Waiting list for kidneys no deterrent to recipients
By ELLEN IWAMOTO
Staff Reporter
Twenty-year-old Tony Dawson, 6 feet 2 inches, was the first to practice football in his second year at the College of Emporia, when he noticed his ankles were becoming badly swollen, so he began playing.
After consulting a doctor, he was sent to the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City. His children and his kidneys were failing. In the next two years, between 1974 and 1976, they would die.
"At first I thought Oh, God, why me?" he said. "I was doing everything, playing football, swimming, hunting and fishing. I was full of life, totally full of life."
Only five weeks after Tony was married, his kidnids did quit. Since then he has been undergrowing dialysis, hooked up to an arm and leg machine three times a week for five hours.
"It was like going from total freedom—
being able to go to work, go to school—to total confinement," Tony said.
When he first accepted the fact he was sick, Tony said, he would have "done anything" to get off dialysis and his first thought was of a kidney transplant.
In the Midwest, Tony is one of about 250 patients waiting for kidney transplant; about 600 patients are on dialysis. Nationwide, more than 10,000 patients are waiting for kidney transplant and about 34,000 patients are on a transplant and about 54,000 patients are on dialysis because of kidney failure.
At the Med Center, the only hospital in Kansas that performs transplantation at its regional clinic or on waiting list for kidney transplants, according to Judy Greatheath, renal transplant surgeon.
A kidney transplant from a living relative has been ruled out for each of the patients because the kidneys of immediate family members are not eligible. So they must wait for a cadaver kid.
Tony said the hospital staff checked the tissue type of his parents, three brothers and sister soon after he became sick, but not matched his tissue type.
ney, usually from a person who has died from severe head injuries.
Even if one had been compatible, Tony said, he would not have considered a family member as a donor.
"I would never take a related donor," he said. "It's a great thing for the person who needs it, because if they recovered? It just would bother me tremendously to have someone in my family."
"Plus the chances if the kidney being repaired are great. It seems like such a risk and a challenge to me, but I expected. I've seen so many people come through the dialysis unit at the hospital who were young."
Information about patients waiting for kidney transplants is put into a computer listing at the Midwest Organ Rank in Kansas City, Mo. The information is shared
When a kidney becomes available, its characteristics are fed into the computer, which first draws the best possible matches from the database and then from the Kansas-Missouri area. If compatible recipients cannot be matched to the best matches, best matches from other areas are pulled.
Greathease said, "It's not too unusual when we get a kidney available in the area to find out we don't have anyone on the list of candidates." We don't share the information with other regions."
by nine other organ banks in the Midwest, as part of the Midwest Organ Sharing System (MOSS).
Although it depends on individual cases, the average waiting period for a kidney is from one to one and a half years. Grohouse said some patients have been waiting for five years, yet some receive a three month three months after being put on the list.
patient will know what the chances are for him. If he does not get a kidney, the patient may never get a kidney. Then he must decide that he's not going to sit around every night waiting for a call about a Kidney transplant.
After three years of waiting for a kidney donor that matches his extremely rare tissue type, Tony has given up the idea of a kidney transplant, he said, we were about in 100,000.
"Before when I was so sick I couldn't do anything, I was ready for it. But the chances of them (organ bank) calling me are sim." It doesn't. There just aren't that many donors.
"The organ bank gives us an idea of how rare a kidney profile is, the staff and
"And then, I have such a rare type the chances of it taking are real low. It would be a lot of trouble to go through with such a low chance. If my type was different, maybe it would be better."
Some of the patients on the computer list are waiting for their second or third transplants because their first ones did not work
or were rejected by their bodies,
Greathouse said.
So far this year, 16 transplants have been done at the Med Center, but Greathouse said it was a "slow year."
For one reason, there has been a decrease in the donation of kidneys, she said. In turn, it has led to an increase instead of going up rapidly as people thought it would, the number has
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Your team, program coordinator at the Midwest Organ Bank, agreed there had been a drop in the number of kidney donors. In past years, about 150 kidney had been donated by mail-November, she said. This group with 162肾脏, has been recorded.
In 1972, when the organ bank was becoming established in the Kansas-Missouri area, only 33 kidneys were donated, she said.
To combat the shortage of donors, the Midwest Organ Bank sponsors programs to See LIFE soon right
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KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 67
Inside the hall on the main floor the majority of the space was taken up by the German plains, upon which German plays were presented. A bakey halo that overlooked the plain gave a sense of majesty.
on the west end of the hall
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Hawks lose to ORU, 75-72
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AS ELFRIEDE FISCHER ROWE wrote in "Wonderful Old Lawrence," the Turvenurm became "the social center of New York" and many migrated to Lawrence. It also served as an employment center. Every Saturday, one would find many newcomers from the Fatherland on the steps of the hall for people to come and offer them jobs.
Sittina in
HARRY Rayton, 212 Haskell Street, and his cousin Erik Rayton, 1025 Tennessee St. pause on the steps of Torner Hall. This building used to be a meeting place for German immigrants in New York.
Lawrence's first Turnervue was established in 1857. Members of the society met in a large wooden hall on the corner of 10th and New York streets.
THE SOCIETY disbanded in 1861 when all but four of the 48 Turnover members volunteered for the United States military. President Lincoln's call for volunteers
Lawrence 'Turnverein' hub of German culture
By BOB PITTMAN Staff Reporter
More than 35,000 young Germans came to America in the years immediately following an unsuccessful attempt by Germany to turn a conglomerate into a company in 1848.
Turnerverss came to America with the rise of German immigration that swept the country in the middle of the 19th century.
For almost half a century, Turner Hall, the Lawrence Turnerain at 900 Rhode Island ISL, was the nucleus of the city's large German immigrant population.
Although the Lawrence Turnerwein was established as a gymnastic organization and all males between the ages of 18 and 30 were required to participate in gymnastics, similarly also the Gerber American died that awarded the German-American of Lawrence.
Although the children and grandchildren of the 19th century immigrants have long since become Americanized, the rectangular sandstone and limestone building stands solidly on the corner of a street in what was once a street, a constant in a chawning world.
The first Turnerville, or Verne, which means club in German, was established in Berlin in the early 19th century, to "to harden the muscles and develop the bodies of the youth of Germany," accented by the counties History Historical society records.
At the time of the Turnoveren's construction, a floundy-chilled stone plaque encrusted with bronze was erected over the hall's arched doorway along with a keystone that bears the date
In 1867 another Turnverein formed in Lawrence. A charter signed by 25 Vireen members was granted to the society on Jan. 7, 1868, by the state of Kansas.
The hall at 900 Rhode Island St. was built in the summer of 1869 at a cost of $5,000, according to historical records.
Iranian voters endorse Khomeini
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Iranian people, in a vast support of show for the Moslem elder who has made the holding of American hostages part of a holy crucifix, voted overwhelmingly yesterday to make Ayatollah Khomeini Khomani their political leader.
The Khomeini regime, meanwhile,
stepped up public readiness for an eventual U.S. military attack expected by many traniers.
It posted more guards at the U.S. Embassy, where Mr. Obama promised of capacity in the hands of Modern militants demanding that the United States hand over the deposed Shah.
For the first time some of the guards were dressed in green army fatigues and boots.
In an unexplained development, an ambulance was seen moving from point to point within the embassy compound. A
student spokesman contacted by telephone said the hostages were "all well" but would not say why the ambulance went to the embassy.
At U.N. headquarters in New York, the Security Council was still seeking diplomatic ways out of the month-long U.S.- Iran crisis.
Among the alternatives under consideration was launching an international inquiry into the ex-shah's regime, and sending a Council mission to mission
The council held its fourth meeting on the problem, which lasted only 32 minutes and did not produce a resolution.
Four more nations spoke against the hostage taking brought to 32 that they have expressed the sentiment before the council. Another meeting was scheduled for
In The Hague, Netherlands, a spokesman
for the International Court of Justice said it would begin private sessions today to consider the suit the United States had filed in connection with a Public hearing was set for next Monday.
Initial returns of a two-day Iranian referendum that ended Monday showed Iranians voted 60-to-1 in favor of a new constitution. The president said he would make him a descrutable dictator.
Though final results will not be announced until later in the week, Iranian voters obviously did what the Islamic leadership had used in the non-secrete -whether or not ballot
Reporter's saw bearded, turbaned mullahs - Moslem priest-sured in front of ballot boxes at several polling stations instructing people to "vote yes only."
In other developments:
- A pro-government newspaper in Panama said Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, recuperating at a Texas Air Force
- Western diplomatic sources and a Beirut newspaper reported that Saudi Arabian troops put down pro-Franish demonstrations by thousands of Shia Muslims last week in eastern Saudia Arabia, most of whom protesters were killed or wounded.
- A bomb blast slightly damaged the exterior of the Frankfurt, West Germany, branch of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. The U.S. bank last obtained a West German court order to seize Iranian assets in West Germany because of an allied loan
- base from medical treatment would be given asylum in that Central American nation. Panamanian government officials denied it.
- The Libyan government offered "profuse apologies" for Sunday's mob attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya.
KU housing crunch continues. no solution vet
Rv ROR PITTMAN
Staff Reporter
The housing shortage at the University of Kansas will continue at least for a while, according to KU housing administrators.
"I wouldn't say that nothing has been planned, but I don't see anything that could transpire in the immediate future," J.J. Wilson, director of housing, said.
Fredd McElhene, director of the office of residential programs, said, "I don't know of any plants that are in the works to acquire any new facility to house students."
Although no definite steps have been taken to ease the KU housing shortage, the demand for University-owned housing continues.
"It's a geometric increase in people demanding housing," McElhenie said. "I don't know how we are going to resound."
About 4,700 students, roughly 20 percent of U.S. student population, live in the city and have a semester. Money from student rent contracts, last year about $84,914, used to pay for student housing.
KU has the largest enrollment of any Big Eight university this semester, 24,125. However, all but two of the Big Eight universities rent a greater number of
university-owned housing spaces, according to a Eight Big Housing Statistical Survey compiled in October by Charles F. Greene, director of residence at Iowa State University.
THE UNIVERSITY of Missouri, Iowa State University, the University of Nebraska, Oklahoma State University and the University of Texas at Austin have university-owned housing than KU. The University of Oklahoma and Kansas State University are the onlybig universities under KU.
K-State's student population has 5,122 students less than KU's this fall, K-State offered only 289 spaces less than the university-owned housing rented by KU.
At KU, university housing programs are "at as strong as they are at some schools," Wilson admitted. "Back in the late 1940s, when the University decided to temporarily get involved in the business house, we felt that need to be as strong, or should be."
HE SAID KU's decision to offer a limited amount of University-owned housing to students was made by the Board of Regents (who were not the authors) or right or wrong." Wilson said. "The
University is self-supporting, on housing. The Regents said that housing offered by the University should never exceed 50 percent of the student publication.
Fredericksen said Iowa State had nearly reached its goal of offering university-owned housing to 50 percent of the students in Ames. He said Iowa State offered a large amount of university-owned housing and university-owned housing in Ames was extremely limited.
"In most of the Big Eight schools, the amount of university-owned housing offered by the college is based on what the local community has to offer," Preederickson said.
WILSON SAID KU administrators had studied the local housing options when they determined how much房建 the University should offer in Lawrence.
KU residence halls were built in several spurs of construction during a 45-year period. The first building was built in 1923. The residence halls in Daisy Hill—McCollum, Ellsworth, Hassinger, Lewis, and Tempiun—were built in 1930. One of the first buildings was constructed, Oliver, was built in 1967.
Construction of the University residence
halls was financed by state mil levies, gifts from the L.N. Lewis and J.R. Pearson families, and Board of Regents Revenue Bonds.
ACCORDING TO THE Big Eight survey, KU owns the least on its ball; $871,000 and Iowa State owns the most. $275,150.
Also, according to the survey, KU's debt service, the amount of money taken from each resident's contract to help pay off construction debts, is the lowest, $164, of any Big Eight university. Colorado's debt service is $282, the highest of any on the
Although KU's housing program compares favorably with the programs of other Big Eight universities in many areas, under the survey's "New Construction, Major Update" strategy, KU responded: "None." Three other universities listed the same response.
Wilson said that no new housing projects had been planned by the University because the economy was unfavorable to new construction.
"If we attempt to put in a crash program at this time, the construction costs and related items would cause a heavier deadlog
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Records create storage dilemma
Re TONI WOODY
The problem of what to do with public records is common in small towns around Lawrence. It also reflects a concern expressed by some state officials: Even if records are made more open to the public—and that probably will be proposed during a special election, the older records have been thrown away or are so disorganized that they are useless.
Staff Reporter
The county clerk, Albee Riedeelsel, said recently that the receipts she "of no value at all," but that she was not sure whether to buy or keep them stored in the basement.
A bill introduced during the 1979 legislative session addressed that problem and called for a state records administrator to set up a records management program.
The bill was sponsored by two leaders of the senate, state Sen. Jack Steinerberg, minority leader, and state Sen. Ross Doyen, senate president.
The bill calls for the state records administrator to survey county, city and public agency records and recommend
steps to organize, preserve or dispose of the records.
Present Kansas law requires most records to be kept for five years, with the exception of purchase orders and bonds, which are to be kept for 15 years.
Riedered said a records administrator would be helpful, because the county records system was "not too well organized" .
IN THE BASEMENT across the street from Riodeo is the effect, the record books are stacked deep, and a wall of stacks deep, and a wall at 25 feet long. The records are covered with dust and wet paper.
Some county records from the late 1800s are mixed in with the tax record books in some counties. To avoid confusion, "District court records of a trial"—1874, inside the box are the records of an 1874 trial.
The 1880 cathd and bonds for the swearing in of deputy county clerk are also among the records. One elaborate document states that a deputy clerk taken in 1876 by D. B. Baker, county clerk.
Jefferson County is not alone in its confusion about what to do with old records. And in those counties and cities which do not have a record, Jefferson county earths are thrown away.
In Lecompton, a historical city
established in 1824 and once under consideration for the capital of Kansas, records date back only *t* one 1950s.
She said records were stored "hapazhardy" in the Lecompton city hall in two file cabinets, but she was not sure what exactly was in the cabinets.
"I've been city clerk for 15 years, but I'm just a farm boy and I could use some assistance." he said.
BRENDA MULLENS look over the job of Lecompte clerk about three years ago from a man who 'just remembered most the day he was born' and boxes in his house. Mullens said that after the man died, family members might have records, records without knowing what they were.
In Gardner, which was established in 1887, only revised copies of ordnances are left. The city clerk, Russell McCombell, said a state records administrator would be useful.
HARRIET HUGENS, city clerk for 15 years in Tongonkoa, runs an efficient office where records are kept organized and organized from IHF were stored at the bank.
Although most of the city clerks in area towns said they could have used the help of a state records administrator at one time or another, it is not favor establishing such a state position.
She said she would rather spend money to buy a copy machine for the office than to create a state position.
The city clerk of Perry, Roger Hodson, is responsible for keeping several kinds of city records and he keeps much of the current information in his home.
"There are a lot of things we need here more than a state records administrator," she said.
nowever, he rarely has questions about the documents and considers the creation of a state record administrator "just another way to send money."
Steineger said the bill was introduced because a uniform system in the state did not exist for storing and preserving records.
"There have been a number of cases where records were lost," he said, "and it had been the responsibility of a public officer or count to have maintained those records."
"Years later, people were going to court trying to get things straightened out because records had been lost."
PETE MARTIN, administrative assistant to state Sen. Steenberg, and the bill conspired with the state government directed at small towns in Kansas that needed guidance in organizing, preserving
The state records administrator would
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