The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, February 7, 1983 Vol.93,No.92 USPS 650-640
Larry George/KANSAN
Alan Atkins, Norman, Okla., graduate student, tries his hand at sculpting ice behind the Spencer Museum of Art. Atkins built a frozen version of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker".
Senate leader says rules broken
Bv. SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
The co-chairman of a Senate committee said yesterday that because the Student Senate rules and regulations and revenue code were outdated and ambiguous, the Senate often had to violate its own rules to do its business.
Robert Walker, co-chairman of the Senate Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, said that, in many cases, the Senate rules and regulations were not applicable to certain groups seeking student money.
The revenue code regulates the use of student money allocated by the Senate.
He told the Student Senate Executive Committee Thursday that the KU student radio station, KJIK, was in violation of the Senate's financing philosophy.
THE STATION IS in violation because it requires students working for it to maintain a 2.0 grade point average and it tries to keep freshmen from working there, he said.
"I'm not going to issue a formal citation against KJHK," he said. "They did a good job in presenting their budget to the Finance and Auditine Committee for consideration."
And there is just as great a problem with the Senate rules and regulations, he said.
"It's impossible to really adhere to the rules," he said. "If we look at one group as being in violation, we could probably find a lot of groups in violation," he said.
Robin Rasure, president of Sigma Delta Pi, the national Spanish honor society, said the Senate seemed to be applying the rules and regulations arbitrarily in its financing process.
SHE SAD THE SENATE told her that Sigma Delta Pt did not qualify for student money because the group required its members to maintain a high grade point average.
"It seems as if they suspend the rules for one thing but not another," she said.
tung does not have an issue. Walker said there had been a problem with the rules and regulations and the revenue code for a long time, but the Senate had not dealt with it.
At its meeting Jan. 27, the Senate violated its rules by voting to pay Emily Taylor an honorarium it owed her for speaking at last year's Higher Education Week banquet, he said.
Senate rules state that a request to pay guest speakers must be submitted in writing by the finance committee to the Senate for consideration.
THE COMMITTEE HAD not yet met for the semester, so to speed up the decision making, the Senate voted to pay the honorarium without a written recommendation from the committee.
"We violated our own rules, and we do it all the time," he said.
The problems with the rules are twice as obvious now because of revenue code hearings, Walker said.
"Your eyes tend to be more open when your hand is out," he said.
During revenue code hearings, the Senate
Trucker shot as strike ends first week
By United Press International
A sniper wounded the point man in a convoy on the Ohio Turnpike yesterday as the independent trucker's strike wrapped up its first week with a crack in solidarity — a group of Oregon truckers broke ranks and voted to go back on the road.
Food distributors warned that the strike could affect supplies of fresh produce this week.
Deliveries at Hunts Point market, New York City's largest outlet for fresh fruits and vegetables, were reported lighter than usual yesterday, usually a peak day.
"We've had six or seven trucks an hour," said William Martinez, a New York City toll collector at the sprawling depot. "They're usually back to back, every 10 or 15 minutes."
MERCHANTS PREDICTED shortages this week and higher prices in the metropolitan area
An Ohio Highway Patrol spokeswoman said Scott R. Posse, 27, of Menomone Falls, Wis., was shot about 11 p.m. Saturday. He was in serious condition at St. Charles Hospital in Toledo after surgery for a bullet wound in his right lower leg.
Poss was the lead driver of a convoy of 12 to 15 trucks traveling on the turnip about four miles east of Toledo, the patrol said. Four trucks were hit by gunfire, which troopers believe came from a rifle fired by a sniper on an embankment alongside the highway. No other injuries were reported.
The state police said the shooting was related to the nationwide strike by members of the Independent Truckers Association.
Indiana state police arrested two men early Saturday for allegedly shooting at trucks on Interstate 65 outside Memphis, Ind., and carried them with criminal recklessness.
Lyle Stanky, vice president of the Western Truckers Association, said the truckers unanimously approved the action. He said between 300 and 150 trucks were driven by drivers, brokers and shippers at the meeting.
In Medford, Ore., about 150 independent truckers voted, Friday night to return to work.
Mike Parkhurst, ITA president, canceled an appearance at a truck stop in Omaha, Neb., yesterday. An ITA spokesman said the truck stop owner feared for Parkhurst's safety.
STANLEY SAID that the decision was not mandatory and that if drivers were afraid they should stay home.
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Truckers operate at a loss, ITA says
By United Press International
Government statisticians say that 16-cent figure may even be slightly understated because of the various recent increases in fees and taxes imposed on truckers by states.
NEW YORK - The going rate for trucking lettuce cross-country this time of year is about 14 cents a head. Government figures indicate that it costs an independent trucker 16 cents a head.
impose of a trucker. And the trucker's cost will rise further when the federal gasoline tax jumps to 9 cents a gallon from 4 cents on April 1. For the average trucker, that extra nickel a gallon will come each time 4.8 miles click by on his odometer.
His costs will go up again when highway user fees are increased in 1984 and 1985 under legislation passed by Congress.
THOSE ARE THE reasons thousands of independent truckers decided to pull their rigs off the road last week in a protest strike.
The economics of the independent trucking business are tough these days. Too many truckers are willing to haul the reduced amount of freight that needs hauling during the winter.
"There are just too many trucks and not enough freight," said David Kolman, spokesman for the Independent Truckers Association.
cautor's note: This is the last of a three-part series studying the job market for KU graduates this May.
What you'll find is that everybody is
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Low morale besets jobless graduates, officials say
A 1982 graduate in business administration with a 3.4 grade point average, Schmitz spent three months in California looking for a job. She returned to Lawrence unemployed.
Nancy Schmitz is typical of many KU graduates. She cannot find a job and she is discouraged.
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON Staff Reporter
return to the lab Low morale affects most students trying to find a job and morale is expected to get worse when this year's graduating class confronts the worst job market in ten years, KU placement officials said last week.
ENGINEERING STUDENTS have also found that jobs are harder to come by. They start lining up at 4 a.m. on Monday mornings to work in reviews even though few companies are hiring.
With the economy the way it is, Schmitz said, businesses won't be spending the extra money to train people but instead were looking for people who specialized in accounting or marketing.
Schmitz said she was working as a secretary and receptionist and planned to return to school to get a degree in accounting. Many students with business administration degrees are going back to school to get a more specialized degree or an MBA, she said.
"If you can't find a job, you stay in school," Schmitz said.
But staying in school may not be the only alternative to the job market blues as business
and placement officials assess job-getting strategies.
IN FACT, many business recruiters said that while more students were entering graduate programs to ensure themselves better jobs when they got out of school, sometimes graduate degrees did not mean the student would find a job.
Patty Gould, director of management recruiting for Commerce Bank of Kansas City, said she wished graduates had realistic salary expectations. Many students with advanced degrees demand starting salaries businesses cannot afford, she said.
Vernon Geissler, KU placement director and coordinator, said that the job market would improve, but that sometimes job slumps seemed to last forever.
He said students often went through agony before looking for jobs because they could only afford the ones with the best wages.
"My greatest concern is for students to not be discouraged in spite of the tight market and adverse publicity." he said.
Selecting a job has always been a difficult decision, he said, but once students start looking
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COLDER
Weather
Today will be cold with increasing cloudiness. The high temperature will be in the low to mid-30s. Winds will be from the south at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be cloudy, with the low temperature in the low to mid-20s.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy, with the high in the mid to upper 30s.
Burn center doctor says scalding scars, kills
By MICHAEL BECK Staff Reporter
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One second in a very hot bathtub can cost years of pain from burns, the director of the University of Kansas burn center said Friday.
Mari Mani, director of the Barbara Burnett Burn Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that 12 patients at the Med Center, who were died last year of burns from scalding water.
The burn center has designated February as scald month. Mani said, and many of his staff members and former patients have been speaking at schools about ways to prevent burns.
MAN1 SAID IT took one second for skin to burn in 150-degree water. He said if water heaters were turned to 120 degrees, then it would take three minutes to create a burn.
But people don't have to go through the trauma of being burned, he said.
Some burn victims have extensive physical scars after they recover, Mani said. Some will have extensive emotional scars, but others will die before they have a chance to scar.
"We can prevent a lot of these burns and save energy in the process," Mani said, "if only people would listen."
people would heat water.
Mani said that 75 percent of all burns from scalding water could be avoided by turning down water heaters to 120 degrees.
The burn center is a city within a city, stationed on the sixth floor of the Med Center
Blood is stored in vaults and skin is rolled and frozen on racks.
The reason for such isolation, Mani said, is the necessity for a germ-free environment. Infections cannot be tolerated when dealing with burn victims.
"WE'RE ENTERTLY self-contained. Rarely do we need help from others." Mani said.
The burn center prepares its own food, has its own beds, operates its own therapy programs and is a member of the hospital's nursing staff.
The need for sterility extends to all visitors, who must wear hair-nets, gowns, shoe covers and face masks.
He said one burn victim was able to drive himself and three others from a Kansas farm to the burn center, but his burns were so extensive that he eventually died.
of the most traumatic injuries known to man, Mani said.
The pain is not the worst thing about being burned—the recovery process is, said Mani, a plastic surgeon.
All precautions are designed for victims of one
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"IF YOU WERE to ask a burn victim one year after the accident what the pain was like, he would probably tell you that it wasn't that bad," Mani said.
Since he began working with burn patients at the Med Center, Mani said, he has become an amateur psychiatrist.
Mani said his experiments with hypnosis for relieving pain had been successful. However, not all patients are susceptible to hypnosis.
in patterns are susceptible to adults go through phases of anger, denial
disorientation, hope and fear before they are ready to go back into the world, Mani said. The process is difficult for the patient and the staff
The degrees of each phase are different in each person, he said.
Nurses at the burn center say children are the hardest patients.
MARY ELLEN WINN, a registered nurse, said, "I hate to see the children come in here. They have to live their whole lives with the memory of burns. It's very hard on them."
Mani said children often thought the burns were some sort of punishment.
Dawn Pete, a registered nurse at the burn center, said that although she did get attached to the patients, she looked forward to when they could get well and go home.
But it is a long, grueling process before they go home.
When the patient comes to the burn center, he is immediately washed in a large water-filled tank to clean the wounds.
After the bath, the patient is taken to one of 10 beds lining one hall of the L-shaped center.
THE PATIENT then usually undergoes a series of injections to prevent infection and inflammation.
To protect the burned areas, patients undergo skin transplants.
In some cases, patients are so badly burned they don't have enough unburned skin to transplant. So the burn center uses reserve skin from its skin bank to cover the burned areas until more skin from unburned areas can be transplanted.
The burn center takes skin from cadavers and freezes it in 3-8-w-i-inch pieces.
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Senior nursing students Julie Lewey, Liberty, Mo., left, and Michelle Jameson, Kansas City, Mo., treat a patient burned in a propane fire. Burn victims from all over the Midwest are brought to the Burnett Burn Center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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