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Med Center releases plan
Transplant service is a priority for future
By James Buckman
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Establishing an organ transplant center will be one of the University of Kansas Medical Center's top priorities, according to the recently completed five-year plan for the Med Center.
Eighty administrators and faculty have worked since October to complete the plan, which will be presented to the Board of Regents in June. A five-year plan is required of all Regents schools.
Kay Clawson, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said the organ transplant center had been a priority for the Med Center in the Legislature this year. Gov. Mike Hayden recommended money for the center in his budget, and Clawson thinks that the Legislature will approve the funds.
Then, Clawson said, if the Legislature helps the Med Center get the necessary personnel and equipment hospital would begin to organize it.
"It will be an immediate signal that the state wants us to move ahead," he said.
"I think that the wave of the future is towards interdisciplinary types of programs. So the fact that we are moving towards putting all the pieces together to try to expand the transplant service is exciting."
The Med Center already does heart, kidney, bone marrow and cornea transplants. Part of the plan recommends the increase of those types of transplants, while expanding patient care services to include liver, pancreas, heart-lung combination and kidney-pancreas combination transplants.
Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for administration at the Med Center, said the hospital already had increased kidney transplants, performing 25 of those operations already this year compared to 24 during all of 1987.
Clawson said that if everything went well, the expanded transplant
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The five-year plan also includes goals in research, physical facilities, education and every other facet of care, and an additior to patient care, said Staples.
Staples said the plan was a dynamic, living document, which was not necessarily binding to the Med Center.
"You are trying to project what might happen in the next couple years at least with the knowledge that you are going to update the whole thing in a couple of years anyway. Staples said, 'I can't tell you how much equipment or technology is going to be available in the future.'"
The plan also includes the addition of a gall stone lithotriptor, the funding for which has already been requested of the Legislature. The hospital has a kidney stone lithotriptor, which breaks up kidney stones with sound waves.
Administrators also projected increased marketing efforts to attract patients to the hospital. Though the area's nursing shortage to some extent prohibits the addition of patients, more patients are needed in certain areas for educational and economic reasons. These areas include the avant-garde transplants, rehabilitation services, specifically in geriatrics, and in the broad area of trauma.
The plan does not include actual requests for funds but instead states the amount of money that will be needed to reach the hospital's goals. Those recommendations then become the basis for future financing requests made to the Legislature.
Barbed wire lines Dachau, a former Nazi concentration camp.
Speakers inform young about Holocaust
Rv Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
A former captain of the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany and a survivor of the Nazi death camps make an odd couple.
But the two, who spoke last night to about 500 people in the Kansas Union's Woodruff Auditorium, have been speaking together at universities around the country for seven years.
Alfons Heck, who joined Hitler's organization in 1938 at the age of 10, told his audience, "I am the highest ranking former leader of the Hitter Youth living in the U.S."
Helen Waterford, a German Jew, left that country with her husband for Holland in 1934 when Hitler came to power. After the Nazi occupation, Waterford and her husband were hidden for two years by Dutch families. In 1944, they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz, the most infamous of the death camps. Waterford survived. Her husband did not.
stories of the same years of the Nazi regime; he, as a young man in total awe of Adolf Hitler, moving quickly up the ranks and, at the age of 16, in charge of 3,000 other youth; and she, as a young wife and mother, separated from both her husband and child, and starved down to 70 pounds in the concentration camps.
The two met when Heck, 33 years after the war, finally decided to tell his story in an article in the San Diego Union. After getting death threats from American Nazis for speaking against Hitler, Heck then received a call from Waterford. That began their association.
Waterford and Heck said that their purpose in speaking was to inform young people what happened because they were often surprised how little was taught in the schools about the Holocaust and the Nazi indoctrination of the youth.
Sitting side by side, the two told their own
"We don't want you ever to forget," Waterford said. "Then, I know my survival was not for nothing."
Waterford said she was kept in the same barracks as Anne Frank, the author of the famous diary, and her mother. Waterford was for a while, but was shipped to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia.
Heck, who was captured by U.S. troops in 1945, said "All of us Germans knew of the persecution of the Jews. I had no pity for them, I considered them the enemy.
Waterford's camp was liberated by the Allies in 1945. She eventually returned to Amsterdam, found her daughter, who had been living with a family there, and emigrated to the United States
"I only changed my mind about Nazi Germany when presented with the evidence at the Nuremberg trials," said Heck, who became a U.S. citizen in 1969.
Asked how another holocaust could be prevented, Heck said, "The only safeguard we really have is not only education but to insist on an absolute and unrestricted freedom of speech, even for those you absolutely disagree with."
Voters must register today
Referendum would benefit school district
salaries.
By Christine Martin Kansan staff writer
If approved, the referendum would allow public schools to:
Today is the last day to register to vote April 19 in the Lawrence public school referendum that, if passed, would allow the school district to raise salaries and hire more staff.
People may register today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the county clerk's office at the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets, and the city clerk's office at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets. Any registered voter can vote on the referendum.
Tom Christie, chairman for the Committee for Awareness in Public Education, said the referendum's primary purpose was to improve programs and services for public schools and increase employees'
- increase both certified and classified employee salaries by 7.7 percent next year and 7.2 percent the following year.
- hire eight new teachers.
- hire eight elementary librarians.
- hire four school nurses.
hire tour school bus
hire eight elementary counselors.
■ hire eight elementary counselors. If residents vote in favor of it, the council will accept them during two years. That means the schools would hire librarians and nurses the next school year and the counselors over the next two years.
The referendum also would increase property taxes by 8 mills. A mill equals $1 in taxation of the value of a home for every $1,000 assessed. For example, if a resident owned a $50,000 home, his property taxes would increase $23 per year.
Christie said that money from the referendum would allow the Lawrence school district to provide adequate programs and services for its increasing enrollment. He said
that enrollment for the district increased by 200 students a year.
The school district comprises one high school, three junior high schools, 16 elementary schools and one high school extension program.
"We've got enrollment going one direction and weid going another direction," she said.
Katharine Weickert, communications coordinator for Lawrence Public Schools, said that the majority of Lawrence residents supported the referendum when surveyed in November.
"Because of that, I'm optimistic," Weickt said. "Lawrence in general is so interested in education."
Robert Taylor, assistant superintendent of the Lawrence school district, said the referendum would help school programs.
"From a program perspective, it would allow us to do things using additional funds that we couldn't do under budget restrictions."
She said she didn't know of any organized group opposed to the referendum.
Breath analysis devices would keep drunken drivers parked if bill passes
By Jill Jess
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — People convicted of drunken driving could have to blow to go if a bill recommended yesterday by a state Senate committee is enacted.
The Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee endorsed the bill, which would establish a penalty in which an ignition interlock device could be installed in the car of a person convicted of drunken driving.
The person would have to blow into a tube attached to his car before his car would start. If the device detected a certain level of alcohol in the driver's breath, the ignition would shut down, and the person would not be able to start his car.
The bill is intended to provide an alternative to revoking a drunken driver's license that still prevents him from driving drunk.
The bill has passed the state House of Representatives 122-0, and the
Senate already has passed a similar bill, which was introduced by State Sen. Nancy Parrish, D-Topeka. That bill is in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, and no action has been taken.
Under the House bill, a person convicted of driving while intoxicated would have to pay for the installation and rent of the ignition interlock device. State Rep. Michael O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, a sponsor of the bill, said that the rent of the device would be about $500 for six months.
O'Neal explained amendments that had been made in the House, saying they were all technical points. But the committee amended the bill so that the installation cost for the device could be deducted from the amount of the fine.
The Rev. Richard Taylor of Kansans for Life at Its Best, a temperance lobby group, said that his organization supported the bill.
"We support every measure that would encourage a driver not to drink before driving." he said.
No opposing testimony was heard yesterday in committee, and State Rep. Ginger Barr, R-Aburn, said that there had been none in the House committee when it heard the bill.
"There were questions raised, but no opposition was heard from conferences." Barr said.
She said that the questions involved whether a driver could have someone else blow into the device for them. The device was being modified, she said, to recognize only the driver's breath.
State Sen. Joseph Norvell, D-Hays, a member of the senate committee, criticized the committee for endorsing a bill that so closely resembled a bill the Senate already had passed. He said that when the bill went to the Senate floor, it would be taking up time that could be used for other important matters.
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