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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Lawrence. Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 120
Monday April 3,1978
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER
New and Old
The span of the new Kansas River Bridge is finished and traffic could begin using it tomorrow. Peter Whitenight, chairman of the Douglas County commission, said that the bridge would be completed in late 2016.
and Finney and Turnipseed, consulting engineers for the project. After the bridge is open to traffic, a work order will be issued or Anderson Construction Co., Holton, to begin construction of the bridge.
Dental students lose tuition aid
By DENISE RUPP
Staff Writer
Senatorial confusion has cost Kansas
building an out-of-state dental
school $819.4 million.
Under the mistaken impression that the state of Kansas was paying the students' tuition, the Kansas Senate voted against a bill that each student $1,300 a year in financial aid.
The state pays the dental school, Creighton University in Omaha, $4,500 a year for each of 10 positions in its dental school. That agreement with Creighton was neglected five years ago because Kansas does not have a dental school.
Robert Vining, dean of the Creighton dental school, said that $4,500 was the cost of purchasing the student's admission and that it did not reduce the student's tuition.
LAST YEAR the state payed Creighton
for each position. Of that amount,
$1,000.
The senators evidently thought that the
$4,500 was paying the students' tuition and that the extra $1,500 was being returned to the students in cash. The Senate voted last week to increase the amount of each payment by $1,500.
The Senate considered the situation again last week when State Sen. James Francisco, D-Mulvane, attempted to restore the $1,500 for the students.
Francisco's proposal was defeated, and student funds will continue to pay all of the fees.
The situation first came to the attention of the Senate last year when a student complained to a legislator that he was not getting as much money back as was another student, State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, said last week.
Martin Rein, chief of the Legislature's fiscal staff, said last week that the discrepancy existed because Kansas increased last year both the amount of the payments to Creighton and the amount of the tuition waivers.
Under the original contract with Creighton, the state of Kansas payed $4,000 a year for each student. Of that amount, $3,000 went to Creighton for purchase of the position and $1,000 was applied to the student's tuition.
negotiated, students received $1,500 tuition reductions.
When the new $6,000 contract was
That agreement went into effect last year, but applied only to the freshman class. Kansas continued to pay only $4,000 a year for each upperclassman already enrolled in the program, and their tuition waivers remained at $1,000.
Bennett probable recipient of next statue questions
Bv JOHN FISCHER
Staff Writer
University of Kansas administrators have been forced to make the next move in the battle over the moving of the Jimmy Green statue.
John Martin, assistant attorney general,
said Friday that KU administrators would
have to ask Gov. Robert F. Bennett to make a decision on whether the statute would be
Martin prepared a report Tuesday that stated the statute should not be moved to new Green Hall because it would damage historic property.
See STATUE page nine
KUAC renews renovation plans
By MARY HOENK
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
A VIP seating area, an expanded club area and possibly a new fence are again in the plans for a renovation project in Memorial Stadium as a result of action taken at Friday's meeting of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
The board also approved KUAC's budget for fiscal 1978-79, even though expenses are expected to surpass expected revenue by $112,730.
In a closed session, the board voted to adopt a budget with a projected income of $1.9 billion.
Despite objections from one faculty member and student representatives
present, the board also approved use of funds, which could remain from a current $1.8 million renovation project, to finance a chain link fence around the s*uth end of the
The expansions for the VIP and Victory Club areas, once part of an original renovation package, are now to be financed by the board. Nish, chairman of the board, said yesterday.
Student protest surfaced last fall and continued until a student ticket surcharge
See KUAC page five
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Sadat seeks Israeli compromise
Cairo—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in an interview published yesterday that he would meet again with Ezer Wazer, Israeli defense minister, within two weeks, but he said that unless Israel compromised, political and military negotiations would not be recouped between the two nations. Israel has resumed a resumption of the negotiation. Sadat described talks with Wazer on Thursday as being serious in nature. See story page two.
Cuban fighting in Angola reported
LONDON—According to a story in the London Telegraph yesterday, Cuban soldiers have spearheaded a six-month terror campaign against right-wing guerrillas in northern Angola and attacked hundreds of villages. A Telegraph correspondent said refugees and guerrilla fighters told him that tanks and withdrawn helicopters support attached villages at dawn and that Mjf GIs bombed forests with napalm to force out befuges. See page two jpg.
Carter proposes Rhodesian talks
LAGOS, Nigeria—President Jimmy Carter said in Lagos yesterday that the United States was moving as quickly as possible to convene a peace conference on Rhodesia in response to the urges of black African leaders. Carter leaves Nigeria today to make a brief stopover in Liberia. He then will return to Washington.
Weather...
Lawrence could have scattered stormtorms today and tonight, according to the National Weather Service. High temperatures will be in the 80s today and in the low 70s tomorrow. Lows tonight will be in the 40s. Skies should be partly cloudy tomorrow.
Locally...
Higher temperatures have meant less need for heat in University of Kansas buildings, but apparently some radiators continue to pump it out. Faulty valves on some of the older steam radiators may be part of the problem. See story page three.
Provocative therapist plays devil's advocate
By SUSAN WOODARD
Staff Writer
A young man walks up through the audience to the gray-jawed man at the front.
"What's your handle?" the gray-haired man, setting into his chair, asks.
"Tim," the young man, sitting down,
relies.
"Ok, Tim," the gray-haired man, pulling cigarette, says. "What's the problem?"
"I'd like to quit smoking," Tim says.
a nine-octane smoking - "Narcissist"
the gray-haired man smiles and lights his
clawed fingers.
"Oh yeah!" he asks, taking a puff.
"What for?"
Tim pauses and the gray-haired man smiles.
"What for?" the gray-haired man says
"What's so fun about your life. Timothy?"
"I want to live longer," Tim replies.
"Take your time," he says, "that's a toubly."
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN the beginning of a comedy routine, but it was actually the beginning of a therapy session Frank Farrelly, who visited KU Saturday, was on the run with his therapist as a technique he developed after finding more traditional therapies to be ineffective.
Farrellly says his first provocative therapy session occurred July 11, 1963. Farrellly told a client a talk he out of his depression and began agreeing that life was hopeless. It was only seconds. Farrellly said, before the depressed client was trying to convince Farrellly of the reality.
Farrellly is a social worker at mamy, Social, Psychotherapy Services in Madison, Wis. His visit was sponsored by the School of Social Welfare and the KU Psychological
"SINCE THEN, Farrell has tried provocative therapies with groups, including the International AIDS Foundation."
patients, the retarded and the criminally
beheaded he had bad good results with
all those groups.
The goals of provocative therapy, according to Farrelly, are to help the client to be more assertive, like and care for himself, to be more confident, clearly and express himself better to others.
n at some point they aren't laughing or smiling." Farrelly said, "then it's not provocative therapy as far as I'm concerned. I don't mean just fling out one of those great provocative one-liners and then whammo!"
"Provocative therapy is playing the devil's advocate with the client," he said. "I say to the client, 'This is what you believe. How do you like it?'"
Wait, the comma after "advocate" is a double one.
The comma after "client" is a single one.
So:
"Provocative therapy is playing the devil's advocate with the client," he said. "I say to the client, 'This is what you believe. How do you like it?'"
By taking the client's irrational fears very seriously and drawing them out to their logical conclusions, Farrell said, he can explain how ridiculous some of their problems are.
TREATING PROBLEMS that way takes a good sense of humor. However, Farrely said, it is not enough for the therapist to be able to make the client also must begin to laugh at himself.
While watching Farnellly speak, it is difficult to tell whether he is a social worker or a stand-up comic. After one funny statement, Farnellly turned to a lady in the audience and said flatly, "You like it? You can use it."
Yet Farrell was serious at times. To effectively lampoon a person's problem, he said, one must truly understand the problem and perhaps even have experienced it.
"I WANT MY clients to think, 'He knows-he's been there.' " Farrally said. "So many therapists say I understand, and the client thinks, 'He doesn't understand.'"
Farrelly stood silent for a moment, staring at nothing in particular.
"I want to know," he said. "I want to know."
But then the fun was back.
"After all, he said," "I've been taught by the nuts themselves—the experts."
Farrellly said provocative therapy was so effective it even worked on him. He spoke of an incident that occurred while he was writing his book, "Provocative Therapy."
Farrellly said he was having trouble getting started and was complaining about his problem to his students and colleagues. Then a student said to him, "I think you're right to hesitate. What if you did go through it and wrote it and it sold only two copies?"
"I just about crawled under the chair," he said. "I thought. This is no way to fly."
After explaining his therapy for about an hour, Farrelly interviewed volunteers from the audience to demonstrate it. He and the volunteer talked for 30 minutes and then each gave his impressions of the interview and answered questions from the audience.
The volunteers did not say they thought Farrelly was making fun of them. They said they thought he really understood their problems and then them to see their problems more clearly.
ONE WOMAN discussed a problem she
had with half-a-fear of driving out the city.
After discussing her problem with Farrelly for about 20 minutes, the woman said, "You know, I'm getting so tired of this."
"I bet you've been tired of it for a year and a half now." Farrell remilied.
yes," the woman said, "but I've never more tired of it than now."
Farrell said that not everyone could be a provocative therapist and that it was not something that could be learned. He said a provocative therapist had to be able to make a person's problem real for them so they could see it for what it was.
"I love it," he said. "It's really addictive for me."
Comic Therapy
Frank Farrelly, a social worker at Family, Social, Psychotherapy Services in Madison, Wis., demonstrates provocative therapy to a member of the audience during his visit to KU Saturday. Provocative therapy is a technique that Farrell has been using since 1963 after finding more traditional therapies to be ineffective.
Staff Photo by DONALD WALLER