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Tuesdav. November 1, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU student listed as critical after liver transplant surgery
By a Kansan reporter
A KU student who received a liver transplant Monday morning was listed in critical condition yesterday at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
The student, Rick Castaneda, Kansas City, Kan., senior, received the transplant in an operation that lasted from midnight to 9:30 a.m.
Tom O'Connor, media coordinator at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said that a critical case was typical in liver transplant cases.
"They may be listed critical for two to three days, or even a week," O'Connor said.
He said that the nine and a half hour surgery was a standard length
for the operation and that the translants could last up to 12 hours
O'Connor said that Castaneda's transplant went well.
"He came through surgery fine," O'Connor said. Castaneda is in the Adult Intensive Care Unit at the medical center.
He was transported to Omaha on Oct. 24, and a liver was donated sometime Sunday. O'Connor could not say who the liver donor was.
Nebraska has one of the most active liver-transplant programs in the nation. O'Connor said.
O'Connor said that Kansans often went to Nebraska for liver transplants because Nebraska was the closest transplant center available.
Colleges get odd gifts from alumni
OXFORD, Miss. — A 19-foot-tall King Tut mask, 200 old-time music machines and a 1597 map of the New World are testing college administrators' ingenuity in finding uses for the sometimes odd gifts of well-meaning alumni.
The Associated Press
ed bronze, copper and aluminum mask in storage for possible use in the foyer of a new library now under consideration, Lago said.
The one-ton King Tut mask was donated to the University of Mississippi two years ago by a Houston developer who was an Ole Miss graduate. The mask hung in a building sold by the developer, said university spokeswoman Barbara Lago.
"We've had all kinds of gifts given to us," said Don Fruge, the school's development director. "We even had somebody build a 2 million gallon reservoir on our golf course to provide water for irrigation."
The school has put the disassembl-
The music machines, part of a collection valued at $500,000, were donated to Mississippi State University. The students once played in the school's band.
The music machines and other memorabilia dating to the Civil War
will be put on public display. More than 20,000 pieces of sheet music also included in the collection will be used for research by music students, school officials said.
The 400-year-old map was donated to the University of Southern Mississippi by James Riley, a retired insurance adjuster, and his wife.
"The library has been the beneficiary of so many gifts from them over the past 30 years, they've dubbed it the Riley collection," said Phil Hearn, assistant public relations director.
Among the Rileys' gifts: old books
and the 1862 mechanical pencil. All have been put on display.
Sandra Guest, a development assistant at Ole Miss, said the gifts, referred to as in-kind donations because they do not involve money, sometimes were extremely valuable. The King Tut mask, for example, is worth about $100,000.
Three acres of Palm Beach real estate was bequeathed to Ole Miss in 1986 by an alumnus. A Bonanza steakhouse and a gas station sit on the property and the school now receives rent from the two businesses, Fruge said.
News Briefs
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH GRANT: Mabel Rice, professor of speech-language-hearing, has received a five-year, $450,000 federal grant to her research of language-impaired children.
The money will be used to study why some children have difficulty in mastering oral communication, Rice said. Most children acquire a partial understanding of the language in a few times, but some children cannot learn words in that manner.
Rice said her research would develop ways to improve vocabulary in language-impaired children. Those will include videotape training materials that repeat a word more often or separate a new word from a sentence to help the child recognize that word.
CITY COMMISSION MEETING:
The riverfront development project is at the top of tonight's agenda
Other items on the agenda include:
a report about sidewalk improvements on Louisiana Street south of !tst Street.
for the Lawrence City Commission meeting. The Chelsea Group, the developers of the project, will be requesting industrial revenue bonds.
The bonds will be for improvements to the riverfront project. If approved, the commission will provide intent with the East Coast developer.
- a public hearing to discuss declaring public right-of-way on portions of Pinckney Street, Rhode Island Street and an adjacent alley
- a site plan for Oread Laboratories, 2, 1501 Wakarasa Dr.
- a site plan for the remodeling of a business at 3120 W. Sixth St.
- recommendations for engineering services for various projects.
- proposals for banking services.
- ordinances for a Lawrence Historic Resources Commission, a revised schedule of rates for water and sewage disposal service and a schedule of rates for sanitation servi-
The commission will meet at 7 p.m. at City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts.
BUSINESS SEMINAR BY SATELLITE: A business management seminar, broadcast live by satellite from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., will be shown on a big-screen television set from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The seminar was originally scheduled for the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
universities around the country.
A telephone hookup will allow Lawrence viewers to call in questions to Peters.
Tom Peters, co-author of the business management books "In Search of Excellence" and "A Passion for Excellence", will discuss successful business technologies. The seminar will be broadcast to more than 100
The Lawrence division of FMC Corp., a manufacturer of phosphorous chemicals, is contributing $1,500 to cover the cost of bringing the seminar to KU. The seminar is free and open to the public.
BAILYN LECTURE POSTPONED:
A Nov. 8 lecture sponsored by the University of Kansas Hall of Humans, has been postponed indefinitely, the director of the Hall Center for the Humanities said yesterday.
Theodore Wilson said that Bernard Bailyn, Adams University professor at Harvard University, was scheduled to visit KU Nov. 8 and 9 as a lecturer. His visit will be rescheduled and announced later.
On Campus
■ The Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, James Warren, will speak at 7 onight in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union. Warren will speak on "The Decline of the S Empire" for the Work for Women People." The KU chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance will sponsor the event.
in the World," will be at 4:30 today in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1294 Oread Ave.
- The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center is sponsoring a "Career Options for Women" workshop from 7 to 9 tonight in the Pine Room at the Kansas Union.
■ The Carlos Merida: "Prints"
exhibition will show through Dec. 31
in the south balcony at the Spencer
Museum of Art. Museum hours are
8 a.m.
The biblical seminar "The Church
Bill Martin, philosophy department doctorate candidate, will give a presentation called "Blindness and Hindsight: A Discussion of the Paul Demant Controversy," at 7 tonight in the International Room at the Kansas Union.
■ Maranatha Campus Ministry will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union.
A concert featuring Australian music and instruments will be at 8 tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
The School of Business, with the Lawrence division of FMC Corporation will sponsor the live broadcast of a seminar via satellite featuring Tom Peters from 11 to 1 today in the Big Eight Room at the Kansas Union. Peters will speak on "Managing Your Company." Admission is free.
The Association of Collegiate Entrepreneurs will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Pioneer Room at the Burge Union. Ray Velasquez will be the guest speaker.
- Amnesty International will meet at 7 tonight in Parlors A and B at the Kansas Union.
The AIDS Service Providers meeting will be at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the lower level NLA Conference Room, 336 Missouri St.
tian Ministries building, 1294 Oread Ave. To reserve lunch call 843-4933. Lunch lines open at 11:40 a.m.
The University Forum featuring Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, will begin at noon tomorrow at the Ecumenical Chris-
The KU History Club will have an initial meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union. Refreshments will be served.
**Anorexia Nervosa and Associate**
Disorders will meet from 6 to 7:30
p.m. tomorrow in Room 7 at Watkins
Memorial Health Center.
Dungeons and Dragons club will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Pioneer Room at the Kansas Union.
Police Record
An unidentified man exposed himself to a female student near Sellars Scholarship Hall late Sunday night.
A telephone, an answering
machine, microwave and a black-and-white television valued together at $30 were taken Sunday night from a house in the 200 block of East 14th
Scholarship Hall, KU police said.
An unidentified man exposed himself to a female student Thursday night in Marvin Grove,