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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 27, 1990
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Keith ThorpeKANSAN
Dirty work
David Crockett (left) and Charles Suit, facilities operations workers, unclog a sewer at the intersection of 14th and Louisiana streets. The clog caused sewage to flow down 14th Street yesterday.
Medical pioneer led way in blood research
Rv Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Charles Drew, a pioneer in medical research, is remembered for his contributions to the development of blood storage and blood transfusion.
Drew was born in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 1904. He graduated from Annapolis College in 1928 and Goura University Medical School in Canada in 1935.
In the 1830s, he taught medicine and surgery at Howard University and Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Drew was awarded a General Education Board Fellowship to Columbia University Medical School in 1935 to research the preservation of blood and its use for transfusions.
Drew published a book in 1940 titled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Preservations." At the request of the Royal College of Surgeons, he started the "Blood for Britain" project, a war effort that focused on collecting and drying blood plasma to be used for transfusions on the battlefield.
Drew served as director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank in 1941 and assistant to the director of the National Research Council, which collected blood for the U.S. Army during World War II his position at the Red Cross in 1942 to protest its policy of segregating blood by the race of donors.
Charles Drew
During the summer of 1949, Drew was a consultant to the surgeon-general of the U.S. Army as a member of
Drew
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Born: June 3, 1904
Died: April 1, 1960
Occupation: Teacher, Scientist
Contribution: Drew was a pioneer in the development of preserving and storing blood for transfusions.
Born: June 3, 1904
Died: April 1, 1950
a four-physician team, which toured hospital installations in Occupied Europe to improve medical care and instruction.
Medical reports said that because of the damage caused to the two main veins of his heart, blood transfusions of any kind would have been useless.
On April 1, 1950, Drew died from injuries incurred in an auto accident outside Burlington, N.C.
Bill targets alumnni for illegal recruiting
By Rod Griffin
TOPEKA — Crime doesn't pay
Kansan staff writer
This is the message State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, wants to send to university alumni who illegally recruit college athletes.
over-zealous alumnus."
Johnston introduced a bill Feb. 7 that would allow universities to sue people who caused the schools to violate National Collegiate Athletic Association rules and reviewed the bill at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Johnston said universities were punished for rules violations that they might not be responsible for.
"The person who may be responsible for all of this just walks on down the road and may not suffer anything," he said. "One of those that seems to go down the road is an
Johnston's bill would allow universities to sue for damages caused by the person who initiated a rules violation.
The bill would exempt coaches, university employees, NCAA employees and students. Johnston said the universities and the NCAA were at risk with employees who broke the rules, implying that they could be fired.
The bill would allow universities to sue for lost television revenues and ticket sales caused by NCAA sanctions.
Johnston said prosecuting people who did not live in the state could be a problem.
Victoria Thomas, University of Kansas chief counsel, agreed.
"Clearly there are ways to get
jurisdiction over people who live out of state, but that could be a problem," she said.
Thomas said it was important to put the law into statute because common law did not provide for civil action against people outside the University who broke the rules.
"It's not like we have contracts with the alumni," she said. "Clearly Sen. Johnston stated his concern, and he should be able to protect damages."
Johnston said he was urged originally to introduce a bill that would allow violators to be jailed. Much to the surprise of many, Mr. D-Akraneas City, Johnston did not.
"I'm glad you didn't make this a criminal action," Rock quipped. "We already have a serious prison population. I'm afraid this might compound it."
Sports fees could increase
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate's Finance Committee unanimously endorsed another fee increase last night by approving $5 more for the women's and non-revenue sports fee.
Senate is scheduled to hear the bill at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union.
Representatives from the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation asked to increase the student fee from $9 to $14 a semester. The fee last was increased in Fall 1987.
Bob Frederick, athletic director,
said non-revenue sports were those at the University that did not charge students admission to the games. Football and men's basketball are considered revenue sports.
"I's our commitment that we should not charge admission for non-revenue sports," Frederick said.
He said increases in tuition and college expenses, coupled with drops in revenue from home football games, had pinched the KUAC budget. The corporation has operated at a deficit for the past
two years and now has a deficit balance of more than $300,000.
"We want to keep the nonrevenue sports budget between 25 and 30 percent of the total revenue budget in the future," Frederick said.
Susan Wachter, assistant athletic director, estimated that without the fee increase, the current fee would account for about 19 percent of the projected 1991 budget.
Wachter said KU's sports budget was the sixth largest in the Big Eight Conference.
"We're $1 million behind Missouri and $1 million ahead of K-State," Wachter said.
She said that men's basketball was making more money than it spent but that football was lagging behind.
Low attendance at home football games lowered gate receipts, Frederick sald. About $900,000 was collected at the gates last season. He compared that figure to $8 million collected at Arizona State University.
"If people lost faith in basketball and football, we'll be at risk,"
Frederick said.
Jackie Becker, committee member, said, "The athletes come to the University for both the athletics and the academics. It's up to us to give increases in fees to keep the programs going."
Lara Adams, committee member, said, "I feel that the students are paying twice. We buy the student tickets and then we have increased fees."
Also last night, the committee began its first round of deliberating budget requests from student organizations. The committee debated budget requests from 14 organizations. Most of the requests were streamlined to basic financing guidelines announced before the requests were made.
Pat Warren, committee cochairman, said the committee would deliberate each request in its first round and would consider them again in a second round. A third round could be available if needed.
The committee plans to continue the first-round in its deliberations Monday.
Red Cross praises student volunteer
By Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
Amy Beckett went to Oakland, Calif., during Christmas vacation as an American Red Cross volunteer to help victims of the October earthquake. But she gained more than experience and exposure to disaster efforts.
She also gained recognition.
Amy Beckett
Beckett, Topeka senior, was one of four volunteers awarded a certificate of gratitude yesterday from the Kansas Capital Area Chapter of the Red Cross. She received the certificate for volunteering 91 days of service in 1989 as a disaster specialist for the Red Cross.
Beckett said she thought working as a volunteer in disaster areas was practical experience that she could apply to her career.
"When you work at disasters, you're working with people in grief, so it's great counseling therapy," said Beckett; a music therapy major
Beckett said, she helped provide assistance to people who had just lost their homes. It was there that she met her fiance, Bill Shaffer of Campaign, III. They plan to marry in March 1991 and serve together as Red Cross volunteers.
In addition to work in California, Beckett helped disaster victims last year in Kentucky, Texas and Virginia.
While serving in the Bay area.
Beckett, who has been a Red Cross volunteer since 1988, related an experience she had in Council Bluffs, Iowa, after a tornado struck the area in 1988. She went to a trailer park
area that had been leveled and assisted a man and woman who had spent two weeks in a destroyed trailer home.
Beckett said she and other volunteers helped them move out and into a furnished apartment.
"he teared up and said he didn't know that there were people that cared in the world," Beckett said. "Most of the people don't expect any help but the one thing they (insurance companies) don't cover is an act of God."
She said everyone in her family volunteered service to the Red Cross. Her father, Mike Beckett, is a National Red Cross Disaster Reservist. He also was awarded a certificate yesterday for volunteer efforts. He has worked at disaster areas in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, where he served after Hurricane Hugo struck.
“It’s one thing to watch it on television,” he said of disasters, “but it’s entirely different to help people get their lives back in order.”
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