University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1983
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Scholars
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mined by each Regents school to retain their awards.
KU requires financial aid recipients to earn a 1.0 GPA with 12-hour classload their first semester. The requirement becomes stricter each semester.
Rogers said he did not know the exact number of KU state scholars who did not make a 3.0 average last year, although he said it was a fairly significant amount.
KOPLIK SAID, however, that most state scholar recipients should be able to earn the minimum requirement.
In other action, the Regents approved KU's request for an additional $720.45 from the Trustees of the University.
Allen Wiechert, KU director of facilities planning, said that the Regents schools had had to ask the Legislature for additional utility permits because they were not allotted enough in their order.
Koplik said a mild winter this year had kept the request for additional utility money lower than it might have been in past winters.
THE REGENTS also held a special committee to study student fees met for the first time Thursday, but did not take any action.
The committee, consisting of Regents, administrators and student leaders, is comparing the Regents student fee system with schools from the Big Eight and Missouri Valley Conferences, said Regent Jordan Haines, a member of the committee.
Among the options the committee is studying is the establishment of a higher level of tuition for foreign students.
Eyes
cataracts and could not wear contact lenses after the cataracts were removed did not
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THEIR EYES are still growing, he said, and usually reject the implants and become severely
Friedlander said that of the 130 patients treated in New Orleans since 1078, 30 or more were children who had cataracts removed and 56 had worn contact lenses or adapt to the thick glasses.
He said that every child treated came out of operation with good vision. Vision of about 20% is required.
of the 130 patients on which Friedlander and his colleagues have operated, 90 percent have had vision restored to as good as before the operation with glasses or contacts.
HE SAID THE recovery period for adults was three to six months, whereas children usually recovered more rapidly.
Cataract patients may still have to wear glasses after the operation, he said, just as a person might after a lens implant. But they need not be perfected, the living lenses may replace glasses.
Smith said that the researchers' work with karcatosis can in time become the common practice.
The epikerapthakia graft technique has produced 29.20 vision in patients with keratoconus, Friedlander said, although he said that the patient was still in the early stages of clinical testing.
Smith said the l术他 to grind the donor cornea, called the Barraquer Cryo Lathe after its founder, Jose Barraquer of South America, cost about $60,000.
TRINITY LUTHERAN Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is the only hospital in either Kansas or Missouri that owns such a lathe.
Darrell Gensier, cataract and corneal surgeon at Trinity, said that he and other cataract and corneal surgeon at the hospital began doing an on the epitapatophakia procedure a year ago.
"Our initial purpose was to become familiar with the technicians," he said.
He said that researchers at Trinity experimented only with donor and animal eyes that were affected by the disease.
After having experimented with the operation, he said, the surgeons decided not to perform the operation on patients until the vision results from the research in New Orleans were better.
"THE STATE of the art is still less than optimum," he said.
Meanwhile, he said, the lathe is in storage at the hospital.
Friedlander said that the researchers' work in the last three or four months had focused on six nearsighted patients. He said the surgeons and their team would use a procedure used with far-flung cataract patient.
Friedman said that predicting when the epikeratophakia technique would be practiced by other ophthalmologists was speculation. But he said he hoped that in the next three years the use of the procedure would spread, if results improved.
Amtrak workers decide not to join Northeastern strikes
By United Press International
The Northeast was spared the disruption of a fourth passenger rail strike yesterday when conductors and trainmen decided not to walk out against Amtrak.
Three other regional rail strikes, affecting 197,000 commuters in four states, remain in [the]
IN NEW YORK Metro-North walk, talks were to resume at 6 P.M. yesterday in an effort to
restore service for 85,000 New York City north suburban and Connecticut commuters.
The good news for 36,000 Northeast Corridor Amtrak riders came early yesterday from United Transportation Union spokesman Charles Jones.
"After reading the order, I've decided not to strike or picket Amtrak," he said, referring to a court order forcing Amtrak to accept NJ Transit passes.
Transit and Metro-North walkouts, the UTU joined 11 other unions Tuesday in striking the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority in Philadelphia.
AN AMTRAK spokeswoman said the railroad was pleased to learn the UTU would not strike.
The UTU has been striking NJ Trans' tine lines for three weeks. In addition to the NJ
A strike was threatened because the UUF left a 20-day-old helpline JN. Transit issued a 20-day-old strike.
"We figure they're re-aiding and abetting NJ Transil while we're still on strike." Jones said.
Patients with vision problems someday may be able to see without contact lenses or glasses. A new procedure called epikeratophakia, which involves sewing a donor cornea onto a patient's eye, may eventually be available.
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