THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.48
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Athletic slates still unresolved
Staff Writer
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Marian Washington, director of women's intercollegiate athletics, met yesterday with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, to discuss problems involving scheduling of facilities for use by the women's athletics department.
Shankel told Washington he would meet with Doug Messer, assistant athletic director, and Wayne Osnes, director of the department of health, physical education and recreation, and then would meet with her again.
"He told me he would try to arrange a meeting between all of us to work out a mutually acceptable solution to the problem," Washington said.
two volleyball matches were canceled Tuesday night because the team was denied use of Allen Field House and Washington thought options offered (a 3 p.m. or 9 p.m. time in Robinson Gymnasium were unacceptable.
EARLIER VOLLEYBALL matches were played on the basketball court on a trial basis but it was then decided that damage to the court surface from tape used for boundary lines was sufficient to rule against use of the fieldhouse for matches.
Washington said the field hockey match
with Emporia State College, which was also scheduled for Tuesday and cancelled, would
The Emporia State coach refused to have
the team return to the poor condition of
the playing field.
The forced rescheduled will cause the KU team to lose the advantage of playing at home, which is always an advantage in a conference game. Washington said the decision was made after the scheduled to be played here tomorrow, will also have to be moved, she said.
"THEY'LL HAVE to play a doubleheader. We'll have to be at Emporia at about 2:30 p.m., then try to get the ball out for us, as we use there for a later game that afternoon."
Washington said arrangements were needed to insure better maintenance of the fields designated for use by the field hockey team. The softball team has been able to use the fields at Holcom Complex and Broken Ice Field, in order to make agreement with the city is subject to change.
KU activities to highlight Higher Education Week
"The Emporia coach was sympathetic to our problem and said she realized I had no control over the upkeep of playing fields," Washington said. "But she was amazed that we have to cope with this kind of conditions for our teams."
The Jayhawk College Quiz Ball conten-
t, the presentation of the HOPE Award and a speech by former Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will highlight Higher Education Week activities next week at the University of Kansas.
Activities planned for Higher Education Week are:
Gav. Robert Bennett signed a 17-0 Higher Education Week in Kansas. Higher Education Week in Kansas.
The Chancery Club, a group of prelai-
students, will present the program "Legal
Law for Business," on Tuesday, p.m.
Monday, Nov. 1, in the Big Eight Room
of the Kansas Union. Representatives from
law schools at KU, Villanova University,
Washburn University and the University of
Kansas.
The 1976 HOPE Award finalists will be featured in a panel discussion on higher education at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, in the Kansas Room of the Union.
HOPE vote ends today
Today is the last day seniors may vote for one of five finalists in this year's HOPE Award competition. The information booth will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for balloting at 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The finalists are Allan Giger, associate professor of political science; Edwynna Pfeiffer, associate professor of business and instruction; J. Hammond McNish, adjunct professor of business; Jean Pyffer, associate professor of physical education; and Peter Turk, acting assistant professor.
The HOPE Award winner will be announced Nov. 6 at halftime of the KU-Iowa game on November 9.
The Jayhawk College Quiz Bowl, a battle of wits between KU living groups, will be at 7 each night from Nov. 1 to 5. Elimination games on Wednesday and the final round will be Friday.
The HOPE Award and Higher Education Service Awards will be presented during halftime of the KU-Iowa State game Saturday, Nov. 6. A reception honoring the winners and finalists will be the game in the Kansas Room of the Union.
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Wescoe will speak at the Higher Education Week banquet at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Wheelchair lift
Ed Chalk, Topeka graduate student, pulls his wheelchair into his car for the trip back to Topeka Chalk drives a car, with special controls, to KU every Monday and Wednesday for classes.
Cripple's life pace slow but persistent
By BETH GREENWALD
Staff Writer
Chalk, a graduate student in social welfare. is a quadripliegic.
Getting dressed in the morning, making the bed and driving to school—the seemingly mundane items of a daily routine—aren't mandate as far as Ed
Chalk's wheelchair is made especially for him; he didn't want a replacement. He also refuses to use an electric wheelchair, would deny him much-needed exercise.
"I DON'T WANT to get fat and lazy," Chalk said yesterday.
Although Chalk is medically termed a quadriplegic, he does have some use of his hands. His motor muscles can be completely paralyzed and holders aren't completely paralyzed.
This allows Chalk to write, drive a car and feed himself.
Chalk rarely asks his professors to make allowances for him. Although he may ask a teacher to speak slower so that he can take notes, Chalk prefers to copy another student's notes on his own time.
Chalk commutes from Topeka in a car especially designed for him. Hand controls, in place of foot pedals, enable him to drive. However, it takes him an extra 20 minutes to get in and out of the car.
CHALK BECAME a quadriplegic at age 17, after diving into a wading pool. He spent the next seven months in a hospital undergoing a comprehensive program involved eight hours of occupational and physical therapy each day.
"It was sort of like a prison term," Chark said.
Chalk, now 30, says he has adjusted to life in *n* wheelchair.
His body flexibility has improved,he said,and most importantly,so has his mental state.
Chalk said he never wanted to spend
his life in bed watching television and doing crossword puzzles.
AFTER GETTING a degree in sociology at Emporia Kansas State College, Chalk went to work as a social worker at the University of Tennessee Neurological Institute in Topeka.
Getting a job wasn't easy, he said.
Several times he would go to apply for a job only to find that the building had no elevator
Chalk said his being hired at the Neurological Institute was more luck that anything—the Institute needed a worker and it also had an elevator.
Chalk said he thought that in the last few years KU had become more aware of the problems of the handicapped. Curb cuts, ramps and specially designed bathrooms have been added to KU in the past two years, he said.
HOWEVER, CHALK doesn't attribute this new-found concern for the handicapped to the good intentions of some veterans, or to veterans, those who returned in wheelchairs, created a new awareness of the problems of the handicapped,
"If left on their own, KU wouldn't do anything. The handicapped must accept the unwillingness of people to change the environment to make things easier, because it's too expensive," he said.
Often the handicapped don't know their rights, Chalk said.
CHALK'S DESIRE to be a social worker springs in part from his own experience. The social worker responsible for his case after the accident that paralyzed him was 'off the beam.' Chalk said. That made him realize that more competent people were needed.
Chalk's day-to-day routine is completely different from a person not in a wheelchair. Everything he does takes longer and he must be in a correct position to do it. Even washing his bends becomes a chore.
Chalk gets up at 5:30 every morning—extra early—just to prepare for his day. By 9 p.m. he is ready for bed.
Uncertain future seen for malpractice laws
Staff Writer
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
The effect of 1978 medical malpractice insurance laws in Kansas will be decided with time and court decisions. Meanwhile, physicians and doctors at the KU Medical Center seem to be tolerating malpractice insurance rates.
One law, in effect since July, made it mandatory to have basic malpractice liability coverage to practice medicine in Kansas. It also established a health care stabilization fund to pay damages exceeding a doctor's basic coverage.
The basic coverage insures a doctor up to $100,000 for each incident or $300,000 annually in malpractice suits. The fund will pay for medical damages exceeding the doctor's coverage.
THE FUND IS financed by a 45 per cent surcharge of a doctor's annual premium. Health care providers will pay at least a 40 per cent surcharge until $5 million accumulates in the account. In 10 years, the account is to level off at $10 million.
The law's success in controlling malpractice rates is uncertain. A legislative committee will study the effects over the next two years.
But the law's effect is also hazy because of questions of its constitutionality.
LEE DUNN, legal counsel to the Med
Counsel, told me week that the law was
unconstitutional.
"There's a big difference between making insurance available to everyone and telling them, 'You must buy it.'" he said. "I don't think the state can require that a physician or anybody else buy an insurance policy to practice medicine in the state."
"I insurance has nothing to do with professional competence. The state has no right to say you have to spend your money some place."
A case testing the law's constitutionality is now before the courts. Byron Laggett, a Great Bend general, refused to purchase a courtroom at the federal courthouse ago. The attorney general's office has filed
ACCORDING TO John Martin, first assistant attorney general, the doctor has said he resented paying insurance and a surrcharge because he felt he was just financing insurance for less competent doctors. Liggett has been without malpractice insurance for about the last six years, he said.
The constitutionality of mandatory insurance in Kansas is just one of several similar cases across the country, Martin said. A Kentucky state court recently ruled that mandatory malpractice insurance and not all state were unconstitutional, he said.
a lawsuit against him. The doctor hasn't been sued from practicing whilst his is spending.
Other parties, including the Kansas Medical Society, may be intervening in the Laggget case. Martin said the intervening groups were interested in getting answers to additional questions raised in the case so questions could be decided in one lawsuit.
Kansas doesn't want to lose its doctors, he said. In some cases, doctors have moved to states with lower insurance rates or have retired early.
The legislation was meant to prevent conditions such as those in California and on the East Coast where doctors were closing their offices. But it's not likely to pay the insurance premiums, Ward said.
MORE THAN HALF of the states have higher premiums than Kansas does, according to David McDonell, a representative for St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, St. Paul, Minn. Paul's insures the Med Center doctors.
Med Center doctors are charged according to their fields of specialization. There are seven categories of specialization, which range from class one, general practitioners who do no surgery, to neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons.
The insurance company also charges according to the number of years a policy is in force.
pay gradually increasing premiums for five years. After five years, premium costs would change only with the number and size of malpractice claims in the state each year.
MCDONELL SAID that after five years the majority of malpractice claims would have surfaced, and the company would have a better idea of which premium to charge each year. In the first five years, there are lower premiums and fewer claims it often takes years to illicit problems with alleged malpractice incidents.
If the company seems to be overcharging after a certain year, McDonell said, the rates can be lowered. He said premiums and rates lowered in North Carolina and Virginia.
Doctors are classified by the degree of risk in their speciality, McDonnell said. Those that involve surgery are generally considered to involve more risk, he said.
Georgia always has something new cooking
By DOUG LAMBORN
Tuesday it was rice florentine.
In the past it has been Russian chow-
chow, knickerbocker, and Rockwood
cream-of-vegetable.
"She has a way of combining unusual ingredients so that it tastes really good," Nikki DeCancia, a cashier at the cafeteria, said yesterday.
Those names were conjured up by Margarete Georgia for the homemade soups she began creating about a year ago and used in the cook for the Kansas Union cafeteria.
"ONE DAY, I started making homemade soup and they fell in love with it," Georgia, a Union employee since 1944, said.
"I start out with the book," she said about her rec.'nes, "and I wind up on my own."
Georgia said she had always enjoyed cooking.
"It just comes natural to me. I'm from a big family and I had to do the cooking. I love it."
Georgia's homemade soups are made for the cafeteria, the delicatessen, the salad bar and the restaurant-style Prairie Room.
"Spinch, rice and onions," the server said, pointing her big spoon toward a tray. "If you don't like spinach, you'll learn to like it."
A student going through the cafeteria line Tuesday asked what was in that day's soup.
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"THERE'S A LOT of things you can add to this canned stuff. You've got to add more stuff to it to make it taste like anything."
On football game days, when soup is made for alumni donors to the athletic corporation, she makes it in a 60-gallon not.
But her homemade soups draw the most comments. A Union jankor used the term "supercolossal." A server leaned toward the counter as if confiding and
Georgia's homemade touch also extends to the canned foods she uses—mostly vegetables.
whispered, "I haven't tasted one that isn't really good."
GEORGIA ENT the only one in her family who is familiar with cooking. Her husband, Archie, ran the Michigan Street Barbecue for years, but retired a few years ago because of a poor heart condition. Georgia said that when she started her studio in 32 years ago to 1,000 people come through during the lunch hour.
"we came in at four o'clock in the morning then," she said.
Now, she said, with several more eating places in the Union and in Wescoe Hall, fewer people come by.
Georgia said she didn't think students had changed over the years.
Georgia said she enjoyed serving behind the counter when the cooking didn't keep her in the kitchen, because she got to see the students.
"They'll hollar at me when they come through the line. I was always easy to get over," she said.
THEY'RE JUST as friendly and they'll speak like they used to."
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Margarete Georgia runs the Union cafeteria kitchen
Nicholas Leo Hoffman, author and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, will speak at 7:30 tonight in the University of Texas at Austin's SUA Forum's Electrons '78 program.
News columnist Von Hoffman to speak tonight
Before going to the Post in 1966, Von Hoffman worked for the Chicago Daily News. He has also been on the CBS television program "80 Minutes" in the "Point/Counterpoint" segment of the program.
He has written five books, including "We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against," "Leaf at the Post," and two books that make up the series, creator of the comic strip, "Dooebees."
Von Hoffman is known by his readers for his casual and liberal criticism of the Nazi regime.
Admission to the lecture is so cents.
There will be a press conference for Von Hoffman at 2 p.m. in the International Room of the Union.
A reception, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, will follow the program in the Centennial Room of the Union.