University Daily Kansan, April 15, 1981
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Rifle Team Big Eight champion
By ALVIN A. REID Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The KU Rifle Team captured its second straight Big Eight championship Sunday at the KU Military Science Building.
"The members of this team worked hard and shot well to win this competition," he said.
Sgt. Maj. Frank Strong, rffle team coach, said the tournament victory was a culmination of hard work and University support.
Strong said the KU team received more marksmash support than any university squad he knew of and as a squad competed in 29 matches this year.
KU placed five shooters on the All-Conference team. They were Shawn Moe, Leavenworth junior; Bianier, Wichita junior; Rick Ficklack, Wichita junior; John Bain, Augusta sophomore; and Carter Sheeran, Chicago junior.
Robin Lynch of Nebraska took first in the women's competition and third in the overall standings. Hers was the highest overall score for a woman in the 28-year history of the rifle championships.
Moe won the kneeling, standing and aggregate (total score) competitions, and, according to Strong his performance was nothing out of the ordinary.
"To say the least, Shawn is an excellent shooter," Strong said. "He is very dedicated and nothing can distract him; he is who shoots. He's won 25 individual trophies this year alone, and individuals out of places to put them all."
KU, ranked fourth nationally behind the Naval Academy, the University of Texas and the University of Kentucky, is currently competing in the Army national finals against these teams and the remainder of the top ten.
The teams shoot the match individually and mail the results to the host school where the scores will be announced. This is called a postal match.
"We're going against some real tough competition now, but I'm sure we'll do pretty well." Strong said. "Hopefully, we can improve our ranking."
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Listening to complaints and problems is a volunteer's job at Headquarters, a personal crisis and short-term counseling center. Andy Schechterman, Miami, Fla., senior answers a call during one of his shifts. Headquarters is composed of 55 volunteers.
Crisis center solves problems
SHARON APPELBAUM
Staff Reporter
Listening to complaints and problems may not seem appealing, but Headquarters volunteers say they thrive on it.
Headquarters, a personal crisis and short-term counseling center at 1602 Massachusetts St., is composed of 55 such volunteers, many of them KU students. The center's phone number is 841-2345.
The 1,000 calls they deal with each month involve a wide variety of concerns, Marcia Epstein, director of Headquarters, said.
Three KU students opened the 24-hour-a-day crisis center in 1980 to deal with drug-related problems. Now only one of the cases are related to drugs, she said.
Some of the calls are from people or the brink of suicide, others are from people who cannot get along with a spouse.
VOLUNTEERS MUST undergo 60 hours of training to deal with the variety of problems. They use role models, communication and counselling skills.
The their salaries and the maintenance of the center are funded by the student activity fee, the Lawrence United Fund, Douglas County Revenue Sharing and a few private donations, Einstein said.
"Sometimes people are angry and just want to let out their feelings." Epstein said. "Some are lonely. Sometimes they just want to talk."
Epstein and Larry Carter, assistant director, provide information on such topics as drugs, sex, suicide, substance use. The nurses'ight encounter on the phone.
"We don't look at the volunteer's past experience," she said. "There are a lot of social welfare and psychology majors here, but we have a variety. There are some engineering majors and lots of people from the community."
talk to and non-judgmental. We don't want anyone who's going to lay a trip on someone else."
New volunteers may start this summer, she said. Informational meetings, personal interviews and the release of memos held in June, August and January.
AGES RANGE FROM 18 to 65, and everyone works one or two four-hour shifts a week. she said.
Lauren B. Gabee, Kirkwood, Mo,
junior, said. "It's not a hassle at all to
come in, even if I'm working on a
Friday night."
"We look for people who are easy to
TODD A. BOYSEN, Overland Park junior and a psychology major, said he wanted to improve his interpersonal and gain experience for his major.
"The best kind of calls are when the person says 'Thanks, I feel a lot better,'" he said. "It's great, if a person is in crisis, to call when they hang up they are no longer in that crisis."
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Hospital seeks accreditation
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-The University of Kansas Medical Center's Bell Memorial Hospital is up for accreditation this year, Masahiro Chiga, vice chancellor for hospital administration, said yesterday.
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This will be the first time the new Bell Memorial Hospital has been inspected for accreditation since it opened in May 1979.
"We are in good shape for the inspection," David Bell, coordinator for special projects at the hospital, said. We satisfied the vast majority of reservations from the last inspection by moving into the new hospital."
The accreditation, which would be given by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, is a stan dard procedure for the hospital, Chiga said.
"The JCAH accreditation is recognized by other agencies including Medicare," Chiga said. "It is a good idea to be sure the hospital is meeting adequate standards."
Chiga said a three-member team of inspectors would visit the hospital later this month. The team includes and administrator, a physician and a nurse.
"The team will evaluate the hospital on each of the standards for accreditation and make recommendations to correct any areas that fall short of the standards." Chiga said.
Chiga said he didn't think there were any problems that would prevent the hospital from being accredited.
The 1978 accreditation was only for two years, but the JCAH was not able to re-accredit the hospital before the accreditation expired.
Applications for Kansan available
applications for summer and fall 1981 Kansan editor and business manager are available at the office of student affairs in 214 Strong Hall, at the Student Senate office in 105B of the Kansas Union, and in 106 Fint Hall. Completed applications are due at 5 p.m. April 21 in 105F Lent.
A Response to Messrs, Williams, Nichols etc.
"We have, it seems to us, an ugly situation in meetings in City Hall right now. It is not regrettable but not surprising that commissioners lose their tempers when pressure groups come week after week with the intent to not only inform the commissioners but to harass them with unbecoming
The April 4th Journal-World contained a letter from Messrs. Gene Burnett, Don Russell-Mason, Raymond Nichols and Odd William the second paragraph of which Russell-Mason wrote:
with ulterior motives'
A pressure group, by definition, seeks to promote its interests by influencing some individual or group. Any local civic group attempting to influence the City Commission becomes, ipso facto, a pressure group. Action 80.1, the Lawrence Board of Conservation, is one such group. In response to pressure groups and the Lawrence Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO are just a few of the many come to mind. However, this letter from the altermented gentleman was primarily concerned with those "pressure groups (which) come week after week to not only inform the commissioners but to harass them with uncomprehending behavior." This same pattern of those present or a dearthance from the submit or principal theme of a discussion.
After KU Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Tumulazzi appeared before the City Commission in support of the proposed City Hall parking lot a reporter from
Marci Francisco said: "It just shows that you're easily gulled by people
"Commissioner Don Binns, directing his comments at Commissioner Marcia Francis said: 'It just shows that you are easily gulped by people
Commissioner Binns was later to say of Commissioner Francisco's efforts regarding the parking lot: "She just can't lose gracefully". In each of these incidents Commissioner Binns put on display both an unwillingness to deal with the substance of Commissioner Francisco's statements and an inability to win 'gracefully'."
A recent City Commission meeting found Commissioner Francisco objecting to Mayor Carter's recent trip, in company with City Manager Butford Watson, to Dallas in order to confer with some representatives of J.C. Penney's. She described herself as "surprised and disappointed" that neither she nor the public had been informed of the trip, she also pointed out that state law limits a mayor's duties, in Lawrence's present form of government, to making appointments and running meetings. What follows was Mayor Carter's reply to this attempt to share information: "I'm damn sick and tired of hearing your crap—I'm really tired of it." Although Mayor Carter later validated Commissioner Francisco's expression of distress by admitting that he had forgotten to discuss the Dallas trip because he didn't know what was obvious: Commissioner Francisco's statement and his resultant self-proclaimed state of exhaustion were both due to his own absent-mindedness. Following Mayor Carter's breach of deocrum Commissioner Schumm in yet another non-sequitur said to Commissioner Francisco, "You can't take the whole commission to Dallas."
Every one of Commissioner Binings, Carter, and Schumm's offerings qualifies as an "an趾" because each tails to deal with the essence of Commissioner Francisco's complaints. This now well-established practice is what I was referring to in my April 2nd Journal-World advertisement in which the final sentence described Commissioner Francisco as being "'... forced to endure snide sades born of a slanderous spirit.' 'I've never seen nor heard of these allegedly omnipresent" "pressure groups'" whose commitment to sniping has proven so unsettling but perhaps a more detailed description of them will be forthcoming.
the fourth paragraph of this April 19 letter says.
"It seems to us we have an element that is active in Lawrence which is
"It seems to us we have an element that is active in Lawrence which is not good for neighborhood groups, for business or for any part of this community," she said. "The real issue is the harassment of others of being discourteous as a result of their harassment. They oppose change regardless of its merits. Unfortunately, their contributions to
The fourth paragraph of this April 4th letter says.
The first two sentences of this paragraph seem to describe several nihilists who evidently skipped the few Commission meetings that I've attended. Although I've gone to several sources seeking information about said nihilists Ive yet to find anyone who even aware of this disruptive group's existence. Please keep in mind, however, that these alleged "spoilers" neither participated in nor precipitated the interracial displays of discourses that I cited earlier. The third sentence of this paragraph then attributes a reactionary streak to these nihilists by describing them as onsooled to "change reardess of its merits".
The fourth sentence of this same paragraph lamentes the collective failure of these nihilists to contribute "to the good of the community". Permit me to take issue with what's implicit in this sentence: namely, that the status quo is the embodiment of perfection and only the unworthy will fall by the wisely. One of the signatories to the 1949 report on the role of athletics in education was 1949, what is now called the Williams Fund. The Williams Fund applies "to totally fund Jayhawk athletic expenditures, projected to be $1,400,000 . . . in 1981-2". Webster's Third New International Dictionary defines an amateur as "one that competes in sports or athletics for pleasure rather than for financial gain" whereas professional athletics is "engaged or participated in by persons receiving financial aid from universities". In addition, he mentions a financial appeal like Kansas University's as an "amateur" undertaking.
The funds that fuel the machinery of 'amateur athletics' are tax deductible; Black's Law Dictionary tells us that taxes are leavened "for the purpose of defraying the public expenses". Doesn't it follow from this explanation that a tax-exempt venture should serve some public-public purpose? Every time our political system grants tax-exempt status to an organization, such as the Williams Fund, which serves no public purpose, it removes from public use revenues which could help the victims of misfortune, the dependent in our nursing homes, hospitals, streets, etc. With all due respect to the individuals who make up the athletic bureaucracy, this line of reasoning compels me to conclude that Kansas University's entire 'amateur athletics' apparatus works to the detriment of the community.
As a recent heated City Commission meeting came to a close, Commissioner Binnis said to Commissioner Francisco, "Why don't you allay the suspicion and mistrust instead of generating I?!" It kills the answer to this rhetorical question can be found in the first paragraph of Commission's reaction to a diagram of the overposed $250,000 City Hall parking lot.
- "There was a moment of confused silence as all those who were seeing
the first time it appeared, what we knew before their
the design for the first time tried to comprehend what was before their eyes. Commissioner Robert Schumm ended the pause by asking, 'Where's
Every struggle against government misfeasance, whether it be in South Africa or Harlem, the Soviet Union or Poland, always brings forth many whose 'contributions to the good of the community' are relatively unimpassive. Not infrequently that which unties the disaffected also contributes to their social standing. What is of far greater importance than the status of the dissidents is the cause of their actions and the resulting political consequences, because only some of which will use productive potential constructively and thereby enhance freedom. The Williams Fund and the proposed City Hall parking lot each work against societal health by depleting public reserves without benefiting the public.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.