THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 87, No.95
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Basketball race left to chance
Tuesday, February 22, 1977
See page six
Open door policy defined by new vice chancellor
Staff Reporter
BvJOHN MUELLEP
David Ambler yesterday defined an open door policy he will have for students when he becomes vice chancellor for student affairs.
Ambler, speaking at a press conference,
in Strong Hall, repeated a promise he made
two weeks ago to keep an open door for
students.
"We need to go through proper channels." Ambler said. "I like to pay attention to individuals, but we have to pay special attention to student leaders."
TWO WEEKS ago, when Ambler was appointed vice chancellor for student affair, he said that, "my door will always be open to students, I can't operate in any other way."
He said yesterday, "student leaders won't need an appointment to see me."
Ambler, 39, is now vice president for educational and student services at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He succeeds Mr. Baldwin, the last May to return to full-time teaching.
Despite the relatively low voter turnout in
last week's election, Ambler said, the Student Senate represented student opinion and he didn't think the University had any choice but to pay attention.
**WE NEED to communicate with**
students. We need an ethic that permeates
our practices.
He also said that not emphasizing communication with the Senate would be anarchy and he planned to attend Senate meetings.
"The 4,000 students who voted last week registered their opinion. It's democracy."
"The University has to be able to justify itself to students."
He said he thought the biggest problem on campus was a sense of cynicism in terms of respect.
Ambler, asked about alleged racial discrimination practiced by KU sororities, said 'I know of what you speak, but it's difficult to prove whether it's informal.
Tuition plan opposed by medical students
Staff Reporter
"I THINK the fraternites and sororites have made tremendous progress in recything the overlast two years. And I think the change isn't going to happen overnight."
By BARRY MASSEY
If the student agrees to work in an unobserved area, all or part of his tuition will be charged.
University of Kansas medical students, in a battle against a House proposal that could force the school to pay for tuition, will carry their fight to the House of Representatives if necessary. Debbie Hall, a representative of first-generation college students at Student Assembly (MSA), said last night.
Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said that he was unaware of any official stand made by the University on Hayden's bill. But he said that there was some concern among faculty members about the bill.
Haynes, who presented her classmates' opposition to the proposal at a hearing of the House Ways & Means Committee yesterday, said that medical students were "very concerned" about the tuition proposal and would continue in their efforts to oppose it. She said that a final vote on the proposal was expected later this week.
Chancellor Archie Dykes couldn't be reached last night for comment.
"WELL TRY really hard to talk to the Ways and Mears Committee before the vote," Haynes said, "but if I pass, we'll definitely be lobbying in the House."
The proposal, introduced by State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, would require medical students to pay up to about $13,500 in fees for an area considered medically underserved.
"Some of the faculty is concerned whether we'll be able to continue to attract high level students if it is passed," Kugel said.
At the committee hearing on the bill, Emerson Yoder, president of the Kansas Medical Society, also spoke in opposition to Hayden's bill. He said that more efforts were needed to attract doctors to underserved areas but that Hayden's bill wasn't the answer to the rural doctor shortage.
Denouncing Hayden's bill as involuntary servitude, Yoder said that the legislature would be making a mistake to "try to pen our grads in this state."
YODER URGED the legislators to adopt voluntary scholarship programs that provide agreements to practice in underserved areas.
The Kansas Medical Society and Kansas Farm Bureau are working to develop scholarship programs that would attract doctors to rural areas. Yoder said.
Haynes said the bill wouldn't produce any significant effects on the doctor shortage until about 1982, assuming that it took effect on her first-year class. It wouldn't produce any quick solution to areas now underserved, she said.
There is also concern, she said, that many superior students would transfer to other medical schools, damaging the health care system in Kansas and the Med Center's reputation.
BECAUSE MEDICAL students prefer to voluntarily decide where they will practice, Haynes said, committee members should move toward other types of programs in.
See MEDICAL STUDENTS page 5
Ambler said students should be involved in University governance but that he didn't think they should be able to vote on awarding tenure to faculty members.
"That's primarily the responsibility of a faculty member's peers," he said. "Faculty members have the expertise in tenure decisions."
THE UNIVERSITY, he said, should focus on long-range planning because when new buildings are added, new operating costs also are added.
Ambler said that students had helpful perspectives on tenure decisions but he wanted to move slowly before giving them a vote.
Ambler said that the planning should emphasize student services, especially with a focus on
"Academic considerations are the heart of a university, but KU student services programs have a developmental problem," be said.
Ambler said that he couldn't specify how he would improve student services at KU, but that he planned to scrutinize uses of the program for more individual and intrinsic participation.
AMBLER SAID he was favorably impressed with KU during his first visit to the campus last fall. The impression, however, has his only reason for leaving Kent State.
"There is a very healthy attitude on campus. Your state has been very supportive."
"I decided to leave Kent primarily from a professional standpoint," he said. "I have to fight a temptation to put my roots down deeply."
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
Ambler said that he'd been looking for the right change from Kent for two years, and the college's new president will move to Lawrence in June and become vice chancellor for student affairs July 1.
Vice Chancellor David Ambler
106 win College Assembly posts; new terms to begin immediately
A total of 106 undergraduate positions on the College Assembly of Liberal Arts and Sciences were decided in the election last week, and the results are now official. The new members of the College Assembly will begin service immediately, unlike past members who had held their terms in the fall. Their first meeting will be March 22. The winners are:
JUNIOR CLASS
Former president can't make KU visit
Former President Gerald Ford won't speak at the University of Kansas this spring as was once expected, a University official said last night.
The official, Max Lucas, University director for facilities and planning, said Ford's aides had contacted the chancellor's office to say that scheduling conflicts would stop Ford from appearing here.
"Ford's aides said that they were sorry but that because of previous commitments President Ford would be unable to come this spring." Lucas said. He plan to keep in touch with them to get Ford here this fall. It's possible, he said.
tour of college campuses later this semester, date had ever been set for its appearance.
It was announced in January that Ford tentatively planned to include KU in a
The former President's daughter, Susan, is a sophomore at KU.
Jim Machherberger
Scot Nielsen
Charles Cidell
Cris Gillen
Sarah Help
Joel Whitle
James R. Orr
Jim Miles
Jim Whits
Mary E. Janson
T. J. Winder
Larry Jean Watson
Jeff Murray
Mangao Joht
Krish Nilpapu
Monde D. Nightwonger
Mark Zuckerberg
Rent E. Erickson
Collette Hull
Peter Hutton
Torrece T. Tibum
Scott Lambers
Baker Reyes
Steve Lauer
Coole Davenport
Kevin G. White
J. I. Hall
J. R. Moha
T. R. Schreiber
Michel K. Linneberger
Thomas M. Watson
Jan Pfeiffer
Kevin McPhail
Stephen A. Miller
Bennett Gerster 75
Mike詹姆斯 74
Billi Hilgins 74
Randall Hiltigman 74
John Bakee 73
Leonard Hardford 75
David Kandali 76
Michael F. Larrle 75
Dennis Tietze 87
Sarah Duff 67
Eunice M. Min 66
Kenny M. Underwood
Gene Camerasa 84
Michelle O'Connell 84
Cindy T. State, II 83
Jim Lay 83
Tom Bawr
Mary Bed Moeller
Olivia Winters
Tim McCarthy
Sam Gilliam
Susan Glashan
Anandra Volk
Bill Shea
Bernard Johnson
Jeffrey G. Cogle
Darya Reagan
Ruth Benton
Russell Hutton
Robert Wayne
Bernard Johnston
Barnaby Thorne
Amy Mortensen
Ann Meyers
FRESHMAN CLASS
FRESHMEN CLASS
Niall Slomo 121
Ole Grey 130
Melanie L. Andersen 169
Tia McKinnon 169
Norne Harris 169
Tina A. Kirkpatrick 167
Salby J. Unalil 168
Joshua Miskin 158
Charlie Link 158
Hugh Wade 158
Terry Leachman 158
Christopher Haynolds 159
Richard Burkard 159
Richard Burkard Key 159
Rohde Hene Hillberg 165
Alex Hoskins 144
Douglas A. Penne 144
Gordon S. Jones 141
Jennifer A. Drapkin 141
Michael Dumner 141
Larry Leathley 137
Gregory F. Geier 137
Sarah Greveringen 137
Robic Largo 137
Gregory B. Chambers 133
Robert Maldenkamp 132
David Wilson 132
A. Allred 131
Margaret Berlin 129
Bessie McDonald 129
Michael D. Webb 129
Michael D. Gibbs 129
Flu strain found here can be fatal
A strain of influenza that sometimes can cause fatal illness has been confirmed in Lawrence by state health officials.
The strain, called Hong Kong B, was confirmed recently in two cases at Wakkins Hospital by the state Department of Health and Environment.
Although Hong Kong B is a relatively mild strain, Donald Wilkox, state epidemiologist, said yesterday the flu can be followed by Reye's syndrome, which has a 50 per cent fatality rate and can cause permanent brain damage.
Wilcox said the symptoms usually appeared in children two to five days after apparent recovery from the flu. Common symptoms are prolonged vomiting, disorientation, delirium and irritability, he said.
"The important thing is not to send the child back to school too soon," he said. "The parents should make sure the child is perfectly well."
After an outbreak of the Hong Kong flu in 1974, 16 persons reportedly contracted Reye's syndrome in Kansas, eight of whom died, he said. The disease is rare, however, striking only three out of every 10,000 flu cases, he said.
Only one case of Reye's syndrome has been confirmed this flu season in Kansas, he said. A 12-year-old boy in Wyndham County was diagnosed with the flu on Wednesday by KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins, said no new cases of Hong Kong B had been confirmed but several blood samples and throat cultures had been sent to the state hospital for analysis. The two persons at Watkins who had the flu about two and a half weeks ago were both in their early 20s and now have recovered, he said.
Wollmann said the vaccine given to most people during the mass flu inoculations last fall for swine and Type A Victoria wouldn't provide immunization against Hong Kong B. A vaccine is available for Hong Kong But Watkins didn't have it, he said.
Most local health officials agree that the flu hasn't reached epidemic proportions, but some cases of what is believed to be the influenza virus have been reported at Lawrence High School.
Jean Dicker, supervisor of school health services, said four parents had called her describing what seemed like Hong Kong B, and had sent home some children last week.
Lota Von Gunter, a nurse at Cordley School Elementary and absences had increased but some of the students may have occasion for George Washington's birthday.
"We've had a few cases of flu in the past
six hours, but I wouldn't diagnose it as Hong
Cheng."
Wollmann said that at the onset of Hong Kong B, the patient may have a sore throat, fever and aching muscles persisting for 48 hours, and severe cases may last a week.
Because this strain of flu has been in the area for some time, many persons have developed an immunity to it, he said, but as people should be avoided crowded areas.
"Something everyone can do is cover his mouth and nose when he coughs or sneezes, because that's how the germs are spread," he said.
Al-Anon meetings aid families, friends of alcoholics
(Editor's note): This story is the second in a three-part series on alcoholism.
By LIZ LEECH Contributing Writer
Les and Jean have just come from one of their meetings.
Both attend the meetings several times a week. Les has gone for eight years and Jean for five years. They knew that a person living with an alcoholic could suffer as much as the alcoholic, and they had learned from the meetings to deal with alcoholism, and they can admit it's an incurable disease.
THE MEETINGS they attend are Al-Anon Family Group meetings, sponsored by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) for relatives and friends of alcoholics.
Les said the number of people at the meetings had increased from five or six three years ago to 10 or 30 people. They met in the Lawrence chapter, which meets in the Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont street, on Mondays and Thursdays, and Wednesday at the church, 94% Massachusetts street, is about 10 years old.
Neither Les nor Jean is an alcoholic, but each is married to one.
"It's a soil-help program," Les said recently. He would find out to help some students drinking water and Al-Amer's purpose.
AL-ANON, like a KA, keeps the names of those who attend annoyance. At the beginning and end of each meeting an AA creed is read, but the rest of the meeting consists of discussion.
"You think when you go into the meetings that no one in the world has problems like yours."
"Before Al-Anon, I didn't have a way to cope, or have someone just listen to, get it out," Jean said. "When you are doing all this talking at the meetings, you're answering your own problems."
He said someone with a drinking problem would try to find any possible explanation for his drinking, but he didn't.
encountered similar situations in dealing with alcoholics.
"You think when you go into the meetings that no one in the world has problems, like yours."
Les said that many who attended the meetings
JEAN SAID that alcoholics sometimes physically abused other people.
"And we all take verbal abuse in some form or another and it's very hard to cope," she said.
Jean and Les said that no one should blame
himself for another's alcoholism, and that no one should try to stop an alcoholic from drinking because it was a disease the alcoholic had to conquer himself.
SHE SAID sometimes people living with alcoholics got ulcers and suffered from emotional problems. She said she had quit believing in God because she felt abandoned.
"The way we react-yelling, accusing,
me as well just as bad as the alcoholic's
drinking." Jean did.
"But it isn't a religious program." Les added.
"Al-Anon gives people something to believe in."
Many persons don't know whether to confront the alcoholic about his drinking and its results, or to resist it.
Les said that although an individual shouldn't try to stop the alcoholic from drinking it didn't mean that the alcoholie's drinking should be supported.
**NOT GOOD**
"YOU CAN make it pretty hot for them," he said
"I if he sweeps the creamy then you don't have to fix it."
let it in, just
"Don't make it easy for the person to drink,
but there are no easy answers."
Jean said that once she started going to Al-Anon meetings five years ago, she could accept her husband's alcoholism. What she couldn't accept was that she was at fault for the way she handled his alcoholism.
"For the first six weeks I went, all I heard was
what was wrong with Jean, and I was read to quit the program because that was what I'd heard at her party.
"I walked into a room of 40 women and I was scared to death," he said. "I but I staved."
LES, HOWEVER, said he couldn't accept the fact that his wife was an alcoholic. He had attended some AA meetings with her and under a little pressure from her had gone to Al-Anon.
"Gradually, the things they said started getting through my thick head. I fought the program but I was frustrated."
kept going to meetings because of the peace of mind they shared. They also said they enjoyed helping clients at church.
BOTH LES and Jean said they were glad they
"I found it very hard to accept that my wife was an alcoholic because I had the Victorian outlook on alcohol."
'Just tonight we got a call from a girl who was crying and saying her mother was drunk all the time.
"Gradually, the things they said started getting through my thick head. I fought the program but I wanted it."
One of the first things people are taught at Al-Anon, Les said, is to understand alcoholism.
time," Les said. "We told her to come right down to sleep, making that night. That kid was just desperate for her."
"Alcoholism isn't weak will. It's a disease that can be arrested but not curbed. That's a said." A man who was arrested for alcoholism.
HE SAID alcoholism was a three-fold disease composed of a physical compulsion to drink, a mental obsession with drinking and a spiritual belief that caused the drinker to lose faith in exegetes.
Jean said when the family understood alcoholism, it could often help the alcoholic recover and help the family to live.
"But we're not marriage counselors, and were not mental health experts," Les said. "You can't just wave a magic wand and solve a drinking problem because it's the growth of years of problems. It takes years to recover. But you have to take it one day at a time."
SOMETIMES THE problems are never solved.
"Not everyone who comes to Al-Anon gets help."
Les said. "They don't like it; what they hear there don't suit them and they never come back."
However, Jean said that for many it was a relief to attend the first Al-Anon meeting because everyone had the common problem of an alcoholic friend or relative.