THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 105
Friday March 3,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Mann says he's staying at KU post
Staff Writer
By BRIAN SETTLF
Richard Mann, University director of institutional research and information services at the U.S. National Institutes of Health
Rumors that originated in Topeka had said Mama W was leaving KU to become a doctor at Texas Tech.
However, Mann, who has been at KU since November 1976, said Wednesday that any rumors about his leaving KU were false.
"I'm a higher education man," he said. "I intend to stay that way."
Mann said the rumor apparently started with the introduction of bill 522 by the Kansas Senate Legislative Budget Committee.
The proposed legislation would have put all computing for both executive agencies and Board of Regents institutions in one centralized unit in Tokeka.
The Regents, Mann said, proposed an amendment to the bill that would let the Regents have the authority to have their own computing system for Regents institutions, which will be run by the Senate and is currently in the House Ways and Means Committee.
MANN SAID he thought he knew how his name was associated with the state office.
"The whole thing started when the governor's task force asked me to give some advice on how to organize the system within executive agencies." he said.
Mann said that when the task force recommended to the governor and committee that a computer system be initiated, he instructed them to include the Regents institutions in the bill.
However, this inclusion was not favorably
people involved with the Reeds institution.
"There was never a problem with the computing of the universities," Mann said. "Involving higher education would do nothing but make it more complex for the executive agencies, who do not have a problem."
MANN SAID THAT because of the different structure that Kansas universities had, it would not make sense to have them go through the trouble of coming to Topeka each time they wanted to put a program on a computer.
Mann testified several times against the provisions of the bill dealing with the Regents institutions. The bill now allows the Regents to force a fee hand in managing computer needs.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary that Managed at a Friday afternoon that Managed at aKI
"The people in Topea are impressed with the Von Ende said. 'But he's staying here.'
See MANN page 13
Snow guard
Harold Dotson, 151W, 2nd St. found that an umbrella came in handy in a heavy snowfall. Didoton tests as a safety pathway at the intersection of Iowa and Harvard streets.
Dorm residents hired to enforce parking regulations on Daisy Hill
By ALLENHOLDER
Staff Writer
More frequent ticketing faces people who park without permits near the residence
Sam Zweifel, assistant resident director of Templin Hall, said yesterday that nine Templin residents had been hired three weeks ago to enforce the two-hour limit that a car without a Daisy Hill sticker can be parked in residence hall lots.
Only Templin residents applied for the jobs, be said.
Until two weeks ago, as many as one-fourth of the cars parked in front of Tempelin did not have permits, Zweifel said. The Temlinil lot has spaces for about 90 cars.
Parking problems, he said, still occur but we diminished since parking regulations became mandated.
ZWEIFEL SAID he thought many commuters parked in the Daisy Hall lots and rode buses to campus. He said the problem was with the campus since new Green Hall opened in November.
He said that although unstickery cars usually were parked in the lots longer than two hours, many times they were not ticketed.
Ll E.W. Fenstemaker of the KU Police said a manpower shortage allowed many of those cars to go unattended. Fenstemaker said he was driving an unstickered car and was supposed to come back in two hours to see whether that car was still there but was often delayed in getting it.
However, Zwiefel said some of the unstucked cars could have belonged to guests of students who lived in residence halls. The students should be registered at the balls he said.
OTHER HALLS on Daisy Hill also had parking problems.
Zweibel said the parking lots at McCollum and Elsworth walls also were very crowded. Some residents of those halls have been forced to park in the Daisy Hill extension, west of Iowa Street, which frequently has been vandalized.
Zwelfel said he would like to see a parking policy for沙县 Daisy Hill that would mandate that illegally parked cars be immediately迟缓 with a two-hour grace period.
He said the two-hour period could be given to unstickened cars at night.
Cars without permits now can be parked at night in Daisy Hill lots without being in view.
BETTER PUBLICITY of parking regulations also could lessen the problem.
Zwiefel said guests of residents could register the cars and park in the lot for them.
Students who temporarily borrowed their parents' cars can get free temporary permits from the parking office in Hoechle. Students can park in residence hall lots for two weeks.
Fenstemaker said KU police used a lot of students to patrol campus parking lots, particularly those lots near scholarship halls and residence halls.
Expansion of medical programs could alleviate doctor shortages
Bv NANCY DRESSLER
Staff Writer
Several programs that could ease Kansas' doctor shortages might not be expanded unless legislators grant requests for funding increases. In January the requests were denied by the governor's budget recommendations.
Requests for increased funding for the programs by the Kansas Board of Regents are part of the University of Kansas Medical Center budget.
The Med Center budget probably will
expansion of the programs, in the areas of family practice and outreach in the state, are part of a recent effort by legislators and doctors to practice medicine in Kansas.
Outreach and family practice programs have the goal of improving health care in Kansas by responding to community health care needs and recruiting doctors to practice in the state, according to the Regents' budget requests.
A subcommittee made up of members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee visited the Med Center Tuesday to discuss the need for a meeting with Med Center and University officials.
THE MED CENTER operating budget for fiscal year 1979 proposed to Gov. Robert F. Bennett that the Negents is about $103 million. The budget is to GDP budget to the legislature is about $89 million.
come before the full Ways and Means Committee next week.
One of the proposed funding increases would expand the office of rural health programs to include a program to encourage doctors to return to the Med Center for in-depth medical education programs and be paid for their practices for the one-month programs.
INCREASED FUNDING also would provide stipends to medical students who agree to work in rural areas of the state for three-month periods under community
Additionally, improvements in recruiting doctors to rural areas, expanding opportunities for medical students to practice in Kansas and encouraging Med Center faculty to travel throughout the state and other regions is essential part of the promised expansion of the office.
Another 'proposed expansion would modify a rural health institute in Chanate, a village in northwestern Turkey.
The institute, which serves nine counties, would be expanded to more effectively recruit doctors to the area and also provide a training area for medical students.
In the area of family practice, the Regents have requested increased funding to expand the family practice faculty at the Med Center.
THREE MORE faculty members are needed, the request said, to accommodate an expected increase in students and patients involved in the program by 1979.
A fourth and new program proposed by the Regents would set up four regional health education centers throughout the rural areas of the state to improve the professional environment and thus promote student success in practice in these areas, the request said.
However, the four programs were not included among the recommended for use in schools.
HE SAID an effort was being made to get funding increases restored to the budget for the program.
Richard Von Ende, University executive secretary, said yesterday that the funding requests for the four programs were top priority in the Med Center budget.
"We're trying to get those cuts restored to the budget." Von Ende said. "They are an important part to the total effort to attract doctors to the state."
Another recent effort to attract doctors to underserved areas of the state is a scholarship bill now in the Kansas House of Representatives.
The bill would pay medical students who agreed to practice in these areas. The bill now awaits approval by the House before it can go to the governor for his signature.
See EXPANSION page five
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Vance
Park reportedly exposes influence-buying operatio
WASHINGTON—Tongans Park reportedly began giving details of an alleged influence-buying operation to the House Ethics Committee yesterday and Leon Jaworski, the committee's special counsel, met with Secretary of State Cyrus Wenau in an effort to get South Korean officials' testimony. See story page two.
Raise in retirement age expected
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance confirmed yesterday that two Soviet generals were helping to direct Ethiopian and Cuban forces in their war with Somalia, but President Jimmy Carter had he a "firm commitment" from Ethiopia and Russia that the combined forces would not cross the border into Somalia in pursuing invaders from that country. See story page two.
WASHINGTON - House-Senate conferences agreed yesterday on a bill that would force private businesses to raise their mandatory retirement age from 65
Congressional leaders said final passage of the bill should come this month and President Jimmy Carter was expected to sign it without hesitation. See
Weather
Vance confirms Soviet intervention
Temperatures will remain low today with the highs in the upper teens and a low tonight near zero. Skies will be clearing today and tonight and should be clear tomorrow.
The KU Go Club spends its midweek evenings practicing its strategy in a game that might be more demanding than chess. Go is an Oriental import, played with a cross-hatched board and small markers as one player tries to block off territory and outwit his opponent. See story page 11.
Locally...
Light snow developing Friday in western Kansas should move into Lawrence Saturday or Sunday. High temperatures Sunday should be in the low 30s and low
Jail death spurs alcohol unit action
By LUCY SMITH
Staff Writer
Alcoholics often end up in the Douglas County Jail because no one in the county has the facilities to deal with them.
Such was the case with 43-year-old Lennis Eugene Johnson, who died in the county jail Feb. 19 from a lung infection caused by
several broken ribs, Douglas County Sheriff, Rex Johnson said yesterday.
Laurance Price, county coroner, said the autopsy showed that Johnson had suffered the broken ribs sometime before he was admitted to the tail Feb. 15.
Because of Johnson's death, the Douglas County jail committee met yesterday to discuss problems with alcoholism in Lawrence.
The committee plans to meet with the
Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board March 16 to discuss establishing a detoxification unit at the hospital.
"1 forse alcoholism as becoming a bigger problem in the future than we've ever had,"
Johnson said he would have statistics on how many drunks had been held in the county last year.
Winter is one of city's worst
People who can remember swimming in lakes instead of skating on them may find some comfort in knowing that they have one of Lawrence's worst winters on record.
Johnson said he thought the need for a
According to John Cessarich, University of Kansas weather observer, the Lawrence area was 10.5 degrees under its average temperature for the first two months of 1978 and has had 24 inches of snowfall this winter.
THE RECORD accumulation of snowfall,
in inches, occurred in 1982, compared to this value
for the preceding year.
Bruce Beale, director of the Douglas County Citizens Committee on Alcoholism, said his committee had been talking with representatives of Lawrence Memorial Hospital and was in agreement that a local detoxification unit was needed.
detoxification unit at the hospital was increasing.
A snowstorm on Jan. 14, 1962 dumped 14 inches of snow on Lawrence, compared to this year's Feb. 13 storm, which left 10 inches of snow.
The nearest detoxification unit is at the Topeka State Hospital.
Cessarich said that the weather conditions that brought 4.5 inches of snow to Lawrence yesterday also are forecast for Saturday night and Sunday.
AREAS WEST of the Rocky Mountains, however, have experienced milder-than normal weather. Salt Lake City had its winter on record, with a 38 degree average.
"We've had two four-inch snowfalls and one 10-inch snowfall this winter, whereas usually we only have one big eight-inch snowfall." Cessar said.
The December-through-February period was the coldest on record in cities such as Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; Key West, Fla.; and North Platte, Neb.
Mrs. Green!
Staff Photo by ELIREICHMAN
Since the recent completion of the new KU law building, there have been many arguments about the moving of the Jimmy Green statue from the old law building to the new site at 15th and Engel Road. A handful of law students think they found the
solution to the problem. With yesterday's snowfall, Robert Weems, second year law student, and a few friends created their own version of the infamous statue. The project took about three hours to complete and is entitled "Woman in Law."