Wednesday, October 15, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A - Page 7
New KU phone books arrive with no hang-ups
Jennifer A. Yeoman
jyeoman@aol.com
Kansan staff reporter
In the words of Steve Martin's character in "The Jerk": "The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!"
University of Kansas phone books have arrived and are being stored in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Facilities Operations has started distributing the books to residence halls and to departmental offices. Distribution will finish sometime next week.
"We're glad they're out," said Julie Swords, University Relations publications coordinator. "Everybody always eagerly awaits the phone books to get the new phone numbers. It's a big job to get it the information all right and to get them out."
The 16,500 phone books, which are produced in Lubbock, Texas, take about 20 days to produce once the publishing company receives all the necessary information from University Relations. The last set of information was sent around Sept. 2.
"The phone books always come out around the last week of September or the beginning of October," Swords said. "The phone
books are right on time."
The phone books are printed by Lubbock-based GV Publications because the University's printing service is not able to produce the books cost-efficiently, Swords said. GV Publications produces the books at no cost to the University, but all advertising revenue goes to the company.
"The University has nothing to do with selling the ads," Swords said. "However, we do set guidelines. We don't like 'drink' till you drown' ads for bars. But other than that, we hope that people advertise in good taste or at least taste we can live with."
To help defy the cost of production, University Relations charges the bookstores $1.20 per book, said Carol Leffler, assistant to the director of University Relations.
Last year, bookstores charged students and faculty $1.50 for the books. People not directly associated with the University were charged $3.00, said Lisa Eitner, supervisor of Mt. Oread Bookshop in the Kansas Union.
Eitner said prices most likely would be the same this year.
The books should be at the bookstores in the next two or three weeks, she said. Bookstores will
contributed art
receive the books after they have been distributed to the campus offices and residence halls.
"We try to get the books out at a reasonable price to the students," Swords said. "We don't want to charge them a lot of money. We just want them to be able to have them."
Geography shapes dying days
The Associated Press
Ogden, Utah, to a high of 22.9 days in Newark, N.J.
WASHINGTON — The dying in St. Petersburg, Fla., can expect to spend almost five days longer in intensive care than the elderly in Sun City, Ariz., says a study that concludes where Americans live helps determine how they spend their last days.
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care also found large geographic disparities in the number of days Medicare patients spent in the hospital during the last six months of life — from a low of 4.4 days in
"The issue of what care is right is a fundamental question," said Jonathan Lord, a physician part of the American Hospital Association, which published the 300-page study.
"Geography is destiny. .. Where you live basically determines how
you're going to die," Lord said.
Wennberg, who first uncovered regional variations in medicine in the 1980s, mapped the distribution of health care resources in 1994-95 — the latest data available — and how people in 360 hospital referral regions used them
The study, to be released today, confirms earlier surgical disparities. For example, patients in some states get heart bypass surgery or mastectomies for breast cancer more often than less-invasive alternatives.
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Take Back the Night March & Rally Thursday, October 16,1997 South Park Gazebo 7:00 p.m.
Please bring candles
Entire event is wheelchair accessible
Sign language interpreter will be present
The Clothesline Project, a visual display of t-shirts created by survivors of violence will be on display beginning at 5:00 p.m. Materials will be available from 5:00-7:00 p.m.for women and children survivors who want to create a shirt. Food Not Bombs will be serving dinner for free after 5:00 p.m.
Food Not Bombs will be serving dinner for free after 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Women's Empowerment Action Coalition and co-sponsored by Women's Transitional Care Services and Rape Victim/Survivor Service