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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87,No.165
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
KPL sets records increases rates See story page three
Monday, July 25, 1977
Time limits proposed for grievances
New affirmative action guidelines that establish grievance limits and more specific guidelines for hearings are ready for approval by Chancellor Archie Dykes, Bonnie Ritter, affirmative action director, said recently.
Dykes is expected to review the guidelines after he returns from vacation Friday.
The procedures will be used to handle complaints from those who feel they have been discriminated against in violation of University of Kansas policy.
The office of affirmative action has found a need for more specific solution-finding guidelines because many complaints cannot be solved at the mediation level. Ritter said.
According to an earlier draft of the final proposal, the entire complaint process should be streamlined.
Under the proposed guidelines, the complaint process is divided into four stages - initial contact, investigation, radiation and formal hearing.
Under the new guidelines, the affirmative action office would investigate any complaint that involved discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, religion, alienage, veteran status, disability, sexual preference or age.
In the initial contact with the office, the complainant discusses his problem with an affirmative action mediator to determine if the assistant is within the jurisdiction of the office.
Ritter said that if the problem couldn't be handled by the office of affirmative action, the complaint would be referred to procedures within his University department.
If the complaint comes under affirmative action jurisdiction, a mediator would then conduct an impartial investigation and attempt to solve the problem.
The mediator will not act as an advocate to the other party, but will attempt to find an alternative.
If the complainant is not satisfied with the mediator's initial investigation, he may
If an agreement cannot be reached through mediation or if the complainant chose to skip mediation, a formal hearing would be conducted.
A three member discrimination hearing examiners panel, appointed from the 12th floor of the 905 Broadway building.
The proposed guidelines provide for the appointment of a 12-member board composed of three faculty, three administrators, three students and three staff members.
Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Still not finisha
Casson Construction Company will have to pay $500 a day to the state of Kansas for failure to complete the Law
School by proposed dates. Many items such as carpeting and placement of desks remain to be finished, Rick Taylor, Topeka junior, finishes painting the central stairway.
Builders fined for law school delay
Staff Writer
Kruger said Thursday that Casson was placed in penalty retroactive to last Mon. 23 and will meet the contracted completion date for the million building of east Jayahawk Towers.
Despite two extensions granted past use original completion date, Casson Construction Co, Inc., Topeka, was unable to "substantially complete" the new School of Law building, according to Louis Krueger, state architect.
Since last Monday, the company has been subject to a $500-a-day fine, which is being leased by the state until construction is complete. The fine, the fine had already amounted to $2,500.
RKUEGER, WHO PERSONALLY INITIATED the site last Wednesday, said he
didn't know when the building would be completed but he didn't think it would take
Among the items still not finished, he said, are carpeting, handrails on stairs, fixed desks and seats in classrooms and some painting.
So many items weren't completed, Krueger said, that the state architect's office didn't feel it could tell the University to begin occupation of the building.
John Casson of Casson Construction Co. said Friday his office hadn't received official notification of the fine so he had no comment to make. He also wouldn't say what work was left to be completed at the site.
THE FIRST EXTENSION past the originally scheduled completion date of May 23 was granted when some of the panels that were installed in the building found to be defective and the severe damage.
weather had caused the company to lose several days working time.
The second extension to July 13 was granted because of a delay for cleanup reasons. The police in Casson said he didn't know whether the bureau would help pay the fine if one was levied. The possibility would have to be discussed with the company receives notification, he said.
Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said the latest extension had not affected the timetable for moving into the new building.
PLANS WERE MADE BY University officials and the School of Law to start this fall's classes in old Green Hall and to move to the new building the first of October. New equipment for the building, including fur-
that construction wasn't finished sooner, as originally planned. Had the construction proceeded as scheduled, we could have ordered the furniture sooner."
Lacisa is still concerned about some of the outer panels, he said. There are 17 of the outer panels.
Lucas said University officials had been working with the state architect's office and the construction company to assure that construction met University specifications.
"ANY DISCREPANCIES will have to be taken care of before we give approval the insurance."
Construction of the building began March 1975.
Other construction projects to be finished by the fall are the new visual arts building and the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
The $5.8 million visual arts building has been completed a year ahead of schedule
and the department will hold most classes in it this fall.
The museum of art won't be open to the public until January. It stands across from the park at 435 E. 1st Street.
The five-story museum will have about 90,000 square feet of floor space, roughly four times the size of the museum's old quarters in Spoon Hall.
Two other construction projects are still under way and five others are being plan-
CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN on the new computer services facility and the KU Drug Design Center. Both are expected to be completed in 1978.
The five projects that are in different stages of planning are a satellite unit near Allen Field House, additions to Maltol Hall and Robinson Gymnasium, a solid waste conservation plant and a demonstration center for the department of continuing education.
Monday
Comanches, Utes end war
From 'our wire services
IGNACIO, Colo.—After three days of powwow and dance, the elders of the Camanche tribe and the Ute nation fought on the plains to officially end their two centuries of war.
More than 2,000 people—one-half of them Indians of 15 tribes from as far away as Alaska—were on hand for the ceremony yesterday.
The two tribes had tried a truce in the
late 1870s. Their buffalo herds decimated, white men invading their lands, they met on the plains of what is now West Texas to end a war over hunting rights that was then already generations old.
One shot was fired, starting a battle and ending the powwow. In 1975, the Southern Ule edlers moved to resume the fight led to the treaty gathering here.
GIs in Korea told to be alert
SEOUL-Harold Brown, secretary of defense, here to discuss planned U.S. troop withdrawals, told American soldiers along the demilitarized zone that they must remain fully combat ready when necessary to a possible Communist attack.
Brown begins two days of talks today with Suh and South Korean President Park Chung-he on President Carter's plan to withdraw 33,000 ground troops of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division from Korea.
Brown and South Korean Defense Minister Sun Jyong-chul made a day-long helicopter tour of U.S. and South Korea and护送 the American airbase at Osan.
On the way to Korea Saturday, a senior official aboard Brown's airplane told reporters the Carter administration would ask Congress for about $2.5 billion in U.S. aid to Korea to offset effects of withdrawal.
NEW YORK (AP)—Lou Pinella singled home unearned two runs in the first innning to power the New York Browns to the Kansas City Royals 3-yesterday.
Pinella his hit came with two outts, after Thurman Munson's ground ball had slipped between stopshot Pat Fred Katek laided Chris Chambliss had doubled to right.
Starter Don Gullette, now 9-3, recorded the 100th victory of his major league career.
Unearned runs dump Royals
Kansas City scored in the fifth when, with two out, Gullett walked Fred Patek and Frank White. George Brett then collected the second of his four singles to drive in Patek before Hal McRae popped out.
Baseball
New York 3, Kansas City 1; Chicago 9
Boston 6; Detroit 6; Toronto 2; Texas 4
Cleveland 1; St. Louis 3; Cincinnati 0
Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 6, 13 innings.
Royals' starter Andy Hassler, 6-3, took the loss. All three of his defeats this season have been to the Yankees.
The Yankees scored their third run in the bottom of the fifth.
Weather
The National Weather Service in Topeka reports that rain is likely today. The forecast calls for showers and thunderstorms today, possibly continuing into tonight and tomorrow. Today's highs will be in the middle 80s.
County ambulance service upgrading program
Bv CHRISTOPHER COX
Staff Writer
Additional training, equipment and personnel will soon improve emergency care given by the Douglas County Amber Lifesavers, according to Ted McFarlane, DCAS director.
McFarlane said the present ambulance service should be upgraded to a more modern vehicle.
Type one service will employ paramedics at the scene of an accident, who will maintain communication with physicians at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. he said.
The ambulance service is currently classified as both type two and type three, McFarlane said, but is prohibited to use type one methods. The type two service, performed by Emergency Medical Technicians, provides emergency first aid to a person whose heart and breathing have stopped and immobilization of possible fractures before patients are transported to the hospital. McFarlene said, requires 80 hours of lecture and classwork and up to 20 hours of hospital work.
THE TYPE THREE SERVICE consists of transporting nonambulatory patients such as nursing home patients or convalescents to the hospital or to their homes. The service includes transport bodies. McFarlane said no training was required for type three personnel.
McFarlane said that type one services would benefit county residents.
Paramedica, McFarlane said, are specially trained to begin intravenous fluids, monitor the patient's heartbeat, give drugs or shock treatment if the heart stops beating and use other special equipment and techniques the service doesn't now use.
MCFARLANE SAID MOST TYPE ONE training in Kansas was done at the KU Medical Center, which is considered to be one of the best medical training. The Med Center is the only facility in the country that will offer a bachelor of science degree in emergency medical care, and when the program, he said, will begin as soon as funding is approved by the Kansas Legislature.
The program now offers a certificate after students pass written and oral exams, he
The Med Center's program, McFarland says, consists of about a thousand hours of training, in three areas over a six-month period. He said he recently completed the course.
The first area, he said, involves seven
classes of classroom work for eight hours
daily.
The students then go on hospital rotation for approximately nine weeks and work 40 hours each week. McFarlane said students spend the first week in obstetrics, the intensive care unit and the
burn unit to prepare them for emergencies encountered during their work.
THE FINAL STAGE OF paramedic training involves actual work with a paramedic crew in the Kansas City area, McParlane said. This phase consists of six trainees work with crews in the DCAS trainees work with crews in Kansas City, Kan, and in Johnson County.
In addition to the paramedical training, the ambulance service will add another vehicle, special radio equipment and a heart device, sometimes in the future, McFarlane said.
The radio equipment and heart monitor would transmit the patient's heartbeat to the hospital where it could be printed out and read by the physician, he said. The cost of printing the equipment and balance needing the equipment and about $14,000 for receiving equipment at the hospital.
MCFAHLANE SAID two type one vehicles would probably be adequate for the case, but that he planned to add more personnel after the year to better utilize the equipment.
Farlane said he planned to use three
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Emergency assurance
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Transporting an injured accident victim to Lawrence Memorial Hospital are Jere McElhaney, emergency medical technician
(left) and Jim Murray, emergency mobile intensive care technician, both of the Douglas County Ambulance Service.