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University Daily Kansan, November 11, 1982
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On campus
TODAY
GERMAN CLUB will have lunch at 1:48 a.m. in the Cottonwood Room of the Masonic Temple.
KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet
a p.m. in the Oread Room of the
Uni
CHRISTIAN CARE GROUP will meet at 8 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
PETEY CERF, founder of Kansas for the Improvement of Nursing Homes, will speak at 12:30 p.m. in 104 Green Hall
PRESENTATION, "Space Travel and Literature," by James Gum. English and English critic of science fiction, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will
be at 10:29 a.m. in Danbury Chapel.
ASTRONOMY CLUB will meet at p.m. in 500 Lindley Hall if it is a p.m.
BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
COLLOQUIUM SERIES on ground wind in Kansas will be at 4 p.m. in 412
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will meet at 7 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
Therapy program gives breath of life
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
The smooth functioning of the respiratory system is something most people take for granted, but respiratory therapists at the University Center recognize that this delicate system is involved in most illnesses.
"Most diseases really compromise the respiratory system. People primarily die of heart failure precipitated by a lack of oxygen," said Homer Rodriguez, technical officer at the therapy department at the Med Center.
The Med Center's respiratory therapy program is one of the outstanding programs in the country, Rodriguez said.
Now, between 25 percent and 37 percent of all patients at the Med Center receive respiratory therapy, said Steve Curtis, residency staff development coordinator and president of the Kansas Respiratory Therapy Society. He said this was because most patients had secondary lung involvement such as emphysema or pneumonia.
The Med Center received national
But the shortage of therapists is not limited to the Med Center, Rodriguez said the shortage was statewide and nationwide.
acclaim for starting the first respiratory therapy residency program for post-graduate students in 1973. Rodriguez said.
"Respiratory therapy, being a new field, is undergrowing tremendous manpower shortages. There are 80,000 and 60,000 and 40,000 are credited" he said.
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE of the residency is to turn out leaders in the field, leaders in management, education and critical care," he said.
"The KU graduate is in high demand, really high demand. Most therapists who graduate from KU can just about name their own ticket."
The program has graduated 45 residents and graduates about 20 therapists yearly. Rodriguez, Kansas Respiratory Therapy Board member, said that number was increasing and those students were accepted into the school now.
Budget cuts at the Med Center have caused a hiring freeze in the respiratory department, Rodriguez said.
CONGRESS NAMED this week National Respiratory Therapy Week to promote the young field. Curtis said
Respiratory therapy started in 1940 and dealt mostly with oxygen therapy, he said. In the 1960s, an increased awareness and need for respiratory therapy stemmed from the chest trauma injuries that came out of the Vietnam War. These injuries created a need for mechanical support to keep patients breathing, he said.
A shortage of credentialed therapists is another problem facing the Med Center. High standards of care at the Med Center do not allow people who are not credentialed or have credential eligibility to be hired
Because critical care is offered at the Med Center, patients there have more difficult cases requiring more care. Rodriguez said. Doctors who have difficult cases send patients to the Med Center.
Credential requirements are standards of care set by respiratory therapy associations. The associations have a voluntary test to let the public know that the therapist is trained. To be credential eligible a therapist must graduate from a therapy program.
Tertiary oil recovery methods give slow results
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
Although tertiary oil recovery is considered the best way to supplement dwindling oil supplies, current experiments in Kansas show that it will have no effect on supplies for several years, experts said yesterday.
Paul Willhite, KU professor of engineering and co-director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Project (TORP) at the University of Kansas, said tertiary oil recovery methods were slow because oil only moved through rock at the rate of a foot or less a day, he said.
"What you do today may not be seen for several years," Willhite said. "Patience is a necessary virtue in this field."
Tertiary recovery methods are those used after water flooding, which is the secondary method. Willhite said. The pressure of the gases in the ground, the pressure of the gases in the ground,
PRIMARY AND secondary recovery methods recover only 10 percent to 15 percent of the oil that is stored in rocks, and secondary recovery methods recover about another 15 percent.
Cities Service Co., Tulsa, Okla,
began a tertiary recovery experiment in an oil field near El Dorado in 1975. Production results from it yet, he said.
Larry Van Horn, project director for the experiment, said Cities Service had expected to see results by now, but the low permeability of the rock had not allowed the oil to reach production wells vet
Cities Service engineers have seen an
oil bank moving toward the production wells; but the amount of oil moving could not be measured, Van Horn said.
Observation wells were dug between the injection wells, where material called a surfactant is injected into the ground, and the production well, where the oil is actually taken from the ground, he said.
WILHITE SAID the surfactant method involved injecting a detergent-type chemical compound that mixed with the oil. The following reaction starts the oil flowing through the porous material it is contained in, be said.
"It is like using dish soap to remove grease from a pan," he said.
Van Horn said the material moving by the observation wells in the test chamber was about 30 percent oil, which was close to Cities Service's original projection.
Conference to focus on Slavic issues
Soviet and East European scholars will gather at the Kansas Union tomorrow and Saturday for the 21st annual Central Slavic Conference.
Gerald Mikkelson, president of the 1982 Central Slavic Conference, said the conference participants would discuss a variety of issues about the Soviet Union. He said they represent more than 22 academic, governmental and private institutions.
Chorus and the Strawberry Hill Crooklyn Folk Ensemble at a banquet
Mikkelson, an associate professor of Soviet and East European studies and Slavic languages, said KU last sponsored the conference in 1976.
HE SAID this year's conference was dedicated to Heinrich Stamler, professor of Soviet and East European studies and Slavic languages.
"We have to wait until we see some production results before we can determine if this method is economically feasible or not." he said.
The speech, which will be at 4 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium in the Union, is not part of the conference but is being sponsored by the conference and the School of Business; the departments of economics, economics, Slavic languages and literatures and Soviet and East European studies, Mikkelson said.
Besides scholarly papers, the conference will include poetry reading, a Slavic book fair and performances by the KU Foll Dance Club, Russian
WILHITE SAID Cities Service was spending $26 million on the project, which is testing two surfactant methods. Any experiments TORP does will be on a smaller scale and will not cost as the Cities Service project, he said.
University of Arizona-Tucson, on the absorption of computing, within the campus.
TORP has no money for experimenting, so they are appealing to independent producers in Kansas to finance and expand their farms for the experiments, Wilhite said.
Mikkelson said an additional event of the conference would be a speech by Seymour Goodman, professor of management information systems at the
"Until individual personal risk is reduced, people who are looking at the prospect will want a high oil price to protect against failure," he said.
The registration fee for the conference is $20. Banquet tickets are $12.
Christmas Classes
Cathedral Window
Trapunto
Counted Cross Stitch
Machine Applique Demo.
Folded Star
Candlewicking
Hand Applique & Piecing
Officials say proposal won't cut utility bills
By DIRK MILLER Staff Reporter
A proposed change in the academic calendars of the Kansas Board of Regents schools would not save the University of Kansas enough money on utility bills to justify the change, KU officials said yesterday.
Martin Jones, associate director of business affairs, said initial calculations of the utility savings indicated that the proposed calendar change with the proposed calendar change.
A COMMITTEE of academic and business officers from the Regents schools prepared a calendar that would start the fall semester about Sept. 1, and end final examinations Dec. 23. The spring semester would begin a week before the first Friday in May said Jones, chairman of the calendar committee.
The Regents schools are expected to present a report of the savings that would be generated by the calendar change at the next meeting of the Council of Business Officers, which is a committee of business officers from each Regents school, Jones said. The Council of Presidents, a committee of the Regents schools' presidents, requested the report.
"The amount is quite insignificant," Jones said. "We at the University of Kansas will not be in favor of the change in calendars."
And Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said, "Obviously, $1,000 is not much incentive to change the calendar."
William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, said that some officials thought that air conditioning and heating might be reduced by the calendar change.
"But the way it worked out," Hogan said, "we're exchanging one week in the spring for one week in the winter."
He said there was almost a balance between the money saved by moving the fall semester back one week, and moving the spring semester back the spring semester back one week.
MARVIN BURRIS, Regents budget officer, said the Regents had not yet heard reports from any of the schools but that he expected them to report the savings from the proposed change next week.
Hogan said he would have a complete report on the effect of the calendar change on utility costs for KU later this week.
Burris said the Regents wanted the calendar to be used by all the schools, instead of individual calendars used by each school.
Last month James Gilbert, vice president for academic affairs at Pittsburg State University and a member of the calendar committee, said the committee had not been asked to suggest a "radical change" such as different calendars for different schools.
The Council of Chief Academic Officers, a committee of academic officers from each Regents school, voted not to recommend the calendar change last month because it would be disadvantageous to students.
Study abroad office moves to Lippincott
The office of study abroad has helped students travel for years, and now it is traveling, the adviser for the office said yesterday.
Ann Oetting, the adviser, said the office was moving from 108 Strong to 203 Lippincott yesterday and today and be back to full operation by Monday.
Ann Farah, secretary for the center of Latin American studies, said the center also would move, but not until December. It will move to 107 Lippincott.
ROBERT ADAMS, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said, "We felt their new quarters would put them closer to some real estate than they could in a more organized area. They also will have a little more room."
The college is tentatively planning to use the rooms to bring some of its services, such as storage of confidential folders, from Nunemaker Center to a more central location, Adams said.