Another one bites the gust
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
February 24, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 102
(UPSP 650-640)
Proposed union might choose representation
Staff writer
By BENJAMIN HALL
KU faculty members may have a choice about who represents them, if they vote to form a faculty union
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors is trying to collect 400 faculty signature documents for the second organization on the ballot.
The interests of people in higher education are sometimes different from the interests of people teaching kindergarten through 12th grade, where the NEA has been effective.'
— Robert Hohn KU AAUP president
should represent a KU faculty union.
"KNEA has a lobbying power far greater than anything KU has been able to muster," he said at a forum on unionization.
Another group, the Kansas National Education Association, last week finished collecting the signatures needed to call for a vote on unionization and to put it on the ballot.
The faculty will vote simultaneously on whether to form a union and on which group would represent the union.
Clifford Griffin, professor of history, was an organizer of the effort to collect signatures for KNEA. Griffin, a KNEA member and former chapter president said earlier that it
But Robert Hohn, president of the KU chapter of AAUP, said yesterday that the National Education Association would present the faculty as well as the AAUP.
The NEA usually represents grade school and high school teachers, although it does represent faculties at some universities.
"The interests of people in higher education are sometimes different from the interests of people teaching kindergarten through 12th grade, where the NEA has been effective," Hohn said.
The AAUP could better defend academic freedom, procedures, and promotion and tenure issues, he said.
Griffin could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The AAPU is recruiting members to circulate petitions. Hohn said.
The 12-member executive committee of the group voted Friday to try to
give the group more control.
He said they had talked to mem-
bers of the association befor-
decing to circulate.
"We had done a quick poll of the faculty and there was strong support for the idea that if you are going to be an AAPU, it should be the AAPU," Hohn said.
He said the faculty would probably vote on the union issue in the fall, although the timing was at the disjunction of a senior employee Relations Board in Topeka.
Under the rules of the board, any group that collects signatures from 30 percent of the bargaining unit may be put on the ballot.
A "no representation" choice will be added to the ballot automatically
Hands-on training
At right: Stan Haehl, massage therapist, massages Laura Husar, Chicago sophomore, in front of about 50 people on the fourth floor at Ellsworth Hall. Haehl, center, gave the demonstration last night. He wants to teach theater and incorporate massage into his acting. Haehl said message increased circulation and relieved stress. He attended the Boulder, Colo., School of Massage Therapy.
Above; Kirsten Fasching, Pasadena, Calif., sophomore, above, massages the hand of Carol Jones, Lenexa sophomore. Haeli taught Fashing and Jones the technique, which is used to stretch the muscles and joints in the hand.
Heart surgery pumps life into Reardon and others
Staff writer
By JENNIFER WYRICK
Jack Reardon, mayor of Kansas City, Kan. last week faced one of his toughest challenges while in office. The 43-year-old mayor underwent a successful heart transplant surgery.
After the first heart transplant was performed in 1967,101 transplants were performed at 64 hospitals in 22 countries the next year. Heart transplantation for heart disease became an increasingly successful and accepted practice.
The procedure's popularity was short-lived because donor heart rejection made survival rates low. The body's immune system identified the new heart as foreign and began fighting against Mary Harrison, director of university relations at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
This was the third time that a donor heart had been found for Reardon. The other two hearts were not compatible, Reardon's formeriate Rep Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, said.
Reardon suffered from cardiomyopathy, a
heart muscle disease that attacks the middle layer of the heart's walls.
Yesterday, doctors still were monitoring his kidney functions, which have not returned to 100 percent since the surgery.
Reardon was expected to remain in the intensive care unit until next week, Mark Morelli, hospital spokesman, said. Reardon is still in critical condition but is...
Reardon's milestone yesterday was his intake of solid food. Morelli said.
The candidate also must be free from infection and have healthy lungs and pulmonary blood vessels. Candidates are usually less than 55 years old.
Even when recipients recover from the surgery, the battle is not over.
Because of the high risk of rejection, near-recipient candidates must have an advanced stage of cardiac disease that is unresponsive to any other therapy. Only candidates who are not expected to live for a couple of months can be considered as recipients. Harrison said
The donor's and recipient's blood must match so the donor organ will not cause a
reaction with the recipient's antibodies. The donor also is matched to the approximate size and weight of the recipient, Harrison said.
The Midwest Organ Bank supplies the Med Center with donor organs.
Transplantable organs usually come from brain dead accident victims whose hearts are healthy. The donor heart must be transplanted within our hours after it is removed from the donor.
In surgery, the recipient's blood is diverted through a heart-lung machine, Harrison said. The surgeons then cut the aorta, the right atrium, and the blood vessels leading to the lungs. The donor's heart is placed in the chest cavity and is sewn into place.
After the heart begins to beat, the heart-lung machine is disconnected, and the chest is closed. The actual transplant takes about four hours.
Rejection is detected through tissue biopsies of the heart, Harrison said. While the patient is under a local anesthetic, a doctor inserts a fluoroscope that allows the doctor to see inside the heart.
The doctor clips off pieces of the heart's ventricle with a wire attached to a clipper. The pieces are used for microscopic studies that reveal signs of rejection early enough for corrective action to be taken.
If infection is found, most commonly in the lung, antibiotics are prescribed and administered.
If rejection is detected, Harrison said, dosages of drugs that suppress the body's immune system were increased. More than 95 percent can be successfully reversed by these methods.
Cyclosporine, an immunosuppressive drug, can lead to a decrease in lethal infection and rejection episodes in the early stages after a heart transplant, Harrison said.
Most patients are able to return to work after recovery. They lead relatively normal lives, she said, but must receive frequent medical care, including intravenous parine and steroids for the rest of their lives.
Reardon has said he would seek a fourth four-year term in the April municipal elections
Proposal concerns control of schools
By JOHN BUZBEE Staff writer
TOPEKA — A new proposal for governing higher education in Kansas would increase coordination without increasing bureaucracy, the state House speaker said yesterday.
State Rep. Jim Braden, R-Clay Center, wants to change a "super board" plan that would bring state community colleges, universities and vocational schools under the control of the Board of Regents and create two new boards to help run everything.
Braden told the House Education Committee that the Regents could do the job without two new boards. But the state Board of Education should continue to run vocational schools, he said.
An economic development committee bill contained the "super board" plan to consolidate control of higher education in the state.
The Board of Education now governs state primary and secondary schools, vocational schools and community colleges. The Regents govern the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
"It looks like we have real support to do something," Braden said. "I think it would be good for higher education in this state."
Under Braden's plan, the Regents would divide into two committees. One committee would govern community colleges and the other would be responsible for selecting a whole would have to approve any proposal from the two committees.
The Regents also would govern Washburn University of Topeka and University of New York.
"No changes are made in the funding for Washburn University," Braden said. "This is simply for coordination."
House Education Committee Chairman Denise Apt, R-Iola, said Braden's plan probably would be the one to emerge from her committee. But education needs concrete action as well as consolidation, she said.
"Master planning is a wonderful word," she said. "Coordination is a wonderful word. But I'm not sure if anyone knows what it means."
Aims McGuinness, a representative of the Education Commission of the States, told the committee that Braden's plan was on the right track.
The commission is a Denver research group hired by 48 states, including Kansas, to give advice on education policy.
"This looks like a pretty good solution compared with what may be desirable."
Braden's plan also would allow the Regents to hire a commissioner of education. But the buck would stop with the board, McGuinness said.
"Even though there is an interest in statewide education," he said, "the real power isn't in the commission of education. It's in the two committees."
Apt said she thought her committee tee would act on the plan today.
Drug survey to help University agencies deal with problems
By BENJAMIN HALL Staff writer
Staff writer
Some University of Kansas administrators want to know what kind of KU student takes drugs.
Patricia Willer, assistant director of foreign student services and a member of the student affairs research committee, said the survey was initiated by the office of student affairs last year in response to growing national concern about drug abuse.
About 1,000 students received a survey this month that asks whether they use drugs, which drugs they use and where they would go for help.
The survey defines drugs as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, stimulants, tranquilizers and substances not prescribed by a physician.
"Hopefully, it will give us some idea of the extent of drug use on campus," she said.
Alcohol use is not included in the
survey.
The sample surveyed was selected carefully to be representative of KU students. Students are asked to leave the room, form, and return it by March 1.
One question asks the student to rate the amount of drug use at KU as practically nonexistent, "mod- heavy" or "a great deal of drug use."
"This survey is strictly anonymous, confidential and voluntary," it
"We're interested in what kinds of students might be having problems," said Edward Heck, chairman of the research committee.
The first part of the survey also asks for identification by class, sex, etc.
The second part of the survey asks which drugs the student is using or has used, how long he or she has used
See SURVEY, p. 6, col. 3
Losing battle
The KU Hockey Club failed to extend its five-game winning streak as it lost its game 5-2 last night at the Fox Hill Ice Arena in Overland Park.
Setting the limit
The School of Social Welfare may be forced to limit the number of admissions because of a 42 percent increase in enrollment in the last five years. See story page 3.
Regents agree to the addition of lights for KU's Quigley Field
Staff writer
The Athletic Department will install lights on Quigley Field Baseball Stadium, south of Allen Field House, probably by June, said Floyd Temple, assistant athletic director of facilities.
By KJERSTI MOEN
On Friday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved the University's request to amend its capital improvements list for 1987 to include the lights. When the lights are installed, the University of Kansas will become fourth school in the Big Eight conference to have a lighted baseball field.
University of Kansas baseball fans will soon be able to watch their team play at night.
Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Missouri already have lighted fields, and the University of Oklahoma will have lights soon, said a Sports Information Office spokesman.
"Night games give more people the chance to see baseball," Temple said.
Men's baseball coach Marty Pattin said that the lights would bring more people to watch KU baseball because night games would not conflict with daytime classes and business hours. The lights also will benefit players, he said.
"It will help the academic situation of our kids when they won't have to worry about missing any classes or practice and tournaments," he said.
Pattin said, "I think it's great that Mopintour has come to our rescue on the flight."
In November, new seats and a
Quigley Field is in the midst of, or
recently received, the important
improvements.
Gary Hunter, associate athletic director, said that Maupintour Travel Service, 831 Massachusetts had more than $100,000 for the lights.
Hunter said that the Athletic Department would not release the final cost of the lights until the bidding process was completed.
He said that 98 lights would be installed on eight poles.
By mid-March, concession and restroom areas should be operable, Temple said. The department has collected about $6,000 in private restroom improvements, but it hopes to raise about $3,500 more, Temple said.
“What the lighting will do will be the icing on the cake,” he said. “It caps off an outstanding facility and is one way to compete with other area schools.
press box were installed on Quigley Field, at a cost of $115,000 in private donations.
Pattin said the improvements to Quigley Field would allow the University to sponsor regional tournaments and state and national tournaments.
The improved stadium also will help improve the team. Pattin said.
"The stadium and the lights really have given us a tremendous boost in what we can do to bring some of the quality athletes here to KU," he said.
"I think it has brought a general turn-around in excitement about the team," he said.