It still could be
SINCE 1889
Royals win 5-3;
Cardinals ice champagne
for tonight.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 38 (USPS 650-640)
HORSE HEALTH CLUB
Sunny
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David Bishir, Independence, Kan., senior, delivers a straight thrust lunge to the throat of opponent Patrick Dalton, Mission senior. The students practiced fencing techniques yesterday behind the Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall.
Foiled again
State's haste creates woes for Med Center
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
TOPEKA - The Kansas Legislature in July put the University of Kansas Medical Center in the insurance business in an effort to save the state $800,000.
But the action may end up costing the state more than it had expected to save, the state's deputy attorney general said yesterday.
University officials meet with the Legislative Budget Committee today at the Capitol to discuss the problems caused by the law.
"It's going to cost them either way," said Jeff Southard, deputy attorney general. "They're either going to have to pay the premiums or pay the money to retain lawyers and pay settlements if suits occur."
Von Ende said the state had projected that the figure for 1986 could be as high as $1.7 million and $2.5 million for 1987. Fiscal year 1986 began July 1.
Some University and state officials and legislators agree. Some of them also say the legislation was hastily enacted by the Legislature during the 1983 session.
Senate bill 362 required the Med Center to provide its own insurance for about 300 residents. This changed the previous policy of having private companies insure residents, who are
Von Ende said Monday that the increasing cost of malpractice insurance led the state to try to find ways to save money. And, he told Senate Ways and Means Committee members in April, the Med Center
In testimony before the Senate Ways and Means Committee in April, Richard von Ende, KU executive secretary, said the cost of malpractice insurance for the Med Center, which is in Kansas City, Kan., had increased steadily in the past few fiscal years.
"They were supposed to see a business school adviser," Grube said. "Students will have a less-than-ideal education didn't a business school adviser."
The bill was drafted because of increasing costs of providing residents' malpractice insurance, which helps pay for damages and legal fees in malpractice suits.
In fiscal 1983, the University paid $257,000 for malpractice insurance for its residents, and it paid $489,000 in fiscal 1984. In 1985, the cost of malpractice insurance jumped to $1.48 million.
Grube said, "Their chance of read-mittance depends on the consequences cancellation has for the student's circumstances."
Kurt Unruth, Kansas City, Mo,
sophomore, had his enrollment in two courses, Organizational Behavior,
BUS 656, and Labor Relations,
cancelled because he had not been added to the program. And his petition was not accepted.
"All they were concerned with was if I was receiving any financial aid
See APPEAL, p. 5, col. 4
licensed physicians who have returned to school for more training.
Grube said the student's circumstances included how the student had been advised and whether the student had used an adviser in the business school.
would save more than $80,000 this
year if the original bill was passed.
Changes in the House
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R.Lawrence, said the final version of Senate bill 362 had several differences from the original version introduced in the Senate.
School tells undergrads of appeals
Von Ende told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that $800,000 could be saved and a larger sum in the years to follow if the residents were made exempt from liability for malpractice damages. Residents would not need insurance if they were not liable.
"The bill initially in the Senate would have made residents exempt from malpractice liability while under the supervision of the Med Center." he said.
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
"The teacher told us the first day this was going to happen, so I guess I was expecting it. I should have dropped."
Winter said the original intent of Senate bill 382 was not to put the Med Center in the insurance business. He said confusion in the House of
The School of Business is trying everything possible to track down 80 pre-business students whose enrollment in upper-level courses was canceled last week, to inform them of their right to appeal.
Von Ende told the committee that the residents would work only under the supervision of physicians or under the direction of the Med Center.
The school is trying to reach students by mail, telephone and even in class when they cannot be reached in any other way. Corwin Crube, of the business undergraduate program, said yesterday.
John Tolleson, dean of business,
said that the school was taking such
measures to inform students because
of the large number of students in
the school who want to assure
that students will be given of their
possibility to petition, he said.
"It's really good they are trying to contact everybody," he said. "But I'm not going to petition. I realize I'm not in the business school."
Tollefon said the school was making an extra effort because of the severe consequences the cancellations would have for students this late in the semester. Sept. 27 was the last day for any student to add a class.
"This is consistent with normal procedure," Tollefson said. "I encourage students to seek advice about their situation."
Steve Cook, Wichita junior, was dropped from Labor Relations, BUS 479, because he was not admitted to the school. He said he was notified of his right to appeal by telephone late last week.
The enrollment of the 80 students was canceled because they had not taken the required courses or were not yet admitted to the school. Admittance to the school is a requirement for courses above BUS 475. The prerequisites are stated in the timetable.
See MED CENTER, p. 10, col. 1
UAW strikes Chrvsler in U.S., Canada
From Kansan wires
DETROIT — More than 80,000 employees of Chrysler Corp. in the United States and Canada struck early today in a dispute over job classifications, hiring out work to non-union factories and pay parity with other big U.S. automakers.
Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president, said 70,000 U.S. union workers walked out after company and union bargainers failed to agree on a new labor contract by midnight yesterday.
"We deeply regret that we have to announce the UAW is forced to strike the Chrysler Corp. here in the United States as of 12:01 this morning." Bieber said.
in Toronto, UAW Canada leader Robert White announced simultaneously that 10,400 Canadian Chrysler UAW workers would walk.
"We have commenced a strike at Chrysler Canada," White said.
Earlier this year White led Canadian members out of the 1.1 million-member board.
Bieber and White said talks aimed at reaching a new agreement would resume this week.
Negotiators for the company and the UAW had talked all day at Chrysler headquarters in Detroit without sending out word on the status of negotiations.
Chrysler Canada and union negotiators in Toronto had reported progress. But late last night they said the three major economic issues remained outstanding.
After he called the strike, Bieber said, "We believe that every avenue has been explored, every alternative has been examined. Both sides worked very hard to try and resolve our
differences but the gulf separating us on key issues is simply too great for us to bridge at this point.
"I'm taking this very serious action.
If I get the union does stand ready to resume
payroll."
Bieber said Chrysler failed to meet the union's chief demand of parity - equal wages and benefits - with Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.
Chrysler employees made concessions in the late 1970s and early 1980s to help keep the finan-
Chrysler workers make an average $13.23 an hour, only 6 cents behind the GM and Ford wage. However, GM and Ford workers get profit-sharing, and annual lump sum payments of 2.25 percent of their wages. Their overtime rates, pensions and other benefits also are higher than those at Chrysler.
"Otherwise we would have not waited until the last moment" to call a strike, he said.
Bieber emphasized that the two sides made acceptable progress in the last-minute talks.
The announcement of the strike was preceded by wildcat walkouts at four Chrysler plants in Detroit, suburban Warren, St. Louis and Fenton, Mo., last night. The automaker has 46 plants in 15 states and six in Canada.
There had been more optimism after Chrysler agreed to move from a monetary proposal similar to one made to 70,000 U.S. employees and closer to a Canadian pattern set last year with General Motors of Canada Ltd. and Ford Motor Co. Canada Ltd.
The strike will cost the automaker more than $7 million a day in lost sales revenue in Canada and about $12 million a day in the United States, company spokesman Arvid Jouvi said.
Blood tested for AIDS virus
Bv. Jacki Kelly
Special to the Kansan
For the first time, every unit of blood that is donated in the American Red Cross campus blood drive will be tested for the antibody that may donor resources as a distant director of the Wichita region said yesterday.
Terri Dunaway, the assistant director, said that all blood donated in this region, which includes the northern part of Oklahoma and most Kansas, excluding the Topeka and Kansas City areas, is tested for the HTLV-III virus, which is thought to cause AIDS. The Red Cross also tested for hepatitis, syphilis and blood type.
The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council are sponsoring the Red Cross campus blood drive, which began yesterday and will be 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and tomorrow at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Nolan Goldberg, Prairie Village senior, who donated blood yesterday, said, "I've attempted before to give blood, but because of taking allergy medicines I was turned down.
The blood drive collected 207 units yesterday, said Ruth Meulbroek, charge nurse for the drive. Eleven donors were deferred for various reasons.
"I'm glad I got to give this time."
In Kansas, the testing began March 12, she said.
"It is a national move at all Red Cross centers." Dunaway said.
The test is called the enzyme immunoassay test, which screens for DNA synthesis, as said Georgiina Defner; technical coordinator of the Red Cross.
Thirty-two AIDS victims live in Kansas, and seven Kansans are suspected of having AIDS, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Some screening is done before patients donate blood.
Defner said, "We cannot ask sexual preference, though every donor is required to read the 'What you should know about giving blood' pamphlet on this page. They are asked to self-delfer if they consider themselves a high-risk donor.
She said that gay groups in Kansas had helped reduce the number of high-risk donors by distributing their own pamphlets asking homosexual males not to donate blood.
Matt Holman, Salina freshman, who donated blood yesterday, said he thought the testing was essential
"It is asking without directly asking. We have had people leave after reading the pamphlet."
"I know it's something I'd want to
know," he said. "It would be an early warning mechanism."
The patients whose blood tests positive in the original testing for the HTLVIII virus or positive for hepatitis are put on the local Red Cross Donor Deferral Register, which includes names of all individuals indefinitely deferred from giving blood. Defner said.
She said that those with syphilis were put on a deferred list until they were treated and no longer tested positive. The units that show positive are then run through the Western Blot test.
Defner said that if the Western Blot test was positive and the patient had symptoms of AIDS, he was considered a high-risk donor and his name would be put on the national Red Cross deferral register.
As of Oct. 4, 167 of the 55,574 units of blood donated in the Wichita region tested positive for the HTVL-III antibody, Defner said. Four of the 167 units that tested positive for the first test also tested positive in the Western Blot test.
Dunaway said all blood that tested positive on the first test was destroyed regardless of how it tested on the Westepn Blot test.
Donors are notified if their blood tests show positive for the HTLV-III
See BLOOD, p. 5, col.1
Paul Goodman/KANSAN
Cheyli Miller, a nurse technician from the American Red Cross in Wichita, takes a blood donation from Cindy Donaldson. Huston freshman. Yesterday, 207 units of blood were collected during the first day of the Red Cross campus blood drive, which continues today and tomorrow at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Reading skills can be passport to new worlds
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
Many adults cannot write checks, prepare a grocery list, read road signs or fill out job applications.
"Books open up a new world for people and can take you places money can't," said the student, who asked not to be identified. "Reading also makes you feel self-sufficient, so no one can take advantage of you."
But the biggest problem for functionally illiterate adults is that they are afraid to show their weaknesses and admit they cannot read or write; a student in the Lawrence Adult Education Program said yesterday.
Adult Basic Education, one part of
the Lawrence Adult Education Program, tutors students with limited reading skills. Teachers also instruct in basic life skills, such as health and nutrition, budgeting and balancing a checkbook, she said.
In another part of the program, a student can earn a General Education Diploma, the equivalent of a high school diploma. The GED readies the adult for a test in reading, social studies, natural sciences, mathematics and writing skills.
The 38-year-old student said she had realized the importance of reading for people in the computer age.
"Unless they learn how to read, they will always be dependent, and
they are not going to be very happy," she said.
Linda McGuire, a teacher in the program, said the program worked in conjunction with the Literacy Volunteers of America, which provides training to help functionally illiterate adults.
The cost to taxpayers because of welfare checks, crime, loot taxes and remedial education of functional il-
"To me those figures are really staggering." McGuire said.
According to 1980 U.S. Census Bureau figures, 430,000 Kansans — about 17 percent of the state's 2.5 million residents — do not have a high school diploma or are not enrolled in adult education programs.
A U.N. report placed the United States 49th in literacy among the 158 members of the United Nations.
literates was $308 billion, according to a study conducted in 1972 by the U.S. Senate.
The East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp., 331 Maine St, which provides the Adult Education Program, uses 10-15
Between 25 and 30 students are enrolled in the Lawrence Adult Education Program. Five or six are below the fourth grade reading level, and about three others are below the first grade level — they still need to learn the alphabet and the sounds of letters. McGuire said.
volunteers to teach functional illiterates, she said.
Anyone interested in being a tutor for the Adult Education Program should call 841-3357.
Robert S. Raymond, a volunteer and former distinguished professor at Washburn University and Ohio State University, believed because he wanted to be busy.
"A年 ago, I had not met anyone who could not read or write," he said. "Now I know about 50."
Raymond teaches the basic ABCs in the program. After students understand the basics they can move up to the remedial programs, he said.
See READING, p. 5, col. 5