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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PAGE 6A FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1997
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The University of Kansas' new Cessna Citation Bravo jet made its maiden flight as a Jayhawk yesterday. The plane's $4 million price tag was paid through a contribution from the University of Kansas Endowment Association, and it replaces the University's 1972 Beechcraft King Air, which was sold. The University also has a second Cessna plane, which it will use alongside the new jet. Staff Photographer/KANSAN
First business flight 'spreads' medical aid throughout Kansas
By Tim Harrington
harrington@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
It still has that new-iet smell.
It has plush, tan leather interior, reclining seats that swivel around and a braggadocio Javhawk on the tail fin.
Perfect for Chancellor Robert Hemenway and the rest of his high-brow associates to zip around the country in, right?
Well, as a matter of fact, yes. But that's not all the University of Kansas' new Cessna Citation Bravo will do, or even most of what it will do.
"The majority of the flights are for the Med Center people," KU pilot Bob Custer said yesterday after a series of flights across Kansas. "We've got four or five flights for them just today."
One of yesterday's flights was for Kimberly Templeton, orthopedic surgeon at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Every other month, like other specialists at the Med Center, Templeton files from Kansas City to her temporary office at the Salina Regional Health Center.
There, she treats patients who would have great difficulty or would be unable to get to the Med Center in Kansas City.
Specializing in orthopedic oncology, the study of tumors in bones and muscles, Templeton is the one of the few surgeons of her kind in the state. She needs to spread herself around.
"It's one of those specialties that's extremely rare," Templeton said. "You don't know about us until you need us."
Yesterday she saw Kansans that need her.
Dudly Mauch, Salina resident and long-time patient of Templeton, crushed his Harley-Davidson into a guardrail in 1996. The accident tore most of the flesh from his left leg and shattered the bone. The wreck also broke both his arms.
Yesterday, she removed the final cast in a series that had kept Mauch's leg covered for more than a year and called for one more set of X-rays.
Templeton then went back to the the Salina Municipal Airport, boarded the plane, and got some well-earned sleep.
Less than ten seconds after throttling up, the small jet leapt into the air and within ten minutes was descending upon Manhattan.
Don Hagen, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, boarded after attending a meeting of the Board of Regents.
"We're the biggest users of the planes," Hagen said. "It's important for us that we have a good plane."
Hagen thought that they had just that and more. His first time on the jet, he was impressed.
Less than 25 minutes later, the pilots were consulting the five digital and LCD displays which illuminate the cockpit in preparation for a landing in Kansas City.
"I shouldn't have ridden on this," Hagen said. "Now I'm spoiled."
The two Med Center passengers deplaned and with minutes the jet was creeping along the skies at 3.000 feet and 200 mph.
Ten minutes later, the jet touched down on the Lawrence Municipal Airport runway ready to take on its next load of passengers.
What else could $4 million buy?
Here are a few options:
8,000,000 aluminium cans of Pepsi
4/105,882 plastic bottles of Coke
434,783 large hamburger and black olive Gumby's pizza
Hungry?
1,223,241 Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meals at McDonald's
9,390 center court season tickets to KU basketball games
For the sports fan:
25,641 season tickets to KU football games
26,66 Joykayw T-shirts
"She handles like a dream," Custer said.
Campus improvements:
17/20 of a residence hall suite renovation
2) 1 of a Budig Hall renovation
2) 667 IBM computers
2,000 Macintosh computers
a 6 airplanes just left the old one
For bookish tvoes:
63,492 in-state credit hours
AA. 444 brand-new chemistry books
How about a night on the town?
46, 444 brand-new chemistry books
727, 213 movie tickets in Lawrence
842, 105 movie tickets in Chuckwagon
1,777,778 bottles of bister at the Bull (excluding cover charge and medical bills)
1,333,333 trips to the Bull (excluding beer)
57,142 single kg parties (or one, massive 57,142 kg blowout, assuming that one has 57,142 pumps, taps and barrels on hand)
800,000 nights at Bleachers
2,666,667 loads of laundry; washed and dried
55, 555 round-trip flights to Chicago on Vanguard Airlines
80,000 small tattoos
66,667 navel paintings
SOURCES: Airplanes OnLine, "Jane's All the World's Aircraft"
Questions fly around purchase of new jet
By Mike Porryman
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' $4 million jet, which was purchased through Kansas University Endowment Association funds, was not paid for with student money. However, questions and concerns about the plane linger among many KU students.
"I think it's goofy," said Dan Chapman, Lawrence freshman. "Whether it's worth it or not is tough to say. But $4 million can influence a lot of other things at KU."
While students raise questions of the purchase, elected student representatives remain relatively silent on the issue as Chancellor Robert Hemenway defends the decision to purchase the new jet.
Because the spending of the money did not directly affect students, Student Senate probably would not take any official position on the matter, said Scott Sullivan, student body president.
Sullivan reiterated that the endowment funds were not necessarily designated for students. He said endowment funds were gifts from the alumni to the University, which has full discretion in how they are spent.
"They had valid reasoning for purchasing the jet," he said. "But if it were my $4 million, the jet would not have been a priority."
Hemenway said the gift from the Endowment Association would give the University a relatively low-cost, fast and safe means of travel.
Members of the activist coalitions Action Alliance and Delta Force said that in this particular case, the money could have been better spent.
Even though students aren't involved in decision-making, it is important they have a say. The Endowment Association should be here to improve the University and aid students," said Jason Fizell, Olathe senior and Delta Force member.
"It will allow physicians to travel throughout Kansas very efficiently and safely. It will allow professors to travel to Washington, D.C., in search of funding," he said.
Fizell said $4 million was excessive.
"I could buy a Mercedes and have the best car," he said. "The reality is, it's not practical. I can get a less expensive car that serves the same purpose."
One professor does see the importance and purpose of the plane.
One professor does see the importance and purpose of the plane. Andrew Debicki, dean of the graduate school and international pro-
"The University needs an efficient form of transportation," Debicki said. "It's not just the chancellor that will be using the jet either. For every one trip he takes, there will probably be 20 other miscellaneous trips that will benefit the University."
Faculty and administration need the jet to search for funding, he said. That search results from a University that is increasingly being operated like a corporation, said Kip Curtis, co-coordinator of the Action Alliance.
"I think it's appalling," Curtis said. "It is indicative of the way public universities try to fit in to the new efficient scheme of the late 20th and 21st centuries. They have become enraptured by corporate America."
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