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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 13, 1990
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Fired director wins job appeal
Bv a Kansan reporter
Tom Anderson, former KU facilities operations director, has been reinstalled and will be relocated to another position on campus, Richard Mann, director for information resources, said yesterday.
The decision was made Monday after Mann and Keith Nitcher, director for business affairs, reviewed an appeal Anderson had filed last month.
Anderson was fired May 23 by Rodger Oroke, director for support services, for using state telephone and fax lines for personal reasons. After Anderson appealed the decision, Chancellor Gene A. Budig appointed Mann and Nitcher to
Budig could not be reached for comment yesterday.
review the anoel.
Mam, who would not comment on the material reviewed, said, "The decision was based on the appeal and the review of the appeal."
Anderson was facilities operations director from 1980 to 1990. He gave the University a $1000 check after the calls the calls totaled $800.
Mann said no decision had been made about Anderson's next job. Anderson will not be reassigned to facilities operations office, Mann said.
Anderson said yesterday that he was happy about the situation.
"I'm just glad it's over," he said.
Kansans may receive lower AT&T rates
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission tentatively approved yesterday a decrease in long-distance rates for American Telephone and Telegraph Co. customers in Kansas.
The order will result in a $3.5 million reduction in long-distance costs, and another $100,000 reduction for certain business customers who use Wide Area Telecommunications Services, or WATS lines. WATS lines can incur a long-distance line, rather than for individual calls.
KCC apokesman Sam Vam Leuewen said the three-member commission approved the plan after contact between the KCC staff and AT&T4.
Under their agreement, AT&T will place a cap on all its rates for two years. However, the telephone company will be free to lower its rates up to 10 percent without filing a cost study to justify it with the KC. The staff should have to approve the reduction.
Van Leeuwen said the agreement did not result in any deregulation of the telephone company.
"It is beneficial to AT&T," said Mike Reech, state director of government affairs for AT&T. "It provides AT&T additional flexibility in pricing our services in order to meet competition in the Kansas market."
re said before the order the telephone company was stymied by its inability to reduce rates to compete with other long-distance carriers.
"We asked for total pricing flexibility," Reacht said. "We asked for more flexibility than we got. We're not necessarily satisfied, but it's a good first step."
Bed checks at Haskell discontinued in reform
By Bryan Reber
Kenano staff writer
Early morning bed checks and residence hall intervariation are among the policies Haskell Indian Junior College administrators and student leaders have cooperated to change recently.
Bob Martin, president of Haskell, said Friday that he thought the policy changes represented a considerable improvement. The changes are the first of many anticipated because of long range planning conducted by administrators and students over the past year.
The bed checks began when Haskell was a boarding school for grade school boys. Surprise bed checks began when Haskell became a college in 1970.
Among the policies changed was the termination of early morning bed checks, Martin said. Since its inception, it has been part of residence hall life at Haskell.
students found cohabiting during bed checks have been subject to fines
Residence hall intervisitation has also changed, Martin said.
"We've had co-ed residence halls but students couldn't visit one another's rooms," Martin said. "Now they can within restricted hours."
The new policy will allow intervi-
tation between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Monday through Friday, 1 p.m. and
10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Becky. Whitteetree, student senate vice president, said that intervitation was working well this summer with one exception.
Whitteen said the way the new rule has been implemented, visiting students are forced to leave the residence halls at 10 p.m.
Whittetree said that the new residence hall policies were implemented during the summer session and solved before the fall session, and solved before the fall session.
"Before, girlfriends and boyfriends could sit in the lobby and watch movies until 1 a.m. on weekends," she said.
The make-up of the team has not been confirmed but Martin anticapped the team would include an additional coach, an assault hall adviser and a counselor.
A student intervention plan will allow disruptive students to participate in a process that will include a team of intervention personnel.
According to the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, the intervention plan offers students "a chance to seek help and make adjustments so that they may continue their education."
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Room for more books
Charlie Wiggins, superintendent with Harris Construction Co., discusses excavation on the west side of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, with Jim Williams, architect. The bookstore is
undergoing expansion that will almost double its existing size said Mike Swalm, supply department manager. Swalm said he expected construction to be completed before fall classes.
The Associated Press
AIDS threatens developing countries
WASHINGTON — With better reporting systems, international health experts have a clearer view of the AIDS epidemic as it spreads around the world, but they don't like what they're seeing in developing countries.
"The global balance of HIV infection is rapidly tipping toward the developing countries," said Michael Merson, director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS.
These countries now account for about half of the 6 million to 8 million people infected with the AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. By the end of the decade their share will probably decline. The WHO estimates possibly to 90 percent in 2010, according to figures WHO released yesterday.
"What's going to happen in this decade is that AIDS will continue to increase in Africa, primarily in countries that don't have large rates of infection now," Merson said in an interview.
Among prostitutes in Thailand, fewer than 1 percent were reported
"In addition, we're starting to see considerable increases in Asian countries and South American countries, and also in the Caribbean," he said.
One reason for the faster-than-expected spread of HIV in these countries is that the limited data previously available made accurate predictions difficult, and better reporting systems are now in place, said David Brandling-Siemens of American-World Health Organization.
In that Asian country, the number of infected people whose cases have been reported rose from about 1,000 in 1987 to 50,000 currently, Merson said. He said only about one-third of cases are reported.
However, officials have documented an alarming increase in HIV infection in Thailand, and are unsure why it is spreading so quickly, he was told.
with HIV infection in 1987. Now, the rate is as high as 40 percent in some cities. Merson said.
WHO had projected that, by the end of the decade, 15 million to 20 million people would be infected with Ebola. I say that say is a minimum estimate.
The forecast is expected to be pushed up by the startling increase of AIDS in the developing countries as well as by an increase in heterosexual transmission of the disease in industrialized countries.
New projections will not be ready until late this year or 1919, Merson said. He declined to estimate how high the projection could go.
The virus is spread mainly by sexual contact, needles or syringes shared by drug abusers, infected with HIV. Most cases are caused by pregnant women to their babies.
In the United States, most of the people with AIDS are homosexual men and intravenous drug users.
However, Merson said that in industrialized countries — such as the United States — with inner-city poverty and high rates of intravenous drug use and sexuality transmitted sexually exposuous transmission is increasing.
About 60 percent of HIV infections worldwide have resulted from heterosexual intercourse, but by the age of 18 these infections are expected to rise as high as 90 percent.
In Africa, the virus is being spread primarily through heterosexual intercourse, and as many women are infected as men. An estimated 9.5 million sub-Saharan Africans have been infected with the virus, accounting for more than half the global total of HIV infection.
Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, more than 250,000 have been reported to WHO from more than 150 countries, but because of under-reporting and other officials believe that number is closer to 700,000.
That number is expected to grow to about 5.5 million by the end of the decade.
AIDS cases reach 10 for Douglas County
By Erin Gothard Special to the Kensen
The Douglas County Health Department announced Iast Wednesday that the number of confirmed AIDS cases in Douglas County had reached 10.
Until the tibia case was reported, the health department could not choose the number of reported AIDS cases in the county. State regulations prohibit counties with fewer than 18 AIDS cases from reporting their numbers in order to protect their "identity" identities.
Ann Aller, director of the Douglas County Health Department, said she did not stick to the reported number accurately reimbursed the number of AIDS patients in Douglas County.
Because AIDS cases are reported by the county where the person is diagnosed, it is possible AIDS patients diagnosed elsewhere may be living in the county.
Donna Flerg, coordinator of the Douglas County AIDS Project's client services, agreed with Allor. She said she was concerned the project had not reached all of the people who could use its services.
Lee Bray, director of AIDS education with the state health department, said that knowing the number of AIDS cases in each county told the health department where high risk areas were and helped them with public education efforts.
Bray said AIDS education was extremely important.
By a Kansan reporter
Robert Creighton nominated for Regents chairman post
The Board of Regents nominating committee yesterday unanimously nominated Robert Creighton for Regents chairman.
Norman Jeter, present chairman,
said the Regents would review and
vote on the nomination at its June 28
meeting.
Jetar said Creighton was well qualified for the job.
"He is a careful, concise lawyer," he said. "He is open-minded and reasonable. There are a number of Regents who are qualified, but he is willing to make a commitment to it."
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, supported Creighton's nomination.
"I respect the judgment of the committee," Koplik said. "I know he is very well qualified for the job."
Creighton was appointed to the Regents in January 1988.
He is a practicing attorney in Atwood, and is mayor of Atwood. He serves on the board of directors for the First National Bank of Flugler, Colo.
Creighton earned his bachelor's degree from The University of Kansas in 1966. He earned a law degree from KU in 1900.