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Thursday, April 19, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Kitchen crew
Staff photo by BARB KINNEY
FrancisSharp,left,Nashville,Tenn.,sophomore;Barbara Shaw,K.C. Heylin,Manhattan junior divide the daily chore of Eating Sci.Fa.N.M.34;JuliaBuller,Hutchinson sophomore;and that comes with living in their Sardis community,204 Oread St.
Students enjoy live-in fellowship
By JULIA GOPLERUD
Staff Reporter
Members of Sards, a Christian community in the basement of the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 124 Ourea Church. There are three different from what they expected.
Some of the students said they thought the living situation might be restrictive.
"When I heard it was a Christian community I thought you couldn't drink or swear here. The idea of a Christian community probably does scare people off," Barbara Shaw, Santa Fe, N.M. junior, said.
"To be a Christian doesn't mean you don't drink or enjoy life." C. Heylin, Manhattan junior, said that all we profess are religious, and we didn't differently. We're just normal people.
"the only restrictions we have are to be courteous." Francis Sharp, Nashville, Tenn., sophomore, said. "Some of the rooms can't be smoked in because of fire rules, and I smoke a pipe, so I just don't smoke in those rooms."
ALL OF THE four students living in the community said they had considered other living situations before they heard of Sardas.
"I was going to live in an apartment last year, but it was too expensive and too small," Julia Bacon, Hutchinson sophomore, said. "I found out about Sardis or a club where I met at the atmosphere and I like living with guys-I lived in a co-e-dorm last year."
"It's also close to campus and I like the independence of it," she said.
Shaw said she had wanted to get out of a residence hall and had considered a scholarship hall at the same time she considered Sardis.
Sharp, who has lived in Sardis for two years, said he had made different housing plans before he came to KU but changed his mind.
"I kind of understood what Sardis was all about and thought it would be good for
Heylin said he tried to find a studio apartment last fall because he liked privacy and because he did not want to live in a residence hall.
"A FRIEND kept suggesting this place to me," he said. "It's been a really positive experience and there is a financial advantage," he said.
The rooms at Sardis are three different sizes, and the students pay rent on a graded sale. A single room costs $78 a month. A large double room is leased to two persons at $60 a person. A small double room costs $48 a person.
Because four persons are living in an area suitable for seven, the students renting the double rooms do not have roommates but pav double room rent.
Sardis has five bedrooms, 4½ bathrooms, a large kitchen, a dinette, a utility room, a large living room with a bedroom, a large room large enough for three or four cars.
Sharp said the area where the students were to be living quarters for a minister's family.
"It ited to be housing for international students a few years ago, and it may have been something else between the time it used to be used for the international students," he said.
The area has been used for the Sardis community for five years.
The students share household chores,
cooking food expenses and Christian
religion.
"We each cook dinner three times every two weeks." Heyln said. On Sunday we fed the hungry dogs.
He said breakfast and lunch were the responsibility of the individual occupants.
The students said they had specific household chores including grocery shopping, banking and cleaning. Each month into a checking account for food.
STUDENTS BECOME A part of the community by applying to the board of Ecumenical Christian Ministries. They are members of the board and one member of Sardis.
"Sardis is a community instead of a group of people just sharing the same space. We have group meetings, special events and an orientation program," Sharp said.
"Sardis" is from the New Testament book of Revelations, where Sardis is named as one of the early churches in Asia.
Fox Hill clinic confirms changing abortion attitude
Staff Reporter
By KATE POUND
Cheerly colors, comfortable furniture and a bright, modern building are not exactly the usual picture conjured up by the word abortion.
Yet bright and cheery are adjectives that describe the facilities of the Fox Hill Surgery Clinic in Overland Park. The clinic is well-equipped and dedicated toward profits specializes in abortions.
Abortion, formerly a bogey word that drew gaws in polite society, was made legal by a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Since then, abortion has left the back alley and moved into hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics.
Fox Hill's location amid several new business and medical buildings and its advertisements in area newspapers are reported to have been slowed by abortion that has developed since 1973.
ONLY A SMALL Club of Overland Park citizens opposed the clinic's opening in August 1974. Maureen Anderson, assistant clerk at the clinic, recently. Opposition has been quiet since then.
The change may be partly because of new attitudes about abortion, she said, and partly because of the other services the clinic will eventually provide.
The clinic's staff of two physicians, three registered nurses and seven counselors performs abortions and tubal ligation, a sterilization procedure for women, two days a week. Anderson said. However, the clinic had a history of infections as it increases the types of operations done.
Anderson said that the clinic was designed to handle several types of surgery, including oral surgery, outpatient plastic surgery and sterilization surgery.
Most of the clinic's patients are referred by physicians or Family Planning and Planned Parenthood groups, Anderson said. However, some women come to the clinic after reading advertisements in area newspapers, including the Kansan.
THE CLINIC BEGAN to advertise a few months ago, Anderson said, after administrators saw advertisements for similar clinics in newspapers in other cities.
Mary Whitten, family planning coordinator for the Kansas Department of Health, said that there were no laws to protect her from using its services, but that ads were unusual.
Although she did not know how great the direct response to the Kanas anad had been, Anderson said that the clinic advertised in the paper that they were based on campus and its proximity to Overland Park.
No matter how women learn of Fox Hill, they go through the same procedures for them.
Most patients call the clinic for information and to make appointments for their surgeries, Anderson said. The calls are answered by telephone counselors who ask
THE FIRST STEP of the procedure includes fee payment. Anderson said.
each caller for medical and personal each caller. The counselors then a date
The patient fills out several forms and signs a form saying she is aware of the details of the abortion. After the patient checks in, she undergoes blood tests and an urinalysis to determine blood type and to check for venereal disease.
On the day of her surgery, a woman comes to the clinic and is checked in.
After the tests and exam, patients are divided into small groups for counseling. Group counseling is used, Anderson said, because the clinic's staff has found that people will relate to each other and can help them cope with the counseling is available if a patient wants it.
THE COUNSELING SESSIONS, which are conducted in small, sunny rooms, are informed consent" sessions, Anderson said. The woman must understand the abortion procedure, and they answer questions and make sure an abortion is what the woman wants. If a woman doesn't seem sure that she wants an abortion, counselor agencies can give her more counseling.
The women is then taken to a large, brightly-decorated waiting room where a medical history is taken and her blood pressure, pulse and temperature are measured. An examination is done by a licensed practical nurse and a second exam is done later by a physician.
"We're not in to doing an abortion on someone who hasn't quite made up her mind," she says.
After the counseling sessions, which take about an hour, the woman is taken to a dressing room and given a hospital gown. The patient is then placed in the room to wait until she is called for surgery.
Kearns said he also was considering several other means of outstarting the student ticket evaders. Among them are monitoring campus lots for persons without a pass to park there and changing the colors of courtesy passes each month.
Another method that is soon to be used by Parking Services is wheel locks. Instead of towing cars after five tickets, ticketers will be given a lock on the wheels until fines are paid.
required to show proof of residence to purchase a ticket. This year, student, ticketers working out of the residence halls were helping to alleviate the problem, he said.
hall residents to apply as ticketers and our service has really improved. They're very diligent and the tickets are a real deterrent."
"Scholarship halls are pretty close to campus and to several bars, so a lot of people just drive in and use them. People have also tried getting into college, but they say they live there. Since we didn't feel we were getting enough ticketing, we got several scholarship
The counseling sessions often include birth control information.
"Our numbers of temporary medical permits always go up after vacations and that's fine," he said. "But there really has been some improper usage."
Fox Hill uses the vacuum-aspiration method of abortion, which removes the fetus through a suction hose. The procedure is done under a local anesthetic.
A SURGERY COUNSELOR waits with the patient and goes into the operating room with her. The counselors, Anderson said, are specially trained to help patients relax. They stay with the patients until after the surgery.
Services. One example is the use of temporary medical passes.
Kip Cubin, president of the All Scholarship Hall Council, agreed.
The surgeries are done in two operating rooms that are small-scale replicas of operating rooms in larger hospitals. The operating rooms are fully equipped for surgery and include monitors to check vital signs during an operation.
"We can't take the money out of their paychecks. All we can do is to wear their cars and ask them to pay. Dr. Shankel has sent a personal letter to all faculty members asking them to pay their tickets, but it hasn't been very effective."
"WHAT WE try to do is encourage students who live in scholarship and research communities, we said. "They know the problems and what the abuses are, so they do a pretty good job."
University has no way of enforcing traffic violations written to faculty members.
"We know who the faculty and staff are that aren't paying their tickets, but at this point, we have no leverage to make them pay," Kearns said.
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The method should be particularly effective, Kearns said, with faculty members being involved.
WHEN THEY WANT to, Kearns said, faculty members can be every bit as snooky as they want. "I'll just give you the best," he said.
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The clinic also has a surgery prep room and rooms for instrument sterilization.
Because 35 percent of the Parking Services budget is made up of ticket collections, money that is not paid is missed. If more people realized what the money was used for, they might be more inclined to pay their tickets. Kearns said.
Still, facing the prospect of collecting hundreds or even thousands of unaided funds, some banks have been forced to
"It's to prevent a woman from doing something she might be very sorry for
After the surgery, which takes less than 20 minutes, the patient is taken to the recovery room, where her vital signs are watched and she is checked for bleeding. The recovery room is so restlessly decorated and are equipped handle any post-operative difficulties.
"We'll catch up with them," he said. "It's a matter of time."
The women who come to Fox Hill belong to no particular social group, she said. The majority are in their 20s, but the clinic focuses on women and women in their early teens.
Whiten said minors may have abortions without the consent of parents.
WOMEN REQUESTING tubal ligations are questioned to make sure that the operation is the birth control method they want. The baby may be performed tubal ligations on young women who have not had children because the operation is a permanent form of childbirth.
The clinic follows a similar procedure for tubal ligation, a sterilization operation that cuts or ties the fallopian tubes, which carry the egg from the ovaries to the uterus.
According to the woman, she entered the clinic at 8 a.m. and returned home by 12:30 p.m., after having also shopped and eaten lunch.
However, one former Fox Hill patient said that she spent less than three hours in the hospital.
The woman, from St. Joseph, Mo., praised the clinic and its staff, but disagreed with Anderson's statement that a six-hour clinic stay was usual.
Fees increase because of the extra care required for patients who have abortions or endometriosis.
Abortions performed later in a pregnancy are more difficult to do, and patients need more medication and a longer recovery period, she said.
HOWEVER, AILOR said, most clinics charge more for abortions done after the 12th week of pregnancy because of increased difficulty and risk.
"Everyone there is so kind," she said.
They make you feel that you're the only person
who's not so nice.
The woman said that Fox Hill was recommended to her by her county health department, and she said she was glad her abortion was done there.
after the surgery. Anderson said. The entire procedure takes about six hours.
However, Anderson said that Fox Hill requires parental consent before it will perform abortions on girls under the age of 16. However, the state does not require parental consent.
Fees do go up for abortions later in the pregnancy, Anderson said. From $175 for an abortion done before the 12th week of pregnancy, from $300 for an abortion than $900 for an abortion after the 16th week.
The clinic's fee for lab work, counseling and surgery is $175 cash. According to Ann Allor, a registered nurse with the Douglas County Health Department, abortions usually cost between $150 and $175 in this area.
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Whiten said that the Fox Hill clinic, like any medical facility in Kansas, must pass a state health department inspection. There are no specific state laws concerning birth control or abortion clinics, except for those governing all clinics.
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AFTER SPENDING at least an hour in recovery, the patient is checked out and may leave the clinic. She can arrange to have a free follow-up exam a few weeks
Anderson said that Fox Hill's standards and professionalism assured the clinic
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