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Fridav. April 12, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Statehouse approves merger of two Kansas schools
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A bill that would merge two Board of Regents institutions was approved by a House committee yesterday.
The bill, already approved by the Senate, combines the Kansas College of Technology in Salina with Kansas State University. The college would then become Kansas State University Salina, College of Technology.
The House Appropriations Committee unanimously passed the measure by a voice vote after listeners testimony from five proponents.
The bill must be approved by the House and Gov. Joan Finney before the legislative session ends in order to merger to be implemented by July 1.
The merger would cost $10.44 million, $4.5 million of which will come
from a half-cent sales tax levied in Salina specifically for the project.
The state would pitch in $1.59 million, and the rest of the project would be financed through private bonds from the state and the sale of the south KCT campus.
The bill phases out the two-year engineering technology program at K-State, combining it with the program already in existence at KCT.
Stanley Konlik, executive director
of the Regents, said the merger was beneficial to Kansas for several reasons, primarily that it would strengthen the two institutions.
"I believe we can truly view it as a win-win situation," he said. "Kansas College of Technology will benefit us with Kansas State. It will flourish."
Maj Thomas Martin, education services officer for the Kansas National Guard, said the merger
could translate into dollars from the Pentagon, because KCT offered courses in aviation technology and training to air aviation battalion near the campus.
He said the Kansas Guard had sent personnel to other states to be trained in aviation technology because the Pentagon felt the program in Salina was not strong enough.
But the merger would change that
perception, Martin said.
"The Army wants to get out of the training business," he said. "They want to turn the training over to the educators.
"Here's a chance for Kansas to move light years ahead of the rest of the country in aviation technology, he said. "We know aviation won the race by traveling where the Perlagon is going to spend money for the next five years."
Italian ferry hits oil tanker
The Associated Press
LEGIONH, Italy — A cabin attendant dangled from the side of a flaming ship for two hours, the only known survivor yesterday from a ferry fire that authorites fear killed 139 people.
"My friends died beside me, it is a miracle I'm alive," said Alessio Bertrand from his hospital bed, and he was being treated for shock.
Bertrand said he and two other crewmen had been watching a soccer game below deck when the ferry rammed an anchored oil tanker Wednesday night in thick fog off northwestern Italy.
"Flames erupted and smoke was
everywhere, we wouldn't see anything." Bertrand said.
They stumbled over bodies as they fought their way upstairs and outside.
The water, a flaming sea of oil,
offered no hope.
His friends died from the smoke that swept the ferry. Bertrand saved himself by clinging to a rail overboard, and to life.
"I hung on, I don't know how, for about two hours," he said. "Then the coast guard came and told me to jump off. I don't know why I'm here and the others are all dead. It's a miracle."
halted at dusk yesterday, 40 bodies had been recovered. The ferry had carried 72 passengers and a crew of 68. All but one, an Austrian, were Italian.
The 28-man crew of the tanker jumped into lifeboats and survived. The disaster occurred as the Moby Prince ferry was 24 miles off Leghorn, steaming toward Olbia, Sardinia.
By the time rescue efforts were
The ferry blaze Wednesday inadvertently may have been worsened by the captain, who put the ship in reverse after the collision, pulling it over to shore but starting a cascade of oil from the tank. Leghorn port officials said.
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Bv Amv Francis
Kansan staff writer
Once known as the "yuppie flu," CFS is a condition that causes one to feel constantly exhausted.
Neeyan Ostrom, KU graduate,
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The book, which came out this month, is composed of stories that Ostrom wrote for the New York
"What Really Killed Gilda Radner? Frontline Reports on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic," is not completely about Radner but deals more with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
"Gilda was diagnosed as having Chronic Fatigue Syndrome one-and-a half years before she was diagnosed with the cancer that killed her." Ostrom said. "It's a very dramatic way of looking at
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"I've been covering this story since February 8," Oström said. "What we did was publish the two years' worth of columns."
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"This（CFS) is unbelievably scary."
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Ostrom said, "There aren't really any good books out about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I hope that more publicity about the illness will lead to more funding for research."
It took a lot of time to research the articles, she said. But one of the hardest parts of the research was interviewing CFS patients.
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Ostrom is satisfied with the reaction to the book so far.
"The reaction we have received has been positive," she said. "What we expected was interest, and that's what we got."
Ortleb said that he expected the book to be a best seller after a few months.
Ostrom plans to write a second book about CFS. It will be a compilation of her stories, in addition to long interviews with physicians. The book's title might be "Anatomy of a Cover-Up." Ostrom said.
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