Proposed pay raise could attract nurses
By PATRICIA MANSON
Staff Reporter
A pay increase recommended by the Kansas Senate could help the University of Kansas to reduce costs.
The senate voted last month to provide $405,851 for a 5 percent increase for nurses working the evening shift at the Med Center and an 10 percent increase for those working the day shift. The legislative legislation decided to wait until April 25 to take final action on the Med Center budget.
Carol Theis, nursing recruiter at the Med Center, said Friday. "If nurses are going to work crazy hours, like in the evening or night, they should be compensated. Every hospital in our area has that compensation."
THE EVENING shift at the Med Center is from 8 p.m. to midnight and the night shift is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
About 45 percent of the nurses at the Med Center quit each year, according to a report by the Senate Ways and Means Committee, and a "major contributing factor" to this rate is the requirement that nurses rotate shifts with no extra pay.
The proposed pay increase could be the crucial factor in recruiting nurses for the Bell Memorial Hospital, scheduled to open on September 4th with 600 beds, 214 more than the present hospital.
The Med Center employs 438 registered nurses, their said, and will probably need more than that.
Karin Williamson, director of statt
development at the Med Center, said the extra pay would attract more nurses to the Med Center.
"I think a differential would help," she said. "It may not help us with the attrition rate, but it will help us with recruiting."
THE MED CENTER'S recruiting efforts include a refresher course for retired nurses Mary Anne Eisenbien, director of nursing services, said nine of the 11 former nurses who took this course this winter went to work for the clinic. Another refresher course is scheduled for the fall.
However, she said, the Med Center gets the largest number of recruits from its own nursing school.
The Med Center also has increased its advertising and its participation in high school career days. Eisenbise said.
"The most successful program is inhouse," Eisenbise said. "Last year about 58 percent of our graduates stayed at the Med Center."
Extra pay for nurses working at night would help the Med Center retain its staff as well.
"We are the only hospital in the Kansas City area that does not pay a differential," she said. "On top of base pay, other hospitals pay the differential. It makes a big difference to some of our nurses. A lot of leave because we don't have the differential. It's really been a morale problem."
The nursing school's enrollment has increased from 45 students this year to 123 next year, Eisenbise said.
Music Mann
Staff photo by STEPHAN SPECTOR
Herbie Mann, here last night with the Kansas City Philharmonic, plays "Night Moves" for an appreciative audience of 1,400 people. He and his band, The New Family of Mann.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, April 9, 1979
Vol. 89, No. 127
Despite protest, ASK vote tonight
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
The Student Senate will decide whether to retain KU's membership in the Associated Students of Kansas, a student lobbying group, at tonight's budget bearing.
The bill for retention was pushed up on the agenda at last night's bidged hearings by Steve Young, journalism senator and KU member of the board of directors of ASK.
Young said he had asked for the change because Hannes Zacharias, executive director of ASK, was available at last year's meeting to explain and support the bill.
However, Etwa Walker, holdover senator,
opposed the change because she said there were people opposed to the bill who were not aware that the bill would be presented later in budget hearings.
Consequently, Walker said, she was the sole opponent to the bill.
"By moving the bill up, we have denied the people who oppose it to the right to vote."
SHE SAID her main opposition to the bill was that it would end the purpose of Concerned Students for Higher Education, a KU lobbying group.
"We should redouble our efforts and funding in CSHE," she said. "In ASK, we are denying destinations from the other schools. We have nothing in common with technical institutions, very little in common with Pittsburgh State and Emporia State."
Besides KU, and Pittsburgh State and Emporia State universities, the other members of ASK are Fort Hays State, Kansas State and Washburn universities.
Zacharias said KU would work better as part of one large lobby than as an individual
"Legislators would rather listen to one
large voice than seven individual voices," he said.
Young said he would like to see ASK and CSHE exist together at KU.
"We are not killing CSHE." he said.
Margaret Berlin, student body president,
said she thought there would be enough
interest in CSHE to have it function with
the new CSHE. Since the CSHE was listed in
the new budget.
CSHE is FUNDED from the unallocated portion of the Student Senate's internal budget. Keith Maith, Senate treasurer, said that CSHE had been allocated $83 last year, but he did not include it in the budget this year because it did not spend last year's money.
"The SHE is now a rather definite group," he said. "They held no meeting last year and do not meet."
However, Walker said she did not think the two could exist together. She said that they were unrelated and had nothing to do with each other.
played with the orchestra for the first half of the concert, then the band played the second half without the philharmonic. See story page three.
ASK, it would remain dissolved if KU
remained in ASK.
KU joined ASK with a provisional membership last year for $2,500. Full membership will cost KU 25 cents for every full-time student, or $150 this year.
The Senate also elected members to the Senate Executive Committee. First, it decided that of the three SenEx members, one would be a senator and one would be a graduate senator.
THE MEMBERS had to be chosen from those serving on the University Council, which was chosen last month. The Senate elected Mark Bernstein, holder senator, as the graduate member of SenEx, and Walker and Claire McCurdy, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, as the undergraduate members.
However, McCurdy's membership is not official because she was not at the meeting.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Polytopes
Vince Roark, a Kansas City, Mo., artist, has been building
polytypes for years. Polytopes are three-dimensional, faceted geometric figures, which张kork makes out of heavy wire.
Polytope artist makes living bending wires
By GENE BROWNING
KANSAS CITY, Mo—Alone, sipping coffee in the Nelson Art Gallery coffee shop, a man in his fifteen pulled scraps of cash from the museum's pocket of the souls his soliued gray sport coat.
Staff Reporter
The man, Vince Hoark, wrote more figures, intermittently punching numbers into a hand calculator.
Roark, a Kansas City, Mo., artist,
builds polytopes for a living. A polytype is
a faceted geometric figure with many
surfaces.
"This kind of work is not for those who can't sit still," he said yesterday. "I've been making molotovs since 1948."
ROARK BECAME interested in polytopes in the summer of 1946 when he read an article about them in *Scientific American* and made making polytopes, he built model airplanes.
Although he spends much of his time working with numbers,he said he had no formal education.
"Started falling behind in sixth grade math. I'm 50 now. Don't feel like it though. I learn when I go to talk to people about polytopes. Look at their bodies if nothing else," he said, smiling toothlessly.
Rork has lived in Kansas City all his life, selling his polypotes to anyone who will buy them. He said he had sold them as well. The college instructors to college professors to simu
He did not start building the figures immediately after he read the 1946 ar-
See ARTIST back page
Legislature adjourns after eventful session
By GENE LINN
and IAMMY TIERNEY Staff Reporters
The 1979 Kansas Legislature ended its regular session Saturday after making fundamental changes in liquor-by-the-drink laws and the reapportionment and the death penalty.
The Legislature will reconvene from April 25 to 27 to consider unfinished business, including the University of Kansas budget, any vets who are any vetos, John Carlin hands down.
Both houses passed a historic liquor-by-the-drink bill, but limited it to private clubs and required club members to pay a 10 percent tax on their drinks.
Revenue from the tax would be given to local governments to use in their general funds and recreational and alcoholism programs.
Non-profit clubs, such as the EKs, could offer reciprocal membership under the bill. Other clubs may get at least 50 percent of their revenue from sales, so they could also enter reciprocal agreements.
AS ORIGINALLY passed by the Senate, the bill would have given all clubs the right to offer reciprocal memberships and would not have included the 10 percent tax.
However, the House limited reciprocity provisions, tapped on the tax and refused to pay.
The path for the bill was cleared by Attorney General Robert Stephens's ruling in February that the state's constitutional protections open saloons did not apply to private clubs.
In another first, the Legislature acted for the first time on a 1974 state constitutional amendment that requires reapportionment every 10 years.
The reapportment process stirred up a fight over Douglas County districts that will include a showdown April 18 when the Kan- tler Court will hear oral arguments on the case.
Local Democrats and some KU students have said they will argue before the Court that the bill would split the KU student vote. Republicans supported the bill for State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence.
HOWEVER, ONE of the students preparing arguments against the bill said yesterday that he was not sure whether he and his team were working with him would go before the Court.
"It appears we have very little constitutional basis, if any, on which to fight the war."
He said he had looked at case law to see whether it was unconstitutional to split the company.
"You can't split racial groups or precincts," he said, "but we don't fall into that."
In a surprise move, however, Carlin veted the measure. During his campaign, Carlin had said he would sign any constituent death penalty bill that reached his desk.
The session also was highlighted by the passage of the first death penalty bill in seven years. All previous bills have been passed by the House but killed by the Senate. This year's bill, his personal condemnation would under murder would be executed by a druid injection.
Bills left unapproved by legislators in-
Legislature
included a measure to rescind the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposal to build a coal slur pipeline across Kansas and a bill extending penalties for possession of marijuana.
Glover said the two marijani bills he had sponsored had not been acted on this session. "They've always done," Glover said.
ALTHOUGH BOTH the ERA and coal slurry bills had strong support from both legislators and lobbyists, neither were passed out of committee.
"We've got the same problem—Ed Reilly." Glover said.
State Sen. Reilly, R-Leavenworth, is chairman of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee, which has refused to vote on bills to the Senate in the last two sessions.
However, he said he was not sure about the chances of the bill that would lower the penalty for possession of less than an ounce of pot to a maximum $100 fine.
However, Glover said, "In my opinion, he does not understand or does not want to
Really said he thought the bill would have a fairly good chance next year if studies came out that answered some questions about the "health aspects of marijuana."
GLOVER SAID that another member of the committee had told him Friday that his children smoked pot, but that he could not have paid bill because of political considerations.
"As long as people are more interested in their political time than in doing what's important to them," she said.
He said that the problem now was to educate the public and that he planned to set a statewide network to provide information the benefits of lower possession penalties.
Glover was more optimistic about the chances of his bill to allow marijuana to be used to treat glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy patients.
"That bill has gotten a lot of favorable attention in the press," he said. "It has a base."
Unfinished business before the two houses includes approval of a $443 million Kansas
Although a conference committee, assigned to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget, reached a compromise late Saturday afternoon, legislators will wait until the April 25 session to take final action on the budget.
INCLUDED IN THE compromise bill is a provision for a 6.5 percent increase in valuations for faculty members. The Senate passed a bill to address this issue and the House endorsed only a 6.5 percent increase.
The conference committee also agreed to reduce from $2 million to $1 million a Senate recommendation for accessibility students and improvements to save energy.
Included in the bill are recommendations for a 6 percent increase for other operating expenses and a 9.5 percent increase for student employee wages.