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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 94, No. 161 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students at the University of Kansas
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Friday morning, July 27, 1984
Wichita man gets new heart
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan — Early yesterday morning, a man who was critically ill with a fatal heart disease was given a new chance for life.
James Hale, 43, was in "the last days or months of his life" before receiving a heart transplant yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Thomas Bixler, the director of the cardiac-transplant team and chairman of the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.
It was the first time that heart-transplant surgery was performed in the Kansas City
AT A PRESS CONFERENCE yesterday afternoon at the Med Center, Bixler said that Hale was in critical but stable condition.
"I'm very pleased with his performance." Bixler said. "He woke up soon after the operation but was re-sedated for his own comfort."
While Hale made it through the most critical period of a heart transplant, the surgery itself, Bixler said that Hale was not vet in the clear.
"It's a very, very serious operation," he said. "There are a number of complications that could occur, such as rejection of the heart, infection and other organ problems."
"At this point, there are no complications, but it's very early."
Hale is now in intensive care until his condition improves.
HALE'S WIFE Ila, who was close to tears,
said, "I'm so happy and excited. It feels like
The Med Center announced on July 20 that it was beginning a heart-transplant program, said D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center.
That same day, Hale, a Wichita native, was transferred from St. Francis Hospital in Wichita to the Med Center, where he was deemed eligible for a heart transplant.
The family learned that a heart was available at 11 p.m. Wednesday. The only information available on the donor was that he or she was from the Midwest, Bixler said.
transported from the airport to the Med Center by Life Flight helicopter.
Hale was in the operating room at 11 p.m., but the operation began at midnight. At 1 a.m. yesterday, the heart arrived, Bixler said, and the surgery was completed before dawn. The actual surgery took two hours and 59 minutes, from the time the heart was
The heart was flown to Kansas City and
I feel that it's a miracle. Everything just fell into place like it was supposed to happen.
- John Hale, patient's son
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received at the Med Center until it was implanted.
THE FAMILY HAS seen Hale, but he has not vet spoken. Hale's son James, 19, said.
"He woke up, and I think that he recognized who we were."
Hale's son John, 18, said, "I'm so overwhelmed and happy.
"I feel that it's a miracle. Everything just fell into place like it was supposed to happen."
Hale has a two-thirds chance of surviving one year and a 50-50 chance of living five years.
The Med Center's heart-transplant program was modeled after that of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Bixler said, where he learned the procedure.
Only 14 other institutions in the United States have performed the surgery.
"I THINK THAT cardiac-transplant surgery is an accepted mode and should be in Kansas City because this is a progressive, advanced city," Bixler said.
The Med Center worked for six months to put the program together, Clawson said.
"we wanted to be sure we were completely prepared to do it."
But heart transplants are expensive. Clawson said
The Med Center estimates that the total cost of such an operation is $80,000. Clawson
"We have to work out ways to fund this very expensive operation." Clawson said.
Because of Hale's heart condition, a severe coronary artery disease with heart failure, he could not continue his work as an art teacher and was covered by Medicaid. Clawson said.
HEART-TRANSPLANT surgery is considered non-experimental surgery, Clawson said, so insurance companies might be willing to cover the costs of the operations.
At this point, $250,000 has been given to the Med Center for heart-transplant surgery. Clawson said he hoped the Certificate of Needs be used to guide a recommendation for a larger allocation.
"We are obligated to continue the transplant program," Clawson said. "Otherwise we would be denying the opportunity to live.
"This is a very encouraging beginning "
The cardiac transplant team, which consists of six doctors, three to four nurses and several technicians, is in a constant state of readiness and will be prepared to operate when the need for a transplant arises and a donor is available. Bixler said.
"Another patient had been deemed acceptable, he said, "but we couldn't get a heart transplant."
Bachelor can be on at the Earlier this week, Clawson said, the Med Center came close to performing a heart transplant.
Ila Hale said she had hoped that the publicity about her husband would encourage others to designate themselves as organ donors.
Gandhi's SALT walk arrives in South Park
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
Yogesh Gandhi, the great-great nephew of the famed peace activist Mahatma Gandhi, sat under a shade tree in South Park yesterday, sharing his dreams for
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world, as Gandhi did," he said.
Like its great great uncle, who led thousands of Indians in a 300-mile walk to protest British rule, Yogesh Gandhi is leading a non-violent protest walk across the United States, and later around the world, in hopes of establishing world peace.
Gandhi and his small band of walkers arrived in Lawrence yesterday afternoon where they met with about 10 people for a peace prayer
He said that both the TV movie "The Day After" and the Academy Award-winning film "Gandhi" inspired him to organize the walk, which he calls "Operation SALT March" - Serve All Life Today.
The group was scheduled to attend a potluck dinner at Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St. where they were likely to talk about Mathtauna Gandhi and give a talk.
AFTER THE MEETING; the walkers were to stay with Carla Vogel, student body president, who was in charge of
arranging meetings and lodging for the group while they were in Lawrence.
Gandhi's group will leave Lawrence today for Kansas City, where they will spend the weekend.
Yogesh Gandhi
Gandhi and eight others left Los Angeles June 11 and plan to arrive in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, the 115th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, to speak with President Reagan about the necessity for world peace.
In 114 days, the walkers will travel 4,000 miles in 25 major cities.
ALONG THE WAY, the walkers have been talking with the general audience of cultural leaders about the need for food.
Gandhi walks about 15 to 20 miles of each day's journey, with the other walkers trading off in relay teams. To meet the tour's tight schedule, they sometimes even ride.
peace and have been facing people's solutions for the world crisis, Gandhi said.
"Massive change is severely dependent on individual action" be said.
Too often, people look to the government or politicians to bring about peace, he said, but "we have to take individual action for world peace."
Kathy Newell, Hutchinson - senior, who participated in the peace prayer, said that Gandhi's plan of talking with individuals
See GANDHL. p. 5, col. 1
Vogel and Highberger take offices outdoors for a day
By MICKI SAMPSON Staff Reporter
In an effort to hear student concerns and ideas, Vogel and Higbberger took a disconnected phone, their latest petition and an essay that Higbberger wrote on student government and sat for an hour in front of Wescce.
A card table, two chairs and the shade from Wescoe Hall became the office of Student Body President Carla Vogel and Student Body Vice President Dennis "Boog" Highberger Wednesday afternoon.
Most of the passers by slowed down to see what was happening, chuckled, then went on.
OTHERS STOPPED TO chat or to remark about the phone, but few. Highgerbier said, "I am not sure of it."
One of the students who stopped by to talk,
Debbie Mayberry, Leavenworth junior, said that Vogel and Highberger's outside office hours were a great idea.
Their petition to change the student government into a union similar to a labor union is now underway.
"It shows that they are making an effort to get in touch with the students and to see how the students feel," she said. "It's much more important than Senate office for students to come to them."
This outing will be one of many, they said,
as they try to establish an easy rapport
among the student body and the student government.
VOGEL SAID THAT very few students actually came down to the Student Senate
" cool like I'm stuck in the office a lot of time and maybe get a chance to talk to students," she said.
"People don't know that it exists," Highberger said.
So, instead of waiting for their constituents to come to them, they went to their constituents.
Vogel said that she would encourage the student senators to hold office hours outside the building.
Each senator, she said, could set up a table in front of or in the school from which they were elected so that they would have a better chance to find our what their constituents needed.
JEFF THOMPSON, Leawed senior, said that he would be in favor of Vogel's idea.
"It sounds like a good idea to me." he said.
"It would be a good way to be in contact with him."
During the fall semester, Highberger said that he and Vogel had planned to go to all of the bars where students gather to find out about concerns were and to get student input.
He said they might promote their visits, or show up unannounced.
Thompson is a senator from the School of Liberal Arts.
Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Booq"
Highiger, vice president, gaze out at an empty Wescoe
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Beach. They set up the office outside Wescoe yesterday to be more accessible to students.
Student looks on her witchcraft as a religion
By LORI ELLIOTT
Staff Reporter
"Ever since I was a little kid, I heard about witches that had all these powers and flew around on broomsticks," Smith said. "I told him he was a magician, I thought there had to be something behind it."
Stacey Smith doesn't have warts on her nose, a black cat or a pointed black hat, and the only broom she has is the one she uses to sween her floor.
Smith said she had been interested in witchcraft since she was a child.
When she got older, she started reading about withctcraft and found that most books described it as a religion rather than through history and myth. Smith said.
But Smith, Westport, Mo., senior, practices witchcraft as her religion.
"I tried Christianity," she said, "but I couldn't take it — all those dos and don'ts, and putting women in an inferior role. I thought. 'Hey, that's crap.'"
"WITCHCRAFT INVOLVES a respect for nature. The Earth Mother is our goddess, and it is basically living in harmony with nature and respecting the forces in nature.
"I want to get one thing straight." she said.
"We don't sacrifice babies. We are not devil-worshipped."
Because the practice of witchcraft involves being in harmony with nature, Smith became interested in herbalism, using herbs for medicinal purposes.
"I've never had an herb not do what I wanted to do — even with skeptics," she said. "I had a friend who had a cold and didn't believe I could do anything for it. I made him 15 minutes later he wasn't sneezing and he could breathe. He was so surprised."
"I can't cure cancer." she said, "but if someone has a cold or an infection, I can usually help.
IN ADDITION TO using herbs, Smith said she cast spells. A spell is a prolonged method.
"I sit down and think about what I want,
"why I want it, and what will happen if I get it," she said. "A spell is just focusing on yourself and concentrating."
When she is struggling with a problem, Smith said she meditated at her altar. Her altar faces north, which is standard practice, and it has a natural significance — north represented the body.
See SMITH. p. 5. col.1
Stacey Smith
Legislators support bill allowing religious groups in public school
The first version was killed after being introduced last May.
"If a local principal misunderstood the law," said Rep. Jim Slattery, a Democrat, then the entire school district could lose all its things such as school lunch programs.
The original measure would have denied federal funds to state and local school districts that did not give religious and secular groups the same rights.
Kansas congressmen were more receptive to the federal legislation passed Wednesday that would allow religious groups to meet in public schools after hours than they were to earlier bills on the same subject.
Staff Reporter
By MICHELE HINGER Staff Reporter
For example, Timanus said, the First Baptist Church could not demand use of a school building for a meeting, but a group of students could request that they be allowed to meet there.
passed Wednesday doesn't hold the club of withdrawing funds over the schools. Also, the approved legislation has stringent stipulations on who may conduct the meetings - the request for use of the school must come from student groups."
"THE BASIC DIFFERENCE between this bill and the one killed in May," said Chuck Timanus, press secretary to Rep. Dan Glickman, also a Democrat, "is that the bill
Concern that cult groups could enter the schools and victimize students prompted some legislators to vote against the original proposal, which had no specification that the meetings be student-initiated.
"THAT WAS A big concern on the first go-round." said Timanus. "With this legislation, a representative of the Moon group cannot continue to come to the school week after week. Religion is a pretty ambiguous term and the first legislation would have placed the burden on the school system to
See SCHOOLS, p. 5, col. 3