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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 13, 1989
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KU nurse threatened with gun
Woman with firearm enters Med Center
By Melanie Matthes
Kansan staff writer
A woman who was identified as neither a patient nor an employee entered the University of Kansas Medical Center yesterday carrying a handkerchief and a gun.
Jack Pearson, director of KU police at the Kansas City, Kan., campus, said the woman, whose name has not been released, walked into the main lobby of the Med Center with a gun at 7:35 a.m. yesterday and approached a nurse.
He said the woman, showing the nurse a gun that was concealed beneath a handkerchief, asked her for directions to a particular unit of the hospital. The nurse replied that she did not work at the Med Center and that she would have to ask someone else.
The woman then turned around and the hospital, and the nurse identified.
The woman was arrested a few minutes later in an adjacent parking garage. Pearson said.
A subsequent psychiatric evaluation revealed that the woman needed treatment, he said.
Pearson said the woman was now being held in the psychiatric department at the Med Center but would be housed elsewhere, the state hospital in Osawatomi.
He said that the woman was in her mid-40s and that her last permanent address was in Fort Scott.
Pearson said that Med Center officials thought the woman could have been a patient there at one time but that the records were too old to determine when or what the woman was treated for.
A University Relations employee at the Med Center said exaggerated accounts of the incident indicated that the woman had held the nurse hostage for some time.
He said that the nurse was never in a hostage situation.
Pearson said the KU police department would file the case with the district attorney sometime today, and the district attorney would decide whether any charges would be filed against the woman.
Pearson would not reveal the names of the nurse or the witnesses involved.
KANU volunteers Phil Endacott and Marci Francisco receive pledges for the station's fund drive.
KANU fund drive aimed to reach $100,000 mark
By Steve Buckner Kansan staff writer
Although their fund drive has passed the halfway point in duration but not in donations, staff members at KANU remain optimistic that they will reach the station's $100.00 goal.
Marcia Cooper, membership coordinator at KANU, said that by last night the station had raised $45,200 through its week-long Fall Fanfare '89 effort which began Saturday and concludes tomorrow.
"In the past, we always have gone slowly at the start," said Debi Gilley, public information coordinator. "Thursday's, Fridays and Saturday," she said. We're hoping the same will happen this time.
"We've made our goal all of the time, except last spring when we were $20,000 short."
Cooper said, "The participation of every listener is really our goal."
Judy Keller, development director at KANU, shared Cooper's concern for listener participation.
"We have roughly 4,500 members paying for almost all of the programming," she said. "Our programming costs were $548,000 last year, and most of that comes from private support."
Gilley said the station received money from individuals, corporations and the state and federal governments. She said the more money raised from the private sector, the greater the amount the station would receive from the government.
The money raised from the campaign will be used to meet operating expenses, Gilley said. These expenses include purchasing programming from networks or syndicated services, syndicate fees for both the National and American Public Radio, new records or compact discs, and for the programs as the bi-monthly Imagination Workshop and Goodtime Radio Revue, she said.
The station pursues its campaign in two ways, Gilley said. The drive is continually mentioned over the air while volunteers work a phone bank to take calls from interested listeners, she said. Also letters requesting membership were sent to donors last month.
People who donate $0 or more are eligible for gifts from the station, Gilley said. The station also will solicit donations in the spring, she said.
She said the volunteers called only people whose memberships had lapsed to check if there had been a mistake or problem.
"We've been getting a 3-inch stack of letters each day full of pledges," Gilley said.
Marci Francisco, one of the 200 volunteers who help with the phones, envelope stuff and data entry, said her enjoyment of the station's programming helped lead her to volunteering.
"Over the years I've appreciated the local news, the music and the programs." Francisco said. "Sometimes I try to plan what I'm doing in the office so I can listen to 'All Things Considered.' It's also fun if you volunteer so you can meet the people who are just voices to you."
Public employees upset by open records ruling
By Anita Meyer Kansan staff writer
Elizabeth Banks wants to know why she, as associate professor of classics, can't have the same right to privacy as any other citizen.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, doesn't think Banks should have to give up her privacy, either.
Winter requested today that a bill be drafted to amend the Open Records Law, a bill with which Banks must comply. The law requires that all public employees' addresses must be made available to the public.
Winter asked that public employees be removed from such stipulations.
"Just because you choose to work for the state rather than the private sector doesn't mean you should have to give up your right to privacy," he said.
Winter's request is in response to an opinion released in August by Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan.
Rita Knoll, assistant attorney general and author of the opinion, said the interpretation of the Kansas Open Records Law stated that public school teachers' home or mailing addresses must be made public.
"The Open Records Law provides that public documents of public agencies be disclosed to the public," she said. "It's the attorney general's opinion that teachers fall into this category."
Although Winter said he believed that public records should be made available to the public, he said there were some exceptions.
"I don't think that just because a person is a public employee that they should have to open their door to everyone," he said. "There are some instances involving, for example, police officers or judges or even some professors, I suppose, where real danger could be involved."
David Lewin, director of personnel services, said he had informed staff members in each department of the union.
"When we first got the opinion, we
thought there would be many people who'd react as we did, not too happy about it," he said. "There have been some people who are not at all happy."
Lewin said the opinion forced the University to release all officially listed addresses. Some teachers had requested that their addresses not be listed in either the Lawrence or KU faculty directory.
Thomas Ashworth, assistant professor of trombone, said that even though he had always listed his favorite band, the one he was not happy about the opinion.
"I don't see why we should have to give out our addresses," he said. "I don't agree with the interpretation at all. Is the attorney general required to have 'my home address'? If he isn't, why are we? Not a he public servant?"
The interpretation also affects elementary and high schools.
Dan Neuwander, superintendent of the Lawrence public school system, said the Lawrence schools and universities their policy of not releasing names.
we have an agreement with the Lawrence Education Association that we will not release the list of addresses," he said. "I understand this opinion is exactly what it is — an opinion. Typically, we have our attorneys look at something like this."
Neuenswander said the Lawrence school system would accept the interpretation without a lawsuit.
"If it's something we're going to have to live with, then we might as well get on it," he said. "I don't think we're interested enough to go to court over it. It's not a big enough deal."
Lewin, however, said he would like to find a way around the opinion.
"We're examining ways we can mitigate the opinion while staying within the scope of the decision," he said. "For instance, we have to release addresses that are officially listed with us. Maybe there is a way to identify locally members can list an address other than their home address."
Winter said the bill should be prefiled within the next month.
By a Kansan reporter
Police departments to auction evidence
An evidence auction will begin at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow outside the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center, 111 11th St.
The auction, conducted by the Lawrence police and Douglas County Sheriff's departments, will feature home entertainment equipment
taken as evidence from crime scenes, said Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman.
The sale items cannot be traced to their owners because they have no serial numbers or were never registered, Mulvenon said. Money raised by the auction will be placed into the general operating funds of the two departments.
Minority Med Center students will gain a scholarly million
Kansan staff writer
By Melanie Matthes
Beginning with the 1990-91 school year, nearly $1 million in scholarship money will be given to minority medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Officials at the Wesley Foundation in Wichita, yesterday announced a $480,000 minority scholarship grant to be given to the Med Center. The grant money will be matched dollar-for-dollar with Med Center funds creating nearly $1 million in minority scholarships.
D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the grant was the result of the plans and visions of both himself and Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
"Starting as far back as when Chancellor Budig was appointed and two years later, when I began my position, there have been major concerns about under-represented
minorities in medicine," he said.
The scholarships for medical students will be given to four students per year for three years. The doctoral scholarships will be given to two students per year for two years.
The grant will provide scholarships to minorities preparing to enter or already enrolled in medical school or the doctoral degree program. These scholarships will equal $12,000 per year for each student and be available beginning in Fall 1980, he said.
cal school.
"Minority students still aren't getting a full tuition, have insufficient sizeable portion of their tuition," Clewson said.
He said that one year of medical school cost from $13,500 to $16,000 for tuition, room and board.
The Pathways Program is a summer fellowship program at the Med Center for minority high school and undergraduate students. The program helps students adjust to the rigors of medical school.
Clawson said the Med Center had initiated a number of programs, such as the Health Career Pathways Program, in response to the lack of minority representation in medi-
Clawson said the grant also would provide 20 additional Pathways fellowships that would be awarded for three consecutive years beginning in Summer 1990. The fellowships will include an $80 stipend to the recipients for two months.
The Med Center's biggest problem in attracting and retaining minorities was because the Med Center did not offer minority scholarships, Clawson said.
In the past, there have not been scholarships specifically for minority students at the Med Center. Because of available funds, he said, the Med Center had been able to give one or two scholarships a year to minority students, but none had been equal in size to
the scholarships that will be provided by the grant.
Duane Dyer, president of the Wesley Foundation, said that the foundation's purpose was to address the needs of health care in Kansas in the form of privately funded grants. One of those needs is increasing the number of minorities in medicine.
The Foundation has been discussing a minority scholarship program with KU for about a year and decided to accept KU's grant proposal last month, Dyer said. The Foundation did not announce the grant until yesterday because they were working out some details with the Med Center.
"Many qualified minorities are being bungled out by other schools because KU does not have a minority scholarship program." I believe that they end up practicing outside of Kansas."
Medical students who receive scholarships will be required to attend the Med Center in
Kansas City or Wichita for the clinical phase of their education. They also will be required to practice medicine in Kansas for three years after graduation.
Clawson said that, in this way, the scholarship program was modeled after the Rural Scholarship Program because that program required recipients to practice medicine in medically underserved, rural Kansas towns after graduation.
Dyer said that the ratio of minorities in medicine to the minority population was very
He said that in Sedgwick County, which includes the Wichita area and has a population of about 400,000, there are three Black doctors serving 48,000 patients.
"This does not mean that all Black people want a Black doctor," Dyer said. "There are white people who go to Black doctors, but it is a portion of the community that is definitely underserved."
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