CAMPUS / AREA
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 26, 1992
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Kristen Petty/KANSAN
After stealing the ball from an opponent, Joey Boime, St. Louis senior, soars through the lane for an easy layup. The basketball game went on for much of yesterday afternoon in Buford M. Watson Park at Seventh and Kentucky streets.
Primary-care medicine is in jeopardy, deans say
Fly like a Jayhawk
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
The low interest among medical students nationwide in primary-care medicine has reached a crisis level, said two deans from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
James Price, executive dean for the Kansas City, Kan., school and Joseph Meek, dean of the Wichita branch, told about 75 members of the KU Premed Club Tuesday night that they should not ignore the benefits and opportunities that come with practicing general medicine in rural or under-served metropolitan areas of Kansas.
Meek said that although roughly half of the medical students at KU were choosing primary-care specialties, such as family practice, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology or internal medicine, the number of primary-care physicians nationwide was decreasing dramatically.
According to research by the University of Kansas Medical Center, 38.8 percent the nation's medical school graduates in 1981 specialized in primary care. In 1989, that rate had dropped to 25.4 percent.
Meek said that the medical school would work with the Kansas Legislature to improve access
"Essentially, we're all in it together," Meek said. "All of us feel that there needs to be something done to redirect medical care to the rural areas of Kansas."
to quality medical care in rural areas. The Legislature is considering a bill that would force the Med Center to graduate more primary-care doctors or lose 10 percent of its financing.
Financial incentives, the possibility of offering preferential admission to students from rural areas of Kansas and access to specialists are some of the options that could help relieve the shortage of physicians in rural areas, Meek said.
"Encouraging rural doctors to work in groups will help to break down the isolationist attitude that exists." Meek said. "It need not exist now."
Price used his personal experience as a rural physician to encourage KU students to consider that option.
"The message we want to get across to you is the tremendous amount of satisfaction and feeling OK about yourself and your life that can go along with providing medical care to a rural area," he said. "Before you turn away from it, I think that's something you really need to look at."
Price said that the national average for medical school graduates specializing in family practice was 10 percent. Twenty-two percent of this year's KU graduates are going into family practice.
Lisa Pazdenik, Prairie Village senior, said she was planning to attend medical school and specialize in internal medicine and geriatrics.
Price is scheduled to address the Legislature today to encourage legislative support for a grant aimed at providing financial incentive for medical students to specialize in primary care areas.
"I're really want to practice in a rural area or an under-served metropolitan area," Pazdernik said. "Wherever I'm needed, that's where I'd like to go. That's what medicine is about, going in and using your skills to help people."
Pazdernik said that volunteer work at a nursing home had helped her decide to specialize in primary care.
"Right now, I'm looking at orthopedic, but it seems like family practice has all of these opportunities coming up now, so who knows?" Barlow said.
No-show Senate stalls on budget
Will Barlow, Manhattan freshman, said that specializing in primary-care medicine had advantages but that he was planning to specialize in orthopedic medicine.
Bv.Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate could not vote on the proposed student organizations' budget last night because not enough members stayed for the vote.
Alan Lowden, student body president, called for a quorum near the end of the meeting at 10:15 p.m. A quorum is the number of members necessary to conduct business — half of Senate's members plus one.
To get the quorum, Senate needed 33 members present; there were only 29.
Leslie Lancaster, co-chairperson of the Student Senate Finance Committee, told the remaining senators to tell the missing senators to attend the next meeting.
"The Finance Committee spent months preparing this bill," she said. "Why prepare this budget for student senators who do not show up?"
sion of the budget Thursday after two nights of deliberation. The total proposed to Senate was $70,111,29, about $1,300 less than the $71,406budget for next year.
The Finance Committee completed its ver-
James Baucom, off-campus senator, added a resolution saying the vote to discipline members or to suspend their duties should be by ballot with the senator's name on the vote. The bill had no provision for the type of vote Senate needed to take.
Senate also passed a bill adding discipline and removal procedures to Senate rules.
The bill's language implied Senate should have integrity, so senators should be willing to stand for their beliefs, Baucom said. Since students vote senators into office, senators should be accountable for their actions, he said.
"If you don't have something you're willing to take heat for, you shouldn't be in Student Senate." Bacum said.
ate. Based on said,
Lowden, who spoke against the bill, said, "We should allow future senators what to decide in the future."
Lowden said said voting to remove a member would be the only instance when a Senate vote should be secret.
Patrick Dilley, graduate senator, said that an open vote could lead to intimidation and affect how senators worked with each other.
Work on the removal procedures began last semester after Senate vote to remove former-president Darren Fulcher from office after reports that he battered an ex-girlfriend became public. The Judicial Board and the administration upheld Senate's vote.
William Edwards, off-campus senator, did not present a bill he had drafted requesting Senate to allow students the option of deciding directly how the $25 of the student activity fees now controlled by Senate is spent.
He said the bill will be presented to the Finance and Students Rights committees Tuesday. If passed by both, the bill will be brought before Senate on Wednesday.
Faculty election results are released
Kansanstaffreport
Election results for new members of the Faculty Council and the Athletic Committee were released yesterday by University Governance.
New members were elected by Faculty Senate to serve for three-year terms that will expire in 1995. In the spring semester of each year, one-third of the Faculty Council are nominated and elected by their colleagues through a mail-in ballot.
Votes were tallied Tuesday.
All of the professional schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are represented on
New members of the Faculty Council representing the college are Robert Anderson, associate professor of French and Italian; Surendra Bhana, associate professor of African and African-American studies and history; Rolf Borchert, professor of biological studies; Maria Carlson, assistant professor of Slavic language and literatures and Soviet and East European studies.
Also elected were Carolyn Doty, assistant professor of English; WillLinkugel, professor of communication studies; Don Marquis, professor of philosophy; Barbara Schowen, associate professor of chemistry; T.P. Srinivasan, professor of math; and Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, associate professor of religious studies.
New members representing professional schools are Donna Luckey, associate professor of architecture and urban design; Mary Lou Michaelis, associate professor of pharmacology; Carole Zebas, professor of health, physical education and recreation.
New members of the Athletic Committee are Jan Kozma, associate professor of French and Italian and Renate Mai-Dalton, associate professor of business.
University Council consists of Faculty Council plus 12 students who are selected by student governance. University Council meets at least once a month in the fall semester and twice a month in the spring semester.
Louise's West reopens after ABC violations force closing
By Michelle Betts
Kansas staff writer
A Lawrence bar reopened yesterday after being closed for three days because of Alcoholic Beverage Control violations last year.
Louise's West, 1307 W. 7th St., was closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday because it violated ABC regulations by allowing people younger than 21 in the bar to drink, and by allowing drinking
in the establishment after 2 a.m., according to Mark Giles, one of the bar's new managers.
Lt. Mark Brothers, Lawrence police representative, met with the staff at Louse's West on Tuesday to discuss the use of masking and the use of false identification.
He said that staff members should not hesitate to ask patrons for two forms of identification.
Brothers said many people were making near-perfect copies of Kansas identification cards or drivers' licenses, using stolen laminations and cards.
"Never be afraid to ask for two forms of ID, because the ones who are legitimate will not give you a problem," Brothers said.
Giles, a Louise's West manager who began working there in February, said the bar staff had contacted Lawrence police and asked for a meeting with an officer.
He said that some identification, although it could be false, could look completely genuine, and that he wantability, as the bar to be as well-trained as possible.
"We wanted to find out from someone with authority what to look for." Giles
Communication with the police is important because police have so much contact with Lawrence bars, he said.
"We have so many officers, it's nice
to get to know them," Giles said. "That way, there's not so much friction between us and them."
Brothers said auto burglary near bars had become a problem in recent weeks because under-age women left their pursues in their cars to avoid showing employees a second form of identification.
*"Their pocketbooks, cash, credit cards and standard ID are out on the floorboard of the car, and someone*
takes them." he said.
Underage drinkers in a bar can ruin a bar's business. Brothers said.
"If the police walk in the door and everyone walks out the door, there goes your profit," he told the bar's staff.
Brothers said that if bars in Lawrence obeyed the laws, they still would make a profit.
"If you run a clean house, there are enough 21-year-olds to keep your business going," he said.