KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, March 4, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 111 USPS 650-640
Costa Rica welcomes pope
EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Laurence Day, professor of journalism at the University of Kansas, is reporting for Universal Press Syndicate in Central America. He is currently serving as a staff reporter at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, and will return to Lawrence for the fall semester.
By J. LAURENCE DAY Special to the Kansan
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Ending a day of intense activity, John Paul II urged 50,000 youth gathered in and outside of San Jose's National Stadium to "break the chain of hate that
The statement, from a prepared text, took on special significance in the view of the execution in Guatemala yesterday morning of six youths accused of terrorist acts. The execution was termed "incredible" and "deplorable" in a strongly worded statement issued afternoon by the Vatican and distributed to the press in San Jose.
YESTERDAY MORNING. Papal Nuncio to Guatemala Monsignor Oriano Quilci carried to President Errain Rios Monti an official request from the pope to popeme the sentences. He was told that the sentences had been carried out at dawn.
The pope made no specific reference to the executions yesterday at the stadium. But in his speech to the cheering, chanting, but orderly young people who packed the stadium, the pope cited a statement by his predecessor, Paul VI, that "Violence is neither Christian nor evangelical."
The pope arrived at the stadium after addressing a gathering of nuns at the central cathedral of San Jose and presiding at an open
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air mass in nearby Sabana Park, attended by a crowd estimated by some officials at 250,000 and by others at 400,000.
The pope entered the stadium for the youth meeting just after 6 p.m., and was driven around the track to the speaker's platform as virtually every person in the stadium waved a white handkerchief and shouted a cadenced slogan, "John II the world loves you."
ON THE PLAYING field, hundreds of dancers in brightly colored costumes awaited an opportunity to perform dances they had been practicing for weeks. One hundred and fifty guitarists accompanied the singing of religious and folk songs.
A young American, one of the 24 members of
the University of Kansas' exchange group attending the University of Costa Rica, said that the pope's visit had been a highlight of his experience here so far.
Scott Carnegie, Denver, said, "I'm not Catholic, but I am a Christian, and I have been moved by the sincerity and obvious love of the pope for youth everywhere,"
Ana Lucia Castillo, 20, a University of Costa Rica student studying to be a teacher of English, said, "The part of the pope's speech that most impressed me was when he said 'Christ, who is eternally youthful, needs the youth.' As a university student, I feel that very strongly."
REPORTERS AT the stadium remarked on the fact that the pope, who appeared tired and drawn when he arrived at San Jose airport, was not fully recovered and revitalized as the day progressed.
He began his activities with a visit to San Jose's Children's Hospital at 7 a.m., followed by an official visit to Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Munge.
As if to underscore his exhortation to the youth to avoid violence and fear, the pope entered the stadium standing in the open, on the back of a horse. He was greeted with applause, which he arrived at the mass earlier in the day.
The pope will be in Central America and the Caribbean for nine days, visiting all Central American countries.
Senate passes severance tax on minerals
8y JEFF TAYLOP
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A severance tax on natural gas, oil, coal and salt, loaded with industry exemptions and amendments, was approved by the Senate yesterday 31-9, after the bill struggled three years through the Legislature.
Senators debated the proposal for more than three hours, sometimes heatedly, before deciding on an 8 percent tax to be levied against natural mineral producers and royalty owners.
By including royalty owners, the proposal drew heavy debate from some senators because most of those landowners received a small amount of money for the oil or natural gas that was pumped. Royalty owners have the rights to a one-eighth interest in natural gas or oil wells.
"WE'RE NOT talking about a lot of people that have a lot of money. We're talking about a little number of people who have a little money," said State Sen. Rover Hayden, D-Satanta.
The proposal will be sent to the House next week and should be changed extensively, said House Minority Leader Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs.
The 5 percent severance tax would generate an estimated $97 million, but because of exemptions that include breaks for small producers, the measure fell short of the $138 million that Gov. John Carlin's proposed 7 percent severance tax might have generated.
Lonoyaists for the oil and natural gas industries reacted negatively to the 8 percent proposal and said oil and natural gas producers would be driven to Oklahoma, where a severance tax of 7
Don Snackne, lobbys for the Kansas Independent Oil and Natural Gas Association, called the severance tax against the state's second largest industry devastating.
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Two players on Meadowlark Lemon's Bucketeers surprise their audience at Haskell Indian Junior College with a bucket of confetti. The Bucketeers were playing a benefit game last night for Haskell's athletic department.
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Senator says '84 budget cheats Regents schools
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — More than $2 million in increased tuition and revenues for Board of Regents schools will unfairly be used to pay for state operations outside the Regents system, a Lawrence senator said yesterday.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., the senator, said at a press conference that Gov. John Carlin had contradicted early commitments to improving the state's education system. Regents reductions in his 1984 proposed budget.
"The governor intends to balance the budget, in part, on the back of the students with the 20 percent tuition increase for next year," he said. Last summer the Regents increased tuition by
20 percent beginning tums fall at Regents schools. However, Marvin Burris, Regents budget officer, said the tuition increases would not directly be used to pay for other government operations, but would boost the balance of the state's general fund.
"There's no way the tuition money they collect would be diverted to some other state agency
This special revenue pumped into the general fund would free money so it could be used to fund other state agencies, he said.
Burris said also that other revenue generated by Regents schools, through parking tickets and KU Medical Center revenue, was not available for use by other state agencies.
The Regents told Carlin that universities would raise $8 million by raising tuition 20 percent, Burris said. However, Carlin said he expected the universities would raise $10 million and transferred the $2 million difference to other departments.
Winter told reporters the Regents universities will take in $13.8 million more next year from tuition fees and increased revenues. But Carlin's allocation for Regents schools in 1964 is less than $11.8 million, a $2 million difference not being used to fund universities, he said.
Winter said also that the 4 percent salary increases Carlin proposed for university employees would actually amount to only a 0.3 percent increase. The elimination of 347 faculty positions allowed Carlin to use that leftover money for paying university personnel still employed.
"It is not appropriate that university teachers and classified staff will receive an average 3 percent and 4 percent salary increase, respectively, for the cost of the elimination of about 350 positions.
"THE NET EFFECT for our universities is a freeze in salaries." he said.
Students' educations at the universities will be hindered, he said, because fewer instructors will have to teach larger classes, and with worn-out equipment.
Also, the 7 percent additional funding Carlin proposed for other university operating expenses would actually amount to only a 0.2 percent increase, Winter said.
Carlin last summer reduced the 1983 budget by 4 percent and Regents schools took the brunt of the reductions. Winter said.
rose reductions, which were made permanent through legislation this session, decreased the number of cases.
STATE REPS. Mike Meacham, W-Richita,
Joe Knop, R-Manhattan, and James Lowther,
R-Emporia joined Winter in opposing Carlin's proposals.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he thought the three legislators were tardy in pointing fingers at a budget that was announced last January.
Instead, Solbach said. Winter and the others should have criticized the Legislature, which in
State Sen. Wint Winter
the past had not encouraged financing of Regents universities.
"I think these figures certainly aren't new," Sobsch said. "I wonder if maybe we're not noticing it at all."
He said he expected Carlin's requests would appear generous compared to what the Legis-
lation had requested.
"EVERY GOVERNOR has the budget to make his administration look good." he said.
Meacham told Solbach that he opposed Carlin's proposals because they set a trend for them.
"The state wants good universities at bargain basement prices," he said. "The governor has once again used his budget for political reasons."
Winter told Solbach that he did not intend to place the blame for the lack of university funding solely on Carlin.
"If we wanted to beat the governor about the bead and shoulders, we would have done that a lot earlier."
During the morning press conference, Winter said he hoped the insurance tax on natural gas would be lower.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and cooler with a 70 percent chance of thunderstorms. The high will be in the mid-60s, with east to northeast winds from 10 to 29 mph.
Tenight will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain and a low in the mid- to-
The weekend will be cloudy with a chance of rain and highs around 50.
Hospice volunteers help terminally ill to accept death better
By KIESA ASCUE
Staff Writer
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Dylan Thomas
Some people tread softly toward death, accepting the inevitable with calm dignity. Others rage furiously, cursing the agony of their endings.
Jay Memmott, director of the Lawrence Hospice at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said his patients and their families can look at death any way they please, but Hospice helps them live with it.
MEMMOTT'S STEADY gaze never wavered as he spoke Wednesday to 30 people of his personal losses in the deaths of his father-in-law, his next-door neighbor and his stillborn child. He discussed his feelings about death and the care his group provided for terminally ill people.
Training for Hospice volunteers will begin tonight at 6:30 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and continue tomorrow at 8 a.m., Memmott said. His group of 21 volunteers, emphasizes not death, but support, caring and dignity for the terminally ill, he said.
"Sometimes death is very messy, and it's difficult for people to maintain any kind of dignity, regardless of the quality of their care." Mammott said. "We stress readiness by the person to accept responsibility and the options given to them. Some people don't want to face it.
MARCEIL LAUPEP, director of the Visiting Nurses' Association, which works in conjunction with Hospice, said, "It's very important to each person handle death in a way that's natural for them. More often than not, if a person been brought person all his life, he deny his death."
"It's difficult to lend dignity to people who are not ready to accept it.
"They really want to have someone to listen, but they protect friends and family from their sharing because they don't want to add any extra pressure," Laupe said. "Listening's the biggest part of it — knowing when to keep your mouth shut and let someone talk.
Recipients of hospice care live an average of 47 days after they enter the program, but the group is not composed of vultures who prey on the emotions of the dying, Mammott said.
"WE HAVE TO be empathetic, but not sympathetic. We care a lot and let people know that we care, but it can't be such an emotional experience that we can't carry on."
Hospice volunteers help family members talk to each other and offer terminally ill patients the opportunity to live with their families.
One of the recipients of Hospice care, a middle-aged man, whom Mammott did not identify, would wake up every night in the dark, thinking that he was dead, Mammott said. He would holster until his wife came in, just to prove that he was alive.
Every night, the couple would argue. The arguing was their only real means of communication. When Mennott entered their living room one day, the man was sitting on a portable toilet. They talked about his feelings of fear, and the man's son and wife joined the conversation.
"I told him that if it was me, I'd be sitting on
that port-a-poty all the time," Memmott said.
"I'd be too scared to get up."
The family talked together as a family that day for the first time in a long time, he said.
The Hospice movement began in 1974 in New Haven, Conn., but the Lawrence organization opened here last May to augment care for the terminally ill already available through the Visiting Nurses' Association, Laupe said. Throughout the nation, more than 1,000 hospices exist. The local group may be contacted at 749-5006.
TWO DAYS LATER, the man died. But in
two days, the family did not have a single
child.
Hospice is privately financed by insurance and Medicare. The Lawrence group spends $10,000 a year, mostly on the salary of a half-time
'Why do people have to wait until they are terminally ill to get this kind of care?'
Hospice program director
administrator. Lawrence Memorial Hospital charges the group only $1 a year for rent for its office there.
Federal financing is available, but the bureaucratic red tape troubles several groups, Memmott said. Some of the 12 active hospices in have all-volunteer staffs to avoid expenses.
MEMMOTT SAID hospices could save the federal government from spending $130 million in Medicare and Medicaid in the next five years. In 2015, MEMMOTT said it would but charges them for hospital care if a patient
need it. Hospices could go bankrupt that way, Mammott said.
The workers face their own grieving when patients suffer or die from diseases. Laupe
"We don't bother the families with that paperwork, we handle it ourselves." Memmott told us.
"People who work with the terminally ill must deal with their own feelings about death first," she said. "Many times, you can be as solid as a rock and very supportive of the family, but many times when you leave, you go home or to the office and cry."
Mennott said he had learned how to die with beauty and dignity from working with Hospice patients, particularly with a woman named Ruth.
Ruth Schmacht, a 72-year-old from Colorado, moved to Lawrence last August to die in the company of her family.
THE JENNISCHES let her make her own
"I WOULDN'T want a nurse who couldn't do that. There have been times when the staff shared some tears — not that we're a bunch of weepy women. We're not. Sharing time with the terminally ill, we also share the feelings. You don't grow cold to it."
Although radiation treatments had wrenched the strength from her emaciated frame, her spirit and good nature inspired everyone who interacted with her, said her daughter, Sandra Jennisch, 2426 Danbury Place.
decisions when they learned of her terminal cancer, but even if she had not been able to make choices for herself, they would have opened their arms to her anyway, her daughter said.
"When I was a little child, she cared for me because I could not care for myself. Jenishic
Hospice care enabled the Jennisches to keep Mrs. Schmacht in the home with her own furniture, family photographs and one of her favorite dolls. Her daughter operated a day care center, and during Christmas, the children of the center sang carols to Mrs. Schmacht at her bedside. Two hours before her death Jan. 3, Mrs. Schmacht had attended school and said she was ready to die soon. Her grand-daughter said she wanted to be with Mrs. Schmacht when she died.
HAVING HER die at home enriched the lives of the whole family, Jennisch said. The family kept her hair combed, dressed her nicely every day, and had a quiet day and day and to make her last days very special.
"We wanted to be able to care for her. We wanted her to be happy and we tried to give her whatever she wanted for herself." Jennish said.
The Jennieshens often worked during the day, but thanks to the help from Hospice and members of Mrs. Schmacht's church, she never had to be without someone to care for her, and she could now see, Hospice volunteers visit the Jenniehens home to see how the family has accepted the death.
"It's a wonderful program because people really care," Jennisch said. "They have become
venntsch said four Hospice workers visited her
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