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Tuesday, September 12, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
ATTENTION
APPROXIMATELY 2000 NEW STUDENTS HAVE FAILED TO DOCUMENT THEIR IMMUNIZATIONS WITH WATKINS HEALTH CENTER.
ALL NEW STUDENTS* ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTATION OF THE MANDATORY IMMUNIZATIONS WITH STUDENT HEALTH BY SEPTEMBER 15,1989.
FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN A HOLD PLACED ON THE STUDENT'S RECORD AND THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO ENROLL FOR THE SPRING SEMESTER.
MANDATORY IMMUNIZATIONS
$\Rightarrow$ MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) -received after 12 months of age
Tetanus-Diphtheria -booster within last 10 years
∞ Polio
- basic series (usually completed prior to entry into elementary school)
IMMUNIZATIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT WATKINS HEALTH CENTER ON A WALK-IN BASIS: MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8 A.M.-4:30 P.M.
- Students born before 1958 are exempt.
State fines four nursing homes
Nursing homes in Lawrence and Ottawa are among four in Kansas being a total of $10,100 for violations of state laws.
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, 1421 Kasold Drive, was finned $1,700, according to Kansas Department of Health and Environment documents. The documents stated that the facility has standards for nursing services, pharmacy services, dietetic services and residents' rights.
Ottawa Retirement Village was fined $1,200 for failing to meet standards for nursing services, dietetic rights, and rights, according to the documents.
The documents stated that the Ottawa facility had paid the fine.
Phillip Levi, administrator of Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, said the Lawrence facility had not yet paid its fines but would soon.
Levi said he would not appeal the fines because the violations did exist. But he said the violations did not reflect problems in the care given by the Presbyterian Manor, but rather gaps in documenting that care.
"I'm embarrassed as hell," Levi said. "But I'm also guilty."
He said the violations had been corrected.
"We provide awfully, good care here at this manor." Levi said. "We did it before, during and after those inspections."
Lawrence Presbyterian Manor was reported in the documents to have committed five types of violations:
Residents were physically restrained without the proper order of a physician. Some residents were reportedly tied to wheelchairs.
Staff failed to keep proper records of the health and medication of patients. In one case, a patient was on new medication for eight days with no nursing record.
> Residents fed intravenously did not receive proper care. One resident did not receive enough calories in his diet, and some residents had feeding tubes hung without the resident's name or rate and time of feeding displayed on the food container.
Drugs were not promptly administered after being prescribed by physicians.
▶ Some kitchen facilities needed cleaning, and some residents were not served meals that fit the diets prescribed by their physicians.
Violations by the Ottawa Retirement Village included improperly restraining residents, failing to prompt clean residents after they soiled themselves and improperly substituting ingredients in pureed diets, according to the documents.
Medicaledge West, a Coffeyille nursing home, was fined $5,000 for failing to meet standards for nursing services, infection control and residents' rights.
Campus recycling proposal formed
By Chris Evans Kansan staff writer
Members of Environs met with a local recycler this weekend to prepare a proposal that, if approved, would establish a program of aluminum recycling at the University of Kansas.
Dierdre Goldfarb, Frankfort junior, and Mary Jane McCool, St. Louis junior, both of Enviros, and Kirk Devine, co-owner of River City Recycling Co., 71E. Ninth St., met to formulate the proposal.
Environs is a student environmental group.
The proposal that emerged would start out simple, Goldfarb said, and grow with time.
"We want to have a pilot program, just aluminum to start with," she said. "Hopefully, by second semester, we'll add gloss and newsnauer."
Devine said they would ask the University to provide containers in certain buildings on campus such as Wescoe Hall and the Kansas and Burge unions. River City Recycling would take it from there.
"We're not asking University employees to get involved at this point," Devine said. "The collecting of aluminum at maybe five different locations per building is really pretty simple. The only thing we really need at this point is permission."
Members of Environs will help organize a six-month task force to look into the problems and possibilities of recycling at KU, Goldfarb said. With this task force, she said, the program could be expanded to a University-wide level.
Devine said University assistance would be requested as the program expanded.
Goldfarb said she hoped recycling could be implemented in all KU buildings, including residence halls, by August 1990.
Devine said that he was not sure whether KU officials would accept the plan, but that he was optimistic about the possibility.
"I'm guardedly hopeful," he said. "I feel like it's only a matter of time before the University accepts. It's such a good idea."
Pot smoker's lawyer fights bond conditions
By a Kansan reporter
Mark Creamer, 312 Indiana St., was charged with possession of an illegal substance last week and was released, on his own recognizance. Conditions of the release require Creamer to report to the Douglas County
Citizens Committee on Alcoholism and stipulates that he cannot use alcohol or drugs, Creamer said. Creamer also must submit to random urinalysis tests as part of the bond.
A Douglas County judge granted a continuance yesterday in the preliminary hearing for a man who smoked a marijuana cigarette Sept. 5 in the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center to protest President Bush's drug enforcement program.
The continuance was requested by the district attorney's office because drug tests on Creamer had not yet been returned from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratories, said Rick Trapp, assistant district attorney.
Jerry Harper, Creamer's attorney, asked the court to change the bond's conditions because the urine tests could detect recreational drugs for up to a month after use.
Requirements for purchasing Apple Computer equipment from the KU Bookstores
Only currently enrolled Full-Time Students, Faculty and Staff of the University of Kansas qualify to buy Apple Computer Equipment.
Every customer must show a valid student, faculty or staff KUID.
A student is considered full-time if he/she is enrolled in 12 or more hours of undergraduate or graduate course work. The student must go to the enrollment center on the day he/she plans to purchase the computer equipment and get a copy of his/her schedule dated on the day of the purchase.
For graduate students holding university appointments the full-time criteria can be fulfilled in the following way:
75% appointment and enrollment in 3 hours
50% appointment and enrollment in 6 hours
25% appointment and enrollment in 9 hours
These graduate students must, in addition to showing their class schedule, provide a letter from the head of their department stating that they hold such appointments and what percentage they hold.
Faculty and staff must provide a letter from the head of their department stating that they hold a full-time faculty or staff appointment and that they are to use the computer equipment for educational or research purposes. Administrators must provide a letter verifying their full-time appointment from the vice chancellor's office.
Computers sales are limited to one computer or one accessory per customer per two year period.
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