University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 25, 1987
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Lobbying post with University to be filled soon
The University expects to hire a new government affairs specialist within the next few days, Vickie Kline, general counsel, said yesterday.
KU created the position this year. It involves lobbying the Legislature, among other duties.
Thomas said that KU advertised the position statewide, and that about 100 people turned in applications. She said that over the summer, administrators interviewed six finalists, three of whom were women. None of the finalists were minorities.
The new position assumes the lobbying duties of the position of University executive secretary, which was last occupied by Richard von Ende. Von Ende resigned last September after pleading guilty to two federal cocaine-related charges.
Thomas said that the new position was not the same as that of University executive secretary, and that the chancellor would decide whether to hire a new executive secretary.
Report says cyclist caused accident
According to a KU police report, an accident Monday that involved a bicycle and a bus on Jayhawk bleach was caused by the bicycle.
Janell Danischek, Winfia sophromore, said she was riding a bicycle in the front of Wescole Hall near the curb when a pedestrian crossing the street suddenly stopped in front of her, according to the report.
Danitschek told police she swerped farther into the street to avoid hitting the pedestrian, and her left handelbear caught the front right doorjamb of a passing bus. She fell to the ground and sus-
sied a sprained ankle and brushes on her head, the report said.
Political cartoonist to give presentation
KU police Lt. Jeanne Longaker said neither Danischek nor the bus driver was cited for the accident.
Lee Judge, political cartoonist for the Kansas City Times, will present a show and answer questions about his sometimes controversial work.
Judge will speak at 3:30 p.m. today in 100 Staffer-Flint Hall. The program, which is free and open to the public, is being sponsored by the chapter of the Society of Professionals Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
Pro-life Conference will begin tonight
Right to Life of Kansas is holding its annual Pro-life Conference today and tomorrow at the Marriott West, 320 W. 14th Street, in Overland Park.
The conference begins at 7 tonight with several anti-abortion films.
Correction
Due to a reporter's error, information was incorrect in a story in Wednesday's Kansan. Bob Geldof will not be the featured performer of Hunger Project's teleconference on Nov. 14. The teleconference is being organized by Hal Uplinger, the producer of the Live Aid programs.
From staff and wire reports.
Senate helps dance company after voucher mixup
By BRAD ADDINGTON
Student Senate financial officers said yesterday that misuse of vouchers by the University Dance Company was an isolated incident and that the problem had been resolved.
staff writer
Spencer Colvin, Senate administrative assistant, and Matt Kerr, Senate treasurer, were confronted in late May with $595.12 worth of the dance company's unpaid bills from fall 1986 and spring 1987.
The Finance Committee met Tuesday night to consider revoking the company's revenue tax plan.
The Senate has paid the bills using funds from the dance company's University account. Both the Senate Finance Committee and the House Finance Committee are proceeding problems in making purchases.
the Senate that would require the company to submit monthly budget reports. Usually, revenue code status groups only submit annual reports. The Senate then waits for Senate during its next regular meeting Oct. 7.
Janet Hamburg, professor of dance and faculty adviser to the dance company, said, "I'm really pleased with the Student Senate bill that will certainly are anxious to prove ourselves again."
that it has the ability to manage its budget. Groups with revenue code status request money from the Senate once every two years. Non-revenue code groups, which are the bulk of groups seeking financing, must request money every year.
Hamburg said the company had elected Katie Lynch, Lenxa freshman, as the new business manager and was used by her to represent the company's bookkeeper and the dance department's executive secretary.
A student organization can be placed on revenue code status if the Senate determines that the organization provides a bread, tangible benefit to the University community and
Hamburg said last year was the second year that the company had revenue code status. She said this was the first time in its nine years of existence that the company had had procedural problems in using Senate money.
Colvin said the Senate wound up with the company's unpaid bills because the dance company did not follow the correct procedure for making off-campus purchases.
The merchant then sends an invoice to the treasurer, who sends an A-form to the compiler's office. Further processing occurs at the campus office where it issues a check to the off-campus merchant.
Most student organizations make off-campus purchases by presenting to off-campus merchants advanced authorizations signed by the Senate treasurer.
Revenue code groups such as the dance company don't use advanced authorization forms, however, and are responsible for sending A-forms directly to the controller's office.
Colvin said the dance company used advanced authorization forms without the authorized signature of the Senate treasurer to make off campus purchases. The company was supposed to use A-forms for the purchases and send these forms directly to the comproller.
"The problem was just inactivity," Hamburg said. The company had sufficient funds in its account, but the money was not getting to the merchants, she said.
Louay, Fakih, Beirut, Lebanon, sophomore, mops the cafeteria floor in Oliver Hall. Fakih was working yesterday.
Pull up a chair
Rock Chalk board selects theme for show
By a Kansan reporter
The theme for Rock Chalk Revue this year will help it be a more creative show than last year, said Jennifer of the Rock Chalk Advisory Board.
Malecki, New Ulm, Minn., junior,
said this year's theme, "The Untold
Story. We a broader story." Malecki
would use last spring, "Out of the Frying Pan and
spring," "Out of the Frying Pan and
Into the Kitchen."
The theme is a phrase for each group to interpret as it sees fit, Maleeki said. Last year, the theme was so narrow that the acts weren't much different from each other, she said.
The revue, a night of music, dancing and skits, will go on stage March 3, 4 and 5 in Hoech Auditorium. Five performances by student groups will
Groups wanting to appear in the show need to get in touch with one of the show's directors and submit a detailed description of their act by Mailcase said.
be featured, chosen from the 14 groups that have applied so far.
The groups selected to appear in the show will be announced Nov. 23.
The rest will be used for the overhead costs of the show, such as publicity and getting Hoy ready for the event, and to pay honorarium to the student.
Half the money from ticket sales will be donated to the United Fund.
Performing groups pay their own costs, and performers are not paid, said Christina Martin, Lenexa junior, a member of the show's business committee.
Liberty Hall is showing 1st-run film
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
The movie is "The Big Easy" from Columbia Motion Pictures. It stars Dennis Quaid as a homicide detective on the trail of corruption.
Liberty Hall is showing a major motion picture from a big studio, and some people are curious about how the theater got the movie.
Heavily advertised first-run movies, such as "The Big Easy," usually are shown in one of the Commonwealth Theatres in Lawrence. But this week only one showing at the 422 Massachusetts SL., an independent theatre that shows foreign and less-known movies.
Charles Oldfather, who owns Liberty Hall, said that he heard a rumor that a Commonwealth theater somewhere in the United States stopped showing a high-return Columbia movie too soon, so Columbia stopped distributing films to Commonwealth Theaters throughout the United States.
Ray Boyce of Columbia Motion Pictures in New York said the dispute was just a rumor because no official announcement had been made about it. He also declined to comment further.
Hal McClure, head film buyer for Commonwealth Theaters in Kansas City, Mo., said Commonwealth and Columbia were currently trying to resolve the dispute but declined to comment further on the subject.
Gary Mackender, programmer at Liberty Hall, said the sneak preview of "The Big Easy" on Sept. 18 did well, but not any better than usual.
He said Liberty Hall had never had a first-run Columbia movie before, but to get "The Big Easy" he called it "The Easy and said that he wanted to book it.
Watkins clinic tests students for tuberculosis
"The Big Easy" opened Sunday and runs through Oct. 2. The movie will not be shown tomorrow.
By AMBER STENGER
Staff writer
Watkins Hospital offers treatment for the several hundred KU students who may carry inactive tuberculosis bacteria.
Last fall, 151 KU students underwent treatment for inactive tuberculosis at Watkins. This fall, 48 people have begun treatment. Between 14 million and 20 million Americans have inactive tuberculosis.
To find all the people who carry the inactive bacteria, Watkins has started a new policy. Every student who goes into the hospital for any type of treatment and has never had a skin test will be tested.
Tuberculosis is a disease that develops in the respiratory tracts and can release lethal toxins in the body. Although a cure was found in 1951, tuberculosis is diagnosed in 25,000 to 30,000 Americans each year. Of those patients, the current burden had been carrying inactive tuberculosis without knowing it.
Yockey said that inactive tuberculosis was characterized by three
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins, said students could get free tuberculosis tests and medication from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday without having an appointment, going through the pharmacy or having to wait.
things: a positive tuberculosis skin test, a negative chest X-ray and no symptoms. Tuberculosis symptoms weight loss and lack of appetite.
The bacteria can be transmitted only through the breath of a person who has active tuberculosis. People have inactive tuberculosis cannot transmit the disease.
"If someone walks into an area where someone with active tuberculosis has coughed, or recently coughed, those bugs are brought in and into the 20-20 minutes, the bacteria go everywhere in your body." Yockey said.
The bacteria need an environment
rear in oxygen to live. Within a few days, all the bacteria in every part of the body except the tops of the lungs are killed by the body's natural defense mechanisms and lack of oxygen.
"But the bugs that land on the tops of your lungs are there forever. They become inactive, dormant, asleep." Yockey said.
A tuberculosis skin test will be positive six weeks after the bacteria is inhaled. Positive tests indicate the presence of bacteria, but there is one exception.
Many countries use a tuberculosis vaccination called BCG for small children. People cured by BCG continue to test positive for tuberculosis. Watkins has stopped treating international students who test positive because of BCG treatment.
Yockey said that when people test positive, two things could happen. There is a 95 percent possibility that the tuberculosis will stay inactive forever.
"However, there is a five percent chance that those bugs will wake up, multiply and divide, and the next day the person will become ill."
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Watkins offers students with inactive tuberculosis free treatment. Isoniazid, or INH, will kill inactive bacteria if taken every day for one year.
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