KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Monday, May 4, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 145 USPS 650-640
Tragedy, success mark KU methadone clinic
By CINDY CAMPBELL
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—No albiont was ever written. She wasn't a famous woman by any means, but her death had considerable significance to the patients of the methadone clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Pat, a former nurse and mother of three, was found dead in her home April 15. Although the exact cause of death still is not known, doctors have concluded that she possibly a heart attack or an accidental drug overdose.
Pat was a patient at the University of Kansas Medical Center Methadone Clinic. She went to
the clinic seeking to overcome her addiction to pain, drugs her doctors had prescribed to her for pain.
"I found myself withdrawing. That was my first sign that I was addicted."
THREE WEEKS before she died, she said, "I didn't know I was addicted until my doctor that was supplying me died. When I ran out I was in trouble.
Pat was one of the more than 120 area addicts who take advantage of the Med Center's methadone clinic. For $4 a day, the addicts can feed their habit, on an out-patient basis, with a legal, but addictive, synthetic narcotic. That narcotic is methadone.
Clinic administrators say that the advantages of using methadone over street drugs are many:
- It is legal.
*It is cheap.
*The same quality of drug is ingested each day.
*It allows addicts to regain their health and a more stable lifestyle.
Admittedly, she said the clinic is controversial, especially because it doesn't force
Nowhere in the clinic's pamphlet does it say that methadone is a curcuma, nor does it stress total use.
"I've never thought that methadone was a cure, and it's not," Marilyn Krivena, the nurse that administers the afternoon clinic, said. "It's good for adults for addicts to decide what they want to do."
adducts to abandon drugs completely. Some call the clinic a filling station.
"But what we try to do is get people legal, healthy and legitimate," Krivenna said. "The clinic is a big turn around from the lifestyle that they're used to living, which was very illegal."
**THIS IS a story about five people, whose names have been changed at their request. They volunteered to talk about the highly controversial clinical and their lives as drub adduces.**
Some wear suits, make $40,000 a year and have a wife and kids. Some wear faded Levis', torn T-shirts and leather moccasins and are unemployed. But most are between the ages of 25 and 35 and have all sought help with their problem, for one reason or another.
Pat, who was 39 when she died, was different
from the other addicts at the clinic. She suffered from medical addiction and never used or abused street drugs of any kind.
But she weighed more than 300 pounds and had 13 operations, seven of which were major, in the past four years. She was clinically dead three times before her luck finally ran out in April.
BECAUSE OF HER numerous health problems, her doctors told her that all they could do was "keep her comfortable." In their quest to help patients who were added to the drugs those same doctors prescribed.
She said her first doctor, who lost his license and later died, "cared too much."
think it was wrong and I don't have
See DRUGS page 14
More than 300 motorcycle rolled down 23rd Street Sunday afternoon in a fund-raising ride for Easter Seals. The ride was sponsored by ABATE, a motorcyclist's rights group, and riders collected pledges for the number of miles they rode. The course was a 100-mile square from Lawrence to Topeka on highway 24, and ended with a party at Clinton Lake dam.
Education department report deals with sex discrimination
By REBECCA CHANEY Staff Reporter
The first "letter of findings" by the U. S. Department of Education concerning discrimination against women in intercollegiate all-male last week, and KU's should be coming soon.
ALTHOUGH INEQUITIES were found between opportunities for men and women in athletics at Akron, the university was found to comply with the federal anti-bias law because of a new Department of Education policy an end at the time the Akron findings were released.
The first review of sex bias in university athletic departments across the country was published by a team of researchers.
According to Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, new procedures allowing university administrators to present plans to correct deficiencies in women's athletic programs are in their most recent period represented a "more effective and less threatening" means to settle Title IX complaints.
It is my understanding that we were third on the list," Iteliza Banks, associate professor of classes and former KU Athletic Corporation board member, said yesterday. Banks and Anne Levinson, 1980 KU graduate and former athlete, each filed complaints against KU in 1978.
Title IX is a 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination in federally funded educational programs. KU was one of several universities
See TITLE IX page 5
It will be mostly cloudy today with a 40 percent chance of thundershowers, according to the National Weather Servi-
cation in India. The high will be in the lower 70s.
Winds will be out of the north at 15 to 25 miles per hour.
Tonight will be cloudy with a low in the 50s. There will be a 30 percent chance of thundershowers.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the lower 70s.
By KIRK TINDALL Staff Reporter
Looking for George Kimball, the former defense minister of the Lawrence chapter of the White Panther Party, was a challenge. Finding someone with the skills for the Boston Herald American was a shock.
"His whereabouts are a complete mystery," someone on the sports desk said, "but you might get him at the Black Rose, Elliot's or Daisy's gym. You should be sure he must be in great barroom in the sky."
At least he hadn't gone completely establishment.
Former KU radical joins establishment
George Kimball, whose father was a career Army officer, had lived all over the world. He came to KU in 1961 on a Navy ROTC scholarship He left, for the first time, in 1965 with instructions from the county attorney to stay out of the state for awhile.
THE COUNTY ATTORNEY was upset because Kimball had been standing in front of the draft board with a sign that said the draft should have something sexual done to it.
In 1968 Kimbala ran for sheriff of Douglas County. He ran against Rex Johnson, the incumbent then and still county sheriff now. Kimbala's campaign slogan was "Douglas has been good two-fisted sherif." It was a particularly strong slogan because Johnson has withered hand.
Kimbail was, to the people who were in Lawrence in the '80s, the epitome of the crazed radical who kept parents from sending their children to KU. lest they be tainted.
A LOCAL ATTORNEY said that Kimball did more for the enrollment at Kansas State University than going to the Orange Bowl could have.
Talking to Kimball 10 years later is a strange experience.
An ROTC scholarship? A sports writer for the Herald American?
It all makes sense to Kimball.
"I've always liked sports and I've always written," he said. "In the ninth grade I was writing high school sports for the Washington Post."
WHILE KIMBALL was in Lawrence in 1970 he wrote an article on the marijuana harvest for Scandaniaca, a defunct left-wing magazine. Last month he released an article on an article George Brett for Inside Sporta.
"I've adapted to the times I guess," Kimball said.
Kimball, who never graduated from KU
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despite his many years in Lawrence, said he still was political.
According to Kimball, the meeting was just a social visit.
working for Kennedy may seem like a tat<sup>1</sup> from being defense minister of the Lawrence White Panthers, but a lot of things about Kimball seem strange on the surface.
"I worked for Kennedy in the last election," he exhaled.
"Hunter has gone off the deep end," Kimbail
he "He's totally insane. He started to believe
WHAT ABOUT THE "freak power" meeting in Aspen, Colo., that Hunter S. Thompson wrote about in "The Great Shark Hunt." The king of gozo journalism and Oscar Ancosta, the brown buffalo, and Kimbali supposedly met then to discuss strategy.
it seems that Kimbal left Lawrence in 1966, after he got married and went to work in New York.
"I've known Hunter for a long time," he said. "I used to work as an editor for his literary essays."
"My wife expected to be kept in the manner she had accustomed to," he said.
After working for Meridith and getting a divorce, Kimball came back to Lawrence to run for sherif. He won the Democratic primary because I was the only one running." Kimball said.
"Iran for sheriff and Phil Hill ran for justice of the peace," he said. "We didn't tell anyone Phil was running so he won." Hill ran unopposed.
IT'S PROBABLY safe to say that after Kimball left Lawrence, countless parents, police officers and school administrators felt a collective wave of relief. Little did they know that the same crazed radical they knew in Lawrence was then in New York working for Scott Meridith, a literary agent who handled the work of Spiro Agnew.
Kimbali said that he had run for sheriff because he wanted a platform to tell people what was going on in Lawrence. A main plank in the investigation was alleged brutality by Lawrence police.
"The sheriff's office was a defaço vigilante
    See KMBALL page 14
SHORTLY AFTER Hill was elected, the county eliminated the office of the justice of the court.
On July 16, 1970 Donald Rick Dowley was killed by Lawrence police officer. Four days later and during the Rock-Chalk Race, was killed in front of the Rock-Chalk Cafe when police tried to break up a disturbance there.
Shankel talks about stint as chancellor
Staff Reporter
Bv KATHRYN KASE.
By the time students return to the University of Kansas next fall, the reins of power will have been handed from Acting Chancellor Del Shankel to Chancellor-designate Gene Budig.
The power shift, which will occur Aug. 1, will culminate a 14-month transition period, which began last June when Archie R. Dykes resigned as chancellor.
Shankel, who had just resigned as executive vice chancellor to return to teaching, was appointed acting chancellor. He accepted the role and was considered for the permanent chancellor job.
And now that a permanent chancellor has been chosen, Shankel's return to teaching will be further delayed, but this time by his own choosing. Next September, Shankel and his family will travel to war, where he will present his research in Tokyo. Shankel is a professor of microbiology.
WHILE IN JAPAN, Shankel also will do research. He has arranged to work at the National Institute of Genetics in Mihima and the National Institute of Nara. He will return to his teaching in the spring.
"I'll probably teach microbiology and maybe an honors section of Western Civilization," he said last Friday. "Eventually I intend to teach a section of freshman biology."
Answer. Well, I accepted it because a lot of my colleagues wanted me to accept it and because I thought could make a contribution to the foundation of maintaining its momentum and direction.
The following questions are excerpted from a conversation Shankel had with the Kansan last week.
Question. Why did you accept this job when you had decided to return to teaching?
And I guess I felt that, having watched some one else do it from very close at hand, after six and one-half years I had a few ideas that I wanted to try out and see if they'd work.
Q. How do you feel about your performance?
A. Generally pretty good. I think we have maintained a momentum at this institution. We are making things moving in a positive direction and I think we feel good about the University. So, I would say I'm satisfied and not easily satisfied.
Q. How do you feel about your performance?
Q. Did you perceive anything you did this year as a failure?
A. How long a list do you want? Lots of things didn't come out as well as I predicted and whether or not they're absolute failures or relative failures, history will tell.
Q. Would you do this again?
Q. Once you become a faculty member again,
will you maintain a low profile or do you intend to
become a professor?
A. One of the reasons for taking a sabbatical in the fall semester is that it will allow me to keep a low profile for awhile. The timing of that was really deliberate.
I'll probably even run for election to the county board, because I live in area where I think I've developed some expertise.
A. Would I do this again? I think at some time, a few future visitors they needed someone, I'd be willing to do it.
I expect that I will be willing to serve on some University committees from time to time if I am asked to. I'll be involved. I don't intend to become a hermit.
Q. How would you prefer to be treated—as a
Del Shankel
professor of microbiology or as a former acting chancellor?
Q. Do you ever see yourself entering the administration again?
A. I would prefer to be treated as a professor in research who has, perhaps, gained some specific knowledge that might be useful to the University.
If the right opportunity came along I would but it would have to be a unique and very challenging opportunity. It's something I haven't ruled out if the right opportunity came along. And that's a rather incomplete answer to your question.
Q. Does that mean you are considering jobs elsewhere?
Q. Are you actively seeking other positions?
A. Well, let me answer that partially by saying that I have turned down in the last couple months, 7 or 8 opportunities, not that were offered to me, but where I was nominated for chancellor. But that doesn't say I couldn't be interested in a very good opportunity.
Q. Which do you prefer, administrating or teaching?
A. Well, my problem is that I seem to enjoy everything I have ever done. When I worked construction in the summers when I was a college student, I enjoyed it. When I taught high school, for a year, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed teaching; I enjoyed research.
A. I am not actively seeking any other positions.
Most of the time I have enjoyed administration, not all of the time, but most of the time. Under the right circumstances I think I could enjoy anything.
Q. What has been among the benefits of serving as acting chancelor?
A. I got the opportunity to accomplish some things and set a tone the way I thought it would have been set. I've enjoyed the opportunity to meet many alumni, whom I wouldn't have met otherwise. So when I'm ready to think I've gained a perspective about how dedicated to the University they are.
Q. Have you any advice for Chancellor-designate Gene Ruholl about the job?
A. I don't think I have any specific advice. I've told him that on any matters on which he wants advice or information, I'm happy to tell him what my opinions are. On some matters we've already talked and I'm sure we're going to talk about it. We've said it's important that the places he's been and I wouldn't presure to tell him how I think he ought to operate the University of Kansas.
Q. What is the single largest problem facing Budig?
Q. Would your actions have been any different had you been the permanent chancellor?
A. Not much. There were probably some things that would have been different.
A. Oh, I think that I would have taken a more definitive position on the Classified Senate. I think that I were here for a permanent term, I would have dealt in somewhat more definite
See S'IANKEL page 5