University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 3, 1987
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Research program links with others across the country
By LISA A. MALONEY Staff writer
The largest KU research program is one that links the Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Parsons state mental hospital with a network of 11 other similar programs across the country.
The Kansas Center for Mental Retardation and Human Development, which has buildings at all three Kansas locations, is among the top 10 of universities in the mental retardation research, said RL. Slickiefbusch, the director.
"We've had a hand in the whole national deinstitutionalization movement," he said. "We literally took on whole colleges of severely limited children just to show that they could learn."
The center has an annual budget of more than $6 million, making it the most heavily financed research program at KU, Schiefbüsch said. He said the center carried out research in several areas of mental retardation and used the results while working with mentally handicapped children and their families in surrounding communities.
Susan Fowler, director of the Research Center of Lawrence Child Research, said the center was conducting research in five main areas. They are cognition development, family issues, communications, social and environmental management and neurobiology.
Fowler said that in the past most scientists conducted this research in carefully controlled laboratory settings. Center researchers now try to conduct experiments in natural settings, even though they can present variables that are tough to understand. "Under what conditions does treatment X work?" not 'Does treatment X work?' "she said.
The Med Center has a diagnostic treatment clinic that specializes in diagnosing rare mental retardation disorders. The clinic also relays information about the disorder back to the person's local doctor, said Jean Aum Summers, acting director of the University affiliated Lawrence Child Research. The clinic serves half the state's mentally retarded people.
Summers said that even as recently as five years ago, most people thought mentally retarded people could not hold jobs.
ey programs that teach handicapped people how to do everything from forming their own social groups to lobbying for better handicapped laws at the Legislature, Summers said.
Robert K. Hoyt, associate director of communications and child research at the center, said researchers noticed that mentally retarded people tended to deteriorate in institutions.
Teaching retarded people to live in small group homes and to hold a job provides an economic as well as humanistic benefit because they earn money to support themselves and pay taxes. he said.
Individual research scientists at the center apply for their own grants, which account for most of the budget, he said.
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has continuously awarded a five-year leaseable grant to the Center since 1967
The $619,553 annual grant does not support research projects but is an administrative grant, supporting grant management programs. The cost of the three costs is shared between the three center locations. Schiefelbusch said.
"The center grant is only the central mechanism." he said.
Summers said the center provided in-service workshops and conference programs for at least 10,000 mentally retarded people a year. The center also maintains a library in Lawrence of more than 1,000 self-help books, pamphlets and films for families with a mentally retarded member.
The center was founded 20 years ago, when the University was granted $7 million in construction grants from agencies under the U.S. Public Health Services to combat mental retardation. Schiefelbusch
Today, the center has self-advoca
One of the conditions of the grant was that the Lawrence and Kansas City locations work in partnership with the Parsons hospital.
"Even before those buildings were constructed, we were a center. You don't get a center with major funding unless you've already been doing some substantive research," Fischelebusch said.
The Tan Man surfs Potter Lake, and a headline advises, "Don't ski Nebraska surf Lawrence!"
Tan Man surfs KU in postcard scene
By LAURA BOSTROM Staff writer
In another scene, Godzilla looms over Lawrence's downtown area.
Rick Sheridan, Lawrence graduate student, who created the postcards, was disillusioned with the boring postcards sold in Lawrence.
"The typical Lawrence postcards are really antiseptic," Sheridan said.
He and Gareth Waltrip, Pittsburgh senior, created four of their own. Each postcard shows Lawrence institutions in a different light.
Sheridan made the Tan Man and Godzilla postcards, and Waltrip photographed a "Lawrence Bar Scene" and a picture showing radio station KJHK-FM 91.5 surrounded by logos from popular bands.
Schneider, who was sitting nea. Wescue Hall in yesterday's 60-degree outside, said he posed for the picture of Litwin's. $80 Massachusetts St.
Sheridan asked John Schneider, the Tan Man, if he would make a postcard, and Schneider agreed.
After Sheridan took Schneider's picture, he cut it out by hand and pasted it onto a picture of Potter Lake.
Sheridan said the surfing picture of Schneider was his favorite.
"I like it," Schneider said. "I have a bunch I've given away."
The postcards were originally intended as a joke. Sheridan said.
"But I figured there might be some chance I might sell a lew," he said.
Several Lawrence merchants are selling the cards.
Greetings from Lawrence, Kansas
One of four types of postcards created by two students.
Experts say Baby M rightfully father's
The Associated Press
HACKENSACK, N.J. The court-appointed guardian of "Baby M" asked a judge yesterday to award the infant to her father and to deny visitation rights to the surrogate mother hired to bear the child.
Lorraine Abraham, a lawyer appointed to represent Baby M's interests, said three experts — a sociologist, a psychologist and a psychiatrist — recommended that custody of Baby M go to William Stern and his wife, Elizabeth.
The experts also suggested that visitation rights for natural mother Mary Beth Whitehead be canceled unless she received counseling, Abraham said in opening statements during the second phase of the surrogate motherhood trial.
Abraham's recommendation is not binding but is expected to influence Superior Court Judge Harvey Sorkow, who is presiding over the landmark trial. Abraham is expected to explain her recommendation when she presents her case after the Sterns and Whiteheads complete theirs.
Whitehead told reporters she was not surprised by Abraham's recompense.
"She didn't give me a chance. It was pre-judged," Whitehead said. "She just doesn't understand."
Sorkow must decide whether Whitehead can legally back out of the $10,000 contract in which she agreed to give the baby to the Sterns. He must also determine which family can best rear Baby M.
Whitehead, 29, was artificially inseminated by William Stern and
gave birth to Baby M on March 27.
gave her last chance.
She has testified she intended to honor her contract, but was overcome with maternal feelings and could not give up the baby. She later took Baby M to Florida for 87 days in defiance of a court order giving the Sterns temporary custody.
The case is the first in which a surrogate mother who decided to back out of her contract has been taken to trial. Legal experts predict the case will set a precedent that could determine the future of surrogate motherhood as a treatment for infertility.
In his opening statement, Gary Skoloff, the Stern's lawyer, said marital problems and an impending mortgage foreclosure would prevent the Whiteheads from providing a safe and secure home for Baby M.
Skoloff also cited allegations that Whitehead had threatened both to kill herself and harm the baby or accuse Stern of abusing her elder daughter. Skolof said Whitehead also lied under oath about both threats.
"If there is one case in the United States where joint custody won't work, where visitation won't work and where there should be a termination of parental rights, this is it." Skoloff said.
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RADNOR, Pa. — A nationwide "epidemic" of cocaine and crack use was one of the biggest news stories of 1986, but a group of media watchers say the story was based more on hype than fact, TV Guide magazine reported yesterday.
Television news in particular hammered home stories of an increased drug threat when in fact there was no such threat. The situation had changed, New York University's
The group's report, published in the Feb. 7 edition of the Radnor-based TV Guide, said the only aspects of the drug problem that worsened the number of dramatic cocaine cases.
The report said the frenzy of media coverage was touched off by two events: The cocaine-related death of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias and the rise in popularity of crack, a less expensive, smokable form of cocaine.
ROTC reserves decorations for awards from active duty
New orders help unit get in line with Naval procedures
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By JOSEPH REBELLO
KU's 127 Navy ROTC midshipmen will have to work much harder to put a little color into their uniforms.
On Jan. 21, the midshipmen were told by the commanding officer of the KU NROTC unit that they could no longer wear ribbons and decorations on their uniforms unless the decoration ones recognized by the U.S. Navy.
Lt. Col. Michael Wyly, commanding officer of the NROTc unit, said the measure was intended to help the unit get in line with U.S. Naval Academy procedures and to give midshipmen a taste of actual Navy conditions.
Wyly said the ban on ribbons was probably the first of its kind to be initiated in any NROTC unit in the nation. A ribbon is any kind of decoration worn on the chest.
Until recently, midshipmen were permitted to wear decorations earned for scholastic achievement, aptitude, physical fitness and marksmanship and drill.
At the naval academy and in the U.S. Navy, the only ribbons permitted on a uniform are those earned on active duty, usually combat duty, Wylly said.
"There's something sacrosanct about ribbons worn on the left breast," he said. "Our midshipmen are members of the United States Navy and as such it is not appropriate that they wear decorations that can't be worn in the Navy."
Wyly said some students in the unit previously had been enlisted men and had earned decorations for bravery and valor in active duty. It is not fair to them if students with no bribery have more ribbons than they do.
Some midshipmen said that they were taken aback by Wyly's announcement, but that they were beginning to see its merit.
"At first I really didn't think it was a good idea because it would hurt morale," Munroe said. "But it's give and take. We give up our ability to win stuff and wear them on our chest."
Bill Munroe, Lynnfield, Mass,
senior, and captain of the NROTC's
rife team, said he had to take 23 ribs
his uniform because of the decision.
Keith Atkinson, Lawrence senior, and an ensign with NROTC said, "I've always believed that the ribbons, while they look good on a uniform, also tend to detract from the active duty ribbons. Those are represented and represent effort, courage, and sometimes even bloodshed."
Wyly said midshipmen would still be encouraged to compete for and win awards. But recognition for their achievements will be limited to certificates.
"I'm going to miss wearing all my
The Army and Air Force ROTC units do not plan to ask their cadets to stop wearing ribbons.
Lt. Col. Phillip Litts, commanding officer of the Air Force unit, said he had no plans to change the unit's policy on ribbons unless he was told to by AFROTC headquarters.
ribbons, "I'll admit that," he said.
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