Universitv Dallv Kansan, April 20, 1982
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Voting forced, speaker savs
By JANET MURPHY Staff Reporter
Even though scores of people voted in El Salvador's much-publicized elections last month, they did so only because they were forced to a spokesman for the Association of Salvadoran Women said last night.
Patricia Serpa, speaking to a_small group at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, said that all persons in El Salvador were identified with identification cards. These cards were marked when the people voted.
Workers had to show their marked cards to receive their pay, Serpa said. People were stopped by police on the streets and if they had not voted they were taken away and maybe never seen again, she said.
Serpa's speech was sponsored by Latin American Solidarity. She is on a speaking tour to organize Latin American women in this country and to teach American women about the situation in El Salvador.
SHE SAID the struggle in El Salvador for equal rights for women was much the same as that in the United States.
They want the same things, politically and economically, she said.
The majority of people in El Salvador are poor, she said. Most of the people live in the countryside and is no running water or electricity.
Women are forced to go outside their homes to work. But, she said, women made only half the wages men did for the same job.
"Women are treated as machines, as animals," she said.
She said McDonald's, one of 50 U.S. corporations in El Salvador, paid women $3 a day for work, yet she didn't believe the same as in the United States.
Women are very involved in the liberation struggle in El Salvador, Serra said. Eighty-five percent of the people belong to the opposition forces and 40 percent of those people are women, she said.
OF THE 14 states in El Salvador, seven are controlled by the opposition forces, Serpa. These
areas are mostly in the central and northern regions of the country.
Serpa said the tortue and killings go on daily in El Salvador. The army will come into an area, she said, and move in, but say they are killing guerrillas.
"That's a reality we live with every day."
She said it would be a big responsibility of the U.S. women to stop the war in El Salvador because it would be their husbands, sons and brothers who would go to fight, just as in Vietnam.
Serpa said the opposition forces were fighting to overthrow the oligarchy and the military, for they stood as the enemies of the people.
She said the people did not really want to fight, but "it's much harder to see our children die or adults put in jail than to kill," she said.
Serpa, 26, now lives in San Francisco, working for the Association for Salvadron Women. She came to the United States a few years ago as a student at UCLA and became of her work in organizing opposition forces to the junta government, she cannot return to her country.
"There is no way we can be open (in El Salvador)," she said. "We have to work outside El Salvador."
But she does travel to Central America, she said, mostly to Costa Rica, to organize support in those countries.
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Patricia Serpa, spokesman for the Association for Salvadoran Women, described last night the life women lead in El Salvador and their role in the Salvadoran revolution.
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Regents cut Med Center funds
By TOMHUTTON Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Recent budget difficulties at the University of Kansas Medical Center led the Kansas Board of Regents last week to implement more bipartisan budget cuts, Kaithe Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said yesterday.
The Regents, at a regular board meeting in Manhattan, voted to revise the Med Center's financial operations after sagging occupancy rates threw the hospital off budget. The low occupancy rates, which were blamed on inflation, high insurance premiums and the expansion of other Kansas City area hospitals, caused early projected deficits of an estimated $6 million.
THE MED CENTER will take the steps implemented by the Regents when fiscal year 1983 begins in July, Nitcher said.
The first step at the Med Center will
be to reduce the number of beds in the hospital from 640 to 540.
The second step will be to reduce staff positions throughout the Med Center. There will be 33 positions cut from building personnel, 241 from staff attendants, 52 from support services and 140 from physician corporations. Physician corporations are groups of physicians who rent space at the Med Center and are under contract for services.
In addition to the reductions, the Med Center will attempt to cut its operating budget from $113 million to $110 million. The $113 million was allocated to the Med Center by the Legislature for the 1983 budget.
"Since the revenue has continuously been less than the amount budgeted," Nitcher said, "the Med Center's budget had to be reduced in order to more
These cuts were necessary, Nichter said, because the Med Center could not continue to spend more money than had been budgeted.
accurately reflect what's going on there."
While attempting to meet budgeted finances, the Med Center froze all hiring, except for nurses, last March. The company chose of new materials also were set.
THE MED CENTER'S budget is partially funded by the Kansas Legislature and partially by patient revenues from the hospital.
These early reductions, combined with a reserve fund of $3.5 million left from faxal 1981, should reduce the Med Debt deficit to about $800,000. Niners say.
Instead of giving the Med Center more money, the Legislature advanced $1.2 million from the fiscal year 1983 to 1984. The Med Center could continue operation.
At the start of the Med Center's budget problems in early January, officials said they would not use the fund unless absolutely necessary.
Bover, top educator, to speak at KU
Scannell said he expected Boyer to talk about some of the changes and
Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be the guest speaker for the UWI School of Education in joint biocare meeting at 10 a.m. May 13 in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union
One of the top educators in the nation, as listed by U.S. News and World Report, spoke at speaking at the University of Kansas during commencement weekend.
"He's obviously one of the leading figures in education in the country," Dale Scannell, dean of the School of Education, said yesterday.
Boyer has been a strong advocate for improving education, Scannell said, and the education alumni society members thought it would be appropriate for him to address them and the general public.
Boyer holds honorary degrees from 42 U.S. colleges and universities. In 1971 he received the President's Medal from Tel-Aviv University.
issues teachers would face during the next few years.
He received his master's degree in 1960 from Greenville College, Ill., and his doctorate in 1955 from the University of Southern California.
From 1970 to 1977 Boyer was chancellor of the State University of New York, the largest university in the United States. There, he directed 64 institutions and more than 350,000 students.
BEFORE GOING to Carnegie, Boyer served as U.S. Commissioner of Education during the Carter administration. While he was commissioner, the federal budget for education increased 40 percent.
BOYER ALSO initiated a five-year review of college presidents at SUNY,
launched a non-campus institution called Empire State College and negotiated the first undergraduate exchange program with the Soviet
After Boyer speaks, the School of Education will present a slide show on its new five-year study program for the Department of Computer Science faculty members who will be retiring.
He has been a member of the President's Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs and Works, and served as Director of Language and International Education.
The retiring faculty members are Millo Skuhr, professor of educational policy and administration; Loda Newcomb, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction; Genevieve Hargiss, professor of music education; and Alvin Schild, professor of curriculum and instruction.
The Outstanding Educator Award will also be presented at the meeting.
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