University Daily Kansan, January 25, 1984
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She said the biggest problem with the reduction in the number of scholarships available was that it could reduce the number of students who wanted to enter the medical profession.
"I'm afraid that there might be high-quality qualified but less-wealthy students who would not get the chance to enter the field," she said.
According to some Med Center officials, the number of students who have signed up for the scholarships has been overwhelming. The program underestimated the program's popularity.
"Over the years, the program has cost the state millions. In-state tuition is $4,800 and
out-state tuition is $9,600," said Joseph Meek, vice chancellor for academic affairs at the Med Center. "Another reason for the reduction is that we are seeing a turnaround in statistics. Fewer areas are underserved."
But there is evidence that doctors who graduated from the Med Center do make up the majority of those practicing in rural areas, he said.
The scholarship program has not eradicated the shortage or problems with the students.
"Even if the number of scholarships wasn't
reduced, there would still be a shortage of doctors by 1990," said Billie Jo Burge, director of student financial aid at the Med Center.
FIFTY-FIVE PERCENT of those doctors practiced in rural Kansas graduated from MSO.
BURGE SAID THE shortage in family practice was nationwide.
"Students are in a state of panic." Burge said. "They have such large tuitions and without this, they would have zero state aid."
She said that the Legislature had set up the Medical School Scholarship Repayment Fund for those students to repay money they had received if they decided not to practice in Kansas. She said that money could be recycled into the school.
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homicide. If the court does not restrict the license, the division still can revoke it.
One bill the Highway Patrol and the Department of Revenue introduced to the Transportation and Utilities Committee is a substitute for another point system bill the committee considering. The two proposals differ in the number of points they assign for different violations.
The state would assign more points to serious offenses under the substitute bill. The original bill calls for one point to be assigned for all minor offenses and does not deal with major offenses.
o intersees.
STATE REP. LARRY Erne, D-Coffeyville,
said the variable point system would satisfy the true purpose of a point system.
The variable system would assign one point for speeding and other minor offenses, four points for obtaining a driver's license by fraud and six for driving or driving with an open liquor container.
Ten-point penalties would include driving while intoxicated and vehicular homicide. The most serious penalty, 12 points, would be driving with a suspended, revoked or canceled license.
All offenses worth between 6 and 12 points would be considered major. Driving with an open liquor container would be the only minor six-point offense.
Under the substitute bill, minor penalties would stay on a driver's record for two years and major convictions would remain for five years.
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IF A DRIVER collected four or five points, he would have to attend a driver improvement clinic. After six or seven points, he would be
restricted to driving only when necessary, such as to work. After eight points, the state would suspend his license for 10 days for each point he had accumulated.
had accreditations.
If a driver were convicted of three serious violations in five years, the state would revoke his license for three years.
The committee did not decide on either bill, and State Sen. Bob Talkington, committee chairman, said the legislators would meet at least once more before voting.
Talkington said the committee would have to decide whether the sole authority over driver's licenses should be given to the Department of Revenue.
"IT'S A SUBSTANTIAL policy change," he said. "Both the courts and the department have powers now, and there are good arguments on both sides."
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University almost $100,000 and took 11 months to complete. The EPA also fined the University $10,000 for the violations.
410,600 for the investment. Because of concerns about the investigation, the housing department took an inventory of its transformers.
Eventually housing department workers removed three transformers from the basement at Grace Pearson. No other residence halls had transformers that were removed.
"We never had any feeling that we were in any problems with safety for residents."
"WE WERE ALL taking extra precautions." Wilson said. "That's why we kept these notes. We were taking an inventory to see what we had.
The transformer leaked intermittently from January until its July replacement, he said.
Wilson said that most residents probably weren't aware of the replacement because it occurred during the summer.
"We made no attempt to camouflage it, or mask it," Wilson said. "But no notices were put out about it either."
Marvin Frye, a toxic substance coordinator who prepared the EPA complaint against the University, said that KU had acted promptly in removing the three transformers in Grace Pearson before new guidelines would have required their removal by 1986.
TRANSFORMERS THAT contained PCBs and that risked exposure to food preparation or livestock feed areas will have to be removed by 1986, according to EPA regulations.
Terry Milby, Hesston senior, was hall proctor when the leak occurred at the scholarship hall. He said he was never informed of the problem.
Milby said that access to the transformer room was through the boiler room, which is behind a door in the hall's dining room. As proctor he could enter the boiler room, but the transformer room was off limits to residents and staff.
"I guess their reasoning was not to let the students get too concerned or upset," Milby said. "But in retrospect, I would have liked to have known about it."
JEFF PATTON, Wichita senior and current hall proctor, said that he knew nothing about the transformer leak at the time it was discovered
transformer read as he wrote:
"The fact that they were that close to the dining room didn't please me that much."
Patton said.
"We basically have to take their word that everything spilled was cleaned up." Shields said. "I'm certainly glad they did clean it up."
Joe Shields, El Dorado senior and resident when the leak was discovered, said that he had never heard of the leak or of the transformers' replacement.
Robert B. WaddiUKANSAN
Sponge
Watson Library sometimes seems to be a myriad of bindings to students trying to find books. John Dalke, Hillsboro freshman, searched yesterday for a book.
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"VL1 is placing a warning label on the outside of the package." Gavnor said.
Schwegler said that he already had seen a patient who couldn't remove the sponge herself.
There has also been concern that the sponge could cause toxic shock syndrome, an infection in the blood that occurs most commonly in menstruating women, especially those wearing tampons.
The Food and Drug Administration, who approved the sponge for sale last April, said that there had been two confirmed cases of toxic shock among users of the sponge but that no direct connection had been established between the two.
11 users develop symptoms associated with toxic shock they are urged to contact a physician.
AMONG THE SYMPTOMS of toxic shock are sudden fever accompanied by vomiting or diarrhea, a sudden drop in
blood pressure, dizziness, and a sunburn-like rash.
Several local pharmacists said their customers had asked about toxic shock in relation to the snoonge.
"I think that's why we haven't had much call for it," said Marvin Bedehoe, a pharmacist at Medical Arts Pharmacy. Fourth and Main streets. "I think that girls are just a little skeptical of using it."
But the contraceptive is selling well in Lawrence despite reported problems, some local pharmacists said.
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Traffic
THOMAS MULINAZZI, professor of Civil Engineering, said that the engineering firm based on the study on the ratio of cars that entered the intersection with the number of accidents at that intersection.
"If one intersection had five accidents and 5,000 vehicles went through it, it is more dangerous than an intersection where 10 accidents occurred and 20,000 vehicles went through," said Mulnazzi.
Researchers observed the interactions at various times and recorded the average number of interactions per time interval.
said.
The accident figure shown for each intersection in the report, called Equivalent Property Damage Only, represents both property damage and injury-fatality accidents.
The report shows that the researchers gave greater weight to injury-fatality accidents in determining the Equivalent Property Damage Only figure.
In all of the intersections in the Oread Neighborhood, the recommendations made most frequently in the study involve the improvement of visibility at the intersections.
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