THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
COMFORTABLE
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87 No.19
Space center has many stars
Friday, September 17, 1976
See story page nine
Accreditation of hospital under study
Bv BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Staff Writer
Physical deficiencies at Lawrence Memorial Hospital could, if not remedied, jeopardize the hospital's accreditation status.
A three-man team from the Joint Committee on the Accreditation of Hospitals inspected the hospital Tuesday and Wednesday.
Don Lenz, hospital administrator, said yesterday that several recommendations to correct deficiencies were made by the surveyors after the inspection. He refused to specify what deficiencies were found by the inspectors.
A decision on accreditation won't be made until October, when the joint committee meet.
ON THE BASIS of the surveyor's objection, he decides to another a hospital.
According to joint committee procedure, a hospital is given recommendations even if it passes the accreditation inspection. To keep the status, a hospital must file documentation of its progress in correcting the deficiencies after one year.
Accreditation means that a hospital is qualified credentially, has its medical records up-to-date and is approved by insurance companies for the Medicare and
If a hospital loses its accreditation, it loses its rank as a professionally approved hospital and its automatic status as a Medicare and Medicaid health center.
Lawrence Memorial passed a state inspection Aug. 13.
"State standards are always considered to be minimum requirements," a state medical facilities licensing employee said yesterday. "Hospitals are required to be licensed, but are not required to be accredited."
HOSPITALS VOLUNTARILY seek accreditation for public hospitals director in Chicago, Illinois.
According to guidelines, Lawrence Memorial Hospital would have paid the joint committee, a nonprofit corporation, for the services of the inspectors.
Most of the inspectors' recommendations concerned the physical facilities, according to their evaluations.
"We've known for a long time that the physical facilities were not adequate and did not comply with joint committee codes." he said.
"We have hopes that the joint committee staff will understand that we are building a new hospital and that that is our way of correcting the deficiencies of the old
FOR EXAMPLE, Lenz said, ventilating
See HOSPITAL page six
Jimmy Carter, Democratic presidential candidate in Kansas, Sunday to attend a rally in Palm Beach as a relief.
Carter to be at KC rally
The *10a-a pension reception* will be at 11 p.m. at the Hilton Plaza Inn, 45th and Main
After the reception, Carter will attend a early startning at 1:30 p.m. at the State Office Building.
Carter will be in Kansas City only two-
one-half-hour before leaving on a 3-p
parking spot.
Staff photo uv GEORGE MILLENER
Firefighters from Lawrence and other area communities got a chance to fight a controlled gas fire fueled by propane last night during a demonstration conducted by the Ranger-Plan American Insurance Co. of Houston. A liquid propane fuel tank was heated in a large indoor fire station in Darien, Indiana, where four high-fire firefighters then used water to push flames away so the valve could be closed.
Apathy leaves Assembly without student members
By JERRY SEIB Staff Writer
The College Assembly, which usually has about 150 students, has been temporarily left without student representatives because of a lack of interest.
we students attended two meetings scheduled last March to form an elections committee. We had members yesterday, Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said individual students were contacted later but didn't have time to serve on an election committee.
As a result, there have been no elections to fill the Assembly, although a SenEx member yesterday reported plans to move the Senate and College family elections.
THE COLLEGE Assembly is the governing body of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. It is composed of all faculty members in the College—about 600 this year—and elected student representants. The last 25 percent of the faculty membership.
The Assembly votes on curriculum changes, educational policies, including the add-drop policy, course changes, major requirements and teaching awards.
In the past, the Assembly has met about
one month. A meeting is scheduled for
thursday.
IN HIS LETTER, Cobb said the lack of student representation stopped Assembly committee work. He asked Senxo to allow him to appoint students to five standing committees, as representatives could be elected to the Assembly and, in turn, to committees.
SenEx agreed that Cobb should appoint representatives to the committees until elections could be held. Such a move, SenEx decided, would be necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Constitution requiring all legislative committees to be composed at least 20 per cent students.
BILL BLESSING, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and SenEx member, told SenEx that they would like to participate in elections in conjunction with Student Senate fall elections Oct. 6 and 7. Bleasing said the plan would allow students to vote for vacant Senate and Assembly seats at the same time.
The College still would be responsible for nominations and for providing ballots, Blessing said, and the Assembly ballots would be counted separately.
Benita Bock. Lawrence senior and
chairman of the Senate elections committee, said that the committee had had only preliminary discussions about coordinating the elections. She said she planned to meet with College officials this week to discuss the possibility.
IF ASSEMBLY elections can't be held with Senate elections, Cobb said, he will consider other options. He said another attempt could be made to form an elections committee, or student representatives to the Assembly could be selected by department. The Assembly meetings also could be opened to all College students, he said.
Cobb said he planned to appoint about 10 students to the Assembly's five standing committees to serve until other representatives could be elected. The Assembly has standing committees on educational policies, appointments, and budget matters, as well as committees and planning, advancement of instruction and advising and graduate studies.
Action by Endowment Association needed for airport improvements
COMMITTEE MEMBERS selected last year were chosen to serve on committees for two years, although their membership to the Assembly itself was for only one year.
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By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
The Kansas University Endowment Association may hold the key to future improvements for Lawrence Municipal Airport.
The improvements, listed in a report made this summer by the aviation committee of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, are tied to a problem concerning ownership of the land on which the airport lies.
Money for improvements can't be obtained from the federal government because the Endowment Association owns the land it leases to it the city for one dollar a year.
To qualify for federal funding, the land must be owned by a publicly controlled body. The Endowment Association is required to be a private, profitmaking corporation.
SHORTCOMINGS IN the airport were noted as far back as 10 years ago, but no action was taken because of the difficulty in getting the job done, an assistant city manager, said yesterday.
However, a cochairman of the Chamber's aviation commission said that the airport's needs were immediate and shouldn't be delayed any longer.
In fact, Lee Zimmerman, committee cochairman, said, if nothing is done soon,
"The city commission should undoubtedly consider setting up some limitations as to the size of airplanes that are allowed to land there."
The aviation committee's report said that the most urgent need was to lengthen and widen the airport runway.
THE AIRPORT HAS two runways: a hard-surface runway, now used by large commercial aircraft, and a smaller, sod runway, used for small, single-engine
The hard-surface runway isn't adequate for the number and size of planes that use it.
More students means more crime
Bv DARYLCOOK
Staff Writer
ITEM: A 10-speed bicycle, valued at $140, is stolen from a student's residence.
INCIDENT: A 20-year-old woman allegedly is raped.
Her occaption: student.
Although Lawrence police don't keep records on vicitans' backgrounds, the police say that the increased student population at KU is one of the largest contributors to Lawrence's rising crime rate.
ITEM: A portable black and white TV, valued at $160, is stolen from the residence of a student.
The number of police crime reports indicates that University of Kansas students are victims of crimes has risen.
"Students have the sort of things that can be sold by burglar's." L.V. Lernon Harrell said yesterday. "Instead of owning a console TV, they have portable Sonies or stereos—things that can be easily stolen and sold."
AS OF MAY 1978, Lawrence police had investigated 147 burglaries and larcenies—six more than in all of 176, according to a three-year comparative report released in August by Lawrence police.
Harrell said that the total loss this year to theft victims was more than $550,000.
Bicycles, the item most often stolen, have cost Lawrence victims more than $700 this year. he said.
Harris said that students who lived in apartments were prime targets for burglaries and thieves because students could avoid being robbed.
"The number of burglaries increased in May when students started moving out, fell off during the summer months and increased when students started moving back.
AS A RESULT, Harrell said, criminals have begun to follow the students' seasonal moving habits.
"In January, there were 76 burglaries, or almost one-fifth of all our burglars to date," Detective Kemnath
"As a result, we've begun policing especially heavily during the times when students are moving in and out."
Of 1,029 thefts as of May, less than 13 per cent of the suspects have been arrested.
"When a burglary or theft occurs, there are usually few clues for us to go on," Harmon said.
Despite heavier police attention during months of higher crime rates, many burglaries and thieves still aren't
The rise in burglaries and thefts has increased in spite of state and county officials' efforts to control it.
Susan Wildegen, assistant city manager, said that the city management office had been working closely with county officials to keep the problem under control.
A three-and-a-half cent sales tax enacted in 1971 is expected to raise $800,000 to improve police and fire services.
CITY AND COUNTY officials have been working on programs for juvenile offenders, Wilden said.
Harmon said that police now were trying to increase apartment security by working with apartment complex managers.
may examine ways to secure homes and apartments against, burglars and thieves. he said.
but in spite of the increased police activities and county correctional programs, there may be little that officials
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, said that college students and teenagers often abused new freedoms from restrictions, such as curfews and public school trips were imposed upon them by their families and schools.
"Looking ahead, we may come to an era when crime will level off, and we can say that 'This is the amount of crime that has been committed.'"
Arnold said that the crime rate in small cities and suburbs had been increasing at a greater rate than that of large cities because of more local activities and increased growth.
Arnold said many sociologists had theorized that a degeneration in moral values, or an absence of a moral sense, is common.
"IN GENERAL, the decreasing agreement on moral values has produced a psychological condition among most of us in which we aren't sure what is right or wrong." Arnold said.
Zimmerman said, and, in fact, the runway size is unsafe.
"The lack of moral agreement leaves the individual open to define moral problems for himself. He might define them in terms of his economic needs, peer needs, or social needs.
The need for a bigger runway also was mentioned in a report made in 1973 by Bucher and Willis, consulting engineers from Kansas City, Mo.
"The effect has been that criminal activities have become more acceptable" when the person is caught.
That sturdy was commissioned by the city after a bond election failed in 1973, when 71 percent of voters cast their ballots.
A SIMILAR BOND issue failed in 1967, when 79 per cent of the vote was against it. Zimmerman said he couldn't understand why a city as aggressive toward growth as Lawrence was so negative about having an adequate airport.
THE BOARD WAS appointed by Mayor Fred Pence to study the needs of the airport and was instructed to consider the report made by the Chamber's aviation com-
However, lack of money has kept the city from making improvements.
"That's a question that's been on my mind the last 10 or 15 years," he said.
Wilden said that the special aviation advisory board was appointed because the airlines were part of the project.
In view of the two bond election defeats, Wilden said, he didn't think the current
See AIRPQRT page twelve
Classically Eastern
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
A young female member of the Hwa-Mei Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of China concentrates during a warm-up before the group performed last night at Central Junior High School. The orchestra comprises children ages 11 to 22, all of whom have had at least six years of musical training. See story page eight.