THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.86 No.24
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
September 26,1975
Varied requests presented at Senate budget hearings
By STEWART BRANN
Staff Writer
Student Senate budget hearings for the fall semester slowly wound down last night after three evenings of money requests from University of Kansas organizations.
The Senate Finance and Auditing Committee heard last night from 11 organizations requesting a total of $19,066.27. The committee will hear the final request next Tuesday from the KU Soccer Club, which is requesting $3,469.
Budget deliberations will be next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The committee will then present budget recommendations to the Senate Oct. 8.
The largest request last night came from the University Concert Series, which is seeking $5,000. Joyce Fackler, student chairman for the organization, told the committee that the money would be used to fund a summer concert series.
The concert series received a line item request of $2,566 last spring. That money is used to fund the concert series during the fall and spring semesters, she said. The additional $3,000 would fund three or four concerts and the benefit of summer students, Fadler said.
Fackler said that if the organization received the entire request, it could possibly receive matching funds from the humanities lecture series.
The committee also heard from the Consumer Affairs Association (CAA), which is requesting $3,271.75 to supplement the $7,145 it was allocated last spring.
Carole Boone Strohbemier director of the CAA, said much of the request would be to assist with the survey. The survey would be sent to all landlords and tenants in Lawrence, she said, and the results would be available to anyone seeking information about the project.
The CAA formerly conducted the survey by hand and the results weren't representative of all the rental property available in Lawrence. Strobbeh said.
If the association doesn't receive that part
of its budget request, she said, it couldn't conduct the survey at all.
The Douglas County Legal Aid Society requested $1,906 in supplemental funds to pay for supplies and equipment and to keep records of the services offered, a student director of the society, said.
The legal aid society received $3,356 from the Senate last spring.
at KU. The Native American Alliance requested $850 and the International Club requested $2,980.
The Senate committee heard from two organizations representing minority groups
The Native American Alliance is seeking money to fund the printing of a brochure that would solicit funds for scholarships for American Indian students. Money would also go to establish a KU recruiting program at Haskell Indian Junior College
See REQUESTS page 12
Projects to add room to 3 campus buildings
By RODNEY HOFFMAN
Staff Writer
Three building projects still in the planning stages should ensure that the sight and sound of construction will remain for several years at the University of Kansas.
A Continuing Education Center and additions to Robinson Gymnasium and Malott Hall should be completed sometime during the spring semester of facilities planning, said Thursday.
An addition to Robinson Gym, to be at the corner of Naimish Drive and Sunspray Avenue, would nearly double the existing project. The company said. The projected cost is $7.2 million.
Funds have been granted for preliminary planning for an $11.5 million addition to Malot. Extra classroom and laboratory space, as well as chemistry, physics and pharmacy students.
This summer the division of continuing education received a federal grant for an institute offering prototype continuing education center. Howard Walker, dean of continuing education, said a facilities advisory commissions recommended proposals for the building.
Lawton said planning for the addition to Robinson was progressing smoothly. The
addition was anticipated in the mid-1980s when plans were drawn for the original structure. Floor plans for the addition were completed at that time, he said.
Robinson was completed in 1966 at a cost of $1.7 million.
Howard Mossberg, dean of the School of Pharmacy, said the addition to the south side of Malott would provide space for a large number of facilities and classroom and research areas.
Floor space totaling 100,000 square feet would be added to the nearly 180,000 square feet in Malot. Mossberg said $2 million of the $1.5 million estimated for the project would be used to air condition the original building completed in 1964, was one of the last buildings on campus constructed without central air-conditioning,
Preliminary specifications for the continuing education center include:
meeting rooms for classes, seminars and conferences;
-necessary media, such as television and See PROJECTS page 12
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
Loren Impson, Lawrence junior, surveys the motorcycle he was riding when he was forced off the road in front of Horns Hall
Sore cuclist
Thursday. Fortunately, except for a scraped knee, Impson wasn't injured.
Complexity rises in medical ethics
By GREG HACK Staff Writer
As medical technology has become more complex, so have the ethical questions that surround it.
The question of life itself and what should be done to extend its length concerns many people. Nelson Greenberger, chairman of the American Institute of internal medicine, said Thursday.
"People are concerned about dying gracefully much more than in the past," he said. "Medical technology makes it possible to prolong many lives long beyond what was
possible 20 years ago, People can be made
episodes that would have been
fatal before
People now have an image of intensive care units as places where medical technology can keep victims alive who have no hope of living normal lives, he said.
Fly the friendly skies of Hoecker
"There is no question that medical technology has increased the quantity of life," he said. "The question is whether such improvement has occurred, when it doesn't improve the quality of life."
Staff Writer
By ALISON GWINN
An airplane frequently buzzes over Lawrence that makes no promise to move its tail for you and doesn't boast of pretty, "fvMe" stewardess.
"I've always just joked that that's the airplane," Norman Hoeker, the pilot, said.
It is the University of Kansas airplane, it lives by the motto, "The KU Airline waits."
"If you're going to K.C. to catch a 3:55
hit and you're there, well that's fine.
It's that kind of thing."
Heecker has waited as long as three or four hours for his passengers to finish with a banquet or a meeting, he said. "I just sit down and look at the floor and sit some more," he said.
Hecker has piloted the KU airplane since the University bought its first plane in 1981. Before that purchase, KU rented planes to use for official University trips.
About two weeks ago, the University officially took possession of a new plane, a twinengine Beechcraft monoplane built in 1981, and the first plane of the twinengine Beech C-45, built in the 1900s.
"It handles nice, it's about 10 knots faster, has better heating, better ventilation." it—just 20 years younger than the other one is." Hoeker said.
"Everyone who's been in it has commented on how nice it is."
Heecker intends to buy the older KU plane which is no longer being used by the University. He went to Tucson in 1961 to pick up the plane on ebu fabric, adding a new engine and a spare part Corp., Wilkox Propeller Company, and Wilcock and King radio companies.
He said he intends to do some private flying in the plane, which is nicknamed the Blue Goose after an encounter one night. He says that the plane's engine while it was landing.
Anybody on official University business can use the plane, Hecker said, providing him with a phone number.
The Alumni Association and the athletic department are also frequent passengers of
"If he wants the airplane, it's his airplane." Heoeker said.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, who has priority over any other University official for the use of the plane, flies the most, he said.
Right now, the tail of the plane is being painted with two Jayhawks, and in October, "100 KU" will be added as the plane's identification number. Hoecker said.
Hoecker, and he does occasional flying for the Board of Regents and the KU Medical
Many times when the plane enters an airport, the runway controller will ask Hoecker, "Is that the KU airplane?" Hoecker said the "100 KU," which was his idea, and the Jayhawks will advertise the University plane.
Heecker said that of the five chancellors that he has flown Chancellor Dykes does the matter.
Hoeker said he talks to the passengers if they want to come up to the cockpit. Dykes has sat in the co-pilot's seat once, he said.
"He likes to fly. I think, because when he's in flight no one can bother him," Becker said. "Dykes is usually always groomed, even if it's a night, no matter how late."
The plot in the left seat handles the plane while the other plot does all the radio work.
"Any more, you go into a high density
Standing inside a hangar at Lawrence airport to shield his work from the sun, Louis Smart of The Art and Sign Shoem, of Lawrence
Hoecker, who does the mechanical work on the plane, said he had never had any close calls since he started flying for KU, even though about 50 per cent of his flying is at night and much of it is instrument flying, which can be seen by the instrument panel.
Fluina Jauhawk
His mechanical ability saves the University a considerable amount of money. Heecker said, because a normal mechanic costs about $12 or $15 an hour. Heecker never has time to sit around and twinkle his thumbs, he said.
Every year, Hoeker must pass a first-class physical, and every two years he is tested by the Federal Aviation Administration to have permission of aircraft and his ability to飞 the plane.
palinta a tiny Jayhawk on the tail of KU's new airplane. The plane, in Beechcraft, is used by the University to transport KU off campus.
area and it gets pretty hairy to have to do both. I want to handle the 'internals' 'bumped'
Flying in the winter months is slightly easier than during warm months, he said, because the plane takes off better in heavier weather than during rain or between weather like summer thunderstorms.
Hoeker hard-picked the KU plane, which he said is one of the safest airplanes ever.
"About 85 per cent of all aircraft accidents are the fault of pilot," he said.
About 150 hours of Hoeker's flying time was spent in a 1929 Ford tri-motor, which he flew around to antique aircraft shows, and passengers for flights, "just for the fun of it."
Hecker has flown 8,000 hours in his life,
2,500 of it in KU's two planes.
Hoeker said he preferred longer trips to short ones.
About two-thirds of his trips are to places within Kansas, about one-fourth are to cities in states bordering Kansas and the mountains are to places outside the Kansas borders.
"When you get upstairs to 10,000 or 20,000 feet and you are down settled for three or four hours up in the blue sky and the sunshine, it's just relaxing," he said.
for short trips, he, frequently doesn't go above the clouds, because as soon as the plane gets above them, it has to come back down, he said.
The plane flew 404 hours last year, for a total of 68,800 miles, according to L. Martin Jones, associate vice chancellor for business affairs.
Including pilots' salaries, depreciation of the engine and fuel, the plane cost the University about 58 cents a mile last year, be said.
This question has been raised in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, a New Jersey woman being kept alive by a respirator after suffering brain damage and going into a coma April 15. Her father has petitioned to have the respirator turned off, allowing her to die.
Norman McSwain, assistant professor of surgery, said it was best to determine whether a victim had a chance for recovery and then take action.
"I see a tremendous difference between prolonging life, which should always be done, and prolonging death, which is done." McSwain said of regaining consciousness." McSwain said.
George Burket Jr., associate professor of family practice, said he was strongly opposing the use of technology to keep alive a patient with severe brain damage or little chance of recovery. Such situations have resulted from breakdown in doctor-patient relations, he added.
"The Quinlan case is one of the things that's happened because of the loss of the family physician," he said. "Here is a case that requires a different kind of rival, but who is going to make the decision to stop a respirometer? The intensive care specialists are miles away from the girl's parents in this case and there's no one else with both sides together and resolve the case."
The communication between a doctor and his patients is an area encompassing two major problems: how much to tell a patient about the confidentiality of information about the patient.
Informed consent, providing the patient with information about his condition and the possible effects of different treatment, has increased in recent years.
Gregg M. Snyder, a Wichita physician and chairman of the Commission on Professional liability of the Kansas Department of Health, in demands for information was harmful.
"Some patients now demand so much data that they put themselves in the physician's place," he said, "Too often they want every minute detail about their concern to be taken up by the opition open to them. Frankly, they are left confused and unset by a morass of data."
McSwin disagreed with Sryder, saying that patients should know every about the potential risks.
'If someone is going to die or if there is
See MEDICAL ETHICS page 12
Dorm fees may go up
Increases for single and double room contracts for residence halls in 1976-77 was approved last night by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH).
The new contract costs would be $1,195 for a double room, which is $65 more than the current cost, and $1,250 for a single room, which is $35 more.
Harry Wigner, AURH president, said the recommendations would be presented Tuesday to the Administrative Housing Commission for the final decision about the rate increase.
AURH members said reasons for the
increase included, rising
food, unpleasant and impure tastes.
Other recommended contract changes were a June 15 cut-off date for accepting single room contracts and a 30 per cent limit on the number of single rooms allowed in any residence hall.
AURH also approved reinstatement of special programming and facilities fees for Hashinger Hall and McColm Hall. Hashinger Hall has an extra $5 fee for special programming for the arts students. McColm has a $10 fee for a special communications halls.
The $50 refund for returning residents was also continued.
A proposal that would allow residence halls the option of taking bids for construction of new facilities or hall improvements was approved by AURH. This proposal should be done for less by an outside contractor than by the housing maintenance office.
Wigner said that residence halls had a 97.3 per cent occupancy rate this year.
Pie case ruled mistrial
A mistrial was declared Thursday in the battery case of James Dillard, Springfield, Mo., senior who is accused of hitting a cow at a ranch near Rossmore with a chocolate cream pie. May 5.
The jury foreman told James W. Paddock, District Court Division II judge, that the jury was unable to agree on a verdict in the case. The jury of eight women and four men were split 11 to one, the foreman told Paddock.
Having deliberated the case a little more than four hours, the jury was dismissed.
Paddock set Oct. 3 as the date to schedule a new trial in the case. David Holmes, professor of psychology, pressed battery charges after Dillard hit him on the leg with
the pie in a classroom in Fraser Hall.
apprehended Dillard outside
Fraser.
Holmes said he pressed charges against Dillard because Dillard had interrupted his conversation.
Holmes testified Wednesday that he was worried that someone would try to disturb commencement by hitting the chancellor or governor with a pie.
Dillard testified that he threw the pie at Holmes "in good fun" after members of Holmes psychology class offered him $20 to make the hit on Holmes. Dillard said he had never received any money, however, for throwing the pie.
If there is another trial, it will probably be in November. Paddock said.