The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 15, 1981 Vol. 92, No.17 USPS 650-640
The cost of filling a car with gasoline rose dramatically over the weekend, with gasoline prices rising up to 8 cents per gallon.
Prices go up for area gas as 'war' ends
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
The gas price war is almost over in Lawrence. We will fill 'er up today, they will find out who is losing.
Eleven Lawrence service stations increased prices an average of 5.8 cents over the weekend—from an annual price to $1.24* since the Daily Kansas survey yesterday of prices at 24 stations.
Prices at the rest of those stations remained the same as last week, however. Eight of those already were charging $1.23 to $1.37.8 for a gallon for regular gasoline.
Most of the five stations holding prices under $1.18.9 are waiting for directions from their distributors or waiting for their competitors' next moves.
Station owners attribute the recent price jump to gasoline's low profit margin and the fact that new vehicles have higher their prices.
a nationwide oversupply of gasoline is responsible for low retail gas prices in recent months. Bob Horton, coordinator of prices and operations at Petroleum in Bartlesville, Okla., said yesterday.
"Service stations have lowered their prices and profit margins because there is an awful rise in the demand for gasoline."
coupled with reductions of wholesale gas prices, the gasoline glut has kept prices severely depressed during the past two or three months, Horton said.
"Once dealers see the opportunity to raise prices to a profitable level, they do . . . but they can only increase it as much as the competition lets them." he said.
Glenn Daiker, a Mobil Oil distributor in Lawrence, said stations were keeping their prices down because of competition and were going without profits.
"We've decided to make some profit for once and raise the price," he said.
Other dealers said they would raise gas prices, too.
"I'm glad to the rest of 'em finally went dlp.
I had to have the increase," said Paul Grace,
Roger Flery, owner of Commerce Plaza Gas and Mini Mart at 3034 Iowa St., agreed with
owner of the Standard Station at 846 Vermont St.
"it was making less than 2 percent profit, and you can't hardly start to pay employees and electric bills on that."
"We've been selling gas for less than we've been paying for it," he said. "Prices have been falling."
Many area stations may be raising prices
are raising a fee, pinch, but other are raising
prices.
See GAS WARS page 3
White award to honor TV's MacNeil, Lehrer
By STEVE ROBRAHN
Staff Reporter
The co-anchors of public television's nightly public affairs program, "The MacNiel/Lehrer Report," have been named the 1982 recipients of the White Foundation Award for Journalistic Merit.
Robert MacNeil and Jim Lefhrer, anchors of the single-topic, in-depth interview show, will receive their citations Feb. 10 during a luncheon at the University of Kansas.
It is the first time that two journalists have beaten them to share the award in its 33-year history.
"I'm delighted for three reasons," Lehrer said yesterday in a telephone interview from Washington, in which he said, "because it's a great award in the field I've been laboring in for the last 21 years."
Lehrer, a native Kansean, said that he also was proud because when he was a youngster, his father's bus company transported bundles of the food from the city to the city brandished by William Allen White, to outlying towns.
"When I was 12, I took a tour of the Gazette and saw Mr. White's office," he said, "and of course I was forced to read Mr. White's stories when I was in school."
His final reason was that his mother was a KU graduate.
"I can even say, 'rock chalk Jayhawk,'" he said.
MacNeil and Lehner's names will join those of other journalists who exemplify Wills' "service to his profession and his country," said Del Brinkman, dean of the William Allen White
Brinkman said any of more than 100 foundation trustees could nominate a person for the award. A final decision is made by a smaller national citation committee.
School of Journalism and director of the foundation.
The committee chose to honor MacNeil and Lehrer as journalists and to pay tribute to their contributions to the team concept of television news reporting.
watter Cronkite of CBS News, Ben Hibbs of the Saturday Evening Post and James Kilpatrick, a syndicated columnist, have been among those honored in the past. Brinkman said.
Although plans haven't been confirmed for the February visit, Brinkman said he hoped MacNeil and Lehrer would be able to visit with journalism faculty and students after the lun-
at the manne儿/Lehrer Report," a cooproduction of station WETA/12 in Washington, D.C., and WNET/13 in New York City, has been aired each weeknight since October 1975.
"We had been talking for years about the need for a nightly public affairs program which dealt with more than just the headlines," Lehrer said. "It was Bob's (MacNeil)'s idea for the show to focus on a single topic, which is now our bread and butter."
The duo first teamed on public television's "Senate Watergate Invasion" coverage of the Senate Watergate Invasion.
MacNell began his career working for two Canadian radio stations and the Canadian Broadcasting Co. He moved to New York in 1956 and joined News Service and NBC News as a London correspondent.
Emergencv room means tough, demanding work
Rv.JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
A full moon rose last night, and doctors and nurses say that a full moon means a full emergency room.
Elizabeth Jobe has been the emergency room nursing supervisor at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., for 15 years.
and January—than during other times of the year.
"When I first came to KU, there was a nurse who had been working here 25 years," Jobe said, "and she told me that the full moon had lots of effects on the emergency room.
"I didn't believe her then, but she was a very wise woman."
She also said more psychiatric patients are brought in during the holiday season—December
MORE PSYCHIATRIC patients, accident victims, women to about to deliver babies and drug overdose victims are brought to the emergency room when the moon is full. Jobe said.
However, it doesn't take a full moon or a holiday to keep the emergency room busy, buy
"I'll never forget when we got about three or four bad accidents at all once," Jobe said.
AS ANOTHER NOTE of appreciation, September has been proclaimed National Emergency Month by the Heart Care Institute.
"My mother-in-law came to visit a relative in the hospital. She came through the emergency room and saw all the blood and stuff.
"Later she told me, I'm going to talk to your hand, to get you out of this emergency room."
DESPITE HER mother-in-law, Jobe is still there—because she finds the work rewarding.
However, she said the rewards for emergency room nurses came mostly with the satisfaction of knowing that they had helped someone who needed it.
"You can tell when patients are really appreciative," she said. "We have gotten quite a deal."
every once in a while, about one every two years, we get a box of candy or something, and it gets stuck inside.
When a patient is brought in, Jobe said, nurses must act quickly.
"You don't have time to freeze," she said. "You don't have time to think about how this is going."
Teen-agers, Jobe said, are the hardest patients for her to deal with.
SHE SAID it took a certain kind of person to be
"They have their whole lives ahead of them, and they know it," she said. "Little children,
*teenagers are kind of my bag, and it really bother me when they come in and they are D.O.A., or they are going to be vegetables or something.*
"I find it very difficult to cope, but it's a situation that I feel there's no way to handle." It can offer to the family.
"You have to have a real sense of humor," she said. "You have to be very warm. You have to have a certain type of personality. It's very difficult, very difficult."
"I had a patient call just I am awake, and he asked to talk to the head doctor," Jobe said.
Sometimes the difficulty is not in dealing with severely injured patients, but in trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with a patient, she said.
an emergency room nurse to deal with patients likethat.
She told him there was no single head doctor, and she also what the problem was.
The man told her that he hadn't been able to sleep for three years.
AFTER DISCUSSING his problem with him, Jobe referred him to the psychiatric depart-
"That phone rings constantly." she said.
No matter how difficult some patients are to deal with, Job said there was a waiting list of
"There's something about emergency that kind of brings people to us," she said. "They enjoy this kind of nursing."
nurses who wanted to work in the emergency room.
BUT NO MATTER how many nurses the emergency room attracts, Jobe said she didn't consider emergency room nursing the glamour job of nursing.
"The glamour job in nursing?" she said. "I haven't found one yet."
Charles Hartman, physician in charge of the Med Center's emergency services and vice chancellor for clinical affairs, said a doctor's life was not glamorous, either.
He was once a student at the Med Center, and he returned to his alma mater in 1973.
Now, Hartman said, the Med Center emergency room has one of the leading trauma centers in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
College readmits ejected students
TRAUMA CENTERS are emergency rooms
SE EMERGENCY page 5
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
Such circumstances could involve improved study habits, resolution of personal problems or any number of things that would cause the teacher to reassess a student's motivation. Adams said.
The KU Weather Service forecasts cool weather and clear skies for today and tomorrow. Today's forecast is for tomorrow's high will be 73, with the low again near 50.
Thirty of the 698 students dismissed last spring from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for failing to meet grade point requirements have been discharged, and the associate dean of the college said yesterday.
LAST SPRING was the first time since 1975 that students had been dismissed from the college.
Robert Adams, associate dean, said the 30 student teachers committed because of "very little circumstance."
Turley said it would be wise for a student to probation to visit the Student Assistance Center.
Weather
A revised damnal policy put into effect in the fall of 1980 resulted in dismissal of 409 of the 2,300 officers.
"I'm very surprised," he said. "I thought the number would be zero."
See DISMISSAL page 2
Robert Turvey, associate director of the Student Assistance Center, said he was pleased to have worked with him.
Look ahead
Newcomers ready to help KU students
John Tollefson
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
John Tollefson
W. Max Lucas
John Tolleson started his working career surveying the forests of Oregon as an assistant logging engineer for International Paper Co.
Talefson, who was appointed dean March 10, had been the associate dean of the school since 1974. He received his bachelor's degree in forest engineering from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., in 1965; his master's degree in industrial management in 1960; and his doctorate in economics in 1966, both from Purdue University.
Now he is surveying his books and preparing budget proposals in his new job as dean of the School of Business.
106, BURTON SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Tollefson had a busy semester last spring,
assuming his new responsibilities as dean,
teaching two classes and serving as program
director of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Under the grant, he helped develop humanities classes that would be attractive electives for business students.
Tollison said he had some general goals in mind for improving the business school.
"From the early to the late '70s, the school doubled in terms of enrollment and faculty," he wrote. "The students were
"In the '70s, we had to deal with growth. A substantial devotion of time went to recruiting new faculty. Now we're working on quality improvements."
Tollefson said he enjoyed reading late at night.
ONE SUCH IMPROVEMENT will be to support the faculty's scholarly activities, he
"The key to developing quality is retaining faculty," he said. "If you don't, you get into the cycle of losing people and having to continually be in the market."
See NEWCOMERS page 5
Robert L. Lineberry
By CATHY BEHAIN Staff Reporter
Iranians say local violence will continue
The clash between pro-and anti-Khomien groups Saturday was not the first and probably will not be the last, Iranian students said yesterday.
Akbar Akbari, Pittsburg, who was stabbed in the back during the incident, considers himself anti-Khomeini and said he thought there would be more violence between the two groups because there was absolutely no friendship between them.
Jim Denney, director of KU police, said the violence started when members of a pro-Khomeliine group forced their women to anti-Khomeliine group and anti-Khomeliine group was meeting to discuss problems in Iran.
"The pro-Khomini group came in overturning tables, smashing cups, and dumping literature. The other group started leaving out the back door while the fight began." Deney said.
The four people who were injured were anti-
Khomeini people, he said.
Denney said that police had interviewed several people but that no arrests had been made. Police also had not yet determined the instrument used in the stabbing.
Akbari said the supporters of Pykhar, an anti-Khomeini group, would retaliate if there were
"If they want it, they can get it." he said.
The spokesman for the Iranian Student Association, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, said the Muslim Student Association (Persian Speaking Group) put up a banner yesterday in Wescoe town in Wescoe that continued attacking and Khomeini groups.
The incident closely follows another fight last Wednesday in front of the Union.
ISA members said that in that incident, MSA (PGS) members attacked an ISA table set up outside the Union and shouted in Farsi that they were oppressed and that they would to oppress everyone who opposed Khomeini.
See FIGHT page 7