University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1984
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Professor calls health care a disaster
By DAN HOWELL Staff Reporter
Health care in the United States has reached the point of disaster and must be treated as a fundamental ethical issue, Takeru Higuchi said yesterday.
Higuchi, Regents distinguished professor of pharmacy and chemistry, is being honored this week in honor of his symposium dedicated to him.
He is acknowledged as the creator of pharmaceutical chemistry, the application of chemical and thermodynamic laws to drug dosage and methods of getting drugs into the body.
Higuchi, 66, said in an interview that the disastrous economic effect of
social expectations for health was evident.
"YOU CAN SEE exactly what's happening in the presidential race right now," he said. "No cut in the amount of time that these things are considered sacred."
As the U.S. population ages, he said, health care costs could become a bottomless pit. Health care costs already account for more than 10 percent of the gross national product.
"The college-age population today should be looking at it as the most important issue facing the age group at the present time," he said. "The more we know, the more we can spend."
He said modern society had not faced basic questions of good and evil implicit in its extravagant approach to health care.
"To look for longevity for the sake of longevity may be a very base thing," he said. "When you analyze the situation, God's greatest gift to humanity is the ability to die and to be renewed in the next generation.
He said he thought scientists probably could not provide enough leadership in medical ethics and science because they feared public opinion
"THE IRONY OF it all is that we flush down the toilet a perfectly formed fetus and try to keep alive a baby. We can still at least could pay for the child's education."
"It is really the role of the clergy, but they're too cowardly to take it out here and now some people in that profession are worse, but they won't quite speak of it."
Higuchi said his doubts about
trends in health care industries had grown gradually.
"When you get old, you think more about these things," he said. "You want to feel that your own action is good."
"The more I gave away, the more I got back," he said.
HE SAID HE WAS satisfied with his contributions, especially in teaching. About half of the 225 people are former students of Hiegh's school.
Higuchi gradually is turning over administrative roles to others. Ron Borchardt succeeded him as department chairman in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1983, and he was the director of research and commercial operations on West Campus when successors for those positions are found.
Bands to raise money for white bikes
The white bikes project at the University of Kansas is going to get some help from local bands.
Two benefit concerts have been scheduled to raise money for the purchase of more white bikes, Dennis "Boog" Higgebor, student body vice president, told the University of Texas Transportation Board last night.
The first concert will be the second weekend in November. The Blinkies, a local band, and two other bands will participate in the occasion has been picked for the benefit.
A concert by the Dancing Elephants will be in January, Highberger said.
The white bikes project, unofficially sponsored by Highbierger and Carla Vogel, student body president, is designed to provide free bicycle transportation on campus. Students would be able to pick up a one checkpoint, ride it to another and leave it for the next person.
At the meeting, Vogel expressed confidence in the project so far.
"It's working," she said. "We're
cloudy getting it going."
A couple of the bikes have been
placed on campus already. Vogel said students who saw her riding one of the bikes had encouraged her.
"I knew it was going to work when I rode the bike," she said.
In other action, the board decided to provide bus service to West Campus and the Frank R. Burge Union by spring semester.
The board had previously considered either extending the existing Heatherwood route to West Campus or creating a completely new route to supply bus service to that area.
Mark "Gilligan" Sump, secretary
of the board, said they were keeping all options open in establishing that route, but would definitely have the service by next semester.
"It's a great opportunity. I hope I can take the ball and run with it," said Branham, who was appointed to the board last semester. "We're going to see a lot of changes in policy where in the past it has been stagnant."
Also, the board elected Melanie Branham, Salina graduate student, as chairman of the board.
Governor will lead delegation
By United Press International
BUNKER HILL — Gov. John Carlin confirmed yesterday that he would lead a trade delegation to Taiwan this year.
Carlin, who led a similar delegation to the People's Republic of China in June, said the Taiwan trip would be part of his job as chairman of the National Governors' Association.
A formal announcement of the trip is not expected until next month. Carlin aides said.
"The tawian of our major trading partners," Carlin said. "The trip is logical, in terms of economic development."
Last October, a group of Taiwanese businessmen invited Carlin to their country, and he accepted. Kansas has had regular contact with Taiwan since the United States broke off formal diplomatic ties. Last year, Lt. Gov. Tom Docking represented Carlin on an official visit to the island nation.
In addition to relations with Taiwan, Kansas also has considerable ties to the People's Republic of China. Kansas has a strong relationship with Henan province on China's mainland. Although the June trip was Carlin's first to Henan, it was his second to China.
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October 24, 1984 8:00 pm
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