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Friday. September 21. 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Cost-cutting pays at Med Center
By ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Reporter
Administrators at the University of Kansas Medical Center have joined forces with the faculty, medical staff and personnel, cut back on daily expenses at the Med Center.
The attempt has evolved into a Med Center program designed to curb various campus expenses. In the program, called Voluntary Action, Med Center employees make suggestions on cost-cutting, PhiU assistant administrator, said yesterday.
A $50 prize is awarded each month for the best energy saving idea, he said.
The idea behind the program is to gather ideas from people at the Med Center on ways they can reduce waste at work." Gaughan said.
Notices of the new program were sent out in May to all the departments in the Med Center. The notices asked for recruitment and medical supplies, he said.
Gaughan said the program was formed after several departments expressed a desire to cut costs.
"We thought the best way would be to give everyone a chance to help out."
E. J. Walaszek, professor and chairman of the department of pharmacy, who is assisting Gauchen with Voluntary Action, said he had no doubt about goals of how much money it hoped to save.
"Anything we save will be good. Our goal is to save, period." Walsaszek said.
Gaughan said response to the program had been overwhelming.
"We've received over 350 suggestions from various persons associated with the Med Center. That's a lot more than we had anticipated."
Gaughan said the suggestions for cost-saving measures should be applied light on-screen switches remaining people to turn them off, to more detailed suggestions on how to save on medical costs.
"Most of the responses have been energy-saving ideas, though." he said.
One idea that has been implemented, Gaughan said, is the recycling of paper used at the Med Center. All scrap paper, included left over copies of office memos and
letters, are gathered by employees and picked up for recycling every two weeks.
"In addition to that, the staff has really cut down on the use of paper. We're keeping a closer count of the number of copies of various material being made," he said.
Gaughan said the campus police had formed several motor pools and also were driving cushman scooters instead of patrol cars.
Car parking also has been increasing since the start of Voluntary Action.
The Med Center also is working on installine bicycle racks on campus, he said.
Gaughan said anyone who made suggestions to Voluntary Action was eligible to receive the cash prizes that the program planned to award each month.
Although response to Voluntary Action has been good, Gaughan said, the Meet Center does not have much of a problem with waste in the first place.
“If there are ways departments can save on things, they have been doing it. We just want to give the departments the opportunities to share those ideas with others,” he said.
Terminals replacing textbooks in teaching computer program
BY TED LICKTEIG Staff Reporter
A computer-based instructional program at the University of Kansas is allowing some KU graduate students to take courses in the field of text-books for their class lessons.
Under the program, KU professors can order instructional programs * from the computer center that processes education and training professors to use with classes they are teaching. Bill Maxwell, assistant director of the computer center for user services,
CONDUIT receives instructional programs from professors or experts in a field that is relevant to the department and magnetic tapes for computer use at the university of the professor who requested them.
CONDUT is based in Iowa City, Iowa, where the educational materials are processed for computer use.
Before the tape is distributed, the material in the program is verified for accuracy by an expert in the field, who conducts a test of the CONDUCTM member institutions, he said.
CONDUIT originally stood for the initial
participating schools in the service, which are: Colorado, Oregon, Notre Dame, Uma, Iowa and Texas. About 40 universities now belong to the organization. Maxwell said
Members of CONDITU receive a slight delay in training on the other periodicals and other instructional booklets related to computer use, he said. KU has been a member of CONDITU for 20 years.
He said students who used the instructional tapes for a class worked with computer terminals in various depart-ments on campus and in the computer center.
Instructional programs on tape are available to KU professors in biology, chemistry, economics, education, geography, psychology, sociology, humanities, management, science, physics, physical science and statistics.
"Most of the tapes are essentially self-instructional, and could be used at home, if a person had a terminal that was attached to our main computers," he said.
MAXWELLSAID the saids were easy to work with because they were adaptable to KU's computers.
Charles Hallenbeck, professor of psychology, said he had been using other computer programs in addition to the CONDUIT program for two years.
Hallenbeck said the computer programs served a different purpose than textbooks.
"We have a class called Computers and psychology, which is required for students who work with students where students from teams use the computer gain experience in mental modeling."
"IF YOU HAD two or three different theories about a subject, you could use them on the computer to find out which one works."
He said the lack of computer terminals on campus limited the use of them in class instruction because there was only one terminal for every 400 students on campus.
"We would not be able to use computers in large classes because it wouldn't be fair to the students," he said.
Hallenbeck said if a professor wanted to use a CONDUIT program in undergradute classes, he would have to get a computer still more computer terminals on campus.
Prices for the tapes range from $27 to
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