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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 73 (USPS 650-640)
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Budget cuts may hinder Med Center
State director proposes a decrease of 6 percent
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
Drastic cuts in the 1987 budget for the University of Kansas Medical Center would hurt the Med Center's ability to compete for patients, and consequently, for revenue, a hospital administrator said last week.
"In order for the Med Center to compete with other hospitals and medical centers, we have to have the technology a medical center is expected to have," said D. Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center.
"We have to be at the forefront of technology to remain competitive," he said.
The state budget director has cut $45 million from the original budgets for the seven Board of Regents schools. Among those cuts is a 6 per cent cut in the Med Center's budget.
Alden Shields, the budget director,
has recommended cutting more than
$18 million from the Regent's
original benefit of $143 million for
the Med Center.
Shields also recommended only $191,329 of a requested $5.5 million for new programs and $1.2 million of a proposed $6.1 million in capital improvements.
The Regents' requests for the MEd Center's operating budget included the same 7 percent salary increase and 7 percent operating expense increase that was requested for the entire University.
Shields recommended a 2 percent increase in classified salaries and no increase in unclassified salaries. He also recommended a 2 percent increase in operating expenditures.
Clawson said last week that the Med Center was below the national average for faculty salaries.
Although the gap is becoming more
narrow, he said, many faculty members decide to leave the Med Center for financial reasons.
"We've lost faculty that we've wanted to retain, both to private practice and to other schools, because of financial considerations," he said. "We're doing better in relation to where we were. We were at the very bottom, in the bottom 10 to 15 percent. We're still below the mean."
New programs that were requested by the Regents included the operation of the Dornier Kidney Lithotripter, immunosuppressant drugs for transplant patients of limited means and improvements in rehabilitation services.
The only new program Shields recommended to Gov. John Carlin was the operation of the lithotriper.
A lithotripter is a device that fragments kidney stones with shock waves. In most cases, this eliminates the need for surgery.
The lithotripter already has been purchased and should be in operation by July. The Regents requested $300,000 for an initial inventory of electrodes and $91,239 for salaries and operating expenses.
The budget director's recommendations allow for $100,000 for the electrode purchases.
"The initial outlay will be at least $200,000," said Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration.
"Everything but $50,000 would be recovered from patient earnings. If these requests are cut, revenue will be cut."
Clawson said another budget priority was the construction of a new animal care unit.
In January, the U.S. Department of
See BUDGET, p. 5, col 4
Jacki Kelly/KANSAN
Holiday highlight
Members of the chamber and concert choirs sing at the Vespers program, dance. Vespers was sung yesterday in two performances in Hoch sponsored by the School of Fine Arts and the department of music and Auditorium.
Protesters allege KUEA meddling
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
The KU Committee on South Africa has complained that the Kansas University Endowment Association stores information on the political activities of some protesters who receive financial aid from the Endowment Association.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said recently that he had checked into the matter after the members of the committee brought it to his attention during a meeting on Nov. 21.
"The first obligation is to let them know what we have determined as quickly as we can," Ambler said.
Ambler was unsure whether the complaint was against the Endowment Association and the University Office of Student Financial Aid, but he said he had checked into both.
KU's financial aid programs and the Endowment Association's financial aid programs are separate. he said, but both are in Strong Hall.
Bill Shunk, loan officer for the Endowment Association, said newspaper stories about protesters' arrests were put in students' financial files by mistake.
He said, however, that he would not release any information until he talked with committee members.
"On a couple of occasions, clippings were inadvertently put in the files," Shunk said. "They have been taken out. It has no effect whatsoever."
Members of the committee called 'his situation "harassment and prejudicial recordkeeping" in a Dec. 3 letter to administrators.
Shawn Holstrum, 1008 Mississippi St., a member of the KU Committee on South Africa, said she had
requested an extension on her short-term loan from the Endowment Association at the beginning of the semester.
Holstrum, who was a Wichita freshman last semester, said she had seen a copy of a newspaper story about protesters arrested in May in her file, and her name was circled.
Protesters have been trying to persuade the Endowment Association to divest from U.S. companies doing business in South Africa.
"I was really mad," she said. "There was no reason for it to be there."
Holstrum said she did not feel guilty about accepting a loan from the Endowment Association.
"I was really desperate," she said. "When I first got my loan, I didn't know anything about the situation.
"The whole reason the Endowment Association is there is to help students. That's their purpose."
BALDWIN CITY — The Black Jack Cemetery is all that remains in the town of Black Jack. The town was the site of a battle in 1856 between tree-state and pro-slavery forces.
Brice Waddill/Special to the KANSAN
Legend outlives local ghost town
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
BALDWIN CITY — Too large for a shrub and too small for a tree.
But this Cinderella among shrubbery grew to become part of a local legend. It gave its name, Black Jack, to a town that once thrived on 40 acres a few miles east of Baldwin City and south of U.S. Highway 56.
Such was the contemptuous curse Douglas County's first setters heaped on a native tree called the black jack oak.
A cemetery is all that remains of the once prosperous town that straddled the Santa Fe Trail.
"Black Jack was quite a little town." Katharine Kelley, a lifetime Baldwin City resident, said last week. "It had a post office, stores and a stage station."
With the arrival of the iron horse, the flow of travelers on the legendary Santa Fe Trail slowed to a trickle and finally ended.
The town's post office closed Jan. 31, 1895. Black Jack is no more.
The air exploded with gunshots just west of Black Jack in the predawp hours of June 2, 1856. Abolitionist John Brown and Capt. S.T. Shore were leading a force of free-state men against pro-slave Missouri border ruffians who were encamped there.
The battle was an indirect result of a law that Congress enacted in 1854. The law, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, allowed territorial settlers to vote on whether to enter the Union as free or slave states.
Some Baldwin City residents say the frontier town was the site of the first battle of the Civil War.
Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders scurried to claim the prairies. They opened the first wounds of Bleeding Kansas.
The pro-slavery men didn't limit their activities to ballot box stuffing, however. On May 21, 1856, under the leadership of Sheriff Sam Jones, they sacked Lawrence, destroyed the Free State Hotel and heaved the presses of the Herald of Freedom
"Every time they would have elections, the border raiders would come over and stuff or steal the ballot boxes," said Loren K. Litter, editor of the Ballet W Ledger.
Litteer is the author of more than 700 typed pages of Baldwin area history. He hopes to compile them someday into a book, he said.
See GHOST TOWN, p. 5, col. 4
Former Beatle remembered
Lennon fans light the night
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Singing songs of peace and carrying signs of remembrance, about 40 faithful fans gathered last night to observe the fifth anniversary of the death of John Lennon. They relived the music and memory of the former Beatle with a candlelight march from the Kansas Union to the Campanile.
They were young. Too young to recall the turbulent 1960s, the days of protest, flower children and revolution that many said began with the Beatles.
But for this second generation of Lennon fans, the music's meaning remained the same.
Arthur Moore, St. Joseph, Mo.
sophomore, stood silently with the
others who had gathered in the cold.
His gloves were caked with the drippings of four yellow-and-white candles.
"Lennon's music was emotional." Moore said later. "It wasn't just peace. It was jealousy, anger, fear and hatred. Emotion. Just what was inside of him."
Etienne Hoke, Wichita sophomore said, "His music makes me think that — no matter what — it's OK. We're all going to be OK."
The glow of the marchers' candles, accented by the night mist, transformed them into a chain of light that stretched for more than 100 yards down Jawhay Boulevard as they headed for the Campanile.
During an awkward moment when they arrived, some of the group were encouraging others to share their
thoughts about Lennon and his music. Then someone said, "Don't be shy, you're with friends."
That message epitomized the evening. It was an echo of Lennon's "bed ins" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and in Montreal, where the song "Give Peace a Chance" was recorded. It didn't matter who you were. You were there — that was what mattered.
Jill Manie, Overland Park junior, and Laurie Springs, Kansas City, Kan., junior, organized the march. Each had their own reasons for remembering Lemon.
“In the past, we would play a record on the anniversary of his death to remember him,” Manies said. “We wanted to remember how
See VIGIL, p. 5, col. 1
Insurance agent robbed, shot
By Gary Duda
Of the Kansan staff
A Lawrence insurance agent was robbed and shot last night while getting into his car in the 1600 block of Haskell Avenue.
Martin Weiss, 110 Michigan St., was shot in the leg at about 8:40 p.m. after a suspect described as a tall black male took an undetermined amount of money from him, police said.
Weiss told police that he had been calling on customers in the area.
Weiss was treated for the bullet wound last night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was released after treatment, a nursing supervisor said.
Sgt. Mike Garcia of the Lawrence police said Weiss described the gunman as wearing a black stocking cap and a black wool coat. Garcia said the gunman approached Weiss and asked him for his money.
Police searched the area but did not find the suspect.
After Weiss gave the gunman his money, Garcia said, the gunmap shot him once in the upper left thigh and fled on foot.
After being shot, Weiss walked about 200 yards to a nearby house to call the police. The resident of that address, who did not have a phone, took Weiss next door to call the police.
The resident of the house next door said she and her two sons were at home when their neighbor knocked on the door. She said her neighbor said a man had been shot and needed help.
"He was sitting and he was kind of shaking," she said.
When she opened the door, the woman said, Weiss entered and promptly sat down on a chair.
"I went and got the police on
the phone and told them to get an am-
balance because a man had been shot."
Police and the Douglas County Ambulance Service arrived at the residence within five minutes.
As of midnight, police said the gunman remained at large.
To our readers
Today's Kansan is the last of the semester. Publication resumes Jan. 15. The December issue of the Kansan Magazine, a supplement to the paper, will be distributed Wednesday.