University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1982
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Sluggish economy boosts RN retention Nursing shortage at Med Center eased
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
KANAS CITY, Kan. — The sluggish economy has helped alleviate the nursing shortage at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Carol Thies, director of nurse recruitment at the Med Center, said recently.
"You can look all through the metropolitan area and can see the nursing shortage is less; that has some effect on us," she said.
Many of the women are coming back to work after five or 20 years. Thies said. Reasons for returning to work vary. Many of their husbands
have been laid off, some need to work to help finance their children's education, and many were part-time employees who now need to work
LAST YEAR the Med Center was struggling to fill 70 nursing positions. This year, Thies said, only a handful of positions are available.
"We still need some people, but we have far fewer vacancies than we've ever had in the five years I've been here," she said.
In March, a recruiting program was started to attract nurses. The campaign only made people aware that 'he Med Center needed nurses, Thies
said. The Med Center did not have to go out and sell itself, she said.
The Med Center did have to increase beginners' salaries to compete with other area hospitals, Thies said. Last year, beginning registered nurses' hourly salaries were $7.89. This year salaries were increased to $8.41 an hour without experience and to $9.44 an hour four years ago. Experience required for licensed practical nurses had been two or three salary ranges too, low compared with other hospitals. Thies said, and this year their salaries are more equal to LPN salaries throughout the state. An LPN
would receive $6.44 an hour without experience or $7.10 with experience.
Budget cuts at the hospital reduced the hospital's bed capacity by 100. This reduced the number of LPN beds in the number of RN positions by 42. Thies said.
University hospitals normally have a low retention rate, Thies said, because of turnover. Many women may be at the hospital only while their husbands are finishing their degrees. You should also for a head nurse position and then move on when a position becomes available.
Kansas hit by national teacher shortage
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
The nationwide shortage of secondary mathematics and science teachers is affecting Kansas, the associate dean for mathematics, Mr. Brunson KU School of Education said recently.
Lelon Cappa, the associate dean, said many people were leaving mathematics and science teaching because they make more money in private industry.
Mary Kay Corbitt, curriculum and instruction director for the department of mathematics education, said people with mathematics backgrounds could
make twice as much money working for private companies as they could teaching.
"It is hard to convince someone to teach for $10,000 to $11,000 a year when they can make $20,000 right out of it and an undergraduate degree," Corbitt said.
MATHEMATICS TEACHERS are being siphoned off to teach computer science classes, which are becoming more in demand, she said.
Another way schools are solving the shortage problem is by hiring teachers who are not qualified to teach mathematics and science, she said. Teachers
are given emergency certificates valid for one year, she said.
These certificates usually are given to teachers qualified to teach in other areas, but who may not have the background needed to teach mathematics. They are not required, nor have been taught the methods of teaching mathematics, she said.
"Everyone who graduates from college has some background in mathematics, but it is usually not enough to qualify them to teach it," Corbitt said.
Capps said many schools were upgrading junior high school mathematics and science teachers to the high school level.
Corbitt said this could create a problem in some cases because junior high school teachers were certified to teach either elementary and junior high school or high school and junior high school.
This means that some of the teachers upgraded did not have the mathematics background needed to teach high school, she said.
KANSAS RECENTLY HAS enacted a certification program for middle school teachers that will require mathematics teachers to have almost the same qualifications as high school mathematics teachers, Corbitt said.
Panhellenic committee to focus on rules
The KU Panhellenic Association has created a new committee, but the association's president said she hoped the group would never meet.
In past years, any sorority caught in violation of Panhellenic rules went before the Panhellenic Executive Council and adviser. Now, houses facing charges will argue their cases before the same group plus three women selected to specialize in Panhellenic rules.
"If we don't have violations or accusations, we'll never have to meet."
Jan Fink, Panhellenic president, said yesterday.
FINK SAID the new committee would insure a better interpretation of Panhellenic rules because the sole responsibility of the three sorority women would be to know the rules. In the past, the executive board had to itself into an advisory board when something went wrong, she said.
Fink said each of the 13 sororities on campus nominated a candidate for the
The three newly chosen board members are: Lynn Park, Oxford, N.J.; senior: Anne Scott, Leawood and Mona Tipton, Hutchinson son.
The judiciary board will be responsible for reviewing allegations of hazing and dirty-rushing. Fink said. Dirty-rushing refers to sororities trying to secure potential members by courting them outside of regular rush activities.
to increase sorbidity involvement in the unification of the Greek system, she
THE CREATION of the new group is part of an overall effort by Panhellenic
The Panhellenic constitution for the University of Kansas was rewritten this summer, Parkin said. She said the new curriculum is a great step toward procedural questions in the old rules.
Fink said the greatest number of violations would be reported by sorbities that did not break the rules, because they were more aware of the rules than freshman women who might participate in breaking rules.
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The K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center will be finished on or ahead of schedule unless bad weather strikes, a construction foreman said today.
The foreman, Ken Pecis of R.D. Anderson Construction Co., said they would be able to enclose the building and keep it from weather remained fairly good this fall.
"If we can enclose the building we can continue construction," he said. "The heat will be on inside and it will be just like working inside your house."
University Endowment Association, said he thought the building would be finished on time, which would be late in the spring of 1983.
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ENCLOSING THE building would mean putting the roof on and getting the walls up, he said. He said the company also hoped to have all of the bricklaying done within the next six weeks.
He also said that although the building was not yet aesthetically pleasing, it was exciting to see the completion of the project nearing.
The Endowment Association is financing $2.8 million for construction and $2.1 million for finishing and furnishing the inside of the building, he said.
THE BUILDING is being built with funds raised in memory of ex-KU student and president of Phillips Petroleum Co. Kenneth Adams.
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The Kansas Supreme Court will decide in the next 60 days whether a set of keys found in the home of a Lawrence man accused of raping a girl, Greg Hammel, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said yesterday.
Court to rule on legality of rape case evidence
The courts ruled the keys were seized illegally by Douglas County investigating officers. The officers were authorized by a warrant to search Galloway's home for evidence that would link him to another rape of a Lawrence woman in May 1981, Hammel said.
The justices heard oral arguments Monday on an appeal of decisions by the Kansas Court of Appeals and the Douglas County District Court that the keys could not be used as evidence against Sherman L. Galloway, 22, in connection with the July 1981 rape of a KU graduate student.
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THE SEARCH FOR evidence in the May rape led officials to discover other evidence they said linked Galloway to
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"The officers acted in good faith." Hammel said. "How much do they have to pay?"
Hammel argued that Monday the officers knew that neither Galloway nor his wife had any connections to KU and that he was responsible for KU keys they were seized legally.
Hammel said he asked the Supreme Court to modify the exclusionary rule, which states that any evidence obtained unlawfully cannot be used in court.
HAMMEL SAID he did not know if he agreed with President Reagan, who introduced a bill in Congress Monday to limit the use of tainted evidence in court.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the defense, Hammel said he would consider appealing the decision to a federal court. The defense also may appeal the decision if the court rules that the keys can be used as evidence.
Galloway has been convicted of the Maya maiden and serving a twelve-year sentence.
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