University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 22, 1988
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Local group lobbying for rights of disabled
By Jeff Suggs
By Jeff Suggs
Kansan staff writer
A Lawrence woman's plight with the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services has led some Lawrence residents to form a group to support her.
The Lawrence Coalition for Citizens with Disabilities was formed recently to support Dana Wray, a quadriplegic. SRS told her recently that her services would end by April 10. Wray said.
Jan Allen, commissioner of adult services at SRS, would not comment on Wray's situation because of confidential laws.
In Topeka on Friday, five members of the group held a candelight vigil at the Statehouse and Wray met with SRS officials to try to get her services reinstated.
State Sen. Wint Winter, Jr., R-Lawrence, plans to introduce a bill this week that could improve Wray's situation.
Winter said he planned to introduce a bill that would make some changes in the Kansas Nurse Practices Act. He said the bill would allow non-medical attendants to care for certain medical needs, like Wray's. He said the present act was too inflexible.
"We just need to bring a little sanity to the situation." Winter said.
Paula Clevenger, a member of the group, said the main purpose of the coalition was to change the Kansas Nurse Practices Act. Clevenger said
'We would certainly live
Jan Allen
within the law.'
commissioner of adult services,
Social and Rehabilitation Services the act, which governs medical care for the disabled, now was strictly interpreted by the SRS.
Cleveren said Wray was a victim of the act. Wray recently had pneumonia and had a tracheostomy to help her breathe. The act says that only nurses can provide medical care, which includes one or two ventilators. In reality Cleveren said, non-medical attendants would be sufficient.
Wray said SRS told her March 10 that her services would be cut. The main reason SRS was ending her services was that her care was medical, which was something she said it couldn't provide, she said.
Wray said her SRS care had been non-medical. She said that presently, SRS home health aids and nurses cared for her but that her roommates care for the tracheostomy. Wray said it was odd that the nurses wouldn't care for the tracheostomy, even when they were allowed to do so.
Allen, from SRS, said she didn't know whether nurses administered medical care to Wray. But she said nurses couldn't administer medical care without a doctor's order.
Allen said she would have no problems with a law change.
"We would certainly live within the law," she said.
Wray had her services cut before. Earlier this month, Wray did not receive care from SRS for two days. The cutting of services, which was called a misunderstanding by SRS officials, led Fred Markham to go on a hunger strike in protest of what he called SRS mistreatment.
Markham, who has cerebral palsy and is president of the newly formed coalition, went on a hunger strike for six days. He ended his strike on March 10 after receiving a letter from Gov. Mike Hayden, who promised to look into the matter. Later that same day, Wray was informed that her services would be cut.
Clevenger said Markham was angry with the SRS' decision. Clevenger is a spokesman for Markham.
"I think he was feeling, 'Why did I trust these people, why did I believe these people?' " Clevenger said.
Cleverenger said that Markham was not on a hunger strike now but that it could be an option in the future. She said Markham and the rest of the coalition were going to continue to fight to resume Wray's services.
"We are determined to see this through." Clevenger said. "We are not going to give up."
KU crime up by 4 percent
By Ric Brack
Kansan staff writer
A 4 percent increase in the 1987 University of Kansas crime rate, as reported by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, ended a downward trend in the KU crime rate that had continued since 1983.
"Basically, we're following a state and city-wide trend toward more property crimes," Sgt. John Brothers of the KU police department said yesterday.
According to a study that Brothers recently completed, KU's crime rate went down from 1983 to 1986, even though Lawrence's crime rate increased during the same period. During that period, the KBI reported a 12.2 percent increase in crime statewide.
According to Brothers' study, the rate of crime at KU decreased 27.1 percent for the 10-year period from
1977 to 1986. According to the U.S.
Department of Education, KU enrollment increased by 10.1 percent during that period.
"The combination of decreasing crime in the face of increasing enrollment has brought a substantial increase in the crime rate." Brothers said.
For the years 1978 through 1984, increases and decreases in both the KU and city of Lawrence crime rates ran roughly parallel. In 1985, the rate for the city of Lawrence began to increase again, but the KU crime rate continued to decline.
Though the KBI does compile crime statistics for the University separately from those for the city, those numbers are included in the city of Lawrence statistics when the KBI publishes annual statistics.
While KU experienced a 4 percent crime rate increase in 1987, the 1987
Lawrence crime rate increased 5 percent from 1986, according to KBI statistics released March 1. During 1987, the overall crime rate for the state of Kansas rose 2.3 percent but the number of violent crimes dropped 1.7 percent.
The reduction in statewide violent crime reflected decreases in the number of rapes and aggravated assaults but increases in the number of murders and robberies.
The number of burglaries in 1987 was up 4.4 percent, but the KBI said that some of that increase could be attributed to a change in the way auto burglaries were counted. Burglary to an auto previously was reported as a theft. It is now counted as a burglary.
The number of property crimes, though, increased 2.6 percent. Property crimes include burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.
Mike Clune, Lawrence senior, works on a computer in a Learned Hall aerospace lab. The computer allows students to study plane designs.
Students designing jet fighter
Rv Michael Carolan
Kansan staff writer
Most jet fighters that fly at the speed of sound can be detected by radar. But the airplane that seven aerospace engineering students are designing will evade detection.
The advanced superiority fighter design team headed by Saeed Farokhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering, is designing an aircraft to win a competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Pratt and Whitney Corn.
Farokhi, whose team has been working on the project since the middle of January, said that the design would use advanced aircraft technologies. The plane is intended to combat enemy fighters.
"In light of new developments like the Stealth fighter, the fighter of the 1990s should incorporate all advanced technology in an aircraft that will be superior to the enemy." Farokhi said. "That technology, which is being developed or will be developed, is what we are using."
Many of the technologies that the team will incorporate into the design are already characteristics of the Stealth fighter, one of the United States Air Force's most advanced fighter planes, Farahki who
Dion Lies, Kansas City, Mo, senior and a member of the design team, said, "Most of the technologies we use today are still developing." Some that haven't been developed yet we are using and assuming they will be used by the late 1990s. *
Norman Ng, director of student programs at the AIAA in Washington, D.C., said that about 10 to 15 universities would enter the "Air Breathing Propulsion Team Design Competition" by the June 15 deadline to win the $1000 first place prize and national recognition.
He said that many different factors of the design
proposals would be judged, including aircraft fuel efficiency, endurance without refueling, maneuverability, speed and the integration of the engine into the plane.
"The students will have to come up with the right compromise of the different factors to give overall optimum performance," he said. "They will use engine and aerodynamic data to come up with an overall aircraft design and then measure the performance."
One of the performance objectives for the aircraft is that the plane be virtually invisible to radar, Farokhi said.
"An ideal fighter would be a non-emitting one, no radio signals, no microwave signals." Farakhi said. "But it would be a receiver, capable of receiving information from internal computer banks or from a high flying radar platform."
A high-flying platform, which is a high-flying satellite or aircraft, would transmit such information as the fighter's location, its target and an enemy plane's location.
Most of the seven students in Farokhi's team have been working on different parts of the engine throughout the semester but will combine efforts when the engine is integrated into the aircraft frame, Farokhi said.
For instance, Lies has been writing computer, programs for the stress analysis and thermo-dynamics of turbine fan blades and Charlie Buffkin, Overland Park park is working on the frame of the aircraft.
Farokhi said that because the team paid strenuous attention to detail, they had a good chance of taking the prize.
"Our system integration approach to the advanced aircraft design is what I believe is going to distinguish us from our competitors," he said.
Regents pleased with expansion effort
Kansan staff writer
By Joel Zeff
Despite money crunch, KU exploring possible new grad programs for KC
The Board of Regents is pleased with the effort by the University of Kansas to expand graduate programs at the Regents Center in Overland Park, the Regents director of academic affairs said yesterday.
The director, Martine Hammond,
said that the Regents had made a
request in 1986 for KU to pursue more
programs in the Kansas
city area.
"They are trying to respond to the board's request, but because of the enrollment increases, money has been tight," Hammond said. "The board is very pleased with KU's progress. It is hard to do more than what they are doing with the money available."
Money for the expansion and addition of graduate programs in Kansas
City would be included in the mission-related enhancements of the Margin of Excellence package. The Regents budget is now in the Legislature
According to the 1986 mission statement, KU's primary mission is the preservation and enhancement of research and graduate programs. The statement also said that expansion in the Kansas City area graduate programs would be explored.
Hammond said that the Kansas City area had a large demand for graduate programs. New programs would not be limited to the University of Kansas Medical Center, she said, but also would be offered in the Regents Center.
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, said that a task force on the graduate program situation completed its study in December.
Hamaley said that the task force explored new possibilities for graduate programs in the Kansas City area. Possibilities include expansion of the business administration program and the possible addition of programs in engineering management, journalism, architecture and urban design.
"Right now, we are waiting to see how much funding we get," Ramaley said. "If we receive a significant amount, then we should expand."
Ramaley said that the number of programs added would depend on the
money granted to KU.
"If we don't get the funding, we won't be able to expand, which would be too bad. Kansas City has a great hunger for graduate programs and would provide many opportunities," Ramaley said.
Money from the Margin of Excellence would provide additional faculty positions for the Lawrence campus, thus allowing KU faculty to spend more time on graduate programs in Kansas City, she said.
Ramaley said that KU's first priority was to the students and programs on the Lawrence campus but that the University would maintain a strong level of commitment to the Kansas City area.
Costa Ricans to speak here; legislators are KU graduates
By a Kansan reporter
Two legislators from Costa Rica who are also KU graduates will be on campus tomorrow and Thursday to present their views of the Central American peace process.
Mario Carvajal earned a doctorate degree in political science at the University of Kansas in 1972. Rodolfo Mendez Mata earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at KU in 1960.
the legislators are from the two largest political groups in Costa Rica. Carvajal is a member of the National Liberation Party, and Mendez Mata is a member of the Social Christian Unity Party. They will present "Two Costa Rican Views of the Central American Peace Process" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the
Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
The two leaders will speak Thursday at a luncon seminar on current economic and political situations in Costa Rica. The seminar will be at 11:30 a.m. in Alcove of the Union. The talk will be in Spanish.
Carvajal and Mendez Mata are also members of the Gofitz advisory committee and will speak to members of KU's Gofitz Committee.
Golfito, a research facility, is part of a joint research center for KU and the University of Costa Rica.
Oscar Quiros, administrative assistant to the Latin American Studies department, said the two leaders would speak with professors who had done research at Golfito. They also will speak to those interested in starting new projects at Golfito.
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