University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, September 17, 1982 Vol.93, No.20 USPS 650-640
Bus system coordinator charged with stealing
By DON KNOX Staff Reporter
The coordinator of the KU bus system, Steve McMurry, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of taking an undetermined amount of students funds. KU police said yesterday.
McMurry, who was first named coordinator of the bus system in 1974, will be arranged Sep. 22 in Douglass County District Court on charges of bribery, theft and three counts of misdemeanor theft.
The 27-year-old Lawrence special student was released Wednesday night after posting $6,000 bail.
McMurray was relieved of his duties by David Adkins, student body president, pending outcome of the criminal proceedings. Adkins said he would personally authorize expenditures and deposits for the bus service until an acting transportation coordinator was named.
University officials working with campus police had not determined how much money was
missing, said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
"This is the most serious incident since my involvement with Student Senate," Adkins said. "Something like this is obviously disconcerting. But I have a great deal of faith in making sure student government continues to serve the students."
MCMURRY DECLINED to comment on his arrest.
McMurray's position was an appointment within the Senate. It was not salaried.
Ambler said he was notified Tuesday of the possible misuse of student money, but he declined to say who notified him. He said he was also involved in an audit of the bus service later that evening.
Adkins also was informed of the incident Tuesday, Ambler said. The student body president met Wednesday afternoon to discuss an audit of the bus system with Joyce Jordan, the department deptmonkey; Mait Gatewood, Senate treasurer; McKenarry; and other auditing officials.
MCMURY WAS arrested at 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
Jordan and an assistant met with student officials again yesterday afternoon, and Ambler said Jordan would continue a complete audit of the bus system account.
A $6 fee paid by all full-time KU students helps fund the bus service. That money is collected at enrollment and deposited directly into the student account with no student handling, Ambler said.
However, Ambler said, money from $35 unlimited-ride bus passes in the Kansas Union and on buses was transferred to the University comproller by students.
The announcement of McMurray's arrest followed reports in Wednesday's University Daisy Kansan that the Senate never approved a $5 increase in the price of student bus passes. The increase, which included a 5-cent increase in single-ride fares, would have generated $37,700 annually, according to figures provided by the Senate office.
The fare increase was necessary. McMurry
said Wednesday, because of a $1 increase in the cost of keeping a bus circulating for one hour. No increase was made, however, in the $6 fee.
AMBLER SAID Wednesday that the unapproved fare increase was part of a continual problem his office had encountered with Senate budgets during the past five years. The unapproved increase, however, had no direct confection with McMurray's arrest, he said.
"Some Student Senate-funded organizations have been created by the Senate with their own governing board." Ambler said in a July 2 letter to Adkins. "It is obvious that the Student Senate does not scrutinize their budget requests in great detail. Indeed, the budget of the transportation board is not even included in the total Student Senate budget."
Ambler said that although the transportation budget did not necessarily have to be approved by the office of student affairs, he had asked the present Senate administration to turn in budgets May 1 from all of its autonomous boards, including the transportation board.
"It's not really important that I see it," Ambler said. "But if they give it to me, then I know that the students have seen it."
Adkins and McMurry said Wednesday that the transportation board, which oversees all aspects on Wheels, had not met since last fall.
BUT ADKINS SAID that despite McMurry's arrest and subsequent removal, the transportation board would be reorganized by Oct. 1. The board would be taking applications for board members, he said.
"I imagine there is plenty of blame to go around," Adkins said. "I can honestly say we were trying to address the problem before this incident had taken place."
Adkins had invited McMurry to Tuesday night's Senate meeting before McMurry's arrest. The Senate, Adkins said, wanted to hear his explanation for the bus fare increase.
"There is some question as to how that budget was approved by the board. Adkins said this is too complicated."
Bob Brubaker, Jawhawk Towing driver, helped take up slack in the cable used to free a car that hit a truck on North Iowa Street behind Hallmark Cards at 4:28 p.m. yesterday. The driver of the truck could not stop for several minutes as Iowa and could not stop in time to avoid hitting the truck. The
truck was driven by James Moore, Kansas City, Mo., who was trying to turn left onto Iowa Street at Peterson Park. Wolfe was cited for driving under the influence, reckless driving and driving with a driver's license. He was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Med Center's test tubes will spawn human lives
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, Kan. - Within six months, Kansas' first test-tube babies may start their lives in the laboratories of the University of Kansas Medical Center.
William Cameron, professor of gynecology and obstetrics at the Med Center, said yesterday that Kansas City's first test-tube baby should be open at the Med Center by Jan. 1.
Interested people are already signing up to be the first candidates for the clinic. Cameron said the clinic had received about 20 calls in the past two days.
Cameron said women who had cervix problems or whose Fallopian tubes had been dislaced
The target date for the clinic's opening depends on the education of scientists and lab technicians. After the clinic is set up, doctors will be given training in the field before taking the first applicant, Cameron said.
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME for the process of developing test-tube babies is in-vitro fertilization. In this process, the egg is removed from the uterus and implanted with sperm and implanted in her uterus.
He said he had been nurturing, "i idea for the test-tube baby clinc for about a year but was too old."
Last March, Cameron visited a Melbourne,
Australia, clinic, which increased his desire to
become a doctor.
He also needed funding and a scientist who had laboratory background that would enable him to build the machine.
A physiologist from Washburn University was
interested in the clinic and talked to Cameron about working there. Because he had the required background and could work at the MEd Center on a part-time basis, the two joined
FUNDING FOR THE clinic is not coming from the department's operating budget, Cameron said. Instead, the doctors' own earnings are paying for the clinical setup, Cameron said.
The skills needed to perform the in-vitro procedure are not difficult to learn, Cameron said, and the clinical part is very simple. Eggs are removed from an ovary with a labroscope and placed in a dish with the sperm. Then lab technicians watch the egg divide until it has reached 24 hours. This process take 24 to 38 hours, and during this time the woman goes home.
Temporarily, funds will be taken from the Med Center OBGNY Fund, a professional obstetrician-gynecologist organization. The nurse is responsible for ensuring patients pay for the clinic's service. he said
The funding problem was given to Kermit Krantz, chairman of the department of gynecology and obstetrics at the Med Center. Krantz was given an in vitro procedure was given up priorly.
When the division of cells is complete, the woman returns to the hospital and the eggs are released.
Bands to descend on campus
Mississippi Street from 11th Street to Sunflower Road, and Sunflower Road from Jayhaw Boulevard to Sumnside Avenue, will be closed to regular traffic from 6:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. tomorrow with 5,000 high school students who are expected for band day are unloaded, KU police said yesterday.
Bob Foster, director of bands; said the bands
THE PREGNANCY SUCCESS rate for in-vitro fertilization is between 5 percent and 10 percent, Cameron said. Physicians at the Eastern Virginia Medical School have said this could increase by 1890. The chance of pregnancy through sexual intercourse is about 25 percent, he said.
would rehearse the halftime show from 8:30 a.m.
to 10:15 a.m. in Memorial Stadium.
The halftime show for the game between the Jayhawks and Texas Christian University will feature 65 bands and the KU Marching Band, Foster said.
Kickoff for the regionally televised game will be at 12:30 p.m., one hour before the regularly scheduled kickoff.
Weather
Wilcox Collection of classical works begins move from shed to showing
CLOUDY
The Med Center is not the only Midwestern hospital to have a test-tube baby clinic. A Tulsa, Okla., hospital has one and is ready to start working with its first women, Cameron said.
The Wilcox Collection, KU's collection of classical statues and antiques, yesterday began the first stage of its journey to a permanent museum. The collection was formerly stored for 17 years in a tin shed on West Campus.
Staff Reporter
The cost for in-vitro fertilization at the Tulsa hospital is close to $6,000 for one cycle. Cameron said that he considered that a little high and that the projected cost for each cycle performed at the Med Center would be between $2,500 and $2,700.
By JEANNE FOY Staff Reporter
Elizabeth Banks, professor of classics and curator of the museum, said that if the collection had stayed in the shed much longer, nothing of value would have been left to display because of the damage done to the collection by people and animals that managed to get inside the shed.
The clinical process of creating a life has pro-life supporters angry because they think abortions are being performed by destroying eggs when fertilized eggs are found to be
The collection has been in the shed since 1965, when old Fraser Hall, which housed the Wilcox Museum, was torn down. Plaster casts of statues of gods and emperors and other items from ancient Greece and Rome had been on display in the museum from 1888 to 1965.
The tin shed leaked, and before being repaired, led to the destruction of some of the collection because plaster cannot resist water, Banks said.
See LIVES page 5
The shed had mice, she said, but after one particular visit to the shed, she found a solution had been provided. A cat had somehow managed to get into the shed and have her kittens there.
Today will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms.
The high today will be in the 70s. Winds will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. The low tonight will be in the mid-50s with a 20 percent chance for showers.
The collection had also been disturbed by people storing and then removing things that had nothing to do with the Wilcox Collection, Banks said.
she said about 30 percent of the collection had been damaged.
After going through the collection yesterday.
The Wilcox Collection originally was to have been given gallery space in Wescoch Hall, which was to have been a 25-story office tower. After the museum's renovation, its collections and money, plans for the museum were on hold.
AS THE STOOD in the shed before the life-sized statues of Greek gods packed in crates and burs covered in plastic, all of which were covered by bricks, said. "I don't ever want to come out here again."
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy. A high in the 70% is expected.
A small stature of Nike, goddess of victory, was among the first of the collection to be removed from the shed and onto the truck that would have been the warehouse in the southeast part of Lawrence.
The bulk of the collection consists of 60 plaster casts of Greek statuary and a variety of other items, including vases and photographs of Greek architecture.
BANKS SAID the warehouse would serve as a staging area until the room in Lippincott Hall, which will eventually house the museum, was furnished and items for the museum had been chosen.
The items in the collection were weighed before being moved so the stress capacity of the
The heaviest pieces of the collection have not been removed yet because more movers are needed.
"We had been promised space long before most of us in the classics department were here."
See WILCOX page 5
Clyti, one of the statues in the Wilcox collection, awaits transportation from an old tin shed on West Campus to a dry
warehouse at 19th and Bullne streets DAVE HORNBACK/Kansen Staat
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