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University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, November 5, 1991
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Alumni increasescholarships
School of Education gets donations through phone campaign
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
For the past five years, the School of Education has conducted an aggressive telephone campaign and has attracted alumni money in an effort to increase its number of scholarships.
Flora Wyatt, head of the school's scholarship committee, said that the increase in the number of scholarships is the result of close contact with alumni.
For the last five years, there has been an increase in the number of scholarships available to students in the School of Education.
Scholarships on the rise
nationwide.
This year, the school has awarded 71 scholarships, up from 56 in 1987-1988 when the campaign began.
"I crédit our Dean (Edward) Meyen for energizing this effort," she said.
Wyatt said an annual telephone campaign that began five years ago was helpful in gathering economic support.
Its efforts have paid off.
The telephone campaign usually is conducted during February by students who volunteer to call alumni
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Wyatt said the scholarships were awarded to juniors, seniors and fifth-year students.
About 125 students apply every year, she said.
This year, 111 students applied for scholarships, Wyatt said. The recipients were selected on the basis of their performance and financial need.
Wyatt said gifts of more than $10,000 were put into an investment fund managed by the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Aminimum gradepoint average of 3.0 is necessary to apply, she said.
"They give reports on how much money can be used from each fund," she said.
Suzanne Collins, assistant to the dean, said that because tuition was
increasing every year, the school tried to increase the number of scholarships offered each year.
The amount of the scholarships ranges from $1,000 to $2,500, Collins said.
Most of the scholarships are financed by private donations from alumni and friends of the school, she said.
"Our mission is to cover the cost of in-state tuition." she said.
She said Meyen had promoted the need for more financial aid.
"One of his goals was to increase scholarships for students." she said
Michelle Graham, Kansas City, Kan., senior, is one student who received a scholarship from the School of Education.
"I just filled out the application," Graham said. "A lot of students got scholarships."
County Commission defers tenant costs
By Heather Anderson Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission made a decision yesterday designed to help attract a tenant to an empty building at the East Hills Business Park.
Gary Toebenen, executive director of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said he had worked with a Kansas City area company that was interested in coming to Lawrence. He would not identify the company.
To attract the business, the commission agreed to amend a previous order to allow the company to delay paying $24, 410 university costs for up to 10 years.
The payment will cover part of the cost of the land and improvements to sites affected by the project.
Toobben said the agreement would not eliminate the payment but simply
The company also plans to ask the city commission at its meeting tonight to defer a payment of $85,134 to the city for the land and other improvements.
completed, leads its industry worldwide and will provide many jobs for the community. Beeben said.
He said the company would only lease the 85,000-square-foot building for now.
The company's corporate philosophy is to own very little property although it sold $1.7 billion worth of goods last year.
County Commissioner Louie McElhaney said he would rather see a company lease the building than have it vacant.
County Commissioner Mark Buhler said he was concerned that the company might not succeed and would not be able to pay the $25, 410.
However, the commission should agree to the contract terms, he said.
"A good industrial tenant is hard to find," he said.
Fraternity helps student recycle 4,000 Kansans
Besides the city and the county, banks and bondholders that loaned money for the construction of the building in the industrial park also will be asked to defer payments.
"This has been a cooperative effort," I oeebben said.
By Stephanie Patrick Special to the Kansan
Thanks to a little teamwork and a pickup truck, Jeremy Doyenelles, Lawrence junior, now can park his car in the garage again.
He and three members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity loaded more than 4,000 Kansans from Denyelles' garage into the truck yesterday and took them to a recycling bin on campus.
Denoyelles said that Steve Yates, a member of Delta Tau Delta, offered Thursday to help remove the newspapers.
The truck belongs to one of the fraternity members.
He said he also had heard from Environs, a campus environmental group, but they had never been a way to transport the newspapers.
Fraternity members started recycling their aluminum cans last year, and this year they started
Yates said that it was Denoyelles' and the fraternity's shared interest in recycling that impressed the teams to help him.
recycling computer paper and newspaper,he said.
"We try to get involved," Yates said. "When things come up in the community, we are willing to help."
Denoyelles had been collecting the newspapers since Oct. 4, when noticed that facilities operations employees were throwing the newspapers in trash bins near Learned Hall.
Facilities operations employees are supposed to pick up the unused newspapers from the newspaper boxes and deposit them in the recycling bin, said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations.
Denoyelles said that he had followed facilities operations employees last week and had seen them newspapers into the recycling bin.
He said that the recycling effort had been educational, showing him that University officials sometimes needed to be reminded of the fact that he said that he was ready to give the job back to facilities operations.
"My mom is grateful to get them out of the garage," Denoyelles said.
Cold wind blowin'
Mark Rowlands/KANSAN
Dressed for the weather, Bruce Hunt, Lenexa senior, plays his trumpet during KU Marching Band practice. The band was practicing yesterday afternoon at Memorial Stadium in preparation for Saturday's Kansas-Nebraska football game. The KU Weather Service said cold weather and winds would last at least until tomorrow. Today's temperature should reach the 50s, the weather service said.
Ethicists say legal issues of doctor-assisted suicide should be debated
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Local medical ethicists believe society has more issues to tackle before any legal decisions are made about doctor-assisted suicide.
"I do not think there is a legitimate role in the health-care profession for direct suicide assistance," said William Bartholome, medical ethicist at the University of Kansas Medical
Center in Kansas City, Kan.
They claim the issue is more complicated than the issue of a patient refusing medical treatment.
Kevrianian also helped a woman kih-
kerson last year. He said last week that
the decision to end suffering by
should be considered a civil right.
But Donald Marquis, KU professor of philosophy, said that there was a difference between the right to die and the request for a doctor to help some-
Doctor-assisted suicide came to the forefront of public debate after physician Jack Keviorian helped two women kill themselves last month.
"I don't see any good argument that you are victimizing somebody by assisting a suicide if the person is clear about the decision and is well-informed," Marquis said. "They also need to have the appropriate social supports when making the decision."
He said that if legislation were passed supporting doctor-assisted suicides, society would have to consider whether the harms outweighed the benefits.
He said a patient might be given a
wrong diagnosis or incorrect prognosis. A doctor also might be unaware of a treatment that would make suicide unnecessary.
"People might make a decision to die based on incorrect information," Marquis said.
"Dowe really want to allow this?"
In Washington state, voters today are considering legislation that would legalize some doctor-assisted suicides.
Bartolome said an argument could be made that the ultimate form of autonomy and self-government would
"We are becoming a culture of radical autonomy," he said.
A recent poll conducted by the Boston Globe and the Harvard University School of Public Health found that nearly two-thirds of those polled believed that terminally ill patients should have a choice about doctor-assisted suicide. More than half said they would consider the option for themselves.
include the decision about when a person's own life should end.
Bartholome said society needed to discuss the rationality of suicide.
The American Medical Association reported that it opposed changing current restrictions about doctor-assisted suicide.
Bartholome and Marquis agreed that society needed to address the issues surrounding doctor-assisted suicide before any legislative action is taken.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Also, not all health care organizations want to be asked to kill patients on demand. Bartholome said.
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