Trends toward new groups
Many Americans are 'joiners'
By Ted Bell Kansan Staff Reporter
What is this thing in people?
Rather, what is this thing in American people? This whatever it-is that causes people of this country to be labelled "the joiners." No one really knows.
Wherever they go, whatever the circumstances, one of the first impulses Americans have, is to join at least one form of social organization—club, fellowship, secret-ritualistic chapter, labor union, church, and more—a lot more.
During 1964 and 65 in Lawrence, 74.3 per cent of the population (not including KU students) belonged to one or more social organization. One national study revealed that 54.3 per cent of Americans belong to some kind of group, excluding churches, unions, and informal groups of 10 members or less.
This year—1968—should feel the influence of the new generation more sharply than any previous year with a record number of students leaving and entering the nation's schools.
What, if there be one, is the new attitude towards social organizations in the United States today?
The answer is surprising.
Americans still are joining, but they are leaving the older and more traditional institutions in favor of intellectual and academic organizations. We're still joining, but the big story is "what."
Increased education and intellectual standards and the unwillingness of some social organizations to revamp themselves and "keep up with the times," has brought about a large loss of membership in some of the older and traditional groups. These include
churches, secret-ritual groups, and lodge-type organizations.
While membership in specific organizations has been on the decline, membership in social organizations has remained constant, and has kept its percentage on level with rising population figures.
According to Ken Rothrock, Lawrence Ph.D. candidate in sociology, who has done research work on social organizations locally, Americans have been leaving some groups but are quick to join others.
What the drop-outs fall into are usually organizations that have reconstructed their policies and programs with more emphasis on the individual member and his intellect, and honorary or professional groups.
The Rev. Ronald Sundbye, the young and popular minister of Lawrence's
First Methodist Church, has said nationwide church membership decreased steadily during the past 20 years, but more and more people have shown interest in adult discussion groups and seminars.
Mr. Sundbye, speaking specifically of the church, but incidentally of the nation, said:
"The layman is abandoning the institution for the intellect."
He noted it has become increasingly harder to find laymen to work in the church's organizations (i.e.: a shortage of Sunday school teachers and volunteers of any kind), but not for participants for a Sunday evening group to talk over the morning's sermon.
Region Eight of the Boy Scouts reports that membership has kept up with the rising number of eligible boys, but that it has revised its Boy Scout, Ex- See Many, page 4.
Docking presents record KU budget
TOPEKA—A record KU education and general operation budget for fiscal year 1969 of $33,697,617 was recommended today by Gov. Robert B. Docking to a joint session of the Kansas Legislature.
The recommended budget, more than $3 million higher than this year's. includes a five per cent salary increase for the KU faculty.
Late exams? students will have to stay
Students with finals on Jan. 26 or 27 will not be able to take them earlier except in rare cases.
Requests for test changes had to be submitted in writing to the Calendar Committee not later than Jan. 4.
More than 25 requests were submitted to the committee which met Jan. 7, a spokesman for James K. Hitt, registrar, said.
Many labs give their finals during the last lab before final week to aid students and ease the grading load.
WEATHER
More than 120 engineering students are scheduled to take Electronic Engineering 21 test at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 27, the last day of finals. Warren K. Legler, electrical engineering instructor, said most students have reacted to the late date with "good natured groans."
--gains Wednesday against kidney, lung and liver complications.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts cloudy skies tonight and Friday with light rain possibly changing to snow. Decreasing cloudiness Friday afternoon and evening. Warmer tonight and colder Friday. Low tonight is expected to be in the upper 20's. Precipitation probability 40 per cent tonight and Friday.
--gains Wednesday against kidney, lung and liver complications.
The Board of Regents earlier had requested a KU budget of $34,119,905 for the year, beginning July 1, 1969.
The estimated cost of operation of the University for the current fiscal year was $30,631,211. The actual cost of operation for fiscal year 1967 was $28,957,118.
Including the auxiliary enterprises and capital improvements on the Lawrence campus, the budget recommended by Docking for fiscal 1969 totals $43,972.456.
The budget also includes $354, - 000 as the state's share in the construction of a $2.3 million-dollar space technology building, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It also recommended the expenditure of $750,000 for a state geological survey building to be built at KU.
The final budget will be determined by the legislature. In recent years, the legislators have authorized more funds for educational institutions in Kansas than the governor has requested.
78th Year, No.68
kansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
A student newspaper serving KU
Thursday, January 11, 1968
Heart patients progress
By United Press International
Heart transplant patient Philip Blaiberg developed "unexpected complications" today, a medical bulletin said. Doctors said they were not seriously worried.
Significantly, Sihanouk's schedule for today called for meetings with the Soviet ambassador and the chief of Poland's ICC delegation after his conference with Bowles.
The bulletin from Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, said fluid developed around the heart transplanted into the dentist's body nine days ago by Dr. Christiaan Barnard. The fluid had to be tapped, the announcement said.
"After this procedure he feels much better. His doctors do not take a serious view of this complication," the bulletin said.
Earlier Barnard, who has worried his fellow South Africans by announcing he may move to the
Match Offer
There was little doubt he would seek their reactions to any agreements with the U.S. envoy.
Barnard, whose two heart transplants have given South Africa prestige in a world often hostile to its racial policies, told newsmen Wednesday he has received a tempting offer from the United States.
South Africans responded to the possibility of Barnard's departure by raising money to match the American offer.
The Cambodian prince said Wednesday that "positive results" had been obtained in his 90-minute meeting with Bowles, but he added that "we are not seeing the problem with the same eyes."
United States, said his patient was making "excellent" progress.
Bowles to SE Asia for strategy talks
Won't Disclose Offer
However, he said Bowles did not formally recognize Cambodia's disputed frontiers, an action that would have upset South Vietnam and Thailand who have territorial claims against Cambodia.
PHNOM PENH—(UPI)—Prince Norodom Sihanouk and presidential envoy Chester Bowles today drafted details of their broad agreement to keep Cambodia out of the Vietnam war.
He did not say where or how much.
The sources said the United States hoped a regular ICC patrol of the sensitive Cambodian-Vietnamese frontier would curtail the use of Cambodia as a Communist sanctuary. That, in turn, would eliminate the issue of "hot pursuit" by American troops of fleeing guerrillas.
In Washington diplomatic sources said the key issue in the Phnom Penh meeting is the strengthening of the International Control Commission ICC over the objections of Communist Poland, which serves with Canada and India on the ICC.
Barnard joked about $100,000 a year—he now earns between $7,- 000 and $8,500 a year. He laughed that he might work on President Johnson's ranch which he visited last month after his first historic operation.
Medical sources said $100,000 was altogether an unrealistic figure for an offer from the American medical centers which are as heavily endowed as South Africa's are not. But, clearly, money was not the thing for Barnard.
Friends said Barnard wants access to the costly, vast medical facilities found in America but not yet here.
Includes Team
Barnard openly said he would go abroad only if the offer included members of his operation team. 30 persons.
In Palo Alto, Calif., Mike Kasperak, the other surviving heart transplant recipient, scribbed "I love you" on a piece of paper Wednesday night and handed it to his wife. Ferne, at his bedside.
It was the first communication between the Cleveland steelworker and his wife since his diseased heart was replaced by the smaller heart of a housewife Saturday night. A tube inserted in Kasperak's windpipe to aid breathing prevents him from talking.
A hospital statement Wednesday night said Kasperak, 54. America's first adult heart transplant patient, "continues to make progress" though still on the critical list. He scored his biggest
Liver Complications
Doctors were still concerned about an abnormal liver function. However, they said the liver complication "shows some improvement."
Kasperak was kept in intravenous feeding and in a mechanical respirator to aid his breathing. But artificial purification of his blood and artificial respiration techniques were being decreased "to allow his kidneys and lungs to resume their function."
The new heart, two-thirds smaller than Kasperak's organ, functioned normally with a cardiac output of 5.7 liters per minute and a normal blood pressure.
"These factors are encouraging signs of continued improvement although the crucial problems of rejection still lie ahead," said Wednesday's report.
Heart Too Small
Former New York fireman Louis Block, 57, who received a smaller heart from a New Jersey woman Tuesday in the world's fifth heart transplant, died early Wednesday. Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, the surgeon, said the woman's heart was too small and unable to pump blood fast enough to Block's vital organs.
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WHAT'S INSIDE
The NCAA approves a ruling permitting freshmen to compete in varsity athletics, but the Big Eight may not adopt it. Page 7.
American military deserters given political asylum in Sweden. Page 3.
The Kansas Legislature is urged to keep out of the proposed cigarette sales at KU, Page 2.
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