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University Daily Kansan, November 23, 1981
Profs claim nurses should be assertive
By JoLYNNE WALZ Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-Because nurses are usually women, and women have not traditionally engaged in politics, they have to learn to use power to gain greater pay and prestige, two speakers said Friday at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Philip and Beatrice Kallsch,
visiting professors from the
University of Minnesota, where they
have spent 10 years studying the
history and politics of nursing, were
keynote speakers during the second
day of a two-day nursing seminar,
attended by about 200 nurses.
"Everyone says if nurses ever get mobilized, watch out," Philip Kalisch said.
ONCE WOMEN and nurses have learned to use power, he said, they should assert it in all aspects of work, on the job and in government.
"Florence Nightingale is a good example of a strong powerful nurse, a political nurse," he said. "She was largely responsible for making nursing a respectable profession and having a reputation as a wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, over the objections of the medical establishment."
Nurses should become involved in government, he said, because if they don't, they are merely supporting the unpaid pay and low prestige for nurses.
Political activity can range all the way from wearing a campaign button to attending a political rally or running for office, he said.
"Nurses find that voters relate more readily to them and they have an easier time getting elected than physicians do," he said. "People see them as fellow members of the working class.
BEATRICE KALISCH explained that getting involved in politics was
getting involved in who gets what and how they get it.
"All politics involve a struggle for power," she said, adding that there were many verbal and nonverbal ways in which people assert power.
- Terms of address. "The person with less power uses terms of respect. It's Dr. So-and-so, but the nurse is called by her first name."
- The manipulation of silence. “It’s usually the most powerful who decides when silence will occur. You can bet that the less powerful do not interrupt the more powerful, and the more powerful do interrupt the less powerful.
- Speech style. "The less powerful person tends to express hesitancy and self-doubt. I may not know anything about this but . . ."
- Degree of self-disclosure.
"Information can be a power base."
- The use of laughter. "Laughter tends to be directed downward to the less powerful."
- The non-verbal ways include:
- Territory. "Nurses many times are confined to a nursing unit, for obvious reasons, and doctors are free to move around."
- Time. "There's ritual waiting many times that physicians use. You have to have an appointment."
- Posture. "Studies have shown that it always helps to be taller."
- Touch. "Doctors can and do touch nurses, but nurses do not reach out and touch physicians."
- Eye contact. "An example is how frustrated you feel when someone has mirrored sunglasses and can see you, but you can't see them."
- Facial expression. "Crying, for example."
Women in our society have traditionally shown themselves to be less powerful in all these verbal and other ways, Beatrice Kallsch said.
But nurses and women, she said,
should learn how to use power and not be afraid of it.
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Demonstrators claim Iranian spies at KU
By PENNI CRABTREE Staff Writer
Chanting "Khomeini's agents out of KU," $ Iranian Student Association supporters marched through downtown Lawrence Saturday to protest the Khomeini regime and its Lawrence student.
According to a spokesman for the ISA-sponsored demonstration, the protest was staged to bring attention to accusations that members of the KU Student Association (Persian Speaking Group) were spying on fellow KU Iranian students.
AZEDI SAID THAT he and other ISA supporters presented several documents to Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, last Friday, supporting ISA accusations against members of the MSA (PSG).
"We want the University to know that the MSA (PSG) has created an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and rage among Iranian students." Shahrokh Azedi, an ISA spokesman, said Saturday. "Many of us don't feel we can get an education here. We have trouble concentrating on our studies."
Among the documents presented were:
MSA (PSG) members could not be reached for comment.
- A letter circulated by the Islamic Republic Party headquarters in Iran to several MSA (PSG) university groups requesting MSA (PSG) members to report anti-Khomeini activities on their campuses.
- A letter by MSA (PSG) supporters at Kansas State University that said the KSU group was collecting evidence of anti-Khonei activities on campus and sending it to Islamic Republic headquarters.
- A photograph that Azedi said showed KU MSA (PSG) members taking pictures of anti-Khomeliine outside the Kansas Union.
Cobb said that statement also applied to Iranian students.
THE UNIVERSITY recently released a statement answering several Taiwanese faculty and students who accused other Taiwanese students
"The statement we released in answer to the Taiwanese problem applies to all foreign student groups," Cobb said.
In the University statement, Cobb said that any employee, faculty member or student, who engaged in activities "designed to disrupt the normal and ordinary process of education," could be suspended.
Regents pass $25 fee for new hall applicants
By LISA MASSOTH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - The Kansas Board o.
Regents Friday approved a $2 nonrefundable fee for all new applicants for a residence hall contract.
The fee is a one-time charge, which applies only to students new to the residence hall system. It is to pay for the over processing of hall applications.
"It will guarantee that their housing preferences receive priority," said Keith Nichter, KU director of business and fiscal affairs. "It enables the University of Kansas to match students' interests better."
THE ANNUAL COST of processing the applications will be $80,000. Nitcher said. This will include student help, use and training students and informational brochures.
Regent Giee Smith said the resiency requirement for welfare purposes, voting purposes and divorce cases was limited. He also said that the present requirement made sense.
THEERE IS SOME legislative opposition to reducing the time required for residence because it would mean a much money from out-of-state students.
The Regents also voted to have someone in the Kansas Legislature introduce legislation during the 1982 session to reduce the requirement for Kansas residency from 12 months to six months for tuition purposes.
A similar bill was almost passed two years ago, but it did not make it through the Legislature.
The housing department anticipates collecting about $75,000 each year from the new fee, Nicher said, and the ad revenue will come all will come from the housing department.
The Regents also voted to have someone introduce legislation to expand the jurisdiction of police and public police in areas adjacent to university property.
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