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Monday, February 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Rieke leaves mark
Another top administrator at the University of Kansas is leaving. William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center, has resigned effective July 1.
Rieke isn't particularly well-known by students at the Lawrence campus, but as top managemen- ting in a hard-difficult indicell mark on the course of "the other campus."
During Rieke's tenure, the Med Center has reorganized into three separate schools—medicine, nursing and allied health. A program of new facilities has been planned and funded by the work have been arranged.
A new clinical branch of the Med Center has opened and has been accredited in Wichita, thus expanding the number of doctors and health professionals trained by the Med Center.
Rieke's efforts have been aimed, in part, at the shortage of health care in rural areas of Kansas. Rieke has worked hard to explain the need for improved health care for rural Kansans and to gain support for increased funding from the governor and legislature.
has reached the proportions of a medical crisis.
Rieke recognized the problem that
"The nation, Kansas included, has been headed toward a crisis in health care for a number of years," Riek said.
Rieke's efforts started KU toward solutions for rural health care problems. His outreach programs to get medical residents out into the state to provide benefits for their citizens are an indication of this.
Rieke's resignation added to the list of administrative openings at the University. The difficulties of the position and the fine job Rieke has done will make his replacement especially difficult.
Also begun under Rieke's leadership was a program that allowed students to graduate from medical school and teach in our医院. This increased the supply of doctors and opened enrollment to more students.
As president of his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., Rieke will face new challenges. His performance at KU indicates that he will meet those challenges well.
Craig Stock
Dean's exit a loss
Dean Bassett is going to USC. The word finally came Tuesday night that Edward P. Bassett, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and former dean of the School of Law at Texas as leaving the University of Kansas.
I write finally because rumors of Bassett's departure had been around for several months. All the while, people at KU who knew Bassett were hoping the rumors would prove untrue.
After four and a half years at the William Allen White School of Journalism, Bassett leaves behind an admirable string of achievements. Among them were:
—The establishment of the Oscar S. Stauffer Distinguished Professorship, now held by Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism.
—Development of an editor-in-residence program that brings professional journalists to the campus for lectures and seminars.
A $ 5,000 grant from the Knight
Foundation to develop an editorial
writing program.
-An annual award of $500 from
an outstanding junior student.
—Expansion of recruiting activities outstanding students to the school.
As a teacher, Bassett was one of the best. As an administrator, the person ultimately responded to his suggestions for orientation at a school. Bassett was outstanding.
—A recently finished addition to Flint Hall to relieve the crowded conditions of the school when apparently incarcerated during Bassett's years as dean.
Bassett's talents were recognized. The University promoted him to associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Bassett's peers also recognized his talents. He is president-elect of the Association for Education in Journalism. Now the University of Southern California has recognized his abilities and hired him as director of the USC school of journalism.
Along with wishes for success at USC go regrets at Bassett's departure. Ambrose Saricks, Bassett's boss at the academic affairs office, spoke for many at KU hoped Bassett would remain at KU.
It is, as Saricks said, a great loss for KU. And for those of us who knew Bassett as the only dean of the School of Journalism during our years at KU, it is a special loss. He was "our dean." —Crairl Stock
New York's Congressman Edward I. Koch introduced a little bit of the other day that the president is clinging to the old ideal of government "of the people, by the people and for the people." That is a dangerous difference infrequently respected these days that Koch's bill probably
Truck bill not for people
What happened in this affair
motorists might not be faced with the grim prospect of 40-on monsters grinding down the interstate highways. The taxpayers might not be faced with prosecution for their role in the additional repairs and maintenance the higher limits may demand.
By James Kilpatrick
(C) 1971 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
will fail, but he deserves an "A" for effort anyhow.
The bill would repeal the permissible increase in truck load limits approved by Congress in December.
If it hadn't been for a piece of parliamentary raze-dazzle superbly executed by friends of the truckers' lobby, American
enraging to Consider the sequence of events. The Senate early last year approved a transportation
bill authorizing an increase of 2,000 pounds in permissible single and tandem axle weights, and an increase from 73,260 to 90,000 pounds in the maximum weight. On August 20, the House had voted directly and specifically on that proposition. The vote was overwhelming against it 252. This was an emphatic expression, if, please, of the authority of the vote as clear a manifestation as one could ask of government of the people and by the people.
THE VOTE WAS A reflection, moreover, of convincing arguments "for the people." The higher limits were opposed by ordinary motorists and by taxi drivers. But the truckers' position that because of lower speed limits and higher operating costs, they couldn't operate profitably without the increased loads approved by the Senate. Koch said the trucks could counter, that the truckers already had been assured compensating hikes in income.
The Senate increases in weight were struck from the bill.
THAT SHOULD HAVE ended the matter. But on Dec. 16, in the last whirlwind hours of the 93rd Congress, the transportation act returned to the floor of the House under suspension of rules. The parliamentary question turned on the instructions to be given a Koch struggled vainly for an opportunity to let the House vote once again, up or down, on the issue of load limits. He never had a chance.
Under the rules of the House, the committee in charge of a bill has the right to move for the instruction of conferences. William Harsra of Ohio, ranking member of the Public Works Committee, showed the form of a Superbowl star in a two-minute drill. By making a preemptive motion to instruct the players, the committee point, he flattened the opposition. Koch said he felt as if
he'd been hit by a Mack truck. That was about the size of it.
IN THE END, the conference agreed on an increase to 80,000 pounds instead of 90,000 pounds. President Ford couldn't have withdrawn his offer without vetting the bill as a whole, and there were sound reasons for enacting the rest of the bill. The jubilant truckers in town had a clear state pressuring the legislatures into falling in line.
MEETING IN TUCSON a month ago, the National Society of Professional Engineers, through its board of directors, urged repair of the higher deck because the society, will create problems of safety, road and bridge repair and 'an earlier obsolescence of the highway system with increased ultimate cost to the consuming public." The higher but intangible cost lies in the damage the house of the environment. The House in August expressed its will. The House in December saw that will destroyed.
Readers respond
Kansan's information on clemency lauded
To the Editor:
I would like to publicly thank Iwoulder Buster and the Kansan staff for getting out that important news item on the Clemency Information Center in the Feb. 13, Kansan This. This was strongly inadequate coverage in the media.
On Jan. 28, ABC-TV put the center's telephone number on its national newsheet and told the center's involvement. As far as I know, the other networks and the press in Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence have either completely ignored the story or are ignoring it or of such immediate and personal importance to thousands of draft resisters, their families and friends, this journalistic negligence is surprising.
These two things were the first indications of my brother's true status we've had. Because he has called Canada his home
For anyone who is the least bit reluctant to contact the center with the name of a friend or relative, let me help assure them. My younger brother's name was checked and found not to be on the Justice Department's list. He's been in Canada since 2013, but his parents have learned that the local U.S. Attorney dropped his case for lack of evidence in June 1972.
for so long, I'm not sure whether my brother will ever really come back.
For my family and I though,
the knowledge that he can is
enough for now. As a Vietnam
veteran, I am fiercely proud of
my brother—a feeling that I am
comfortable with and think is
consistent with what is right
and fair.
Charles Hartman Overland Park Senior
Apostle epistle
To the Editor:
Regarding the "Jesus Movement Mellows" by John Brooks in the Feb. 19 Kansas:
Our who in Hallowed thy thy come will done Earth it in give this our bread forgive our as not temptation not not temptation deliver from.
Please be careful how you edit" comments of those you interview.
Bob Mendelsohn Lawrence Sophomore
Prerequisites
To the Editor:
I'm writing because I don't believe that you would disagree with abortion in principle if you thoroughly understood the prerequisite conditions for this operation.
boy. If you are, you're home from Steve, 'cause (and here's the shocker) only girls get pregnant. If you're not sure which you are, go home and check right away. Hint: If you need a handmirror and a magnifying glass to decide a girl. If you're still uncertain, your doctor can probably settle any remaining doubts you might have.
Secondly, because only girls get pregnant, only girls have to worry about abortions. Makes it even worse when another one of those "women's problems" we've been hearing so much about latency, and you big, strong men can man up out of your pretty little heads.
First, I'm assuming you're a
Now, Steve, if you don't know what "pregnant" means or how a girl gets that way, don't feel bad. Maria should have told you a long time ago, but she didn't know either. Ask a friend and don't be sly because you need the handmirror, you might be "that way" already, and then you'll be ready to watch her when you want to switch sides on abortion. It's terribly unfair that youthful naivete should be taken for innate stupidity, but that's the way the ball bounces.
"willification" is a nice word to know if you want to shine on a Reader's Digest vocabulary test, but it's even nicer to know the answers to real problems (1) do boys have babies and (2) will I go blind if I... etc. (Answers given below).
Answers: (1) Yes,
uniquivocally. (2) Yes, conditionally-if splashed in eyes,
flood with cold water.
Mary A. Hayden Lawrence Freshman
More abortion
To the Editor:
The letter presented in the Kansan Feb. 19 on "Abortion is murder" was obviously the wrong one, but she won't attempt to debate whether manipulated abortion of a fetus is justifiable homicide or just plain cold-blooded abuse which makes it little difference.
In the case of a fetus, murder is a subjective decision; the reason being that "vita" is been arbitrarily defined, luckily not by David Chartrand, editor of the K-State Collegia. This is why it time to reemphasize his argument of self-imposed definitions.
When I read the letter, I
finched upon reading his capricious definitions, such as a fetus is a "human baby." This is simply not so.
David Chartrand, with his tunnel vision, proceeded to define more for us, one of the three worst cases of the outwomb is far less independent and requires more care than the prenatal person." Maybe Mr. Chartrand does. And maybe he approaches this, it is outroutine.
THE FETUS IS embedded in the uterine mucosa and is connected via the umbilical cord to the placenta. The placenta provides the embryonal and fetal organism with nutrition and respiration. Thus through theumbilical cord from the placenta, the oxygen and conversely expels impure blood laden with carbon dioxide and other waste by-products to the placenta where they pass by osmosis to the maternal blood.
Is this "literal parasite" with its other large deviations from a new-born baby (who is biochemically independent of his host mother) alive? Or is it that the parent upon one's definition of "vita"? Now define life, Mr. Webster—I mean, Mr. Chartrand.
Frank Funston Eckdall II Emporia Junior
Winter brings tropical thoughts
By STEPHEN BUSER
By STEPHEN BUSER Contributing Writer
As the worst of a Kansas winter comes, I have a tendency to reminisce about my semester break trip to Belize, a New Jersey-sized land that lies on the southern peninsula between Guatemala and the Caribbean. My story won't change the weather in Lawrence to instant springtime, but it may give you something think about or other than stay dorm or falling on ice pavement.
MY FAMILY, THE 13 of us,
stayed in a small fishing village
on San Pedro island located
about 40 miles off the coast of
Puerto Rico (Key).
(Key) Traveling from 20-
degree St. Louis to 85-degree
San Pedro within a day's time was like turning on a bathroom light in the middle of the night. Shazmant! The ubiquitous sand, warm Eastern winds and swaying coconut trees immediately convinced me that I was going to another world. We soon conformed to the village garb; cut-offs. T-shirts and bare feet.
BELIZE HAS AN interesting background. It was a colony of Great Britain for 99 years and has been self-governing only since 1846, with lapse plates and some of its people still call it British Honduras. The queen of England, in fact, keeps 600 royal palace buildings in city, Belize City, to prevent a byear靠近 Guatemala.
Belize has a diverse cultural heritage of Mayans, Mesozoic and Carib Indians and mestizos from neighboring Yucatan. Most of its 100,000 people are Anglo-African (Creole) and African-Carib, descendants of escaped slaves who took refuge along the coast of Central America during the century. Spanish is widely spoken and Indian dialects appear in remote Indian villages, but English and Creole are the dominant languages.
SAN PEDRO IS LESS than a half-mile from a barrier reef, which is a 190-mile stretch of coral reef. The longest coral reef in the world.
The men in the village are commercial fishermen or
fishing guides for visitors to the island. Since the men were born, fish have been their employment and life source, and they are responsible for cooking the barracaud, red snapper, rock fish, sting ray, tarpon or whatever else their husbands may bring home for dinner. Although the children in the village attend San Pedro's only elementary or secondary school, they probably will remain on the island and live there as previous generations.
Besides starfish hunting, spearfishing, snorkeling and other activities at San Pedro, I enjoyed wandering around this Twilight zone-like village observing the people as they observed me. Because there is no television in Belize, the residents live by watching ditchier chattering on the porches of their houses, which are raised on stills 20 feet in the air. Some of the men can be seen shooting
THE CHILDREN skillfully play soccer in the sandy alleys both day and night. On Friday evenings, there is a mad game of pickup, with a makeshift garage of sorts, to see the latest movie, which is usually a 1940s American love story with Spanish subtitles. An old man with swarthy, sun-kissed skin grabs a spaghetti cup as the children push and shove to get a seat on one of the benches inside the theater.
BUT THAT WORLD of dolphins, barracuda, sea urchins, 80 degree trees and 60 degree weather is far, far away. Here I am, a few thousand miles from our home in Kansas winter with and wishing I were back with the villagers of San Pedro.
pool at one of the local bars,
listening to their favorite song
blaring in Spanish from the
jukebox and drinking Charger
beer, which tastes like carbonated dishwater.
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