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University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1981
Med Center police escorts, cameras provide nighttime students' security
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
A woman in a white lab coat steps nervously out of the University of Kansas Medical Center onto the dark, neon walkway and is approached by stranger.
This happens more than 150 times a night when Med Center students call the campus police and ask for an escort home.
The Med Center escort service has existed for five years, Jack Pearson, director of the Med Center police department, said yesterday.
That's as long as the police department has existed at the Med Center.
"We offer the service from dusk to dawn." he said.
The service is intended to cut down on the number of late-night assaults.
However, the escort service isn't the only special security effort at the Med
THIRTY-THREE closed circuit television cameras allow an officer in the Med Center police administration offices to keep an eve on the buildings
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“You’re talking about cameras in six buildings that all interconnect,” he said. “You get long stretches of water and air, but a night not many people are around.”
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He said the police officer monitoring the cameras could keep close track of students in the lonely stretches of the building and would notice if someone disappeared from one screen and I reappear on another screen a little later.
Another security system, which consists of two silver-colored boxes with cameras in them, hangs outside five entrances.
To get into the building after hours, students must slip their picture identification cards into the lower box and camera in the upper box, Pearson said.
THE OFFICER who monitors the cameras at the administration center.
same as the face of the ID before letting the student into the building, Pearson
On the Lawrence campus, the security system is different.
There has been no escort service here for almost a year, and the service that did exist didn't even last a year.
STUDENTS AT THE campus safety services office founded the service during the fall of 1979.
By the fall of 1980, it had only five volunteers and was forced to go out of business.
However, in 1979, the recruiting head of the campus safety services escort committee, Dan Schenkein, said more students were involved in many student volunteers needed.
At its peak, the Lawrence escort service had only 65 or 70 volunteers.
"We would like to have at least 150 more volunteers," he said. "I'dely, we need 315 volunteers to run three bases."
A RESPONSE TO ANN LANDERS AND DR. RYAN
In a recent column featuring the opinions of Dr. George Ryan on the Human Life bill you depicted Pro-Life people as "decent, high-minded individuals whose convictions are rooted in their religious beliefs." You then attributed to them a collective desire "to pass a law forcing their religious convictions on the rest of us." Although I'm not a religious zealot please allow me to respond to both your and Dr. Ryan's assertions.
Dear Ann.
Dr. Ryan begins by claiming that the Human Life bill “assumes that every fertilized egg would go on to a normal pregnancy if it were left alone.” He says that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, of which he is president, opposes this bill because “It would present great difficulty for obstetricians and gynecologists to provide health care to women who are pregnant.” However the Human Life bill neither makes the assumption nor creates the difficulties that she ascribes to it. It asks only that physicians do their utmost to protect both the gravida i.e., the pregnant woman, and the unborn child.
Later Dr. Ryan describes one "great difficulty" that would result from the passage of the Human Life bill: "Genetic screening programs represent a great advance in diseases such as Down's Syndrome. . . . At present we can diagnose these diseases before the child is born and offer the woman a choice." And the choice which Dr. Ryan regards as an integral part of this "great advance" in prenatal disease diagnosis? Dr. Ryan answers this question indirectly with the following prediction: "If this bill becomes law it would mean more handicapped children will be brought into the world."
Dr. Ryan views intrauterine devices and low-estrogen birth control pills, both of which prevent pregnancy by interfering with the implantation of the fertilized egg in the womb, as "types of contraception"; but a contraceptive, by definition, prevents conception. Intrauterine devices and low-estrogen birth control pills are abortifacients which arrest the fetal development which follows conception by inducing abortion.
While conceding that each intrauterine being is biologically alive, Dr. Ryan claims that its humanity is a "philosophical, moral and theological" question to which there is no scientific answer. Yet throughout both the intrauterine and extrauterine life span of this intrauterine being there are regularly present the 46 chromosomes that constitute the human karyotype. This intrauterine being has also a pulsating heart, a developing brain, fingerprints, sex hormones and the capacity to respond to stimuli. Dr. Ryan's refusal to recognize the humanity of this intrauterine being is perhaps a perversion of the recapitulation theory which holds that the embryological development of the individual repeats the stages in the development of the race.
Let us briefly review the methods by which an intrauterine being's existence is terminated. The suction aspiration method involves the insertion of a hollow tube into the uterus with a suction force sufficiently powerful to tear the baby apart. In the dilation and curettage procedure a curette, a loop-shaped steel knife, is used to use the baby and placenta into pieces. Prostaglionin is a recently developed drug which, when used as an abortifacient, will produce labor and delivery at whatever stage of pregnancy a woman is. In the saline or salt-poisoning method a concentrated salt solution is injected into the amniotic sac surrounding the baby; the baby inhales and swallows the corrupted amniotic fluid, and is eventually poisoned by it. In a hystorotomy the mother's abdomen and uterus are surgically opened, the baby is lifted out, and with the placenta, discarded.
Do any of these five grisly methods of execution sound compatible with the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition against the deprivation of life without due process of law? A democratic reaction to the creation of an "unwanted child" would involve the evolution of a societal network sympathetic and responsive to the needs of both the troubled gravida and the child itself.
Dr. Ryan calls it "a strange contradiction that the people who say they want to save lives have so little compassion for people after they are born." Because the medical profession has always been associated with the relief of suffering and the preservation of life, many find quite distasteful their (the medical profession) having so little compassion for tiny, totally dependent, innocent, sentient people before they are born.
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