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Friday, November 10, 1978
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Emotional protest
This person, who preferred to remain unidentified, was one of 30 protesters who demonstrated in front of Municipal Auditorium
during President Carter's visit to Kansas City, Mo., yesterday. She would say only that she was "trying for the country." For President Obama, it was a good sign.
Residence hall increases lowered to ease inflation
By LOR1LINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas residence hall rate plans for next year have been changed for the third time this semester, this time in order to comply with President Carter's voluntary wage and price control guidelines announced Oct. 27.
The basic rate increase of $80 for a double room is equivalent to a 6.22 percent increase over the current basic rate of $1,285.
The 6.22 percent increase follows the guidelines set by Carter, which are designed to keep the inflation rate next year between 6 and 7 percent.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes made the change in the rate structure. He decreased single and double room rates by $b$ to make
The rates for next year had been increased Oct. 13, by the contracts committee of the Association of University Residence Centers.
THIS RECOMMENDATION was presented to the Residential Programming Advisory Board, which decreased the change in rates to $1,370 for a double room and $1,900 for a single room. The advisory board is composed of KU and housing ad-
rive changes made in the proposal by the advisory board were presented to David Ambler, vice chairperson for student affairs, and James W. Stark, chairperson.
That change represented an increase of 6.61 percent for double rooms and 12.1 percent for single rooms.
Dykes said the University wanted to comply with Carter's limits on price increases and further reduced the rate increases.
"WHEN THE University administrators reviewed the proposal, we felt we had to pull the rates down to keep them within the federal government's wage and price control guidelines," he said.
The $'s reduction in the increased basic rates—from $1,370 to $1,365 for double rooms and from $1,900 to $1,858 for single rooms—equals the amount each student contracting for a room at The University of New York keeps in place when new health walls open next year during University breaks.
Fred McElhene, the director of the office of residential programs, said yesterday that a new method would have to be used to pay for keeping residence halls open during vacations if the University decided to continue that program next year.
THIS YEAR, all residence halls, except GSP and Corin, will remain open during Thanksgiving vacation as an experiment. The costs will be absorbed by the housing system, McElhenie said.
Brittan said he thought residents interested in staying in their rooms during the vacation next year would have to pay a nightly charge for the service, if the office of residential programs and AUHR agreed to offer the newram.
The proposal for residence hull rate increases will be presented to the Kansas Board of Regents later this month, McElhene
The rate increases will affect about 4,700 students, or slightly more than 20 percent of the student body.
McElennie said residence hall rates were increased primarily because of inflation.
ALSO INCLUDED in the rate increase proposal is the recommendation to limit the percentage of rooms used as single rooms to 12 percent. This year, the ceiling on spaces used as single rooms is 30 percent.
In addition, the proposal recommends that the conversion of double rooms to single rooms in GSP and Corbin shall be disconti-
McEhlenie said there had not been sufficient demand from women living in the two halls to continue using double rooms as
Carlin support expected
Staff Renorter
By CAROLINE TROWBRIDGE
Governor-elect John Carlin's philosophy about higher education in Kansas will not differ much from that of Gov. Robert F. Ford, governor of the two largest Kansas universities.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said very recently he has been very supportive of higher education. Mr. Carlin was supportive of higher education when he was speaker of the House.
"I don't see any problems with Mr. Carlin's election. I'm sure Mr. Carlin will win."
Duane C. Acker, president of Kansas State University, also said he thought Carlin was the best candidate.
"JOHN CARLIN is a fine person with excellent experience in state government."
sars," Acker said. "I think he makes what a good governor — one who is concerned with the environment."
Carlin is a 1962 graduate of K-State. His campaigned campaign, Kansas for John Carlin, placed the following advertisement in the Oct. 20 issue of the K-State student
"For the first time in Kansas history,
ease a KState govorator. vote for John
Acker said he did not think Carlin would favor K-State over other state institutions.
"I think someone in the governor's position must do all he can for all universities," Acker said. "I think Carlin will do the best he can for all of us."
Dykes said he thought Carlin would support all the state schools in their bid to stay in New York.
"I THINK he will look with favor upon formula funding." Dykes said. "In the
comments I have heard him make, he has been very supportive of formula funding.
"I think Mr. Carlin will be fair to all institutions, just as Governor Bennett has
Formula funding is a new concept to bring KU and each of the five other Kansas Board institutions into compliance with their peer institutions. A request to approve this funding method has been included in KU's fiscal 1980 budget request, which was sent before sending it to the Legislature next year.
Dykes and Carlin's election would delay the governor's budget hearings. Hearings on the budget were to begin late this month. Gov. John Kasich will be joined by James Bibb, director of the state budget.
However, state law dictates that the incoming governor review the budget requests, so public hearings will be delayed until Carlin takes office.
Legal proposal changes disputed
RuMARY ERNST
Staff Renorter
Several members of the Legal Services Governing Board said yesterday they did not agree with all the suggestions that has been made by body president, has made in their proposal.
Laurence Rose, associate professor of law and an ex-officio member of the board, said he was surprised Harper did not understand the purpose of the board's proposal.
"I'm increasingly surprised at Harper's lack of foresight," Rose said. "I told him to face, personally, that the word I got from him was 'forsight.' They could push cases against students."
harder than if the attorney in the legal services program could represent them."
HARPER HAD sent letters to the board members. Tuesday that outlined his disagreements with the board's proposal. The main point Harper made was that he did not want the program's attorney to represent students in court during the first
But Rose said he thought it was a waste of $4,000 in student activity fees if the institution did not pay for her meals.
Rose said any disagreements between the board and Harper about the program would be discussed with Harper in a meeting next week, but it was up to Harper to decide
wmcnn proposal would be submitted to the administration for approval.
"We're just an advisory board," Rose said, and the final decision is made by him.
HARPER WOULD be forced to submit a proposal, without litigation in the first year, but could be admitted into a corner by submitting a proposal to the administration that did not include litigation.
Harpar had submitted a proposal to KU administrators earlier in the tail that did not receive support.
administration later outlined what
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Living for moment way of inner city life
By KATHLEEN CONKEY
Staff Reporter
Saturday morning I awoke with $1 on my mind. That was day the Plasma Donor Center on 20th and 31st floors of the building broke since Thursday and I wanted the feel of money in my pocket again Ten dollars isn't the lot of money I want to have.
Tracy Spellman, KU-Y coordinator, and I arrived at the plasma center shortly after it opened at 7:30 a.m. On the streets next, men were out with their small brown bags of oblivion.
That full meal would be my first since Thursday night, when I left Lawrence with seven other KU people to go on an Urban Plume, a program sponsored by the University to introduce students to life in inner Kansas City. Mo.
ALL THE men were wearing the street uniform—soil pants, several coats and dull-looking eyes. We went to the window and signed in. The woman told us we would have to wait four to six hours because we were new. She directed us through a door to give a urine specimen. Past the door we saw 28 identical specimens, each with a pole attached on which hung a clipboard and a plastic bag containing a clear fluid.
We walked into the center and found about 40 men in line. Apparently, when people have no place to sit, they are very hostile.
Back in the checkup room, a woman in white—none
of the workers he medical identifications—wrapped a rubber tie around my arm and searched for a blood
"This one will do," she said and pointed to a vein in my right arm.
"Look. I'm not going to lie to you. Those needs are big," the worker said and showed us the filling of a carton.
"AND," SHE added, "you'll have it in your arm for at least two hours."
She did the same to Spellman but couldn't find a big enough vein.
Spellman decided not to donate. She said she would come back to check on me later. A woman behind a desk took two pieces of ID from me—a donor must be at least 18—and told me to wait.
"I don't think this girl should donate," the woman said.
I sat down and watched two young men argue with a worker who refused to let them donate. They said she was not the kind of person but the woman who used their needle marks were only a day old. If she was right, the men were desperate for money because taking less than 48 hours to recover from giving plasma can be dangerous. The patient was ill.
Spellman objected.
Of the people there, only five of us were new donors. Most of the others sell their blood regularly. They all say they don't have any heart disease.
Urban Plunge
management encourages people to return often. A sign in the waiting room said, "Donate 25 times straight in a row and receive $25 extra on the 25th donation."
I WAS called and told to stand on a scale. They asked a series of questions about my health. One question was "Do you eat well?" I asked the woman if most of the men here could say they ate well.
"we well enough for them," I guess. . . . mme...
I sat down. It was 8:30 a.m. the moment next to me introduced himself as Hodgkin. He then worked him at a clinic Art Institute and has lived in a mission at 11th and Main since he came to Kansas City a year ago. He has been selling blood twice a week for a year.
"I'm here every Wednesday and Saturday," he said,
"So you be sure and come on those days and we'll talk. I'm saving money to go to California. I like to travel. I was in Georgia before I came here. Before that I was in Illinois. I had a girlfriend there. She was a runaway, needed a place to live, so we started running. We went to Iowa and black gay girls. She was white, you know, and her mama all the way to Illinois to get her daughter away from me. You go out with black guys, Kathy?"
THEY CALLED my name again. This time they pricked my finger twice to get blood samples. Then they sent me to another room where they took two Polaroid pictures of me for identification, took my temperature and my blood pressure. They sent me back to wait with Robert.
She hit my knees with a rubber hammer, asked a few questions and explained the plasma dosing
The man on the other side of me said he had just hopped a freight from Maine and was on his way to Nebraska. He had been in Kansas City 16 hours and was selling his blood for meal money.
"I have before." I said.
The doctor came out and called my name. I followed her to her office. She must have been 79 years old when she arrived. She was a college student, she said. "People who come here are a little different from what you used to use."
THE DONATOR pumps out one pint of blood. That
"When the worker brings the red blood cells back to you," the doctor said, "they will check to make sure the cells are yours. You must check too. Look at the bag and make sure your name and number are right. If they put someone else cells into your body, it could be fatal). This is your responsibility."
pint is taken to a centrifuge, which separates the plasma from the red blood cells. The red blood cells are then pumped back into the bloodstream along with the rest of the blood. The preserved material is refrigerated and when they pump the blood back into the bloodstream, it feels like ice running through the veins. Then the entire mixture is heated.
I went back to the outer room and was issued two plasma bags and a cart to keep track of my donations. As I went back to the room with the chairs, I grabbed the bag from the wall. No, way. Sam. You too drunk to give blood today."
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My PLASMA bags were taken from me and I was told to sit in chair 18. I sat down to Robert sitting right from me. He smiled and waved with the arm that wasn't connected to the hure needle.
There were five workers getting blood from the people to the centrifuge as fast as possible. They knew the names of all the regulars and joked with them about their drinking habits.
The men were in good moods. The subject of conversation was unchanted: what and how much
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