University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
Budig gets award, jet lag
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KU officials travel to Japan
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig returned late Thursday from Japan with a positive report on a reciprocal agreement with Tokyo Medical College, an award from the college and a bad case of jet lag.
"It 'awful — I'm about 14 hours off," Budig said Friday afternoon. "But it was a very interesting and enjoyable trip."
Budig and Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration at the University of Kansas Medical Center, spent a week in Tokyo visiting the Japanese medical school and discussing trends in current health care and health sciences education with officials there.
THE JAPANESE OFFICIALS were particularly interested in American hospital trends because they are building a $120-million hospital that will have more than 900 beds, Budig said.
"Our reciprocal agreement with Tokyo Medical College has exceptional potential," he said. "It gives the University of Kansas Medical Center a unique opportunity to exchange people and ideas with one of the most progressive medical centers in the world."
Budig received the highest award of the medical school during his trip.
"They awarded me their medical school medallion to show their appreciation to KU for its continued commitment to their programs," he said.
The schools agreed to exchange faculty members, researchers and students two years ago, Budig said.
"It probably came about because K.C. Arakawa, who is chairman of anesthesiology at the Medical Center, has had a long and distinguished association with Tokyo Medical College," he said. "They became aware of KU through Arakawa and his activities. He recommended the affiliation, and we agreed that it made great sense for all conference." **WEARS**
from the College of Health Sciences have lectured at Tokyo Medical College, and faculty members and students from there have been sent to the Med Center. Budig said KU health sciences students probably would travel to Tokyo within the next two years.
"This trip was designed to further our agreements," Budig said. "It also gave us the opportunity to talk about our experience in medicine, nursing and allied health."
"We are ahead of them, but they are moving rapidly," he said. "Their economy is one of the strongest in the world. They have massive resources available for research in health sciences and other fields, those resources. We are among the first to have reciprocal agreements in Japan."
SEVERAL FACULTY MEMBERS
Budig said the Japanese especially were interested in KU's programs in cancer research and heart transplants.
"They want to become meaningful partners in such efforts," he said.
BURR OAK — A Kansas folk artist whose lifetime collection of sculptures recently was auctioned to pay her medical bills was buried Saturday in the small town where she was born.
Artist's legacy carved in stone
Her native limestone sculptures were auctioned Aug. 30 to liquidate her assets so she could continue receiving state aid. Friends said she was unaware the collection had been sold.
Inez Marshall, 77, Portis, died Wednesday. She had been in a coma for six months in an Osborne nursing home after suffering a stroke in April.
By United Press International
A. H. Foster, Sebring, Fla.,
purchased her entire collection of 89 primitive sculptures for $26,500. He outbid a Logan art gallery.
"She was a very good, naive artist. Naive in the sense that she was untrained in the arts," Gary White said of the university museum, said Saturday.
One week before her death, Wichita State University's Urchin Museum of Art opened an exhibit of 13 of her sculptures. That was the first time she displayed outside the sculpture hall she ran alone for 20 years.
She conducted tours of the
"From talking to people who had known her, she did this simply because she enjoyed doing it. She worked in a part of American culture."
Continental Sculpture Hall in Portis. The hall was filled with her carvings of animals, miniature buildings, antique cars and presidential portraits.
ON THE RECORD
Among the carvings are a pair of life-sized polar bears and a 700-pound work of Abraham Lincoln. Another of her sculptures is $2\frac{1}{2}$-foot tall depiction of the Last Supper inside a house.
"She just survived by giving tours," said Tom Gormally, assistant museum curator. "She wouldn't ask anything She wouldn't sell anything."
A WHITE, 1961 Chevrolet pickup truck valued at $600 was stolen between 11 p.m. Saturday and 8:20 a.m. yesterday from the 900 block of West Eighth Street, Lawrence police said.
Museum officials hope to keep part of the collection at the university. Her works will be exhibited until Jan. 20.
A WHITE, 1852 Chevrolet flatbed pickup valued at $700 was stolen between midnight and 3:15 a.m. yesterday from the 1500 block of Kentucky Street, police said.
AN AM-FM cassette stereo valued at $290 was stolen between noon Wednesday and 5:59 p.m. Saturday from a car parked near the intersection of East Ninth and New Hampshire streets, police said.
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November 1, 8, and 15 (Thursdays)
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
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Register and pay $15 materials fee at the Student Assistance Center, 121 Strong Hall.
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A TRIBUTE TO THE SMUG
According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, a smug individual's "belief in (his) own superiority, virtue and respectability (is) usually accompanied by (a) contented resistance to change, provincial lack of vision, or depreciation of others." Because of my unemployed state in our so-called "private enterprise" system, I've met several of the local smug set's most raucous members.
Although every one of these zealous individuals had accused me, in front of a small but enthusiastic audience, of avoiding employment, each studiously ignored my expressed willingness to work regularly (at a time they found convenient) for six months alongside them at some undertaking I considered productive. My response was designed to demonstrate that governing units at all levels often both are compensating those who fail to perform satisfactorily in the private sector and ignoring work in the public sector.
In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson described a democratic government as "a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned." Yet all our governing units are so eager to please the powerful (for instance, the giants in the automobile and banking industries and, here in Lawrence, a few rapacious developers) that they (these governing units) now often hand to whining entrepreneurs public funds which should be spent educating students, punishing criminals, helping the dependent and protecting the environment.
While 40,000 chambers of commerce use public funds to gain the attention of the perhaps 1,000 businesses which relocate every year, forced unemployment destroys potential breadwinners and thus produces fundamentally disadvantaged single parent families. Even as the powers-that-be valiantly try to link the ideas of "private enterprise" and "equal opportunity", our government leaves untouched a taxation mechanism which creates in the thriving suburbs glistening schools with all the necessary facilities while continuing to use in the inner cities inadequately supplied and antiquated structures for educational purposes.
Instead of a government committed to, as George Mason put it in the Virginia Bill of Rights, "the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation or community", we have one increasingly responsive to the unscrupulous and moneyed.
However, the smug have managed to gain power and, in the greatest civilization which has ever existed, fashion governing bodies which reward the tasteless, ruthless and violent only because a sleepy electorate has permitted it.
William Dann
2702 West 24th St. Terr
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