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University Daily Kansan
Monday, November 7, 1977
Bibb chops library funds request
If University of Kansas libraries do not receive the $10,000 that was cut last week from KU's fiscal 1979 budget by James Bibb, state budget director, library users could suffer from shorter hours and fewer books.
According to Jim Ranz, dean of libraries,
the $100,000 had been requested for
cataloging books through the Ohio College
Library Center (OCLC) system. The Kansas
Board of Regents earlier had cut all library
funds except for the $100,000.
The OCLC system, using computer terminals, enables KU libraries to get information needed to catalog books easily.
"It speeds up cataloguing," Ranz said yesterday.
IF THE LIBRARIES do not receive the money to operate the OCLC system, they will not be able to keep up with the 80,000 volumes the libraries buy every year, he
Rans said 80 per cent of the volumes bought were catalogued by the OCLC
If the libraries do not get the money to operate the OCLC system, Rams said, they would be out of business.
"We would have to buy fewer books and cut the number of hours the libraries are
some way.
KU libraries now are open 86 hours a week. They are open fewer hours than five of the Big Eight schools and close earlier than in the past.
The libraries now have about 300,000 volumes that are incompletely catalogued and stored in the east subbasement of Watson Library. Ranz said.
"It doesn't make sense to have books that are not available to the public," Ran said.
Psychosurgery . . .
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She said about 400 psychosurgery operations were performed yearly in the United States, while twice as many operations, proportionately, were performed in the United Kingdom, and three as many, proportionately, in Australia.
Budd said he was opposed to psychosurgery because it had 'irreversible, and in many respects, unknown effects on the total personality of a person receiving
FURTHERMORE, HE SAID,
psychosurgery raises ethical questions
because it tries to solve emotional problems
by tamering with the brain.
Even though psychosurgical methods today are more sophisticated than in the past, Budd said, psychosurgery is still a "medical gray area."
"It at best there are hypotheses which cannot be shown from the meager established knowledge we have of the brain. Even if the effects were known, operating on the brain to choose the most effective effect on the brain for alternative implications than operating on a kidney or heart," he said.
Because of limited knowledge about the brain, Budd said, it is likely a surgeon could destroy parts of the brain he had not intended to touch.
BUDD ALSO SAID that psychotherapy was aimed at destroying socially undesirable behavior and raised questions for individuals who believed humans had the right to act in whatever way felt right to act, as it did not impose on the rights of others.
People have the right to be different, and the right to be unhappy without having the added burden of having it considered an abnormality to be *treated*. 'Bad said.
However, Miskin said, "If such a great improvement over us is desired, you don't want this."
But Budd had reservations.
"In themselves, these safeguards are laudable," he said. "But when they are proposed as adequate protection for potential psychosurgery recipients, in effect sidestepping the most important problem, they become less than laudable."
Budd also was critical of proposed means of enforcing the regulations through the withholding of federal funds. He said such a method was not adequate.
"BY REINFORCING the notion that psychosurgery is a purely medical issue to be dealt with on medical grounds, and by deemphasizing the ethical, political and social dimensions of the problem, they seem almost worse than no safeguards at all."
Despite guidelines that would allow prisoners and institutionalized mental patients to refuse psychosurgery, Budd questioned the rule's effectiveness.
Budd also objected to regulations that would make it possible to perform psychotherapy on children. He said there were difficulties in the effects of the operation on children.
"In terms of coercion they (prisoners and institutionalized mental patients) are under in the institutions, there in no way any they give you can be truly voluntary." Budd said.
DATA HAVE BEEN COLLECTED on the effects of psychosurgery on adults. That information was collected by the Human Rights Foundation which was established by Congress in 1974.
Singer said psychosurgery was one of a number of research topics to be explored under the congressional mandate. Other included research on prisoners and fetuses.
She said the commission had completed five reports. A report and recommendations on psychosurgery were turned over to HEW in March. She said Hew ultimately would decide whether guidelines were in place for new investigations for the protection of human subjects.
According to Mishkin, the psychourgency report, which is available for public information, states that 41% of cases were not treated.
MISHKIN SAID THAT after the professional research, the commission decided a total ban on psychosurgery was not warranted.
Kansas State Historical Museum in Topeka,
KS. 78 patients who had undergone
hivsurveillance.
"Research seemed to suggest if it (psychosurgery) was provided under carefully controlled conditions, that at least some patients with some kinds of disorders, had bad side effects," she said. "It's not so easy that you can say we should never use it."
She said patients were not "emotionally flat" after the operations.
others and would go through it again themselves, she said.
IQS DID NOT go down, and most patients said they would recommend the operation to
"We find a substantial number of patients saying 'What a relief,' " Mishkin said. "Some patients have said it saved their life."
Budd, however, questioned the value of the studies and called them inadequate.
HE SAID THAT psychosurgone may have presented only their best cases for study and that the tests performed were not complete.
Budd mentioned, as did Mishkin, that a few patients had more difficulty in a card-sorting test after surgery, and that a few had seizures.
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