Lawrence lacks adequate treatment for alcoholics
(Note): This story is the first of a three-part series on alcoholism.)
United States alcoholism statistics are awesome. Alcohol:
—is the most abused and abundant drug
- in related to one-half of the highway fatalities in a year, or 28,000 lives.
—drains the economy of $25 billion a year
—is a disease that afflicts between 10 and 18 million victims.
Despite the enormousness of the problem, Lawrence and many cities its size lack funds, facilities and manpower to deal with alcoholism. They face problems for police, hospitals and alcoholics.
BRUCE BEALE, commission of the Douglas County Citizens Commission on Alcoholism (DCCCA), recently said that Lawrence lacked both a drinking license and a treatment program for alcoholics who needed
Without treatment from a detox unit, Beale said, acclomics can die from delirium tremens (DTs), with withdrawal symptom caused by alcohol poisoning. DTs manifest itself through trembling, hallucinations, ideas of persecution and extreme exhaustion.
medical supervision. A detox unit is necessary to purify the blood of a chronic alcoholic, a 59 bighouse patient.
PAT BEARD, director of the Asher Half-Way House for Alcoholics, 345 Missouri St., said that 10 per cent of the alcohols who have DTs and who withdraw cold turkey die.
Beard said she thought that because so many chronic alcoholics were bolsterous, high-risk patients, it was often difficult to find doctors to help them.
Don Lenz, director of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said he hoped there would be a detox unit installed within six months, although it would mean finding more manpower to run the 24-hour unit.
Lenz said the reason for the slow development of
treatment programs was that the incidence of alcoholism in Douglas County was unstabilized.
REX JOHNSON, Johnson County sheriff, said his officers picked up five drunkards a week, many of whom have no homes. Consequently, they are taken to treatment facilities for their own protection for a maximum of six hours or simply left alone. He said detox units helped to make sure alcoholies were "dry" before returning home.
Because there is no detox unit or inpatient program in Lawrence, chronic alcoholics must be taken to the nearest facility in Topeka or Kansas City.
Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Hospital, said Watkins only had occidental patients with DTS, and although it had no inpatient program, it helped improve the quality of symptom symptoms with medical and nephrological help.
It is comprised of 20 policemen who cruise the streets 12 hours to look for drunk drivers.
IF DBRUNK (blood alcohol content is higher than 10 per cent), a driver is fixed.
Beale said the DCCCera recently initiated the Alcohol Safety Action Failed (ASAF) to help reduce alcohol use among young people.
If the DCCCA determines that someone is a problem drinker, he is given the choice of facing trial, and possibly jail, or of attending four two-hour Alcohol Information School classes.
Beale said he would like to incorporate more programs, but was hampered by limited funds. The university's budget increased $7,000 from the city for fiscal year 1977, plus a grant from the State Alcohol Abuse Unit for $14,500. Beale said that the state grant, a three-year starter grant, would help him meet his goal, but he anticipated losses from the state next year.
Baea said so far, only four of the 98 who have attended the classes have been reentered for the class.
were distributed to the DCCCA tributaries such as the Asher Half-Way House, a (12-bed residency for alcoholics), the Alcohol Information School and various counseling programs.
Beale said the $23,500 needed to run the Asher house made it a defection operation.
Bale called KU students a tremendous source or volunteers because he thought they were sensitive to them.
WITH MORE MONEY for salaries, Beale said, the DCCCA could introduce new educational and treatment programs, such as an instrument program and a six-unit needs at least six employees to operate it.
Beale said that the grant was used solely for personnel salaries and that city and county funds
Another factor involved in the return of the child, according to Hyde, was a demonstration and meeting in December led by Russell Means, American Indian Movement leader, who called it a kidnapping case.
Hyde said he thought the demonstration had been important in allowing him and his wife to have Hrolene home for occasional visits before Friday's hearing. After a 90-minute closed-door meeting between Means, Elwyn representatives of the Hydes in Dyce, Ewell let Rrolene return home for two days around Christmas.
Elwell said the parents had since received counseling and had attended parental education in the advice of court. Elwell said the Hyde and the reason their daughter had been retreated
"People keep putting alcohols into a limited role," she said. "They're also human beings. They're not no-good floxies in bars and burns in the gutter."
However, Beaal said, it is difficult to find volunteers and workers because monetary rewards are few and because people are uneducated about alcoholism.
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The pediatrician, Charles Loveland, reported the injury to SIGs, which then prompted a call from the hospital.
Complaints filed by campaigners
KANSAN
By MARSHA WOOLERY
Staff Reporter
Seven and a half hours of tedious vote tabulation last Thursday night seem to have paid off for the Student Senate Elections Committee, because no one has contested the election, Kevin Flynn, committee chairman, said yesterday afternoon.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Although both loss presidential candidates, Randy McKernan and Sherri Grey, said last Friday morning that they would ask for a recount because of the close vote, neither has done so. Flynn said. He had said he did not expect anyone to ask for a recount.
Monday, February 21, 1977
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One complaint against the election was filed last week by Harvey C. Jordon, Jr., who received a recount vote and a re-vote of the Nunemaker 2 district because he said his name was printed on his wrong ballot and when the mistake was revealed, the committee did not reprint the ballots.
X rays showed that Rolena had a spinal fracture of the leg and facial bruises. There was no significant change in her blood flow.
HIS COMPLAINT and three others alleging campaign misconduct will be discussed by the committee at 7:30 p.m. in Room 60 of the Kansas Union, Elkport said.
The three complaints alleging campaign misconduct were filed by Steve McMurry.
In the first complaint, McMurray said that members of the Spectrum coalition had violated the Senate Rules and Regulations on the Spectrum T-shirts within 58 feet of the nails.
Juvenile justice a contradiction
The parents were charged with child abuse in October after taking Rolena to a Lawrence pediatrician, saying Rolena had been a bed and a cauldron her leg in the bed *"aime.
Before the polls opened all campaign materials within 50 feet were removed. The candidates were also informed that the campaigns were campaigning within 50 feet of the polls.
In a second complaint, McMurray said that Elections Committee members, who according to Senate rules, must be bipartisan,
outwardly supported certain candidates by
wearing campaign T-shirts and campaign
buttons.
Juvenile Court Judge Mike Elwell said Rolena, who has lived in a foster home since October, would remain in the legal custody of the Social Rehabilitative Services (SRS) agency, with her parents, Anthony and Evelene Helley, who will be under SRS supervision.
As a result of a Friday afternoon hearing in Douglas County Juvenile Court, Rolena McGraw, the 9-month-old daughter of a couple child abused by her child abuse, will be returned to her parents.
Parents regain custody of child after court fight
McMurry also asked that action be taken "against any and all persons or coaltions" who tore down, marked up or destroyed Avanti campaism posters.
McMurry said that he didn't file the complaints to seek disciplinary action against the other coalitions. He said that he hoped the Election Committee would set up guidelines on permissible campaign tactics to avoid the problems in future elections.
FLYNN SAID results of the Senate questionnaire that accompanied the ballots in last week's election should be tabulated on Wednesday night's Senate meeting.
He said the committee needed volunteer help in the Senate office, 108B of the Union, to tabulate the questionmaires in the next two days.
Talying the questionnaires is time-consuming because each questionnaire includes eight questions, and 4,644 questionnaires were submitted -435 more than the number of students voting for student body president.
Because not all the polls registered students who filled out a questionnaire but didn't vote, it is uncertain whether some students filled out extra questionaires and stuffed ballot boxes, a committee member said.
The committee counted class office and graduate student ballots over the weekend.
President - Mike Nelson (Avail)
Vice President - Fred Gann (Avail)
President - Brad Yost (Spectrum)
Treasurer - Pattie Curry (Avail)
President - Tom Brews (Spectrum)
Vice President - Brad Yost (Spectrum)
President - Brad Yost (Spectrum)
Treasurer - Cindy Sugga (Spectrum)
SOPHOMORE CLASS
SOPrification Uber Clerks President—Matt Kilcher Vice-president—Roll Hamilton (Avant) Secretary-Davis Daniel (Reflection) Treasury—Barbara Gurcala (Reflection)
Charlotte Kinnebrook 100
San Jose Shaadi 102
Steve Shedd 106
Bernard Willmott 104
Mick L. Darby 98
Larry Crowse 96
William Reimers 94
William Williams 93
Dick Cowden 26
Frankie 24
Mike Mayer 24
Dave Gorman 24
Steve Kelman 23
Fraval Rock 26
David McSweeney 18
Leila Hard 17
Debra Nails 17
Hugo Nobile 17
Richard Freming 14
Bill Loe 14
Bob Hull 13
Adamus Miskorki 11
Ed Berenhfir 12
Helmert Meyer 16
Student demonstrators
Iranian students wearing blindfolds and hangman's noose demonstrated south of the Kansas Union Friday. Their actions were staged in support of international observers
photo by MIKE CAMPBELL
seeking to gain admittance to Iranian jails to visit what the students termed political prisoners. See story page three.
Regents approve supplemental budget request
D. STEVE DRAFTED
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The Kansas Board of Regents Friday approved supplemental budget
requests by Regents institutions to cover increased utility costs resulting from unusually cold weather and authorize the construction of new facilities, correct construction flaws in Wesley Hall.
KU student aid said to hinge on Carter
Rv JOHN MUELLER
Staff Reporter
Jerry Rogers, KU director of student financial aid, said yesterday that three programs affecting 800 students were in jeopardy because of the Ford budget. The programs are the National Direct Student Loan Program (NDSL), Supplementary Education Opportunity Grants (EOG) and College Work Study Program (CWSP).
"THE RUMORS we have from Washington are that Carter will approve the cuts," rats said, and the U.S. may not support Health Education and Welfare). may not contest the cuts."
The University of Kansas could lose nearly $1 million in student financial aid if President Jimmy Carter approves federal funding by the former President Gerald Ford.
Carter had been expected to release his recommendations on the federal higher education budget last week. But Rogers said the conditions probably would come tomorrow.
If Carter approves the cuts, Rogers said, KU would lost about $295,000. The figure is
derived from multiplying the average amount of money each student under one of the three programs received last year by the 800 students in the programs.
MUCH OF the average amount, slightly more than $1,150, comes from the NDSL funds. KU last year received $767,000 in federal money for NDSL and paid only $80,000 in University money for the program.
Rogers said if Carter allowed the Ford cuts to stand, HEW might not protest the cuts formally, because, "according to our information, HEW may have succumbed to the new administration, the President being a Democrat and all."
Ford's budget eliminates the NDSL mount, and cuts the two other programs by about 20%.
INFORMATION from the Association of American Universities, the National Association of Universities and Land Grant Colleges supports Rogers' views. The groups said in a Feb. 7 telegram to the Office of Student Financial Aid that HEW wouldn't appeal the cuts to the Office of Management and Budget, thereby leaving
the cuts as likely items for congressional approval.
Rogers said the University "really can't do much except to wait and see what Carter will do."
KUH TAKEN one action to protest the cuts, in the form of a telegraph from Chancellor Archie Dykes to Kansas members of the U.S. Congress. Dykes has said he also plans to telegraph Carter about Carter's budget plans.
Dykes said last week, "I'm concerned that the reduction in financial aid might make higher education impossible for a substantial number of students across the country. I hope that the programs can at least be funded at the current level."
Jeff Weinberg, KU associate director of account financial aid, said the budget cuts would allow the university to opportunity Grant Program (BEOG), but would place almost total reliance on the budget cuts.
See STUDENT AID page three
WEINBERG SAID the reliance on BEGO wouldn't hurt lower-income students, but could hurt middle-income students. The BEGO and EFG grants give money to
The Regents recommended that $479,266 be added to the Regents institutions' supplemental fiscal 1977 legislative budget requests to cover higher utility costs since the beginning of this year. KU's share of the request is $112,382.
Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, said another flaw in Wesco was inadequate ventilation in the Wesco Terrance kitchen, which could cause funds for the correction of the problem.
CHANCELLOR Warchie Dykes told the Regents that Warchie Hall had "rather serious construction deficiencies." The Regents agreed KU should spend $25,000 to improve ventilation in the two large Wesco lecture halls, $5,000 to install more handrails on outside stairways and $4,000 to improve the drainage of planting boxes outside the hall. The repair money will come from interest earnings on Wesco project bond funds.
THE REGENTS accepted extension course fee increases for all Regents institutions. Undergraduate fees increased from $16 to $18 for each extension course credit hour, and graduate fees increased from $22 to $27 for each credit hour.
The Regents Coordinating Council
lunts approved a recommendation to
suggest the regents adopt a
regulations plan.
The Regents also authorized KU to spend 865,247 from a National Institutes of Health grant to improve research animals' quarters. Dykes said the money would improve conditions at five animal care facilities on the Lawrence campus.
proposal that was mainly the work of the KU Graduate Student Council and the Student Senate. The coordinating council unanimously accepted a resolution supporting the mayor, and sent the matter to the Regents Council of Presidents for study.
Toward the end of the Regents budget presentation, State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Arlington, passed a resolution to appoint executive officer, on requiring prospective KU and Kansas State University students to go to the smaller Regents institutions if the smaller schools' enrollments continued to fall.
REGENT HENRY Bubb opposed the concept, saying it would be like "nazism or terrorism."
Glee Smith, Regents chairman, said he didn't think the state now could legally prevent a graduate of a Kansas high school from attending any Regents institution
The Regents activities last week were the first for Regents Frank Lowman of Hays and Marshal Reeve of Garden City, who were recently appointed by Gov. Robert Bennett to replace Jess Stewart and Paul Wunsch.