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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, September 28, 1998
Director of Watkins retires after 26 years
By Sue Franke
Kansan staff writer
How is it better for students?
How is it better for students?
That is the first question that James E. Strobl, director of Watkins Memorial Health Center, always has asked.
"A lot of times people think we should do things because it is better for the doctors," said Strobi, the first non-physician director for Watkins. "Well, that's fine, as long as it's better for the students first."
Strobi retired after a 26-year career in college health at Watkins, and a party was held in his honor at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the health center. He has been on leave since last December after suffering from heart problems but drops in daily to visit colleagues and to read the The Wall Street Journal. He's an avid stock-market investor, and the staff at Watkins has been known to ask him for stock tips, said Jim Boyle, interim director for Watkins.
Those who know Strobl describe him as determined, tough,honest and devoted.
"What stands out to me is his love of family and the health center — in that order," said Ann Pierce, an administrative secretary who has known Strobl for nine years. "He treated this place like his baby."
Strobi instituted many changes during his career at Watkins. In March 1974, he moved the health center from what is now known as Twente Hall to its location on Schweigler Drive. From 1928 to 1986, Watkins functioned as a 32-bed, in-patient hospital. The hospital closed in 1986 because it was too costly to staff and didn't serve enough students.
Boyle credits Strobl with being a visionary in college healthcare issues. He described Strobl as someone who fought the administration and other departments to make Watkins the best college health center in the country.
"He's a stubborn Nebraskan," said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. "Jim and I arm wrestled many times on issues. If he believed in something, he pursued it with a vengeance, but if you convinced him otherwise, he would listen."
In 1993, Strobli went to Student Senate, which agreed to a $3.5.
To increase the quality of care, Strobl only hired board-certified physicians when he became director of Watkins in 1983.
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20, 000
-square-foot addition to Watkins,
making it an 80,000-
square-foot facility and the largest college health center in the country.
Strobl: Instituted many changes in the health center.
The addition and renovation
of the existing building, completed in 1997, resulted in two exam rooms and an office for each doctor, a renovated pharmacy, expansion of the entire general medicine area, space for the gynecology clinic and a conference room. Boyle said.
In addition to his dedication to college health care, Strobil is devoted to his family, said Judy Pinegar, an administrative assistant who has worked with him during his 26-year career.
Strobli has two daughters;
Audrey, 33, and Amy, 30; and a son, Ben, 24. His wife, Diane, said that he always was dependable.
"He is steadfast," Diane Strobi said. "You could always count on him if you needed help. If he said he would be there, then he would be there."
Strobl and his wife, who will retire in October, will be taking their 35-foot trailer home to Yuma, Ariz., where they will live during the winter.
Police issue bike tickets during Friday protest
By Kelli Raybern
Kansas staff writer
Police officers from the KU-Public Safety Office issued more than two dozen citations Friday to bicyclists who ran stop signs at Javhawk Boulevard and Sunflower Road.
Kansan staff writer
Sgt. Troy Mailen said that police had to be in the area anyway because of the abortion protest on the Stauffer-Flint Hall lawn.
Police decided to monitor the intersection next to the display to make efficient use of the officers' time, Mailen said.
"We cut an officer or two loose from the perimeter to watch bicycles running stop signs," he said.
Officer Mike Flaig was working the intersection during the class change between 12:20 and 12:30 p.m. At 12:30, he said he had stopped six or seven bicyclists so far that day and that the fine for running a stop sign was $36.50.
Mailen said KU police were issuing the citations in an attempt to increase bicyclists' awareness of their part in bicycle safety.
"Bicycle safety should be foremost in their minds when out riding. They need to obey traffic ordinances because they are liable for them just as any motorist would be," Maillen said.
Brad Brooekerd, Kansas City junior, said that the officers' actions were appropriate for some bicyclists.
"It depends on what they do," he said. "If
Sgt. Troy Mailen KU Public Safety Office
"We cut an officer or two loose from the perimeter to watch bicycles running stop signs."
they are just trying to get to class, it's wrong to stop them — as long as they yield to pedestrians."
Mailen said that the stops educated others besides those who were issued citations.
"Some people see the officers and it makes them stop and think," he said. "We are also educating passers-by."
In two serious bicycle accidents this semester, at 13th and Kentucky streets and Seventh and Florida streets, riders had failed to stop at a sign.
Mailen said that officers Friday were also checking with bicyclists who got citations to see if their bicycles were registered. Although registration is mandatory, police were not issuing citations to those without registrations.
"We're generally just educating them, telling them how to obtain a registration," he said.
Bicycle registrations are available at the Lawrence Police Department, the KU Public Safety Office and the Student Union Activities office for 25 cents.
Officer Mike Flaig gives a ticket to Tom Hogan, Manhattan freshman, for running a stop sign on his bike. Many bikers were finned $36.50 on Friday for running stop signs. Photo by Daniela Sutor/KANSAN
KU researchers combine for $41 million in grants
Bv Julie M. Sachs
Kansan staff writer
They didn't win money by gambling at the riverboat casinos or picking lucky Powerball numbers. Instead, they earned it by selling their ideas.
their research during the 1993- 1997 time period.
Five researchers at the University of Kansas have received a combined total of $41 million.
Trying to get the money to finance research projects is highly competitive, Schroeder said.
Theodore Kuwana, professor of chemistry, Charles Rapp, associate dean of social welfare, Stephen Schroeder, director of the Lifespan Institute, Judith Carta, senior scientist and ELI Michaelis, chairman of pharma cology and toxicology, have secured the most funding for
"The chances of getting a grant the first time are very slim." Schroeder said.
Michaelis said that grant writing was a detailed process and that the key to a good proposal was to have an original idea.
"It has to have some factor of novelty, something that is not obvious." Michaelis said.
same field and what they had found.
Novel ideas, however, must be researched. Researchers have to read extensively about who else had been working in the
After the background information has been researched and details have been fine tuned, the next step is writing.
"Then you have to put down your ideas and formulate them in an understanding fashion," Michaelis said. "You have to write it very carefully."
Writing carefully, Michaelis said, means making the problem at hand clear and having well-designed experiments to support or refute it.
After the proposal is polished, a committee or three people judges the proposals.
These three people assign the
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proposal a numerical score, Michaelis said. If the proposal's average score ranks in the top 20 percent, it stands a high chance of receiving funding.
If it does not fall in the top 20 percent, the chance is small that the project will be financed, Michaelis said.
"The last item that you need is luck," Michaelis said. "You need someone who will like your ideas."
Attention Student Senate Bus Pass Holders
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