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Med Center may absorb $2 million budget cut
Bv COLLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Although faced with a $2 million budget cut, KU Medical Center officials are trying to resist imposing a hiring freeze and have assured students that their classes will not be canceled.
"We are not going to fire anyone or change any classes," said D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor of the Med Center.
Clawson said each Med Center department would decide individually how it wanted to absorb its budget cuts. The departments include each of the four schools, the budget and accounting offices, and the departments of facilities operations and planning.
The $2 million cut is a result of Governor-elect Mike Hayden's proposal Wednesday that state spending could be cut by 3.8 percent to make up for a revenue shortfall and to balance the state budget.
The Legislature must approve the cuts before the cuts can take effect.
Under the probable cutbacks, each of the Med Center's academic departments must reduce its budget by 2.3 percent and each of the service departments must reduce its budget by 3.1 percent.
Each department must present its proposed cuts to Clawson by noon today.
Clawson said each department was allowed to propose its own cuts so the department could meet its goals.
"It will be difficult for all of us, but we must have an equity principle," he said. "With a $2 million reduction, four years after a similar reduction in 1983 that was never reinstated, this is a major concern."
The Med Center is handling the budget reduction differently than the Lawrence campus, he said, because of a shift in funding. The effect of the cut on the hospital.
He said he suspected that each department would reduce its budget by keeping some of the currently vacant faculty, secretarial and maintenance positions open until the reduction was reinstated.
He also said that plans to purchase equipment might be delayed.
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*Stereo equipment, keys and a watch, valued together at $3,170, were taken between 6 a.m. and noon Sunday from a residence in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, Lawrence police reported.
A pair of snow skis valued at $295 were taken between 11 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday from a car and headed to the Lake Shawk Tower. KU police report.
A lamp, records. Tupperware containers, a picture frame, briefcase, books and pens, valued together at $246, were taken between 11:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday from a car parked in the lot between Naismith Hall and Robinson Gymnastium. KU police reported.
A bicycle valued at $256 was taken about 5 a.m. Friday from an apartment in the 1600 block of Haskell Avenue, Lawrence police reported.
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By COLLEEN SIEBES
Dave Jonas, left, and Tony Ice, Athletic Department workers, begin to hang the 1952 men's basketball NCA championship banner. Jonas and ice were hanging the banner yesterday afternoon in Allen Field House.
C. C. Cheng, director of the Drug Development Laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center, last week was awarded $115,500 from the American Cancer Society to continue anti-cancer research in his fight against the disease that killed his mother.
The 58-year old chemist and professor of pharmacology has worked with the National Cancer Institute since 1954 in his attempt to battle cancer.
"With people all over the world working for a cure, I have no doubt that the answer can be found."
"I the answer is definitely yes," he said yesterday, "I'm sure cancer can be conquered.
During the last 32 years, Cheng has developed 3,000 compounds for the institute.
The institute has validated 150 of his compounds, but DHAQ, an anticancer compound he helped develop 10 years ago, is the most effective, he said.
Recently the drug, DHAQ, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and was hailed by the American Chemical Society this month as a "significant discovery in the treatment of cancer."
In 1976. Cheng and Robert ZeeCheeg, a research professor at the Med Center, developed DHAQ, or Mixantrone, which was shown to reduce the size of tumors and in some cases prevent cancer from recurring after it had gone into remission.
During the past 10 years doctors in the United States, Belgium, China and Japan have been clinically testing the drug on cancer patients.
Cheng has also worked on developing treatments for malaria, he said. In 1963, Cheng was one of a group of chemists that was asked by the U.S. Army to develop a drug to treat soldiers in Vietnam for malaria.
effective in treating breast cancer and leukemia. The drug is not used to treat cancer of the lungs, brain or digestive system.
Tests on more than 5,000 patients indicate that DHAQ is particularly
DHAQ is as effective as adriamycin but does not cause serious side effects. Adriamycin, which has been used to treat cancer patients for more than 20 years, causes heart and liver damage, white blood cell loss, nausea and hair loss, he said.
Cheng said he was reluctant at first because he didn't want to work on a project that could have had political implications.
Too much adriamycin can kill elderly people. Cheng said.
Test stress, illness may not be linked
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BOSTON - College students may find exams nauseating, but a new study suggests that the stress of these grueling rituals isn't likely to make them more vulnerable to infections.
The idea has long been accepted by many that college students are more likely than usual to get sick during exam time, because the stress of studying for tests and taking them weaken their natural immunity to disease.
nfections.
"I think there really is a connection between stress and illness, but not where students and exams are concerned," said Harris Faigel, physician and director of health services at Brandeis University.
Students actually went to the doctor less, not more, during exams.
Fingel reviewed nearly 40,000 student visits during four years for treatment of strep throat, mononucleosis and urinary tract
'I think there really is a connection between stress and illness, but not where students and exams are concerned.'
Harris Faigel
Brandeis University physician
probably because they felt they were too busy to get medical help.
Iness at exam time.
He said the notion that students were more likely to be sick during tests may have come about because there is more talk about stress and il-
A variety of studies suggest that stress is far more damaging if it's inescapable.
But students can do something about exams, Faigel said.
"Students probably constitute an escapable stress," Faigel said. "When you are studying, you can get up and take a break. There's a sense of having some control."
Basketball discussed by Brown
And even though exams are inevitable, students know that it will soon be over.
Researchers elsewhere have found that students' immune systems appear to be suppressed on exam day. Blood tests show that some of their disease-fighting blood cells are less potent or less numerous during exams.
Faigel said this may only be a one day drop in their immune defenses, not enough to significantly increase the risk of disease.
By NANCY BARRE
Men's basketball head coach Larry Brown said yesterday that he would have to adjust to the fact that he wouldn't be able to stomp his feet during halftimes this season.
But Brown, who is still recovering from hip surgery he underwent last spring, said being unable to stomp wasn't the only thing he would have to adjust to this year.
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Brown, who spoke in a question and answer forum sponsored by the KU Student Bar Association, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of this year's basketball team. About 60 people attended the forum in Green Hall.
He said the youthfulness of this year's team would be the biggest problem. This year's team lost three starting seniors from last year's
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The team's biggest asset, he said, is its attitude and willingness to work.
"We're not as good as we looked when we played against the Russians," he said. "The reason I say we're not as good is because we just had better players last year. This year's players are all so young."
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"For the first time in a long time, I can honestly say that I really don't know where we stand right now," Brown said. "The one thing I do know, is that everywhere we go right now, we get great effort."
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Brown said he thought the Jayhawks probably would win the first two games of the season against the University of Tennessee at Martin and Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. Both games will be played in Lawrence.
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He said he was more concerned about the next few games on the schedule. Those teams all had played their moments in the last few years, be said.
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"One of the hardest things I had to face when I came to Kansas is that we didn't know how to win — like the football team. The football team just steps out on the field and they think something bad is going to happen."
"It's good that we'll be playing some tough teams because I always feel you get better when you play good teams," he said. "But I just don't want our team to lose confidence.
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"Even the Russian coach remarked how well we worked together." Brown said. "It's really important to work well together. The team that's going to start is not necessarily the best players, but the people who play best together."
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