BEAUTIFUL!
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 90, No. 7
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
free on campus
Hurricane David skirts mainland
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10 cents off campus Tuesday. September 4. 1975
The flag corps of the KU Marching Javahawks learns routines under a late afternoon sun on the fields west of Oliver Hall.
Lee Whitman, Kearney, Neb., junior, demonstrates an exaggerated version of the tuba march.
Daily practice transforms mob into a marching band
By MARK SPENCER
Staff Reporter
It was 91 degrees when the KU Marching Band and Flag Corp assembled on the field west of Oliver Thursday.
Despite the previous day's heavy rain, the field was relatively dry. This was little consolation, however, to about 200 people sweating through the band's first wall.
Tom Stidham, KU assistant director of bands, described the practice as "basically a mob scene.
"We're just learning the basics. Left from right."
September 23 at the Chefs-Oakland game in Kansas City, followed by the first KU home football game on September 29.
The band's first two shows will be
Two hours of practice, four to five days a week before the games, will turn the mob scene into a precision marching band, hand directors said.
"Uniformity," Robert Foster, KU director of bands, stressed. "Uniformity is the key to precision."
THE BAND WASN'T trying anything too difficult the first day out. They marched cedar forward, lifted their knees high, stopped with a noseose step, turned around
See BAND page 10
Victor Vas, Kill Devil Hills, N.C., senior, passes for a moment to recall how a wrist was done in past seasons. **Photos by Jeff Harring**
Nurse shortage plagues Med Center hospital
Bv ROSEMARY INTFEN
Staff Renorter
As more and more patients begin to fill the Belle Memorial Hospital at the University of Maryland nursing staff will become more inadequate than it already is, according to Mary Ann Cohen.
"Our staff has always been inadequate as far as the number of patients per nurse is concerned. We have also created in the number of specialized units at Bell Memorial, there will be a need for more."
The nursing shortage at the Med Center is not a new problem, Eisebauer said, and it's the same everywhere in the Kansas City area.
nurses and licensed practical nurses and 400
full and part time aides and clerks, she said
Even with the addition of 70 newly graduated RN's from the medical school, the demand has not been met, Eisenbise said.
"We automatically hire all Med Center graduates, but so many staff members come and go that our net gain is very small," she said.
"We ARE ALWAYS increasing our staff, but the number or critically ill patients that need care are still very low. We severe patients need more care, which means more nurses, and there aren't enough."
"All the hospitals are in need of more nurses, just take a look at the want ads in the paper sometime," she said.
Surgical and intensive care units are two areas where nurses will be needed most in the new hospital. Eisenbise said.
"When intensive care fits up we'd like to have one to two patients per nurse, but with an increase in the unit it's going to be tough to do," she said.
Eisenbise said the Med Center currently employs approximately 1,100 people in the nursing division. There are 711 registered
"SURGICAL NURSES are always in demand," Elisse said, "and we will definitely have a great need for them in the new surgical area."
The new unit will have enough space to accommodate 78 patients, which would require anywhere from 35 to 50 nurses on one shift if that ratio is to be met.
Eisenbise also said that the Med Center's new barn center had a short supply of nursing personnel.
Eisenbisch said Med Center officials would continue to try alleviating the nursing shortage, but until then many nurses would be asked to work overtime.
"Many of our nurses have been taken on extra shifts for several months and they really enjoy the long hours," she said. "However, some of our younger nurses
"Basically, we have sufficient positions open in all areas, but recruiting people into the jobs is the problem," she said.
value their free time more and it's a lot harder to get them to work overtime."
Elsenbie said there is no limit to the number of hours a nurse can work on a shift, but a double shift of 16 hours is usually not done more than once a week.
"We are very hopeful that the opening of Bell Memorial will attract new nurses and alleviate the shortage," Elsbense said.
SenEx approves banner proposal
By DAVID LEWIS Staff Reporter
The University Senate executive committee Friday unanimously approved the new curriculum for the American Association of University Professors to change KU's "no-banner"
The AAUP recommendations call for a policy that balances the constitutional right to freedom of speech with preservation of order at university sponsored events.
The AUPA also recommended that the "inform" team refrain from taking action against banner carriers' unless they are likely to disrupt the event or jeopardize the rights of spectators.
SenEx soon could make similar recommendations to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who would either accept it or reject it.
Before acting on the "no-banner" policy, before asking to be a member and a paragraph on the Board of Regents' Code of Conduct, which bans political advertisements at University-sponsored colleges.
Kuby, who unfailer a brownie that read, "KU Out of South Africa," at KU's Commencement May 21, was arrested on charges interfering with the duties of a officer.
SENEX WILL REVIEW the Kuky case to determine if Kuky's constitutional right to freedom of speech was infringed upon when he intervened and called down his bannner during Commencement.
The "no-banner" policy is based on a paragraph in the Board of Regents' Code of Conduct that says, "Political advertisements shall not be permitted in public places." The decision is devoted primarily to instruction, or in other enclosed areas during non-political events.
"The distribution of political handbills shall be prohibited in those areas devoted primarily to instruction or study or at the university and times of enclosed events."
In its July 5 report, the Academic and Teenure Committee, a committee of the AAPU, said the code lacked specifics concerning a "no-banner" policy.
THE COMMITTEE'S report said, "In the committee's judgment, though there is an issue with the committee's issue and campaigning for a political candidate, the Regents' Code of Conduct does not directly mandate the University's policies at university sponsored public events."
Ambrose Sartick, professor of history and a member of SenEx, said Friday that the current policy was too broad.
"It is so broad that it could lead to various problems," Saricks said. "Any kind of political display could be judged to be a violation of this policy.
"It is very necessary for all people to look for the protection of academic freedom," Srinivasan said. "It can never be taken for granted." The lapse and rights can elude by default."
"People's interest and concern have been stirred," he said, referring to the Kubu case. "I would be surprised if we don't hear new incidents concerning freedom of speech."
George Worth, professor of English and a member of SenEx, said he found the report inadequate.
T. P. Srinivasan, chapter president of AAPU, said the interest being generated by the Kubu case was important.
"If one had a political candidate on his lapel, some could argue that it would be in violation of the Regents' ruling," he said.
GERHARD ZUTHER, chairman of the department of English and chairman of SenEx, said the policy was "very stern."
SenEx also delayed the 15 recommendations from the Committee to Reduce Sexual Abuse and Exposure to Eliminate "both personal and institutional forms of racism and sexism at the level of individual."
Zather said, however, that the Kuby case was the only specific incident he could recall involving the display of banners.
Srinivasan praised SenEx for approving the AAUP's recommendations.
"I find this a very muddled report. Worth said it "wretched written." It's provocative. It's a very unfortunate document."
"THEY HAVE SHOWN great imagination in doing so," Srinivasan said. "This is a very big step in getting the 'no-hanner policy' changed."
"Many of these recommendations, it seems to me, should be the responsibility of Affirmative Action," Sherr said.
Lawrence Sherr, professor of business and a member of SenEx, also criticized the report.
Sherr said SenEx should decide if AF-Assoc would satisfy a offer University's commitment to teaching and role stereotyping and if SenEx would be resorting to "redundant actions" by apoptymology.
New collection policy to reduce default rate
Staff Reporter
By DOUG WAHL
The student default rate on National Student Loans at the University of Kansas is 4.6 percent, a projected 6.4 percent in 1979, according to Mildred Foes, head of the National Direct Loan Program.
Force said the reason for the sizable decline was a new University collection policy ordered by the federal government.
Under the policy, KU would be able to send the names of persons not responding to collection attempts to the Federal Health, Medicine and Welfare department for collection.
Force said the new policies would apply not only to KU, but to every institution receiving National Direct Student Loan funding.
Under the old system of collection, Force said the university sent statements to defaulters asking for remittance, then the account was turned over to a collection agency. If the collection agency was unsuccessful, the account was considered lost.
THE NEW HEW collection policy requires financial and officials to telephone defaulters and to send callegraphs requesting payment of the loan. Foree said.
Under the new collection program, the University can go one step further than a collection agency by sending accounts to the U.S. Office of Education in Washington, D.C.
"We didn't sit down and call people" she said, "That's not to say it was never done, but now it is required, and now it is done."
Previously, Force said her office did not telephone defaulters routinely because the old guidelines for collection set by the government did not require it.
Force said there currently were about 14,000 accounts at KU under the National Direct Student Loan program. She and KU had 800 accounts, but HEW and that all were accepted. The 464 accounts had been accumulated since 1988 when the National Direct Loan program
"We have turned over the ones that we haven't been able to collect anything at all on for two years," she said.
She also said HEW had the choice to accept or decline delinquent accounts.
IF HEW ISABLE to collect a loan that KU could not collect, it will score 80 percent of the loan reloaded under the National Direct Loan program in the first half of the current year. HWE has taken over
See NDSL page 10
Fund-raising rules trigger dispute
By JEFF SJERVEN
Staff Reporter
Confusion over rules governing Confliction of funds on campus resulted in a controversy at noon on Friday when KU police officers asked members of the KU Committee on South Africa to remove an ambulance from the lobby of the Kansas Union.
According to a KU police report, the committee's table was not authorized by the Kansas Union and committee members had their votes withdrawn. University Event Committee solicits funds.
The report also said that the group was
told to stop taking donations and to move the table outside until the management of the Kansas Union could be notified at 1 p.m.
The dispute was resolved when Katherine her assistant director of the Kansas Union donations were taken, according to Laird Oke, spokesman for the Committee on
Although the group had the right to set up a table and distribute literature, it violated
The Committee on South Africa is a group which opposes KU Endowment Association investments in multinational companies with holdings in South Africa.
Although the committee members were allowed to continue distributing literature.
University rules if it failed to get approval from the University Events Committee before asking for donations; said Ann Eversole, chairman of the Events Com-
"I DON'T THINK the Committee on South Africa made a request to solicits funds," she said. "All handling of money requires University approval."
Also, if the committee wanted to set up a table in the Kansas Union, it needed to notify Union management, according to Del Shanel, executive vice chancellor.
Okie, University rules concerning political activities needed clarification.
"THE WHILE BUSINESS needs to be clarified," he said. "We've been taking donations on campus all spring and summer and this has never happened before."
KU administrator disapproved of the committee's distribution of literature in the paper submitted to the Journal of June. Committee members agreed at that time to move their table outside the room.
Shankel said that University rules concerning student activities were being updated and would be available soon.