University Daily Kansan, October 11, 1983
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NEWS BRIEFS From Area Staff and Wire Reports
FMC Corp. donates $1,000 toward new KANU tower
FMC Corp., a Lawrence chemical plant, has given $1,000 to KANU radio to help defray the cost of setting up a new transmission tower and antenna, KANU's development director said yesterday.
KANU has been operating on a temporary broadcasting system since December, when vapndals cut down the radio station's 605-foot tower.
Joel Jacobs, FMC Lawrence Division Manager, accepted KANU's grant request for $1.000. Robert H. Malot, FMC chairman of the board and chief executive officer, presented the check to Al Berman, KANU director of development, and to Howard Hil' director of KANU.
K.C. man sentenced in casino case
The $1,000 will help supplement the insurance settlement money of $154,000 that will be used to pay for the replacement tower. The grant will also be added to general operating funds, $13,000 of which have been used to pay for extra costs associated with operating the station on less than full power.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man considered to be heavily involved in organized crime in the Midwest was sentenced yesterday to 90 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to skim profits from a Las Vegas casino.
In addition to the prison sentence, Carl Angelo Deluna of Kansas City was fined $130,000 by U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Stephens Jr. and ordered to pay $95,000 in restitution to the Tropicana Hotel and Casino.
Two of four co-defendants convicted July 1 of skimming $280,000 from the casino — Charles D. Moretina of Kansas City and Carl Wesley Thomas, a former Las Vegas casino owner — were scheduled to be sentenced later in the day.
sentenced face in the day.
The fourth defendant in the skimming case, Carl J. Civella, 74, will be sentenced Friday. The fifth defendant, Anthony Chiavola Sr., a retired Chicago police officer, is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 21.
The five were convicted in a conspiracy that involved taking hidden control of the Tropicana, skimming gambling profits between June 1978 and February 1979, and transporting the money to Kansas City for distribution among organized crime figures in Kansas City and Chicago.
K.C. cab insurance hearing planned
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — City officials, unable to determine whether Kansas City's largest taxi operator is complying with city insurance requirements, have scheduled a hearing for tomorrow.
The hearing could determine whether Yellow Cab of Kansas City Inc. owned by Robert L. Christine, will remain in operation. Christine holds 88 percent of the city's 542 taxi permits through Yellow Cab and three other firms.
City officials scheduled the meeting after unsuccessful attempts to obtain a certified copy of Yellow Cab's policy from an insurance company. Christine recently filed for reorganization under federal bankruptcy laws.
If the city finds that Christine's insurance does not meet the city's required $500 maximum deductible on liability, he could lose his permits.
Phone companies request access fee
TOPEKA — Kansas telephone companies told the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday that they wanted to collect a new monthly access charge to allow customers to use long-distance telephone networks within the state.
The KCC opened several days of hearings on the access fees and other long-distance telephone service changes.
long-distance telephone service changes The new fees would be similar to interstate long-distance access fees already ordered by the Federal Communications Commission, which will start Jan. 1.
Because of FCC decisions and the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., there will be changes in the way local telephone companies are compensated for use of their facilities for long-distance service.
Industry honors business professor
Individual donors and 49 corporations within the telecommunications industry have endowed a professorship honoring Frank S. Pinet, KU professor of business.
professor of business.
Pinet will be the first to hold the Telecommunications Industry Distinguished Teaching Professorship of Business Administration chair, which carries an annual $5,000 stipend. The chair will be renamed the Frank S. Pinet Distinguished Teaching Professorship after Pinet's retirement.
Last year Pinet won the highest award given by the United States Independent Telephone Association to a person outside the industry.
Panel on energy resources planned
The University of Kansas Energy Research Center has announced plans for a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. Monday titled "Energy Resources on Federal Lands: A Policy Controversy." The discussion will be in the Frank R. Burge Union.
will be in the Frank B. Burg-Olsen
John Clark, professor of history, will be the moderator for the four-member panel, which will discuss such topics as who owns public lands and who should manage the resources.
Panel members will include: Sharon Bass, professor of journalism; George Coggins, professor of law; Doug Houston, assistant professor of business; and Donna Luckey of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
The public is invited to attend. A question and answer period will follow the discussions.
Woman accused of abducting baby
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman accused of removing a 6-week-old girl from a hospital crib and taking the child from the hospital faces a maximum penalty of two to seven years in jail and a $5,000 fine, if convicted.
conveys that Kline, 30, was charged Sunday with felonious restraint in the case of Crystal M. Horton, who was taken from a ward at Children's Mercy Hospital early Saturday and found unharmed Saturday evening at a Riverside motel.
at a Riverside motel. The child was returned to the hospital, where she had been undergoing treatment for a viral inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
ON THE RECORD
A 1973 FORD Torino was stolen between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:45 a.m. Sunday from a parking lot at Haskell Indian Junior College, Lawrence police said yesterday. The auto was worth $1,000. They do not have any suspects.
no suspect.
CLOTHING VALUED at $155, tapes worth $33 and a Swiss army knife
valued at $30 were stolen Sunday from a 1979 Datsun parked at 608 W.
8th Terrace. police said. They have no suspects.
have any suspects.
AT LEASE $25 worth of comic books and four T/shirts worth $15 were stolen Sunday from Exile Records, 15 W. 9th St., police said. They have no suspects.
A WOMAN's purse was taken Sunday from her grocery cart inside Dillon's grocery store, 2108 W. 27th St. The purse contained $100 cash, three credit cards and a checkbook, police said.
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Senate's unofficial voter retains minority group
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee was scheduled to be eliminated as part of proposed changes in the Senate's operating policy, but it received a reprieve at last week's Senate meeting.
Under the proposed changes, minority affairs would have been incorporated into the Senate Student Rights Committee. The students and leaders have argued that a separate committee is necessary to protect minority student concerns
Staff Reporter
At Wednesday's Senate meeting, 19 of the 27 senators presented that said the Minority Affairs Committee should review the committee's incorporated into another committee.
IN ADDRESSING THE issue, the senators took a preliminary vote on whether to approve Articles IV and V of the Constitution, visions that would change Senate policy.
Article V includes a provision that would trim the number of Senate standing committees from nine to four. Because of Article V, Minority Affairs and four other committees would be eliminated.
Cheri Brown, Topeka senior and president of the Black Student Union, said that minority issues would become lost under the encompassing umbrella
But the vote on Articles IV and V was not official because a quorum of senators was not present.
"One of my major concerns is that Minority Affairs continues to be run by minorities, so it will be concerned with the issues that pertain to them," said Brown, who last year was co-chairman of the committee.
Modesto Gonzales, Philippines graduate student and acting president of the KU International Club, agreed with Brown.
"I think the population of foreign students have having their own education," Gonzalez says.
BUT TWO STUDENT senators said
that the Minority Affairs Committee had not accomplished much in its three-year existence, and said that an ineffective committee would interfere with attempts to cut back on Senate red tape.
"Last year the Minority Affairs Committee did not introduce one piece of legislation," Walker said, "and this is one of the major purposes of a Senate bill."
Robert Walker, chairman of the rights committee, said that the existence of what he called an ineffective interest of minority students on campus.
Brown said that the committee was important to the minority students on campus because it helped to unify the students and 1,600 foreign students on campus.
commute. Jim Cramer, student body vice president, echoed Walker's concerns and stressed that the proposals were designed to make the Senate more accessible to all students.
"I think Minority Affairs is more concerned at meeting the students' needs through activities," Brown said.
She said that last year the committee had worked to make sure that minority students were represented on KU spirit squads. And she said that Minority Affairs also had helped to keep open the office of minority affairs when it was up for review by the University administration last year.
But Cramer and Walker said that a minority affairs advisory committee would be more effective in serving as a rallying force for minority students.
Several advisory boards to the Senate already exist to address student health, legal and transportation concerns.
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Advisory board membership is made up of experts in the particular field and from student senators and students at large.
Cramer said that advisory boards played no role in the Senate legislative process, but noted that senate members of such boards could introduce legislation concerning issues brought up by the boards.
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Med Center offers incentives to keep physicians on staff
By MATTHEW HARRISON Staff Reporter
University of Kansas Medical Center officials have announced an incentive plan that they hope will keep University physicians and researchers from going to the private sector.
The plan includes a salary increase for those physicians who demonstrate an increase in the number of patients they care for. Researchers will also be given salary incentives for bringing in considerable federal- or private-research money, Joseph Meek, MedCenter vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said the plan would allow the Med Center to retain those doctors who might otherwise leave for more money in private practice.
THE BOARD OF Regents has also asked, in addition to the new incentive plan for the percent salaries for center faculty salaries for fiscal year 1988.
Meek said that the 7 percent increase still would not be enough to enable the University to compete successfully for high quality faculty.
however, he said that the new plan would not mean that patients at the Med Center would pay more for services to offset the salary increases.
A report published recently by the
Med Center shows that 99 physcians have resigned in the past five years.
have resigned in the past five years. “IT IS CLEAR that turnover has been especially high in the past three years, when 83 percent of the total resignations took place,” the report said.
A comparison of faculty salaries shows that 97 percent of the associate professors at the Med Center earn salaries ranking in the bottom half among medical schools and about one percent of them rank in the bottom fifth.
Norton J. Greenberger, chairman of the internal medicine department, recently told members of the Kansas Board of Regents the Med Center would likely lose addiction physicians if something was not done.
Meek said that physicians at the Med Center received their salaries by belonging to one of the 16 medical hospitals that made up fell Memorial Hospital.
THE 16 MEDICAL clinics are separate corporate entities of the Med Center. The individual "corporations" pay all of the participating physicians' expenses — including their salaries, he said.
Clinical salaries are a combination of state stipends and fees that are charged to patients.
Meek said that Med Center researchers, who could not charge private citizens for their services, also would receive a salary increase under the new plan as an incentive to stay with the University.
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