Wednesday, April 23, 1986
Campus/Area
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Guilty plea entered in electronics theft
A Lawrence man who was charged with the March 26 theft of more than $20,000 worth of electronics equipment from the Audio-Reader Network pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of burglary.
John E. Helms, 21, 1908 E. 19th St., had originally been charged with three counts of burglary, murder, and possession of stolen property.
Helma's plea to the reduced charges at the preliminary hearing was part of a plea agreement. He will be sentenced by District Judge James W. Paddock on May 12. The plea eliminated the need for a preliminary hearing and a trial
Two other men charged with the burglary at Audio-Reader Network will have preliminary hearings May 5.
Bov's injuries severe
A young Lawrence boy was injured seriously yesterday when an automobile struck him while he was apparently trying to cross
The boy was struck shortly before 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of Ninth and Alabama streets. He was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by the Douglas County Ambulance Service.
Because of the severity of the boy's injuries, he was flown by lifeflight helicopter to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The University of Kansas Medical Center upgraded heart transplant patient Kenneth Collins condition from critical to serious yesterday.
The heart transplant team operated on Collins on Monday, ending his three-month wait for a new heart. Collins is the MGenes's 13th heart transplant patient the program began in July 1984.
Patient improving
Jon Moran, head of the transplant team, said in a prepared statement that Collins now was breathing on his own and doing well.
City may post signs
A Lawrence resident at the City Commission meeting last night suggested that the city post n parking signs in zones along two city streets that are adjacent to campus.
Paul Gross, 834 Kentucky St., said he was told by KU Police Department officials that campus no-parking designations were enforceable on West Campus Road in front of Carruth O'Leary Hall and on Illinois Street near the Computer Center.
City signs are needed to make the zones enforceable, Grosz said. City commissioners directed the public works director to look into the possibility of posting city signs. Sgt. John Wolfe of KU Parking Services said after the meeting that the curbs in the areas were painted yellow but that there were no signs.
Those areas are under the city's jurisdiction, he said.
Weather
Today will be mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid-70s and winds 15 to 25 mph. Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms and a low in the low 50s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the low 70s.
From staff and wire reports
Nurse dedicates career to Center
By Lynn Maree Ross
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The sterile-white walls in nursing services at the University of Kansas Medical Center stop abruptly outside the door to Mary Anne Eisenbise's office.
Staff writer
Eisenbise, director of nursing services at the Med Center for 16 years, immerses herself in nursing from 60 to 70 hours a week. But her office looks nothing like it, and fact, her office contains some of the comforts of home.
Plants, a small television-radio and travel mementos give her office a welcoming charm.
"I guess it's a little of the farmer left in me." Eisenbise said recently.
Three large plants line the floor near the gold and half-paneled walls and one or two smaller plants sit on tables around the room.
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
Her interest in plants and flowers developed during her days on a farm. Eisenbise was born and raised on a farm near Morrill, a town of about 500 people north of Topeka near the state line.
The desire to become a nurse came at an early age, she said.
Even so, she said her parents weren't excited about the choice, because they viewed nursing as a physically demanding job, not something their daughter should endure.
"I never knew anything else I wanted to do," Eisenbise said.
The job has been demanding, Eisenbise said. But since graduating from KU's School of Nursing in 1953, she's spent only one year working directly with patients. She devoted most of her 33 years at the Med Center as a teacher and administrator.
Faye Maille, Eisenbise's secretary for the last nine years, said that although Eisenbise had many duties, she didn't miss much of what
"She is so aware of everything that is going on in the hospital that just walking down the hall with her is an experience," Maillie said.
went on at the hospital.
Elsenbise can remember details that others might think small or unimportant, Maille said, and she almost immediately sees all the influences any event or situation might have on the hospital and the staff.
Eisenbise moved up through the ranks at the Med Center rather easily.
Geraldine Davis, associate director of nursing services, said she wasn't surprised by Elisseben's advancement at the Med Center, where a supervisor at the Med Center when she first met Elisseben as a student nurse in 1951.
Mary Anne Eisenbise, director of nursing services at the University of Kansas Medical Center, spends from 60 to 70 hours a week taking care of administrative duties. Eisenbise has been the director since 1970.
as a student butseer.
"She was just serious and hardwired then," Davis said. "She dedicates everything she does to that place."
that dedication and help drive put her in the director's chair. In 1955, just two years after graduating from nursing school, Elsenbise became assistant driver for a service education program. In 1967, she was director for nursing services, and in 1970 she became director of nursing services.
says午11 p.m. Eisenbien admits she's a workaholic, but she won't apologize for all the hours she works.
Eisenbise usually arrives at the hospital at about 7:30 a.m. and often stays until 11 p.m., Davis said.
syphilitic.
Elsebeis has endured through it all, and KU memorabilia and certificates of appreciation are evidence of her dedication to nursing and to the Med Center.
Nursing is a different profession now than in 1983. Then, polio was the greatest medical concern. Now it's immune deficiency syndrome.
A pen holder on her desk, given to her by the nursing supervisors.
sports a pewter Jayhawk. A number of honors and awards, such as the Jayhawker Nurse Award the Med Center gave her in 1890, hang on the wall.
walls.
The same year, Elsieben received an invitation to tour European countries to study different health systems. She visited England, Hungary, Poland and Sweden during
her trip to foreign hospitals
She enjoyed the trip, she said,
because it helped her see how
medical care in the United States
compared to other countries.
With health-care systems a few
from country to country, the people
are similar.
"A nurse is a nurse no matter what country you're from," she said.
SenEx wants input on athlete policy
By Frank Ybarra Staff writer
The University Senate Executive Committee yesterday decided to request more information about alternatives to early enrollment now offered to KU athletes.
Sid Shapiro, chairman of SenEx, said he would write letters requesting the information from the Office of Academic Affairs, the Department of Educational Services, the University Senate Athletic Committee and the University schools.
The main reason SenEx requested the letters was to see how the schools and University offices could handle specific requests from athletes who need to get into a particular class.
nebble to go.
Shira said SenEx wanted to know whether procedures in the schools allowed athletes to petition for required classes if they were full at enrollment time.
The recommendation came after some members
of SenEx questioned the right of athletes to enroll before other students.
SenEx made the decision after it debated a letter sent by Anthony Redwood, chairman of the University Senate Athletic Committee, which explained its support of the policy of early enrollment for student athletes.
"It is essential that the athletes be able to practice as a team," it said. "Commonly, they are constrained by our limited facilities to scheduling practices during particular time periods."
"The overriding consideration, in our view," the letter said, "lies in the problem that every one of our fourteen varsity sports faced when there was no special enrollment procedure.
The letter also said that athletes, unlike others in the University who also have time constraints, are widely perceived, correctly or incorrectly, as an integral part of the University.
part of the University These students are representing the University
of Kansas," the letter said.
It also adds that athletes, unlike other students, are bound by a special National Collegiate Athletic Association rule that requires them to make satisfactory progress toward a degree.
Gordon Woods, Ulysses senior and a student member of SenEx, said he thought that athletes should go through the same procedures as other students who had to get into other classes.
A few members of the committee also said they thought that if athletes got special permission to enroll early because of inflexible practice schedules, then other students, such as those who work, should have privileges too.
Shapiro said he saw two courses of action if SenEx were to recommend a change in enrollment policy; either accommodate others who have the same problems or make the process the same for everyone.
More precise scale often used
Schools see pluses in grading system
By Lori Polson
Staff writer
Scraping by with an 80 percent is not enough to warrant a letter grade of B in five schools at the University of Kansas.
The Schools of Architecture, Social Welfare, Education, Journalism and Fine Arts all break down their grading system from the traditional letter grades into letter grades with pluses and minuses.
"It's more precise," Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare, said recently. "With a just letter-grade system, the grading scale is too narrow."
Niki Lakins, academic administrative assistant in architecture, said the plus-minus system is more flexible now more flexibility in their grading.
The system was first used in the School of Architecture to help faculty
grade students in drawing classes, she said.
A plus or minus adds or subtracts 3. grade points from the traditional four-point grading system, she said. For example, a one hour course with a grade of B is worth 3.0 grade points while a grade of B-minus is worth 2.7 grade points and a grade of B-plus is worth 3.3 grade points.
The difference between letter grades and letter grades with a plus-minus behind them can make a difference in a student's grade point average, Pat Flory, recorder for educational services, said.
The system applies to all of the letter grades except for Ds and Fs. Students receive only one grade point for a one hour course with a grade of D. and no points for a grade of F.
Paul Haack, acting dean of education, said each faculty member in the
"Some people choose to use it and some don't," he said. "We just require that they specify at the beginning of the semester."
school decided at the beginning of the semester whether they would choose to use a plus-minus grading system.
in the school. Hack said some courses required a closer type of evaluation than the traditional letter grade system.
"Some courses where you have several objective tests, it's possible to make very fine evaluations," he said. "But in courses where the grade depends upon just one or two essays, it's not."
Faculty members carry the weight when deciding whether to use a plusminus grading system, said Rhetta Noever, administrative assistant to the dean of business.
The School of Business uses the traditional system of letter grades without pluses or minuses.
"Our faculty has chosen not to change the system," Noever said.
If a school in the University wants to use a plus-minus grading system, the dean of that particular school would do so to do from the University Council.
Brian Lange. Blue Valley sophomore, is enrolled in the School of Fine Arts and said he had mixed
Brian Lange, Blue Valley sophomore, is enrolled in the School of Fine Arts and said he had mixed feelings about the grading system.
"It narrows it down so much," he said. "It's still impossible to get an A-plus."
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences does not use the plus-minus system of grading.
Alicia Gibbons, acting associate dean of the college, said she thought the faculty never had brought the issue up.
46 faculty supporting JDI shelter
By Tim Hrenchir
Staff writer
Stan Writer
Forty-six KU faculty members have signed a statement pledging their support for the Jayhawk Defense Initiative, Allan Hanson, JDl's advisor, said yesterday.
JDI began a petition drive for student signatures March 26 to push for the construction of a nuclear fallout shelter. Students from several students out of a nuclear mallase.
Kirstin Myers, JDI president and Shawnee junior, said she didn't know how many student signatures JDI wanted. The movement that the movement was growing.
"We're getting late in the semester," Hanson said, "and I don't know if they'll get enough signatures in time. But this still has some value — JDI will still be a movement on campus next fc.l."
JDI members said the Reagan administration's policies drastically increased the chances for nuclear war and the administration therefore had an obligation to save people during a nuclear war.
Group members said they had studied many government documents that said a nuclear war would be survivable.
"A lot of people consider building a bomb shelter to be absurd," says Myers. "But we're just borrowing our absurdity from the government."
Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, said the faculty signatures were intended to give moral support to JDI members, who have until the end of the semester to get signatures about 2.500 students or 800 teachers at the student level. The members intend to ask the Kansas Legislature for money to build the shelter and would like student support.
Myers said, "I'm really happy with all the respected faculty members that have decided to support us."
Faculty support for JDI is strongest in the departments of sociology, English and history — least instituting at least five majors.
in previous wars, Seaver said,
societies could create a lot of damage
but they couldn't threaten the existence
of mankind.
"Somebody's got to take the lead on this thing before it goes too far."
But in the nuclear age, he said, for the first time man is able to destroy all the progress since the times of the Sumerians.
Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology, said he studied the psychology of conflict and believed very strongly in working to solve international problems through nonviolent means.
"I'm a pro-peace person"
Baugartnel said. He added that he had been working to increase nuclear awareness for some time.
Some faculty members who decided not to sign the statement said they supported JDI's goal but not its method.
Aletha Huston, professor of psychology, questioned the subtle nature of JDI.
"My fear is that this kind of subtlety might not get across to the public," she said. "It might lead people to blow the bomb shelter idea seriously."
seriously Richard Schowen, professor of chemistry, voiced similar views.
"Things work best in Kansas when they're straightforward, solid, plain-talking such, as the nuclear freeze," he said.
freeze, he said.
Schowen questioned the "black humor" aspect of JDI's campaign.
"For humor to work, it has to be a good joke and everybody has to get it," he said.
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