KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, December 8, 1980
Vol. 91, No. 72 USPS 650-640
Prescription forgery, theft plague Med Center
By BILL VOGRIN
and BILL MENEZES Staff Reporters
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-A syringe full of Demarol, a dose of relief for a patient in pain, is squeezed into a sterile cup and saved for later, maybe a lunch-break high.
An intern plans a big weekend party and writes a prescription for a patient who paints the fence. He gets a pocket knife and then packets
A pharmacist restocking a drug cart takes a few of the sleeping pills and pain killers for himself, knowing that the cart will not be inventoried and the medicine will not be missed.
These stories, told by administrative officials and sources at the University of Kansas Medical School, were published in *Medical Journal*.
and abuse of prescription-writing privileges that plague the Med Center, they say.
THE MED CENTER pharmacy and several nursing wards are the primary problem areas, according to the sources, and administrative personnel. In addition, the "honor system" as drug-control weaknesses.
Drug control is a nationwide problem, and studies show a dramatic increase in pharmacy theft and other related problems, according to the Pharmaceutical Association in Washington, D.C.
"In 1797 there were four pharmacists killed in holdups," Simons said. "And a recent study showed that there has been a 500 percent rise in drug use against retail pharmacies in the last 10 years."
In Kansas, Harold Godwin, director of the Med center pharmacy, admits that forgery of drugs is a common problem.
is a problem, but he downplays the amount of theft in other areas at the Med Center.
Employees of the Med Center in nursing, pharmacy and orderly positions say internal drug theft and drug abuse exist at the center. Med Center officials admit only that prescription drugs are used to treat students are on an honor system and easily can abuse their privileges, the officials said.
"Forgery is our biggest vulnerability," Godwin said two weeks ago. "When you talk about weak points, that is it. People get hurt." So he'll tell them out for 100 or so pills. It is a problem."
DESPITE COLOR coding on prescription pads, special numbers for narcotics and even special security measures to lock up the pads. This system is in general the biggest drux-control problem.
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going on here. It is a problem all over the state," Godwin said.
Goldwin said pads were often stolen from doctors and interns who leave them in the pocket of their lab coats. Any person can pick up a pad, but not everyone is prepared, with the correct style, obtain a prescription.
"We keep the pads locked up, and the pads for narcotics are color coded, but still it happens."
Godwin is correct in classifying the problem as statewide, according to Doug Johnson, executive director of the Kansas Pharmacy Association in Topeka.
JOHNSON SAID a survey of all state pharmacies of the five largest states furnished a forexcription a month.
"We took the survey to see if the problem was as bad as we suspected, and it was," Johnson said last week. "Prescription forgery is a big problem all across the state."
According to Godwin, extensive precautions are taken at the Med Center to prevent forgery, but it is difficult to stop. Godwin also said there were extensive precautions taken to stop theft due to drugs, but employees at the Med Center said theft and abuse were also difficult to stop.
Godwin said that interns could legally write prescriptions and that it was almost impossible to determine whether those were legitimate prescriptions.
"Intern can write scripts, and a med student can probably, write one if he really wants to."
He said if a student acted as if he knew what he was doing, he probably could fill a prescription.
"We've got to trust some people," Godwin said. "But we try to limit it to professional people who have licenses to lose if they do something illegal."
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Combined KU choirs accrue to "Hack the Herald Angels Sing" at the annual Christmas Vespers concert yesterday at Hoch Auditorium. The groups performed two concerts.
Bookstore sells Javhawk logo, collects profits
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Writer
The smiling Jayhawk is no longer a free bird.
The smiling Jayhawk is no longer a free bird. The University of Kansas, tired of supporting its feathered friend, asked the bird to go out and get a job. And the Jayhawk did.
But who collects the paychecks?
The University, which owns the copyright on the Jayhawk, has appointed the Kansas Union Bookstore as the agent for administering bird-rights. But while the Jayhawk is selling itself, no one is quite sure how much money it can earn, or where that money will go.
"We have not agreed on a split," Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas University Police Department, said.
THE BOOKSTORE receives a fee for negotiating sales and doing the paperwork. A company can contract to print the Jayhawk on anything from beer mugs to bath mats. The bookstore's sales are for between 5 and 10 percent of the gross sales, depending on the item being sold.
Jayhawk items are sold in the Union bookstore and retail stores across the country, although they are not as widespread as other more famous brands. Jayhawk is said to have traveled as far as Japan.
"We just started this last summer," Ferguson
WHILE ONLY A few companies responded to the bookstore's initial request for its cut of the profits. Ferguson said he did not think the company manufactured from using the wicked wonder.
said. "Not much has been collected yet. I certainly don't expect any substantial amount of money, but we have no previous experience to go by."
But Steve Word, who is in charge of processing requests for the crimson-and-blue mascot, estimated the bookstore's share of the business companies using the Jayhawk may be as high as $200.00.
"This is very new at KU," Word said. "We're still issuing agreements to vendors. For the first year I have no idea of how much we'll make. But it can be lucrative."
"The bookstore wants to be sure you maintain a certain quality and meet safety safety requirements. That's why we percentage of our sales, but that certainly won't prevent us from manufacturing for them.
Don DelaPina of the Princess Toy Co., Cannon Falls, Minn., said that although his company did little business with the Kansas Union, the Kansans had gross sales of its product was reasonable.
"It's really a minimal amount."
The Princess Toy Co. turns out plush and
specialized versions of the Jayhawk,
about 10 inches tall.
But Jim Rising, who works in the sales department of the VelvaSheen Co. in Cincinnati, said the request was reasonable "with some reservations."
The University of California at Los Angeles bookstore is proof that companies will accept this kind of program—and that it can work. UCLA implemented a similar program five years ago. The Associated Students of UCLA, a student board, sets policy and grants licenses.
VELVASHEEN manufactures T-shirts and sportwear with the Jayhawk insignia printed on
"All we do is tack KU's percentage on the price," he said. "The consumer pays for it."
THE UCLA BOOKSTORE, the largest store in
the country specializing in muscled merchandise,
historic books, antiques and collectibles.
Rissing called the program an inconvenience. "They are simply raising the cost to the student body," he said. "I guess they can justify that."
"The program has been quite successful," Tim Bailey of the UCLA bookstore said. "We simply license the use of our name. The royalty income last year was $385,000."
But, Bailley cautioned, the UCLA store made only $20,000 to $30,000 during the first year under Wynn's ownership.
"Our income goes to the university," Bailey said. "The chancellor decides where it should go."
Wherever the money ends up, it will be more than the amount previously earned from the Jayhawk—none. Richard Von Ende, executive secretary to the chancellor, said it was the first time anyone had been required to pay to use the emblem.
THE ADMINISTRATION became aware that companies were using the bird in air ways that were not always complimentary to the University, and this prompted the move to copyright.
"To my knowledge, no action has been taken against anyone who used the emblem." Von Ende said. "Those who have used it since we instituted the copyright have been notified."
Jayhawks have appeared on T-shirts in drunken stumps or smoking joints, among other non-competitive poses. This image is used in Dickie Thomas's book to Vickie Thomas, University general counsel.
Van Ende did not remember the exact date, he thought the, Jayhawk was copyrighted.
For now, no one seems to know where the money will go at KU.
"Some companies contacted us and asked whether they could use it," he said. "We gave permission."
Von Ende said the University did not plan to ask companies that had established the Jayhawk as part of their trademark to discontinue its use. The university also provides services and Hotel Jayhawk in Topeka as examples.
Weather
It will be cloudy and cold today with a high in the mid-30s, according to the KU Weather Service.
Light rain or freezing drizzle will continue throughout today, possibly changing to snow tonight. Tonight's low will be around 20.
It will be warmer tomorrow with a high in the 40s. The warm trend will continue with Friday's high in the 50s.
City to vote on paraphernalia sales
The Lawrence City Commission will vote tomorrow night on an ordinance that limits the sale and display of drug paraphernalia to minor, Mayor Ed Carter said yesterday. The vote comes in the wake of the Kansas Supreme Court ruling that a similar Overtand Park ordinance Saturday.
The commission had planned to vote on a paraphernalia ordinance last spring, but decided to wait until the Overland Park law was reviewed by the Kansas Supreme Court.
Both the Overland Park ordinance and the
He said the Lawrence ordinance would not limit the sale of cigarette papers and pipes not
Carter said the Lawrence ordinance was intended to limit the advertising and exposure of television programs.
proposed Lawrence ordinance outlaw the sale and display of marjuaniana pipes, cocaine spores and simulated drugs to minors. The ordinances require that all drug-related items within 500 feet of a school.
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Staff Reporter
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
Bates, Lansing junior, estimated she would have had 5 years of year because of the bad advising she received.
Faculty advisers not always doing job, students say
For two years Debra Bates trusted her academic advisers and took the classes they recommended. This semester she discovered she had been required for admission in her professional school.
Bates is among students who, during their
in and out of advisers, office before enrollment.
She characterized the attitude of her faculty advisers as傲骨 and uncaring and a kind, caring character.
SO INSTEAD OF tolerating what she considered a "runaround" from secretaries, administrators and advisers in the school, Bates dropped out of the program.
"We went over my schedule," Bates said. "No one said I needed the two courses in order to get
I gave me some worthless courses to take.
I needed to look for need. I could have taken something i really needed.
Lewis said she thought arrangements could have been made for her if someone had spent the time to advise her instead of telling her to leave. She had told them, "Since then, Lewis has changed her career goals."
STUDENTS HAVE A Right to good advising,
tests said, especially when the freshmen and
baskets are on.
That right comes to a student as a consumer of education, according to J. Wesley Miller, a teacher at North Carolina State University.
Deb Lewis, Winfield junior, said she had to stay at KU for an extra semester because the schools of Business and Education couldn't tell courses to take to become a business instructor.
Writing for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Miller said students should not be advised by teachers who take on advising responsibilities to them. He said he would advise students to snare students for underenrolled courses.
Acting Chancellor Del Shankel said he thought the University would accept responsibility for misadvising a student if that misadvising could be proven.
"If we could verify that a student was misadvised and later could not fill the requirements," Shankel said, "we generally could say we accept responsibility.
"We don't think our students are incapable of reading. Students have to bear some responsibility."
"Faculty members have a responsibility to give good, confident advice and the University has to accept some responsibility for faculty members and advising."
ZAMIR BAVEL, professor of computer science at many students frustrated with the advancing system.
"It's difficult to see how discharged they are," Bavel said. "They have other things to do than sit around. Students aren't complaining, but I think perhaps they should have been."
"Advising at the University is not always at the convenience of the students. They have that
Bavel and two other computer science faculty members have recently formed a committee to address the issues.
The committee recognized a need for organized, complete student advising and decided to develop an advising system for their department. Bavel said.
STUDENTS INTERESTED in computer science are asked to make appointments with faculty members before the end of this semester and are asked to wait for enrollment for an adjuvant, he said.
"Appointments will last twenty minutes each," Bavel said, "of each of us can take a good look at the student's record, what they are doing, and what course they what courses they can take. All the small detail."
"For once, we are hoping the advising process will not be a horrendous experience for the girl."
Steve Goldman, director for freshman-
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