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Tuesday, September 2, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Haskell waits for computer
By PAM MILLER
Staff writer
Haskell Indian Junior College is waiting for the arrival of a half-million dollar parcel, a Haskell administrator said yesterday.
The parcel is a Digital computer system coming from the Alaskan Coast Guard in Juneau, said Charles Geboe, dean of instruction at Haskell.
After the parcel arrives, the college will use the computer system to enhance its electronics department. Geboe said.
"It just takes time," he said. "We don't know how reliable things are coming from Alaska to the continental United States. It has been in transit since June.
"We may receive it next week or we might not receive it until next year."
The parcel will be shipped on a barge to Seattle and then travel by Mayflower World-wide Moving Service to Lawrence.
The system includes computer terminals, disk drives and printers.
Haskell had to pay $10,000 for the system to be transported to Kansas, he said, but didn't have to buy the
system because the equipment is moving from one federal agency to another.
"Whenever an agency of the federal government has good equipment that it can't use, it is considered excess and put on an excess list," Gebo said.
The Coast Guard in Juneau installed a new computer system and put its old system on the list. Haskell officials found the equipment on the list and asked for the system
When the system arrives, the electronics department will have a complete computer system to work with.
we will use the system for diagnostic work and repair," he said. "We have some individual units, but not an entire system to be able to program and store. I think it will enhance our training."
"We are guaranteed the equipment," Geboe said. "The only question is when."
Jim Hills, professor of electronics at Haskell, said the acquisition would do a lot for the department.
"It's a wondrous opportunity," Hills said. "The kids will learn a lot. The significance is that the students won't have to use mock machinery and simulated situations — we're using the real thing."
Haskell also plans to use the system in its offices.
Legislators busy during interim
By ALISON BROWN
In the interim of their regular session, Kansas legislators have been busy studying some of the issues that concern their constituency.
Interim committees hear testimony from individuals and from legislative research staffs. Throughout October and November, committee members discuss the issues and decide what, if any, action should be taken. Their conclusions are due in a report by Dec. 1.
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, is the ranking member of the special committee on public health and welfare during the summer interim.
Her committee is concerned with organ transplants, homeless people, medical indigents, and residential homes for the elderly, mentally retarded, mentally ill and functionally disabled citizens.
The committee has not met to discuss a study on organ transplants, Branson said recently, but the legislators have received letters about two or three children who need liver transplants.
The committee will meet in Wichita on Sept. 22 and 23 to hear from the constituents who wrote the letters.
The committee will study and discuss how much the state should pay for transplants. Branson said. Medicaid covers kidney and bone marrow transplants, but does not cover liver transplants.
Medicard pays medical expenses to those who qualify. The state and
federal governments each pay half of the expenses.
Branson said that another issue was organ priorities. The committee will attempt to devise a system to decide who will receive available organs, she said.
The plight of homeless people will be more difficult to study than the others, she said.
"We're going to have trouble because we simply don't have enough data on it," she said. "We don't know where the pockets of the homeless people are or what to do about them."
The growing number of medical indigents in Kansas is caused in part by escalating insurance costs, she said, and the quality and amount of insurance coverage provided.
"A growing number of people are falling through the cracks in the system in terms of getting medical care." Branson said.
The committee will study ways that people in need can get financial help.
"Some employers don't provide insurance benefits." Branson said. "Therefore, employees often have too much income to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford individual policies."
Branson said the state needed to provide aid to women with high-risk pregnancies. This, she said, would help to decrease the child mortality rate.
"We really do have a problem nationwide and now it's hitting Kansas," she said.
A committee in July discussed the
need for minimum-care homes. Branson said.
These residences would be for those who cannot stay in their homes because they can't remember to take medications when they should or because they may not be able to get to a telephone in an emergency.
"Home health care is helpful," Branson said, "but for some, living alone can be very difficult."
Branson said that in the last year or so, more than 800 mentally retarded people had come out of special education classes in public schools in Kansas and did not have housing to go.
"These people should be living in the community and not at home," she said.
When the child gets out of school, the parents often are too old to care for him or her.
"There is a tremendous need for housing and work-training programs for these people." Branson said.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, is on the task force on higher education, which was created by the joint committee on economic development.
Winter said the task force would decide whether the Board of Regents should have authority over community colleges and how much authority it should have over the schools that it already governs.
The task force, Winter said, also will study whether the formula for financing the Regents schools should remain the same. The formula is designed to divide funds according to need among the schools, he said.
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