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University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 20, 1989
Monday
Nov.20
Noon — The department of African and African-American studies presents Surenra Bhana, associate professor of history, speaking on "Alaian Exclusion in Southern Africa: the 1880s to 1910" at Alcove D in the Kansas Union.
> 5:30 p.m. — The Transcendental Meditation Club will have group meditation at Alcove D in the Kansas Union. All
> 6:30 p.m. — The KU Tae Kwon Do Club will have a meeting and workout at 207 Robinson Center.
students, faculty, and staff who practice transcendental meditation are welcome.
6 : 30 p.m. — The KU Hispanic-American Leadership Organization will meet at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
Nov. 21
Tuesday
8 p.m. - KU Bible Study will have a
Thanksgiving dinner at the Lawrence
Senior Center, 745 Vermont St., followed by a speaker and special music.
Prof helps to solve problems in ethics
By Beth Behrens Kansan staff writer
Between 700 and 800 congressmen, inspectors general, academicians, and state and local legislators from across the nation attended a three-day conference on ethics in government last week in Washington, D.C., that was organized in part by a KU professor.
George Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene distinguished professor of public administration, was part of a three-person committee from the American Society of Public Administration, which created the conference, "Ethics in Government: an Intricate Web," Nov. 12-15. Frederickson said he thought it was the first national conference conducted in the United States on governmental ethics...
The other committee members were Bayard Catron, professor of public administration, at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Shirley Wester, executive director of ASPA.
"At first we thought 'Let's have an academic conference,' but then we decided the problem wasn't academic but governmental," Frederickson said. "We've had a serious governmental problem that goes back much more than 10 years ago."
Frederickson, a former president of the ASPA, said the conference
agenda included panel discussions and speakers suggested by members of 33 professional and academic organizations. A speech also was given by C. Boyden Gray, counsel to President Bush and an ethics adviser.
John Nalbandian, associate professor of public administration, said Frederickson was a leader in the field of governmental ethics.
"He is known as the single person in our field who has had the most to do with reintroducing equity and fairness in public administration."
"People who are being picked for political appointments really don't understand what public trust is all about," he said. "There is more and more of an emphasis on private business, getting the government off people's backs and business practices."
"Because of this, it is a natural consequence that there is an increase in ethics problems."
Nalbandian said the problem of ethics in government had been developing during the last several administrations.
Nalbandian said the accountability for public trust was more extreme at the federal level, than at the local level because local governments gave politicians much less of an opportunity to make political appointments.
KU sponsors conference on mental health reform
By Melanie Matthes Kansan staff writer
Mental health programs in Kansas, ranked 42nd out of the 50 states, are in desperate need of reform, said the sponsors of a conference Friday offered by the School of Social Welfare.
"The ranking was from the 1988 Torrey Report on State Mental Health Services. The conference, titled "Mental Health Reform in Kansas; Possibilities and Prescriptions," was offered to state legislators, officials of state agencies, advocacy groups and directors and consumers of community mental health programs.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who moderated a panel discussion among legislators at the conference, said she thought the conference was outstanding.
The conference addressed a long overdue need of mental health reform and came at a very opportune time because the next legislative session begins in January, Branson said. She forgoed her annual leave to help meet its efforts to educate the legislators and the community.
"Everyone's been very frustrated because we haven't been able to move ahead in mental health reform," she said.
Charles Rapp, associate dean of social welfare, said that Kansas was considered a leader in mental health programs 30 years ago. But because state financing had failed to progress with the changing needs of mental health programs, Kansas had not kept up with other states.
He said that in the past 30 years, care givers had learned that care for the mentally ill could take place outside of the institution. Therefore, there is a need for financing of community programs and residential facilities.
Although the state provides about $50 million a year to mental health programs, the existing programs suffer because the money is not distributed appropriately. Rapp said.
About 90 percent of the state funds go to mental health institutions, he said.
"That leaves precious little for the community programs that we now know will work," he said.
Kansas also lacks an incentive financing plan that encourages care givers to keep the mentality out of community into community programs, he said.
Rapp said that other states are spending more than 50 percent of state financing on community care.
"I think that there is a good coalition of legislators within the entire Legislature who understand the problems and are ready to advocate for reform," she said.
She said she thought that mental health reform was considered a priority among the legislators who were aware of the problems with state mental health programs.
Branson said that there was no residential mental health facility in Douglas County.
In the next session, the Legislature will consider a bill requiring patients to go through a community mental health center before being admitted to state mental health institutions, Branson said.
Toy testing may seem harsh but can help prevent injuries
GAFTHERSBURG, Md. — Even Sorcego, on his worst hamb-humbug days, might have shed a tear at the sight.
The Associated Press
He is working in the toy testing laboratory of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the tables are crowded with diabolical devices specifically designed to fold, spindle and mutilate — or worse.
what appears at first glance to be a jolly Santa's workshop in this Washington suburb is actually a torture chamber for Christmas toys that is worthy of the Spanish Inquisition.
Working behind closed doors in a small room stacked high with Yule-tide goods, Bob Hundemer, the Torquemada of the toy business, is gleefully wrenching the nose off a cuddly twwd bear.
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