THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 92
free on campus
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, February 14. 1980
Chopper recruit
It is open season for football recruits. And Kansas head coach Dan Fambaugh was not to be caught in the cold. He staged a two-state whirlwind tour yesterday with the aid of a jet-powered helicopter. To kick off the first day that Big Eight conference letters of intent could be signed, Fambaugh landed Mike Karanbaa, All-American lineeman from
Grandvillie, MO., High School and son of former Kansas City Chief great Fred Arbanas. White signing Arbanas, Fambridge received word (insert) that Frank Seerer, a top quarterback prospect from Huntington Beach, Calif., had signed with KU. See related story page 12.
Carter endorses creation of panel
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter last night endorsed the creation of an international commission "with a careful look at the state of the environment" and the release of American hostages in Iran.
Carter did not define the purpose of such a panel, but its role clearly would be to look into Iranian grievances against the United States. He also devised the shaded Mohammad Kezah Pailhai.
Carter discussed the hostage situation in an opening statement, and said he would release the captives if he called increasingly delicate efforts to gain freedom for the captives, held now for 102 days.
At his first White House news conference in 11 weeks, Carter said Edward M. Kennedy, his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, has made a statement to our country" in criticizing policy on Iran and the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan.
The administration had insisted since militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Nov. 4 that the hostages must be brought into Iranian complaints.
The militants who occupy the embassy reiterated yesterday their demand for return of the deposed shah to face trial. However, Iranian authorities have already their support for creation of a communist to consider grievances as an alternative.
His endorsement of the commission idea was an apparent effort to signal U.S. willingness to compromise with Iran's new president, Abbash Jahangiri Rani-Sadi.
The idea of a commission, the president and, originated with Kurt Waldheim the secretary-general of the running controversy between the administration and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the chairman.
"An appropriate commission with a carefully defined purpose would be a step toward resolution of this crisis," Carter said.
Carter specifically refused to acknowledge any U.S. guilt for restoring the shah to the throne in Iran in 1853.
"That's ancient history and I don't think it's appropriate for me to go into the property of something that happened many years ago," he said.
"This thrust of what he nee-
throughout the last few weeks is very
damaging to our country," Carter said,
and he lost the hostages released and
keep the peace.
Meanwhile, Carter reaffirmed that if the Soviet troops are not withdrawn from Afghanistan by next Thursday he will call the Russian Federation's Olympic Games in Moscow this July.
Challenging his rival for the Democratic Kendrick statement, President Barack Obama's statements about Iran and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan "have not been true; they have not be accurate."
Kennedy has attacked Carter's strategy in trying to gain release of the hostages in Tehran and contended that a weak foreign policy would help Soviets to move troops into Afghanistan.
He said there is no possibility that he will change his mind if the Soviets carry out a withdrawal between that deadline and May 10. The committee must decide whether to deploy teams.
Iranian officials have said the United States must accept blame for past support of the shah before the hostage crisis can be resolved.
Carter repeated his position that the Soviet Union must be made to pay a steep price for its military intervention in Afghanistan.
"We must convince the Soviet Union, through peaceful means, through peaceful means," the president stated, "that they made a neighboring country with immunity."
Carter declared that "any further adventurism" on the part of the Soviets would result in "grave consequences" for that country.
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Cherry Manor's new rating will bring transfers
INTERMEDIATE HOMES require fewer trained personnel and, unlike skilled homes, cannot accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.
As an intermediate home, Cherry Manor will be able to hire fewer people because they will provide fewer hours of care for their residents.
Eleven residents of Cherry Nurse Homie Home will have to leave when owner Charles Pomeroy sets a date, but former employees said yesterday that the residents leaving would not solve the problems for the 46 residents who will
The eleven required skilled nursing home care, but Pomeroy is changing the home's rating to intermediate care because he could not meet state staff requirements.
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But two former Cherry Manor nurses said this week that the house did not have enough
staff members to care for the patients properlynow.
"So much is needed to be done," said Ellen O'Connor, who worked as a registered nurse at Cherry Manor for five weeks last year, and we were even coming close.
"We could only do the basics, and some days those things didn't seem to get done.
"It itemed like I spent most of my time passing pills and doing paperwork."
KARIN KROUSE, who worked as a licensed practical nurse at Cherry Manor for six months, said the staff was unable to provide for residents' emotional needs.
County health records show, for example, that one woman who feared dying did not receive any counseling from the Cherry Manor staff.
"When you're understaffed, the physical care comes first," Krause said, "and the emotional care goes by the wayside."
The problem of understaffing is not new to Kansas nursing homes. Records indicate
that the Douglas County Health Department has received complaints about understaffing at Cherry Manor since at least 1976.
And the home has not had the requisite number of registered nurses since last October, when O'Comarr quit, even though the state limits certain kinds of care to RNs.
REGISTERED NURSES can provide more complete physical and emotional care. Krause said, because they are better trained.
"I don't know of anything the RNs did that the LPNs didn't t." she said.
However, O'Connor said that with so few people working at Cherry Manor, the state restrictions were inured.
The nurses also said that because the year's license was still valid, Cherry Manor was accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients without the proper personnel.
some patients we really couldn't care for properly, "O'Connor said.
Pomeroy, former administrator Brenda Paul and the Cherry Maor administrator all were unavailable for comment, last night.
"As far as I was concerned, they accepted
The state Department of Health and Environment, which licenses nursing homes and approves their ratings, inspects the homes once a year.
BUT PETEY CERF, of Kansas for Improvement of Nursing Homes, said that because the state's homes were inadequate, county nurses were hired to make monthly
Half of the 20 visits made to Cherry Maron last month by the Douglas County nurse were prompted by complaints. The files tell the story with mice, diets and inadequate staffing.
One complaint was made after a woman resident died shortly after leaving Cherry Manor.
The inspector found that the home's records showed a nine-day period during which the woman had bowel and urinary problems and her doctor was not told.
The county nurse also found errors on the woman's medication chart. One drug was shown to have been discontinued nine days after treatment, and the patient's medicine was discontinued six days later, and medicine to be given when the patient's pulse exceeded 100 was not given on three occasions.
But most of the complaints, though recurrent, could not be documented by the county nurse, so the Department of Health and Environment did not act.
EVEN THOUGH the county department received a complaint about the lack of workers on evening shifts a week before the state inspection, the home's license was
Gerald Block, of the Department of Health and Environment, said his inspector
checked the home's records and found enough workers to satisfy the requirement.
Patients at skilled facilities are supposed to receive at least two hours of care a day.
But O'Connor said that although Cherry Manor had fulfilled the requirement on paper, she did not think patients were receiving their two hours of care.
Harriet Nehring, of the Kansas for improvement of Nursing Homes, said institutions were understaffed because nurses were not to work in hospitals and doctors' offices.
Nurses aides, who do most of the work, do not have to be trained until 90 days after they start work, she said.
"Nursing home work means taking on the responsibility of supervising totally untrained people," she said.
"So they're just left to founder for that time," she said, "not knowing what to do.
House committee hears KU plea for 9.5% faculty salary raise
"And if they can survive that long, you wonder whether they needed the training after all."
By SCOTT FAUST Staff Reporter
An increase in faculty salaries by as much as 9.5 percent for the fiscal year 1980 is the result of an expansion of the Kansas, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes had a meeting of the Kansas House and Senate on February 26.
Dykes called the faculty the "core of our institution" and said that without the increase, the University was in danger of being outcompeted by other private sector or to private universities.
"The quality of those people has a great deal to do with the quality of higher education," Dykes said.
The salary increase, which would be used for merit rewards, would amount to $150,000 at KU, he said.
Dykes also urged the legislators to add 10 more classified positions to the six in Gov. John Carlin's recommended budget
Classified personnel are desperately needed in many areas of the University. Dykes works as clerical assistants, technicians and other support personnel.
Dykes told the legislators that the KU School of law had been criticized severely during an accreditation evaluation last year because it lacked support personnel.
"These are tremendously important to us if we are to maintain the quality of education." Dykes said.
Voter turnout down in Senate elections
Voter turn-out yesterday slackened in comparison with last year's Student Senate elections total on the day of voting. 1,816 ballots from last year's total of 1,821
However, John Mitchellson, elections committee chairman, said voter turn-out was typically lower on the second day of election and that he heaviest at the Kansas Union polling booth.
Dykes asked for an additional five and a half unclassified positions for the schools of Business, Engineering, Architecture, Urban Design and Law.
This request is one and a half positions more than Carlin's recommendation. The additional positions will go to the KU Center for Energy Research and Development.
Dykes said the new positions and a requested appropriation of $30,731 for the energy center would enable KU to make major contributions to energy research.
- Appropriations for maintenance and repair of $215,000, compared with $100,000 more annually.* The company proximately $40 million worth of specialized professional and scientific teaching and training.
The energy center is now run by a part-time coordinator and one of its projects is the Place Apartments for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The team has 15 members.
Other operating expenditure requests for fiscal 1981 include:
- Student Affairs Fund appropriations of $8,834, none of which was recommended by the full-time recreation supervisor position or the graduate assistant position for the Student Employment center staff and to upgrade student record information to include
Dykes asked the higher costs of acquisitions were due to inflation at home and, because many books were purchased abroad, by the dollar of the dollar against other currencies.
In the area of capital improvements, Carlin had recommended $74,500 for the renovation of Flint Hall and $18,500 for a hiring of a $12.3 million addition to Haworth Hall.
- A permanent addition to the budget of $210,000 for library acquisitions. Carlin had recommended $130,000.
- An annual $150,000 for future acquisition of equipment. This is double what Carlin had recommended.
For other capital improvements, Dykes requested $684,100 for extending the steam tunnel system from Murphy Hall to Allen Building and $424,100 for Strong Hall renovation.
The estimated $4.1 million Strong Hall renovation would make more of the third floor usable for academics, improve classrooms, increase energy efficiency and handicapped accessibility and fire safety code improvements, Dykes said.
Because construction inflation rates have been 15 percent, Von Ende said, the State Building Advisory Council told KU it might need to get things done at the price estimated.
Richard Von Ende, executive secretary to the Chancellor, said the construction figures were formulated last winter and based on an estimated 10 to 12 percent inflation rate.
Dykes told the legislators that he was pleased with Carlin's $108,000 recommendation for waiving 100 percent of graduate teaching assistants' tuition.
The total fee waiver is necessary to make KU competitive in attracting top quality students for teaching, Dykes said.
Carlin also recommended full funding of KU's request for a Master of Science program in Health Services Administration, Dykes said.
The University had unexpected revenue from the fall 1979 enrollment total, which was 661 students more than projected. Dykes asked that this money be used to increase the fiscal 1980 general fee fund required for instructional equipment by $37.341.
Purchases which would fall under the request include television and related monitoring equipment for the School of Journalism, a computerized financial aid package, terminals and a printer for the journal's publication. Astrumentation laboratory of the department of mechanical engineering and laboratory and audio-visual equipment.
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George Gomez and Margaret Berlin
Terms over Berlin, Gomez bid farewell
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
Buttiglio personality conflicts marred Staufa Senat relations and snagged Michelle Menzel's campaign. Margaret Berlin and vice president George Gomez said yesterday that they were "playing with the wrong game."
"With rare exceptions we've seen Murray's Law in full force," Gomez said. "We had a close, tough election and we had to put it back to reality from virtually every committee chair."
BUT IF BERLIN and Gomez had less than an idyllic relationship with the Senate, they said that priority legislation had been pushed through.
"Margaret and I had to prove ourselves and our competence and I believe we have."
Senate approval of the expansion of Student Legal Services into court representation, the establishment of a campus escort service, the expansion of a campus housing board and the establishment of an off-campus housing board were on this year's list of accomplishments.
It took two semesters to wear down the political machine." Berlin said. "Senate often got bogged down with pettiness, but it never got out of hand. We have to deal with the democratic process."
She said that directing parliamentary procedure often "drained" Gomez.
"We have a very volatile Senate, but George displayed a lot of calm throughout," Berlin said. "He has a nice dry sense of humor, he really helped us through the meetings."
Gomer said parliamentary procedure occasionally was used to trip up legislation, but those methods were the exception rather than the rule.
"I really had to take a crash course in parliamentary procedure," Gmez said. "Some people use parliamentary procedure to try to block things they don't want
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