University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 24, 1987
GradEx opposes taxation
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By a Kansan reporter
Members of the Graduate Student Executive Committee are mad about the way the University initiated a tax on their fee waivers, members said at a meeting last night in the Kansas Union.
The graduate teaching assistant's tuition fee waivers will be added and taxed on their March 1 paychecks. GTAs' tuition is waived, but now they are forced to pay taxes on the amount of the waiver.
The committee is upset because the University didn't explain the action earlier in the year and because they don't think the graduate school has given them the attention it should.
"That's just very unfair," said Ted Vaggallis, Western Civilization teaching assistant and GradFx member.
"Unless we graduate students begin to stand up for our own interests, we won't have any interest to stand up for," he said.
The lack of concern they've received from KU is a reason graduate students should get together as a union, Vaggail said.
Vaggaila he thought that Frances Korowitz, dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, was sensitive to the concerns of graduate students.
"Vice Chancellor Horowitz tries to do a lot for GTAs but she just isn't enough." Vaggalis said.
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Federal investigators allege cover-up of patient abuse
TOPEKA — Federal investigators accused administrators at the Winfield State Hospital and Training Center of ignoring and possibly trying to cover up abuse of patients, according to a letter exchange between state and federal officials last week.
the revelations were contained primarily in a letter written by John L. Swetnam, acting associate regional administrator for health standards and quality within the federal Department of Health and Human Services in Kansas City, Mo.
The letters included a report by a federal team of investigators who alleged that hospital administrators failed to aggressively investigate reports of patient abuse and then tried to cover up the problems.
Hospital loses certification
In fact, the investigators charged that hospital officials ignored violent tactics carried out against employees threatening to report the abuse.
"I was told that if you care for your car, if you care for your house, if you care for your family, don't report abuse, don't write anybody up," Kelley said in a story in yesterday's edition of the newspaper.
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"Two incidents of retaliation resulting in severe damage of staff cars were never investigated," the later said. "Another incident, involving a terroristic threat by one staff person or another attempting to report abuse was not investigated, even when the threatened staff person did not return to work again."
Jim Kelly, a health service worker whose complaints helped prompt a federal investigation at the hospital, told The Wichita Eagle-Beacon he a co-workers that abuse of patients is necessary and should not be reported.
Swetnam's letter painted a picture of a hospital in disarray: unsanitary conditions, neglect and abuse of
The letter accused the hospital administration of openly violating direct orders from officials in the state and of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
The letter was addressed to Gerald T. Hannah, commissioner of mental health and retardation services for the state welfare agency in Topeka. The report said the activities went on within the management of the hospital, sometimes in defiance of Hannah's direct orders.
patients, intimidation of employees and an administration that federal authorities alleged either tried to report offenses or reports of abuse and staff activities.
Also, federal investigators found instances of staff deliberately falsifying reports of injury and accidents to cover up staff abuse of residents.
The letter contained a list of infractions found during a Jan. 26-Feb. 6
The findings of federal authorities resulted last week in Winfield's decripification and the loss of 400 per month in Medicaid funds.
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Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council congratulates the top academic houses at the University of Kansas!
Top five fraternities
1. Beta Theta Pi 3.257
2. Delta Chi 3.032
3. Phi Delta Theta 2.975
4. Sigma Chi 2.885
5. Phi Gamma Delta 2.860
Top three sororities
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2. Pi Beta Phi 3.106
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The all fraternity average is 2.63, with men's average at 2.61. The all sorority average is 2.97, with all women's average being 2.79. Your hard work is greatly admired and is an example of excellent scholastic achievement
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