University Daily Kansan, October 27, 1983
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Costume party is serious topic for coalition
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Don Henry/KANSAN
Frank Krug, left, Costume Party candidate for senator from the School of Education, and "Boog" Highberger, right, Costume Party candidate for student body president, react to election rules during a candidates' forum. Yesterday the candidates came to the forum in the Kansas Union dragging trash bags full of aluminum cans that they said would help pay for their campaign.
The somber atmosphere that surrounded yesterday's student government candidate forum in the Kansas state was interrupted by a costume party.
Several people wearing faded T-shirts and blue jeans and carrying garbage bags full of aluminum cans clanked their way around a crowd of people wearing tweed skirts and v-neck sweaters, while Jim Clark, Student Senate elections chairman, tried unsuccessfully to keep the attention of the candidates for the Nov. 16-17 student senate elections.
But the disruption to the meeting — the purpose of which was to explain election rules — wasn't an intentional protest.
The group members were representatives from the Costume Party, one of five coalfactions running in next month's election, who were a little late to the meeting because they had been out and they could cans to cash in for campaign funds.
THE COSTUME PARTY is a coalition of 12 students who want to install an administration that allows a less-structured way of doing senate business. The party advocates free association rather than the traditional, traditionalist parliamentary rules that the Senate has operated under for the past several years.
The party's candidate for president is Dennis "boo" Higgberger, a tall, thin man.
He said if he were elected, he would be the last student body president at KI.
"I'm not proposing that we trash the existing system and run away," Highberger stated in his party's annual address. "In which I see is a positive, organic restructuring.
"Organization doesn't necessarily imply bureaucracy, hierarchy and fidelity."
THE SENATE HAS traditionally been dominated by Senators who have the support of fraternity and sorority groups.
Sitting on the floor of the Union fobby after the fun, forum. Highgerrer the man who had been a member of the
not worried about not having traditional support.
The party's bid is a serious one, and the first step of a continuing change of direction is to accept it.
"It is important for me to show people that there's a different way to relate to each other without power trips." Highbgerer said. "I know how we make our own decisions. We try to be honest and open.
"We don't vote. When we make a decision it's by a consensus." he said
TALKING ENTHUSIASTICALLY from underneath the brim of his brown floppy hat, Frank Krug, Lawrence senior and Costume's candidate for the School of Education Senate seat, explained his reason for running.
"The world's got problems that are in need of changing and I'm going to be better."
The principal goal of the party seems to be the encouragement of communication among as many of the University's students as possible.
And, though they are well aware that they are not running with a full coalition of senators, the members of the Costume Party say this means they
will deal with students from other coalitions in the election.
DESPITE ITS non-traditional views, the candidates say they are open to the views of other coalitions, both conservative and liberal.
Carla Vogel, Overland Park senior and Costume's candidate for vice president, said that the Costume Party has in fact been a traditional political campaign.
"I don't think of it as a competition," vogel said. "It's not a win-or-lose game."
Krug said that he wanted to hear the ideas of other candidates.
"If I had to make a speech somewhere, and there was a speaker from the Freedom Coalition next to me, I would hope he'd speak," Krug said.
Highberger said that there were fallacies that had to be corrected in all branches of the American government, with the administration of the University.
"THE UNIVERSITY IS an integral part of corporate society." Highberger said. "And we're being used to prop that up."
By MATTHEW HARRISON Staff Reporter
Med Center seeks air cooling funds
The University of Kansas Medical Center needs more than $4.7 million from the state general fund to alleviate a critical air conditioning problem, the Med Center director of facilities said yesterday.
Gerald Imming, the director, said that the Board of Regents had made a $2.85 million request to the Kansas Legislature for air conditioning improvements at the Med Center for fiscal year 1983 its top construction priority.
The Regents plan to ask for $1.88 million for air conditioning improvement.
"THROUGH THE FAILURE of the units and through the addition of several new loads — such as the radiation therapy unit — we are able to contain 5,200 tons in conditioning when we only have 4,000 tons available." Imming said.
The $4.73 million would be used to purchase three additional cooling units, which would provide 3,000 more tons of chilled water to the campus. The chilled water would be used in the air conditioning systems in each building.
The money would also be used to replace existing air cooling systems that are considered inefficient, unreliable and difficult to maintain, he said.
Imming said that the installation of the modern chilling units should lower the Med Center's annual power consumption by at least 5 percent.
"We know we can save 5 percent," he said. "we think we may save considerable."
NUMEROUS BREAKDOWNS caused by overloading, frequently occur in one or more of the water chilling units which are housed in the Med Center's Applegate Energy Center, he said.
But Imming said that the old air conditioners in each building were becoming increasingly unreliable and could no longer be expected to assist the energy center's main system when it was overloaded.
"Due to the age of the smaller units in the older complexes, we have a critical situation in that spare parts are no longer available." he said.
When the energy center was built in 1973. Imming said, the plant had sufficient steam capacity to heat the water in the tank. It could be enough chilled water to cool Bell
But since the energy center was constructed, additional campus facilities were added.
Memorial Hospital and the basic sciences building.
THE MED CENTER conducted a study in 1978 which determined that 8,000 tons of chilled water was needed to adequately cool the campus. The present production capacity is only 4,000 tons, he said.
"Because of the overload on the capacity and a combination of failed units," Imming said, "we simply cannot hold the temperature down."
The energy center must also provide cooling in mid-winter for the central portions of Bell Memorial Hospital, the heart and brain. Radiation accelerators used in radiation therapy.
"We have to provide air conditioning year round," he said, "Even when it is zero out we have to have at least one chiller unit running."
The Med Center requested funds from the Kansas Legislature in 1980 to improve the air conditioning system, but the request was denied.
Again, last year,the Legislature again did not approve the University's request for $4.7 million for construction.
Prof's device may help broken bone victims
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
A broken leg usually means months in a cast for many people. But if physicians begin using an instrument designed by a KU engineering associate professor to measure the healing of broken bones, people with fractures might not have to spend so much time in casts, the professor said recently.
Harvey Doemland, associate professor of electrical engineering, said that after five years of research and development, he would begin clinical testing of the instrument on a regular basis within the next few months.
THE INSTRUMENT, which he developed with the help of three KU students, who have since graduated, translates the stiffness of bones into a form that is easily showing whether a broken bone has properly and completely healed.
beings, he had mostly been using dogs and human cadavers for the tests.
Physicians often leave casts on their patients longer than necessary because they are not certain when the bone has completely healed and do not want to risk removing the cast when the bone may still be weak. Doemland said.
Doenland said that although he had tested the instrument on a few human
He said the instrument that he had developed could reduce the time that patients spent in casts by giving the physicians quantitative data on the healing of the fractured bone that would tell them when the bone was strong enough for the cast to be removed.
John Wertzberger, a physician of medicine and orthopedic surgery in Lawrence who is familiar with Doeemland's research, said the new machine might allow physicians to remove casts earlier than was now possible.
WHILE DEMONSTRATING the use of the instrument in his office in Learned Hall, Doe曼琳 hit his ankle with a stethoscope and applied a stethoscope that was connected to the machine's gray box to his knee so that the machine would "listen" to the frequency of the sound traveling through the bone.
He said the sound that a broken bone made would be different from the sound an unfractured bone would make.
"The whole idea is that as the bone heals, the resonant frequency of the healing bone will increase to the frequency of the normal bone," he said.
Doelmand said that the traditional method of X-raying a bone did not tell the physician anything about the strength or stiffness of the bone.
BY MEASURING THE healing of the bone, the instrument tells the physician how stiff and strong the bone is, he said.
Wertzberger said the instrument was especially useful in measuring the healing of multiple and compound fractures.
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