The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, December 3, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 72 USPS 650-640
Eldredge resigns, places family before politics
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Staff Reporter
State Sen. Jane Eldridge, R-Lawrence, citing the need to be with her family, ended six months of speculation yesterday by announcing her resignation from the Kansas Senate.
Eldridge, who defeated Democratic State Sen. Arnold Berman in 1980, continued to live in Lawrence after her husband, Charles, accepted the directionals of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
He and their two children have lived in Washington for about six months.
In her written announcement, Eldredge, a Lawrence attorney, said that she had enjoyed her senatorial duties, but that the time bad come to put her priorities in their proper order.
"MY DEEP affection for the State of Kansas is
exceeded only by my great pride in Douglas County," she said. "However, both of these feelings are surpassed by my love for my family and I am to participate more fully in their daily lives.
Eldredge said the need to be with her husband and children, who are 14 and 10, became obvious during her 10-day Thanksgiving visit to Washington.
"When I got to Washington, the house was clean and everything was vacuumed," she said. "I exclaimed on the cleanliness, and my children were happy and the house clean so I would come and visit them often."
"THAT CAUSED me some alarm, because it's
not fair to the children to think they have to be on their best behavior or their mother won't come
Despite the desire to rejoin her family, Eldredge said, her decision to resign still was the most painful decision she had ever made.
"I nat the intention of filling out my four-year term, but my family is my first commitment," she said. "The likelihood of my husband returning was not great, so it was important to keep the family together. But my husband always decided up to me, and I unexpected that."
Eldredge, who has lived in Lawrence since 1707, said she was not sure when she would move to California.
THE PROCESS to choose Eldrege's successor formally begins when Andy Galyard, Douglas County Republican chairman, calls a meeting of the GOP precinct committee. After
the committee selects a successor, the name will be sent to Gov. John Carlin for his approval.
Galyard said he would try to move quickly in selecting a new senator, but, it was an important decision that warranted caution.
Senators did not face re-election this fall, but all 40 seats will be up for election in 1984.
Eldredge said she was not prepared to endorse any potential candidate. She said the precinct committee's decision should be made with the 1984 state senate elections in mind.
"MY MAIN objective is for Lawrence not to be served by only the minority party," she said. "I think the state legislative process demands representation from both parties. So I hope they select who would be available to run in two years from now."
Eidredge was the only Republican legislator from Lawrence. The only other Republican
See ELDREDGE page 5
Jane Eldredge
KU will lose if Carlin cuts budget again
By DIRK MILLER
Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas will lose more than $2.8 million if Gov. John Carlin is forced to make another reduction in the budgets of state agencies this February, the University director said.
"It would be devastating. We could not operate it the rest of the year effectively," said Keith Nielsen.
Nitcher said the reduction would effectively close down a lot of services at KU. He said reduced purchases of library materials, pay freezes and temporary employee furloughs were measures the University might have to take in the face of another reduction.
KU LOST more than $3 million in last summer's voluntary cuts and $287,807 in merit pay increases for classified salaries. Nitcher has made some of the reductions made last summer on Jan. 1.
Carlin announced in a press conference Wednesday that he would be forced to trim 3.3 percent from the budgets of state agencies if the Legislature did not approve his revenue
The Kansas Board of Regents schools would lose $9.8 million under the 3.3 percent reduction.
Stanley Kopik, Regents executive officer, said the locking in of the voluntary cuts would not be appealed by the Regents. However, any further reductions probably would be appealed, he said.
Carlin is calling on the Kansas Legislature to speed up sales and income tax collections.
THE STATE'S revenue situation prompted the governor to initiate an allotment system last month, which reduced 4 percent from state agencies not affected by voluntary reductions
Harley Duncan, chief analyst for the state Division of the Budget, said, "The reductions would depend entirely on what the Legislature does when it comes to town."
Mike Swenson, Carlin's press secretary, said Wednesday that without action by the Legislature the governor would be forced to make the reductions.
SWENSON SAID that Carlin had met with state legislative leaders and that they had state legislators who believed in him.
William Bunten, R-Topema, said the Legislature must do something about the state's legal reforms.
"The proposals to speed up the collection of income tax and to change the disbursement of state money are reasonable things," he said. "Both Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature should give it a good look and try to go along with the governor."
Duncan and Swenson said that if the state's spending exceeded its revenues the governor would have to look for new sources.
Clyde Reid, St. Louis junior and a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, helped Shawn Walters, a student at Pinckney Elementary School, with a math problem yesterday. Reid, one of six fraternity members who tutor at the Ballard Community Center, helps students from Pinckney and Woodlawn Elementary Schools. See story on page 14.
Doctors save dying dentist by implanting artificial heart
By United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY—Doctors rescued a 61-year-old retired dentist from the brink of death yesterday with surgery that made medical history by substituting an artificial heart for a diseased one that probably would not have lasted another day.
As soon as the plastic heart started beating, giving Barney B. Clark the blood pressure of an 18-year-old, doctors saw an improvement in the patient's condition and remained cautious about his chances of survival.
It was the first time an artificial heart designed to work for years had been implanted in a
Dr. William Devries, 38, head of the 20-member University of Texas surgical team,
DR. CHASE Peterson, university vice president for medical services, said Clark's liver showed marked improvement as soon as the artificial heart started pumping and fluid began flowing. The things — a good indication of a functioning heart.
Clark, from the Seattle area, remained in the university hospital's intensive care unit, lying next to the shopping cart-sized air drive permanently linked to him by two tubes.
"Last night, the team took a patient that probably would have been dead at midnight." DeVries said. "We took him into the operating room. We removed his heart and placed a mechanical heart in his chest. It was really almost a spiritual experience for everybody in the room."
The artificial heart must beat 100,000 times a day to move oxygen-rich blood through 60,000
By BONAR MENNINGER
Staff Reporter
Diversity of KJHK radio earns esteem for station
Staff Reporter
A trucker from Mississippi blasting through Lawrence in his 18-wheeler some dark, vainy night might be a bit startled if he tuned his FM dial to 81 on the radio.
He would not hear Tammy Wynette, but chances are he might catch on to the driving beat of KJHK, the University of Kansas' award-winning student radio station.
Billing itself as the sound alternative, KJIH lives up to the name with a playlist as diverse as any radio station in Kansas, Steve Ghormley, program director for the station, said recently.
"You turn on a radio and you've got either top forty or 'Stairway to Heaven' six times a day. 'Ghormelry' a "A lot of people have gotten so bummed out and bored on that stuff."
THE MUSIC on JKHK varies from the moans and screeches of industrial rock on "The Debraining Machine" program to the fast melodies of a multitude of new wave bands that Ghmorley said have emerged in the wake of the "musically stitified 70s."
"Our goal at the station is that we believe there is a better product out there, and a lot of new bands and a lot of new ideas," he said. "If you could say we are trying to educate our audience."
Critics charge that much of new wave music is not educational at all, but merely mindless bable cranked out at high volume by orange-balloon. But looks and first impressions can be deceiving.
"I THINK THEE are some very, very intellectual people involved in the new music. There is a lot more thought going into this music than people realize," Ghornley said.
am tangentellem, music director, said, "The music is good and accessible and its worth paying attention to. I think this music is more realistic than the music of the '60s. It is more in tune with current problems, and the difficulties of dealing with a highly technological society. There is widespread alienation today, and the music reflects that.
"Lawrence is a very progressive town, and the people here that are listening to this kind of story are also being heard."
people don't get, and that's exposure to people who still care about their art."
RACHAEL PIRNER, station manager, said, "Ninety percent of the time when someone starts spouting off about punk rock or new wave rock they don't know a damn thing about what theyre doing."
"Sure, there are groups that are negative, but I don't think that's all wrong."
The station and its unique brand of programming are well known in the broadcasting world, said Dale Gadd, professor of journalism and faculty advisor to JKH.
Last year KJKH swept the Kansas Association of Broadcasters' awards, winning in the categories of best public service announcement, best air personality, and best sports feature.
IN MARCH, a full length feature article profiling JKHJ will appear in Nutshell magazine, which is distributed on campuses across the United States, including KU. A writer came to Kansas from Los Angeles and spent four days learning about the station.
Gadd also said that C.M.J., a trade publication for college radio stations, recently rated the station "one of the worst."
KJHK also was rated in the top seven college radio stations in the country last summer by New York Rocker, a music magazine, Ghmley said.
Gadd said the station was not limited to rocking its way to awards and notoriety. KJIKH does live broadcasts of all KU home sporting events, including women's sports, as well as news, and a call-in show where listeners can express their opinions. The station also has programs which highlight blues, jazz, reggae and soul.
THROUGH THEIR selection of diverse, often obscure kinds of music, KJHK has had an influence on the music scene in Lawrence, Virginia. Many of the musicians who did otherwise have no reason to come to Kansas.
"A lot of the people who work at the station work closely with the people who run the various halls where bands play. "Lingered effect" on the bands that definitely has an effect on the situation there is a market for it here and people that will pay to hear progressive bands."
He said the station had "broken" a lot of bands that had gone national, such as The Police and The Go-Go's.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with a high between 50 and 55. Winds will be from the west to northwest at 5 to 15 mph.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with the low between 30 and 35.
Tomorrow the high will be in the 50s.
Competition, tight job market fuels pressure to cheat
By DEBORAH BAER
Staff Reporter
The student walked into his philosophy professor's office knowing what was about to be said. The professor told him the paper he had recently turned in was remarkably better than his previous work — so much better, in fact, that it could hardly be his own work.
"It was painfully obviated," said Michael Young, the professor, and now associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. "Not only did I learn to write like the Encyclopaedia Britannica."
STUDENTS MORE sophisticated at plaginaria, however, need not trouble themselves with those heavy volumes. With just a newspaper and a phone call, they can send papers from professional ghost-writing services.
The student immediately confessed. He had coined from the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Ads for such services abound in the classified sections of college newspapers and popular magazines. Nicknamed "term paper mills," these publications are known for the blurry edge of legality and morality.
Some courts have decided that the term paper
The U.S. Attorney, acting for the United States Postal Service, forced two term paper mills, Academic Research Group, Inc., and The Research Exchange, to furnish upon request to any academic institution the names and addresses of its customers. The companies also must describe the service provided to those customers.
mills have fallen over the legal boundary, and have found owners of such companies guilty of embezzlement.
It says, "No person shall sell or offer for sale to any person enrolled in a university . . . or other educational institution within the state of New York any assistance in the preparation, research or writing of a . . . term paper . . . intended for submission to such educational institution in fulfillment of the requirements for a degree, diploma, certificate or course of study."
IN 1972, the New York Supreme Court stopped Termperators, Inc. and three related businesses
A few months later, a new section was added to the state's legal law.
JOHN MAGEE had been employed by Ternapers, Inc. before it ran into legal trouble.
general that the company kept records of customers' schools and instructors so that students could "use" the paper verbatim "without fear that someone else in the same course would submit an identical paper to the same instructor." According to a New York Supreme Court document.
Completed order forms also served to convince the attorney general and the court that Termapers, Inc. was supplying papers to be turned in for course credit, not just reference
One customer wrote in the space provided for a detailed description of the desired paper: "The paper must be at least 2,000 words. . . This paper is for a graduate English course and must develop a thesis. Both primary and secondary sources must be used."
IN THE TERMPAPERS, Inc. office was a sign that said, "We don't guarantee grades," according to the court document.
Another placard said, "We don't condone plagiarism."
Trident Marketing, a Canadian term paper company, does not try to disguise its service.
An advertisement Trident sent to the Kansan, which was rewritten by Susan Cooksey, business
manager, because it was too blatant in its offer to help students cheat, said the company "unconditionally guarantees an 'A' ( - or - ) on any term paper, 'or money in full refund."
In 1973, a year after Termpersp, Inc. was brought before the New York Supreme Court, Magee, the former employee, founded Collegiate Research Systems.
The phone number for its New York office yields to a recording of a new number, which rings in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Collegiate Research now is a national network of paper mills and mail-order offices. It, too, has tangled with the law, but still sells research papers.
Like the president of Termappers, Inc., Kathleen Saksnan, Magee has argued that the papers he sells are intended only as reference materials for students. He says his company has a policy not to promote promising the purchased paper will not be represented as the customer's original work.
ITS MANAGERS may, however, have decided that New York's education law is too strict to escape. In 1978, Magee was in danger of being sent to jail because that law because he was selling term napers.
But an operator at Collegiate Research Systems New Jersey office told an out-of-state doctor that it was a mistake.
She also said any paper ordered would arrive "ready to hand in."
"IF YOU FEEL uncomfortable about it, just send in your first name or make up a name. We will help."
Collegiate Research has a catalog of thousands of papers that have already been written, as do many other companies. The going rate is $4.50 a page.
And 100 writers are employed by the company for students with specific needs that cannot be satisfied by the catalog's offerings, the operator said.
"What you can do is mail in all the instructions — the title, whether you want the footnotes at the bottom of the pages or in the back, how many references you need in the bibliography, the focus or kind of analysis you want, whether you want it — all that — and we'll do it for you," she said.
At $10 a page, a 20-page paper tailored to exact dimensions, style and subject would cost $200
NDKED dollars also bought one
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