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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 90, No. 97
Thursday, February 21. 1980
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Bill may prevent easing of Kansas doctor shortage
By SCOTT FAUST Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A bill before the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee that may limit the number of Kansas medical scholarships could prevent the easing of the state's doctor shortage, Richard Von Ende, secretary to the chancellor, said yesterday.
Testifying for the House Ways and Mouse Committee, Von Eindie said he would have to be present at each committee scholarship recipients to practice in Kansas for a certain period of time.
He said that the state lacked between 1,000 and 2,000 doctors and that the existing scholarship program provided new doctors for the state.
The bill, sponsored by the Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, originally stopped the distribution of medical scholarships beginning with the
class of 1984, but was amended last year by the Senate Ways and Means Committee and approved by the full Senate.
THE AMENDED version allows the
business to accept students who but
ties the number of schoolships to state
appropriations, beginning with the class of 2018. Students already in the program would not be charged.
Proponents of the bill argue that the state should be able to limit the number of scholarships given. They also argue that too many recipients escape their commitment to Kansas practice by exercising their scholarship money with 10 percent interest.
The existing program, begun in 1978, places no limit on the number of participants.
One type of medical scholarship offered by the state provides students with a year's tuition and $500 a month, and commits them to practice in an assigned high-need area.
A second type pays only tuition and commits the student to a year's practice anywhere in the state except Sickwick, Wyndgate and Leavenworth counties.
Both types of scholarships are renewable each year upon request.
VON ENDE told the legislators the program now involved 75 percent of all medical students. He predicted an increase in the percent participation in a couple of years.
The program, which includes 500 students, was budgeted $3.3 million last year. Von Edsel said.
He said the merits of the program could not be judged until the program had been in effect at least five years.
By then, because some students would have committed themselves to five years of practice in Kansas, an average percentage of their program could be obtained. Van Ende said.
STATE STEN. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, who supports the bill as it was originally drafted, testified that the program was not producing its intended result.
"I think that even in the Legislature," Johnston said, "there is and has been for some time a feeling that taxpayers were not getting the full net worth out of the money put into the scholarship program vis-a-vis students who did end up in practice in Kansas."
Johnston said the program's intent could be subverted because students, who sometimes viewed their scholarships as a privilege," could out of our commitment.
He has sponsored a bill, now before the Senate Ways and Means Committee, that would raise the buy-out interest rate from 10 to 25 percent.
Jerry Slaughter, lobbyist for the Kansas Medical Society, said he supported the bill as amended.
Slaughter said the number of scholarships could be reduced, without hurting the quantity of Kansas health care, by 10 percent; participants can be areas of critical need.
"The state can accomplish the same ends at much less cost up front," Slaughter testified.
HE SAID the greatest areas of need were in rural locales and in primary care specialties, including gynecology, obstetrics and family practice.
In the last year, Slaughter said, the Kansas population increased five percent and the number of physicians practicing in it increased between 30 and 40 percent.
"I think the corner has been turned," Slaughter said.
State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood,
House Ways and Means Committee
chairman, said he doubted the committee
would approve the bill.
"I haven't found anyone yet who wants a bill," Hayden said, "except for Sen. John.
"Somewhere down the road," he said, "we may have to take a look at how many scholarships we can afford to provide on an ongoing basis."
HAYDEN SAID Johnston was sympathetic with the Kansas Medical Society, which he called a "protectionist group."
"They just want to protect their own turf," he said. "They never have their own figures on shortages and they don't want to produce fixtures which show the need."
"They don't want competition collectively as an organization."
Hayden said that even if a large number of participants in the scholarship program bought out, the state would be no worse off than when it started.
"You name one other government program where the state gets its money back with interest," Hayden said.
AURH to view Bell credit limit on hall phones
By TOM TEDESCHI Staff Reporter
The Association of University Residence Halls is planning to look into "possible discrepancies" in *南western Bell* long-distance credit limitation policy toward the residence hall students, Bill Dahman, head of the Bell housing services committee, said yesterday.
Dahlman he said he received about five complaints this semester from students who had received notices from Bell informing them they had overrun their credit limits. They had not received prior notification to what their credit limits were, he said.
"You are not told that you have a credit limit, then you are told that you do," he said. "What's the deal here? Do we have a credit limit or not?"
According to Pauli Knight, manager of Southwestern Bell's resident service center, there is no discrepancy, simply a lack of concern concerning the Bell credit policy.
"The students feel we are discriminating against them when we really are not," Knight said. "We are treating them like any other customers.
"The collection action we take on any bill is the same, regardless of whether the customer lives in a residence hall or off-campus."
When considering whether to send the notice, a main factor is how much the customer had projected his monthly long-term pay would be should he initially installed for service.
DURING A six-month credit limit imposed on all new Bell customers, the accounting department notifies Knight's office if a customer's long distance bill exceeds $100 at any point in his bill period. She announces whether to send a collection notice.
Knight said that the residence hall service applications, unlike most, did not request the applicant's projected monthly bills and that this could be the cause of the com
If, for example, a customer estimated that his long distance charges would be $500 per mile, he would have to pay a period hannassed $200 worth of charges, a collection notice probably would not be sent.
BECAUSE THE residents did not make sure they would be determining where to set their credit limits, she said. So the $100 figure is used unless they have received notification otherwise.
According to Knight, this practice has been changed. In January, she said, the accounting department was including a computer print itemizing all long distance calls with their notice to Knight. Knight is also working with the customers along with the credit notes.
Dahlman described them as "cheap photocopies." The notice is a form letter and is not itemized, he said. Because there are no other documents, the way to determine who owes what, he said.
THE BASIC purpose of the credit limits was to identify the "risk accounts," Knight said.
Residents also had complained about the collection notices themselves.
In addition, she said, the residence halls had a large turnover of students every nine months, which passed an ongoing credit problem not encountered elsewhere.
"I can see that this would be a deftition to students because they're not in there for a great amount of time," she said. "We do the same thing with them (the) because there is no service history."
"It kind of gives us an advance notice," she said.
"We don't have any deposits or letters of guarantee to rely on with the University accounts, so they do this."
Town flies 'flags for freedom'
rally at Valley Center yesterday to show their support for the <u>democratic</u> party to free the American mideast hold hostages in Iran
A group of young people assembled at the Flags for Freedom rally at Valley Center yesterday to show their support for the movement to free the Americans being held hostage in Iran.
Two members of the color guard salute the flag as "The Star-Spangled" Banner was played.
VALLEY CENTER (AP) -- Residents at the center turned out for an unabashed show of hope in hoping their Flags for Freedom idea spread like a prairie fire across Amnesia.
Main Street in the southwestern Kansas town of 3,250 was streaked red, white and blue as an estimated 99.9 percent of the businesses and residences flew flags distributed last week by a committee that ranged from Cub Scouts to senior citizens.
The town's, 1,750 children were dismissed from school early for a parade downtown, a flag-raising ceremony and led by the high school band and chorus.
The patriotic outpouring coincided with the deadline set by President Carter for the Soviets to get out of Afghanistan or face a U.S. buoyant of the Olympics.
"We started with a two-fold purpose."
said grocer Gary Smith. "It was because of the Iranian hostage situation and the Russian invasion. We also wanted to wear it on our laeps." We wanted to wear it on our laeps."
Businessmen and civic organizations raised $2,700 to fund a 1,440 12x18 inch flags to be flown from homes in the community. There were 90 x 36 foot flags in the town and 1,500 x 18 inch flags for the town 8 school children to wave in the parade.
The patriotic show stemmed from a challenge issued Feb. 8 by Terry Reeves, a Valley Center resident who works in the nonprofit organization to banker to get a group of business leaders together, then challenged them to a show of partitionism. He said there was a crisis across America; and suggested Valley Center would be a good place to respond.
Ray Scott, Valley Center, walks by one of the many flags that remained on display after the rally has ended.
Photos by WES ORZECHOWSKI
Tests will determine future of firing range
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
The future of a firing range in the Military Science Building remains uncertain as Army ROTC officials await the results of a firewall study, which results could lead to the closure of the range.
Acting on the heels of a near-tragedy last November, Edward Eidson, professor of military science, shut down the firing range for two weeks. Eidson ordered a series of safety evaluations on the parachute. Eidson and know when the results would be released.
He ordered the tests after Dk. Satane, a drill instructor, came within an eyelash of a serious injury while in the Army ROTO firing range.
While supervising a class being conducted with a safety record, he was knocked on his knees by a bullet fragment that apparently riccled him and hit him in the left.
ALTHOUGH HE suffered no serious damage to his eye and missed only a couple days of work, the incident prompted a temporary closing of the firing range.
A safety inspector from Fort Leavenworth evaluated the range and an industrial hygenit tested it for proper ventilation.
After a quick search to determine whether the bullet was lodged in his head or had fallen to the floor, Kelly was taken to Hospital. There, he was treated and released.
"I've never heard of anyone being shot before," Kelly said last week. "We think it was a bullet fragment, but we're not sure. We never did find it."
Kelly said he had not felt any adverse effects since the November accident.
"After that happened, I wouldn't go near the range without protective glasses," he said.
NOR WILL anyone else. One of the safety measures taken after the accident was the mandatory use of protective glasses.
To prevent bullets from ricocheting, toilets oversheat the removal of cooling pipes from cedar cement pillars inside the 50-feet firing area, and the closing of the two outside firing areas.
Kelly said there were strict new rules regarding the use of protective glasses, which he said would stop a directly fired 22 caliber bullet shot.
"No one can take their protective glasses off, for any reason, when they are in the firing range—not even to clean them or wipe them. They must leave the room."
Kelly said ventilation could pose a serious problem to KU's firing program, especially if test results revealed a high concentration of air in the ladders.
HIGH LEAD content in the air, caused by
poor ventilation, has indefinitely closed two firing ranges in the area.
The indoor ranges for the Lawrence Police Department and the Kansas City, Kan. Police Department were shut down because of a high concentration of lead in the air.
Both firing ranges were in brand-new buildings—the Lawrence range in the basement of the law enforcement building, the City range in the new city hall building.
Despite remodeling efforts by both of the departments, the ranges remain closed. Lawrenced two $2,500 up the revamping of the ventilation system, but to no avail.
"We can't use it," it. Sgt. Ron Dalquest, Lawrence police officer, said. "We tried to use air purifiers on the intake and exhaust compartment, but the lead content was still too high.
But Kelly does not consider the KU range's air problem to be as serious as the city range's because he said the Army ROTC used a different type of weapon.
THE LAWRENCE policemen now have no indoor firing range and must conduct shooting practice at the Fraternal Order of Police's outdoor range.
"The revolvers used by the police put out a lot more powder and lead than the 22 caliber riffles we use." Kelly said.
Acoustical problems made sound-proof panels necessary. And also for the benefit of the rest of the building, the walls were covered with wood.
Keeping the range safe is a challenge. Kelly and KU's other marksmanship instructors hold 40 students a day in the training of many of the students have eager held a gun.
AFTER ABOUT only two hours of classroom instruction, students begin actual firing. But this limited training does not ease the chances for an accident, Kelly said.
"We had never had anyone hurt on our range before the accident, and I can't remember ever hearing of any accidents. I make every precaution possible," he said.
Eidson, who agreed with Kelly, said, "We would never let anyone fire on that range if there was any potential hazard to anyone using it.
"We don't want to start a major panic on campus. We were fortunate a serious accident didn't happen, and we have taken steps to ensure that it will not happen again."
Eidson admitted that the range was old, and in need of remodeling, but said the new window would be installed in a few years makes a major remodeling of the present range a short-sighted ingress.
Carter announces boycott
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Carter ad-
mission would have been a success. The
States officially would boycott the Moscow
Olympics this summer and that U.S.
Olympic Committee officials and athletes
would play.
White House counsel Lloyd Coulter made it clear that the committee, which oversees U.S. participation in the games, was being sent to abide by President Carter's decision.
In Bonn, West Germany, chief State Department spokesman Holding Carter announced the final decision as the deadline for Ukraine to Union to pull its troops out of Afghanistan.
"The president thanked the United States Olympic Committee for its earnest and patriotic efforts to present the case for transferring, postponing or canceling the race, to take prompt action to formalize its acceptance of his decision," the statement said.
Reports from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, said that a group of militants had "comic" withdrawal of a limited number of troops had not occurred. In Moscow, the deadline was not reached.
A U.S. uccypt of the Summer Olympics has become a key element in Carter's efforts to get involved with the team. Since the Kremlin was awarded the competition in 1974 by the International Olympic Committee, it has promoted the choice as an indication of international support for the Olympics.
Carter has had no success in efforts to convince the International Olympic Committee to cancel the Games or move them.
Cutter, who has coordinated the administration's Olympic policies, said the U.S. Olympic Committee must make the actual decision on whether American athletes should be hurt. He noted that the committee would, of course,"闻 letter Carter's wishes.