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Wednesday, November 15. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Woman Critical of County Health Department Policies
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department was strongly criticized Tuesday in a report made to the City Commission by Mrs. Raymond Cerd, 100 Drive
Mrs. Cerd outlined to the commission the comparative study she has made of six county health departments in Kansas. Mrs. Cerd listed several services and programs provided by the County Health Department, particularly home visits by Public Health nurses and health screening, examination and testing of individuals to discover what if anything, was going on.
Mrs. Cert criticized the health department's policy of not taking hospital referrals and also criticized the Douglas County Birth Control Clinic.
"Out health department has a unique
policy of eccentric nonoperation," Mrs Cerf told the commission.
Mrs. Cerf said the blame should not fall on the health board because they had been systematically misinformed, but on the other hand, Mr. Cerf said he was totally ignorant of several programs.
MRS. CERF studied six counties: Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Leavenworth, Hiley, and Shawnee. She said that she has spent her career at public health visits by qualified public health nurses.
"Home visits are absolutely basic," Mrs. Cerc said. "They are vital to the health of the community and to a good health department. We had a lot of them before the present health department administration."
Mrs. Ceri raised the work of the Volunteer Nurses Association (VNA) in making home visits, but said that the VNA was not associated with the county health
She said they were also limited because they received assistance only from the agency.
"Anyone can write a competent article." HE SAID THAT the paper offered a forum of debate normally inaccessible to students and that it potentially could perform a function he said the University Daily Kansan did not.
Mrs. Cerf criticized the health department for not providing health screening and referred to a federal program known as T-19.
The VNA cannot receive state funds, Mrs.
Cert said, because they are not associated
with the project.
Lorell Wiley, Lawrence senior, is editor of the paper. According to Candy Zierd, Wichita senior and chairman of the Haymaker, the tide of editor is little more severe than she said all the writers shared responsibility for the articles that were published.
DlZerega said he thought the Haymaker could grow into a paper that would provide extensive interpretation of contemporary political issues.
department and therefore was limited in the types of visits they could make.
"The Haymayer is open to many points of view," said Gus Dizerega, Lawrence graduate student and member of the Student Senate.
OTHER COUNTIES, Mrs. Curt said, are getting thousands of home visits by public health nurses that Douglas County residents have to do without.
"Part of the T-19 program is the health assessment program." Mrs. Cercal said, "It concerns everyone whose family is below a certain age and anyone in the一级 level from birth to 21 years old."
The Haymaker, a two-page paper published daily by University of Kansas students, is considered by many an imam to be news and opinion available at KU.
"We've tried to get away from glorifying drugs and using rhetoric," said Randy Gould, Lawrence senior and Haymaker staff writer.
The staff now comprises seven regular members, most of whom are undergraduates. Each week the staff has a meeting to decide what articles will be published the following week. Information for the articles comes from other
The Haymaker, circulated in front of the Kansas Union since Oct. 3, is similar in style to the defunct Daily, but the staff has worked hard to give the paper a broader scope of opinions on issues of campus and general interest.
By PATTY JOHNSON Kansan Staff Writer
Haymaker Cleans Up The Old Oread Daily
publications and research by the writers.
**THE HAYMaker** recently applied for a subscription to Liberation News Service (LNS), a 24-page book published every two weeks containing news and in-depth political events. The staff hopes LNS will give it a broader base of resources.
The Student Senate funds the Haymaker with $2,330 in office fees and a telephone use for the student's telephone use for the
Zierdt said the paper could use more money. She said the staff was often unable to research stories because of a lack of funds. All money used for resource publications comes now from private sources.
The staff aid it would like to gain access to the Indo-China News Service and such other sources.
The Haymaker prints 1,500 copies a day. All copies are usually circulated. Zierd said they reached more than 1,500 students and caused discussions among readers.
MOST OF THE feedback the staff receives comes when it distributes the paper, Zierd试了. She said most of the comments were favorable. The Haymaker encourages anyone who disagrees with it to write rebuttals for publication.
"We're trying not to rely heavily on other publications." Gould said.
with proper educational sessions for every applicant, proper counseling and of course met the state requirements, which our department finds irrelevant but which are met in all 13 counties that have state funds for family planning clinics," Mrs. Cerf said.
Mrs. Cerr said the program was administered by certified public health nurses
It is against the policy of the Haymaker to use obscenities as the Oread Daily did. Zierdt said the use of obscenities only served to alienate readers.
"There is no reason for them," she said.
"The only way make people anny."
"We substantiate what we say," she said.
"We don't just use rhetoric."
MRS. CERF noted that if the local health department did not get its nurses certified for the program, the State Board of Welfare would assign everyone eligible for the
"Douglas County is the only county in Kansas which is not training its public health nurses for certification to participate in T-19," she said.
program to a neighboring health department.
The number of people eligible for the program in Douglas County totaled about 26,000.
Mrs. CEF said that two-thirds of the visits to the Douglas County birth control clinic were made by University of Kansas students.
Mrs. Cerf said that the Douglas County birth control program was "an excellent example of lost opportunity" and stated a need for family planning instead of dispensal of birth control pills "like bubble gum."
It's "almost terrifying that this unethical procedure is going on in our own county."
Such a procedure, Mrs. Cerf said, takes no account of the health and importance of the patient.
"We need to the KU students off our bells and onto KU's where they belong."
"THERE'S NO reason that Douglas County taxpayers should pay for dispensing pills to thousands of girls' from Iowa or some other state." Mrs. Cef said.
Mrs. Ceft told the commission that the Riley County Health Department was swamped last year by Kansas State University students.
"After discussing the problem with the K-
City Commission Declares Paving Petition Insufficient
The City Commission ruled Tuesday that a petition requesting the paving and installation of sidewalks on city streets was "insufficient" after the discovery of a procedural mistake in the filing of the petition.
City Manager Buford Watson told the commission that the petition was insufficient if "the strict criteria of the law" were in determining legal property ownership.
He said the problem was that Kansas statutes required that the "owners of record" have signed the petition. The names on the petition must be exactly the
same as those appearing on official deeds of ownership, he said.
Milton Allen, city attorney, said that if the petition was challenged, the discrepancy between the official records and the names of the petitioners in the petition could invalidate the petition.
Watson said after the meeting that the opposition to the proposed sidewalks had already hired an attorney and had contacted Allen.
The petition requested paving and installation of sidewalks on Main Street, McMahon Machine Lane, McMahon Lane.
Representation to Be Student Senate Topic
A bill concerning the number of representatives in the Student and University Senates will be introduced by Debbie R. Hancock, Junior and student of the Student College of Human Sciences.
Several important bills slated for discussion will be tackled by the Student Senate at its meeting at 6:30 p.m., Thursday in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
The bill will propose that, in addition to
"This decision was beneficial to all. KState set up its own family planning clinic,
The climate of Greece is only one of the attractions drawing about 120 students, parents and faculty members connected with Greek life. In summer, a Program to Greece over Christmas break.
Tour Combines Study and Travel
About 300 freshmen and sophomores in the Pearson Humanities Program have spent the fall semester studying the Odyssey, the Illiad, Herodotus "History of the Persian Wars" and other works of ancient Greek literature. For some the trip to Greece will complete this semester's study.
each regular senator elected, there will also be an alternate senator elected to serve in the senator's absences at Student Senate meetings. Under provisions in the bill, the alternates will also serve as regular delegates to the University Senate, thus doubling student representation in that body.
State Health Service head, the Riley County administrator made the decision not to admit any more K-State students," Mrs. Cerr said.
"It's a way of confirming and extending what they've learned already in the humanities program and is an opportunity to learn about the country firsthand," said Dennis B. Quinn, director of Pearson College.
They will spend two days in Athens touring the city and the nearby classical monuments, which are 25 centuries old. They will then take a five day bus tour of the Peloponnese, the peninsula forming the southern part of Greece.
The trip will cost each person about $420
round trip.
The group will fly to Greece from Kansas City Dec, 27, and return Jan. 11.
The group will make night stops at Delphi, famed for the Oracle of Delphi, and Olympia, the city where the Olympic games originated.
The group will spend its last week at Napleton, the first capitol of liberated Greece. The travelers will explore the picturesque port city and take excursions out of the city to tour ancient ruins. They will go to Agros, the oldest continuously
inhabited town in Europe; Mycene, home of the Tomb of Agamemnon; and Eidavros, where they will tour ancient temples, a theatre and a theatre built in the 4th century B.C.
The Pearson College Humanities Program began two years ago. It is a twoyear program which fulfills all of the freshmen and sophomore humanities requirements except the language requirement.
Since there are some vacancies remaining on the chartered jet, the team will accept other interested people not connected with the class. They will pay $305 air fare. The humanities department will also waiting list in case of any cancels.
A contract that will make Senate-funded organizations liable for their overspending of funds will be introduced by Rick McKernan, Salina senior and member of the Finance and Auditing Committee. The contract also says that all expenditures from Senate allocated funds must be authorized in advance of purchase by the committee. That means that all funds must be spent in accordance with the line-item schedule set by the Senate.
A bill that will change the time of election of president and vice-president of the student body from the spring to the fall elections has been submitted by John H. Sprague, a special professor and chairman of the Student Executive Committee (StudEx).
The bill is favored by the Finance and Auditing Committee.
David Dillon, Hutchinson senior and president of the student body, is strongly against the proposal. He said that if elections for president and vice-president were held in the fall, it would not give candidates adequate time to cammaim.
Affirmative Action Still Under SenEx Review
University administrators are still working on recommendations for an Al-Firmative Action Plan for the University of Florida to ensure a more successful report before the beginning of next year.
Other bills to be presented to the Senate concern use of the activity fee for the campus bus system and an investigation of the Whomper machine in compliance of the Whomper machine. The Whomper is used to aid in recycling of disposed materials.
The first semester is spent studying Greek literature. In two following semesters the curricula is Roman literature, the Old and New Testament and medieval literature. The final semester is spent studying modern literature.
Dillon also said that the president would complete his term at the beginning of his senior year, and that senior experience was important in doing an adequate job.
Chancellor Raymond Nichols is currently studying the proposals submitted to him by the Council of Deans, which made its suggestions in response to the provisional Affirmative Action Plan of the KU Affirmative Action Board.
The Affirmative Action Provisional Plan was released by the board last month. It called for equal hiring practices for women and minority groups and proposals on promotion tenure, upgrading of departmental communication policies and financial aid policies.
Students who complete the entire tour and study program will submit a report of their trip after returning from Greece. They will receive two hours of credit for their efforts.
Nichols has also asked the Senate Executive committee (SenEx), to submit a recommendation on the provisional plan. Rick von Ende, acting executive secretary, said the SenEx recommendation should be submitted to the chancellor by next Monday.
AFTER NICHOLS receives the SenEx recommendation, he will meet with representatives of the Affirmative Action Board, SenEx and the Council of Deans to discuss their recommendations on the Affirmative Action plan.
Shirley Gilham, director of the Office for Affirmative Action for Women, said
If the Mediation Board is unable to obtain a mutually satisfactory resolution of the complaint, the complaint may file formal charges with the University Judiciary or the Faculty Committee on Tenure and Related Problems, Nichols said.
GILHAM SAID one complaint had been filed since the procedure went into effect. She said the complainant had discussed the problem in an Affirmative Action officer call.
The Mediation Board is composed of two persons appointed from the University Senate Human Relations Committee and an Affirmative Action adviser.
"The chancellor has promised to have the Affirmative Action Plan in effect before the beginning of second semester and hopefully before Christmas vacation." Gilham said.
Monday that the meeting would probably be during the first week after Thanksgiving.
The first phase of the Affirmative Action Plan, the complaint procedure, went into effect Oct. 20. The complaint procedure is designed to handle complaints of persons because themselves discriminated against because of violation of University policy.
The complainant is now deciding whether to refer the problem to the Mediation board for further discussion.
Cause of Power Failure At Templin Still Unknown
Company in Kansas City were summoned to help University maintenance make the repairs. The repairs involved rewinding part of the transformer and cleaning the areas that had been burned by sparks from the transformer, according to Wilson and Milroy.
The exact cause of a power failure that plunged Templin Hall into almost total darkness for 13 hours last month still has not been determined, according to J. J. Schoenberg and Dean Milroy, maintenance engineer for the dormitory system.
After the trouble had been found, electrical workers from the General Electric
The transformers have a life expectancy of 40 years, Wilson said, and in the residence halls that were older than 40 years had been replaced.
It it took maintenance workers about 20 minutes to find the cause of the trouble when the blackout occurred and the remaining blackout time was spent making repairs on the transformer, which had a short circuit, Wilson said last Friday.
During the blackout portable generators were brought in by Buildings and Grounds to provide the power needed to make the university work. "exit" signs, Wilson said that if necessary the University would rent portable generators to power the whole building. He said that the portability is the comfort of the residents could not be provided for in any other way.
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The Templin blackout was the longest power failure that either Wilson or Milroy had to deal with. The repair said he was confident the repairs that had been made would restore the transformer.
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Neither Wilson nor Milroy could explain the cause of the failure, but they hypothesized that some foreign matter such as dust or dust mixes with the transformer and caused the short circuit.
The transformer, which was installed when Templin was built in 1959, supplies all the power to the building. It is in the southwest corner of the basement, under the resident director's apartment and the food vending area.
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