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University Daily Kansan, April 27. 1983
A baseball promotion that was to have included free beer and several chances for supporters to win prizes this Saturday has been canceled, members of the Student Sports Council said yesterday.
The promotion was to have been held during the doubleheader against Oklahoma State. The decision to cancel the event was announced at last week's meeting of the council.
THE SPORTS council is a 15-member advisory board to the athletic department.
Mear Kears, sports council member who planned the promotion, said, "The council decided that there wasn't that much time left in the year and that we really didn't have enough time to plan it.
we're just taking some time to re-evaluate the situation and maybe plan something similar for next year. That's my official comment."
However, six members of the council who attended the meeting last week said that the promotion was vetoed by the athletic department because of the possibility of a bounty from on by free beer. The six members did not want to be identified in this story.
The members said they were not
happy with the decision of the department.
EVEN THOUGH the sports council was to sponsor the event, the athletic department would have had to recruit a new field field is owned by the department.
The decision to cancel the promotion was not made by a vote of the council, the members said.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson could not be reached for comment.
Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic director, declined to comment on the matter. Hamrick acts as the athletic department's liaison to the sports council.
The proposal was to have been presented to the University Events Committee last week for approval, and scheduled before the scheduled meeting.
MEANS SAID that the baseball promotion would have been run similarly to a tailgate party held before the KU football game against North Carolina. Each spectator would have received three or four tickets for free beer.
The promotion also would have included a hitting distance contest between fraternities, sororities and clubs. There are other opportunities to win prizes.
KU employees honored for years of dedication
More than 700 KU employees — from workers clad in blue workshirts and boots, to professors dressed in crisp suits and soft-soled shoes — were recognized for their years of service to the University of Kansas yesterday.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig, who presented the awards at the employee recognition ceremony, said that as a newcomer to the University, he was in awe of the years of dedication given by KU employees.
EMPLOYEE OF THE Year awards were given for both classified and unclassified employees, and pins for years of employee service also were given.
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Randy Samuel, refrigeration supervisor for facilities operations, was selected as the classified employee of the year, and Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, was selected as the unclassified nonteaching employee of the year.
The finalists for the classified employee award were: Suzanne Cupp, administrative assistant to the dean of education; Peggy Bocqin Palmer, word processing supervisor at the KU Printing Service, Barbara Paras, administrative assistant to the director of freshman-sophomore English; and Glenda Risner, word processing center supervisor for education services.
The finalists for the unclassified employee award were: Lorraine Hammer, electron microscope technician supervisor; Dana Leibengood, acting associate dean of the School of Journalism; Nancy Shawbaker, assistant to the dean of libraries; and Frank Starkey, assistant to the vice chancellor for research, graduate students and public service.
FERGUSON HAS worked at the Union for 22 years, and Samuels has worked for facilities operations for nine years.
Med Center prepares for cut in revenue
By MICHAEL BECK
Recent changes in Medicare will decrease revenue for the University of Kansas Medical Center, but it is too early to tell by how much, a Med Center official said yesterday.
Staff Reporter
caring for the 26 million Medicare patients.
the official, Tom Greensen, associate University director for business affairs, said his office would finish calculating the exact effect of the changes in Medicare sometime next week.
The changes, which become effective for the Med Center in July, include limitations on the amount of money Medicare reimburses hospitals for
WITH THE limitations on reimbursements, Greese said, the Med Center would be forced to lower costs for some types of patient care.
Twenty-one percent of the Med Center's patients received Medicare last month, he said, but the yearly average is slightly less.
average is slightly higher. Despite this high average, Greeson said, cuts last year in hospital expenses would offset many of the changes.
Last year, more than 400 people at the Med Center were laid off and about 100 beds were eliminated to increase hospital efficiency.
Other Medicare changes, which are in the Tax, Equity and Fiscal Respon-
sutility Act of 1982, include elimination of private room subsidies and reductions in nursing care payments.
tions in hiring care agencies.
A CHANGE THAT may soon affect hospitals is DRGs, Greeson said, or diagnostic rate groups. DRGS would require testing rates for Medicare patients be fixed, requiring hospitals to cut more costs. Congress is debating now whether to instate DRGs.
All changes were made to rescue Medicare, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will run out of cash by 1897.
Other alternatives to rescue Medicare from its debt include raising taxes, requiring patients to pay more or using general tax revenue.
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But officials hope the current
changes may not only relieve some Medicare deficits by requiring hospitals to lower costs, but the changes may also reduce hospital costs, which rose 12.9 percent in 1982, for patients paying their bills through insurance companies.
He said hospitals would be forced to reduce costs for insurance companies, as they have for Medicare.
ROBERT MCLLEAN, associate professor of business, said the Tax, Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act could lower costs for all people who pay their hospital bills through insurance companies, not just those using Medicare.
"This is the first significant attempt at solving some of the problems that have plunged us for years," he said.
Mondale claims Reagan weakening America
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Former Vice President Walter Mondale yesterday charged that President Reagan was weakening America with a bloated arms race and that Reagan's early election mandate had all but disappeared.
peared.
"Ironically, tragically, indefently invertently instakably, President Reagan is weakening America." Mondale told an American Newspaper Publishers Association luncheon sponsored by United Press International.
"At home, he has squandered the mandate for a strong, sensible defense.
Abroad, he has undermined confidence that our strength will be used responsibly." Mondale said.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL candidate said perception of strength is part of the United States nuclear arsenal.
"Yet, Mr. Reagan persists in telling the world we are weak. Every time he unveils a new charge to prove American military inferiority, he undermines our confidence, frightens our friends and tempts our adversaries. Each time he says we're weak, he literally weakens us." Mondale said.
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Mondale said the president's policies
"have ceded the moral high ground to
the Russians."
He called for a mutual verifiable nuclear freeze, regular U.S.-Soviet summit meetings and said the MX missile was not needed as a bargaining chip or "to demonstrate national will."
Mondale, who described himself as a "presidential candidate and an American" noted he sat on the National Security Council for four years and took part in every military decision in the Carter administration.
"I CAN SAY without doubt that today our defenses are second to none," he said.
Mondale said Reagan had opposed every nuclear arms agreement nego-
tated by his predecessors and added,
"It is time for this president to stop
treating arms control as a public
relations problem."
In reciting what he called a "whole catalogue of missteps." Monday accused Reagan of "loose talk about nuclear warning shots and winnable nuclear war," the pipeline disaster, the Iraq war, and the diplacy with China, and a defense budget so out of line his own Republican party won't go near it."
He contended that "a nuclear arms race can never be won" and said that "the world doesn't doubt our power. What it doubts is our stewardship of that power."
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