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VOL.104,NO.150
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SPORTS
KU players chosen for U.S. basketball team
Angela Aycock and Charisse Sampson will play abroad after trying out with Olympians. Page4B
CAMPUS
Hagen to lead KU Med Center
A search committee selected the Navy's surgeon general after a nationwide search. Page 3A
Heart program faces problems
NEWS
BRIEFS
The University of Kansas Medical Center's heart-transplant program is being examined by the Kansas Legislature for allegedly turning down donor hearts for a 10-month period.
Members of the Kansas Joint Committee on Post Audit began
KU Medical Center
rized the audit after The Kansas City Star reported that the Med Center's program had not performed transplants for 10 months.
On April 10, Med Center officials temporarily closed the program.
According to the articles, the program continued to place patients on the transplant waiting list without informing them that hearts were being refused.
In a May 10 press release, A. L. Chapman, acting executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said he anticipated that the heart-transplant program would reopen before the end of the year.
However, Randy Tongier, audit manager for the Post Audit Committee, said that the committee wouldn't have the reports ready until late September.
Serbs set 108 hostages free
MALI ZVORNIK, Yugoslavia — Bosnia's Serbs sent 108 U.N. peacekeepers across a bridge to Serbia and freedom early this morning, and there were indications that more of the 148 remaining hostages could be released soon.
Two buses carrying the 108 peacekeepers crossed the Drina River into this border town shortly after 1 a.m. today. The freed hostages came from Britain, France, Ukraine and Spain, said Jovica Stanisic, the Serbian president's security chief.
The releases came after days of U.N. pressure, international negotiations and intervention by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose office issued a statement minutes after today's release.
Compiled from The Associated Press and Kamam staff reports.
Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN
Zach and Leah Hemenway unpack books in the chancellor's house study. Chancellor Robert Hemenway's family continued their task of moving in west
By Kimberly Crabtree
Kansan staff writer
W When not preparing statements about budget cuts or the new executive vice chancellor of the University of Kansas Medical Center, Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be unpacking.
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"As you can see, I've done quite a bit of unpacking of books," Hemenway said, acknowledging the full bookcases lining his office walls.
However, since Hemenway became KU's 16th chancellor on Thursday, he's had plenty more than just unpacking to keep him busy.
Recent allegations against the Med Center's heart transplant program, in addition to a university hiring freeze and budget cuts, have kept the new chancellor on his knees.
The Med Center's heart transplant program remains in suspension after articles printed in the Kansas City Star alleged that the Med Center failed to perform any heart transplants in a 10-month period, despite continuing to accept patients on a waiting list.
"The program will remain suspended until we are absolutely certain that the quality of the care of the heart transplant program is equal to the excellent quality of care in the other programs."
Hemenway said.
"But we need to remember that the business of the Med Center is being carried out in great success every day," he added. "There are hundreds of patients successfully treated there every day."
On the main campus, Hemenway has had to deal with budget cuts and a resulting hiring freeze. The budget alts resulted in the freeze because 85 percent of the budget is related to personnel. Hemenway estimated.
"The budget cut will force us to look very carefully at the administration structure and ask ourselves if there are ways we can operate in a more streamlined fashion," he said.
The freeze, which affects all unclassified and classified employees, was enacted on Thursday.
In relation to the budget problems, Hemenway has spent his first official days on the job preparing public statements on the cuts.
"The statement tries to explain the context in which the budget cuts will be occurring and propose those principles we need to think about as we set budget priorities." Hemenwav said.
Meeting citizens, legislators and members of the media is as much a part of who Hemenway is as it is a part of his job, said Tom Hutton, director of University Relations.
And this week, the facts and figures Hemenway is interested in are those relating to potential students and alumni in Kansas towns he will be visiting. Hemenway is traveling to Western Kansas this week to meet citizens, alumni and possible future KU students.
lors have been," Hutton said. "Hemenway also differs from previous chancellors in that he is very driven by facts and figures."
"He is a more public person than past chancel-
Liberal, Dodge City and Garden City all are planned stops on Hemenway's itinerary, Hutton said.
"My intention of going to Western Kansas, or anywhere in Kansas for that matter, is to convince students that KU is a good place to go to school," Hemenway said. "It is also to convince the people of Kansas that KU really pays dividends on their investment."
Last fall's enrollment decline prompted administrators to recruit potential students and curb the problem.
Hemenway has conducted meetings with the admissions staff to this end and remains optimis-
See HEMENWAY, Page 2A.
Jayhawks'first family nests on Oread
Chancellor's Angle Dasbach
themselves at home as they adjust
to a new
Angle Dasbach Kansan staff writer
to a new university and campus environment
Echoes of children's voices fill the rooms of the chancellor's house once again.
"Arna, Arma, where are you?" Leah Hemenway calls to her 7-year-old son. "It's time to go to your class!"
The only response she receives is the sound of her own voice bouncing off the walls and the numerous boxes which line them.
Zach Hemenway, 11, doesn't bother to look up in the sports page he is reading when he announces that his brother has already left.
"Zach, where's your brother?" she asks.
sports page and help me find your brother!" Leah pleads.
The Hemenways arrived at the chancellor's house Thursday afternoon and began to unpack on Friday. Fortunately, the first floor, which consists of a central hall and five rooms, was already furnished by the University of Kansas.
"Please stop reading the
This scenario seems common of the typical household. The only difference is the house in which this typical family lives.
Although the Hemenways had only one moving van, they had more than 300 boxes of books
"We still have a lot of unpacking to do," Leah said, her eyes getting bigger as she thinks of what's left to do. "We mostly have books and other junk in the basement."
Zach's 18-foot soccer goal. Zach said that he loved the house and yard and that he planned to use the yard as a soccer field. But most of all, he loved his bedroom.
and Zach's 18-foot soccer goal.
He said that when the door bell rings, he and his family become confused as to which way to go because there are four entrances to their home.
"It's a lot bigger than my old room. I've never lived in a big house like this," Zach said proudly. "Why would we not like it?"
"We kind of turn around a few times before we figure out which door to answer," Zach said.
Leah said that she had been trying to unpack the 60 boxes that filled the second-floor
study. They were filled with books, of course, most of which belonged to her husband.
"Bob has so many books, and it's difficult to organize all of them," she said, laughing. "I'm trying to put my collection in a different spot so that I can find them."
She said that the chancellor hadn't helped with the unpacking at home. Instead, he had been working on the 200 boxes that were sent to his office in Strong Hall.
Her husband was able to fill his office with all but four boxes of books, she said. They were sent to their home, and she said she wasn't happy to
See MOVE, Page 2A
Freezes prepare faculty for cuts
Schools face first phase of difficult budget reductions
Meng Yew Tee and Kim Crabtree Kansan staff writers
Although the budget cut will only affect fiscal year 1996, which begins July 1, the administration has been planning ahead for the cuts.
A hiring freeze has been implemented at the University of Kansas to prepare for the $3 million budget cut from the Kansas Legislature.
Following the decision to defer the faculty's salary hike, the hiring-freeze policy is a step to help the University function within the means of its budget. The policy began June 1 and will stay in affect throughout fiscal year 1996.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway faces the difficult task of balancing the budget.
"The hiring freeze will not be forever, but it's something we need to do in order to help identify places where a cut may have to occur," Hemenway said. "The freeze is simply an action you have to take when faced with a budget cut of this size."
The hiring-freeze policy applies to all levels of the University, with the exception of student hourly appointments. Also, graduate assistant positions will not be subject to position-by-position review, but the departments involved with hiring will not be allowed to spend more in fiscal year 1996 than they did the year before.
Del Shankel, professor of microbiology, is concerned about the issue.
Positions for which an offer had been made still will be filled.
"This will be a difficult time for all of us," said Shankel, former KU chancellor. "Permanently reducing the budget will test our values and our creativity and will require the sacrifices from every segment of the university — faculty, staff, students, and administration."
Some schools still are not sure to what extent the freeze will affect them, while others are facing problems already.
However, the good news is that the college, the largest school in the University, will not have to cancel any classes because of the hiring freeze. Frost-Mason said the process of planning and scheduling classes for this fall had been difficult, but the administration was trying to work within the constraints of the tighter budget.
"It certainly has slowed things down a bit, but we're trying our best to work things out," said Sally Frost-Mason, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"The new chancellor is trying his best to make sure that the students are well-served, and the faculty and the administration are trying their best to work with him," Frost-Mason said.
Alpha Phi Alpha house's fate suspended
City commission sets public hearing about demolition
On Tuesday night, the Lawrence City Commission scheduled an Aug. 1 public hearing to decide the fate of a former fraternity house at 1014 Mississippi St.
By Trine Nygaard Kansan staff writer
It became an item on the commission's agenda after neighbors complained that vagrants lived in the house and started fires to keep warm at night, said Jo Andersen.
The house, owned by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and also the first black fraternity house west of the Mississippi River, has been unoccupied for about 10 years.
"A plan to rehabilitate the house has not been kept up by the fraternity, and the house is falling apart like any house would," said Andersen. "Quite frankly, I think it all comes down to money."
Donald Lee, coordinator of the rehabilitation efforts, agreed that lack of funds was the main problem. But also, most members have a hard time squeezing rehabilitation efforts into their schedules.
who was the Lawrence mayor when demolition of the house was first recommended.
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Raising the money can not be done overnight. Lee said.
"You don't just pick up the phone and say, 'We need money. Send us some,'" he said.
He wanted to make it clear that the house closed because members choose other living arrangements but that the fraternity was
still active.
Jim Kitchen, dean of student life, who spoke at the city commission meeting on behalf of Alpha Phi Alpha, said that the fraternity expected to be able to raise the money needed to pay back taxes and finance a private demolition company. The fraternity can save money by hiring a private demolition crew rather than having the city demolish the house.
No specific fund-raising plans have been made but alumni and business people belonging to Alpha Phi Alpha have shown interest.
No fraternity members attended the meeting or were available for further comment.
"Saving the house is not so important anymore, but they want to keep the property in the name of the fraternity." Kitchen said.
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
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The fate of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house, located at 1014 Mississippi St., was determined last night at the Lawrence City Commission meeting.