THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.5
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
SenEx queries need for aide
See story page 10
Med Center perseveres with X rays
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
The KU Medical Center will continue to give X rays to check for breast cancer in women despite tentative National Cancer Risk Reporting. In addition, giving X rays for breast cancer detection.
Warnings by the NCI on Tuesday apparently have frightened some women away from breast X rays, according to C. H. Chang, a radiologist at the Med Center.
He said that of the 22 women scheduled for breast X rays yesterday morning, only 11 showed up. Before yesterday, he said, any cancellations were unusual.
THE NCI and the American Cancer Society sponsor the Med Center's National Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration. The NCI stated that X rays should be banned for women 35-50 years of age unless they showed symptoms of breast cancer.
The NCI is waiting on two more reports before making final recommendations and providing information.
"We have to tell them (women) that what the NCI says is not true," Chang said. There is not even one case that proves that cancer (breast X rays) causes cancer."
In a letter to directors of 27 participating cancer detection centers, the NCI said that radiation from X rays may increase the risk of breast cancer in some women.
"Everything is hazardous in a sense," he said.
HE SAID X RAYS could be considered food that causes haemorrhage, that aspirin or food could be hazardous.
Chang said X rays were useful in detecting breast cancer in its early stages. He said it was disgusting that the NCI would ban X rays when the NCI studies were exposed to radiation of these women exposed to radiation from atomic bomb explosions during World War II.
According to calculations by Loren Humphrey, director of the Med Center cancer detection project, women exposed to the atomic explosions received 100 times more radiation than women given X rays at the cancer detection clinic.
HUMPHREY ALSO HAS said that it
See MED CENTER page six
Breezu rider
The riding on Highway 10 east of Lawrence is windy and helmet-free for Richard W. of Eudora. Wright, riding his Covatr
powered tricycle, said he believed his 1,200-pound vehicle was so weak that he had to use a wheelchair. County coordinator for a group that worked to repel bulldozers had been unable to stop him.
Motorcyclists express support for Kansas' new antihelmet law
By DARYL COOK
It's the motorcyclist's decision now.
On July 1, motorcyclists 16 or older were no longer forced by law to wear protective helmets. The helmet requirement was unpopular from its inception with many riders who considered helmets not only uncomfortable but dangerous. Others considered the requirement an infringement on their rights.
Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett signed a bill in March that required only people under 18 to vote.
The repeal became effective when Congress passed a resolution stating that federal highway funds wouldn't be withheld for the public to ride on all people on motorcyles to wear helmets.
motorcycles. However, the bill stipulated that the governor would issue a until the Congressional resolution passes.
Whether helmets be worn still has man's motorcycle enthusiasts and astonished women.
This year 28 people have died in accidents involving motorcycles, according to Kansas Department of Transportation statistics; nine of those persons who weren't wearing helmets.
Five of these six fatalities have occurred since the helmet law was repealed, but anthelmnet forces would point out that there have been fewer deaths than in the same time period last year. Last year there were 196 deaths. In this year, this is for Aug. 18, there have been 10.
Some cyclists view these statistics as proof that the belmet law should have been enacted.
Wednesday that statistics indicate that helmets were unnecessary and often do not meet safety standards.
Richard Wright, Douglas County coordinator for A Brotherhood Against Torture.
"Helmets down on peripheral vision and hearing, and if you can't bear or see it, it'll probably hit you." Wright said, "and it'll probably be that guy that tells the officer, 'Gee, officer, I didn't see that cycle.'"
Wright said ABATE was started by Easy Rider magazine in Malibu, Calif., in opposition to laws they thought restricted motorcycleists' freedom. ABATE then spread throughout the nation and now has several thousand members. Wright said.
Wright said that ABATE also was concerned with safer cycling conditions.
About 100 people belong to the Douglas County chapter, he said.
"My opinion is that there are so many people on bikes now that don't have any more darn business on bikes than the man in the moon," Wright said.
See MOTORCYLISTS page three
By CAROL HOCHSCHEID
Funding denied for cheerleaders
The KU pompon squad won't be getting $250 from the Student Senate before leaving Thursday for Las Vegas to perform in the Olympics. Day telphone for muscular dystrophy.
At its meeting last night, StudEx members said that it would be Sept. 8 before any attempt was made to override a veto by Taddeus Tehelse, student body president.
Tasheff had veteto the $250 allocation Tuesday, because she said it was inconsistent with the Senate's budgeting philosophy.
But even without Senate funds, squad members said they would make the trip with administration and athletic department funds.
STUDEX HAD approved the allocation Sunday night, but now that the semester has begun, it is unauthorized to act in place of the entire Senate.
The first Senate meeting of the fall semester will be Sept. 8, one day after the final exam.
Discussion of Tashsef's veto will be placed at the top of the agenda for new business at that meeting. A two-thirds vote of the Senate is needed to override the veto.
Lisa Cave, a member of the squad, said that airplane reservations to Las Vegas had already been made for the 10-member squad, but that they didn't receive any details about where the money was coming from.
"ALL WE'RE asking for from anyone is a wav there and back." she said.
Cave told StudEx that the squirm members themselves were unable to supply any funds for their business.
"In no way did I want this veto to be seen as a lack of support for what you're trying to do," Tashtef told the squad members at the meeting.
She said that she hoped there would be "some visible student support," but that the $250 allocation from student activity fees would contradict the budgeting philosophy.
ACCORDING TO that philosophy, requests for funding should be judged by their tangible and intangible benefits to currently enrolled KU students.
Tasheff said she agreed that the promotional merit of the trip was "valid" but disagreed that it would create any benefits for the present student body.
Jon Josserand, services committee cochairman, told the squad members that
each year the Senate had to refuse thousands of travel expenses from requests
"I don't think the student activity fee was ever intended to support promotional activities."
IN OTHER BUSINESS, Tashef told StudEx that a minority affairs center in the Kansas Union would be completed within one or two months.
Staffed by two of the assistant directors at the University Minority Affairs Office in Carruth O'Leary Hall, the Senate-organized center would serve as an academic and cultural resource for minority students, Tasheff said.
She also reported that the search committee for a new vice chancellor for student affairs would cut the number of applicants to 20 by next week. By the end of September, the committee will recommend four candidates to Chancellor Archie Dykes to replace William Balfour, who resigned in early May.
Employe group orders removal of KUMC notice
The KU Medical Center was rebuilt yesterday by the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board (KPERB) for allegedly malicious insults and intimidated union employee unions.
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
FIRST Written
MEMBERS OF THE SEARCH committee include three students, three faculty members, three administrators and a KU alumnus.
A petition was filed in May with KPERB by the Public Service Employees Local Union 1328 that accused the Med Center of interfering with a Med Center employee in his legal right to participate in union activities.
The employee, Frank Briscoe, had been issued a warning in March by Med Center personnel managers after he allegedly shot and killed a nurse with a supervisor nurse at the Med Center.
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
THE KPERB ORDERED the Med Center to stop interfering with public employee organizational activities and to remove the warning notice from Briscoe's file.
After more than an hour of marching in near 100 degree heat, Debbie Smith, Osawatomi freshman, took a breather in the shade of an observation stand behind Oliver Hall while the rest of the band continued practicing.
Blown out
Let your fingers do the walking so your wallet does some saving
By BETH SPRINGGATE
Staff Writer
On July 1, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., began charging for more than five directory-assistance calls a month. Some of those people who used the service pay for it.
And the plan is working well for the company, Ed Carter, district manager for
If your fingers are getting tired of walking through the pages of the telephone directory in search of old friends' numbers, you'd better give them a pen talk.
"It's been very effective," he said. "People feel they're going to be charged, so they don't."
THE POLICY ALLOWS a person live in directory-assistance calls a month and two phone numbers a call. A caller will be charged 10 cents a call after that limit. Information calls from pay phones and calls for hospital numbers are free.
he notifies the phone company of his disability.
The telephone company originally requested a three-call limit and a 20 cent charge for additional information calls. A petition that protested the information-call charge was circulated in the Lawrence area and presented to the Kansas Corporation of Northern Western Bells proposal. The KCC approved the telephone company's current policy.
COLLINSON SAID the impact of the policy could be seen in the decrease in the number of directory-assistance operators. He said some of these operators had been transferred to long-distance telephone work because of fewer directory assistance calls. Collinson a charge for information calls couldn't be avoided.
CARTER CONTRASTED the five-call allowance here to the three-call allowance policy in most areas of the country. He said those areas billed about five per cent of their customers. Carter estimated that two or three per cent of the customers in the 913 area would make more than the five free calls allowed.
Before the rule became effective, Collinson said, 75 per cent of the calls were made by 20 per cent of the callers. Severity of the requests were requested in the telephone directory.
"The idea behind this is to cut down on directory assistance." Bill Collinson, local councilor.
Lloyd Rose, the union's assistant local business agent, filed the petition for the union against the Med Center. He said yesterday that the Med Center couldn't reprimand Briscoe because he was a union officer conducting union business.
company, Collinson said, but the policy wasn't instituted to make money. Rather, it was designed to "put the charge where it belongs instead," he added. "charges for calls made to
"All calls in the 913 area tack up a number on your meter," he said.
It is too early to tell whether the policy will create new revenue for the phone
The official memorandum of agreement with the union provides that a union steward can work out employee grievances, but the union cannot intervene from the personnel director, Smith said.
There is no charge for calls made to University Information.
Calls outside the 913 area are free. A handicapped person who uses directory systems is not permitted.
B. E. Smith, Med Center personnel relations director, said the warning was issued to Briscoe as a "mild form of reprimand" for discussing employee problems that Med Center officials thought might be part of Briscoe's official union duties.
No notification had been given to charge for on-campus service, she said.
Emma Deane Barland, chief operator of the University directory assistance, said the University used Bell equipment, but the University didn't have it. The sequently, wasn't a part of Bell's policy.
SMITH ALSO SAID Briscoe was in an unauthorized area of the hospital at the time. He was on break when the discussion took place.
See EMPLOYE page seven
Seat shortage
Standing room only on KU buses is more common than ever as
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Chris Murrell, Kannas City, Mo., sophomore and others have discovered since the first day of classes. See story page 11.