Campus and Area University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 21, 1987
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Local Briefs Study abroad holds travel fair to aid students
The KU office of study aboard and the Study Abroad Club will sponsor a Travel/Study Abroad Fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the gallery on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
The fair will help students decide what to study in foreign countries, tell them how to make travel arrangements and give them tips on what clothing and travel essentials they may need.
Students also will have the opportunity to talk to recent study abroad participants.
A Eurailpass from the French National Railroad, which allows a person to ride trains throughout most of Western Europe, will be part of a free drawing. Door prizes also will be given away.
Regents official to be KU financial adviser
Thomas M. Rawson will become KU's director of business and fiscal affairs Feb. 23. He is succeeding Martin Jones, who retired in November 1986.
Rawson now is the director of planning and budget for the Kansas Board of Regents. He worked as a research officer from 1974 to 1983.
Rawson received bachelor's and master's degrees from Kansas State University and a doctorate in education from the University of New Mexico.
"His qualifications are superb." Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in a statement released Monday "He is well respected for his competence and integrity."
Rawson will be the executive vice chancellor's principal financial adviser and the chief fiscal officer for KU.
Peace Corps to show film in Wescoe today
The U.S. Peace Corps will show a film titled "The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love" at 4:30 p.m. in 2012 Woolse Halloe
The film also will be shown at 7 p.m.Feb.3 in the same room.
The film features three U.S. volunteers who speak about their experiences with the Peace Corps in Asia, Africa and South America.
Anyone interested in the Peace Corps is invited to attend.
Girl Scouts taking orders for cookies
Area Girl Scouts are taking orders until Jan. 30 for cookies that will be delivered in late February. Girl Scouts from the Kaw Valley Council, which includes 13 counties in northeastern Kansas, hope to sell about 334,000 boxes of cookies.
KU reps convene at Capitol
By ROGER COREY
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Staff writer
TOPEKA — Kelly Milligan, student body vice president, gives a speech to the Student Senate in the rotunda of the Capitol. About 35 student senators went to the Statehouse yesterday to present a resolution to state legislators asking for the release of KU's excess fees.
TOPEKA — About 35 student senators gathered yesterday in the rotunda of the Capitol to tell state legislators that students are concerned about the University's budget crisis.
The Senate unanimously passed four resolutions in the high-domed hall as passers-by paused to listen as he spoke. The senate then ordered the business of state government.
Also attending the meeting were State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, and state representatives John Solbach, Betty Jo Charlton and Jessie Branson, all Lawrence Democrats.
Winter, who invited the student senators to his office after the meeting, referred to the University of Virginia as "mrs. as "educative cannibalism."
"The University has to eat up quality programs to continue remedial programs," he said.
Winter said he expected continued pressure to raise tuition and encouraged the student senators to lobby other legislators and write letters to their hometown representatives.
Winter told the senators that the Legislature had asked all state Board of Regents colleges to tighten their budgets.
"We have to take a long-term view," he said. "But it's not going to be without cost for KU."
The Student Senate's first resolution, submitted by Sue Glatter, law senator, urged the Legislature to release $953,418 in excess fees generated by recent enrollment increases at the University.
The amount of the University's allocation from the Legislature is
based on enrollment predictions. When enrollment increases, the state receives the extra money generated by the higher enrollment. The University can't spend the excess fees unless the Legislature releases them
Glatter said the University had been forced to make budget cuts because it had not regained the excess fees.
"We are being asked to pay ever-increasing amounts for an ever-decreasing quality of education," Glatter told the senators.
Loretta Bass, Nunemaker senator, said summer session courses had been reduced by 25 percent because of the budget cuts.
"It's getting to the point where
KU, a school of higher education, can't afford to educate," Bass said.
John Cissell, the senator representing the Association of University Residence Halls, said the University's life slowly was being drained. He compared the University with a wheat field, which he said looked healthy and growing from a distance but contained hidden soil erosion and insects.
"KU is the same way," he said "You don't see the decrease in quality.
"The administration is gambling on the fee release. Classes are being scheduled in hopes that they won't have to be cut."
tedy by Jason Krakow, Nunemaker senator and chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, asked the Legislature to adopt the recommendations of a special committee on Financing Regent's Institutions regarding enrollment adjustments.
The second resolution, submit-
LaDale George, graduate senator, submitted the third resolution, calling for the Legislature to reject an increase in "fee-cost ratio" from 25 percent to 30 percent.
Students now pay 25 percent of the money needed by the University. The remaining 75 percent is provided by the state, alumni, athletics and the Kansas and Burge unions.
Students notified of layoff
By LAURA BOSTROM
Staff writer
Gary Sturgeon reported for work yesterday at KU facilities operations and was told they no longer needed him.
"I hadn't 'any warning,' Sturgeon, Confefeyville senior, said. I was totaled 46 points."
Sturgeon was one of 29 students laid off from facilities operations, which had 3.7 percent, or $322,154, cut from its 1987 budget.
The facilities operations cut was made in response to Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent cut in the state budget.
To make up the $222,154 loss in funds, facilities operations cut salaries and expenses, said Rodger University director of support services.
The layoffs occurred in many areas, Oroke said. Sturgeon worked in landscapecaping, full time during the school year and part-time during the school year.
Seven employees working in temporary positions also were laid off. In addition, the department will leave 38 positions vacant this fiscal year, Oroke said.
Facilities operations employs about 500 people.
The University is trying to find other jobs in housing, printing services and parking for the 29 students. Oroke said.
Sturgeon said he did not know about the University's efforts to find other employment for the laid-off students.
"No one told me a thing," he said.
"My wife works, but we've got car payments.
Watkins puts stress on out-patient care
'Now I've got nothing "'
Orok said that he had excellent employees when he was director of facilities operations and that he was concerned about the layoffs.
Staff writer
By LISA A. MALONEY
Although the hospital is licensed for 35 inpatient beds, only 16 are set up now, Strobi said. The extra space has been turned over for out-patient care.
The number of students admitted to Watkins Hospital as in-patients has steadily declined over the past 15 years, James E. Strobl, director of the hospital, said yesterday.
In-patients are those kept at the hospital overnight for treatment and observation.
"We probably average two patients per day over the calendar year," he said.
But with the increase in medical advances, it
Lawrence Magge, chief of staff at Watkins, attributes the decline to a shift in the hospital's focus. He said that 20 to 20 years ago, Watkins was almost a full-service hospital. Students could have appendectomies and other types of surgery performed at the hospital.
became too expensive and impractical to keep the hospital up-to-date with the latest in surgical practices, Magee said. The hospital is supported by the student health fee.
"Basically, we're oriented more towards out-patient care," he said.
Magee said out-patient care had become more prominent because insurance coverage often did not extensively cover the cost of inpatient care.
"I think it is reflected what has gone on in the community," he said of the decrease at Wickham.
Although both Watkins and Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St., offer inpatient care, the prices charged for room and board differ.
Mary Baxter, health services accountant for Watkins, said a student was billed $7 a day for
is added, and tests and medication are also extra.
An out-patient bed would cost a student $15 for four hours, she said.
Jim Finn, director of the business office of Lawrence Memorial, said inpatient care would cost $185 a day for room and board, with tests and medication costing extra.
Magee said patients usually were admitted as in patients if they lived in a situation where extra aid was needed, but where they're not seriously ill.
room as an in-patient. If a meal is served, $4.50
An example would be a student from Chicago, living in a residence hall, who has a bad case of mononucleosis and needs to be watched for a few days.
Most cases treated at Watson are what Magee calls ambulatory diseases, or those diseases where the patient is well enough to walk in and out of the hospital under his own power.
Magee said Watkins was equipped to handle minor trauma injuries, viruses, venereal diseases, a majority of bone fractures and upper respiratory diseases, in addition to handling preventive measures such as contraception, exercise and diet prescriptions.
"We can do stabilization of life-threatening injuries," Magee said, adding that after the patient has been stabilized, he is taken to another hospital for further treatment.
Jim Murray, ambulance service training officer for the Douglas County ambulance service, said the service generally transported most students to Lawrence Memorial Hospital or the University of Kansas Medical Center in emergencies.
"Watkins hospital is not set up to handle life-threatening situations on a daily basis.
"The people we transport to Watkins have some type of medical problem like influenza, where they get dehydrated," he said.
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