University Daily Kansan, July 22, 1983
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Art
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an possible. However, when outside temperatures are below 30 or above 65 degrees, the
"The outside air closes off, the return air opens up and we are getting more room air back
Porter estimated that the minimum amount of fresh air taken in was about 25 percent.
Phil Blackhurst, chairman of the art department, said that the building's ventilation system is one of the most energy-efficient.
Norman Moody, chief engineer for the Kansas Architectural Services Division, declined this week to look up the specific amounts of fresh air even though they were on file in his office.
"THEERE HAVE BEEN PROBLEMS with the ventilation system," he said, "but there has been a conscientious effort to make improvements when they are needed within the restraints of air."
Blackhurst said that the exhaust in the welding studio had been upgraded and that a new exhaust system had been installed in the printmaking studio.
"There is still work to be done in the silkscreen area to bring in outside air," he said. "I would have been happy if there were no fog."
"I would guess that if OSHA came in and went over this place with a fine-tooth comb that they would find some places where we don't meet standards," he said. "But those standards were designed for places where people are working 40 hours a week."
McCann, however, contends that teachers and students actually need stricter standards than they currently do.
HE SAID THAT the standards used by OSHA
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, were based on studies of healthy white male workers who have passed pre-employment and are the most resistant to toxic substances.
He also said that people who were susceptible to the effects of toxic substances did not stay ill.
"You can have teachers and students who are young or elderly — both high risk groups," he said. "So in the general population, who do you adjust to?"
Ott said that because the building's closed
was in there for 20 hours a week. I do think it is pretty good now."
Ot also said that the department was unable to use the spray painting room in the way that it did before.
"The venting system for that room won't even take out the smoke from a cigarette," he said.
Blackhurst said that the cost estimate to have the room fixed was "wuite high."
Despite the presence of toxic materials, there are times when, because of breakouts and budget restrictions, the building's ventilation system is not operating at all.
Phil Blackhurst
'There have been problems with the ventilation system, but there has been a conscientious effort to make improvements where they are needed within the restraints of the budget.'
art department chairman
ventilation system recirculated the same air, it also recirculated fumes.
"The main problem is the ventilation and the main solution would be more windows," he said.
"I gave them complete drawings of how the printmaking area should be built and they didn't
'THE PRINTING ROOM was so bad, I finally said I wouldn't teach them anymore. Finally no
"I thought it was moderately dangerous for students and very hazardous for me because I
NICK VACCARO, a professor of art who teaches oil painting, said that the air conditioning had broken down every summer since the building opened.
Porter said that Facilities Operations was continuing to have problems with the motor of a truck.
The system had its third motor installed two years ago, he said, and now that motor must be completely disassembled. This will be done, he said, when the unit is no longer in use.
Porter said that, because the unit could not maintain enough oil pressure in the recent
LMH to offer outpatients list of flat rates
By MELISSA BAUMAN
Staff Reporter
mind maps of grocery shoppers browsing through aisles with calculators in their hands.
But beginning in August, comparison shopper Mark Spiegel began a parergraph (part of Lawnsprey Memorial Hospital)
Comparison shopping usually brings to mind visions of grocery shoppers browsing the aisles.
LMH WILL OFFER a list of flat rate prices for more than 44 different categories of outpatient surgery so that Lawrence residents may shop around to decrease their health costs, Dennis Strathmann, finance director of LMH, said yesterday.
Strathmann said the prices for outpatient surgery were formulated by averaging what patients received.
Strathmain said there were two reasons for the price list.
"We assume we're going to lose a little on some and make a little on some so it will average out. But the patient is going to have more time. And that's why it's going to cost ahead of time." he said.
"It gives the patient an opportunity to see what it's going to cost them up front, and the paperwork is greatly simplified for us. We want it to change to collect, instead of 10 or 12," he said.
HE ALSO SAID that both Medicare and the police Shield had said that they preferred this model.
Strathmany said that he thought flat rates would be adopted by other hospitals but that
LMH was the first hospital in Kansas to develop a flat rate for outpatient surgery.
In order to compare prices, Strathmann said, people can call LMH for its rate and then call other hospitals for an estimate, but other hospitals will not be able to guarantee their estimates.
"In most hospitals it's an a-la-carte-type charging system where whatever amount of time the surgery takes and the recovery takes is determined by the price of the procedure." Strathmann said.
For example, charges for multiple dental extractions will be $487 and $308 for a myringotomy, $308 after the change. A myringotomy is an operation frequently done on children in which a surgeon inserts tubes into the ear to drain it.
A RESULT OF THE flat rate price list might be bringing more patients to LMH, according to Judith Hefley, director of community relations for the hospital.
"I think when people realize that we are very competitive or even less than other hospitals it will increase the number of patients. This might be a functional result," she said.
In June LMH did 122 outpatient surgeries, and the total for the first six months of this year was 720. Last year the hospital had done three operations on an outpatient basis in the first six months.
Strathmany, however, said he did not think the rate list would increase patients.
City," he said. "We're just trying to give the citizens of this community the best we can offer."
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL, HOWEVER, would like to increase its patient load, according to Strathmany, which is one reason why Laud will lower its prices for private rooms.
'It's not really designed as a marketing tool to steal patients from Topeka - Kansas
"Effective Sept. 1, we're going to be basically an all-private room institution except in rare cases where we don't have the room," he said.
Now private rooms cost $161 a day, and semi-private rooms cost $145. When the rate change takes effect there will be no semi-private rooms and the charge will be $135, Strathmann said.
The reason for the change is related to the recent expansion at LMH. Now an entire floor has been closed because of low occupancy in the past five or six months, he said, and the hospital still must meet payments on that floor.
Another reason for the change to private rooms is patient incompatibility, he said.
"I WOULD CALL them the 'hot-type' complaints," he said. "We don't get a great deal of complaints about the nursing service or the food. It's 'roommate is too noisy' or 'roommate smokes, and I don't' or 'TV's too loud.' 'visitors stay too late.'"
"If you stop and think about it, when you go to the Hyatt Regency, they don't tell you you're going to have a roommate for you. You should give you a private room, Strathmann said."
Porter said that the building should have had two separate systems installed during construc-
THIS HAPPENED THIRKE times in seven
Portorres and he running scared that
we will mistake him to keep us alive.
summer heat, it shut off for up to one and a half hours.
"It gets down to an economics point. You can buy one big unit cheaper than you can buy two medium-sized units," he said. "It appears to me that the technology is more efficient, they usually start cutting on utilities first."
He said that some campus buildings had multiple units and that when one unit broke down, the other would be shut down.
The circulation system in the Art and Design building is completely turned off for an hour each day because of budget restraints, Porter said.
"IN ENERGY CONSERVATION usage, which we do one hour a day, we turn everything off. Visual arts is the only building where everything stops for that one hour," he said.
Porter said the system was turned off in order to reduce the amount of power consumption at peak times of usage. The University's yearly power rate is based on its peak demand.
Vaccaro, who teaches oil painting on the fourth floor, said that the building needed more air circulation.
"There are times when the heat and air conditioning are off. Then what we have is stagnation," he said. "They call it circulating, but you feel you are breathing the same air."
"I have talked to everyone about having exhaust fans installed. I think they don't want to put any more money into that building.
"THEY HAVE GOT TO DO something more than saying we'll look into it."
Burry, who had developed the skin rash, also had suggested the installation of exhaust fans in his basement.
"The response was that they couldn't do anything to disturb the aesthetics of the building.
anything to be said in the absence of the building.
"They have all been cooperative, but nothing has been done. I finally gave up pursuing it. I just don't think about it anymore." she said.
Ott, former art department chairman, said why he thought the department was having difficulty in getting funding for necessary changes.
“ART IS NOT ONE of the high priorities, and
you don’t say too much,” he said. ...
Birthdays
"You just take what they will give you."
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- but his children and their children and all children must suffer its blow.
Meenninger's innovative work has earned him the title of dean of American psychiatry and earned him prestigious awards for his contributions to science, social reform, humanitarian
Former associates and admirers of Menninger's will gather in Topeka this weekend at the College of Music.
Despite a stroke in 1982 and brain surgery in 1976, Mninger works at least five and one-half days a week at one of his four offices in Topeka. He was able to stay afloat from the stroke, and his hands tremble slightly.
MENNINGER, CALLED "Dr. Kart" by his friends, founded the internationally renowned Menninger Foundation in 1925 with his father, C.F. Menninger, and his brother, William. Today it is one of the largest and most respected centers for the treatment and prevention of mental illness.
Dark Ages concept of mental illness, and "The Crime of Punishment," a major catalyst in 1968 toward penal reform.
In 1966, he founded The Villages, an innovative approach to finding homes for neglected, abused and deserted children. The Villages has spread throughout the world. In Minnesota, “is the greatest thing I ever created.”
He has written 13 books, including "The Human Mind," which, in 1890, helped dispel the
Along with a deep concern for children is another major concern of Menninger's nuclear weapons.
"WE'VE GOT MORE than a million people engaged in the process of making weapons to slaughter people — people they don't even know. Lots of people don't think it's suicide," he said. "Mr. Reagan thinks it's great. He whoops it up. He calls it defense."
"It's a bitter thing we're leaving our children.
I hope to do something about it."
Meningner's colleagues speak with awe when describing him.
"He is the greatest humanitarian who ever lived in the United States," said Robert Hulsen, president of The Villages. "He's the Albert Schweitzer of the United States."
Movie
"But I'm not an advertiser," he said.
of Centron Corporation Inc., said that he saw no reason for advertisers to be squeamish.
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Bonnie Cullum, a KU graduate who also was an extra in the movie, said that if she were an advertiser she would sponsor the movie.
"IT'S ONLY BECAUSE of the controversial nature plus the fact that it shows a great deal of the blood and guts as a result of the atomic blast."
"I felt that the movie was a very worthwhile cause and one that we should examine. It's not light humor, and it's not a documentary. And I guess it would depend on my product, but I would
advertise because people are going to be watching this kind of thing." Cullum said.
An extra who was in several scenes, Wes Chick, 1605 Tennessee St., said that he would probably sponsor the movie if he were a national advertiser.
Crick said, however, that some advertisers might not want to sponsor the movie because of its explicit portrayal of injuries and because they are an adult product associated with such a depressing subject.
"BUT IF I WANTED my public to know that my company was backing the idea of disarmament from a company standpoint of just public relations, then I would go ahead with it," he said.
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