THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.35
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
FIRST offers job career help
Monday, October 11, 1976
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Fire inspectors close ATO floor
The fourth floor sleeping area of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house, 1537 Tennessee St., was closed Thursday after an earthquake in the Kansas State Fire Marshall's office.
Eighteen members of the fraternity were told by the fire marshal's office that they would have to sleep in other parts of the fraternity house because the fourth floor of the building didn't have an adequate fire escape system.
"Just for extra safety, they wanted another fire door at the south end of the floor," Lee Green, ATO president, said yesterday. He said that there was already a escape door at the north end of the floor, and Mr. Walton's office required fire doors at both ends.
"It's no hassle," Jim Gund, Kansas City. Moz, freshman who was forced to move his sleeping quarters downstairs, said. "The room is very cramped." He floored and back going downstairs to bed.
Green said most members who had slept on the fourth floor still studied and kept their clothes there, but now slept in other parts of the building.
"As soon as the fire escape door is in, they'll go back up to sleep," he said. "For all practical purposes, they live up there, but they just don't sleep up there."
Jay Reardon, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who also had to move his sleep quarters, said the move had caused some problems.
"The whole house was thrown out of kilter," he said. "Living on two floors can be a problem."
Green said the fire marshal's inspectors and found no other infractions of the state law.
The inspections were the latest round of investigations made by the state fire marshal's office of student housing on college campuses in Kansas. The inspections were prompted by a fire Aug. 29 that gutted the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at Baker University in Baldwin and killed five fraternity members.
Pie coalition gets 6th seat
The Student Senate Elections subcommittee announced Friday that Valerie Howard (Apple Pie coalition), Winfield freshman, was the winner in last week's election for the sixth Senate seat representing Nunemaker College.
The announcement was delayed until after the close race for the sixth seat could be recounted, according to Kevin Flynn, Senate executive secretary.
The other senators elected last week from Numemaker are Tom Byers (Jayhawk), Marysville sophomore; Steve Conklin (Jayhawk), Hutchinson sophomore; Scott Morgan (Terra Firma), Shawnee sophomore; Terra Firma, Fairway freshman; and Ralph Munyan (Terra Firma), Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
Rosalynn's Rally
Rosalynm Carter, left, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, spoke to a crowd of 200 people Saturday on behalf of her husband. The crowd chanted and
Photo by MIKE STRONG
expressed support for Carter by showing signs that read, "Put Peanut butter on the White House Menu."
Photo by RANDY OLSON
Shootin' the breeze
Jeff Smyer, Ark City senior, foreground, and LeeAnn Roberts, Lawrence junior, demonstrate their sailing skills during the KU Sunflower Ratagatta Saturday. See story on www.ku.edu/sunflower.
Soft-spoken Rosalvnn gives Kansans hard sell
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
TOPEKA-Rosalyn Carter, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, made a brief stop here Saturday in her campaign to be First Lady to participate in state party fund-raising activities.
In a news conference and speech to Kansas Democrats, Mrs. Carter demonstrated her ability to hard-sell Jimmy Carter in a soft-spoken, spontaneous way. She confirmed a statement she made earlier in the week that her campaign promises were important because, "I come with him" to the White House.
The first stop for Mrs. Carter was the Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters—an unimpoising, sparsely furnished room lacking the usual campaign paraphernalia—buttons, bumper stickers or pamphlets.
THREE LARGE posters listing the voter registration records of Topeka Carter campaign workers were the only indication that this was a functioning headquarters
Mrs. Carter, escorted by former Kansas governor and current Democratic state chairman Robert Docking, entered from a back door and was at the front of the room before the few persons assembled here realized she had arrived. She walked across the hall without creating the usual stir expected from a national campaign figure.
She was soft-spoken and shy-looking. But when she responded to questions about her husband's presidential campaign, she became a hard-sell campaign who let everyone know she didn't intend to stay on the sidelines in her husband's administration and would be outspoken about things of importance to her.
When asked why the Carter family "descended" on Kansas and the Midwest often, and in numbers—she said, "We don't want to leave you; we want a mandate so many mm. cardinals."
Within the past week, most of the Carter family has campaigned in the Kansas and MN races.
SHE SAID CARTER'S popularity ratings
were going up in all the polls since the first debate because people thought the debates were unfair.
Mrs. Carter repeatedly criticized President Gerald Ford for failing to answer questions about his administration and said those who accused her husband of fuzziness on issues were frustrated opponents who found anything definite to question him about.*
Of the Playboy magazine interview in which Carter said he'd "committed adultery in his heart," Mrs. Carter said, "I'd rather Jimmy would talk to people and answer their questions. It's sally with me if he wants to tell 40 million people about the Baptist religion. And that's what he was doing."
ABOUT 200 RESIDENTS gathered outside the campaign headquarters to greet Mrs. Carter. Signs read: "Put Peanut butter on the White House Menu," "We Need a Lemonade Stand on the White House Lawn," and "At Last Poles are Free—Jerry Told Me," an allusion to Ford's statement during the second debate that Poland was an Eastern European country free from Communist dominance.
Mrs. Carter encouraged the group to continue its enthusiastic campaigning and praised their "good, honest hard work" as essential to the Carter effort.
After about a five-minute hand-shaking appearance at the reception, Mrs. Carter left to attend with a $10-a plate memorial dinner for Henry Lucek, a former Democratic governor of Ohio, and the dinner, held at Topeka's Municipal Auditorium, drew about 300 Democrats.
FOLLOWING AN introduction by Docking as "an intelligent and charming asset to her husband and the Democratic party," Mrs. Carter reiterated many of her earlier statements about Kansas, the pals and Ford's failure to answer questions.
Mrs. Carter said her husband's background as a farmer who has worked for a living and as a businessman who has worked in the farm to make his operation work were his strengths.
SHE ATTACKED President Ford for increasing the White House budget, for vetting a bill designed to reduce unemployment and for attempting to avoid disclosure of his entertainment expenses, an apparent allusion to recent investigations into his spending record while a member of Congress.
"Isn't that just like a Republican!?" she said.
Mrs. Carter said that, since travelling throughout the country talking with unemployed people, and listening to far-away speakers, these people had become stimulating to her.
“At first I campaigned just because I thought Jimmy would be a good president, but now I feel he have to work much harder so that when there are so many things I can do too.”
Royals' George Brett gets second chance
Sports Editor
By STEVE SCHOENFELD
KANSAS CITY, Mo..George Brett walked up to the barrage of microphones, looked a reporter straight in the eye and smiled.
He was relaxed and having fun. The Kansas City Royals had just beaten the New York Yankees, 7-3, to even American League play-offs at one win each.
And after the pressure the Royals' third baseman was under after Saturday's 41 loss to the Yanks, the victory was a welcome change.
"I probably won't get any questions because I didn't make an error," Brett艾伦说。
Brett was taken to his two first-ringing errors Saturday, which led to two Yankee hits and a walkoff.
But there was no talk of that yesterday. And there was no talk of Brett's dispute with Yankee manager Billy Martin over Martin's handling of Brett's brother, Ken, who pitched for New York before being traded early this season.
Martin didn't even yell obstacles at something Captain Billy did all afternoon.
"I didn't hear a thing tonight from their whole digout," Brett said. "I think it's all over with. I think it might have been over-publicized and blown out of proportion."
Brett admitted he was nervous Saturday.
"Ninny," said our Satur afternoon. "Nervous?" Brett said. "The time I was most nervous all day was when they were making the introductions, going out onto the field.
"I don't think I choked. I was nervous.
I'm not afraid to admit it. But I don't think I choke."
Brett scored the winning run in the second game after opening the Royals' two-run six by tripling over center fielder Mickey River's head. He also knocked in the Royals' first run in the first inning with a sacrifice fly.
"I'd been trying to hit it over him (Rivers) for two days," Brett said. "I finally got a pitch where I could try, and the hit just took off."
Gertt said he wasn't nervous on that hatch. "I was less nervous because I had the first play-off game under my belt," he said. "I want to what expect. I had the bad play out of it."
Brett's relaxed attitude carried over to his teammates, Brett said also seemed
"Even when we were behind, 3-2," Brett said, "we knew we would come back and we didn't die. We didn't lose any spirit. We knew we would come back."
And after Saturday's debacle, many people wondered whether Brett would come
Timely advice: Get sick during the business hours
By COURTNEY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
Prescriptions written by physicians at Watkins Hospital at times other than these can be filled only with a 24-hour supply of the medication. The emergency room nurse causes the day's supply of the prescription when no registered pharmacist is on duty.
If you plan to get sick or injure yourself in such a way as to require medication, it would be a good idea if you could schedule your visit at 8 a.m. on Thursday through Friday or 8 a.m. to noon Saturday.
Before a regulation passed by the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy this summer, patients could receive a 48-hour supply of the prescribed drug.
MARTIN WOLLMANN, director of health services, and Byron Walters, physician at Watkins, said recently that they were concerned the inconvenience caused by the
one-day supply ruffing caused many students "follow through" on a instructional schedule.
If a student is sick enough to need medication, it's obviously inconvenient for him to make one or two additional trips to the hospital. Walters said.
Both doctors agreed that the regulation put the student who happened to get sick during nonbusiness hours at a definite rate. They gave two reasons for their concern.
"You know if you're really feeling lousy you don't want to face repeated trips up here—and that can be the case if the timing of your illness is poor."
WALTERS ALSO said that not all students would have a roommate available during a weekend to get the medication for him.
students who begin feeling better after the 24-hour period, Walters said.
Certain illnesses, such as strep throat and other bacterial respiratory infections, require a six-to-10-day course of treatment, he said, but the patient begins to feel better almost immediately after beginning the drug dosage schedule.
There's also a problem involved with
"Because they start to feel well soon, patients think whatever they had miraculously 'went away'," he said. "But they still've got the infection, just at a reduced level. When medication's stopped, the bacteria can do their thing with no deterrent and the person feels bad again by about the third or fourth day."
WALTERS TSA this "apparent instant cure" resulted in "double exposures" of the patient to a doctor, of unhealthy patients to other unhealthy patients and of unhealthy patients to unsuspecting healthy hospital personnel. The reco-exposures occur when the
student visits the hospital again to find out why he gets 'better right off', but feels uncomfortable.
Anytime a contagious illness such as a cold or flu is involved, repeated contact of the patient with others increases the rate of infection. Walters said.
"The student ought to be able to get enough medication so he can stay at home at least a couple of days to recuperate," he said. "He certainly shouldn't be here adding his germs to the milieu of bacteria already around, with people coughing and swine."
"I FEEEL. A little embarrassed and foolish as a doctor when the patient sees us and ends up with only four Achro V (tetracycline). That's probably all he'll take. And I get frustrated when I ask a student if he's been taking his medication and I get, 'Yeah, but they only gave me four capsules.'"
Walters said the previous 48-hour supply limit wasn't much better, but it did give the student sufficient doses to carry him through a weekend.
He said the inconvenience wasn't the fault of the pharmacy. Sunday hours from noon to 2 p.m. recently have been added to accruals in the system. Matters questioned the logic of the ruling.
"I DON'T SEE the difference between a nurse taking an order from a physician for an in-patient medication order and one for an out-patient prescription," he said.
Watkins Gillipie, chief pharmacist at Watkin, said the new regulation was part of a broader effort to make sure medicines are safe.
Wollmann said the hospital's medications were individually prepackaged and labeled so the nurses didn't have to transfer medication from the original container.
pharmacy law. The intent was to avoid mislabeling, misuse and volume dispensing of drugs by nursing personnel, he said.
"FILLING prescriptions really isn't the nurses' job," he said, "and so far we've had no complaints from the students. We try to follow up by phone on all antibiotic medication orders if the patient doesn't come in for the remainder of the prescription within a day or so."
Wollmann said that the regulation was up for review in January 1977 and that he had indications that several people connected with the state Board of Pharmacy favored a three-day supply limit rather than the current 24-hour requirement.
"The patient would obviously have more leeway with that type of arrangement," he said, "and I'd definitely agree it would be a more understandable decision."