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Friday, September 15, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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Med Center to hire 14 more custodians
By DAN WINTER
Staff Reporter
KANAS S CITY, Kan.-University of Kansas Medical Center Medical officials yesterday promised custodial union representatives employees to help reduce staff shortages.
Francis Jacobs, business agent of Public Service Employees Local 1132, said he was pleased with the outcome of the 48-minute contracted more employees would be hired soon.
Russell Mills, University director of support services, said, "I think the problem is all over. We think they think our approach can be made one and within our budget limitations."
Jacobs said, "The best part is that they realize the things we've been trying to tell them about."
The nine-month dispute involves what the union representatives and Med Center service employees said were staff shortages. Service employees staged a six-hour break back to work after Med Center officials agreed to meet and discuss their problems.
THE MAJOR ISSUE involves the housekeeping work program. Some workers said new cleaning equipment and work techniques, together with a reduction in the staff, were not conductive to cleaning efficiency.
The changes in equipment and technique were the result of the hiring in April 1977, of the American Management Services, a division of the Center hired to supervise its housekeeping.
The 14 employees that Mills promised Jacobs would be hired for the med Center
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would be in the dietary, housekeeping and central service divisions.
"I'm quite pleased, although the number of employees to be hired is smaller than we had hoped. But the impression that I got was that they will hire more after the funds become available and they cut through some red tape." Jacobs said.
Jacobs said staff shortages were the only thing discussed at length at the short meeting, although some bad working conditions mentioned briefly by some union members.
MILLS SAID there was a possibility there could be more employees later, but it might not be that easy.
The bad working conditions, Mills said, were mostly in the kitchens, where many of them are.
"It has been an awful summer and only half the air-conditioning units have worked half the time," he said. "We're working on that too."
Jacobs said he and other union officials would meet in two or three weeks with Mills, and possibly reduce hiring more employees to further reduce the shortage.
Report outlines future of Med Center branch
By TIM SHEEHY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The Health and Education Committee of the Kansas Board of Regents gave its approval yesterday to a report that plots the future of the Wichita branch of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The report, written by KU administrators, is expected to receive the approval of the full board today. It then will be forwarded to the Legislative Committee on Monday for publication, where it will be introduced that would put its provisions into effect.
Under the terms of the report, the Wichita branch would take 25 percent of the students in each new medical school class.
The Regents decided several years ago that a graduating class consistently numbering 200 or more was needed to fill a shortage of physicians in Kansas. With this decision, the school entered medical school, Wichita would receive 50 students for each class of the
branch's two-year program if the report is adopted.
THE REPORT also recommends hiring 17 new full-time employees for the position, and the positions time positions there to 38. The employees would be hired over a two to three year period. Funds for some of the positions were requested from the next Leidatura.
The report urges that a permanent location be established for the Wichita branch. A separate study lists the East and West branches in Wichita as the most cost effective site.
The Med Center has requested 900,828 from the Legislature for fiscal 1980 to the purchase of research equipment and the addition of support personnel.
The report recommends construction of laboratory space at the permanent location because medical school faculty must engage in research in order to be accredited. Wichita branch faculty wants it with 10,456 square feet of space is needed.
Only nine of the 35 members were present and Lynn Garrell, chairman, had to begin the meeting late. Then she found herself with a small group that too few members to discuss it thoroughly.
The Student Senate Rights Committee was plagued last night by a problem that has troubled many other Senate committees this semester.
Low attendance plagues committee
But Kaufman was not at the meeting to defend the bill an the committee moved on to.
The agenda included a bill submitted by Phill Kaufman, liberal arts and sciences senator, that called for the chairman of the Student Executive Committee to be elected by the members of StudEx instead of by Senate members, as he is now.
"I thought Phill would be here," Garrell said, "and I don't think we can discuss it without him here. I guess we'll just table it and call another meeting to discuss it."
THE RIGHTS committee must approve that they are sent to the Senate to be voted on.
The committee also discussed how to elect a senator for the new off-campus seat that will be held at the University of Seattle. The other seats are the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, All Scholarship Hall Council Association, All Association of University Residence Halls.
"Last year," Garrell said, "The Senate decided that instead of doing away with the
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She aid she thought Mike Harper, student body president, would appoint someone to fill the post and a senator would be elected in the spring.
four living group seats, it would create an extra seat for off-campus students."
After about 10 minutes of discussion, the committee decided the matter might be the responsibility of the elections committee rather than the rights committee.
"UNLESS IT'S A change in the rules and regulations, which I don't think it is, then it should be handled by elections," Garrell said.
Several members of the committee suggested that Garrell forward the matter to the elections committee with recommendations that the election for off-campus tuition be in the fall and separate tuition for on-campus and off-campus students be used.
Other Senate committees also have reported low turnouts at their meetings.
Earlier this week, the communications committee had only 10 of its 35 members present and the academic affairs committee had only about eight of 25 members present.
Garrell said that part of the problem with her committee may have been that she had a different policy.
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