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University Daily Kansan/Friday, October 4, 1991
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Mission statement researched
Nearly all departments have returned surveys gauging opinion about KU
By Alexander Bloemhof
Kansanstaff writer
The Mission 2000 Steering Committee by yesterday received almost all the questionnaires it had sent Sept. 11 to all of KU's academic, investigative and governmental departments.
The committee will use the questionnaires to develop a mission statement for the University of Kansas, outlining its aspirations and goals for the next 10 years, said Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs and chairperson of the committee.
The steering committee was appointed in July by Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, to prepare KU's mission statement for submission to the Board of Regents.
In the questionnaire, schools and administrators were asked to identify peer institutions that KU should aspire to be like, areas of uniqueness and programs that should be further developed.
achieve those goals with limited financing.
They also were asked to suggest steps to
The deadline for returning the questionnaires was Sept. 30, but some units such as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will not be able to return them before next week.
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the questionnaire had been distributed to faculty at all levels in the college.
The committee will incorporate the various responses in a mission statement for the University, said Susan Gronbeck-Tedesco, assistant dean of the university's public affairs and staff member of the committee.
"It's a joint effort," McCluskey-Fawrett said. We got input from all the different departm-
ents.
"The mission statement really is sort of a chart for managing the institution," Groenbeck-Tedesco said. "It's a description of what the University wants to do."
That statement will be disseminated to the University community for discussion and eventually submitted to the Board of Regents, she
said.
Brinkman said that the statement would help identify priorities and that it would be used as a tool for measuring progress.
"It will be a help campuswide to determine the things we consider to be most important," he said. He said the Regents wanted to look in Jan. 2013 institutional statements for all six Regent institutions.
The Regents staff in late August came forward with a mission statement proposal for the entire Regents system. The document drew sharp criticism from the Regents institutions because it proposed to give the Regents central authority for the schools' management
It was sent to the Council of Chief Academic Officers for review at the last Regents meeting in October. Whereas that document will outline the future of the entire Regents system, the steering committee is working on a mission statement for KU only.
"Regardless of what the Regents want, we want to come up with something that will satisfy the needs of the campus." Brinkman said.
Watkins begins flu inoculations
Bv Stephen Miles
Special to the Kansan
The flu strikes each year around Jan 1, but Watkins Memorial Health Center began incubating the virus.
Charles Yockey, Watkin's chief of staff, said the body required six to eight weeks to build up an immunity against the flu.
He said that after a person had come down with the virus, the vaccination could not fight it.
"A lot of people think the flu shot is also a cold shot, and that's just not the case." Yockey said. "It is very important for people not to mistake the kind of shot they are getting."
Yockey said that this year the inoculations would cover the influenza strains A and B, two types of influenza that can lead to serious pneumu-
matic infections
However, he said there were some precautions for receiving the inoculation because it contained very low doses of the virus, allowing the body to develop antibodies to fight it.
If the person is ill, the immune system may be too weak to produce the antibodies, Yockey said. Also, people who are allergic to eggs or feathers need to ask a nurse or doctor before receiving the shot because the vaccine also contains these substances.
Though the flu vaccination is a good preventive measure against the flu virus, Yockey stressed that the vaccination was not a cure for all sicknesses that come with the winter season.
mon cold. The symptoms include severe headache, high fever, a dry cough and intense muscle aches. The incubation period of the virus is three to four days.
He said the flu, or influenza, was specific illness and was much more serious that the com-
Yockey said the time before people realized that they had the sickness was dangerous because the virus still was highly contagious then.
Yockey said that after the incubation period, the illness could strike a person very quickly.
"I have had people tell me that they were fine, and within 30 minutes they said that they could not get back to their rooms because of muscle aches." Yockev said.
The flu shots, which cost $6 for students, are 9010.95 percent effective in drastically reducing the chances of falling ill with the virus, he said.
Hispanic judge is still close to his roots
Kansanstaffwriter
By Alexander Bloemhof
However, as the first Hispanic-American state judge in Kansas. Murugia realizes that his position is insufficient.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - District Court judge Carlos Murgia says he thinks that every community needs a role model. But he does not think of himself as a role model.
"It's a very high honor and high privilege for me being the first Hispanic to have done that," he said. "I graduate. 'Anything that shows a part of your life is one of our members is able to achieve is good."
Carlos Murguia, a KU graduate, is the first Hispanic-American state judge in Kansas.
Murguia was only 33 when then-Gov. Mike Hayden appointed him in October 1990 as district court judge for the 29th district in Wyandotte County.
Murgia graduated from KU's School of Journalism in 1979 and the School of Law in 1981. He will speak during a forum about Hispanics in Kansas on Thursday at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
After practicing law for four years, Margula became involved with El Centro, a community-based social service agency geared primarily toward helping Hispanic-Americans
He was the agency coordinator and helped establish an amnesty immigration program that enabled immigrants to return.
After Murgia worked at the agency for three years, Richard Ruiz, executive director of the agency, helped him get a temporary position as a small claims court judge.
Murguia said he enjoyed the work and applied for the district court judge position when it became vacant in 1989. That time, he was rejected, but in 1990, he was appointed.
His division deals with children needing care. "I really enjoy my work here," he said. "These are the type of cases when you actually can see a resolution."
He said cases he harried from parents not sending kids to school to physical abuse.
the goal is to protect the child's best interest and, if possible, to keep the family together, he said.
Family values are important to Murguia.
"I've always considered Argentine my home," Murguia said. "That's where all Spanish and Mexican-American people (in Kansas City) have traditionally lived."
He still lives with his parents on the same street in the Argentine district in Kansas City, Kan., where he and his six siblings were born.
"The whole community has stayed together so long and has everything you'd want from a community: public schools, theaters, a library, parks. It's like a resort area."
His brother, Ramon Murguia, who lives two blocks away from his brother and parents, said his mother was sick. "She was very sick."
"It's very important not to forget where you come from," said Ramon Murgula, who practices law in Kansas City. Mo. "If Mexican Americans don't turn back and help the community once they become successful, the problems are going to be never ending."
Ramon Murgiau said his brother was a role model because he was a fair and urged younger people to take responsibility.
But Carlos Murguia said his background did not play a role when he was in court.
"I see every case on its own specific facts and
a fair decision regardless of a person's
risk in each case."
Julie Denesha//Special to the KAN/SAN
Bee labor
Erica Busse, Perry sophomore, pits bumblebees at the entomology department in Snow Hall. Busse said that she spent about 10 hours a week pinning insects.
Two-week-old awaits heart for transplant at Med Center
By Kerrie Gottschalk
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A two-week-old infant at the KU Medical Center was placed on a heart-transplant waiting list last week.
If he has heart-transplant surgery, it would
diology, said infants such as Christopher who received a transplant usually did well.
He said that information about infant transplants dated back only to 1985 but that children who had received transplants five or six years ago were developing normally.
if he has heart-tra-
make him the youngest patient to
ever have transplant surgery at the Med
Center.
Graham said a typical waiting period for
The infant
Christopher Matthew Christman,
with a rare heart condition, said Peggy Graham, staff member for Med Center University Relations. The left side of her body is underdeveloped.
Born with an underdeveloped heart, infant would be Kansas City's youngest transplant patient ever.
Christopher was placed on the waiting list Sept. 24. If he has the surgery, he will be the youngest patient in the Kansas City area to have a heart transplant, she said.
His parents, Paula and Mike Christman, had to decide whether to let their son or to try to drive them.
She said the infant's condition was diagnosed by sonogram during his mother's pregnancy.
Robert Ardinger, Jr., a physician at the Med Center who specializes in pediatric carat waiting period for
transplants at other
centers was two to
three months. But
their members
memberly hope
Christopher will
receive a heart sooner.
Graham said the Chrismans had faced several other obstacles in addition to Christopher's condition.
They had their house repossessed last summer, and
Mike Christman was unemployed for a month before starting a new job last week with a car dealership in Chicago.
The Christians said they hoped that some
they would be buried in Christopher
home. Graham said.
For now, Christopher is being kept alive by a medication that helps maintain blood flow to the heart.
Physicians think Christopher has a good chance to live if he receives a new heart, Grahame.