Monday April 18, 1988
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 98, No. 136 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
U.S. shells Gulf oil rigs
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, retaliating for the mining of a U.S. Navy frigate, ordered the shelling of Iranian offshore oil platforms in the Persian Gulf early today in what the White House called "a measured response to Iran's unlawful use of force."
The United States had said there was "substantial evidence" that Iran had planted a mine that blew a hole in the side of the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the central Gulf last week and injured 10 crewmen.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said there were no American casualties in the shelling. "We know of any on the Iranian side."
Fitzwater said Reagan decided on the attack last night during meetings in the residence section of the White House.
He said Reagan met with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, National Security Adviser Colin Powell and others at 8:30 p.m. EDT yesterday, then briefed congressional leaders and met with his advisers for "fine tuning" of the decision.
Possible changes in parking plan will be reviewed
Several complaints that were raised at a hearing Friday about proposed changes in the parking policy will be forwarded to the Board of Regents when they consider parking changes in May.
Bv Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
Many faculty members expressed concern over changes in the visitor parking policy that would limit visitor parking passes to three hours. It would charge visitors $1 for half a day, $2 for a full day or two, and $3 for three days of the privilege allowing visitors two free parking tickets a year.
Julie Cunningham, director of engineering placement, said she wanted the proposed changes to be re-evaluated.
Cunningham said the School of Engineering had many visitors who donate substantial amounts of money to the school and they also provide jobs for students.
"We are interested in maintaining relationships with these people, and it is inconvenient for them to pay for parking. We want them to feel that the campus is open to them and that we welcome them here," she said.
Gordon Fitch, associate dean of the business school, and representatives from the law school and continuing education expressed similar concerns.
"I don't think we need to be pennywise and pound-foolish on our treatment of visitors," Fitch said. "I feel that the parking board has consulted with everybody but the users on this site and how it will be implemented."
"The impression we make on visitors is extremely important. I don't think you can run a university without them coming in to hire and interview and even lecture our students. I do not feel we are subsidizing visitors by allowing them to park on our campus."
Lisa Berry, administrative assistant at the KU psychological clinic, said that KU's clinic is one of the most economical mental health centers in Lawrence. She said that it would cause extra stress for clients to have to pay parking tickets.
"For those people, it is crucial that they not have outside matters discouraging them from getting counseling," Berry said.
She also said she valued the privilege of turning in two free tickets a year for visitors not familiar with the parking system.
Don Kearns, director of parking, said pre-paid permits would be available for each school to send to important visitors for morning, and to have the possibility would be to bag meters with a visible reserved parking sign.
Ray Moore, chairman of the parking board, said. "We have an average of 500 long-term visitors a day. We're just trying to get more control and separate the visitor parking from the parking that has already been paid for by students and faculty.
Kearns also said that change machines would be put in the lots south of Robinson Center and near Memorial Stadium to make getting change for the meters easier for visitors.
"It is the people that work and go to school here that pay for the parking. It's user-supported. If we continue to give away visitor parking, the cost of permits will have to increase dramatically in the future.
"We do realize there has to be some time spent to get people used to a change. We don't want to create a public relations problem."
If approved, the changes would create revenue in excess of $200,000 in visitor permits, Kearns said. "We want to keep the cost to faculty, staff and students down as much as possible."
A representative from the University Place Neighborhood read parts of a letter sent to Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, complaining about the possibility of a temporary parking lot, proposed to be between Robinson Center and the Computer Center.
Another aspect of the proposed changes was challenged Friday.
The main complaints of the group were the removal of green space from the area now used by faculty,
Committee agrees to Margin
See PARKING. n. 5. col. 3
By Elaine Woodford
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Despite several tense moments in a House-Senate conference committee stand-off, the Board of Regents Margin of Excellence plan finally received 83 percent of the money requested for the first year of the plan, about $9 million.
to Gov. Mike Hayden for his signature.
Under the committee's compromise, the University of Kansas would receive $1,682,410 for pay increases and $135,096 for enhancements, a total of $3,284,310.
The committee report will go back to each chamber of the Legislature for final approval before being sent
Stanley Koplik, director of the Board of Regents, said Saturday after the vote, "This is a significant response to our request."
KU officials were encouraged by the committee's actions supporting higher education.
"I am very excited," said Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor. "We have been working hard to tell legislators that making an investment in higher education is making an investment in Kansas' future."
Excellence didn't receive full funding, but there will be a significant infusion of money overall into the University. There was a significant number of people who worked very hard for higher education."
Jon Josserand, KU lobbyist, said,
"We are disappointed the Margin of
The conference committee began its discussion about the plan with a $4.5 million split between the House and Senate recommendations.
The House voted to finance 100 percent of the funds for pay increases if deleted.
The Regents budget was sent to the conference committee after the plan was passed in two different forms by the House and Senate.
for mission-related enhancements. The Senate passed the Margin with full financing for all components of the plan.
The conference committee, which is made up of three members from the House and three members from the Senate, has a compromise between the two plans.
State Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, the main spokesman for the House committee members, said the House would remain firm in its position and would not agree to finance any of the mission-related enhancements out-
See MARGIN, p. 6, col. 1
Walking in the rain toward Watson Library, two students share an umbrella. KU Weather Service predicts that today will be mostly cloudy with showers ending this morning. For more weather information, see page 2.
Rainy days and Sundays
Budig not candidate in SUNY job hunt
By Joel Zeff
Kansan staff write
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said Friday that he was not a candidate for the chancellorship at the State University of New York system, but had been contacted about the position.
"I have been approached by several universities in the past year," Buddy said. "It is important to be done here. I am not a candidate for another position."
Budig acknowledged that he had been contacted about what he was meeting for the job.
The SUNY chancellor oversees the entire university system, which includes 64 campuses throughout New York.
Budig said that his top priority right now was the success of Campaign Kansas, a $100 million Kansas University Endowment Association fund-raising project scheduled to begin in May.
"I am committed to the successful completion of Campaign Kansas. That fund-raiser is critical to the future of the University of Kansas. I want to play a major role in it," Budig said.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice
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Charlton said that the search committee was not releasing the names of the candidates for the position.
Harry Charlton, the communications officer for SUNY, said that he had little information about the search for SUNY's new chancellor.
"I can't confirm any name as a possible candidate or deny any name," Charlton said Friday. "The search committee has done a very good job not identifying any of the finalists."
Charlton said that a decision on a new chancellor could be made at the next Board of Trustees meeting April 18, and the decision would be taken before that date.
The SUNY chancellorship has been vacant since the fall of 1986 when Clifton Wharton resigned.
Charlton said that full and parttime enrollment at SUNY was the largest single public university system in the country.
Med Center seeks more organ donors
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
As the need for organ transplants grows nationwide, the University of Kansas Medical Center has increased its efforts to ethically and efficiently find organ sources.
"At some point you realize that everything you are doing for a patient is going to be futile. The things that you do to save organs are not the things you do to save a patient." he said.
Jon Jackson, transplant coordinator at the Med Center, said that finding more organ donors in a growing market could pose ethical problems for hospitals and for surgeons.
And though he said it at saving the person's life always was first choice, hospitals had taken measures in an effort to the growing need for organs, he said.
That need, according to Vicki Denning, program coordinator for the Midwest Organ Bank, 4006 Central, Kansas City, Mo., means that the state's largest transplant hospitals has more than doubled recently, while the number of people
waiting for kidney transplants also has risen about 30 percent in a year and a half.
Jackson said, "There was a feeling in the country that organs were being brokered to people who screamed the loudest or that they were sold to people who hadn't been waiting as long as others."
He said that although that wasn't happening in the Midwest, certain problems were standing in the way of attracting necessary donors.
Because of the dramatic increases, hospitals are faced with the task of finding more organs without taking them away. Some caloused dealers in human parts.
"The problem was that families either weren't being given the opportunity of organ donation, or on the other hand you had six or seven different people approaching the family and asking if they wanted to
The primary step the Med Center has taken is to set up a program to coordinate organ donations. Because donations usually were made by families in a traumatic situation, the area was sensitive. Jackson said.
do it." he said.
"We needed to get that worked out so we could get a smoother approach."
The hospital now has team of five physicians with sensitivity training who
The result is that families in the position to make a donation decision are asked by only one person. But, you are asked by families in that situation are asked.
Other methods of increasing the organ supply, such as relaxing the medical criteria for organ donors and lengthening the time organs can be stored, also have been tried nationally.
"We want to make sure every family is given that option," Jackson
The maximum age for kidney donors usually is 55, heart donors at 30-35 and liver donors a little older than 35.
Denning said that in special situations, the Midwest Organ Bank, which coordinates donations in an effort to consider relaxing the age requirement.
"If we have someone who was in generally good health prior to being taken to the hospital, we call the lab and tell them about the potential donor," she said. The lab will make a decision based on the diagnosis and circumstances of why the person is in the hospital.
"They decide if it is safe and feasible to pursue it." she said.
"We have had less success transplanting kidneys from a donor age 60 to 65," he said. "You just don't want to risk that surgery if you think that the kidneys you are going to use are not in condition."
But Jackson said that the transplants involving older donors often were not a good option.
But he said that could vary. The situation may be more urgent for a person needing a heart transplant or a stroke, which are maintained indefinitely on dialysis.
"If they have a critical case where they think the patient is going to die within 24 hours if they don't get a heart, they might expand the zone a little bit simply because they are out of options," Jackson said.
Hazardous chemicals remain at accident site
By Ric Brack
Materials contaminated during a hazardous chemical spill are still stacked next to the Kansas Turnpike east of Lawrence.
Kansan staff writer
Marvin Glotzbach, of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment supervised the cleanup. Glotz
About 125 gallons of the chemical ethalfuralin, also known as Sonolan, spilled onto the ground and into Pony Creek after a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of the chemical overturned March 2. The accident occurred about seven miles east of Lawrence.
And they will remain there until the company that is responsible for their disposal can find a landfill or a hazardous waste storage site willing to take them.
Contaminated shipping materials and dirt from the creek bed have been stored under plastic sheeting next to the eastbound lane of the turnpike since the second week of March.
bach said yesterday that he had turned over responsibility for finding a storage site to Environmental Specialists Inc., the Kansas City, Mo., company that was paid to do the cleanup.
Still, he maintains that the waste stored near the turnippole contains low levels of volatile organic compounds.
Last month, the Wyandotte and Johnson county landfills refused to accept the contaminated materials. Glotzbach said that since then, a landfill near Oklahoma City tentatively had agreed to store the material.
Gerald Oroke, of the Leavenworth County Hazardous Materials Committee, said the Oklahoma landfill had requested a complete analysis of the chemical before it would be accepted.
Glotzbach said that another obstacle to getting the contaminated materials moved was that Environmental Protection Oklahoma landfill for the disposal.