Psychosurgery resurgence sparks opposing views
Staff Writer
By SHIRL KASPER
TOPEKA—Much to the alarm of some mental health groups, psychosurgery appears to be making a demand.
The controversial operation which was dramatized in the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," was the subject of a small demonstration at the state capitol building Friday.
Psychosurgery is an operation used to alter a person's feelings or behavior through brain surgery.
About 12 demonstrators, most of whom were Members of Advocates for Freedom in Mental Health, are among those involved in Lawrence and Kansas City, Kan., joined other mental health groups across the nation in a day of protest against proposed new guidelines for psychosurgery at Kaiser Permanente U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Psychosurgery has not been performed in Kansas for a number of years, according to Dennis Budd, chairman of Advocates for Freedom in Mental Health and leader of Friday's demonstration.
BUDD SAID HE wanted to make sure things stayed that way, but was fearful they might not if the proposed guidelines for paycheosurgery were legitimized and encouraged on a national level.
"The guidelines take an experimental, unproven, and questionable procedure and, in essence, let the experimenters decide."
Another protector, Ed Dutton, associate professor of social welfare at KU said he was opposed to psychosurgery because it was a form of social control.
"We want to make sure it doesn't occur here in Kansas," he said.
The guidelines, which have yet to be signed into law by HEW Secretary John Califano, would establish
"strict" circumstances under which psychotherapy could be performed, according to Baty Singer, public information officer for the National Commission for Medical Research on diseases of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The commission, based in Bethesda, Md., drew up the guidelines for presentation to HEW.
SINGER, CONTACTED in Maryland Friday, said that there now were no federal guidelines on possession.
The commission also has recommended that federal money be used to support additional research and development.
The demonstrators said that by establishing guidelines and recommending that further research be done on psychosurgery, the government is, in effect, endorsing and encouraging the operation.
Protestors said they feared such endorsements
would lead to expanded use of the operation which they would like to see banned.
Psychosurgery is an operation that is performed in cases in which there is much anxiety or bizarre behavior, according to Ali Meded, a psychiatrist at the Meninger Foundation in Topeka.
IN THE 1948S AND 1950s the operation was called a frontal lobotomy. Medbed said surgeons would ever the frontal lobe of the brain, which was supposed to carry the unwanted behaviors.
The operation destroyed massive amounts of brain tissue and often left the individual in a vegetable-like state.
"In the beginning it was thought to be a good way to control behavior," he said. "That's what they did to Jack Nicholson at the end of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
When behavior-controlling drugs were introduced
in the 50s, Medbed said, psychosurgery faded into the background.
However, new methods of psychosurgery, which Barbara Mishkin, assistant staff director for the human subjects commission, said were in no way different from the robototomics, began to appear during the last decade.
She said psychosurgerys no longer opened the brain. Instead, they do things such as lower a needleized electrode into the skull, which affects only a tiny area of the brain.
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"It's not the kind of people think about when they come out of 'Cuckoo's Nest,'" Mishin said.
Psychosurgery is not as ricky as it used to be, she said, and persons who undergo the operation today "are not dribbling idiots" when they come out of surgery.
See PSYCHO SURGERY page six
KANSAN
Lawrence, Kansas
Monday November 7,1977
Officials differ on library funds
By BRIANSETTLE
Staff Writer
Several local legislators Saturday gave conflicting predictions for the chances of University of Kansas library renovation and the need for requests in the legislature this January.
About 360 legislators, administrators and members of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and Kansas Board of Regents where the board gave luncheon in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The annual legislators' luncheon moves between Manhattan and Lawrence, depending on the location of the KU-K-State football game.
"I have not had a chance to go over the
cases in detail." State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-
Kansas, said.
KU had requested $1,008,227 for library renovations fund. The Regents had cut the request to $100,000 and James Bibb, state representative, cut the request completely last week.
"I feel the library is a major priority in any state institution of high education."
REP. JOHN VOGEL, R-Lawrence a
Committee member and Means
Committee was more outspoken.
"However, I think the total library renovation would have a lot time in the legible form. If you taking such proverbs, that should be no problem, but rebuilding the whole thing will be tough," he
Kansan posts open in spring
Applications are now available for the positions of editor and business manager of the position.
Applications are available in 105 Flt Hall;
Hall; the dean of men's office, 228 Strong
Hall; and the dean of women's office, 228
Strong Hall. The chair is turned in at
105 Flt Hall by 5 p.m. Nov. 17.
Applicants will be interviewed by the Kansan board Nov. 21. Applicants will be notified of the time and place of their interviews.
Proposed budget cut could mean shorter library hours, fewer books. See story page
Vogel said. "I have a feeling most of the legislators are receptive to how important the library is. I think the requests in general have a good chance to be approved."
Berman and Vogel said they were not surprised at the cuts made by Bibb.
"They're nothing new," Vogel said. "He routinely cuts new programs and then lets the governor review the new program to ensure his own decision on what should stay or go."
Berman said Bibb cut all new construction funds to keep the state's agencies on track.
Henry Bubb, recently retired Regent, said
labs had been making the same types of
protocols.
BUBB RESIGNED from the Board of Regenv. Nov. 1. He said he would rather resign before his four-year term ended Dec. 31 than go through another budget meeting.
Vogel had a different perspective on the requested graduate fee waiver.
KU requested $23,024 to eliminate incident fees of graduate students. Administrators have said the fee waiver is intended to complete for high-quality graduate students.
"I think a percentage of waivers might be a better idea," Vogel said. "You have to make a distinction between how the fee waiver would be used and how it would be abused. I'm not yet convinced how much it would help over-all."
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Duane Acker, president of K-State, said Duane has cut a significant part of K-State's budget.
“However, I still think we have a good chance of receiving most of our request,” he said.
ACKER SAID K-State was pushing for continued improvement of its engineering
However, for most officials, the pressing matter seemed to be the upcoming KUK-State football game, rather than the next legislative session.
hn Carlin, speaker of the house and K-See LEGISLATORS page two
Victory sip
KU krugy player Jece Escue, liberal senator, takes a sip from the Kansas First Lady's Cup, given annually to the winner of the intratrace match between KU and Kansas
State University. KU beat K-State 7-6 and won a year's possession of the cup. See story page seven.
Grad leader ties fee waiver to quality students
By PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writer
The quality of University of Kansas graduate students is being affected by KU's lack of a graduate student fee waiver, according to Lynn Bretz, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council (GSC).
"High quality students are leaving," she said.
Bretz said that students are going out of state for their graduate education. And often the students settle down in the state where they attended graduate school, she
said, so they don't return to Kansas as taxpayers.
State Budget Director James Bibb last week cut a request for a graduate student fee waiver from KU's budget requests for the college, and would have cost the University $263.042.
In June, the Regents decided not to recommend incorporating the fee waiver into the budget and instead to let the governor and the legislature decide whether to finance the fee.
request, Governor Robert Bennett still may approve a graduate fee waiver. If he approves the waiver, it will be sent to the Kansas legislature for a vote.
Bennett will meet with budget directors
Thursday and Friday to consider KU's bud-
get plans.
ALTHOUGH BIBB cut the waiver
The fee waiver would eliminate incidental fees for graduate students who are employed by the University as teaching assistants, assistant instructors or research assistants.
Incidental fees are equivalent to tuition.
Bretz said the fees would be waived according to the amount of time a graduate student works for KU.
Half-time employees would receive a full waiver, she said, and quarter time em­
ployment would be required.
KU needs the waiver because it is behind other comparable institutions in graduate school.
MOST SCHOOLS OUTSIDE of Kansas that pay graduate students salaries comparable to KU also give the student a fee waiver, she said.
Within the Big Eight schools, KU's salary
See WAIVER page five
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News Capsules
From the Associated Press, United Press International
PHOENIX—The trial for the murder of newspaperman Don Boles ended yesterday with a guilty verdict on counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy for plumber James Robison and contractor Max Dunlap. James was fatally injured June 2, 1976, when a homemade bomb exploded beneath his car. See story page two.
Bolles jury convicts two
Lombardo, a tall, wavy-haired man whose Royal Canadians dance band became a New Year's tradition, died Saturday at the age of 75 of a lung ailment complicated by heart and kidney failure.
Sal Richman, a long-time spokesman for the bandleader, said that in keeping with the musician's style of living and of music the funeral probably would be conducted without fanfare.
Lombardo to be buried
HOUSTON—Members of bandleader Guy Lombardo's family were in seclusion yesterday preparing to return the body of "Mr. New Year's Eve" to New York for funeral services.
Student Senator Randy McKernan has resigned, citing unhappiness with Steve Leben, student body president. McKernan, himself a candidate for student body president last spring, says little has been accomplished during his tenure, while he says his administration's performance compared well with those of past administrations. See story page eight.
Locally . . .
Bush
Bush says China has oil reserves
WASHINGTON—George Bush, former head of the American liaison mission to Peking, said in an interview in U.S. News and World Report that in his view China has an interest in the oil reserve. China could benefit by working with the United States in the development of the oil, he said. Bush recently returned from a visit to Peking. See story page two.
Defense budget cuts seen
WASHINGTON—Before leaving office, Gerald Ford predicted that the U.S. military's fiscal 1979 budget would be $140 billion fewer, Secretary of Defense Harold Holbrook said. "We have a $2 billion less than $8 billion less than Ford's prediction. See story page two."
Archbishop hospitalized
ROME-Archbishop Hilarion Capuciu, freed on the personal request of Pope Paul VI after serving three years in an Israeli jail for allegedly running guns to Arab guerrillas, arrired in Rome yesterday and was whisked away to a hospital. Capuciu had staged a hunger strike last year and suffers from bronchial problems.
Palestine Liberation Organization representatives and Arab students study PLO flags and welcome signs were at the library on Tuesday.
Dam breaks in Georgia; 37 killed
Bv.JACK STILLMAN
Associated Press Writer
TOCOCA Ga. (AP)—At least 37 persons, most of them students and their families asleep at a small Bible college, died early yesterday when an earthen dam burst and sent a 30-foot wall of water smashing through the college campus.
The breakup of the dam at about 1:30 a.m. sent tons of water over 186-foot-high Tocca Falls and onto the lower campus of Tocca Falls Bible College. Some 259 people lived in dormitories, houses and mobile homes at the foot of the falls.
Surviving students at the college prayed at an emotional service later yesterday while law enforcement officers and civil workers searched the flood debris for bodies.
Authorities said several more persons were reported missing and more than 40 had been found.
KENNY CARROLL of Washington, one of the few to escape from the basement of a men's dormitory, said, "The Lord woke me up an instant before the water came in."
nine permanent faculty houses in the area were destroyed.
"I reached over from my bed and was trying to shut the door, but the water forced it."
When I got out of bed, the water was already a foot high. We ran up the stairs and by the time we got there the whole basement was filled up. It just happened in five or six
Dave Hinkle, a student from Syracuse, N.Y., said a wave 30 feet high and 40 feet wide poured into the second-story windows of a building that was damaged extensively. Eight or
Bodies were found as far away as two miles from the site of the dam, which held back 80-acre Kelley Barnes Lake. Waterlogged mattresses, battered window frames and armaments of uprooted trees littered the banks of the once-small Creek, swelled by the flooding.
ROSALYN CARTER, who was informed of the disaster when she and the President attended church services in Washington, flew by government jet to Anderson County, S.C., and by helicopter to Tocca, which is in the northeast part of her home state. It was
raining lightly as the first lady stepped out of the helconter.
The breakup of the dam came after two days of torrential rains. The skies in northern Georgia were partly cockeyed yesterday as sun shone down on the devastated campus.
In western North Carolina, five persons died in flooding, including a young mother and two children swept from their mobile home. Dozens of highways flooded and at least 27 bridges washed out when thunderstorms raced through the area in a six-hour period yesterday. A dam burst at Tater Hill Lake near Boone, but all people in the area had been evacuated.
Dykes preparing to name Med Center executive
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes announced Friday he planned to appoint a permanent executive vice chancellor for the KU Medical Center next month.
The acting executive vice chancellor, David Waxman, has served since his appointment by Dykes Sept. 2. Waxman replaced Robert B. Kugel, who resigned as executive vice chancellor Sept. 1. Kugel led the staff as a part-time faculty member.
Dykes said in a letter to Med Center personnel that he would limit the search for someone to fill the position to current members of the Med Center's faculty and staff.
But Dykes said limiting the candidates die, not mean that Waxman automatically would stay on as executive vice chancellor. He also announced his candidacy for the position.
Limiting the possible choices will spare
involved users a nationwide search.
He said that there were several persons in the Kansas City and Wichita branches of the Med Center who could fill the position and should get a chance at it.
"We need to have someone with a long-term commitment to the College of Health Sciences."
The permanent executive vice chancellor is expected to assume his new post by Jan. 1.