THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1989
House votes to close, realign military bases
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to back a plan to close 86 military bases and scale back five more despite complaints that the move would not save as much as advocates had promised.
By a vote of 381-43, the House rejected a resolution to disapprove the recommendations of the Commission on Base Realignment and Closure, giving the green light for Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to follow him on the panel's proposals beginning in January.
"It is incumbent upon all of us to make sure this base closing list is implemented," the chairman of the House Armed Services Board said in Aspin, D-Wis., said moments before the vote.
The commission's recommendations affect a total of 145 domestic military installations by closing some, reducing the operations of others, and changing the missions of additional bases.
The law establishing the commission, the Base Closure and Realignment Act, requires that, once approved by the secretary of defense, the commission's recommendations proceed unless both houses of Congress vote to override a case more of the proposals would take effect.
The House action means the changes proposed by the commission will proceed.
In debate before the vote, opponents of the move said it would not save as much money as the government could afford.
"This list simply does not save money," said Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J.
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He was joined by representatives from Illinois and California in saying that the plan would not save $844 million in the first year, or $512 million over 20 years, as the commissioners said.
Saxton cited a congressional report that said the savings in closing Fort Dix had been due to the increased use of natural gas.
"In terms of savings, I don't believe they're there in. In terms of expenditures, I believe they're underestimated," said Saxon, who operates the closing of Fort Dix in his neighborhood.
The New Jersey representative also noted that a report by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, had found that the commission used incorrect data in its analysis of Army training centers, including Fort Dix.
"Had accurate data been used, Fort Dix
and located just outside." Carter said.
One of the plan's supporters, Rep. Ronald Mackeychle (R-Nevada), "time to get into a debate about default reduction."
Last month, the House Armed Services committee voted 43-4 to support the commission.
"Obsolete bases have drained our resources . . . The recommendations are the only viable option for cutting expenditures of funds." he said
Meanwhile, Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said she and Rep. Brian Donnelly, D-Colo., will meet next week to close and realign bases overseas.
would have been ranked first, Saxton said. Rep. Terry Bruce, D-III, said the estimated savings relied on major defense policy changes, including reductions in personnel, and not on the closing and realigning of bases.
Schroeder said that total basing costs overseas had increased almost 500 percent since 1974 and that leaving these installations at the base closure bill was a "glaring omission."
Haskell tabloid continues
"The whole tone of the commission was based on manipulating data, changing ratings, judging dollar figures and misleading both Congress and the public." Bruce said.
Andy Girey, printing instructor at Haskell Indian Junior College, supervises the printing of the Indian Leader, Haskell's student newspaper. The newspaper was printed yesterday afternoon for the first time since October.
Administration students to decide fate of newspaper
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
Shop No. 3 in Navarre Hall on the Haskell Indian Junior College campus was cluttered and clattering yesterday, as the students of a newspaper paper since October neared completion.
Knee-high stacks of printed pages sat on dolls, ready to be loaded and distributed. A vibrating box in the corner shook pages into piles to be fed into the press. Every machine in the room was clothed in wet ink.
In the middle of the disarray, Andy Girey, Haskell printing instructor, printed the newspaper on an original Heidelberg letterst press.
The last issue of the Indian Leader was printed Oct. 28. After that publication, the faculty adviser for the newspaper resigned and the Haskell administration said that the newspaper could not be printed without an adviser.
The paper has been submerged in controversy since last month, when its student editors and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the school in federal court, alleging that its publication had been used to usurp it and ran articles critical of the school.
James Hills, Haskell electronics instructor, volunteered for the adviser position two months ago and began working with students to produce the newspaper.
"Hills hasn't had much involvement with the paper since the trouble started," said Marcel Stevens, student managing editor of the Leader.
The trouble Stevens referred to culminated in a March 30 restraining order on the newspaper to prevent publication of what an attorney for the Haskell students called a sanitized, faculty version of what should have been newspaper. The order April 7.
Two days ago, the same judge who issued the restraining order approved a
See NEWSPAPER, p. 6, col. 2
Doctors use leeches for treatment
Cheek surgery patient says procedure was humorous, not painful
bv Jennifer Corser
Kansan staff writer
For four days after her cheek surgery,
Evelyn Hogan ligatured on banding on her neck with her blood.
"I didn't find it gross," she said. "I found it humorous."
Houghtail, Olathe, was the first person at the University of Kansas Medical Center on whom leech therapy was used to reduce the congestion of blood after surgery.
Robert S. Bridge, surgeon in the department of otorhinolaryngology — head and neck surgery, said leeches were used in cosmetic or reconstructive surgery to reduce swelling and facilitate circulation of venous blood.
Leeches were used on Houland's cheek after her surgery March 6 because the tissue put on her cheek scar had been discolored, Bridge said.
drop off. They continued sucking from 20 to more than an hour, depending on their size.
Decies have tiny teeth and suction cups on both sides. Hougland said one stayed attached to her cheek for two and one-half hours.
The doctors put a drop of glucose on Hougland's cheek so the leech would attach to the targeted area, he said. The leeches would suck blood until they were full and then
"It was not painful," she said. "It felt like little pinricks on the surface."
Houland said she had been the subject of much conversation at the Med Center both in person and online.
"I was interesting to many people in the hospital," she said. "Doctors from different departments would come in and watch the procedure."
The Med Center orders leaches from Letchi, a city in N.Y. Bridge said. The leaches cost $20 million.
She could not even go into the gift shop without being recognized by the sales clerk
"And I had never seen this person in my life," she said.
the United States that sold leeches. They are sold only to hospitals and doctors.
The company, which has been in business for more than three years, breeds the leeches in farms in Vermont and overseas, Bonzinga said.
Marie Bonazinga, president of Leeches U.S.A. said the company was the only one in
"Just as you have a mink farm and hatcheries, you have a leech farm," she said.
Bonazinga said medical use of leeches dated back to the Egyptian times and was documented in the Bible. People used leeches for other purposes than for just bleeding to remove bad blood, which is what most people thought leeches were used for.
"That's where leeches got a bad name," she said.
Leeches are not used twice because they are considered to be infectious waste, she said. The Med Center put uses leeches into alcohol, which kills them.
Students, staff to evaluate University goals
Bonaizing said the company sold 10,000 leeches last year. Some are kept in tanks in the store for immediate shipment if an outbreak of the most prestigious pharmacies do not keep leeches in stock.
Editor's note: This is the first of three stories dealing with the process of assessment at the University of Kansas.
by Candy Niemann
Kenanan staff writer
It's time for the University of Kansas to strip down to the naked truth, take a good look at itself in the mirror and devise a plan to get rid of the fabric and bulk up the muscle.
Kansan staff writer
The words have brought fear and resentment into the hearts of some and enthusiasm into others.
It's time for University assessment.
During the next three years, KU faculty, administrators, staff and students will spend hundreds of hours pinpointing the goals of the University, evaluating KU's success in meeting those goals and applying the information to create a stronger KU.
Several years ago, as state legislatures began to spend more money on higher education, state taxpayers began to question how well the institutions were performing. A strong national trend of mandated assessment arrose to make the universities account
Basically, the state legislatures have
KU's report card
been saying, "We are willing to invest heavily in higher education, but in turn we want to know that the programs are thoughtfully put together," said Judith Ramaley, executive vice president. "We want to be continually checking the quality to make sure it is worth our investment."
In research assessment for the Board of Regents, John Welsh, Regents associate director of academic affairs, found that 50 percent of the developing assessment plans, each plan varied.
But after the fact that universities across the nation are participating in assessment, the national trend ends. No two states' methods or outcomes have been exactly alike.
"Now who is going to argue with that?"
In some cases, the plans were mandated by the state legislature, while others were started by the state's board of higher education. Some states told the universities what plan they must follow, while others allowed schools to develop their own ideas.
Some states sought external measures such as program reviews to assess their programs, while others focused on internal measures such as student surveys. And some states spent millions of dollars on assessments that other kept the costs to a minimum.
In Kansas, the Board of Regents mandated assessment in Spring 1988, allowing each of the seven Regents institutions to develop its own assessment plan, subject to Regents approval. The Regents approved KU's proposal in January.
"we wanted to start work on our ourselves before the Legislature told us we had to," said Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents.
KU's assessment committee, formed a year ago, was charged with developing an effective assessment plan consistent with the goals and objectives of the University.
The Committee faced problems.
Raviner, professor of history, said that
when he was asked to chair the University Assessment Committee, his first instinct was to run, go on leave without pay or join the atonal Guard. But he soon changed his
"I saw potential for doing good," Hiner said. "So often we get caught in the heat of the moment and can't see the forest for the trees."
Hiner was referring to the concern that members of a university community felt when assessment was mentioned. It varies from resentment of state intrusion, to concerns about the more political that educational, to fear that standardization will depersonalize education.
"That is why we let each institution develop its own assessment plan," Hammond said. "Each institution serves different purposes, and cannot be successfully used on them all."
"There are some good reasons to be pessimistic." Hiner said.
Martine Hammond, director of academic affairs for the Regents, said the Regents had the advantage of seeing other states' mistakes and had tried to learn from them.
See PROCESS, p. 6, col. 1
Doctors meet and confront new diseases
Wichita picked as site to study elusive illness
by Max Evans Kansan staff writer
The First Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Conference, at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel, was the first of its kind dealing with the recently discovered disease. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), or Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome.
It was announced at the conference that Wichita would be one of the four cities chosen by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta as study sites for the illness.
SAN FRANCISCO — About 500 confused and concerned physicians and individuals met Saturday in San Francisco to discuss the need for more training soon to be studied in depth in Kansas.
The illness, which occurred suddenly, persisted for months in some cases, and left others with what appeared to be a chronic disease.
Because of CFS's viral properties and the belief that the syndrome compromises the body's immune system, researchers have sought connections between CFS and AIDS.
Experts say CFS may affect 21 percent of the U.S. population. The illness first came to light in 1984 when a flu-like outbreak was reported in Incline Village, Nev., where more than 300 local residents reported symptoms similar to mononeumelosis.
Researchers studying this outbreak and others in the country suspected that the disease was a viral infection linked to the Epstein-Barr virus and mononucleosis. This led to an early diagnosis of the illness as Epstein-Barr disease.
The disease also carried the tag of "Yuppie Flu." because many of the early victims of the disease fit the stereotypical image of the open, middle-aged, corporate-ladder climber.
Anthony L. Komaroff, chief of the division of general medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is one of the doctors who provided medical care for the conference, he said primary symptoms of the
See RESEARCHERS, p. 6, col. 2
Coroner rules Abbie Hoffman death a suicide
The Associated Press
Although Hoffman was considered a self-taught expert in drugs, Rosko said that there was no evidence he was using any drugs for pleasure.
The autopsy found the residue of about 150 pills, several times the lethal dose even without the presence of alcohol, the cower with a long acting sedative and an anticonvulsant.
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman committed suicide with a "massive overdose" of the drug phenobarbital. a coroner said yesterday.
The coroner said that he relayed his findings to the Hoffman family just minutes before he died.
"The death was from the combined effects
phenobarbital in the alcohol. Thomas
Rossi, a surgeon, news conference."
The day after her son's body was found, Hoffman's mother, Florence, speculated that he had committed suicide, saying that he had sounded depressed in recent telephone conversations. But the next day, she said that the family no longer suspected suicide.
In June 1988, Hoffman said that he was taking pain-killers that a doctor had prescribed for injuries Hoffman had suffered in an auto accident.
Hoffman, who held fast to his anti-establishment convictions and made his points with searing humor, was found dead April 12 at his home in New Hope, Pa. He was 52.
Hoffman was last seen alive on April 11 by a girlfriend of his landlord. He was found dead by a neighbor, Michael Waldron, who knew the driver had been depressed about the car accident.
A memorial service planned today in Worcester, Mass., is to include a peace march from his mother's house to Temple Emmanuel, which Hoffman attended as a child.
"I think it is likely that he literally fell asleep and died in his sleep." Rosko said. "Other than that, what occurred in his last hours is strictly speculation."
"I want it to be a celebration," said Hoffman's brand manager, "and I want everybody to celebrate."
Abbie Hoffman's family has been flooded with letters, telegrams and condolence calls from entertainers, even foreign embassies, his brother said.
Jack Hoffman said that his brother died nearly broke, despite book contracts and success on the lecture circuit. He "left a mark," he said. "He didn't die with a Rolex. He died with a full heart."