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KANSAN
Tuesday, March 23, 1982
Vol. 92, No. 117 USPS 650-640
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Altered 1983 budget disgruntles parking board
By ANN WYLIE
Staff Reporter
Members of the University Senate executive committee are confused and disturbed about surprise changes in next year's Parking Services budget, a committee member said yesterday.
The changes will keep the Parking and
student campus from decreasing campus permit
prices as hard as possible.
"No one ever informed anyone else that it was changed," Laurence Ross, committee member
SenEx approved the fiscal year 1982 budget in spring 1981, Tom Mulinazzi, Parking and Traffic Board chairman and associate professor of civil engineering, said at a recent SenEx meeting.
BUT KEETT NITCHER, University director of business affairs, and Rodger Oroke, University director of support services and facilities to revise its budget and take on extra expenses.
The changes were an attempt to separate the parking budget from other budgets, such as the KU police department and facilities operations budgets, Orkue said.
The original fiscal year 1983 budget called for receiving $78,760 and spending $752,000.
The revised budget calls for receiving $778,000 and spending $838,290.
Parking Services expects to have $232,270 left from the 1982 budget, but members say the budget still will not be big enough to allow cuts in permit prices.
THE BUDGET changes forced Parking Services to assume extra expenses, but gave it
As a result, Parking Services will not be able to
charge the $15 per bus by each, as it had
planned, he said.
we were really excited because we wanted to be first parking board to go down on parking perimeter.
"But we got the things that will cost us money, and we didn't get the things that will take away money."
SenEx members said they had not heard of the order to revise the budget.
This is a surprise to us," Ernest Anglo,
SenEx chairman and professor of geology and
civil engineering, said.
"I don't think (the budget decision) is going to
Yes, they do, according to Martin Jones,
associate director of business affairs.
administrators have the authority to change a budget after Senate approves it."
AFTER SENEX EXE pass a budget, it goes to the
budget. It can also make changes and
must approve the budget.
Rose said that if the administration could change governance decisions without telling SenEx members, then the University of Kansas had no real need for governance bodies.
"If the University wants to be the Parking and Traffic Board then fine," he said. "But let's not."
Oroke said he thought the budget changes were not handled well.
"There probably won't a proper explanation, about the changes when the budget was reviewed
SenEx decided to tell administrators, including Chancellor Gene A. Budig, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, and Nitcher, about the vice surrounding the Parking Services budget.
"Every decision except one either took away money or increased costs," Mulnazai said.
The exception called for the KU police
department to take over the salary of one of Parking Services secretaries because she worked more directly for the police department, Mulinazzi said.
BUT THE BOARD had suggested other budget changes that would have saved Parking Services
One was shifting half the salary of Don Kearns, Parking Services director, to the School of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., because he works for campus too.
That request, which would have saved Parking Services $15,000 was denied.
The board also suggested income-producing steps, such as increasing football and basketball parking fees, which would have made $40,000 for the team. In these cases were also denied, Mulinazzi said.
In addition, Parking Services had to assume the additional cost of lot maintenance, $50,000, which in the past, had been paid by facilities operations, Mulniazai said.
"That was another surorise." he said.
Parking Services also will have to pay salaries of campus control guards next year, a $50,000 expense, Mulinazzi said, because the guards have parking-oriented duties.
**SENEX MEMBERS** said they were disappointed that the budget changes would keep the plans on track.
"The reduction of parking fees would have been a welcome relief." Anzino said.
George Worth, ex-officio member of SenEx and professor of English, said he thought the reduction would have improved University morale.
"There are so many things to grouse about," said. "If there's one thing you can't grouse about, it's you."
Parking-permit prices may not be the worst part of the budget change, however.
The change is really only a symptom of a deeper problem the administration's attitude towards it.
"They look at funds from parking as an unlimited source of money," he said.
"They think that if your budget is x number of dollars, you write n number of tickets. If your budget is $b, you write n tickets."
"That's wrong. We're not a bottomless well."
"I don't think the administration thinks Parking Services is a fat cat," he said.
well.
Kearns disagreed.
Lauren Gaebe, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and member of the KU women's soccer team, practices with the team coach, Andres Soto. The soccer team will play the University of Missouri Saturday at 2 p.m. on the field at 23rd and Iowa streets.
Whistle takes dav off
Staff Reporter
By LISA GUTIERREZ
Staff Reporter
Like many KU students, the whistle that signals the end of classes decided to blow off the pressure.
But facilities operations personnel caught the class-skipping whistle in the act, and the resonant timekeeper blacked back to life yesterday at 3:20 p.m.
"Someone just threw the wrong switch!" Harry Buchholz, supervisor of the facilities operations electrical shop, said yesterday. The office van was parked outside on and off are found in the electrical shop.
The whistle's extended vacation was the result of sigh-of-the-hand, so to speak.
"It doesn't happen very often," he said, referring to the manual mistake. "In fact, this
ROBERT PORTER, associate director of the physical plant, said that the absence of the whistle in the morning and early afternoon should have been noticed sooner than it was.
"It's an oversight that shouldn't have happened more than one whistle." he said.
"Sometimes I have to call the electrical shop to see if blew." he said.
Porter was one of these people.
"You either hear it or you don't hear it."
No one heard the seven-second toots at 20 minutes after each hour Monday until electrical personnel flipped the right switch to allow the stubble to blow off a little steam.
Many people on campus have become so accustomed to hearing the whistle, however, that they take for granted that it has blown—even when it has not.
The whistle last blew at 5:20 p.m. Friday, March 12, before joining the rest of the campus
"It should've been turned back on prior to 7:20 a.m.", Porter said. "But apparently a new person threw the wrong switch."
Florescent red numbers in the box designated the day, and the hour, minutes and seconds of the day, and quietly ate away time like a digital alarm clock zone mad.
On the wall of the electrical shop hung a large, white box that announced in bold letters that a Simplex Master Time System was silently at work.
ALTHOUGH THE whistle missed seven blasts, Porter demonstrated the accuracy of the clock that guides the whistle to within one second of the explosion. The accuracy of Naval Standard Time at F Fort Collins, Colo.
Porter unlocked a small cabinet underneath the box and began adjusting the knobs of a short-wave radio. The radio synchronizes the whistle's clock with those in Fort Collins.
"At the tone, it will be 20 hours, 34 minutes," a Rod Sledling-like voice said over the crackle of the piano.
THE RADIO ticked off the remaining seconds of the 33rd minute and then a tone marked the end.
The whistle's red clock missed the time by only one second.
"I sure did notice," said J. W. Drury, professor of political science, "I just looked at my watch on the clock."
The whistle may have been accurate in hourly time, but it still missed its first blast after spring bloom.
Many noticed, and a few on campus were slightly steamed up about the absent whistle.
"At least once every 30 days, we set the clock with the radio station. Porter said, 'It's as simple as this. Just keep it on."
COOL
Weather
Werner Morse, assistant professor of
SE WHINTEY LEAGE 5
It will be partly cloudy today with temperatures in the upper 50s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the south to southwest from 10 to 20 miles per hour.
The low tonight will be in the 30s. It will be fair tomorrow with the high in the upper 50s.
Med Center recruits nurses
Temperatures for the rest of the week will be in the 50s.
BvTOMHUTTON
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—An advertising campaign to help alleviate the nursing shortage at the University of Kansas Medical Center is nearly complete, a nursing official said recently.
The initial phase of the campaign, which used radio advertisements on five greater Kansas City radios stations, was designed to lessen the effect of a nationwide nursing shortage on the Med Center, Mary Ann Eisenbee, director of nursing services, said.
Staff Reporter
Nursing vacancies last year in the United States totaled 100,000, according to the National Association of Nurse Recruiters. This shortage has caused a time-position vacancies at an average hospital.
"THE TIMING is such that conducting a campaign is better now than last fall because a greater amount of your pool of resources is being graduated from the various schools this May," Carol Theis, assistant director of nurse recruitment, said.
The areas where nurses are needed are in general nursing, pediatrics, psychology and in the intensive care unit, Karin Williamson, associate director for nursing services, said.
The cost of the four weeks of radio advertising was about $15,000.
"We're also looking ahead because we know that a certain amount of nurses leave-there turnover," Elseneer said. "We hope to take care of that with the program also."
received about 30 calls daily from nurses interested in a position.
The Med Center offers numerous advantages for nurses, Williamson said.
"The thing that sets the Med Center apart from other hospitals is the University environment," Williams said. "Working in an environment of learning are always going on in the difference."
The Med Center is seeking to fill about 70 full-time registered nurse positions, however, the Med Center has not set a limit on the number of nurses it can hire. Eisenbee said.
The response to the campaign has been good, Thies said. Last week, she said, the Med Center
THE STARTING WAGE for a recent nursing school graduate, with either a bachelor's degree in nursing or an associate degree, is $7.89 hour. Williamson said this wage is competitive with other Kansas City area hospitals, she said, and is not cause of the nursing shortage at the Med Center.
Besides the radio advertisements, the Med Center sponsored a dinner for senior nursing students Wednesday night. More than 70 students attended the dinner. Eisenbee said.
The intensive care and surgical units also have been conducting their own recruiting drives on campus.
"We didn't use any high pressure sales tactics on our students." Eisenbauer said. "We just told them we'd love to keep them on and that we had snacks for them."
THE MED CENTER also hopes to recruit more nurses through a training program for nurses who have not practiced recently. The program is designed to bring the nurse who has not recently worked in a hospital up-to-date on the newest techniques and equipment.
The program, which is offered to all nurses who are thinking of re-eniting the nursing field, has a special advantage for those nurses who decide to work for the Med Center.
"If they decide to work here at the Med Center, they will be the training program is deferred to the hospital."
A nursing expedition this Saturday is another attempt by the Med Center to attract more nurses.
Staff Reporter
Birth control given illegally to minors, lobbyist testifies
Testifying before the House Committee on Public Health and Welfare, DeWitt accused clinics such as Planned Parenthood of violating the state Pharmacy Act by allowing nurses to dispense contraceptives to clients, including minors.
By KEVIN HELLIKER Staff Reporter
"The Health Department is well aware that family planning clinics are breaking the law by providing contraceptives to our minor children without parental consent, and by dispensing those birth control pills to other patients," DeWitt said.
In an opinion issued last August, Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan determined that it was illegal under the Pharmacy Act for nurses to act as pharmacists.
DeWITT, A NURSE, urged the committee to scratch an amendment on a Senate-backed bill that would allow nurses in the state to dispense medication.
TOPEKA—Family planning clinics across the state illegally issue contraceptives to minors, Helen DeWitt, a lobbyist for the Right to Life of Kansas, said yesterday.
But Twila Heilrich, director of a family planning clinic in City, said that killing children could be detrimental.
"Our records show that 35 percent of our family planning clients are at or below poverty level," she said. "If low-cost clinics such as ours are no longer available to the low-income people, hardships will result, including unwanted pregnancies, neglected and abused children, broken families and an increase in our head-of-household welfare families."
ALTHOUGH STUDIES indicated that minors needed confidential access to oral contraceptives, the Dodge City clinic did not provide the oils without parental consent, Helfrich said.
Kay Kent, a Lawrence resident who is president of Kansas Association of Lawyers and Department of Justice.
amendment all public health services would suffer an increase in cost and decrease in ser-
Kent said that if nurses were not allowed to act as pharmacists, public health departments would have to hire either in-house pharmacists or licensed pharmacists, who legally can dispense medication.
"Some patients will go without treatment if health departments stop dispensing medications because they will not be able to afford the medication from pharmacists," Kent said.
"There is no provision of the Pharmacy Act which allows a physician to delegate the authority to dispense drugs," Stephan said in his opinion.
Although the debate yesterday largely centered on family planning clinics, the issue of nurses acting as pharmacists initially surfaced in some towns in western Kansas lacked pharmacies.
MANY PHYSICIANS in these town stocks their own medication, but delegate the dispensing of drugs to nurses. However, the attorney general last year determined this practice was
BUT WILLARD KAUFMAN, a physician from Moudridge, said his nurses had been dispensing drugs for more than 20 years. There is no problem with that, said, and not enough business to support one.
When accused by DeWitt of blatantly breaking the law, Kaufman responded: "We're operating under the law."
Hugh Cotton, associate dean of the KU School of Pharmacy, said that when discussion continued today between pharmacists and doctors scheduled to speak in Topeka, a compromise probably would be reached that would allow them to practice pharmacy medicine only in towns without pharmacies.
"We don't think it' s in the best interest of the state for nurses to dispense drugs." Cotton said. "I am happening now is that nurses in these towns are already are dispensing drugs, and that's illegal."