University Daily Kansan, September 22, 1981 Page 5 Nurses From page one Chiga, vice chancellor for hospital administration, said that he would like the Legislature to raise the starting salary for experienced nurses. He also said that the Med Center faced a nursing shortage, as do hospitals across the country. "This is probably the biggest problem the hospital faces." he said. The Med Center needs nurses, he said, but its services aren't competitive with those of area private hospitals. In a survey of 44 area hospitals that was just completed by Med Center officials, the center ranked 10th on starting salaries for registered nurses and 8th on starting salaries for licensed practical nurses. "We always find ourselves a step behind other hospitals, which can adjust their budgets at any time," Richard Von Ende, KU executive to the chancellor, said at the Thursday meeting. The Kansas Legislature would have to approve any Med Center salary increases during its 1982 session, and those increases would not go into effect until the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1. The Legislature may well hear a very vocal request for those salary increases from the Med Center nurses, who are organizing quickly and willingly to request their request for higher salaries. Kina said. "They are educating themselves and their colleagues, uniting on the issues," she said. "They have been rather patient, though a lot of them have been in distress and left. We have files of five years of problems and complaints from them. People over there who are involved say they are the closest that they have ever been to a bargaining position." Med Center nurses have delayed forming a bargaining group for five years because they felt the system was not appropriate. Also she said, the nurses weren't sure they had the right to organize. But officials with the Kansas State Nurses Association have researched the law and found The Kansas State Nurses Association does not plan to be the Med Center nurses' collective bargaining representative until more Med Center nurses become association members. that Med Center nurses have the right to collective bargaining because they are state employees. "By law, we have the right to represent them," King said. "We have more than enough signed up. As an organization, we have 30 percent who are in our office and we feel that we need a majority to be effective." Besides salaries, Med Center nurses have also been complaining about security problems. State Rep. Bill Wisdom, D-Kansas City, arrived late to the Thursday Ways and Means Committee meeting because he had been meeting with eight nurses, and one of their main complaints was about the poor security at the Med Center; he said. He said that he had been told of several nurses who had been physically attacked, but he would not have been hurt. King has also heard complaints about Med Center security. "There have been instances of people from the street enter the hospital," she said. "Nurses have confronted them while they were taking drugs on one of the nursing units," she said. She also said that nurses were afraid to walk to the parking lot at night and that several nurses Another complaint the nurses have about the parking lot is that they have to pay to park there. Chiga said Thursday that all other area health care are then carried on parang. He also said that most other area hospitals had day care centers where nurses could leave their children while they worked. Med Center nurses would like a day care center of their own, he said, but there is no room for them. Therefore, he has asked the hospital auxiliary to raise the money, and a suitable building has been built. The day care center is scheduled to open early next year. "When there's that many groups in opposition, he student Senate fund on one group and not another." Iranians From page one He said, "I don't think it's right that we should give money to groups that are having hot water." SHAHROK AZEDI, spokesman for the ISA, said the group usually used the Kansas Union and Wescoe Hall, which are free for campus groups, for their meetings, but needed $200 allocated to them for renting rooms for meetings. Rebecca Pyles, graduate student senator, asked Akiyel why the ISA could not use rooms on "We use the Ecumenical Center for important events like the Iranian New Year because we need it." However, Mojadaj said earlier yesterday that if the Student Senate allocated the group's entire request, ISA would use part of the money to pay for the damages. Although the group mostly used campus rooms, Axed said, it would need to rent a room on-site. "We should probably find some part (of the budget) where we could pay for the damages, like rooms or something," he said. However, the Senate only disperse funds for budgeted items by voucher, and no cash is used. When an organization funded by Student Senate needs to pay for something, the group makes out a voucher for the amount and purpose. The committee goes through checks by Senate before it is naid. 'It (the voucher) goes through so many checks that there is no way a group could use the money except for the purpose it was budgeted for." Brandy Idwell, Senate administrative assistant. "There's no way the ISA could use the state's money to pay for the damage." Loren Bushy, finance and auditing chairman, said the group had been accused of misfusing funds. The ISA was reprimanded by the Finance and Investment Bank of Singapore last spring and its funding was suspended. The ISA was found guilty of not publicizing its elections. The group was cleared of two other charges, including one that charged the ISA for advertising to advertise its elections advertising to advertise a film instead. "They have a pretty bad history of working with the Student Senate in the past," he said, "and I don't know if they'll even be funded." O'Connor From page one leader. She is to be sworn in Friday at the Supreme Court. The abortion issue, which flared up as soon as President Reagan announced O'Connor's nomination and which dominated her confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, also cast its shadow over the Senate debate. O'Connor on many issues but readily endorsed her because of her qualifications of experience, intelligence and judicial temperament. However, Democrats, who had promptly acclaimed Reagan's aide of O'Connor, denounced Republican foes of abortion for using incendiary politics and for hesitating to endorse O'Connor. Sen. Jesse Heims, R-N.C., initially one of O'Connor's most serious challengers, said he would take Reagan's word that she opposed those who sought to make it a major issue. "I hope that today there won't be a single vote cast against her confirmation," Metzenbaum said. "It will indicate the Senate did not yield to pressures of the new right." The debate took place in a nearly empty chamber with visitors' galleries less than half full. It was interspersed with token quorum calls when no senator was on hand to make a speech. Kennedy said, "Single-issue politics has no place in the solemn responsibility of the Senate to advise and consent to appointments to the Supreme Court or any other federal court." Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, said they differed with Sen. Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., chairman of the confirmation hearings, took advantage of a bull to tell the press gallery that doubtful Republicans had fallen into line. Jeremiah Denton, R-Ala., who voted “present” instead of “yes” on the committee’s confirmation roll call, would now vote in O’Connor’s arrival to late to take part in the debate. In Thurmond's view, his committee's 17-voice recommendation for O'Connor was "a highly favorable recommendation" and demonstrated that she was "extraordinarily qualified." He said he found her "honest, uncorruptible, fair" and "a person of compassion." Denton, protesting O'Connor's refusal to comment on the Supreme Court's 1973 decision upholding the Constitutionality of abortions, sent Reagan word he wanted more reassurance. It was learned Reagan telephoned Denton last Thursday. Thurmond gave the first public word that Sen During the weekend, Denton said, he also helped many students in a little more food for thought, on her nomination. I made a request. Orive said. I asked about this letter, Denton said, "she's changing in that direction." He would not elaborate. 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