THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
A LITTLE COOLER
KANSAN
Inspector helps rental dwellers
Vol.87 No31
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
"I want a girl"
Brian Sheap, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., sophomore, and Pat Kershner, Gardner senior, put aside their drums and began
singing yesterday the KU Marching Band recorded in Hoch Auditthornthe best the recordings will be use to make a song for the orchestra
Med Center surgeon appointed to fill departmental head vacancy
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ Staff Writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-KU Medical Center officials today named Frank Masters, chief of plastic surgery and assistant vice chancellor for clinical affairs, as acting chairman of the surgery department, after resignation last week of Loren Humphrey.
Humphrey said last night that he had
tampered with a woman's day morning about
the surgery department.
"I told him I was overworked as chairman and didn't get any support, but I wanted to encourage him very much to take it. I worked five and a half years to build the department up. I don't want to see it go to pot."
HUMPHREY UNEXPECTLY resigned Wednesday in a letter to Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center. In the letter he stated he had accomplished all he could in the department and that it was time to step aside.
Lack of administrative support and a desire to spend more time teaching and researching were reasons Humphrey later gave for his resignation.
He said that he thought the surgery department wasn't funded properly and
that more state funds should be directed to it, especially for salaries.
The state now pays only a portion of a surgeon's salary, Humphrey said. The rest is appropriated from private practice fees that are pooled into the surgery professional corporation fund. Salary levels are approved by the administration.
HUMPHREY HAD requested pay increases for the surgery staff in July and was turned down. Chancellor Archie Dykes last week approved a seven to eight per cent salary increase for surgeons effective Nov. 1.
Kugel said that there now appeared to be enough funds for the raises. Humphrey said that because the corporation funds consisted of what Med Center surgeons earned from private practice, surgeons had to work while they worked to earn a living.
Seven per cent of the funds earned, or more than $900,000 a year, according to Humphrey, are turned over to the state fund. Two per cent are used to fund equipment. One per cent, for a total of more than $70,000 over the last two years, are given to a vice chancellor's developing fund, Humphrey said.
THE PROBLEM is that every year, no matter how much the surgery makes,
Humphrey said, more money is distributed to other departments.
"For some reason they think surgeons are tough and can do it on their own," he said.
Last year, he tried to start a couple of programs and asked for some funding, Humphrey said. The money had be taken of the corporation pool to fund them, he said.
"You can understand why I'm frustrated," Humphrey said. "There's never any money for the surgery depart-ment, better things to do than play those games."
Lack of space, he said, was another factor
See SURGEON, page two
Kansan poll shows Ford crunching Carter at KU
By the Kansan Staff
Students at the University of Kansas would like to keep President Gerald Ford in the White House four more years, based on a poll conducted Sept. 25-29 by the Kansan.
The poll indicated a 48 per cent preference among registered voters for Ford, the Republican, compared with 28 per cent for former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Dickey and the Democrat. About 17 per cent of those voiced said they still were undecided.
The names of those polled were selected at random from a computer printout of enrolled KU students. A total of 421 students who have registered to vote were asked in personal interviews their preferences of presidential candidates.
THE MARGIN for error in the poll is 6 per cent or less, based upon a sampling error table used by the George Gallup polling organization. According to the table, each percentage in the poll results could vary as much as 6 per cent.
The Kansan poll indicated that 110 students, or 26.1 per cent, were registered as Democrats; 127, or 30.1 per cent, said they were Republicans. The largest percentage of students, 43.7 per cent, said they were independent.
Ford's lopsided win in the poll apparently was the result of strong support among Republicans and substantial support of independents. Ford captured 85.8 per cent of Republican support, compared with 63.6 per cent of the Democratic vote for Carter
INDEPENDENTS preferred Ford 40.7 per cent to Carter's 23.3 per cent. Twenty-six per cent of the independents said they knew who would get their vote in the election.
Other candidates listed in the poll were former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who is running as an independent, and former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, the candidate of the American Independent Party, who also those polled, and Maddox received one vote.
California Gov. Jerry Brown received two votes, or four-tenths of a per cent. Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan received one vote.
Several students interviewed said the debates were ineffective because they appeared staged, the question format didn't allow the candidates to react effectively to each other and the candidates relied too much on statistics.
ONE STUDENT, a woman who said she was independent, said the debates confused
"I don't think either of them clarified anything."
Another independent woman said Carter sounded like "an uninformed rabbit-rouser," and others said Carter's policies were too generalized.
Based upon the poll, Democrats at KU are more likely to cross party lines to vote for a candidate of the other party than are Republicans. Only 5.5 per cent of the Republican population voted for Carter, but 18.1 per cent of Democrats said Ford would help their support.
DEMOCRATS ALSO were more undecided about whom they would vote for. Of
Democrats, 12.7 per cent said they didn't spare them with 7.8 per cent of Democracy.
In addition, the poll indicated that the second Ford-Carter debate tomorrow probably won't have much effect upon KU. The result will be in full by 34.9 per cent of those polled. About
See FORD page two
Poll Summary
Governor of Independence
Democrat 26.1 per cent
In politics as of today, do you consider yourself a Republican, Democrat or Independent?
Democrat 26.1 per cent
Republican 30.1 per cent
Independent 43.7 per cent
If the election for president were today, which candidate would you vote for?
Ford 48.4 per cent
Carter 28.5 per cent
McCarthy 2.7 per cent
Maddox 0.2 per cent
Other 1.9 per cent
Don't Know "I don't know"
Don't Know 17.1 per cent
Did you watch
All 34.6 per cent
Part 36.1 per cent
Glanced 9.9 per cent
None 19.2 per cent
of the debate?
Would you say the debate caused
you to change your mind or form
a new opinion about how you
would cast your vote? (of those
who watched all or part)
Yes 15.7 per cent
No. 80.8 per cent
Don't 3.3 per cent
Poll indicates Ford gaining independents
Staff Writer
About 18 per cent of the nation's registered voters are Republicans, a number so low that it is sure to worry Gerald Ford as he seeks election this fall.
Ford's solution should be to gain the support of the increasing number of independent voters, according to Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science. On the basis of recent polls, one taken last week by the Kananan, Ford seems to be
He said the number of independents was especially large this year among both students and the electorate in general. Voters under 30 are about 53 per cent independent nationally, he said, and those over 30 are about 44 per cent independent.
IN THE KANSAN poll, 43.7 per cent of the respondents said they were independent. Ford received 40.7 per cent of the in-
formative vote compared with 25.3 per cent for Carter.
Cigler, who was provided the results of the Kansan roll, also said:
—he was surprised by the margin University of Kansas students preferred
Ford over former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.
—the number of people not committed to either major candidate was unusually high by the time he was elected.
—the effect of the first debate seemed to make voters less committed to Carter.
—much of the support for the candidates could be "soft," which might result in a significant portion of the electorate changing its mind about the candidates.
—he had expected former Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy, an independent, to get more of the student vote than was indicated in the poll.
VOTERS WHO identified themselves with a party seem to support their party's candidate, Cigler said. About 86 per cent of the Republicans said they would vote for Ford and about 64 per cent of Democrats said they would support Carter.
But Cigar said Ford's popularity with independent voters was "a big rain."
"Among those with no deep commitment either way, Ford made inroads among the independents," he said. "He's done very, very well."
The surprise of the independent voters'
See POLL, page five
Ford accepts Butz' resignation
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Gerald Ford yesterday accepted the resignation of Earl Butz, secretary of agriculture, and parting with Butz was "one of the saddest decisions of my presidency."
The resignation followed a weekend of
rapidly escalating controversy over an alleged obscene racial slur uttered in August following the Republican National Convention and traced to Butz last week.
The episode had become an issue in Ford's election campaign and brought
Soviet doctor-turned-poet at KU
By BILL CALVERT
Staff Writer
In 1966, a Soviet physician in Kiev practiced a device to write his life to writing.
That physician, Vitaly Korotch, is a guest of the University of Kansas department of Slavic languages and literature for the third annual Soviet writer-in-residence.
Korotich has published 15 books of prose and poetry since 1963. These have been translated into 20 languages from his native Ukrainian language. He also has written journalistic essays and has made several documentary films.
IN ADDITION to these accomplishments, Korodich has translated the works of several American poets into the Ukralian language and has written essays on those poets.
Korotich, a 40-year-old poet and journalist, arrived at KU last week and will be here until Oct. 4. He will be giving lectures on some poetry readings during his stay here.
Gerald Mikelson, associate professor of Slavic languages and literature, said that Korotich was the foremost translator in the Soviet Union of American poets and was the only Soviet author to write about them.
school, when he first tried his hand at writing poetry. He said he was ashamed of his poetry and wanted to keep it a secret because he was a wrestler and was afraid his athletic friends would laugh at him. He had decided on a career in medicine, he said, because his mother and father were doctors.
Korotich said his career as a writer began during his final years in high
KOROTCH BEGAN his medical practice in 1958 and practiced for eight years before he became a full-time writer. He said he kept writing poems and reading literature in medical school and during his practice, and eventually became aware of the need to express himself.
"I lived all my life in a world of medicine. When I started to write, it was a simple type of writing—poems about love, nature and things like that."
"The most suffering people are those who cannot live in a full way," he said. "With poetry I found I could impress people in such a way as to reveal myself. Each man must reveal himself and must find the best way he can do it. You can suffer because and a good house, but you suffer because you cannot reveal yourself."
took it to Maxim Rylsky, a noted Soviet poet.
RYLISKY WROTE a article on Korotich's诗作, giving it national recognition. This article led to the award for The Poet of poetry, "Golden Hands." in 1963.
"It was terrible," he said. "I had just written my dissertation and had taken it to the director of the clinic. I handed the dissertation in and then asked him to free me from it." He asked why and asked me 'Why? Why do you do this after all the work you have done?'
Three years later, Korotich changed
the move. The move was met with some
cricketing.
He received recognition when the poetry he had been hiding so diligently at the museum was given a new life.
Korotich said he finally decided to change careers because poetry had been on his mind all the time, even when he had been taking care of his patients.
"I WOULD SIT near the patient and think about poetry. This is not honest to be a physician and devote yourself to something else. You must be 100 per cent professional. All your life must be given to your profession."
The conflict between medicine and writing has been grappled with by many other doctors, Korotich said. He said some of these doctors became famous as physicians who was one writer-physician who married one profession and courted another.
numerous demands from politicians in both parties that Butz be fired.
"Chekov once said, 'my wife is one profession, and the other is my job'."
The transition from one profession to another wasn't a difficult one, Korotch said. Doctors, he said, become so well known that doctors attempt to make the doctors attempt to move.
"ALL LITERATURE is really a history of all illness," he said. Because of this, men who go into medicine can go into writing in a normal way. A physician becomes so full of impressions that he has to turn to writing."
Korotich that because of the experience in working with people his medical career provided a good education and a career of literature and journalism.
"I believe to become a great journalist, it is important to know something more. Of course it is possible to become a great journalist by studying it after high school, but me it was important that I studied in the medical school and eighth years in practice.
"I know people who studied journalism after high school and it became a real tragedy for them. They don't know life, they have never touched it, really. They are used to seeing their faces on side. They know only their friends, parents, their town and school."
Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter, campaigning in Denver, said that B仕 should have been fired immediately after he started the situation showed a lack of leadership.
Both Butz and Ford said the resignation was solely a result of the off-color story about blacks, but it didn't mean any change on the part of the Ford administration.
"This is the price I pay for a gross disinformation in a private conversation," Indzul told reporters in the White House press following a private meeting with Ford.
"For that reason, I have accepted the resination of this decent and good man."
The resignation was effective immediately. Understaffed.
After Butz left the White House, Ford appeared in the press room and told the reporters that Butz had been "wise enough and courageous enough to recognize that no single individual, no matter how distinguished his past public service, should window over the integrity of will of government by his comments.
Earlier, Butz, his eyes glittering with warm, hair said of Ford, "I shall continue to wear it. You'll never know."
In his brief letter of resignation, Butt told Ford, "I sincerely apologize for any offense that may have been caused by the unpleasant word." He also recent conversation and reported "..."
By resigning, Butz said he hoped to "remove even the appearance of racism as a national problem" (Jones 2017).
"The way this whole embarrassing and disgusting episode was handled by
But there were quick indications that Democrats wouldn't let the issue die that easily. Carter said Ford should have fired him, but it would be the question summer over the weekend.
Earl Butz Staff photo
President Ford shows a continuation of lack of leadership. Carter told reporters at a
Republican vice presidential candidate Bob Dole said in Washington, "Secretary Butz was popular in many places, there's no doubt about it. But you have to weigh that against a very tasteless remark, one I felt difficult to swallow."
Dole, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, described Ford as a man of decency and integrity, and I think he made the decision" in accepting Butz resignation.