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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
81st Year, No. 8
Friday, July 2. 1971
Med Center Can't Collect On Accounts
Rv ANN CONNER
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The Kansas Board of Regents has declared uncollectible $864,789.4 in delinquent accounts at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.
Although this is an increase over last year's total of approximately $500,000, James Lerning, associate director of the Medical Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, interviewed that the amount was "probably medical."
Leming, who is in charge of all fiscal affairs at the Medical Center, offered two reasons for her decision:
1) Hospital bills are growing because of increasing costs.
2) Nine months ago, the regents and the State Department of Post-Audit in Topeka gave the Medical Center permission to change from a three-year to a one-year lease on the property, delinquent accounts. The changeover caused an increase in this year's total, said Leming.
Another reason was that Medical Center patrons were not selected on the basis of race or religion.
"We don't refuse medical attention to anyone here at the Medical Center," explained Lainton. "A department store has the option of refusing services. We don't have that option here; we treat them and try to collect afterwards."
The hospital's situation was more difficult to handle than regular commercial credit problems, he said, for example, a customer who had been hit by an accident would have made plans to pay for it. However, Lening remarked that the same did not always apply to hospital bills which were not paid.
The other bill collection handicap mentioned by Lering was the Medical Center's Medicaid.
"Being a state institution, we don't feel that we have the right or the prerogative to regulate."
Leming explained that the billing process at the Medical Center involved a series of steps and collection letters. If there is no response to the mailings, the Medical Center turns the accounts over to a collection agency. If there is no result from these efforts, the agency either decides to sue or informs the Medical Center that the patient's so-called bills have no financial resource.
Once it is determined that a suit would not be worthwhile, the accounts are turned over the State Department of Post-Audit for examination. Leme said. After the accounts are declared legitimate and uncollectible by the Post-Audit Department, the Medical Center submits the accounts to the regores for review. The medical centers accounts from its billing files. This was the action taken June 26 when the regores declared the $84,789.40 uncollectible.
Leming estimated that rising hospital costs would push the annual amount of uncollectible bills to $850,000-$900,000 in future years.
Area Vietnam veterans with anti war views met tuesday in a Lawrence park to discuss plans for a weekend demonstration. They will join other veterans for a protest march and demonstration Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Kansas City.
Kansan Photo by HANK YOUNG
Antiwar Veterans
KU Budget Request Asks Salary Raises
The budget requests submitted to the Kansas Board of Regents last week by Kansas' seven universities and colleges and the Medical Center, reflect a shift in priorities on the part of the regents and the president of the schools.
The Council of University Presidents (CUP) is concentrating on across-the-board salary increases for all university personnel—faculty, classified (Civil Service) employees and students who are on the payroll.
In lieu of a large number of totally new programs, or even substantial additions to existing ones, KU, along with CUP, requested a 10 per cent salary increase for all employees beginning July 1, 1972, Martin L. Jones, University budget officer, said.
Individuals in the KU administration saw
this 10 per cent increase was not without press discussions with the regents. Consequently, these same people feel confident the request will be honored by the board. Action by legislative committee and the governor next month would require the legislature. In the recently submitted budget request for fiscal year 1973, KU asked for a total of $48,713,281. In last year's request, which was for funding of the 1972 fiscal year that began yesterday, KU sought a record $26.2 million. That amount was later reduced to $42.5 million to relegate the regents, the legislature and the governor.
The fiscal 1972 request, however, reflected guidelines suggested by the requests asking that the budgets included an ideal faculty enrollment of 300 students in the 122 additional faculty members needed V.
bring the ratio to one faculty member for every 12 students.
The expected ratio this fall will be 16.8 students for each full-time faculty, member.
Although salaries may increase, and the University requested an additional 74.7 new faculty positions and 35.2 classed positions, the university has hired job些 this fall when compared to last year.
Some experts blamed the tragedy on the return to gravity after the long period of
Cosmonauts' Deaths Halt Soviet Program
Jones explains the problem with the economist's stand-by—the "pie chart."
The culprit is an increased minimum wage without a comparable increase in available
MOSCOW (UP1) — The tragedy of Soyuz 11 will bring an immediate halt in the Haitian current space station experiments and may start a top-to-bottom, re-evaluation of the entire manned space program, western space experts said this week.
What happened to cosmonauts Georgi Debrovskolov, Vladislav Skov and Victor Patsayev? They seemed to be healthy when they began their descent after spending 24 days, 17 hours and 40 minutes in orbit. There was no evidence of a mishandrure descent.
If weightlessness was to blame for the mysterious deaths of three record-breaking Russian cosmonauts as they returned to earth early Wednesday morning, the experts said, America's manned spaceflight program will probably profoundly affected as that of the Soviets.
"The pie is of limited size," he said, while drawing a circle on a yellow legal pad.
weightlessness. Man's body grows "hazy" in weightlessness because it is not subject to gravitial pressure. The heart works less, the blood flow cases, muscles grow soft.
They said the vital organs of the dead cosmonauts, unseen to such strain for more than three weeks, could have been overwhelmed during reentry. A spacecraft descent into earth's gravity suddenly puts a terrific strain on the human body. The feeling is akin to being crushed by a weight of 500 pounds.
If it develops the men died because of a capsule system failure, the experts said, there is likely to be a delay in the Soviet manned space program to correct the failure, but there will be no change in the basic direction of the program.
The gravity theory created some skepticism. One western scientist said the death may have been caused by a failure in the oxygen system, causing quick asphyxiation.
"Say we are taking two-thirds, or 68 per cent, out of the pie for salaries. Now the minimum wage goes up from $1.45 to $1.60 an hour, or a bit over 10 per cent.
"We can't reduce the number of people we have, so that means we have to take a bigger section of the pie for salaries. And that means a smaller portion of other operating expenses—everything from postage stamps and Xeroxing to travel expenses," he said.
Jones pointed out that the 1753 requested budget sought an increase in funds to bring the number of student work hours back to the 1970-71 level.
The budget request does ask for an increase in operating expenditures, other than taxes, but the increase was limited to 5 per cent of the total government guidelines and the recent tax cuts legislation.
Jones said he and his staff examined the budgeting concepts and formula guidelines utilized by the Florida university system and that they are to be lacking in all areas of expenditure.
This five per cent will do no more than maintain the statum quo" because of rising interest rates.
Why then, Jones was asked, does KU have an better academic reputation in the nation, if we fall below Florida in salary, physical plant and operating expenditure levels?
"There's no way to prove it, and this may sound kind of corry, but I think KU offers its faculty a potential for experimentation that is lacking in other schools," Jones said.
Velvel Accepts New Post Will Also Practice Law
After devoting the past five years to explaining the intricacies of Constitutional Law to the students in Green Hall, Lawrence moved on to new and additional challenges.
Velvel has accepted a position on the law
Footsie
Photo by BECCA MYER
Stretched out in the cool grass, Steve Workman, Lawrence junior rests his feet, which are hot and tired from walking across campus in the summer heat.
faculty of Catholic University, Washington,
D. begins this fall, but he will also be
assisted by the late Bill.
Velvet and three or four other lawyers are in the process of incorporating a Virginia company.
"The firm will deal with constitutional issues of a broad nature." Velvel said, "We don't intend to be concerned with relatively narrow issues, such as consumer interest, but rather, to challenge" the legality of a variety of government processes.
Veluel said the tentative name of the law firm is Article 1, Section 8, Inc. The name refers to the article of the United States describing the powers vested in the Congress.
particular section and its clauses.
In the spring of 1968, he filled a suit in U.S. District Court in Topkena naming former Governor Bob Dole as secretary of State Dean Kush and former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford as defendants. The suit contended the administration violated Article I, Section 8,Clause 11 of the Constitution. Congress shall have the power to declare war.
Velvel is intimately familiar with this particular section and its classes.
Velvet's petition argued the former administration had unlawfully exceeded its Constitutional authority by carrying on large-scale war in Vietnam since 1965 without a final declaration of war by Congress, thus allowing it to perpetrate and owe to the plaintiff" and others like him.
In July 1968, District Judge George Templar dismissed the suit on the grounds that Velvel lacked standing to sue, that the case presented a political question not subject to action and that it was, in effect, a suit against United States to which it had not consented.
Ballard Center Gets United Fund Support
For the first time in three years, the Ballard Community Center will be allotted more parking.
The Ballard Center was first excluded from receiving money from the United Fund in 1969, when Leonard Harrison, former director of the center, was convicted in Wichita of armed robbery. Harrison appealed the conviction to the Kansas Supreme Court.
The United Fund board of directors voted
14-15 early this week to grant the Ballard
Court a vote.
In 1970, Velvet again entered the legal fray over the Asian war by serving as chairman of 30 law professors from 24 schools in 15 states who filed a 'friends of the court' brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a Massachusetts state antiwar law. The law required that no Massachusetts citizen should have been forced to fight in an uncleared foreign war.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 63 vote, refused to hear arguments in the Massachusetts case, and had earlier declined to rule that level's suit concerning the conduct of the war.
Velvet also came to public attention in the spring of 1979 when the repents, acting on a faculty promotion list recommended by the KU administration, refused to promote Velvet and Fredric Lito, then assistant professor of speech and drama.
Regents Henry Bubb and Paul Wunsch and State Sen. Reynolds Shultz vehemently accused Velvel of "adding fuel to the flame" with a speech he made to a group of demonstrating students in front of Green Hall Feb. 17, 1970
His critics contended Velvet's brief address to the group on campus, in which he questioned some of the actions taken by Judge Julius Hoffman in the Chicago trial, may have encouraged the court house vandalism.
The students were protesting the contempt citations against the "Chicago Seven" defendants and their lawyers. Later, on the afternoon of the protest, a group of young people went to the Douglas County Court where some acts of vandalism took place.
One month after the parents initial furoir, both patientsolved and afteer were brought to the hospital.
His five years in Kansas have reinforced one lesson for hire. Vail said.
"I'm convinced of the superiority of the English model' of society, where people with all shades of political opinion can get along with each other."
"Basically, I'm going to Washington as a law professor." Veland said. "But the firm will provide a vehicle for me to do the kind of thing I've been doing from 1960 miles away."
Vlevel said the new firm will be initially financed by a promised foundation grant, but two of the partners will also have an incom-producing private firm in association with the company.
"The whole thing can go bust . . . It could amount to nothing, but it provides an opportunity that I've wanted to take a shot at." Velwel said.
Kansas School of Religion
school is academically related to KU
School of Religion Is Institution Unto Itself
In the beginning Citizens created the University.
By CONNIE MOWER
And the University was without rigorous training and ignorance filled the void.
So began the Irma Smith School of Religion.
And Citizens said, "Let there be a school of religion," And there was. And Citizens called the school "Smith" after a great benefactor. And it was good.
So begin the Irmah Smith School of Religion. The building the school now occupies was built in 1910, and overwhelming increase in students—from 268 in 1961 to 1,120 in 1970. Bank, corporations and private individuals such as Irmah Smith provided sufficient funds to construct the building.
The school, even though it is not a parochial institution, does not receive government, state aid, or any tuition but is financed by various incorporated relations. Salaries for the staff, maintenance of the building and additions for the library are paid
primarily from these funds. Exceptions to this include faculty who teach part time at the religion school and part time at some other university school.
Lynn Taylor, dean of religion, stated that support in the future would have to come primarily from individuals, as most church donations have decreased.
Even though it is not financially affiliated with the University of Kansas, the School of Religion is academically and administratively connected to the University, Faculty and courses are approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The school offers courses from "Chief Living Religions of the World" to "Modern Ecclesiastical Historicography." One course provided by the school is broadcast by radio to listeners who may or may not be attending regular classes.
Undergraduate and graduate programs are available.