Thursday, April 24, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
New law toughens bad-check penalties
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday signed into law a bill that would force bad-check writers to pay a fine of triple the check's amount in addition to the original amount of the check.
Holders of the bad cheeks are authorized to charge those who write worthless cheers either $100 or three times the original amount of the check if it is not paid within 21 days. The amount will be assessed along with the face value of the check. No more than $500 can be charged.
Current Kansas law says writing a worthless law for more than $150 is a class E felony, and for less than $150 it is a class A misdemeanor, once the intent to defraud is proven.
is proven
The punishment for a class A misdemeanor is no more than one year in jail and a fine of no more than $2,500. Class E felons receive a minimum sentence of one year in jail or a maximum sentence of two to five years.
Alcohol bill recalled
TOPEKA — State Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, revived a bill yesterday that would require drivers convicted of transporting an open container of alcohol to paraplegic program and alcohol abuse program
The bill was killed on the last day of the regular session, but Doyen said he second chance to give legislators a second chance to pass the bill, which is designed to better enforce open container violations.
Drivers and passengers in Kansas are prohibited from carrying open containers of alcohol.
The proposed law would raise the fine for open-container convictions so that a person would be more likely to enroll in the safety program. The program would cost no more than $100, but refusing to participate would call for a fine of $100 to $500, imprisonment for a maximum of six months in jail or both.
Retirees are honored
Employees of Watkins Hospital honored three retiring staff members yesterday at a special gathering in the hospital's dining room.
room.
About 70 people gathered to hear Virginia Dellor, assistant director of personnel; Mary Hatfield, physician; and Raymond Schwegler, physician and a former director of the hospital.
director of the hospice.
At her retirement, Dellor has become KU's first 50-year employee. She worked as supervisor of the laboratory and X-ray department for 47 years and as director of personnel for the last three years.
three years.
Hatfield was a physician at Watkins for 26 years. Schwegler was as a physician for 27 years, including eight years as hospital director from 1965 to 1973.
Police radio stolen
KU police reported that a portable hand radio was either stolen or misplaced in January during the removal of fuel rods from KU's nuclear reactor.
nuclear reactor.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the KU police, said the $86 radio had disappeared from a Jayhawk Towers command center set up for the fuel removed in late January.
Today will be increasingly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of afternoon thunderstorms. The high temperature will be near 80. Southern winds will gust at 20 to 35 mph.
Weather
From staff and wire reports.
Rhythm and tune help therapy students teach
By Debra West
Staff writer
The boy sits quietly, red rhythm sticks clutched insecurity in his little hands. His face shows eager concentration as he watches his therapist's actions.
pets actions.
"Listen closely, then repeat after me." Michael McGovney tells the child. He taps his sticks together four times.
The little boy tries to repeat the sounds. Tap, tap, tap, tap.
a) "Good, but not quite right." McGovney says
"Listen close and try again."
McGovney, Cunningham senior in music therapy, uses the rhythm sticks to help a group of mentally handicapped children develop listening skills by repeating what they hear.
McGovney is one of about 50 students studying music therapy at the University of Kansas. The program, offered through the department of art and music education at Kansas State University in developing communication and socialization skills in disabled or terminally ill people.
terminally in people.
Alice Ann Darrow, assistant professor of music therapy and music education, said music therapy could be used to teach relaxation or stress management. Listening to music is used in audio training for the hearing impaired, and wind instrument instruction is used in respiratory therapy.
music.
Anne Meeker, clinical training director in music therapy, said recently, "We hope the skills they develop in music will generalize to the classroom and home.
in respiratory therapy
KU students meet with the mentally disabled children twice a week at Cordley Elementary School, 1837 Vermont St. They hope to teach the children social and academic behavior using music.
"We teach them to cooperate by singing together and not letting them play an instrument that we may give them until we tell them to. We also help teach them to tell time and to remember what day of the week it is. Information is easier for them to remember when it's set to a melody." Meeker said.
Darrow said students were required to spend five semesters doing clinical work. The students observe during the first two semesters and spend about an hour a week working with patients during the others.
patients during the clinical work. The clinical work helps music therapy students prepare for jobs after graduation, Darrow say. Many students will find jobs in state psychiatric hospitals or institutions for the mentally handicapped. However, some public schools and general hospitals are beginning to hire music therapists.
With the children, simple songs and instruments are used, but different kinds of music are used with other patients, Meeker said.
"What you decide to use depends on your client's needs and preferences," she said. "You choose music to fit your activity and to
Brice Waddill/Special to the KANSAN
Above — Cordley Elementary student Daren Luttrell, 6, gives a correct response while listening to a song that stresses number concepts. Right — Cordley student Terry McMechen, 12 balances on one leg while music therapy student Wendy Kirsch, Deerfield, Ill., junior, plays guitar.
MarLane Knuppel, Sherman, Texas, senior works with depressed patients at Topeka Memorial Hospital. Depressed patients, she said, have trouble expressing or understanding their emotions.
motivate the client. You also consider their abilities."
Knappel tries to help the patients overcome this problem with various exercises. In one, each patient pantomimes an emotion and the others try to guess what is is. The patient then chooses a song from a song book that reflects the emotion.
"It was interesting," Knuppel said. "What they think a song means is not always what someone else would think it means."
fear.
"Anyone else would say the song was about hope and love," Knuppel said. "But she had been very close to her father and when he died she became scared to love anyone. For that reason, the song was fearful to her."
monee else would break it. For example, she said, one woman in the group thought the song "The Rose" reflected fear.
reason, the song that is often
While most music therapy work is
rehabilitative, some students work in hospices
where the music can only be used to comfort.
where she taught Ruth Blom, Grand Forks, N.D., graduate student, worked with a terminally ill patient last spring. She said she used music to help the na-
tient imagine she was in a place where there was no pain.
"The music can be used as a background or as a focus." Blom said. "You can have the patient concentrate on the music and ask them what images it brings to them or you can use it as a background and let the patient imagine whatever they want."
forward to her visits.
"She was always ready to start when I got there," she said. "We used guidance imagery to go to her home. We took care of it, redecorated it. We imaged her pain and tried to change it so it was better."
Blom said the patient she worked with looked forward to her visits.
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The music also helps the patients accept their deaths. Blom said.
or deaths, Biom said.
"They can read lyrics or write songs or
change the lyrics to familiar songs to help them voice their feelings about death," she said. "There are many things that people feel they shouldn't say, but they can put their feelings in."
Blom said the work was very rewarding
"I taught music for four years," she said. "I liked teaching, but I felt like something was missing. I wanted to do more
"It's not depressing, even if you're working with a hospice patient. You know you are helping them and that's the most you can do."
The music therapy program at KU began in 1946 and was the first degree program of its kind in the United States. It is recognized as one of the top three music therapy programs in the country, Darrow said.
Write-ins, spending restricted
Express sweeps new BOCO vote
By Peggy Kramer Staff writer
Staff writer
Express Coalition swept the Board of Class Officer positions in yesterday's special election, despite changes in the polling site and restrictions against the coalition by the BOCO review board.
review boards
new board assessed several penalties to Express and write in candidates because of complaints about campaign violations in last week's election.
week's election.
Also, because of complaints filed about candidates campaigning too close to the polling place, the election review board moved the polling site from Wescoe Beach to Strong Hall rotunda.
The new polling place was successful and turnout was good, said Mike Slaney, senior class president.
president.
"This is one of the largest one-day turnouts we've had," Slaney said. "It was a lot more than I expected."
Last week's two-day voter turnout was estimated at 600, an increase of almost 200 over last year's BOCO election. Almost 300 students voted in yesterday's election.
voted in yesterday's elections.
Students voted for sophomore, junior and senior class officers for the 1986-87 school year.
Freshman class officers are elected in the fall
The new senior class officers are: president,
John Fevrilty, Tonganoxie junior; vice presi-
junior.
Junior class officers are: president, Cliff Swain, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore; vice president, Selina Jackson, Lawrence sophomore; secretary, Eugenie Dillard, Wichita sophomore; and treasurer, Steve Denison, Leawood sophomore.
dent, Jim Wimne, Overland Park junior;
secretary, Julie Riggle, Overland Park junior;
and treasurer, Mark Hanna, Kansas City, Mo.
junior.
Sophomore class officers are: president, Brian Rodkey, Overland Park freshman; vice president, Ron Lockton, Mission Hills freshman; secretary, Christina Britko, Wichita freshman; and treasurer, Brook Meneses, Prairie Village freshman.
Frankie Vaughan from Cornwall. All of the winners were from the Express coalition. Penalties assessed earlier against the coalition and write-in candidates were
■ Express Coalition may not have any expenditures beyond those noted and substantiated by receipts on April 16, spend any more money on campaign material, use leftover campaign material, or use donated materials for the special election.
*Ballots will contain only the names of the Smart Coalition and the Express Coalition, which initially filed.
special choices
All previous write-in candidates must adhere to all of the above restrictions stipulated for Express.
Some students and candidates were concerned that having a second election and moving the polling site would hurt voter turnout.
But Slainey said it was easier to monitor the area surrounding the polling place in Strong Rotunda, rather than the former site at Wescoe Beach.
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The BOCO election review board discussed making Strong Hall a permanent polling site for the elections, he said.
"There is a 95 percent chance that future elections will be held in Strong." Slaney said.
Kristi Rankin, Phillipsburg sheathed vote because her turnover would be voted off. The election was only one day, but the vote was
There was not enough publicity on the special election, she said.
election, the state.
Steve Traxler. Overland Park sophomore,
voted yesterday even though he didn't vote in
the first election.
"After hearing what happened last time, I decided to vote," he said.
Traxler said he didn't mind going to Strong to vote, but he would like to see more than one polling place available.
Terry Brown, Valley Center sophomore, voted in both the elections.
"It was a little bit of a hassle to do it again and I wasn't going to vote the second time until a friend stopped me and asked me if I had voted yet," he said.
Sales tax offer made by House fails in Senate
United Press International
TOPEKA — In what could be classed as a test vote, the Kansas Senate yesterday emphatically rejected the House's "half-and-half" sales tax increase on a 39-0 tally that put the quest for a compromise back in the House's court.
However, when Sen. Fred Kerr, R-Pratt, attempted to convene a meeting of the House-Senate conference committee on the deadlocked tax bill, he was told by House negotiators there was still little point in meeting.
The Legislature reconvened for a four-day wrap-up of the 1986 session, ending a 10-day recess after the regular session.
recess. The chairman of the conference committee sought a meeting in hope that the House might change its position in light of the strong Senate backing of its own 1-cent sales tax increase. However, he said he was told any attempt to run the 1-cent increase past the fragmented House would result in its defeat.
defeat.
Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, made the unsuccessful Senate motion to concur in the House amendments
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