University Daily Kansan, February 9, 1983
Page 7
Lawrence chapter of NOW disbands
By ANNE FITZGERALD
Staff Reporter
But the defeat of the ERA may mean the demise of NOW's Lawrence chap.
The final push for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment last year was a boon to the National Organization of Women. Money poured into its coffers, and membership rolls bulged.
At last night's monthly meeting, members decided to disband until September, when they will reconvene either to elect new officers or to dissolve their organization and turn the office over to the state-wide organization.
A letter sent last week to 70 members said three of five board members needed to resign their positions for personal and professional reasons.
LUCY SMITH, president of the chapter, said that the leadership was tired and thought that it was time for new people to take charge.
Reasons given for the low turnout ranged from people's preoccupation with the economy to the need for a new focus in the wake of the ERA's defeat.
Apparently, the other members were tired too. Only six people showed up last night. Four were officers, and two of them wanted to retire.
"Why beat a dead horse?" asked collaia Timmer, treasurer. "We care about the people. We care about the people."
who care too, but no one's going to do anything until there's a cause."
Smith said this was the third time Lawrence's chapter had faced extinction. The problem is the same now as before; getting people to commit the time and energy to organize fundraisers and other activities, she said.
HAVE MANY members who give money and votes," she said, "but by and large they're too busy to devote time to organize."
The chapter began after President Reagan's election in 1980.
"It grew out of fear for our sisters' hard-eared rights," Smith said. "Its purpose was to continue the fight for those rights."
Smith said the group's decision to wait until September to finally close the chapter indicated the extent of their intent and their reluctance to give it up.
NOW's national membership tripled after Reagan's election, and because of tremendous growth both in members and organization enjoyed new political clout.
"But it's a Catch-22 situation," Smith said. "His election was a boon to NOW, but if things were the way they ought to be, we wouldn't need it."
Richard Couch, Lawrence graduate student, said NOW was needed more than ever because it supported issues such as reproductive freedom and economic equality.
U.S. hostility to USSR helps China, says prof
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The Reagan administration's hostile relations with the Kremlin have helped give China some winning cards in the three-way super-power poker game, a top scholar said yesterday.
Gone are the days when American officials believed they could play "the China card" and enlist Chinese support against an aggressive Soviet Union, Robert Scalapino told a Japan Society luncheon.
Scalapino, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of
California at Berkeley, said theSOURing of Soviet-American relations combined with a Peking-Moscow thaw has shifted the balance in the triangular relationship toward the Chinese.
"Today our relations with Moscow are rather minimal and hostile and it appears Beijing is taking advantage of that to hit us over the head on certain issues," he said.
Scalapino said he did not believe the Chinese and Soviets would ever return to their overt alliance of the 1950s because critical issues could not be resolved, including Soviet support for Vietnam.
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"When someone has put a gun in their mouth and pulled the trigger, and the walls look like they're covered with spaghetti, you feel like walking right back out the door."
Staff Reporter
Michael Szczygiel, the paramedic, now who is acting director of emergency medical programs for the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said it took a careless attempt to handle the complaint of being an emergency mobile intensive care technician, commonly called a paramedic.
That was the experience of a former paramedic, who said recently that his work had been rewarding, exciting and sometimes nauseating.
TED MCFARLANE, director of Douglas County Ambulance Co., 19th and Massachusetts streets, said the incident was caused by the worst part of being a paramedic.
Paramedics must use a lot of courage and compassion to deal with all kinds of emergencies.
"The most difficult part is handling stressful situations in a calm manner and learning to cope with obstacles, environment or bystanders," he said.
Gruesole and grim work is difficult,
he said, but the pressure of everyday
work is relieved.
Henry smith, a paramedic for KARE Inc., an ambulance company in Wymondale County, said, "You can get accounted to it. I guess you get a bit more."
Kansas has about 2,000 paramedics,
and since 1974, all must be licensed by
the Kansas Emergency Medical Service
Board.
Lyle Eckart, director of the Medical Service Board, said that until last year, the Med Center was the only organ.
The state also regulates what actions paramedics can take in the field before they call a hospital for assistance, Eckart said.
ization authorized to license paramedics.
In Lawrence, the Douglas County Medical Society has set additional guidelines for a paramedic's actions in the field.
ECKART SAID the Med Center still had the authority to set the curriculum for paramedic programs and for emergency medical training programs, which required training than the program but but the state now controls all licensing.
Sczegyl giel said 45 credit hours were needed for the one-year degree, comprising academic, clinical and internship segments.
It is more appropriate for the state to administer and finance the tests, FPS.
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Commission disagrees with county veto of annex
By NED STAFFORD
Firefighters, police and other community leaders usually participate in the emergency medical training programs, he said.
"The pay is bad enough for paraprofessional," he said. "We don't want to flood the soil."
The county commission cited drainage, traffic safety and the cost to taxpayers as reasons for opposing the annexation.
Staff Reporter
The emergency medical training program consists of 100 hours of classes, he said, or, in the case of a law enforcement case, two classes a week for 15 weeks.
"Acknowledging receipt of that is swallowing a bitter汁儿." Commissary
Members of the Lawrence City Commission expressed disappointment last night at the county's refusal to permit the city to annex land north of Lawrence for an industrial park.
The Med Center graduates about 30 paramedics a year, he said.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY Commission voted last week against letting the city annex the 275-acre site. The city had to have the county's approval because the site does not border Lawrence city limits.
Commissioner Tom Gleason said he saw problems with the proposed site but said if they could have been solved he would have voted for the annexation.
McFarlane said that Kansas law required that at least one paramedic accompany two emergency medical technicians on each ambulance run.
He said he was relieved at not having to make the tough decision, but said, "I think we need an industrial park and I think we need one soon."
County Community College, and the Med Center have the only paramedic programs in the state, Szczegyl said.
Every year paramedics must complete continuing education prescribed by the Med Center to keep their license, be said.
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Clark said that the city commission needed to talk with the county commissioners.
Clark said, "I've made no bones of the fact that I disagree with it. I would be interested in knowing if there is any difference," he can satisfy the country commission."
truman Kubota, who acts as consultant to the partnership that wanted to develop the site, said that the partnership was tired of pushing the issue and would like to see the community united behind an industrial park.
HE SAID THE group would not file suit to try to reverse the county authority.
Brian Sutcliffe, Howard Heck and Jack Arensberg, all Lawrence residents, made up the limited partnership that sought development of the site.
In other action, the commission approved a letter that the Downtown
Improvement Committee sent to Sizer-
 reality Healts Co., Kenner, LA; for the
committee's recommendations.
The letter said the committee favored a proposal, called Scheme Four, but that the plan was not completely satisfactory.
Scheme Four calls for two department stores, one on the northeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets and the other just south of Seventh Street behind existing buildings on Massachusetts Street. The plan calls for a third department store to be added later.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Street would be rerouted to within 40 feet of Rhode Island Street between Seventh and Ninth streets. A winding pedestrian walkway with shops would take its place.
The committee said in the letter that it liked the proposed Massachusetts
Street department store and its potential (or expansion without unnecessary disruption to downtown or the surrounding neighborhood.
The committee said, however, that the overall scale of the proposal was too great for current market needs.
Another plan, called Scheme One, could be used as an alternative but only if it were modified considerably, the committee said.
New Hampshire Street would remain open under Scheme One. It calls for two department stores between New Hampshire and Rhode Island streets, one north of Ninth Street and the other south of Seventh Street.
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