10 Thursdav. March 4. 1976 University Dafly Kansan Courts, legislatures define mentally ill By DARYL COOK Staff Writer Jack is the sort of man one might consider the picture of prosperity. His friends think he is charismatic, considerate and a loving father and husband. His colleagues think of him as one of the best salesmen in his field. Three years ago he was committed to Three years ago he was committed to Ocawatiana State Hospital. Like several thousand Americans, Jack (not his real name) has undergone treatment for depression and has made the climb back to the pace of day-to-day life. Today he looks back on his breakdown and treatment with a feeling that he is a stronger man for having gone through it. He says he is a happier and more aware human being now. BUT FOR MANY other mental patients, the experience of being treated at mental hospitals hasn't been as rewarding. Some patients have made their conditions worse. They claim their commitments to mental hospitals were unjust and their treatments were inadequate. THE RIGHTS OF MENTAL patients and the quality of their treatment have been a concern of courts and legislatures in states throughout the nation in recent years, but legal action has come about slowly, some critics sav. Edward Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, has been active for several years with the Advocates for the Freedom of Mental Health (A.F.M.H.), a group which helps with mental therapy to become aware of their rights. A.F.M.H then began to lobby for 积极 action for mental patients' treatment. Kenneth Keller, director of the Kansas Division of Mental Health in Topeka, said the treatment of mental patients in Kansas has always been in accordance with the law. "Anytime anyone wants to come and look at our facilities," Keller said, "they are welcome. We don't believe we have to defend our treatment policies." HE SAID THREE the state hospitals at sage, 3,700. oilfield However, Kansas law governing the treatment and right of the mental patients may soon be changing. Senate Bill 26, the Mental Health Patient Rights Bill, has been passed by the state Senate and House of Representatives and will be studied by a house conference committee. State Representative Mike Glover, D-DaLewrence, said the law would tighten the procedures that protected the rights of mental health patients. GLOVER ALSO said the bill would remove from present statutes what some officials consider to be necessary to the law determining who was mentally ill and who should be committed. The new bill, he said, would provide for the presentation of a "probable cause finding" at a person's In the past, this usually has meant that the prospective patient had to be found either dangerous to himself or to others or incapable of taking care of himself, Glover said. If passed, Glover said, the bill would require that patients have a legal counsel to communicate with their hearing; that there be at least one hearing; that the hearing; that any mental patient be allowed to communicate with other people outside of the hospital; and that patients be advised not to sit in a chair. they were dismissed from the hospital upon discretion of their doctor. THE BILL also says that the state would have no authority to hold a patient in a medical emergency. Dennis Budd, chairman of A.F.M.H., said the bill's definition of mental illness was essentially the same as what the current statute states. "My opinion on the bill itself is that it is an improvement over the current statute, but it does not guarantee people the rights they need. It doesn't go far enough." Budd, who said he once was a mental patient in a Connecticut hospital, said the bill was still based too much on clinical judgments and not enough on the actual behavioral evidence that was needed to commit a person. OPTIONS TO hospitalization have been attempted throughout the United States in recent years. In Lawrence, a group has trained patients which itself as an alternative to confinement. Acceptance House, a tax deductible charity for live-in patients staying more than a year, started its monthly meetings in October at Harper, Head of Project Acceptance, said. Project Acceptance would be for "transitional mental patients" who are returning to society, Harper said, and would house eight persons. In that humor magazine's issue of 20 years ago this semester, public idols were attacked and University institutions were seorched. This wasn't the most recent issue of the National Lampoon. This was the University of Kansas' humor magazine, the "Sour Owl." The chancellor was outraged. Students were disgusted with the magazine's editors had written that he was a public apologe. Calder M. Pickett, professor of journalism, was faculty adviser to the 25-cent magazine at that time. He said Friday he didn't want to talk about the "Sour Owl." THE REFERRAL to former KU basketball coach, Phog Allen, the attack on the Greek system, and the magazine's reputation for written and pictorial sexual immense prompted the magazine to send a letter apologetic to Chapley Franklin D. Murray. The spring 1956 issue, "Sour Owl Confidential," raised public irie with such articles as "They Left Frog Wolver to Die," "She Left the Girl Wolver to Die," and "Sorry Urth-White" Rush-S姓罪. Students of Sigma Delta Chi, the journalism fraternity, published the "Sour Owl" intermittently from 1914 until its 1966 demise, and the magazine always made a habit of satirizing KU institutions and persons. County health offices expecting funds loss By JAY BEMIS Staff Writer 'Sour Owl's' sordid past recalled A saint of the Kansan, called "The University Daily Whiz," appeared in the 1923 The department has an obligation by state statute to inspect the child and adult centers, she said, and the department wouldn't give her a vacation, frequent or good a lob if funds were cut. A revenue sharing loss and federal cuts would also result in a decrease of inspections at the county's 95 child care facilities and seven adult care homes. Child care centers are inspected quarterly, semi-annually or monthly, and adult homes are inspected monthly. Some Douglas County health services could be cut back if there are reductions in federal spending and a loss of revenue sharing. She also said the future of revenue sharing, a program that shares federal revenues with state and local governments, isn't too clear. Kay Kent, administrator of the Lawrence-Dougley County Health Department, said its swine health center understated cutbacks on hospital staff and provided Ford would include the loss of federal funding in such health service areas as mental disease, child clinics and family planning. With the program expected to go before Congress for renewal soon, its critics in Washington have changed the poor and minorities while sending money where it isn't needed. The critics also cite what they say is a failure of government programs to spend the money. "If it happens that revenue sharing is cut out, and the city or county didn't pick up some other type of funding," she said, "we need to make sure we decide what programs are most important." KENT AID THE loss of revenue sharing would mean the loss of two health department nurses, one-third of the department's nursing staff. The nurses' salaries are paid in full by city and county revenue sharing money. KENT FEARED losses from cutbacks in federal funding in two areas that had increases in the number of visits by patients a year. The department's child clinics, where children five years of age and under are given physical examinations, had 1,033 visitors in 1975, compared to 906 visitors in 1974. Visitors to the family planning clinic to visit 4,108 in 1975, an increase of 362 from the previous year. Suspected venereal disease cases totalled in 1973, a slight decline from 1984's 686 cases. The largest increase in attendance for any one service was in the department's geriatric health screening clinics for persons 60 years of age and older. The number increased in 1975 more than doubled from 1974, with 2,631 and 1,714 in attendance, respectively. KENT SAID SHE didn't know whether the increase was due to a financial squeeze in earnings. Some persons visiting the health department are welfare or Medical recipients, Kent said, but a majority of the visitors are working, but receive a marginal income. Kent listed the following as future needs to improve county health care: -Health screening for marginal-income family members between the ages of six and 60, a program that would be similar to well-child and geriatric clinics; —More involvement in health education; —Move staff members for help in ada- tenance. Kent also agreed with recent requests of Jackson County, Mo. (Kansas City), legislators to put more emphasis on mental health care. "That's the idea of putting people in (mental) institutions," she said, "trying to keep the people healthy so they won't need to utilize physical institutions. Normally it is the inpatient services (hospitals) that it does on inpatient services (mental institutions)." --published with the "Sour Owl," but the plans were never completed. Kansas State University had the 'Naked Truth', which KState authorities confiscated and burned after the first issue in 1920. ROCK CHALK REVUE will be GET YOUR TICKETS SOON! 6:15 p.m. March 7 Rock Chalk Revue is sponsored by the KU-Y and partially funded by the Student Senate. "SQUAT" ENDED its publishing run in its short after the *Sour Owl*'s in- with its A BICENTENNIAL PARODY Tickets Available at the S.U.A. Ticket Office and at Every Bank in Lawrence Prices: Friday, March 5—$2.00 and $3.00 Saturday, March 6—Sold Out Competition emerged in 1955 from "Squat." started by a fine arts senior. Published four times a year like the "Sour Publish" and made a KU coed in every issue as a pin-up girl. French Cheese Sale issue. The Kansas Union was lampooed as the "Stund Onion" in 1956. Grandview Ice Rink Campus humor magazines were apparently common in the Midwest. In 1923, the University of Missouri's "Show Me" magazine planned to have a joint issue WHOLE BEAN COFFEES To be sure of a seat on Friday March 5 in Hoch Auditorium theatre to see this great comedy variety show.
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