Page 6 University Daily Kansan, February 22, 1982
Diaper, liquor found after game
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
The final buzzer sounded. Few wanted to stay around for very long.
As the pep band played a mournful "Home on the Range," more than 15,000 spectators made their way to the Allen Field House exits.
Abraham Wildcats won the Kansas State Wildcats had won the Saturday afternoon contest on the court.
But as the fans made their way home, they left behind much more than just the echo of their last-minute efforts to scream their team on to an unrealized
Someone had left a baby diaper in the crow's nest, the upper-most seating section in the house.
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Someone else had left behind an empty Windosr Supreme Canadian Whisky bottle in section seven.
Blue streamers from stick pompons lay lifeless on the floor of the arena.
Eighteen people stayed to pick up the pieces, to clean the arena, as they do after every home basketball game.
"They do a bell of a job," said Norm Stuart, facilities operations supervisor for the athletic department.
"We've never had a team or anyone else come in here and tell us that the place was dirty," he said.
Work for Stuart's crew begins even before the last fan has left.
saturday's clean-up was a lesson in efficiency, although the K-State basketball game "is always the dirtiest." Stuart said.
The first things to go were the tables and chairs used by the scorers and teams on the west side of the field house.
As workers grabbed chairs and piled them on a small lift truck, others climbed under the student bleachers on the north end of the floor, collecting newspapers that had been dropped between the bleachers.
There were dozens of University Daily Kansan pages and one page from the Wall Street Journal.
Suddenly, a CLACK, CLACK,
CLACK, CLACK, CLACK punched at
the steadily growing silence in the field
where the bleacher were folded against
us.
Above, workers wearing trash bags in their belt loops climbed to the top seats and began picking up the heavier items left behind-plastic cups, M&M boxes, popcorn boxes, empty and filled paper Coke cups and hot fodd log
One worker filled a trash bag, tied it up and expertly rolled it down four flights of stairs to the landing below.
"We probably used a case of bags today," Stuart said. "There's 100 bags in a case."
As the workers made their way down toward the lower seats, five men with Buck Rogers-like backpacks appeared near the entrance to the silence of the field house was broken.
A steady hum filled the arena as the men with the "blowers" walked along each row and blew the smaller debris down to the landings.
Popcorn kernels and dust flew into the air and danced in the sunlight streaming in from the windows.
The other workers continued their stooping and lifting process below.
On the floor, the small rear of a sweeper, the same one used on the football field, reminded the reporters remaining in the press room and at the press table that time was running out for them.
The noise of the sweeper did not hamper Steve Physioc, a sportscaster
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for Channel 13 television station in Topeka, as he interviewed Jack Hartman, KState basketball coach, on the southeast end of the court.
Inside the upper arena sections, workers with push brombs, including members of the women's track and golf teams, methodically swept the area around the concession stands and pushed dirt to the section entrances.
"All the work is done by sections." Stuart said. There are 22 sections in the field house.
"After it's all blown down, it's picked up by sections."
uply sections.
What is thrown out is debris. But some of the things found by the workers can be valuable.
caribe reliable.
"I found a watch once," Frank Norman, Lawrence senior, said.
norman said the watch was a $9 Timex pocket watch. He turned it in to
"A lot of people come in and ask about things." Norman said.
the ticket office, which is the procedure followed by all workers who find valuable articles left behind.
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In the past, they have found sunglasses, Hot Wheels cars, sweatshirts, gloves, keys, umbrellas, and whiskey bottles—opened and unopened.
"We find all kinds of personal stuff," said J.B. Roy, Lawrence sophomore. "There are a lot of people who could lose a lot of things."
Keith Davis, a full-time employee of the athletic department, said he once
Money left behind isn't what it used to be, according to Stuart.
found a 22-carat gold wedding ring and a 14-carat gold fraternity ring.
"We don't find much money anymore," he said. "Three or four years ago you found a lot more."
"I turned them in," he said.
Mike Stuart, a full-time employee of the athletic department, pulled off his navy blue Nike and looked inside it.
I brought his孝堂 today, he said.
But D.W. Acker, Lawrence special student, said he found $10 after the Kentucky game.
"It was in coins and bills. I find money in the bleachers and on the court," said Acker, who pushes the blue broom across the basketball floor before and during the basketball games.
Besides leaving uneaten popcorn on the floor and in the popcorn machine in the press room, the press covering each game leaves behind pencils and pens.
Kenny Long, a systems technician with Southwestern Bell, pulled a red and a black marking pen from his shirt pocket.
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"I find pens and throw them into the press room," he said, referring to pens left on the table press.
"That way there's always pencils in there."
An then there are the whiskey bottles. "We found about a half bag of whiskey bottles today." Davis said
whiskey bottles today, but it's sad.
He said they usually didn't pick up more than a bag full of bottles.
But what the workers do pick up takes only three hours to do. Saturday they worked quickly.
The game ended at about 4 p.m. By 6, the arena was dark and silent.
"When we leave here it's just like it was when you walked in," Stuart said.
Skin donations from dead help burn patients survive
KANSA *CITY*, Kan.- The ability to save is necessary to be able to do it.
By TOMHUTTON Staff Reporter
Mani M. Mani, Burn Center director at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said Friday that a kidney was saved by donating skin after death.
Mani directs the skin donation clinic at the Med Center in connection with his work with burn patients. Human skin, willed to the Med Center after death, is used by Mari to treat severe burns.
Patients **who** have third-degree
burns can receive skin donations in
the form of surgeries for sun
"WHEN A SEVERE BURN occurs, the victim loses his primary protection. Mali said "Without a serious illness grow and multiply, causing infection."
Donated skin, which is placed over
the burned area, is a living
remnant of the burn.
"The most important asset of this procedure is the time it buys time for the Manage
Skin donations differ from other organ donations such as kidneys, because the patient does not actually take the skin into his body, Mani said. There are no problems with skin in the system, but skin is removed after a short period.
The storage technique for skin, far different from simple freezing, allows the skin to be preserved at minus 79 degrees without killing the
"Cells at that temperature would expand and burst, ruining the use of the skin," Mani said. "We must use cells with no stress to keep the cells from expanding."
Although the Med Center has the capability to store skin indefinitely, Mari said, it has been rarely used.
The Burn Center had about 65 prime candidates for skin donations last year. However, only about 10 patients, most of whom were children, actually received donations.
donations.
"It's just a case of non-availability." Man said.
The Med Center is the only hospital in the Kansas City area that accepts skin donations. But the
amounts received are not nearly enough, Mani said.
"TECHNICALLY, WE can take skin from any part of the body, but what we're really interested in is the large sheets of skin," Mani said.
Mani said that the initial shock of a family member's death often blurred the reasoning process of the survivors.
“Our luck in procuring skin is still bad,” Mani said. “It seems like everyone, even some physicians, have strong prejudices against it. We need to prepare for this kind of thing, and it just goes against the grain.”
"The most frequent response we get when we request a skin donation is 'He has already suffered enough,' " Mani said. "That's preposterous, how can someone who is dead suffer anymore?"
The State of Kansas provides a method to ease the decision that a family must make in deciding to donate organs. On the back of every driver's license is a space where can be signed over in cast of death.
Although the document is not valid after the holder is dead, Mari said, it makes the process easier for the family.
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