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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87,No.102
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kahasas
Thursday, March 3, 1977
Subcommittee recommends cuts in KUMC's family practice budget
Staff Reporter
By STEVE FRAZIER
TOPEKA-Senate Ways and Means Committee members say the committee will use its budgetary muscle to ensure that the Center meet the need for improvable practice.
Despite that pledge, the Med Center subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee recommended yesterday that #447,080 be cut from family practice programs that had been approved by Gov. Robert Bennett.
The major family practice request
recommended to be cut in the sub-
committee's report was $739,000 to build
and staff a model family practice clinic in a
medium-sized Kansas community.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Rittawa, chairman of both the Ways and Means Committee and the Med Center subcommittee, said the subcommittee liked the state clinic concept but didn't think the state should pay all costs of such a program.
It is expected that the $79,000 request would be reviewed if the legislature sets a fee for the service.
By JOHN MUELLER
Senate to be repaid by bus pass forgers
Staff Renorter
Students who used forged bus passes last month have been ordered to make restitution to the Student Senate's transportation fund, Donald Aiderson, acting vice chancellor for student affairs, said yesterday.
"Fewer than 10 students have talked with me about the fraudulent passes," Aderson said, "and we—meaning I—told them to make the restitution."
He said he had talked with some of the students later and planned to talk with several more soon.
Alderson didn't specify how much money the students had been ordered to pay. Official bus passes cost $18 for students and $20 for nonstudents each semester.
Steve McMurry, chairman of the Student Senate Transportation Committee, which runs KU On Wheels, said he hadn't heard from Alderson about the restitution order.
"THE STUDENTS have not yet paid the money, so I don't know how much it will be."
Alderson disputed a police report that 18 students had been caught using the forged pencil.
Capt. M. E. Hill of the KU Police, said last month that five persons were caught during the second week of February; nine were caught Feb. 14 and four were caught Feb. 15.
Hill said yesterday that the KU Police planned no further action on the students' cases, and that all information on the cases had been dropped over to the Office of Student Affairs.
"WEVЕ WASHED our hands of it," Hill said. "That is completely out of our hands."
The Lawrence Bus Co., which owns the KU On Wheels buses, has not prosecuted any of the students. According to the police, persons who made the bus passes could
model family practice clinics more agreeable to the state.
have been prosecuted for forgery, and users of the passes could have been prosecuted for fraud.
THE MED CENTER subcommittee also recommended that a $218,450 increase approved by Bennett for the department of family practice be reduced to a $150,370 increase.
Winter said the subcommittee wrote its budget report to complement a bill he had introduced that would require Med Center graduates to practice medicine in Kansas.
The names of the students caught using forged passes can't be released because of the privacy provision of the Buckley Amendment.
Alderson said the pass forgeries were covered by the student code's section on offenses against property, which lists the most serious offenses as the most extreme penalties possible.
"You can assume the students have not been expelled." he said. "You can assume the parents have not expelled."
ALDERSON declined comment when asked whether the students had worked together in forging passes. But he said, "They certainly know each other now."
The forgery of the passes, Alderson said, was done "with time and care."
State Sen. Jack Steinenger, D-Kansas City and Senate minority leader, criticized the subcommittee's recommendations as insincere in support of family practice doctors in Kansas.
Hill said some people who were caught torged their passes by hand and others used firearms.
All the fake passes were of poor quality,
according to Dave Neely, a driver for
Lowe's.
Nelyly said some of the fake passes had been copied by hand, one had been photocopied and another contained letters stenciled in by the forger.
NO MATTER HOW FORGED passes are produced, Dawn Digge, 81; Lawrence
The yellow background on the forgeries often was the wrong shade, he said, and the black was too dark.
Nely said the forging of bus passes this semester hadn't been nearly as easy as it was.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta and member of the Med Center subcommittee, answered Steiner by saying the subcommittee's budget recommendations were correct. In his letter to the Winter's bill to require Med Center graduates to stay in Kansas if passed.
People caught using fake passes, he said,
are asked by a bus driver for their names
and addresses. If they refuse to give the
passengers a driver turns them over to
the KU Police.
"THE BEST answer is still in Senate bill 300 (Winter's bill)," Gaines said. "If that mandate is handed down, we'll see a complete restructuring at the Med Center."
Shrinkage requirements specify a certain percentage of staff positions that must be open at the end of a fiscal year. KU had appealed Bennett's shrinkage requirements on the grounds that the Med Center wouldn't have 5 per cent shrinkage through normal
The subcommittee also suggested that a classified personnel shrinkage requirement be reduced from the governor's recommendation of 5 per cent to 4 per cent.
The subcommittee suggested KU make a supplemental fiscal 1978 request next year if normal turnover is less than 4 per cent.
personnel turnover and that it would have to hold needed nursing positions open to meet the shrinkage rate.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE recommended that Bennett's recommendation of $185,762 for new staff at the Med Center's Wichita branch be increased to $213,963. However, the Board of Regents had requested a $1 million increase.
Other increases in the governor's budget recommended by the Med Center subcommittee included $15,037 for computer programs and $8,264 for programs in nurse anesthesia and respiratory therapy; $40,000 for library materials; $180,000 to buy property for an access road to the new clinical facility at the hospital; and $58,000 for an elevator in G building.
The subcommittee asked the University of Kansas to explain why it hadn't requested funds to hook up and operate an energy-ground water system available at the Med Center.
State Sen. Joseph Warren, D-Maple City, said, "They're not concerned with saving energy; they're just concerned about getting more money."
The subcommittee recommended reductions in increasedposes in nursing outreach programs, pharmacy services, clinical laboratories and radiology services to partly offset the suggested increases in Bennett's budget.
Money raiser
John Easley, director of development for KANU ran a segment of the radio station's campaign for Excellence in KANU's newroom. The campaign, an effort to raise money through fundraising events, was sponsored by the station.
Divorce is growing less complex
(Note: This is the first of two stories on divorce. This story is about the methods used to get a divorce. The second will deal with divorce's social implications.)
By PAUL ADDISON Contributing Writer
Roger is a graduate assistant instructor at the University of Kansas. In summer 976, Roger (not his real name) became involved with a woman from one of his classes, left his wife, Lyn, and moved into an apartment.
After undergoing counseling sessions with Lyn, they mutually decided that they should get a divorce rather than separate with little hope of reconciliation.
education courses. Her divorce was final in early February 1977.
The marriage of Jane and her husband, a KU professor, broke down late last year soon after the last of their three children left for college. Twenty years of child-rearing left her with no marketable skills, but she is contemplating returning to school for
Roger and Jane's dissolved marriages have contributed to America's ever-increasing divorce rate. In 1978, the rate reached an all-time high of five for every 1,000 people. In Kansas alone, 12,000 divorced were granted last year.
At their initial separations, Roger and Jane both said they had little knowledge of the mechanics of divorce and its attendant financial and social problems. Divorce to them had always been something that others contemplated and carried out, they knew their instincts predicaments hit home and they realize divorce's intricacies.
When Roger and Lyn sought counseling, Roger said, he had already decided to get a divorce. The sessions, he said, were instructive and informal.
According to Ed Heck, psychologist at the KU Counseling Center, counselors look for
the causes of marital problems and impending break-ups.
"We don't dwell on divorce here," Heck said recently. "Divorce is more a legal term than a psychological term. Our job is trying to work with the people and trying to define what they want. When they come to us, most people seem to know what they want."
Hheck said that in the 1970s, the number of couples coming to the Counseling Center increased.
"It itud to be the fact that one partner would come all alone," Heck said. "Perhaps the new situation is a signal people are more willing to talk it out. I personally don't see much point in working with one without the other."
For Roger's wife, Lyn, who is a typist in a KU department office, separation was a financial strain, and she couldn't afford a lawyer.
"I went down to the Legal Aid Society in Lawrence," Lyn said, "and because my sister was on the job, I could help."
qualified for free legal aid. From there on, the clinic's personnel took me in hand and explained the whole rigamarche to me. Then I asked the Court for the Douglas County District Court.
Deanell Reece Tacha, associate professor of law and director of the society, said Legal Affairs would make judgments about counseling nd finances. About 1,500 to 2,000 peopleieve legal help from the society each year, but only a small percent of those who divorce, inform their
The society is run by legal interns from the School of Law, who work under the supervision of professional lawyers.
been as Jane who don't quarry
See DIVORCE page two
Staff photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
Iranian concern
Norm Forer, associate professor of social welfare, returned Sunday from a 10-day trip to Iran in an attempt to visit 18 recently arrested political prisoners. Forer smuggled back notes, documents and photographs of political prisoners in Iran and described many instances of prisoners dying under torture.
Forer recounts Iranian suffering
Bv BETH GREENWALD
Staff Reporter
Norm Forer, associate professor of social welfare, held up a multicolored religious banner, which was carried in a 1963 demonstration in Iran. The banner was given to Forer by people he recently met in Iran as a reminder of the suffering Iranians experience when they speak out against the government.
It had been carried in a demonstration seeking human liberties in which thousands were fired upon and hundreds were killed.
Forer returned Sunday from a 10-day visit to Teheran, Iran. He went to see 18 Iranian prisoners arrested in November, but Forer's larger mission was to investigate the violations of human rights of all Iranian prisoners.
Forer wasn't allowed to see the prisoners. He went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which told him, "Go to the American Embassy. They will arrange it. They run everything."
The American Embassy denied having any such power and sent him to the Iranian Human Rights Commission.
A well-dressed, elderly man came to Forres's hotel room and took him to meet some Iranian intellectuals. Through him, Forres met about 20 persons who had gone uninterested. Most were writers, professors and businessmen.
Although Forer didn't meet the prisoners, he did meet other Iranians.
Forer said all of the people he met were at one time in jail. Most of them were religious Moslems, he said, and many were old enough to remember 1953, when Iran was a democratic republic.
*Torturion*
THE COMMISSION SAID there was no reason of perjury and the situation in Iran had been broken.
Forer received photos of young Iranians who had been beaten and killed by the secret police. Most of them hadn't spoken out against the government but had relatives who bad.
FOREER TOOK the photos from his wallet and began to tell their stories.
He told of a university professor who had written a position paper against the government. He was imprisoned for six months and tortured. Because he refused to publicly support the government when he was released.
he was killed last year in a mueque by a member of the Iranian secret police (SAVAK).
Forer said most of the repression was religious repression. He had a list of religious leaders who had been arrested, exiled or killed and also had a list of mosques that had been closed.
FORER ADMTS he isn't an Iranian scholar. He spent only 10 days in Iran and doesn't speak the language. Most of his conversations had to be translated, often with a French middleman.
Because the Iranian system is repressive and information is hard to come by, Forer said, he admits incarcerations in his observations. However, he said he believed in the sinicity of the people he spoke to.
Ferer spoke from pages of notes scattered throughout his office. He said he took notes of all his interviews to include in the book.
FORER SMUGGLED out the notes, the photographs of the young Iranians and several documents. He didn't keep any of the documents in his room, he said, but sent them as soon as possible with other Americans traveling in Europe. Forer is still receiving documents through the mail that had been smuggled out to colleagues in Europe.
A two-inch manuscript critizing Iranian life written by a prominent Iranian intellectual was also smuggled out of the country by Forer. The manuscript is in the form of a letter to the Shah.
While in Iran, Forer met formally with eight American and Iranian officials and informally with four.
THE AMERICAN officials Forer met admitted there were violations of human rights in Britain but with such little evidence that no such charges could be made.
Forer he planned to publish the manuscript and use the proceeds to defend Iranian prisoners.
When Forder asked about the conspiracy, the secretary said the Shah thought it was a collusion between oil imperialists and communists supported by foreign countries.
A first secretary of the American embassy said the recent concern with human rights in Iran was part of a conspiracy by Anneesty International to discredit the Shah.
An Iranian official told Forer the Shah was trying to
modernize the country and didn't have time for the coconcess to stand and said Iran's democracy would be on economic progress.
However, Forer talked with eight businessmen, American and foreign, who said Iran economic development was not particularly successful partly because wasn't wasted on government corruption and bribes.
FORER SAID he met an American businessman who claimed he had bribed people in the Royal fal. ily.
An American official wanted to know why Forer was concerned with Iranian human rights when the political leader of a group of militants
Because of this, Forer said, the people he spoke to the United States is responsible for their suffering. He said that there was a bitter feeling in Iran towards the Iranians, the Iranians also looked to us for a change in policy.
Forer said he was concerned with Iranian human rights because the United States actively supported the Shah's regime. The United States trains and finances the secret oil company that was responsible for the coup that gave the Shah power.
FORER MET with Iranian officials—representatives of the courts, the Ministry of Justice and the Prime Minister's office—some of whom said one thing publicly and another privately.
He studied the Iranian constitution for background for his interviews. When Forer asked an Iranian official whether Iran's one-party system was legal, the official said he didn't know.
When Forer asks the official about violations of due process of law, the official said. "Don't ask me such questions."
All the government officials Fover talked to, he said, were nervous, with tics and shaking hands." Fover said they were educated men who behaved as if they had no responsibility in their offices.
The adviser to the Iranian prime minister admitted to Forer that SAVAK existed in countries outside Iran, including the United States, but the first secretary of the American embassy denied that it did.
See FORER VISITS IRAN page eight