University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 2, 1990
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KU grad relates Supreme Court case
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
When Bill Colby graduated from the KU School of Law in 1982, he did not know that seven years later he was sent to court case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Colby spoke to about 30 people yesterday at Green Hall about the Nancy Cruzan right-to-die case that has been presented December before the Supreme Court.
injured in a car accident in 1883. Medical personnel revived her after she had quit breathing for 20 minutes.
Since then she has been in a persistent vegetative state, a clinical condition that shows no brain activity, Colv said. Cruzan is 32 years old.
"For Nancy, all consciousness, all thoughts, feelings and emotions are gone and will never come back," he said. "She'll never have any interaction with the world around her."
Colby said about 10,000 people in the United States were in conditions similar to Cruzan's.
Cruzan, of Carterville, Mo., was
After months of hoping for a recovery, the family approached Colby about having her taken off the life-support machine.
Colby argued the case before the Missouri Supreme Court and lost by a 4-3 vote. He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
been out of the state only once.
Family members were nervous about the lawsuit, he said. They had
Colby argued on Dec. 6, 1899, that Cruzan was in a persistent vegetative state and that she would not want to go to school if she were able to communicate.
Colby said that the Supreme Court would decide the case sometime this week.
Robert Jerry, dean of law, said he invited Colby to KU to expose students to someone who had argued before the Supreme Court.
"While not everyone has the opportunity to argue before the Supreme Court so early in his or her career, Bill does provide an example of the kinds of contributions and involvement he have with a law degree," he said.
Bill Turner, third-year law student, said he attended the speech because he was interested in the case and had followed its progress through the Missouri court system to the Supreme Court.
Med Center physician criticizes abortion bill
The Associated Press
TOEKA — A faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center pleaded yesterday with a legislative subcommittee not to endorse a bill banning abortions at the Med Center, saying it could destroy the obstetrics and gynecology program.
John Calkins, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, said physicians would leave the program and its accreditation would be jeopardized because banning abortions would limit radically the range of services physicians practicing there could offer.
Calkins spoke to a subcommittee of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
"I really think this would jeopardize the program," Calkins said. "We're just going to keep chasing people out of doing obstetrics."
Marlin Rein, Med Center budget director, told the subcommittee the bill would threaten the financial integrity of the hospital at the Med Hospital, high-risk pregnancy patients no longer would be referred to its physicians.
Rein said that of all the institutions under state control, the Med Center was the one that should not have any "shackles" placed on it.
He also said the bill would jeopardize the ne-natal program at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, which is home to nearly 12,000 students of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.
He suggested the subcommittee recommend spending about $5.6 million to replace the potential lost revenue if it endorsed the bill. He said that was income the program and the hospital generated annually.
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
The subcommittee is studying a bill that would prohibit employees of the Med Center from participating in abortions, a step that the 1989 Webster decision by the U.S. Supreme Court allows.
It took no action yesterday, and Chairman Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, said it was searching for ways to restrict abortions at the Med Center without doing harm to the quality programs that it offered.
Sen. Norm Daniels, R-Valley Center, a member of the subcommittee who opposes abortion, said the goal is to end abortions of abortions at the Med Center.
The subcommittee has evidence that the number of abortions performed at the Med Center declined 6 percent between 1988 and 1989, and that 1,700 babies were delivered there, more than 1,000 of which followed high-risk pregnancies.
Such pregnancies are rarely handled by physicians in the communities of Kansas because of the danger of law suits.
This won't hurt a bit
Eric Alabanza, Honolulu, Hawaii, sophomore, receives his mumps, measles and rubella immunization shot from Pat Bucha, a registered nurse at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Students
who have not had their immunization records updated or have not been immunized by today will have holds placed on their enrollment cards.
City, KU officials discuss construction
Bv Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
City and KU officials yesterday outlined progress on several development and construction projects.
The annual city/University lunchon brings KU and Lawrence employees together to discuss how each entity affects the other, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said. Nineteen people attended yesterday's meeting.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said projects worth $80 million to $90 million were under construction or in planning at the University of Kansas.
Completed KU projects include Phase I of the Kansas Union renovation, the Anschutz Science Library, the University library a warehouse for University Press.
Construction of the Dole Human
Development Center should be completed next month, Wiechert said. By fall, the building should be fully occupied and moved to be moved into work spaces.
Phase II of the Snow Hall renovations should be completed by December, he said. The hall should be ready for student use next year.
Mayor Bob Schumm said the city's most expensive project, the Riverfront Plaza, would cost $22 million. The retail outlet center contains about 200,000 square feet and will include about 55 stores.
In the summer, the city will try to expand and improve east/west roads, he said. City officials expect growth by Fifth. Sixth. Ninth. 19th and 31st streets.
The city is planning extensive improvements along 19th Street from Massachusetts to Iowa streets,
Schumm said. Two traffic lights will be installed, one at Louisiana Street and the other at Naismith Drive.
Sixth Street will be widened to five lanes from Massachusetts to Maine streets, Schumm said. Ninth Street will be widened to three or four lanes from Emery Road to Iowa Street. The city also is considering sidewalk and street light installation south of Ninth Street along Emery Road.
Wiechert said other planned KU projects included:
projects methed:
* Renovation of Hoch Auditorium
  The仓库 is built. The $6 million project would link Hoch to the science library. Hoch would include a 600-seat classroom, offices and a library addition.
Campus about one-quarter mile wes and clearing the site in preparation for the Lied Center. The Kansas Geological Survey's core sample library also would be moved to another West Campus site.
A water-restitution pond between the lanes of Naismith Drive south of 19th Street to help reduce flooding. Moving the KANU tower on West
- Adding a wing to the southeast side of Murphy Hall. However, the University does not expect to receive money for this from the 1990 Legislature.
■ Implementing a three-stage project that would upgrade KU's water system. The future of a $1.98 million KU water project would depend on the Legislature's decision to finance it.
Installing street lights on Louisiana Street between 11th and 13th streets. The University has asked the city to help with the project.
Three police checkpoints ready to go
By a Kansan reporter
Lawrence police were stopping vehicles at three places in Lawrence last night to make sure there was no traffic. An npolice official said yesterday.
Police also will be looking for persons operating vehicles while under the influence of alcohol, Mulvenon said.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said officers had set up driver's license checkpoints at 7 p.m. to check driver's licenses, insurance, registration and equipment. Checking will continue intermittently until early morning as time and manpower permit.
He said checkpoints would be set up at 23rd Street and Naismith Drive, Sikth and Iowa streets, and lanes of the Kaw River bridge.
Mulvenon had said Wednesday that Lawrence police had not operated checkpoints for about a year because of a lack of manpower. But he said yesterday there would be enough manpower during the weekend.
Month celebrates women Resource center plans activities
By a Kansan reporter
Women's History Week first was celebrated in 1977 in Sonoma County, Calif.
This month marks the fourth year that National Women's History Month has been celebrated.
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"There was so much interest shown for it and so many activities nationwide that它 became Women's History Month," said Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center.
Ballard said that in 1818 Sir, Ornir Hatch, R-Utah, and Rep. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., co-sponsored the first bill to proclaim the National Women's History Week. In 1867, Congress proclaimed the first month-long celebration, which has been renewed annually.
The month is a way of recognizing women who have contributed to history, Ballard said.
"Women have played a critical role in the United States, yet men get most of the credit for history," she said.
Kshama Gargesh, Mysore, India,
graduate student, said, "I think
women need to be recognized for all
the things they've done so far."
Gargesh, graduate assistant for the women's resource center, said the center had planned programs in honor of Women's History Month, including one titled "Equal Pay for Equal Work" and other events. The program will be from 7 to 9 p.m. March 20 at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
A display also will be posted on the bulletin board in front of Watson Library from March 5 to 9. she said.
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