University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 14, 1986
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Firing of nurse upheld in AIDS case decision
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON — The firing of a public-health nurse for refusing to care for an AIDS patient was upheld yesterday by the Reno County Commission.
"I feel a little sick . . I'm not sure if I'll ever get another job in nursing." Margaret Durr said after the 3-0 vote upheld a decision of the county Public Health Department.
Durr was fired last month after she refused to provide care for a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
She told the county commission that she should have the right to refuse a case she didn't think she could handle and that she thought
was dangerous.
The health department maintained she had a professional responsibility to the patient, that she was not in any danger and that she was being asked to do routine tasks she was well-trained to carry out.
"At the time, I did what I felt was right (based on) my knowledge and education. At the time, I felt unsafe," she said.
Joe O'Sullivan, an attorney who represented the health department, said, "I can't speak about other health departments in terms of insubordination but the nurses in our health department are expected to perform the duties that come with the scope of their prime responsibility."
About 10 KU students participated last week in the fourth annual Midwest Hispanic American Leadership Conference at the McCormick Hotel in Chicago.
By a Kansan reporter
Hispanic political role discussed at conference
The students attended workshops on political, women's and youth opportunity issues. The governor of New Mexico, Toney Anaya, was the keynote speaker at a banquet Saturday night.
Mary Padilla, Overland Park sophomore, who has attended the conference the past two years, is one of two official Kansas representatives to the conference.
The Leadership Conference committee appoints the representatives.
"It's important to start at an early age to be responsible," Padilla said. "We should start to get involved with the community, because hispanics have an important voice and we have to get involved to be heard."
Chuck Garcia, president of the KU Hispanic American Leadership Organization and Garden City law student, said the conference allowed students to meet political leaders from across the Midwest.
Garcia said the conference emphasized the need to get involved in politics at the local level.
Today's the last day of voter registration
TOPEKA — Today is the deadline for Kansans to register to vote in the Nov. 4 general election
The Associated Press
John Reinhart, in the secretary of state's office, said election commissioners' offices in the four largest
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counties of Kansas — Sedgwick,
Johnson, Wyandotte and Shawnee will remain open this evening to accommodate late registrants.
locations
Reinhart said all four counties will have not only the commissioners' offices open late, but also outposts in libraries, shopping centers and other
notices.
He also said most county clerks' offices in the other 101 counties planned to remain open late, but a precise tabulation was not available yesterday.
Reinhart said Secretary of State Jack Brier was urging those who are new to Kansas, who have moved or who have changed their names since they last voted to register during the day today. If that is impossible, those people should check with their local county clerk to see whether they could register this evening.
Voters do not have to reregister if they voted in the last general election and have not moved or changed names.
On Campus
The KU department of design will sponsor a public lecture by metallsmath Heikki Seppa, professor of metallsmithing at Washington University in Washington, D.C., at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. today in room 315 of the Art and Design building.
The seminar "Love, Values and Spiritual Growth" will be at 4:30 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. 1204 Oread Ave.
A Peace Corps film seminar will be presented at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. today in 4019 Wescow Hall.
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. today at the University soccer fields. 23rd and 10th streets.
The KU Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
Expressions, the KU Dance Club, will meet at 7 p.m. today in 242 Robinson Center.
- Sigma Psi will present Dave Waxse, a lawyer and KU graduate, who will speak on labor relations and law at 7 p.m. today in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
John O'Brien, professor of systematics and ecology, will speak in "Possible Environmental Effects of the Chenobyl Nuclear Accident" as part of a University Forum at 11:40 a.m. tomorrow at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
The Undergraduate Philosophy Club will sponsor the forum "Fiduciliary Responsibility and Divestment" at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
■ The geography department will sponsor a seminar on "Elementary-Secondary Geography Curricula" at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow in 412 Lindley Hall.
John Riddle, professor of history at North Carolina State University at Raleigh, will speak on "Oral Contraceptives in Classical Antiquity and in the Middle Ages" at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
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