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Wednesday
July 8, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 150
(USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
Published by the students of the University of Kansas since 1889
Watkin's may stop in-patient treatment
By STORMY WYLIE
Staff writer
One way to offset the rising costs of medical care at the University may be to close down the in-patient care facilities at Watkins Memorial Hospital permanently, a University official said this week.
This summer, the hospital is closed every day from 11 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., and patients are treated on an outpatient basis only.
The hospital again will be open 24 hours starting Aug. 16, but inpatients still will not be admitted, said Jim Strobl, director of student health services.
But David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said Monday that the summer closing of the in-patient facilities was an experiment.
"We wanted to see if this satisfies the needs of the students," he said. "If not, we'll go back to the drawing board. Nothing is final."
Even if the in-patient facilities are closed permanently, KU students still will receive out-patient treatment this fall, and students could stay at the hospital up to 23 hours for observation, Strobl said.
During this summer semester, students needing medical treatment during the hours Watkins is closed should go to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Strobli said
During fall and spring semesters, an average of 300 students are treated each day, but only one actually is admitted, he said.
"This plan goes beyond saving money," Strobel said. "It just doesn't make sense economically to stay open for one student.
"There's not much demand for 24-hour service. To spend the student's money wisely, we don't want to duplicate some services."
Strobil said he had not received any complaints since the inpatient facility was closed.
Strobl said the change should not affect many students. The heaviest concentration of medical care now is needed from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., he said.
Each KU student paid $33 for health fees during this summer semester and will pay $56 this fall semester.
Down the court
Kansas guard, Kevin Pritchard, works out in Allen Field House. Pritchard is one of 19 candidates competing this week at KU to be chosen for the Junior World Basketball Team. See related story on page 9.
North assumed Reagan gave OK for his activities
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lt. Col. Oliver North, a take-no-guff witness trumpeting his devotion to the contras, said yesterday that he had assumed President Reagan had approved his efforts to divert Iranian arms sales profits to the cause.
But, he said. "No memorandum ever came back to me with the initials from the president." And he said that on the day Reagan fired him, the president told him on the telephone, "I just didn't know."
North's testimony was the most sought-after in the congressional Iran-contra hearings to date, and it lived up to its advance billing. His more than six hours in the witness chair was punctuated by sharp exchanges with committee counsel John Nield, and between North's lawyer and the committee chairman
North contradicted the testimony of former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane that McFarlane had told his staff not to solicit assistance from foreign leaders for the contrast after Congress had cut off U.S. aid.
"I never heard those instructions,' North said and added that he once gave McFarlane a card containing the number of a foreign bank account that could accept contributions earmarked for the contrasts.
Repeatedly, North told the committees that he had been conducting covert operations whose details were not for U.S. citizens.
"There are boxes within boxes to protect the operation," he said. "I
pray to God you are not going to turn those loose."
North made no secret of the fact that other countries, including China, identified at the hearing only as "country No. 4," were asked to contribute to the contras. When he met with the FBI, North said, he asked that the FBI keep tabs so his meeting would not be misunderstood.
But he denied, strongly, that he solicited money himself. That was not because of a congressional amendment forbidding official U.S. aid, he said, "but because I understood there were regulations against government officials soliciting money."
He also said he did not offer meetings with the president or tours of the Oval Office for contributions.
To a question about diversion of the Iranian arms profits to the rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, North said, "The only thing we did was divert money out of Mr. Ghorbanifar's pocket and put it to better use." North was referring to Manucher Ghorbanifar, a middleman in contact with Iran.
"I would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland if we could have gotten our hostages home for it." North added.
Stephan files suit to stop bogus mortgage firm
As for memos North said he prepared for Reagan on the proposed diversion, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan had previously denied knowledge of the operation.
Staff writer
By KEITH ROBISON
Common Title out of Kansas.
TOPEKA — The Kansas attorney general said Monday that people who desperately sought to save what they cared about would grasp the facts, sometimes even braindrops.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan filed suit Monday in Shawnee County District Court against Common Title and Trust Co., a Nevada- and California-based firm linked to a white-supremacist and tax-protest group. He accused the firm of swindling financially troubled Kansas farmers into thinking they could save their land.
He said the purpose of the suit was to drive
"There are always some unscrupulous, despicable people who want to take advantage of those who are in severe financial stress," Stephan said.
In the scheme, Stephan said, farmers mortgage their land to Common Title in return for seemingly negotiable documents called "sight drafts." The sight drafts supposedly offer a 4-year tenancy and are paid by payments. The farmers then try to pay off debts and bank loans with these bonus papers.
"Of course, it's all to no avail because the sight draft is worthless." Stephan said.
The farmers are led to believe that they were transferring their bank loans to the Federal
Reserve system. The Federal Reserve refuses to honor the papers, and banks have been warned not to accept them.
"Farmers falling for this may jeopardize their existing loan, they may lose redemption time if in foreclosure, they may injure their position in bankruptcy, they may risk criminal charges, and they will cloud the title to their property." Stephan said.
In the suit Stephan requested that Common Title stop selling its program, make restitution to all Kansas it had dealt with and pay a civil judgment against the violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act.
Stephan now is investigating the number of possible violations the firm has committed.
Stephan said the company also had an office in Osborne, Kan. Bob Saylor, an alleged officer of the firm in Osborne and a defendant named in the suit, could not be reached for comment.
Special Agent Max Geiman, spokesperson for the Kansas City division of the FBI, said the president of Common Title and Trust in California was Roger Elvick, who also was a national spokesman for the Committee of States, a right-wing political organization.
Although some Common Title officers have links to radical, right-wing political groups, Stephan said, the operations in Kansas have been strictly business-oriented.
See STEPHAN, p. 8, col. 1
Opinions differ on Towers' vandals
By KEITH ROBISON
Staff writer
Some of the descriptions are nauseating. Bags of trash in the elevators. Urine in the washing machines and stairwells.
Some KU housing officials said recently that the vandalism problem at the Jayhawker Towers apartments, 1603 W. 15th St., was improving.
However, other people don't agree. Kenneth Stoner, director of student housing, said June 24 that vandalism at the Towers was on the decline.
"We have had some intermittent difficulties, but occupancy is increasing, so we must have some favorable student response. One of the markers of success is whether students choose to live there. They don't have to," he said.
"We have a lot of (fee) holds against football players right now, and I'm catching a lot of flack for it," he said.
Mowery said he had charged football players for some damages, but said the players claimed the damages were done three years earlier.
He said that when he started his job about a year ago, he had no record of how long he worked.
But Larry Mowery, facilities supervisor at the Towers, said vandalism wasn't declining.
"Towers C and D are the worst. I'd say Tower D is worse than C."
Tower D's occupants are predominantly championship athletes.
"Next summer when I go through there, I'll know exactly what they did," Mowery said. "We're keeping a history on every apartment."
"Most of it (vandalism) is exit lights broken,灯亮 lights broken.
doors broken, security doors' glass kicked in and spray painted graffiti on the walls," he said.
Stoner said that Bob Valenteen, KU head football coach, was working with housing officials to prevent vandalism at the Towers.
"There been a noticeable improvement since Valesente began his program of values and standards. It's a big difference when the head of a program sets the basic standards," he said.
"Coach Valesente will tour the D tower before we open it and will know exactly what it looks like before it opens. That way, he will know exactly what damage has been done. The athletic department will be responsible for the damages done by the athletes. They are willing to assume the costs for damages obviously done by athletes."
Ken Hopkins, Lawrence freshman, who is not a KU athlete, said he lived in Tower D last year, when the elevators were repaired.
"They put in new ceiling tiles (in the elevators), new tiles on the floor and fixed the walls. That lasted about a week before the ceiling tiles were removed, there was stuff on the floor," he said. "D Tower is like 'Animal House.'"
"At least once a week there was furniture disassembled in the hall — Towers furniture, all smashed up. There was urine in the washing machines. There was urine in the stairwells all the time. Also, the security doors were never locked.
"They would put their trash in the elevator instead of taking it on out to the dumpster."
Vandalism at the Towers is not new.
Jay Hudspeth, Lawrence resident,
was a maintenance man at the Towers
13 years ago. The residents kept
him busy, he said.
"I'd be trying to get some sleep, and they'd be partying at 5 in the morning. The weekends were hell." I thought. "They think some of them went to class."
"Once, the elevator was set on fire. Another time, we had to clean burnt stereos out of the incinerator. I think someone was trying to steal them," he said.
"It's just this year we're getting our system in the same way as the rest of the residence halls. As part of our joining the system, we are working on ways to prevent the problem. We have a task force in the investigating stages, and we hope to have a policy in line for the fall."
"Before, the Towers used to be operated just like a regular apartment complex. Now, they will be built like a residence hall," she said.
Marilyn Schroeder, Towers manager, said earning a new reputation
The Towers have been controlled by the University since 1980, Schroeder said, but this year they are being integrated into the same booking and billing system as the residence halls.
Residents will be able to pay in installments to the Office of the Comptroller in Carrith O'Leary in the office. The staff at the Towers' office, Schroeder said.
Steve Keel, assistant director of student housing and director of the Towers, said, "I think there's vandalism in every residence hall, whether you look at KU or K-State."
Crime on campus diminishes during the summer months
By KRISTEN HAYS
Lawrence Police Lt. Mike Hall, a crime analyst, said summer used to be a slack season for crime in the city, allowing the department to catch up on back work from the winter.
Although the Lawrence crime rate remains steady during the summer, campus crime diminishes with the student population.
Staff writer
"Lawrence has grown in the past five or six years. It's not the number of crimes that keep the crime rate steady as much as the kinds of crimes. Rapes, robberies, burglaries and murders take more time to investigate, so there's no slack season," he said.
However, crime on campus is a different story.
KU Campus Crimes during 1986 by month of occurrence
KU Police Lt. John Mullens said the number of crimes and the types of crimes committed on campus changed significantly in the summer.
"There's a lack of major crimes in the summer, like burglaries. It's more the 'I left my book here,' or 'I left my wallet there.'"
Most campus crime occurs during September, October and November. It decreases in December and January, during Christmas break, and stavs low until Anil and May.
June, July and August have nearly half the crime rate of the months ahead.
In the summer, Joseph R. Pearson Hall houses KU students, and other residence halls house students who are participating in summer camps.
"There are less cars broken into because less cars are left overnight, since JRP is the only hall with regular students. In other dorms -- camps, generally -- no cars are allowed, so that alleviates the car situation." Mullens said.
"Fall has always been a party time, and accidents and tickets as well as crime goes up. One-fifth of the student population is here for the first time, and they don't know their way around or what to expect.
"There's a downswing in crime during mid-terms and finals, as well as in accidents and tickets, when students get the idea to hit the books.
Fall is the adjustment period."
January, February and March are relatively quiet months where crime is concerned, largely because of weather, Mullens said.
Campus crime fluctuates the most in May and late August depending on finals, commencement and when students move into the residence halls, Mullens said.
"If the weather's bad in April, students will study earlier, and we'll have less crime. It's when the students arrive in August and move into the dorms that the rate starts to rise."