University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1983
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Stephan seeks top penalty in suit against Hudson Oil
TOPEKA — Attorney General Robert Stephan says he is requesting the maximum civil penalty in his consumer protection lawsuit against 70-year-old Mary Hudson Vandgrift and Hudson Oil Co. Inc.
Stephan said yesterday that Mrs. Vandegret, chairman of the board of Hudson Oil, had ordered certain employees in February to tamper with calibration devices on gasoline pumps at Hudson service stations in Johnson, Wvandetie, Sedgwick and Shawnee counties.
Former Soviet dissident to lecture
Consumers who used the allegedly altered pumps received less gasoline than was registered on the front, thus forcing them to pay for gasoline they did not receive, the attorney general said.
A visiting professor from Dartmouth College who is a former Soviet dissident will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Kansas Union
Lev Loseff, the professor, will give a lecture titled "Writer-Censor Game: Aesopian Language in Russian Literature."
Gerald Mikkelson, chairman of the department of Slavic languages, said that "Aesopian" referred to Aesop's fables. People must read between the lines to understand the meaning of the fables.
KU School of Nursing receives grant
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The School of Nursing at the University of Kansas Medical Center has received a federal grant of more than $650,000 to develop an advanced training program for nurses.
The three-year grant will be used to prepare nurses at the doctoral level for teaching positions. "It 'a formal recognition of the research thrust that is being established in the School of Nursing," Billy Hudson, dean of research administration at the Med Center, said recently. "It will provide much-needed funds to carry on faculty and student research."
High school students to explore KU
About 1,200 high school students will get a taste of college academic life today as they participate in KU Exploration Day.
High school students from Kansas and other Midwestern states will attend three out of a possible 70 programs offered by all undergraduate schools and several departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Exploration Day, which has taken place in the spring in the past, was moved to the fall to give visiting high school students information about college life early in the year.
Book sale begins today at Watson
More than 4,000 books, some published before 1800, will be for sale today and tomorrow at a book fair on the 5th floor of Watson Library
At least 16 book dealers, some from as far away as Michigan, will participate in the fair, Jean Kissel, assistant coordinator of the Kansas Collection and coordinator of the fair, said yesterday. Prices for the books will range from $1 to $200.
books will not
The fair will begin both days at 9 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Dealers will
keep their profits, but the $35 fee that the dealers pay for space at the
fair will go into a general library fund, Skipp said.
Man faces charges from break-in case
A 21-year-old Atchison resident was charged Wednesday in Douglas County District Court with attempted rape and aggravated burglary in connection with a break-in of a KU student's apartment on Oct. 15.
Joseph Francis Mandak will have a preliminary hearing on the charges at 9 a.m. Nov. 16. Both charges are Class C felonies.
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D. Kay Clawson, Med Center executive vice chancellor, said, "Our goal is to operate this hospital in as much of a business manner as in the rest of the industry. Carrying those on the books serves no useful purpose."
That amount of debt is not unusual for a hospital the size of the Med Center, said the administrator, Eugene Staples, at a meeting of the Academic Affairs and Special Programs Committee of the Board of Regents.
Staples said that when the Med Center was unable to collect a debt from a patient after a reasonable time, attorneys in Kansas and Missouri, chosen by the Kansas attorney gen- eral office, continued the collection effort.
MOST HOSPITALS WRITE off such debts every year so that they can clear their books, he said. The Med Center will try to collect all of the debts, some of which are seven years old, and ask the state to write off the remainder.
The University of Kansas Medical Center has started trying to clear its books of about $9.5 million in patient bills that have remained uncollected for several years, a Med Center administrator said yesterday.
Med Center administrators asked collectors in both states to return any accounts that were two or more years old. Those uncollectible, to the Med Center. He
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
$9.5 million remains uncollected Med Center begins to clear books
Some people have complained that areas in which toxic substances are present are not adequately ventilated, and that those substances in the air have damaged their airflow requested $30,000 to correct the problems in the building, but Wiechert said $23,000 would probably be sufficient.
The Regents Fiscal Affairs Committee received requests for rate increases in residence halls and scholarship halls at its seven schools. The committee is reviewing the November meeting and pass along its recommendations to the Regents.
Dykes said the Legislature sometimes had not allowed the schools to spend the excess income, but had reallocated it to other areas.
KU received $417.87 from student fees in excess of what it had budgeted for the year based on projected state base that had $38.35 in unanticipated income.
ventilation problems and replace an air-conditioning compressor at the Art and Design Building.
Although fewer people have been staying in the hospital, hospital revenues are higher than last year. Clawson said. The decrease is caused by the increased demand for the hospital for medical care that they could receive as out-patients.
CLAWSON ALSO REPORTED to the Regents committee that the number of patient-days in the hospital so far in October had been 30 fewer than in last October, and that patient-days had been declining steadily.
THE COMMITTEE ALSO approved a recommendation to the Regents that KU and Wichita State University be allowed by the Kansas Legislature to spend unexpected excess income from student results resulting from increased enrollments.
The debts are not owed by patients who cannot afford to pay, Staples said, but "are accounts where we think there is a source of funds."
"As a teaching hospital, we'd like to have it full all the time," Clawson said. "But we recognize that society is costs that they used to."
Archie Dykes, a Topeka regent and former KU chancellor, said, "I think this is a very significant trend. It is a national trend, but that won't be any excuse or justification when the Legislature looks into it."
said the collection-agency attorneys collected about $1 million last year.
THREE OTHER REGENTS committees also met yesterday to discuss several items on which the full board will act. The Facilities Committee approved a recommendation to give $20,000 to KU from the Regents repairs, special maintenance and remodeling budget.
Also, the Policy and Procedures Committee approved a recommendation to the Regents to amend its regulations on building construction.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities planning, said the University would use the money to correct
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"We need to reestablish our goals," the Emporia junior said last night at a meeting of an AURH goals committee designed, in his words, to address the direction the organization was going.
The group discussed the need for the organization to become more visible by planning more varied activities for residents. "We see the need to become distinct and separate from the halls," Rowe said, "but we also need to complement their programming."
"We need to pull things together and branch out to all of the residents of the halls. In the recent past, we've been known as an organization that planned parties and not many cultural activities." We know that they're more diverse and more interested in threses besides parties," he said.
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