University Daily Kansan
Thursday, October 30, 1975
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KANSAS CITY, Kan.-The KU Medical Center has received more than $11 million in research and training grants in the past fiscal year, an increase of 47 per cent over the previous year. Paul R. Schloer, dean for research, said yesterday.
"The increase in research funding is despite curtailments in federal funds due to inflation pressures," he said. "The impressive increase in funds is a real medicaid Med Center faculty members who made the successful grant applications."
The Med Center receives several kinds of grants with some regularity, Scholeb said, including individual research and project grants, clinical research grants and institutional research grants.
RESEARCH PROJECTS funded by grants are numerous and varied. Schloer said. Current projects include research on pharmacologic interventions, functions, on development and perfection of drugs and medicines, on new diagnostic techniques, on classification of hormonal disorders, on psychiatric and behavioral disorders, on infectious diseases and on contraception.
The Med Center received $2,518,161 in research grants, he said, for 153 different projects. He said 248 applications had been submitted.
Federal capitation grants, awarded on a per-student basis, are used by the Med
Center to help pay the cost of training doctors. The grants were created to increase the number of doctors being trained, he said. The federal government gives the grants with strings attached. Federal requirements led to the Med Center's increasing its incoming class from 163 to 200 students this year, Schloerb said.
HE SAID THAT CONGRESS was now considering making capitation grants, about $1,500 per medical student, contingent upon 20 per cent of the first year students promising to practice medicine in rural Kansas after graduation.
The $1,100,000 in capital grants the Med Center received last year was $600,000 short of its request, he said. The underfunding caused increased tuition, cost and expense, supplemental money from the state legislature and a lot of worry, he said.
Training grants are help to give训 medical researchers, Schloerb said. The grant supports the staff's supplies and faculty salaries, among other things, he said, and the grants also helped pay the cost of training people in occupational therapy, dietetics, nutrition and research.
"WE MUST TRAIN people if medical research is to progress and survive," he said.
Two per cent of the national health budget is spent for research, he said, a percentage no corporation would consider large enough.
"We need a larger percentage for the
Hiked fuel costs predicted for KU
By BILL SNIFFEN
Last week's natural gas rate-increase could boost the University of Kansas' gas bill by about $7,800 this winter, but the extra cost won't present a problem if supplemental aid requests are approved by the state legislature.
"The cost increase was something we had expected, and had built into our request to the Board of Regents," according to Keith Herth, vice chancellor for business affairs.
The Lawrence City Commission last week granted a rate increase of 4.05 cents per thousand cubic feet of gas to the Kansas Public Service (KPS) Gas Co., Inc., effluent treatment plant in Fargo, N.D., an increase in the University's gas bill because of this price change.
Nitcher said yesterday that the expected increase in yearly gas costs had been $161,411. That figure was included in a supplemental aid request made to the Department of Energy Regents approved the request and submitted it to the legislature.
Those figures reflect both an anticipated reduction in consumption and an increase in
Last winter's KU gas bill (November,
1974-February, 1975) was $177,778. The total
gas bill for the 1975 fiscal year was $342,756.
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energy cost of heating is the winter coat of gas at $20,024. The estimate for
the entire year was $145,745.
"It's going to cause some problems. It's going to more of a problem than energy available."
According to Richard Perkins, maintenance engineer at Buildings and Grounds, 88 per cent of the University's natural gas powers the central power plant, which supplies heat to most KU buildings. Perkins said that there were exceptions, including one building at University and Fowler Hall, which has its own gas system
ACCOUNTING TO BOB Allison, KPS plant manager, the University is an interruptible server.
gas shortage, the University's gas might be shut off to supply individual consumers. Allison said he didn't expect a shortage of natural gas this year.
Twice last year the University's gas was shut off.
On both occasions the University had to rely upon its reserve supply of fuel oil. Nitcher said that 20,000 gallons a day heated the university buildings, at a daily cost of $7,000.
The Med Center also relies on a general research support grant each year, he said, because it can decide how to spend that money.
The supplemental request will be made at Gov. Robert F. Bennett's budget hearing on Nov. 18, an then before the House Ways and Spends Committee, to Del. Sandler, executive vice chancellor.
The University now has a reserve supply of about 500,000 gallons of fuel oil, Nichter gas.
"If the State legislature says no, we'll have some hard choices to make," Shankel said.
sake of our own health," Schobar said. The Fund Center received $2,518,163 from the agency.
Sankel said the University would then consider several options, including closing down research projects, shutting down research projects, increasing the semester break to keep buildings closed longer during the winter months, moving them out of dormition, or a combination of these measures.
Shankel said that if the situation became critical some of the nearly $500,000 in extra student fees that the University is seeking authority to spend could be used.
General research grant money has been spent for computer services, animal care and partial faculty salaries, he said. At UC Davis, he works with a faculty-elected research committee, which has given the money to individuals for research projects, he said. Those grants usually have gone to new young faculty members to help them begin research, he said.
IN ADDITION TO GRANTS the Med Center applies for, it receives grants from the Kansas University Endowment Association. Those grants are made available by private donors who determine how strings will be attached to them, be said.
some clinical fees collected at the hospital are put into the Endowment Association as corporation funds, which can be drawn for research, he said.
But use of the additional funds would require consultation from both the board of directors and the president, and add that
Endowment grants aren't included in the $11 million total grant figure.
Nitcher summed up the complex situation saying, "It all depends on the weather."
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TOPEKA (AP)-A prosecution witness said "Dick" Docking was the person he heard discuss a $20,000 contribution to his brother's 1972 re-election campaign when architects and engineers met with state officials in March of that year.
Charles C. Campbell was the third president of Richard Malloy College, the bribery center of Richard Malloy College, chairman of the board of Marshall and Brown, a Kansas City architectural firm and the anchor company of the combine Medical Center of University of Kansas Medical Center contract.
$30,000 gift focus in kickback trial
Malloy, 40, is accused of accepting a $30,000 contribution destined for former Gov. Robert B. Docking's 1972 campaign. Architects and engineers allegedly pledged to fund the initial $80,000 design contract on expansion work at the MED Center in early 1972.
Campbell said no contribution was sought from the firms who got the first phase of the contract. Mr. Campbell, in the struc-tion contract, worth $13 million, was awarded to his firm a year later. The second contract was awarded before an inquishment pertained into the award of the first contract.
Campbell had a charge of conspiracy to
Former State Architect Kenneth R. McLain testified that the first conversation he had with anyone about the firm that received the Med Center contract in 1972 was with "Dick" Docking. McLain was the second witness called by the state.
Dick Docking is among those still charged with conspiracy to bribe Mallov.
in opening statements yesterday Robert Tilton, Malloy's attorney, said the defense evidence would show that McLain and a former architectural partner, Norbert J. Sidorikow, masterminded the scheme to attack Malloy so that he could have an prestigious business when McLain no longer was state architect.
Testimony resumes today, with Robert F. Brantd, former state secretary of administration, expected to be called by the state.
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commit bribery dismissed against him last Monday when one of his firms, Marshall Petroleum, charged the same bribery charge and was fined $5,000. He repeated much of the testimony he had given in an earlier trial that resulted in three several defendants in the kickback case.
Campbell said at first that he was “quite positive” the contribution figure $30,000, being requested from the architects and engineers was mentioned by Dock Docking. He amended his attribution to ask it was his “best recollection” that it was Dick Docking.
At a meeting on March 2, 1972, at a Kansas City, Kan., motel, Campbell said, he recalled Dick Docking, then treasurer of his committee, talking about contributions.
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