University Daily Kansan / Friday, August 29, 1986
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County will provide emergency services
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Emergency medical services at certain KU athletic events will be provided by Douglas County because of an agreement reached yesterday between the county and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
The Douglas County Commission unanimously voted to sign the contract that calls for the county to supply ambulances, physicians, nurses and emergency technicians to be stationed at the events.
The events served will be football, men's basketball and the KU Relays. The county also will provide service for the Kansas Shrine Bowl and any state high school playoff game. The Shrine Bowl is an all-star game for high school players.
The county will begin providing the service at KU's first home football game Sept. 13.
Ted McFarlane, director of the county Department of Emergency Services and Emergency Preparedness, said the contract would benefit both the county and the University.
McFarlane said the county would benefit because KU partially would finance the purchase of new emergency equipment, which the county could use in areas other
than KU sporting events, such as disaster readiness.
The University will pay about $18,000 a year for equipment and personnel costs for three years.
McFarlane said the new program would allow the emergency staff to perform their duties better because they would be working with familiar personnel.
In the past, he said, the staff worked with doctors who were attending the events. Many times these people were not familiar with emergency situations, he said.
McFarlane said the new staff would specialize in diagnosing and treating internal injuries using emergency room nurses who were used to working with one another.
Student Health Service at Watkins Memorial Hospital, which formerly provided the service, decided not to because of insurance and personnel shortages, said Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director.
Hunter said he agreed that the University would benefit from the service because the county was in a position to provide comprehensive care for fans.
Included in the list of necessary equipment are two heart monitors and five paramedic kits.
Star Writer Although students might not notice significant changes in the green and white buses rumbling through campus, the Lawrence Bus Company's office and garages stirred with their usual activity this summer.
By BETH COPELAND Staff writer
Duane Ogle, president and general manager of the company, 841 Pennsylvania St., said about eight new drivers would be shuttling students and Lawrence residents this fall.
Buses change to fulfill new needs
He said the employee turnover rate was routine. "We lose from five to eight employees every year," Ogle said. "With the short work year, drivers find steadier work, and they leave."
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The buses do not run during the summer
A second change may be noticed on the buses themselves. Of the 21 operating buses, most have been painted and have had minor repairs done to them,
With a $160,000 price tag for a new bus, Ogle said, it pays to keep the existing buses in top condition. He estimated that total maintenance costs averaged $80,000 a year.
Finally, although no new routes have been added, an existing route was extended so that students and faculty of Haskell Indian Junior College could have access to bus service.
Ogle said that the cost of adding new routes would make bus service unaffordable to most student passengers.
our ridership is about 93 percent students and
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faculty, and they can't afford to spend $60 for a bus pass," he said.
Last year, about 6,000 students bought bus pass during the fall semester. The cost is deferred by the Student Senate, which allotted $277,980 this year for the service, according to Charles Bran, KU on Wheels coordinator.
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The University has contracted bus service from the company since the early 1970s. Before that the company served Lawrence and the campus independently.
It was a financial crunch in the late '60s, prompted by student unrest and refusal to ride buses, that threatened the company with bankruptcy. Ogle has been the owner since the company began in 1954.
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Cut up Picasso print sign of exploitation
Although the original work of art, which was valued at $10,000, would be destroyed by a fire, he said that the print pieces would then become new prints of art.
Two owners of an Australian mail-order company announced in May that they planned to cut a signed print by Pablo Picasso into 500 1-inch squares and sell them for $135 apiece.
David Robertson, who co-owns Subdivision Art with Stefan Panyk, said that by cutting the print, ordinary people would be given the opportunity to own some of the work of the century's greatest artist.
Owners and admirers of Piccaso's art might be appalled at such exploitation, but they should not stand alone in their disgust.
Art, in all its forms, faces the growing threat of being molded by financial sharks into a whorish device for getting the big bucks.
The statement that the chipping up of a work of art is for the benefit of the public or a creation of new art is a thin disguise for the financial motive. If all 500 of the $135 pieces of the book would be sold, the printer will make $67,500 — a net gain of $57,500 over the print's original value.
The public and the world of art will end up the losers if the print is cut up. A 1-inch square cannot capture the color and depth of the entire work.
Picasso's work is the product of years of stylistic growth. His brushstrokes and color combinations were not overnight developments. They deserve better than fly-by-night butchery.
Copland labored over every bar of his music, making sure the harmonies and themes tied the work together. He deserves better than to be whipped down to fit nicely next to a Whitney Houston ballad.
During one of the concerts honoring the statue, the massive "Lincoln Portrait," composed by Aaron Copland, fell victim to the ax. Only the final three or four minutes of the 15-minute-plus work were performed. All of the work's tension and power were eliminated to allow more time for advertisements.
A painting should be admired not just for the 1-inch square section, but for the whole. A statue should be admired for its contours and beauty, not for any glitzy brouhaha associated with it.
The arts should be admired in their original state, not in shortened or bastardized versions.
The musical phrases and the poetry of the masters should not have to undergo the degradation of being converted into soup company jingles and potato chip slogans.
During the garish celebration of Liberty Weekend last month, it became difficult to admire the beauty of the Statue of Liberty with all the distractions of pop performers and Elvis impersonators.
Liberty Weekend producer David Wolper saw the multiple events as a tribute to the meaning behind the
But works that have stood the test of time and are the product of years of style development and thought do deserve a forum for their preservation. They shouldn't be altered to satisfy the whims of current opportunity seekers.
Grant W. Butler
Arts Editor
Other artworks were sacrificed during the Liberty Weekend celebrations to make way for commercialism and pop-culture.
statue. But unless the statue stands for materialism and sleazy entertainment, the glitzy pomp of all the eventscheaped the statue.
In a time when the scantily clad crooning of Madonna and the slice-and-dice butchery of mass murder movies are considered artistic, the works of history's master artists should be revered and preserved, not degraded or destroyed.
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Granted, the arts could never grab the attention of the American public as much as Joan Collins' bustline or a celebrity water-balloon toss during prime time television. Perhaps prime time television is not the place for great art.
The glistening bell of a brass trombone echoes out 'Begine for Band' during Monday's Opening Convocation at Hoch Auditorium. 'The Crimson and the Blue' also was featured in the ceremony.
Network television is the home of programming which is completely dependent on the advertising dollar, not content.
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