University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 12, 1989
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Measles case found in Douglas County, bringing total to 12
by Jennifer Corser
Kansan staff writer
One more confirmed measles case was reported yesterday, bringing the total to 12 in Douglas County since Jan. 1, a health official said.
The latest case was from Baldwin which now has had 10 confirmed measles cases, said Kay Kent. The county has not reported Douglas County Health Department.
Kent said the health department was investigating each suspected case, including people with whom he had seen in contact and giving blood tests.
In addition to the confirmed cases Douglas County has 14 probable measles cases and 23 suspected cases Kent said. Of these, Lawrence has eight probable cases and 13 suspected cases.
A probable case has the same symptoms as measles but has not been confirmed with a blood test. A suspected case has a rash and fever and is sometimes later diagnosed as measles.
A probable case was reported Friday at Lawrence High School, where about 470 students were vaccinated
last week for a previous probable case. Kent said.
Max Rife, assistant principal at Lawrence High, said 13 students were presently on quarantine, or isolated from the school and other students, because they had never had a measles shot and decided not to get one last visit. He said the reasons for not receiving varied, including religious beliefs.
Also Friday, 27 students at Hillcrest Elementary School were rejuvenated because of a suspected measles case there, Kent said.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that the University of Kansas had three confirmed cases this semester, including a Baldwin resident.
The health department is recommending immunization for anyone between one and 30 years of age who has never been immunized. Also, people who received a vaccine in 1967 should be immunized.
Symptoms of measles include fever, cough, watery discharge from eyes and nose, and rash.
Call for quorum halts governing body's work
by Brett Brenner
Kansan staff writer
The College Assembly, the govern-
ming body of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, ran into a problem
last week.
The assembly, composed of both students and faculty members, could not complete its last meeting because it did not have a quorum.
A quorum for the 750-member assembly is 10 percent of its membership, or 75 members. There were 46 members and members present at the last meeting.
The rules of the assembly allow the body to work without the needed number of members until a quorum is called.
This situation occurred at the last meeting. During discussion of the addition of credit to two military science classes, a quorum was called by John Davidson, professor of physics and astronomy. The meeting was adjourned.
Once a quorum is called, the members present are counted. If there are fewer than 75 members, the body is adjourned. Changes that were made before quorum was called are not affected by the adjournment.
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said the low turnout was a manifestation of an institution members had in committees.
"They vote with their feet," he said. "If it is an issue that is important to them, then they will come to the meeting."
William Bayne, Lawrence sophmore and assembly member, said he agreed with Carothers to the point that the debate will a quorum to shut down debate.
Bayne said he thought that although Davidson was within his rights to call a quorum, the situation should never have arisen.
"This should not happen under any circumstances," he said. "If it happened more often, then the college would be able to carry on any business."
"Why can't we even get to 10 percent of the body?" I'll leave the faculty to make their own excuses, but the students will be sentencing the students of the college."
Elections for the 118 open student seats on the assembly, originally scheduled for today and tomorrow, were canceled because fewer than 118 students applied. Paim Houston, 65, was one of them, and sciences, said between 105 and 115 students applied. All were given positions on the assembly.
Carothers said he did not think the quorum rule would be used again in the near future.
"I'd be surprised," he said. "It's always been a potential. It happens maybe every five or seven years."
Bayne said he thought someone might use the quorum rule to stop debate in the future.
"I have no reason not to think that it will be used," he said. "If it happened once, it can happen again."
Without calling a quorum, it is impossible to tell how many members are present. Carotches said he was there for about time a quorum had been called for.
There are five committees that work with the assembly: the Committee on Undergraduate Studies and Advising, the Committee on the Budget, the Committee on Graduate Studies, the Committee on Sabatical Leaves and the Committee on Appointments and Promotions.
Brenda Eisele, Fredonia junior and member of the assembly, said she thought the assembly was in a rut.
"It always embarrassing when something like this happens," he said. "But the fact that the assembly system does not impose that the system works."
The committees propose changes in curriculum and college policy. They are then approved by the body as a whole.
Dean interviews to end Friday
Carothers said although there were flaws, the process continued.
by Mary Neubauer Kansan staff writer
Interviews to fill the dean of law position will be completed Friday the chairman of the search committee.
Elinor Schroeder, professor of law and committee chairman, said four candidates already had been interviewed at the School of Law. A final candidate will be interviewed this week.
"After the last interview, we will be getting feedback from the faculty, staff and academic deans who interviewed the candidates." Schroeder will meet next week to narrow the last down further.
Schroeder said the committee would send a list of three finalists to Del Brinkman, vice chairperson for academic affairs, Judith Ramaley, executive director, and Michael Hobbs. Brinkman will make the selection for a new dean.
Schroeder said the committee's goal was to name a new dean by the end of Anil.
Bob Jerry, professor of law and University Senate Executive Committee chairman, was the first candidate interviewed. Jerry met with the search committee April 3 and 4.
Jerry has been a professor of law since 1985. He served as an associate professor of law from 1981 to 1885 and was in private practice from 1787 to 1881 in Indianapolis.
Leonard P. Strickman, professor and dean of law at Northern Illinois University College of Law, interviewed April 5 and 6. He has served as dean of law there since 1981.
Strickman taught at Boston College Law School and Boston University School of Law. He also served as minority counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Equal Education Opportuni-
Judith Wegner, professor of law at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, interviewed Daniel G. Meyer, former director of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
She served as associate dean of law at North
Carolina from 1986 to 1988. She was an associate professor of law from 1984 to 1988. She also served as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1977 to 1979.
Mark L. Ascher, professor of law at the University of Arizona College of Law, interviewed Mon-
He was an associate professor of law at the University of Arizona from 1982 to 1986 and had several visiting professorships. He twice was a recipient of the Year by the national Student Bar Association.
A final candidate will be interviewed all day tomorrow and Friday morning.
Mike Davis, professor and outgoing dean of law, will spend a year on sabbatical when he leaves his position July 1. Davis announced in March that he would join the Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Joson, Min and Pizzell. He plans to return to KU in summer 1908 to teach real estate and land use law.
Giving some information about AIDS, Christopher Craig, KU alumnus, answers questions with Becki Newburn, Columbia, Md., junior. Bill Wade, physician, was scheduled to speak at a lecture
last night in the Kansas Union, but he was called to perform emergency surgery in Topeka. To cover in Wade's absence, Craig and Newburn had an informal question-and-answer session.
AIDS speech postponed after speaker fails to attend
by a Kansan reporter
Bill Wade, a physician, was supposed to be in two places at once last night.
More than 20 people came to "Living With AIDS" at 8 p.m. in the Centennial Room at the Kansas Union, but Wade, who was scheduled to speak, was not one of them.
available.
He was performing emergency surgery at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, a hospital spokesman said. No other information was
Wade's speech was scheduled as part of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. He did not notify the GLSOR officers that he would not be able to attend.
Shannon Tauchesher, newly elected GLOSK director, said Wade's speech was rescheduled. No date has been set.
Wade co-founded the AIDS Care Team at St. Francis Hospital and the Kansas AIDS network.
New commissioners sworn in last night
by Carrie Harper
Kansan staff writer
Three newly elected city commissioners took office last night after outgoing commissioners wrapped up old business at their last meeting.
Shirley Martin-Smith, Bowl Walters and Dave Penny, elected to the commission last week, were sworn in on Tuesday. Constance reflected on their terms.
Praeger said it was harder to leave than she thought it would be, and Constance offered advice to the new commission.
"Diversity is a strength if we allow
The new commission re-elected Bob Schumm mayor and elected Martin-Smith vice mayor.
Gordy Ross, of Scott Architectural Graphics of Santa Rosa, Calif., presented graphic and sign proposals for the Riverfront Project. The Chelsea Group hired the firm to design an identity package.
it to be and destructive if we force it to be." Constance said.
The signs and graphics will identify the project, direct people around the site and create an image that connects Lawrence's heritage. Ross said.
The logo combines several basic elements, he said. The site of the project once was the home of the Wren series of its wren will appear on the new logo.
Quitting, which plays a large part in Lawrence culture, also will be reflected in the design.
A wheat-wave motif will line the top and bottom of the design.
The logo will be repeated throughout the plaza, in signs, pennants and even the floor design, Ross said.
The commission unanimously approved the package and several sign variances. The variances were
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In an effort to begin regulating the length of commission meetings, Schumann said the commission would send some mechanics of meetings next week.
The commission also approved a zoning amendment to reduce the minimum size of individual lots in neighborhood shopping areas. The reduction allows for more individual ownership of lots within the shopping areas, said Price Banks, city planning director.
required because more signs than usually were allowed were needed to accommodate the size of the project.
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