Page 10 University Daily Kansan, February 6, 1981
Law is not broken in caucus closings
TOPEKA T. (UPI) - Attorney General Robert T. Stephan yesterday concluded that Senate Republicans acted within the law in closing their party caucuses to the public and the news media this session.
Although legislative meetings by nature are subject to the Kansas Open Meetings Act, lawmakers have written an exception for themselves into the law, the opinion by Deputy Attorney General Bradley Smooth said.
In an amendment to the open meetings law, the legislature has declared meetings subject to the act must be open, "except as otherwise provided. . by rules of the House or Senate." In adopting its rules for the next four years, the Republic-dominated Senate this year included a new rule that party caucuses "may be closed."
"In our judgment, a political caucus conducted by either party of the 1981 Kansas Senate may be closed without discharging the Kansas Open Mencings Act."
The opinion was written at the request of Sen. Paul Feleciano Jr., D-Wichita, Senate Democrats had loudly protested their GOP counterparts' decision to hold secret caucuses and unsuccessfully tried to amend the Senate rules to state explicitly that Democratic caucuses would be open. Democrats, in the minority, were outvoted.
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Med Center administration to end moonlighting by student doctors
Interns and resident doctors at the University of Kansas Medical Center stand to lose a substantial source of income starting March 1, when they will no longer be allowed to moonlight in the rooms of Kansas City area hospitals.
By BRIAN LEVINSON Staff Reporter
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Charles Hartman, vice chancellor for clinical affairs, said last week that he would problib moonlighting to assure increased Center provided a high level of care.
DAVID WAXMAN, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center, would not comment on the moonlight situation. James Dunn, dean of the School of Medicine, could not be reached for comment.
"Too much time spent working outside the Med Center by our house staff will obviously affect the quality of care that are able to give our patients."
The decision will affect more than 100 members of the house staff who moonlight one or two nights a month at Bethany Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and the Veteran's Administration hospital in Kansas City, Mo., according to an intern who asked not to be named.
an intern who works a 15 and one-half hour shift in the emergency room of the VA hospital assigns $220, according to Richard Drisko, associate chief of staff for education. The stipend for a 24-hour shift is $300.
Hartman said the house staff who moonlighted earned an additional $2,400 to $7,000 a year.
MANY OF THE HOUSE staff were not able to make ends meet solely on their own.
"This is a very serious problem for the residents and interns, especially those with families to support," he said. "If something is not done soon to make sure people will handle the house will lose, people will start leaving the program."
According to information collected by the house staff, a first-year resident in the Midwest receives an average of $15,000 a year for being on a hospital's house staff. At the Med Center, a first-year resident is paid $15,288.
Hartman said the Med Center administration would ask the Kansas Legislature to fund salary increases for teachers so that they would not have to moonlight.
"That is one of the reasons we don't want them moonlighting any more," Hartman said. "It will be much easier
for us to ask for a pay increase for the staff if they are only working at our hospital."
HARTMAN SAID he would request an additional $1,500 increase for each intern from the Legislature. But the intern said the salary increase, if approved, would not cover the stipend lost from not moonlighting.
The interns are expected to get a 5 percent overall salary increase this year.
"We originally asked for an 11.9 percent increase," the intern said. The Kansas Board of Regents reduced the percent, and the governor cut it to 5 percent."
The intern said the house staff hoped to persuade the Legislature to fund a greater increase than the 5 percent the governor recommended. If they are not convinced, the governor may take action in salary negotiation, although he would not give specifics.
Forum to explain KU policy
Students interested in the ins and outs of University policy are invited to attend a forum at 1:00 tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
Sponsored by the Student Senate Student Services Committee, the forum will explain Senate and administrative roles. Students can participate in formulating policy.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel and two administrators will speak and answer questions.
Bren Abbott, student vice president,
said he hoped the forum would show
students how to become more involved in University operations through means such as volunteering, taking part in a club or group.
"The purpose is to educate the senators on the process of University governance," he said. "But I hope more than just the senators will attend."
The seven standing Senate committees, which review all Senate legislation and budget proposals, are open to all students.
The forum will be in the Forum Room of the Union and will last about two hours.
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