University Daily Kansan, March 31, 1983
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Some legislators,profs reject financing high-tech research
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
Tight state finances mean that KU's budget would be better used for extra operating expenses than it would for high-technology research, KU professors and officials said this week.
Last week State Sens, Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, said that they thought that the $1.5 million that Gov. John Carlin recommended for high-technology research for fiscal year 1984 could be better used to replish the Regents OOE budget.
SEVERAL PROFESSORS SAID that the University sorely needed money for other operating expenses, such as classroom equipment and supplies. Adequate support for OOE would then build a strong base for high-tech research, they said.
"The University of Kansas affixes the highest priority to reinstatement of the budget recommendation," said Chancellor Gene A. Budig. "In a very real sense, it is a major part of the base on which we operate. It will be difficult to realize our full potential in high technology without the reinstatement."
The Kansas House recommended an OOE budget of $5,022,217 for KU for 1984, an increase of 5.5 percent over last year's appropriation, but short of the 7 percent increase recommended by Carlin.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee last week recommended an increase of 7 percent from last year.
WINTER SAID HE was working on a proposal to use a portion of the $1.9 million available in Carlin's ream-
mended budget to finance library acquisitions, academic computing and instructional equipment in Regents schools.
Winter's proposal will use money left over from a proposal made by State Rep. Mike Meacham, R-Wichita, to use $25,200 million that $1.9 million from Carlin's recommendation to establish "centers of excellence" for high-tech research at KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
Winter said the state could not expect universities to attract high-tech industry to the state when it could not adequately support basic needs, such as telephones, class syllabuses and heating and cooling fuels.
"I think you should get your basic university needs taken care of before you go suggesting that we can suddenly become a high-tech center," he said.
THOMAS PATTON, ASSOCIATE executive vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said he thought the senators were raising a point that adequate support for operating expenses was a prerequisite for bringing high-tech industry to the state.
"Can we adequately compete in the high-tech area when we have difficulty finding a level of funding level for institution equipment and supply?" he said.
Takeru Higuchi, professor of pharmacy, said he would not object to having high-tech money given to the OEU budget, partly because plans for high technology at KU were so indefinite.
HOWEVER, JAN ROSKAM, professor of aerospace engineering, said he thought the Legislature would be making a grave mistake if it did not provide the $1.5 million that Carlin proposed for high technology research for next fiscal year.
He said he would prefer to see the money used to help support the basic sciences, which could be tied into high-tech research.
"I think a delay is disastrous," Roskam said. "I realize the state of Kansas is in financial difficulty. It is hard to raise money, so it has to raiser taxes, it should be done."
Roskam said he had proposed to the Legislature that KU build a flow phenomena laboratory, in which information about the behavior of water would be collected and the laboratory would include diagnostic water and wind tunnels, he said.
He said that he had received financial commitments from Beech, Cessna and Lear Jet aircraft in Wichita for the project and that the companies involved would project if the state money for high-tech research was not available this year.
THE UNIVERSITY WILL, not be able to attract high-tech industries if the state is not serious about supporting them. he said.
Roskam said that Georgia Technical University recently received several million dollars for an advanced technology center. He said other universities around the country were gaining a jump on KU in this area.
ROKSM SAID HE favored raising taxes to pay for increases in operating expenses and high-tech research money. People from middle and upper incomes, not the poor, should be responsive to paying the increased tax he said.
Baby born to woman on life support
"We either are going to do it right, or lose out if we don't do it at all," he said.
By United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — A healthy 3-pound boy was born two months after the mother was legally dead, doctors at the University of California hospital said yesterday.
The baby was nine weeks premature and suffered from a minor respiratory problem, but was otherwise healthy with excellent chances of survival, said Robert Creasy, professor of obstetrics.
After the baby was delivered, the mother's body was removed from life-support systems and she immediately stopped breathing.
CREASY SAID THE father and grandparents were pleased with the child, who was delivered by Caesaraan section Tuesday.
The family was not identified at the request of the father.
A hospital spokesman said the mother was in her mid-20s and "very healthy" until her brain seizure. The father and parents of the woman decided to keep the mother's body on life-support systems and to remove them after the birth.
A team of 100 doctors, nurses and medical technicians participated in the effort to save the child when the mother, 22 weeks pregnant, suffered an apparent system insult. Jan. 24, apparently caused by a brain cyst.
WHEN HER BRAIN CEASSED to function, she was declared legally dead. Life support systems were used in hopes of saving the child.
Blood banks will adopt rules to screen for AIDS
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
New federal regulations, requiring agencies that distribute blood to screen donors for AIDS disease will pose no problems and will go into effect in about a week, spokesmen for two of the agencies said yesterday.
Ann Cook, spokeswoman for the Community Blood Center in Kansas City, Mo., which supplies blood for the University of Kansas Medical Center. She is also the director because of statistics recently released by the U.S. Public Health Service.
THE FOOD AND DRUG Administration established procedures Friday that require blood banks to take measures to prevent AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, from spreading by blood transfusions.
AIDS is a newly recognized disease that leads to the breakdown of the body's immune system and to increased risk of infection.
The Health Service's report said the disease primarily affected homosexual males with multiple sexual partners, heroin addicts and Haitians who have entered the country within the past few years. More than 1,100 cases of the syndrome have been reported since 1981. Of those, 400 have resulted in death.
Because of the statistics and the possibility that AIDS might be transmitted through the blood, the Health Department must audit the FDA impose the requirements.
THE KANSAS DÉPARTMENT of Health and Environment reported only one case of AIDS, and the victim died.
The rules stipulate that blood banks must set up educational programs,
instruct their personnel about how to question people for AIDS symptoms and distribute blood from donors suspected to have AIDS only after removing potentially harmful bacteria.
Cook said that the center would supply donors with filers containing information about the disease. Also, personnel will start asking potential donors to sign blood samples night sweats, unexplained high fever or extreme loss of weight.
The blood from suspected donors would not be used, she said.
Only one case of a possible transmission of AIDS to a recipient of a blood transfusion has been reported in the United States, she said.
ELLIE LEAR, DIRECTOR of the American Red Cross in Wichita, said that although the possibility of transmission of AIDS by transfusions is slim, the Red Cross currently questioned donors about some of the symptoms and would now provide donors with information on the disease.
"I'm not terribly alarmed by these regulations," she said. "They've been putting out papers on this for some time now, and we're ready to do what we need."
One problem with checking for symptoms of the disease, she said, is that symptoms usually do not show up when they are known. The person has contracted the disease.
DOCTORS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., however, said that they had found a blood test that would detect AIDS in its early stages.
However, Lear said that the test had not been perfected and the Red Cross would not use it until it had been perfected.
"I think we'll have to use the measures at hand," she said.
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