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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. April 8.1980
Nursing home sued for $20,000
The widow of a former University of Kansas professor who was killed while living at Cherry Mountain Convalescent Hospital in excess of $20,000 for damages in excess of $20,000.
Nancy Albrecht, whose husband, Erich, was struck by a car after wandering from Cherry Manor Dec. 10, said yesterday she is still on the public health department's fail to act.
"They were doing nothing," she said. "They were supposed to protect us and it sounded to me that they were protecting the nursing home."
The Douglas County Health Department and found that although Albercev had been restless the day before and the day of the accident, the staff had taken no special precautions.
"However," the county report roads, "there does not appear to have passed an inordinate amount of time between when he
was last seen by staff, and the time of the incident."
According to the report, Cherry Manson staff members last saw Albrecht at 9 p.m. and police reports say the accident occurred at 9:17 p.m.
An organization called Kanans for Improvement of Nursing Homes then compelled the company to relocate Environment, but Richard Morrissey, director of health resources, said his department would take no action against the company and had not violated a licensure requirement.
All homes built before 1977 are exempt from regulations requiring structural integrity requirements. The safety of the residents is not jeopardized, according to Harriet Nehring, secretary of
Mrs. Albrecht's petition, which was filed in district court last week, accused Cherry Manor of negligence and breach of contract.
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Each year around this time, the KU Symphonic Band embarks on its annual spring tour. This year is no exception.
But instead of loading onto buses for a trip to Ottawa, Garden City or Peabody, the band boarded a taxi for Florida yesterday.
Symphonic Band tours in Florida
The band has been invited to perform at the Music Educators National Conference, April 11, in Miami.
"He came backstage after we played and said our performance was wonderful."
"It's just a regular type tour," Robert Bentley said of the trip. "With the Symantec band, in Florida instead of Kansas. The cost of the whole thing is about the same—except for the music."
The band was invited in January 1979, by the Conference's president, George Morian, after a KU performance at the regional conference in Colorado Springs. Colo.
Foster said, "He essentially invited us informally then. Prior to that time, he hadn't given it a thought."
FOSTER DIDNT seek money for the trip until a formal invitation was extended in October. Funds amounting to $30,000 were secured through the School of Fine Arts, the KNU faculty's counsel fund, the Student Senate, the KU band budget and private contributions.
"We were about $9,000 short when the Student Senate came through for us, and a Lawrence individual donated $1,000," Foster said.
Seventy-three band members and six faculty members are making the trip. A truck with the large instruments and percussionists, the Band flew to Tampa, Fla., yesterday.
On Wednesday, they will visit the Ringling Brothers Circus Museum and the Florida State Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota.
"he's kind of a legendary figure among musicians," Foster said. "He was with Ringlings for 50 years. He's also from Kansas, Kan, which a seat-in-tie to KU."
FREDERICK FENNELL, founder of the Eastman Wend Ensemble, will guest conduct a concert in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, April 10.
"Fennell is probably the most famous conductor of wind ensembles in the world," Foster said.
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The tour will culminate with the Friday afternoon performance at the Convention in Miami.
Sate ringing museum at Art in Sarasota.
That evening, Merle Evans, retired Ringling conductor, will guest conduct the band in a circum march.
"It is the single largest and most prestigious music convention there is," Foster said. "We're the only group representing this area this year."
Foster said the exposure would be good for the band and for KU as well.
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A Response to Representative Anderson
At his recent speech at Hoch Auditorium, Rep. John Anderson, according to the Daily Kansas, "got his biggest applause . . . for his response to a question about his stance as a Christian on abortion
'This is not a question of whether you are for or against abortion, it's a question of the individual's right to choose,' he said. 'There is not any reason the state should make that decision for the individual.'
Since when? Is our entire legal structure based on the supremacy of the individually chosen action? Does any thought become law merely by carrying it out? Of course you can do that, and you can also assault, battery, magma, homicide and murder, for example, arise from unacceptable courses of individually chosen action. Theoretically, a course of action becomes legally unacceptable when it impinges on someone else's identity, nearly the case in each of the aforementioned categories.
Broadly speaking, the word abortion refers to the arrest of a developmental process. Justice Blackburn McLaughlin (1972) reported that the plaintiff appeared to recognize that pregnancy was such a process by referring to the fetus during the first six months of pregnancy as "a theory of life" and during the last six months as "an theory of existence." Justice Blackburn McLaughlin's microscope revealed to him gradations of life as yet unrecognized in the scientific community; he also described a theory of life. Encyclopedia published two years after this decision, no mention is made of either "a theory of life" or "potential life" in the material found under the heading "The Maternal Development."
These properties are, acting in concert, the "biological manifestations" of life which means that these same properties cannot appear or function as independent entities. Therefore, once one concedes that the fetus is displaying one of these "biological manifestations" of life, it can be assumed that the fetus is capable of constant properties, one of which is irritability, are present also. Irritability is the capacity to respond to stimuli such as hunger, cold or pain.
Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduce.
In the light of this information let us examine the five kinds of induced abortion. The following descriptions are either paraphased or taken verbatim from Handbook on Intimate Male Fertility. The method involves the insertion of a hollow tube into the uterus with a suction force sufficiently powerful to cure aurette, a loop-shaped steel knife, is inserted up into the uterus and is used to cut the placenta and baby in pieces which are then scraped into a basin. A Prosthetist will induce labor and delivery at whatever stage of pregnancy the woman is. In the saline or salt-poisoning wall of the vagina the abdomen wall of the mother and into the baby's through this needle a concentrated salt solution is injected into the amniotic fluid from which the fetus emerges. It is sometimes convoluted. These babies are sometimes referred to as "candy apple babies" because the corrosive effect of the cone-shaped sail (often burns and stings away a few months) was reduced in red, glazed looking subcutaneous layer. In a hysterotomy the mother's abdomen and uterus are surgically opened, and the fetus is removed.
Obviously each of these five grisly methods is, for at least some period of time, a very painful experience for the fetus. Although foetal development is granted at least partial recognition in most of the Communist countries and elsewhere, it is not so easily accessible to pregnant, here in this country our highest judicial body skirted the reams of information on foetal intrauterine development available to even the mildly curious layman by using the phrases 'a theory of life' and 'potentiation' in her writings. If intracuture fetus is something other than human, as Mr Justice Blackmun, through his terminology implies, then perhaps it follows that the fetus doesn't qualify for constitutional protection. However, throughout both sexes, the process of uterine development there are regularly present the forty-six chromosomes that constitute the human karyotype, and as previously stated, each individual, during both its intrauterine and extraterine existence displays the properties of life. This includes the fact that the fetus is indeed a human being and therefore entitled to constitutional protection. The Eighth Amendment, which prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments and both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which prohibit the deprivation of life without due process, law are each clearly breached in the abortion procedure.
The fairness of the Supreme Court is a matter of record. For instance, the following decisions, Dred Scott v. Sanford in 1857 which concluded that black people were not citizens of citizenship, Pleasy v. Ferguson in 1896 which maintained that whites had no authority to represent the Korematsu v. United States in 1944 which upholded the uprouting and confinement of an ethnic group solely because of their ancestry, are generally regarded as having been without logical foundation. That is, the relevant instance was of an African-American in order to reach a conclusion consistent with our constitutional precepts. Instead, each decision was a surrender to a myopic but energetically propounded point of view and only compounded the particular problem in question. It is not incidental to add that the injustices prolonged by these decisions pales alongside the results legalized abortion.
"The whole psychiatric psycbabble approach to major social problems makes me cringe. It puts the responsibility on the person who often is least powerful. It smacks of blaming the victim."
The abortion movement, the goal of which is "reproductive freedom" could have been, but was not the object of Eleni Goodman's attention in a recent column when she said:
For the past ten years, we have had a tendency to look at a lot of our problems as personal, private, psychological when they may be environmental, social, public."
I assume, from Ms. Goodman's opening sentence, that "the principle of freedom" is not an example of "psychiatric psychotherapy." I don't understand.
rect, of which genre of "psychobabble" is it an example? Although Ms. Goodman, in her second and third sentences, professes to be horrified by the misapplication of on-demand which is the epitome of just such a misapplication. In her final sentence Ms. Goodman inadvertently but accurately describes the phenomenon her philanthropic endeavor demands on-demand which is the epitome of just such a pregnancy*. While of course such an occurrence is of great importance and concern to the unwilling carrier and becomes, as a result, a very real personal problem, it has been called an "unfortunate circumstance and the manifold ramifications that flow from it, become an 'environmental, social, public' problem. Any problem which qualifies for a description will not be effectual". This is why she must have led to its emergence. The most important of all those contributing variables is the use of the abortion process as a solvent. Please let me hasten to add that I am not familiar with the history of whose concern with the rights of the individual is genuine. However, she, like most of those who view the act of abortion as a expression of freedom, has not yet discovered the reason for her concern in the excerpt from her column refers to a consequence of the misuse of concentrated power, is not the suffering and subsequent death of an innocent, defenseless and subsequent dead of an innocent, being the ultimate example of such irresponsibility?
The preceding commentary has been designed, not to indict but to clarify, to point out that our entire societal framework should be responding to the phenomenon of the "unwanted child" in a manner borne of concern and interest. This is an issue that is news week magazine, in reviewing a book entitled History of the Idea of Progress by Robert Nisbet, interpreted thusly.
"The idea of progress, he insists, holds that man has advanced from some aboriginal condition, is now advancing and will continue to advance, improving his material and spiritual conditions so that he may be able to conceive the future," he notes at the time of the Greeks, these propositions have derived from five major premises; 'belief in the value of the past; conviction of the nobility, even superiority of Western civilization; acceptance of the worth of economic and technological growth; faith in reason ... and the importance of faith.'<sup>1</sup> The ineffable worth of life on this earth.
In the Soviet Union the government, despite the freedom of speech promised the citizenry in the Soviet Constitution, responds to critical commentary by increasing the right to life promised in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, will, upon request, actively take part in the elimination of an innocent individual. In both of these cases the ruling apparatus, in spite of a written commitment from the people, declares basic freedom. In response to a previous example of acquiescence Langton Hughes, in a poem entitled The Black Man Speaks, penned a few lines that, from the viewpoint of the victim, are as relevant today in the modern world to any racism before the machinery of institutionalized racism
"I swear to the Lord I still can't see
Why Democracy means Everybody but me."
The Reverend Charles Carroll, Protestant chaplain to the University of Californiat at Berkley, had this to say about him:
"As I would reject the law of paterlamitans of ancient Rome, so I would also object to the proposed changes in the laws of the state, would not sympathize with the grant by the state of the power of life and death of his offspring to the Roman father, so I cannot sympathize with the grant of life and death of his offspring to the American mother."
Each year since the Supreme Court's 1973 decision has seen an increase in the number of legal abortions. This growing reliance on such a destructive mechanism brings some concern to those given in Webster's Third International Dictionary.
When Rep. Anderson calls for a spirit of self-sacrifice and willingness to "defier the instinct for immediate self-secrecy in order to protect our child from the port of the abortion process the need for which grows out of a failure to exhibit any such spirit or exercise of the will is clearly visible."
mass of tissue possessed of potentially unimaginable potential, the body, and unless recognized early and re-
Consider instead, striving for the goal described in this excerpt from an effort entitled Induced Abortion, A Documentary Report prepared by the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life:
"We must move toward creating a society in which material pursuits are not the end of our lives; where no child is hungry or neglected; where even defective children are valuable because they call forth our power to love and serve without reward, instead of harming them; where we can teach which make life intolerable. Then, every child, regardless of its capabilities or the circumstances of his birth, would be welcomed, loved and cared for."
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