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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.96
Panel hears bills raising Med tuition
By STEVE FRAZIER
Staff Renorter
TOPEKA-Afve bills that would require medical school graduates to practice medicine in Kansas in exchange for loans, scholarships or admission to the University of Kansas Medical Center met little opinion. The two committees and Means Committee hearing yesterday.
One of the bills would set Med Center tuition at $1,000 and require graduating doctors to practice medicine in Kansas one year before the year they were enrolled at the college.
The bill, by state Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is similar to a bill by the House Ways and Means Committee hearing Monday, representatives of the Medical Students Assembly from the Med Center and Emerson Yoder, president of the Medical Society, opposed Hayden's bill.
HAYDEN'S BILL, also would require that Med Center graduates practice in Kansas, but it would allow them the option of paying up to about $13,500 tuition a year to avoid the obligation. Hayden's bill also would allow for different levels of tuition waivers in exchange for students' agreements to serve in the state. The levels of tuition waivers would vary according to the degree of medical personnel shortage in parts of the state.
Winter said he wouldn't object if portions of Hayden's bill were amended to his bill. Chancellor Archie Dykes said he couldn't comment on either Hayden's or Winter's bill, because he had been too busy preparing the budget requests to study the proposals.
Attempts in the Kansas Legislature to require Med Center graduates to stay in Kansas began when concern grew about doctor shortages in many areas of the state, especially in rural and western Kansas. Statistics indicate that 34 per cent of the Med Center's 1973 graduates stayed in Kansas.
AL TIKWART, mayor of Westwood Hills, said he favored Winston's bill because 36 of 105 Kansas counties are seriously underfunded. The Center program to recruit rural students had failed, Tikwart said, because only 12 per cent of those rural recruits returned to school.
Winter, writing in Topeka Report, a column published in newspapers in his home district, has summarized his bill as, "I like your state, you don't get our education."
Three other bills heard yesterday would allow the Kansas Board of Regents to buy positions in out-of-state osteopathy schools for Kansas students and require those students to practice in Kansas after their graduation. The Regents currently buy slots at the state university's museum and optometry schools. There is no osteopathy school in Kansas.
TWO OF the osteopontal bills are spon-
dicated to the ostethic hypsodent Hyden,
Satakana, and the other by W. Hirschman.
Terry Whelan, a lobbyist for the Kansas Association of Osteopathic Medicine, said her organization would support a program in which osteopathic students received tuition waivers and also agreed to practice in Kansas.
Another bill before the Ways and Means committee yesterday would continue and expand a current Med Center program that provides up to 68,000 a year to a student who agrees to practice in Kansas after graduation.
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Staff photos by GEORGE MILLENER
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Wall collapses at building site
An inside ground wall of the new School of Law building collapsed at 1:30 p.m.
"How did you find out about that?" he said, "Get off of the site."
The wall, about nine feet high and 400 square feet in area, collapsed while two Kansan reporters were at the site. Five people were injured, mostly crashed, nearly as dust, billowed from the ground.
Jack English, superintendent in charge of construction at the building, wouldn't say yesterday at the site where the wall's collapse would delay the building's opening.
REACHED LAST night by telephone,
gabiah said the wall would take four or five
days.
The building's general contractor, Casson Construction Co., Topeka, has refused comment in the past on whether the building would be finished by its May 23 deadline. Yesterday, Casson again declined comment on the building.
The $ 5 million building, east of Jayhawker Towers between 15th Street and Irving Hill Road, officially is scheduled to begin September 23 and be open for classes next fall
But minutes from a Feb. 4 School of Law faculty-student student contract contradict the official views of University of Kansas administrators.
ACCORDING TO THE minutes, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, "indicated that, because of the continuing failure of the subcontractor to deliver the precast concrete blocks, and other difficulties, it is now virtually certain that we will be unable to move into the new building until January of 1978."
The concrete blocks were replacements for 17 other blocks provided by Casson. The company was asked last fall to replace the original blocks, which form the outer skin of the building, after state and KU instructors decided the panels were of poor quality.
DICKINSON HAS declined to comment on why he doesn't think the building will be finished on time. But, according to School of Law sources close to Dickinson, he has told them of persistent problems in construction related to the Cason Co.
The sources said that defective concrete
Use of election balloon draws fine
The Student Senate Elections Committee last night voted to fine each Avanti sophomore candidate $15 for inflating a hot air balloon in front of Strong Hall Feb. 7.
The committee's action automatically is appealed to the University Judiciary, which will decide on the propriety of the committee's decision.
The candidates inflated the balloon despite a committee ruling F. 9 that prohibited use of a balloon as a campaign air or a "carnival air" to the Senate elections.
Bill Hamilton, Salina freshman who was elected sophomore class vice president, was the only Avanti sophomore class candidate elected.
THE OTHER candidates who were wired were Moli Hasenbank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Lisa Larsen, Council Bluffs, Iowa; and Greg Snackne, Topeka.
Gary Berline, committee member,
echoed the sentiment of the committee
when he said, "We said no to the balloon and
they said the hell with us."
Under the Senate Rules and Regulations, the committee has the power to fine offenders from $5 to $50 or to remove them from office if they are elected, or both.
out Truck, the committee member who proposed the $15 fine, said, "The fine needs to be much higher."
Rob Green, whose later proposal that the fine be increased to $30 was defeated, said, "If they can afford to spend the money to pay them they can afford to pay the compensations."
In other action, the committee voted to return a $5 Senate filing fee to Harvey C. Jordan Jr., Shawne Mission sophomore, who filed a complaint last Thursday saying the Senate had failed to reprint ballots when it discovered his name on the wrong ballot.
He said that the mistake was both Jor-
SCHNACKE SAID the sophomore class candidates spent about $150 on their freshman classes.
Kevin Flynn, Elections Committee chairman, said that when the mistake was noticed, Jordan's name was hand printed on the correct ballots.
don's, who filed in the wrong school, and the committee's, which didn't catch the mistake until election day.
50 feet of the polls, McMurray also filed a complaint, which wasn't voted on, saying that members of the Elections Committee outwardly supported certain coalitions.
No action was taken on a complaint filed by Steve McMurray, Avanti campaign manager, which contained that members of the coalition had not been informed by rules by wearing campaign T-shirts within
Flynn said McMurray's complaints would be viewed as suggestions when the Elections Committee revised the Senate rules dealing with campaign practices.
KU fears aid decrease
If budget cuts recommended yesterday by President Jimmy Carter are approved by Congress, the University of Kansas could lose nearly $1 million in student aid.
Three programs affecting about 800 KU students are in jeopardy because of the proposed cuts, according to Jerry Rogers, KU director of financial aid. They are the National Direct Student Loan Program (NDSL), the supplementary Educational Opportunity Grants (EOG) and the College Work Study Program (CWSP).
Although Carter recommended restoration of some federal funds to financial aid programs, his recommendations still are under the amounts paid during the current fiscal year, so that KU would lose about $750,000 in the NDSL program, $150,000 in the EOG program and $105,000 in the work-study program.
KU proteasted the cuts through a telegraph encoder Archil Dykes to Kanaan members.
panels still were being delivered to the building site, and that one pad had been installed.
Dickinson's statements from the Feb. 4 meeting have been contradicted by Louis Kruger, state architect, who said last week, "To the best of our knowledge, the building was completed on time. There is every reason to believe that there will be no delay."
HE ALSO SAID, "Dean Dickinson obviously has a misconception about the building. The concrete blocks aren't going to delay the building we'll be done on
Casson Co. was denied a request for extending its May 23 deadline, when the board approved the building completed. The request was made in Topeka at a Feb. 3 meeting of representatives from Casson, the county government of Regents and the state architect's office.
According to state law, each day after May 23 that the building isn't completed will cost the Casson Co. $500. But the School of Law sources said Dickinson had questioned whether the contract specifying the $500-a-day fine would be enforced.
THE FINE would result from a civil law concept called liquidated damages, awarded on construction contracts to cover costs incurred by the damage measured in exact dollar amounts. Liquidated damages on a University construction contract require action by the court.
Jonathan small, a member of the civil division of the attorney general's office, said yesterday that "we usually will enlist any individual provisions that specify liquidated damages.
But, he said, "I liquidated damages have always been looked at with a very careful eye. I've been here four years, and I don't expect to lose money. I enforce them on university construction."
SMALL SAID that his office hadn't refused to enforce the damages for university construction contracts, but that previous construction delays had been legalized through extensions granted the contractors.
Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, attended the Feb. 3 meeting at which Cannon was denied its request for an extension. According to Lucas, "It will take a maximum effort to stay time, but there has been no extension."
Small, however, said enforcement to collect damages required careful study.
Lucas also said, "The company must legally be done by May 23. The panels are
"IF THE people come to us with a complaint, we'll sit down with them," he said. "But construction contracts give the architect a modicum of justification for delays."
Construction on the new building, which replaces Green Hall, began in March 1975. Its five stories will house the School of Engineering and have room for 30,000 more volumes.
The building also will include a courtroom that doubles as a classroom, individual study stations, student lockers, eight-bedrooms, lockers and space for the Legal Aid Society.
A major advantage of the new building is that its 95,000 square feet of floor space will accommodate an enrollment of 660,104 more students than last semester's enrolment. Green Hall originally was designed to house 160 students.
Alcoholism a barrier for prof, students
(Note: This story is the third in a three-part series on alcoholism.)
By RICK THAEMERT
Tom, one of more than 10 million alcoholics in the United States, has been a professor at KU for many years. He considers himself lucky. His drinking problem never cost him his family, his job or his peer respect. It did, however, almost cost him his self-respect, and his life.
Jane, Tom and Bill (not their real names) have been at the University of Kansas for several years. They're active, respectable people, both socially and professionally; they realize that Jane, Tom or Bill are alcoholics.
Staff Reporter
Tom began drinking as a social, or weekend, drinker, but soon was drinking heavily every night at the bar.
ALTHOUGH HE HE was never drunk while teaching, he said, alcohol did him perform his role.
"My performance was not what it should have been," he said. "Anybody's performance is likely to be interfered with when they spend so much of their time talking, and the thing they think is a horrible truth about themselves."
Tom said because alcohol took 72 hours to work
out of the system after extremes intolerable.
To compensate, Tom worked harder at KU to hide his problem from colleagues and students.
Although he felt continuous guilt, he said, his colleagues praised his work. No one noticed him.
His family, however, did notice.
"I WAS MORE argumentative at home," he said, apparently was very much concerned about his impersonality.
"in a moment when I wasn't thinking at all, I came very close to committing suicide," he said. "The bottom I lit was so horrible I don't ever want to be there again. It was worse than losing all my life." I lost myself. There was a morning I met myself so much I didn't want to live any more."
TOM, A "highbottom" drunk (one who conquers the disease without losing social or family status) said admitted he was an alcoholic was difficult.
But the decision wasn't easy, Tom said. It came only after prolonged depression.
It helped that there were many years I was loving family relationship. When I told them I was going to seek help, they said, "You were beginning to need Weibo. And you were that decision."
"It's not easy for anyone to take the first step," he said. "I've admitted that I was powerless over alcohol, and it's hard to admit that something controls your life."
Torn said he realized he lost the ability to control when or how much he drank, so he went to the gym.
"A person who wonders if his drinking has became a problem probably has the problem," he said. "When drinking is a cause of problems in life, it's a drinking problem."
Tom said about one of every ten persons is an alcoholic. The same proportion exists among adults.
"YOUNG PEOPLE who experiment with life make mistakes from which they will learn," he said. "Experimenting usually rubs off, but for one in ten, it doesn't."
For that person, college life is difficult, he said. "All the fun takes place at drink places." Tom said. Consequently, when student alcoholics succumb to peer pressure, they often drink and use drugs, which results in ridicule and statements such as, "The way you drink makes me sick." Tom said.
They know they drink more than others for the
sake. They must be afraid. They want to escape
from life's problems.
ACCORDING TO government statistics, more than 90 per cent of college students consume alcohol. The heaviest drinkers are found in the social sciences, humanities and fine arts depart-
Jane was recently a KU graduate student. She drank to relieve the strain of studies and personal stress.
"One of the things alcohol did for me was calm me down. I was very anxious," she said.
LIKE TOM, Jane tried to compensate by overworking in school.
"I'd draw on all my resources for two days to write a paper or speech, then I'd get drunk," she said. Consequently, she was exhausted, underweight and couldn't sleep.
Suffering from an addiction to both drugs and alcohol, Jane said, she couldn't write a paper or give a speech without taking a drink or tranquilizer. Because her apartment rooms were also heavy drinkers, nothing appeared unusual about her habits.
Jane said she spent many late nights drinking alone, wallowing in self-pity. Extreme loneliness, sobbing and occasional blackouts were results of her drinking, she said.
Although she was a serene person when sober, Jane said, she became very violent when drunk. She was thrown out of several Lawrence bars for throwing glasses, or for being obnoxious or extremely drunk, she said. She was arrested three times for drunken driving.
"I HAD more money when I was drinking because I didn't eat, entertain or buy clothes. I didn't have anything except drinking," she said. Because of her drinking, her marriage broke up. After a divorce, she tried to commit suicide and broke her lee in the attempt.
"I scared me but it didn't stop me from drinking," she said. "Instead of dealing with the
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Staff drawing by DAVID MILLER