University Daily Kansan, February 4, 1985 Page 3 CAMPUS AND AREA NEWS BRIEFS Transplant recipient improves The fifth heart transplant recipient of the University of Kansas Medical Center was upgraded to good condition Saturday, after a long wait. A, Med Center spokesman said yesterday. Donald L. Moore, 49, of Kansas City, Kan., received the fifth Mid Center transplant Jan. 26. The heart donor was an American Army officer who was killed in the line of duty. Joy Shepherd, 52, of Carterville, Mo., was released Friday after a three-week hospital stay. She received her heart transplant Jan. 10. Golden retriever strangles girl SILVER LAKE A -70 pound golden retriever playing with a 6-year-old girl Saturday, tugged around scarf around the lady, tugged around the youngster, officials said yesterday. Theresa Ward was playing with the family's golden retriever in the backyard home when family members discovered that she was about 4:45 p.m. Saturday, officials said. Poet to lecture on China visit Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder will lecture on "The Arts of Politics in Action: A Writer's Visit to the People's Republic of China" at the Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Snyder won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for "Turtle Island," a book of poems. His interest in the tradition of Asian literature is reflected in many of his works. Tomorrow last day to register Tomorrow is the last day to register for the Feb. 26 Lawrence City Commission primary election. The clerk's office in the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets, will be open from 8 a.m. today and tomorrow for registration. Other registration sites are Independence Inc., 1910 Haskell Ave.; Ballard Community Center Inc., 708 Elm St.; and Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St. Residents who have changed addresses and those who have not voted before need Voters who are disabled or who will be out of town on the primary election day will be able to apply for absentee ballots at the clerk's office. The deadline to apply for absentee ballots is noon Feb. 25, and the other voters who are disabled is noon Feb. 26. Summer positions available Applications for summer employment will be available starting today at the City Personnel Office. Third Floor of City Hall, 6th and Massachusetts streets. Summer positions offered include: lifeguards and swim instructors, cashiers, playground supervisors and aides, day camps, counselors and recreation class Applications will be accepted until March 15, 1985 and interviews will take place after that date. Weather A traveler's advisory has been issued for today. The high will be between 15 and 20, and there is a possibility of 1 to 3 inches accumulation of snow by noon. Winds will be from the northeast at 10 to 20 mph. Wet weather will increase the percent chance of snow. The low will be around zero. Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, with a high in the teens. Where to call If you have a news tip or a photo idea, call the Kansan at 864-4810. If your idea deals with campus news, ask for Rob Karwath, campus editor. If it deals with sports, ask for Lauretta Schultz, sports editor. For On campus items or information on arts and leisure, speak with John Egan. Et cetera editor. If you have a complaint or a problem, the editor, or Diane Laber, managing editor To place an ad, call the Kansan business office at 864-5348. Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports. Flu bug taking big bite out of students Bv MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter When students start the spring semester, they usually bring back three things from home — clean clothes, holiday leftovers and viruses. Since the beginning of the semester, between 60 and 70 percent of students coming to Watkins Hospital have had a virus from the flu. Beth Reth, a physcian at Watkins, said Friday. Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, will become a national epidemic this winter. Reason? Each spring semester, the number of students with viral diseases increases. *Britishaid*. One reason, he said, is that a large number of students who come back from vacation bring a variety of viral diseases back with them. STUDENTS ALSO catch more viruses during the cold months because they stay inside more and have more contact with other people, Reith said. Terry Riordan, a Lawrence pediatrician, said that the patients he had seen that day had had Some symptoms of the virus are a raspy cough, headaches, a sore throat, a mild fever and fatigue. Most of his patients have been under 5 years old, he said, but he has received calls about high school students and two college students. "There was a little epidemic of it." Rfordan sat in the quieted down and then it up again. Although there is no documentation, Iordan have thought there were some cases of in- flection. Riordan said the large number of patients with the virus began coming in about two weeks ago. RIORDAN SAID an outbreak of influenza occurred every few years. Influenza can be fatal with the very young, the elderly and people with chronic illnesses, he said. Students with chronic illnesses should get a fu shot, he said. Reith said influenza had many forms, and the outbreak that has caused some deaths across the country is a Type A Philippine strain. He said the state health department hadn't confirmed any cases of influenza in Kansas this year, but he said there was a possibility that they could come later. "Since the very beginning of January, we have sent lab specimens to the health department believed to be influenza and none of them have been positive." Reith said. TO DISTINGUSH between the flu vaccine and influenza, a culture has to be taken. Riordan said the procedure cost up to $70 and could take as long as three weeks before results were known. By that time a patient probably would have recovered, he said. Wrestling with the virus can set students back between $15 and $15 in medication costs. Reith said the cost of medicine varied depending on which doctors chose to prescribe what medicine. But less expensive medication often can be used, he said. Reith said the virus was about as contagious as a common cold and could spread easily. "People susceptible are individuals who are stressed either psychologically or physically," Reith said. Athletes with strenuous workouts and students who don't get enough sleep are easy targets for the virus, he said. THE MOST COMMON way to spread any type of virus, Reith said, is through the hands. Therefore, a good preventive measure is frequent hand washing, he said. Reith said the best way to recover from the virus was to stay home for a few days, humidify the air, drink fluids and take aspirin or an aspirin substitute. Riordan said no medicine existed that specifically treated influenza, but the indies were more likely to use it. Tim Schuler, a Morris, Ill., freshman who spent three days in Watkins last week recovering from his bout with the virus, suffered from some additional symptoms. Schuler said he got a black eye when he collapsed from the virus, and his leg was cut when the glass he was holding slipped out of his hand and broke. Riordan said the virus could lead to more serious illnesses such as pneumonia. Budig gets promotion in air guard Chancellor named a brigadier general in his second career The University of Kansas is piloted by a brigadier general of the Air National Guard. On Thursday, the Defense Department informed Chancellor Gene A. Budig that he had been promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Air National Guard. Budig is the second chancellor in KU's 119-year history to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general. The other was John Fraser, who was head of the University from 1867 to 1874 after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War. In a prepared statement released Friday, Budig said, "The Air National Guard has been an important part of my life for the past three years. In very real sense, it has been a second career." Budig has been involved in Air National Guard organizations in Nebraska, West Virginia and Kansas, the statement said. BUDIG HAS SERVED as chief of staff for the Kansas Air National Guard, which has flying groups at Forbes Air Force Base in Wichita and McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. With his promotion, Budig will have a new assignment. He will act as the assistant to Gen. Andrew P. Iosue, commander of the Air Training Command. The command is responsible for all recruiting and training in the U.S. Air Force. Budig would he be informed of his new responsibilities as a brigadier general later in the war. Major General Ralph T. Tice, adjutant general of Kansas' Army and International Guard, said Bidig was "the only head of a major public university actively involved with either the Air National Guard or the Air Force Reserve." Budig said Tice recommended him for the promotion, which was confirmed by the Sec Budig is a graduate of the Air Force Squadron Officers' School, the Air Command and Staff College and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. "I am honored to be associated with the more than 103,000 men and women who are active members of the Air National Guard." Budig said in the prepared statement. "Each member believes in the importance of a clear mission and is committed to devote significant time and effort to insure that end. Each is deeply committed to the maintenance of world peace." Budig served as president of Illinois State University from 1972 to 1977 and West Virginia University from 1977 to 1981 before coming to KU. State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, reviews his file on Vancrum, R-Overland Park, discussed the nuclear power the Wolf Creek rate shock bill. Winter and State Rep. Robert plant at a symposium Saturday morning at Green Hall. Wolf Creek called a costly mistake Staff Reporter By ANN PETERSON Staff Reporter Failure by economists nine years ago to foresee Kansas' current economic situation caused the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant to be a mistake that consumers soon will have to pay for, speakers at the Law School said Saturday. Legislators, teachers, consumer advocates and a law student spoke about the Wolf Creek plant to an audience of about 70 people at a symposium sponsored by the Kansas Law Review. The symposium lasted about four hours. Eight years ago, those who looked at the construction of Wolf Creek as an inexpensive, more efficient way to provide customers with electricity did not predict inflation and additional safety requirements that added to the price of the plant, Robert Glicksman, associate professor of law said. KANSAS CITY Power and Light Co. of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas Gas and Electric Co. of Wichita each own 47 percent of Wolf Creek, Kansas' first nuclear station. The Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. of Topeka owns the other 6 percent. Wolf Creek has now cost $3 billion to build — six times the original estimate. The plant near Burington is scheduled to start operating this month. It will serve metropolitan Kansas City and Wichita and most of southeast Kansas. Kansas legislators were concerned about how much of the plant's cost would be absorbed by consumers, said State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park. Vancrum said Wolf Creek was a situation that cried out for a solution, so he wrote the shock stock bill passed by the Legislature last fall. It has led to the state of State Sen. Wint Wint Jr., J.R.Layners THE BILL GAVE the Kansas Corporation Commission power to exclude portions of the plant's costs from the rates the utilities wanted to charge customers. "If some costs of Wolf Creek were incurred because of imprudence on the part of KCPL or KGAE, they shall never be a part of the rate base," said Vancrum. "Utilities costs that are over 200 percent of the original costs are determined to be imprudent." Winter said consumers should not have to pay for excess electricity produced by the plant or financial risks taken by the utilities that were deemed unreasonable by the KCC "The Senate made it very clear that poor utilities had to meet a test of higher care than that of private companies because they are putting at risk public funds." Winter said. "And we allowed the KCC the tools to regulate this." BOTH WINTER and Vanerum said they thought this bill would solve the short-run problem of higher electricity bills for consumers by not allowing the utilities to charge for certain costs and by providing a tax incentive. However, Keith Wiens, representing the Electric Shock Coalition, a Wichita citizen involvement group, said he was concerned the bill would simply "pass the buck" to the KCC and cease to be a strong consumer bill. WIENS SAID THE utilities were not using the cheapest resources to produce electricity, such as solar, wind and coal plants. Instead, he said, they are using giant plants like Wolf Creek to produce too much electricity for Kansas consumers to use. Brian Moline, KCC general counsel, said that during the past years, it became apparent to everyone that demand for custody was going down and the cost was up going. "What the KCC has to determine under the all if it is the utilities should have looked at this" Wait, let me look at the image again. The first line: "What the KCC has to determine under the all if it is the utilities should have looked at this". The second line: "the utilities should have looked at this". Yes. Let's re-read the whole thing one more time for accuracy. "It what the KCC has to determine under the all if it is the utilities should have looked at this" "the utilities should have looked at this" "the utilities should have looked at this" Actually, I'll just use the same text as it is. Wait, looking at the very end of the second sentence, it says "the utilities should have looked at this". Then Moline also tried to explain the utilities' point of view because they were not represented at the symposium. HE SAID THE HUTS would argue that a large percentage of the cost overruns in the construction of Wolf Creek were due to inflation that the utilities couldn't predict. 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