The University Daily
Tuesday, April 27, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 141 USPS 650-640
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
BEN BIGLER/Kansan Stait
Don Kaus, Lakewood, Colo., sophomore, and Kris Durbin, Tacoma, Wash., freshman, take advantage of daylight-savings time yesterday as they lounge on the dock of the West Campus reservoir.
Med Center nurses, officials differ on 'med' dispensing bill
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A bill now in the Kansas Legislature that would allow student nurses at the University of Kansas Medical Center to dispense medications has caused a controversy between licensed nurses and medical staff.
The Legislature reconvenes today after a two-week recess.
The third of four versions of such a bill may come up for a vote today on the Senate floor, after the first two bills were killed by the House Public Health and Welfare Committee.
The bill will allow senior nursing students at the Med Center, who do not have a state license, to practice nursing under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Register for the State Board of Nursing, the Kansas State Nurses Association and the State Association of Nursing Students have all opposed the bill on the
grounds that it allows unlicensed students to practice as licensed nurses.
"Hospitals are in dire straits financially. They see it as a way of keeping labor costs down," State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said recently.
BRANSON, a registered nurse, opposed the bill on the House floor.
"I did not feel hiring nursing students was the answer," she said. "I felt the answer probably
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would be to increase registered nursing salaries so the Med Center would be more competitive.
The Med Center now has a shortage of 200
Patients. It was able to fill only 300
patient beds out of 644.
because the Med Center has continued to come up short of revenues and has requested接手 its operations.
Weather
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COMFORTABLE
The high today will be around 60, with 5-15 mph winds from the northeast, according to the National Weather Service in Tooneka.
The skies will grow cloudy tonight, with a 20 percent chance of showers and a low of 40. Cloudy skies and a change in weather to tomorrow, when the high will be 60.
KU programs seek to aid elderly. . .
Staff Reporter
Bv ANN LOWRY
A cultural change is in the makings for today's students in the next few decades, and members of KU's faculty say educational programs are following the trend.
As the U.S. population steadily grows older and as yucca leaves the emphasis on geronimo the study of opinion grows more critical.
The National Council on Aging projected in April 1980 that between 2010 and 2030, the post-world War II jump in birth rates or, by "baby boom," could show up as a great increase in the population over 65.
in case in the population of society. Society will have to adjust to this, experts say.
STUDENTS INTERESTED in the changing effects of aging in people's lives have many opportunities for experience at the University of Kansas.
Society will have to adopt leaders. "The conception of older people is going to drastically change. People are going to realize older people can be healthy, productive members of society," Ron Harper, director of KU's Allied Health and Gerontology Center, said recently.
In 1976, the KU Gerontology Center was established on the Lawrence campus. Two years ago, a long-term care gerontology center was established by the University in Kansas City, Kan., to help community agencies assist the elderly.
Donna Schafer, administrative assistant of the Gerontology Center, said KU students and faculty studied the levels of older peoples' intellectual functions, environmental effects on older people, the informal support method by which friends and neighbors cared for the aging and practical programs to learn to work with the older patients in health care programs.
About 80 KU courses deal with some aspects of aging.
"What really characterizes genotology at the University is that it is multidisciplinary." Schafer said.
A GERONTOLOGY Center brochure states that university gerontology centers have been established in response to the trend of an older population and to encourage the development of geriatric health services, hospitals and departments. They also coordinate career training programs, stimulate research, provide
information to agencies and increase educational opportunities for the elderly.
"The interest has just been recent. I assume that it will grow because there will be more need for knowledge about aging because of the population shift," Nancy Demcy, KU professor of the psychology department said. If the exponential growth of good I think there will be jobs available in gerontology."
Denney said that as the baby boom generation became older and the ideal age was older, people would have to be able to move back.
"The general public could and should learn more about how to interact with older people." moneypamper
she said that about 20 of her students were working directly with older people in nursing homes as part of studies of intellectual change with age.
The social stimulation caused by regular interaction of the students and patients should make the patients more comfortable to work on studies with the voucher people, she said.
THESE STUDIES concern the detrimental effects of aging on intellectual ability and memory.
. . . as problems increase each year
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As the young people of today become the elderly of tomorrow, the economic complexities of being old will be growing.
Staff Reporter
And just as the federal government and local agencies have increased programs to help ease the cultural adjustment for older citizens' well-being, so have increased programs dealing with adult affairs.
By ANN LOWRY
These programs include Medicare, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, veterans pensions, utility assistance and Food Stamps—all programs to help older Americans "live with the independence and dignity they deserve," according to a Jawhawk Legal Services brochure.
"Since 1935 when the Social Security Act passed, more than 100 programs for senior citizens have been established," Jim Sanders, an attorney at Jayshaw Legal Services, said.
THE SERVICES operate out of the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vermont St.
"A lot of work I do is because the complexity of life has increased a lot," Sanders said. "Most of the programs around now weren't around when today's senior citizens were working and earning
Sanders said the center helped older people who had difficulties dealing with the computer age.
Sanders said the elderly were vulnerable to unscrupulous businessmen and were overly reliant on them.
"It's hard to keep up with it and know what kind of health insurance you'll need." Sanders said, calling it a "very important plenumal policies to Medicare," it not clear who's going to pay what portion of the bill.
HE SAID people who had taken pride in paying their own bills on time while they were wage earners did not take retirement and dependency well, especially when they got sued.
The complexity just builds.
"Older people take it as more of an attack on their own integrity to have someone dispute a policy."
College-age people will realize what has
happened if they receive someone else's bill by mistake, but older people do not understand computer mistakes, he said.
When they do get the right bills, it is not easy to pay.
While some people are able to save some money for their retirement years, Sanders said no one could plan ahead for inflation. Fixed incomes, such as the mortgage and food funds, are barely enough to live on.
Sanders said Social Security was raising doubts among present wage earners.
"You're paying in money now that's paying out now with the hopes there will be money coming in." Sanders said. "It's not earning enough money," he paid out to people is being paid out to them, "but you put it into."
ONE OLDER MAN has decided to do something about the situation.
"I, as an elder person, am asking you college students to help the elderly while helping yourself and future generations." Joseph Dorrent. New York resident, recently wrote to his employer.
Falkland conflict British threaten new naval assault
WASHINGTON—With the Falkland Islands dependency of South Georgia recaptured, Britain threatened yesterday to unleash its war fleet in a new assault for control of the entire South Atlantic Archipelago and to force the military scouts to get the main Falkland Islands.
By United Press International
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Several reports quoted British government sources saying that battle on the Falklands was either "imminent" or expected within a few weeks of the Ministry of Defense refused comment.
Argentina, in response, decreted Britain's "hateful aggression," and Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez threatened war unless Britain withdraws from the South Atlantic and ends "all acts of political and economic coercion."
"We demand this," he told an emergency meeting with the Organization of American States.
"But if our requests are not heeded, we are prepared to adopt the courses of action which might be necessary to take in line with the right of legitimate collective defense."
PRESIDENT REAGAN declared that time needed to settle the crisis peacefully was running out but pledged to do all he could to get Argentina and Britain to negotiate a settlement for sovereignty of the disputed territory, which lies miles east of the South American mainland.
In Buenos Aires, 50,000 people protested outside the National Palace and, for the first time since the islands were seized April 2,
denounced the military junta of President Leopez Gallieri.
2,098. He can address to a cheering parliament, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned Argentina that time was short for talks to avail full-scale war.
with the war.
Thatatcher said Britain's 40-ship fleet was nearing the Falkands and would not sit idly in the South Atlantic.
"I have to consider the safety of our boys."
the Argentines have had three weeks to withdraw their forces and to negotiate," she told the British Broadcasting Corp.
THE TIMES newspaper, quoting informed sources, reported that a small force of British troops had landed on the Falklands to seek a landing site for the main British force.
The Royal Navy Task Force already has orders allowing the land on the Falklands at sea.
Early yesterday, the Argentine commander on South Georgia surrendered to British forces who took 180 soldiers prisoner and raised the Union Jack over the island.
About 10,000 Argentine troops, backed by tanks, armored personnel carriers, mortars and mirage fighter jets, are dug in on the main islands of the Falklands.
The junta conceded that the British Armada scored "an apparent triumph" on glacier-covered South Georgia, but said they were not themselves would be much tougher to take.
At the OAS meeting, Costa Mendez vehemently charged Great Britain "with aggression and attempting to revive Islam" by asserting its control over the Falklands.
Staff Reporter
Students react to homeland crisis
By KEVIN HELLIKER
Others, however, view any military construction over the Falkland Islands as resorts.
Although the Falkland Islands are thousands of miles and a hemisphere away from Lawrence, some British and Argentine coasts are also in Kansas are practicing armchair patriotism.
"But I hate any violent action. I believe this is a domestic affair between Argentina and Britain that is going to end in diplomacy."
"I support my country's movement. I believe the Falkland Islands are historically ours," Daniel Carullo, a Tacuman, Argentina, graduate student, said yesterday.
BUT SAMINA FARIDANAL, a London graduate student, said Britain's military capture Sunday of the South Georgia Island pleased her.
"I think we needed something like that," she said. "But I'm so involved in my exams I really don't know what's going on at the Falklands."
At KU, there are about 20 British students and five Arentines.
Most of those contacted yesterday said they felt patriotic support for their country, but hoped the Falklands crisis would be resolved without a large scale war.
However, an Argentine student said his
friend should have seized the
Falklands in the war.
"I don't agree with the politics of my
country right now," said Mario Niemrivsky,
A Buenos Aires, Argentina, graduate student.
"We don't need to be looking for problems outside of our country," he said, pointing out that the inflation rate within Argentina was more than 100 percent.
NEMIROVSKY SAID he hoped the Falklands crisis would not erupt into a war, but as long as Argentina has a military alliance it is likely within or without the country, he said.
"As to whether the Falklands rightfully belong to Argentina or not, this is not the right time to decide that," he said. "First, we have to look inside our country."
A graduate student from Belfast, Northern Ireland, William Tavernor, said the Falklands crisis was unbalanced because the islands meant much more to Argentina than
Great Britain should have released the islands when it gave independence to Argentina in 1968, he said. But because it did not can hardly walk away from the islands, he said.
ALTHOUGH NO Argentinees said they wished they were at home, several British expatriates desire to share in their country's recapture of the seas. Day's recapture of the South Georgia Island.
"The British response probably couldn't have been anything other than what they've done," he said. "But I don't have any feelings of patriotism at all."
"I just think it's a very awkward and delicate situation."
BEN SIGLER/Kansan Stift
Chi-Lin Young plants peppers yesterday in a garden plot behind her apartment at Stuffer Place. The 20-by-20 foot plots are plowed and fertilized by the Housing Department. Residents need only plant seed and fill the soil. See story page 7.