THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.89.No.15
Photo by BRUCE BENEDICT
Friday, September 15. 1978
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Shawn David Kretcherman, above, literally walked away with the show yesterday when he took one of the pylons that marked a Prison football goal on a field outside Watkins
Harper rejects tax proposal
Cone head
TOPEKA-Attempts by members of the Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee to present a unified front on their proposal to place a three-event tax on student activity. The board, in consultation with KSU student body president, refused to support the proposal.
Harper objected to the fact that revenue generated by the tax would go to support intercollegiate athletics at Regents
"It's not my job to promote an athletic corporation that's doing pretty damn well for us," Harper told the commentator.
"We're talking about previous, valuable tax money not to go academic needs," he said. "And, unless we support academic financing, what we gain in athletic funding we lose in tuition increases."
The tax, proposed earlier this month by members of Associated Students of Kansas, a state lobbying group.
ACCORDING TO a proposal written by the advisory committee members yesterday, revenue generated by the tax would go toward the cost of operation and capital improvement of the university's athletics and recreation at the state universities in Kansas.
The student body presidents of all other Regents schools endorsed the proposal and said they would send copies to the Regents Council of Presidents, state senators and territorial candidates. ASK also intends to lobby for the nominee.
Currently, all of the Regents schools except KU are members of ASK as well as the advisory committee.
Sam Brownback, student body president at Kansas State University, said that although he agreed theoretically with
"Personally, I don't support putting more money into athletics either," Brownback said. "But most students at K-State want recreational facilities and want to stay in the Big Eight and we can't do that if we don't have any money."
Harpier, additional funding for athletics had become a necessity at his school.
BECKY WINTERSCHEIDT, student body president at impaora State University, and Emphoria State also was said to be a member.
"Our students already pay $15 per semester in athletic fees," she said. "We don't have a rich athletic corporation so we can't really help women's athletics meet compliance with Title IX.
"We want to make our teams able to compete with other schools but we can't without another fee increase. Our only goal is to keep our teams competitive."
Shirley Edmunds, student body president at Pittbursa State University, said her school suffered from similar
"Pittsburgh has an awful lot to gain from this proposal and I'd support it," she said.
Although his school is operating in the black, Eric Melgen, student body president at Wichita State University, said Wichita State also needed additional funding.
"WE'RE ON THE rich end of our conference, but that doesn't mean we're not hurting for funds," he said. "I really hate supporting this proposal without KU, but for the same reason Mike can't support it, I have to. My students
Harper said his main objection to the tax was that it did not directly benefit KIU students.
...it we're going to tax something, we should get more out
of it," Harper said. "KU already gets $4 million a year from alumni to fund athletics, and I can't see putting an additional $4.4 million into it when, if anything, that money should go for scholarships for students from the state."
"I not ready to pinpoint money that I may want to use for other things at a later date," he said. "Until I know what tuition will be next year, I'm not ready to support this proposal."
Harper also said he objected to the tax being "ear-marked."
HE SAID he thought the tax would be an unfair burden on taxavers and students.
"To tax the people of Kansas for something that's not really needed is ridiculous," he said. "Our students already pay three dollars a year in athletic fees. If this proposal be made, I wouldn't believe it or even more. There's no way KU would support this proposal."
Harper said the Student Senate at KU was considering selling beer at football games and using the revenue as an incentive for students.
Although apparently disgruntled at Harper's refusal to support the proposal, the advisory committee members agreed.
Harper said his refusal to endorse the cigarette tax might harm KILO's chances of becoming a member of ASK.
ASK this summer passed a proposal recommending that KU be allowed a 10-month provisional membership in ASK, with full representation, for a reduced membership fee of $2,500. KU's membership, the proposal said, was subject to the approval of the student senates of other member schools and the legislative assembly of ASK.
Students question state fire code
"It's even more up in the air than it was before," Harper said.
BvLORILINENBERGER
Staff Reporter
Students in University of Kansas residence halls apparently are upset over restrictions that the state fire marshal's office has placed on home furnishings.
Jay Smith, contracts chairman for the Association of University Residence Halls, said he was expecting trouble on some of the issues, especially those on the student carpets.
"It wouldn't surprise me if some cases go to court," he said. "People feel it's an opportunity."
Under the current state fire code, all carpeting in individual residence hall rooms must not exceed a certain flammability rating, which is measured in terms of flame spread. The code establishes a maximum flame spread of 75, and requires all
residence hall members to present certification from the carpet dealer storing the flame
PAUL MARKLEY, state fire safety and sanitation consultant, said that asbestos board represented zero flame spread and red oak represented 100 flame spread. If a substance burns three-fourths as fast as red oak, it has a 75 flame spread, he explained.
"If they're going to crack down on the carpet, there are plenty of other fire hazards that should be cracked down on," she said.
Not all residence hall members are pleased with the code. Jan Anne Dubin, Highland Park, Ill., sophomore, said she did not understand the reasoning behind restricting only certain items such as carpet.
Dubin said that art supplies used by
students also were a fire hazard, but that no restrictions were niaced on them.
five more information about residential programs, said the University was planning to cooperate fully with the state fire marshal's office.
He said all residence hall members were told about the fire marshal's specifications for building.
McElenie said those students who obtained their carpet before they were aware of the need to have it in their third or fourth year of school—and those students who did not have certification that their carpet met all standards, still would be expected to comply fully with the requirements.
"When you get a car that has a defect in it,
you have to send it back. You either get rid of it
or replace it."
he said. "Only in this situation, the students don't have a choice. Unfortunately, they'll
MARKLEY SAID he be thought most carpets could meet the 75 flame spread standard, but a certification by the dealer of the carpet would be required to prove it.
"We won't want to check small carpet pieces fung on the floor, or throw rugs," he said. "We're really talking about the wall-to-wall staff."
A salesman for Bud Jennings Carpets, Inc., 29th and Iowa streets, said about 75 percent of the carpet they sold to students came with a flame scraper number.
Many carpet manufacturers test only the carpet they think will be used for comin paracurar, although leveling off, still is at
paracurar, but no means do we have
homely control."
She said the number met the fire code standards and was written on all sales receipts.
VD still concerns health officials
See FIRE CODES page 15
Staff Reporter
Bv PHILIP GARCIA
Although the incidence of venereal disease at the University of Kansas has decreased in the past year, students should be aware that "A university health official said recently.
The official, Martin Wollman, director of student health services, said, "I don't want people to think that venereal disease is caused by sex." The official, I don't want people to become complacent.
Wollman said that for the period July 1977 to June 1978, 69 cases of gonorrhea were reported, down 21 from a total of 90 between July 1976 and June 1977.
The number of xyphils cases reported in the period ending June 1978 was 11, an increase of one from the period ending June 1977.
"The number of VD cases that might not be reported is probably less than a fraction of 1 percent of the total number reported." Wollmann said.
The number of VD cases reported in Kansas for the first half of 1978 compared to the number of reported cases between January and June 1977, reflects Wolinmann's
THE NUMBER of cases in 1978 from January through June was 4,186, 19 more than the number for the first six months in 1977, Larry Burt, chief of VD control at the Kansas state department of health and environment, said.
There were 342 cases of syphilis reported statewide in the first half of 1978 compared to 289 cases reported for the first six months of 1977, he said.
"Venerical disease in Kansas, gonorrhea
In 1977, Kansas ranked 19th nationally in
all VD cases reported. Of the 9,323
cases, 605 were VD cases.
"The best way to eradicate VD is to keep it from spreading." Wollman said. "The majority of people feel free enough to come to the center to get checked. We can say we've tested 10,000 people or better within a school year."
THE SYMPTOMS OF venereal diseases can be readily recognized.
However, with gonorrhea, the disease may remain undetected because the symptoms are not visible. This is true for 80 percent of females and for 5 to 20 percent of the males.
See VENEREAL DISEASE page 15
Med Center to redraw contracts with physicians
By DAN WINTER Staff Reporter
Kansas City, Kan.—The University of Kansas will start negotiating new contracts soon with 15 physicians' corporations at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Physicians at the Med Center are divided departmentally into one of 15 corporations. When Med Center physicians treat patients, the patients pay the Med Center and the Med Center corporations pay the physicians and overhead costs.
In an executive meeting yesterday, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, Dwayan Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the MEd Center, and other University officials said that they worked with the group who worked out its as possible before the 1980 expiration of the present contracts.
The report made several recommendations for improvement of the corporations. Dykes and Waxman said they already were working to implement the
The Kansas division of legislative post audit recently published an audit report on the corporations. The legislative post audit report and the report Tuesday at a meeting in Topoks.
report's recommendations. In accordance with those recommendations, Dykes said, some changes in the 1980 contracts will have to be made.
The executive group said the biggest problem in contract negotiations would be the establishment of overburdening post-program fees to the Med Center for equipment expenses, the report said, varies under each corporation's definition, sometimes is not the same as actual expenses.
Mike Davis, University general counsel,
said overhead costs probably would be different by January 1890 when the new contracts go into effect. By then, the $44 million University hospital now under and overhead costs will change, he said.
"We need to give the corporations an idea of what the overhead charges will be in the contracts," Davis said. "Maybe we can negotiate the contracts with the option to change overhead prices as they move into the new hospital."
Richard L. Mann, University director of institutional research and information systems, said he was considering a change to Center's computers to handle single billing.
The audit report also said patients sometimes received many bills for their treatment.
The report recommended that the Med Center find a way to send a single bill to each patient, even if the patient were physicians of more than one corporation.
Corporation contracts were signed in 1975 after an audit revealed disorders in private funds used by the psychiatry department. The contractual agreements spell out the legal and financial relationships between the center and the private practice corporations.
"What was important in the legislative post audit committee meeting," Waxman said Wednesday, "was that there were very few people about the corporations with the legislators."
"There was a time, when the audit started more than two years ago, when the University was really concerned about it. Now wee comfortable and getting on the wagon to get those recommendations taken care of."
Hanging on
Vicki Eedicke, Overland Park, special student, made her first attempt at raping yesterday afternoon down the side of the house.
Staff photo by BRUCE BANDLE
Military Science building. The rappelling clinic, a free and supervised lesson offered by the Army HOTC, is open to anyone passing through the door.
Suit filed over Pier I explosion
In connection with a natural gas explosion and fire that killed two Lawrence men last December, 15 a lawsuit claiming more than $30 million was filed Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.
The suit, filed by the parents of one of the fire's victims, Michael M. Colley, and by the executor of his estate, lists the Kansas Public Service Company, E. I. U D Pont de Nemours & Co. Inc. and Dresser Industries as defendants.
Colley and J. Gordon Moorman, both 30, were killed when natural gas accumulated and exploded under the Pier 1 Imports
The Douglas County State Bank was appointed administrator of Colley's estate on March 21. Colley's parents, John V. and Midred G. Colley, are from Chicago.
Associate Store, then located at 747 Massachusetts St., demolishing it. Colley and Moorman lived in apartments above the store.
The Public Service Company is a natural gas distributor and is regulated by the city.
JUNE 22, 1978, the National Transportation Safety Board approved a report that said the Kansas Public Service Company had failed to meet federal regulations regarding the installation of a plastic gas main that ran under the building.
The safety board's report said that the plastic main had shrank three and a half inches.
The suit claimed that Colley's injury and death were a result of negligence on the part of Colley.
company was liable for property, pain and suffering and nuitive damages.
The action also claimed that the Du Pont and Dresser companies were negligent, and that the polyethylene pipe the companies supplied was defective.
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THE DOUGLAS COUNTy sheriff's office has 20 days in which to serve a summons to the defendants, after which the defendants may be charged. A spokesman for the county clerk's office said.
William Salome, vice president and general manager of the Kansas Public Service company, said his company had not yet expected it to be delivered today or Monday.
Wint A. Winter, an attorney from the firm of Stevens, Brand, Langstrom, Golden and Andersen.