients needing heart surgery will be advised to go to another hospital, Dykes said, until heart surgery is started again at the Med Center.
"There really isn't any choice," he said, unless the Med Center was willing to run the team.
REES SAID THAT within the past two months two heart surgery patients had aortic stent.
One patient died, he said. The other patient was in serious condition, but Reis said he hadn't checked that patient's condition in several daws.
Ress said he wouldn't attribute the two patients' infections to unsafe operating facilities.
Robinson declined to comment last night, and Loren J. Humphrey, chairman of the surgery department, couldn't be reached for comment.
Reis said that heart surgery had been cancelled because there were no remaining margins for error in the treatment of heart patients, or the operating room or in cardiac care.
HE SAID THAT until last week, inadequate air circulation and temperature control in the operating room had been compensated for by high-quality, closely controlled intensive care for post-surgical heart patients.
But, Rees said, Humphrey admitted into an intensive care unit last week two intubations.
The infected patients were a hazard to the heart patients, who were susceptible to the infection.
nected directly into their hearts and exposed to the room atmosphere these sites.
"WHEN A DOCTOR faces these choices, there is only one decision he can make." Reis said. "My main concern is the fact that he be no compromise when dealing with them."
The atmospheric problems in the operating room have continued for some time.
It is essential to have the air change in the operating room 25 times an hour during open heart surgery, he said, because the heart is directly exposed to the room air and room air is bubbled into the patient's blood during the surgery.
A DEVICE that is put into the heart during surgery sucks blood from inside the heart and sends it to a heart-lung machine, Reis said. The machine mixes the blood with oxygen and then passes it to the patient, complete with whatever germs were in the room air, he said.
About 100 gallons of room air are put into a patient's blood during each operation, he said. For that reason, safety standards for heart surgery are necessarily much higher
During Reis' latest operation, the air was exchanged only-six or seven times an hour, Reis said, as opposed to the recommended level of 25 times an hour.
AND, REIS SAID, during some recent operations, the air circulation system broke down completely, so surgery was per- mitted without any air changes in the room.
Reis halted heart surgery 19 months ago, when the air-change system broke down. He was fired, then filed a $8 million lawsuit to the Med Center for contractual violations.
than those for other kinds of surgery, Reis said.
Reis was rehired at the Med Center.
That lawsuit was dismissed by the Kansas City, Kan., district court on Oct. 1 for lack of patience.
The "existing antiques" in the operating room were modified to handle about 12 air-conditioners.
Band gets donations; fund drive to continue
By BILL UYEKI
But the air-cooling system was affected in the process, Reis said.
THE AIR TEMPERATURE around the exposed heart is a critical factor, Ries said.
more than $3,840 in contributions has been collected and the fund-raising drive for the KU Marching Band's Sun Bowl trip will continue this week, according to Jim Martin, director of program development at Kansas University Endowment Association.
Martin said that a telephone campaign would be conducted Wednesday and Thursday this week and Monday and Friday by members of the Chamber of Commerce.
See MED page nine
He complimented students, alumni and Lawrence residents for their support in the "Pesos for El Paso" drive for the Dec. 26 game against the University of Pittsburgh.
"We're pleased but we've got a long way to go," Martin said yesterday.
After receiving $2,000 from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation (KUAC), $5,000 from the Student Senate and $3,000 from band members' stipends, the "Pesos for El Paso" drive needs more than $15,000 for the band's expenses to and from the game.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS involved in the project are the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, the Lawrence Quarterback Club, the Lawrence Jayhawk Quarterback Club, the Alumni Band, the Alumni Association and KLWN radio station.
Feedback said to have outgrown effectiveness
Staff Writer
By BILL SNIFFEN
Phil McKnight, director of Instructional Resources, said the three functions needed
Feedback could still be an effective diagnostic method, he said, but questionaires should be designed with the individual course in mind.
But with the addition of statistical data and an overextension of its use, Feedback now is a "tangled-up mess," according to Dennis Embrury, member of the Feedback advisory committee and Lawrence graduate student.
To aid students in selecting their courses, a "course selection guide," separate from
Besides Feedback's use as an aid in student course selection, it is also used in instructional materials.
a separate approach and possibly separate booklets.
About the use of Feedback for evaluating teachers for merit salary increases, McKnight said, "I've never felt comfortable using feedback to improve our purpose. We've仑enated a Calvinistic image."
The selected questions would then go through a "cafeteria system" in the computer and the computer would print out a list of the selected questions, McKnight
As an aid to students in the selection of courses, Feedback is too technical, Caligaurd said. And as a method of feedback, Feedback isn't technical ground, be said.
Those two additional uses have turned Feedback into what Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, called "a bunch of numbers."
When the Curriculum and Instruction Survey, Feedback, began six years ago, it appeared in the form of a small, unannounced study conducted by a few aid students in the selection of courses.
creases and for diagnostic evaluation of a teacher's classroom weaknesses and needs
"I don't think it's successful at all," Caload said.
See FEEDBACK page ten
Creation of an "item bank", a large, computerized list of questions, would allow the instructor to select those questions most relevant to his course, McKnight said.
Proposed changes in Feedback include dropping the use of Feedback from teacher evaluation for merit salary increases, increasing the percentage of students printing a separate booklet for students.
"Every course is different," he said.
There are as many different styles of cooking as there are courses.
Glenn West, executive vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that there would be more than 20 callers each night of the campaign.
West said that he was optimistic about the telephone fund project.
"WE HAVE NO other choice," he said,
"plain to keep calling until we raise
enough money."
Prairie Gray, owner of Prairie Gray's Jazz Place, 92% Massachusetts St., said that he was looking forward to the fund raising event from 8 to 12 tonight and tomorrow night.
"We're really confident," Gray said, "that with the students' attitudes about the battlefield, we can win."
The Gaslight Gang Dixielight Band will pay, he said, and there will be free beer and petitions.
According to Bob Newton, operations manager for KLW radio station, KLW has been helping spread the fund raising effort statewide.
HE SAID THAT Hank Booth, general manager for the station, sent an announcement to be aired on more than 75 websites. He also requested donations to help fund the band's trio.
Newton said that locally the band had received much news coverage by KLWN.
Some University officials responded to claims by some band members that KUAC had prevented the band members from conducting a fund raiser.
Dil Shankar, executive vice chancellor,
has said that there was no KUAC regulation
in connection with the decision.
ROBERT FOSTER, director of bands, and Martin both emphasized that KUAC was "cooperating fully" with the fund raising efforts.
"KUAC, along with other groups," Foster said, "is doing everything they can by cooperating with the Endowment Association's fund drive."
Head football coach Bud Moore said that the team valued having the band at the Sun Bay.
"We're always aware of the band being there," Moore said. "We've appreciated them often."
Desegregation plans split suburbs, inner city further
By THERESE MENDENHALL
Staff Writer
Kansas City is surrounded by bedroom communities.
Overland Park, Leawood and Mission Hills, for instance, are isolated from the central city, and yet they have the same grocery stores and buy their groceries and send their children to school. But their sustenance comes from the city. Every day the breadwinner drives into the heart of the city to feed his family with money that feeds, clothes and shellers his family.
Because of a recent trend toward suburban self-sufficiency, much of the money that was earned in the city is spent in the suburbs, and the city is left with many features of poverty. One of them is a struggling school district that serves more than its share of minority students.
BOTH THE KANASS CITY, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., school districts are defending themselves against federal allegations of racial segregation. Both districts are responding that the suburbs have
If the suburbs aren't a part of the remedy, say the districts, desegregation will be ineffective. Both districts have reached the 40 per cent "tipping" threshold in order to enter the court. Court has recognized that when black enrollment in any school approaches 40 per cent, white students begin to flee to the suburbs and to private schools, and desegregation the proportion of black students in the Kansas City, Kan., School District is higher than in the city.
contributed to the de facto segregation and that the suburbs should plav a part in the remedy.
THE SUIT IN THE KANSAS City, Kan., School District charges the district with segregation of staff, faculty and students. A U.S. district court is hearing the last days of testimony in the suit, which was filed almost two and one-half years ago by the Board of Justice against the Board of Education.
In Kansas City, Mo. the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW) has threatened to
stop providing free health care for children.
city submits a desegregation plan that will assign to each school an enrollment of two-thirds black students and one-third white students. Hearings on an administrative law judge began this week.
IF HEW wins either suit, the losing district will be required to desegregate. Both districts are asking the federal courts to order a metropolitan desegregation plan as a compromise. A metropolitan plan would require at least some of the districts' students to be excluded by exchanging students and combining funds.
THE PLAN WOULD mean either forced assignment of students to schools where their race was in a minority or changing curricula at some of the schools to attract students on a voluntary basis.
And while the lawyers and scholars are fighting the desegregation battle on paper, parents, teachers and students are preparing to deal with desersecution in fact.
A group called the Community Task Force on School Dessertation has organized in the Kansas
The task force finished choosing the member organizations and electing officers in late November and will soon begin to consider options for desergeteing the Kansas City schools.
THE TASK FORCE IS COMPOSED of 65 community representatives; one teacher and four parent representatives elected in each of the district's six subdistricts, one student elected in each of the district's 11 high schools and one representative from each of 24 selected city organizations.
City, Mo., School District in hopes that the district can keep the battle on paper and out of the schools. The group, authorized in a July 23 policy statement of the Kansas City, Mo., Board of Education, was assigned the task of formulating desegregation both for the district and for the metropolitan area.
A series of interviews of task force members on the question of metropolitan desegregation indicated that many thought a metropolitan plan would solve their problems and that some were sure it wouldn't.
All agreed on one matter; however, the primary concern of the school district should be the quality of education of the students affected by the desegregation.
CURTIS GRAYER, a senior and a student representative from all-black Lincoln High School in subdistrict 4 and sergeant at arms of the task force to assist with the investigation inferior to those of Vorn Horn, a white high school. Boys and girls share a gymnasium at Lincoln, he said, laboratory facilities are minimal and textbooks often are inadequate. He said that last year his chemistry class didn't receive textbooks until
Grayer, a senior and National Merit Commended engineer, has been hired as an engineering study program assistant at the university's last summer and discovered that his background was substantially inferior to that of his classmates.
"Wisconsin made me feel strong about interruption." he said.
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