University Daily Kansan, March 11, 1983
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EPA
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whether she was too loyal to the president, Burford said. "If I had a fault — if I had a fault, I would like to have it be known that that fault is loyalty."
Burford was held in contempt of Congress Dec. 16 for following Reagan's orders and refusing to give agency files to Congress.
White House officials decided yesterday to put the controversy over management of the agency to rest, giving a House subcommittee boxes of documents Reagan previously had ordered withheld.
In announcing Burford's resignation, officials said that Reagan would turn over to a House subcommittee the documents that may support allegations of mismanagement, political favoritism and conflicts of interest in the EPA's $1.6 billion Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.
REP. JOHN DINGELL, D-Mich., chairman of the Energy and Commerce: oversight subcommittee, received two boxes of documents on behalf of Capital Hill and took them into a closed room.
A spokesman said that the officials would be moving as fast as they could to name a P.O. Box.
Burford defended her two-year record as head of the EPA.
"I'm proud of the job the agency has performed," she said. "We have a solid record of achievement that will stand the test of time."
THE FORMER Colorado state legislator and corporate attorney from Denver would not say what job she would next. White House officials said she might be a part-time position on a commission or board.
When asked of her plans, she was interrupted by her husband, Robert, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management.
"Take a honeymoon, that's what she'd like to do." he said.
The couple was married Feb. 20. Burford immediately went to Times Beach, Mo., to announce the government's buyout of a town contaminated by dioxin.
White House spokesmen declined to speculate on a permanent successor for Burford, John Hernandez, deputy EPA_administrator, took over as acting administrator.
The names that surfaced included Hernandez, James Mahoney, executive vice president of Environmental Research and Technology Inc. of Concord, Mass.; William Rickelshaus, EPA attorney Henry Diamond; and lawyer Henry Diamond, once New York's top environmental official; and John Quarles.
deputy EPA administrator in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
Communications director David Gergen said there was no timetable for announcing a successor, but, "I think there's interest in moving as fast as we can on it."
"We have a thoughtful process going on," she said. "It's extremely important that just the truth is told."
THE SEARCH IS being handled by White House personnel director Helene V丹威m, who said that the number of candidates was too high for her; that her staff was continuing to receive names.
Burford and the Superfund program are being investigated by six congressional subcommittees and the Justice Department on such allegations as making "sweetheart deals" with polluters, using the program for political ends, perjury in congressional testimony and destruction of subpoenaed documents in agency paper shredders.
Committee chairmen promised to continue their investigation, taking advantage of the compromise reached between Dingell and White House officials to get documents.
"We are going to keep going with the investigation," said Rep. James Howard, D-N.J., chairman of the Public Works Committee. "This is bigger than one person."
Regents
LEE M. BUISH, an alumnus of the class of 1911,
gave $1.2 million to the University and asked
that the University use the money in programs
not supported with state funds.
Last year, Honeywell Corp. gave a computer to the University. The computer has not been used, because it was too expensive to put on line. You might be surprised that the University use part of the Bush request.
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Solbach told the committee that because universities had historically used endowment funds as they wished, he did not think the university should dictate how endowment money should be used.
"I'm concerned that this will have a chilling effect on other donors giving money to the project."
said KU had problems providing computer space for students and said the endowment money would be used.
BLT STATE Sen. Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita,
"This will give them a tool to go to the Endowment Association and say, 'You can spend the rest of the money like you want, but we want to use this much money for this,' " he said.
The committee criticized KU for the way the University had made insurance claims against the Regents Honesty Blanket Fund.
State Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City, said KU had incorrectly made insurance claims for such incidents as the money that was stolen last year from KU on Wheels.
HE SAID KU was partly responsible for the impending cancellation of Regents insurance coverage, because the University had not contacted the Regents about claims and had not
Also, the committee decided not to allow KU to purchase insurance from the state's general fund for money allocated to women's intercollegiate athletics.
followed procedure in dealing with the state insurance commissioner.
A subcommittee report said KU was the only Regents university still purchasing insurance from the general fund. The committee suggested that the funds be purchased from Athletic Corporation Funds.
IN DISCUSSION about the Kansas Geological Survey, the committee decided to continue a $40 intent-to-drill fee assessed against companies.
The fee provides revenue for the Geological Survey Fund.
David Watson (speaks to the KARANS)
Andrew Boyd, Lawrence senior, protects his face against a gas mask. He began wearing it when cold weather made riding his moped difficult.
Grants
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said his office would be involved with raising the matching $3 million. He said no plans had yet been made for raising the money.
Marilyn Clark, director of resource development for KU libraries, said that three-fifths of the library money would go for technical services, such as hiring people to catalog books. The rest of the money will go for humanities acquisitions for the library.
SHE SAID THE University had written the
NEH about the financial problems facing the library.
"That's why we got the grant," she said.
That's why we got the gash," she said.
The grant money will give the library a steady income, she said, but it will not meet the inflation rate on books.
"It's not enough to take care of all our problems," she said. "We're still pretty tired."
The NEH awarded $26.7 million to 84 institutions this year. KU received the largest grant.
Support for our athletic teams and the University of Kansas as a whole has dwindled over the past few years. This has become overly apparent in this past year. Even during a losing season, there is no reason for there to be more Cornhusker Red at a Kansas home game than Crimson and Blue.
Have we developed such a sense of pride that we cannot handle losing? People who cannot handle losses with their victories should not even participate in the game.
As a group on this campus, we feel that it is time to finally speak out on a subject that concerns us greatly.
The University of Kansas has never prided itself in finishing any place but first. This should also include our school spirit. It is fair to say that the ability to win has not always come easy for us. Many times we have had to fight to win.
During the Civil War, the word Jayhawker was associated with a spirit of comradeship and courageous fighting in efforts to keep Karissa a free state. Following the Civil War, most Kansans were proud to be called Javahkwkers.
Has this spirit diminished?
We hope not. We hope that all students at Kansas still share that pride with us.
We feel that the best way we can show that pride, is to support the University of Kansas in whatever challenges it faces. We also hope that those students will see our commitment.
They may be filling someone's place who really cares.
The Society of Pachacamac
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A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT NURSING HOMES
A Douglas County District Court judge recently uphold the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's (H & E'rs) revocation of the Autumn Manor Nursing Home's license because some of the deficiencies which inspired the state's response had remained unaddressed for a time. Inoueoping problems, improperly labeled medication, inadequate staff, and poor sanitation were among the deficiencies.
In another such H & E administrative hearing over three years ago H & E Hearing Officer J. Howard Duncan characterized as "not outside the range of reasonable normality for a skilled nursing home operation" the following "problems":
— "Delay in unscheduled bathing of incontinent patients"
— "Delay in feeding residents that require direct assistance"
— "Infrequent servicing of catheter bags"
— "infrequent cleansing and filling of bedside water containers"
— "inadequate inventory of linen"
- 'Inadequate inventory or'
- "'Inattractiveness of diet'
In short, many privately-owned nursing homes are financially rewarded and legally protected for failing to perform their assigned duties.
Some three and a half years ago kansans for Improvement of Nursing Homes (KINH) urged the Douglas County Commission to buy this structurally sound, 100-bed nursing home which was purchased by the KNH in Inkley, in a letter to the Journal-World KNH co-founder Petev Corf said:
The county could finance the purchase by the issuance of revenue bonds; in other words, the taxpayer would not need
The bonds would be paid off from the revenue generated by private patients' fees plus the fees paid by the Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services, under the Medicaid reimbursement program, for persons who lack funds.
This is exactly what would happen if Wakarau Manor were bought by another corporation ... local control of nursing home policy is of tremendous advantage to area residents. For instance, if it substandard conditions develop, as long as there are no children without fear of reprisal. Anyone who has had a family member or friend in a nursing home knows how important that is.
Yet instead of using public funds to serve those members of the populace most in need, our governing units everywhere are wasting precious resources seeking velvet shopping malls and voracious industrial parks. Does such subsidized hyperactivity produce progress? Perhaps Karl Marx gave us the answer when he said: "Whenever commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder."
William Dann
2702 W. 24th Street Terrace
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