KUMC to raise costs for patients
By Rea Wilson Kansan Staff Reporter
Patient fees at the KU Medical Center (KUMC) are going to be raised because of a five per cent increase in employee's wages.
Russell Miller, hospital administrator, said the increase in civil service salaries will be met from the hospital's operating fund and not from state - appropriated funds.
The hospital operates on patient fees supplemented by state money, and the state is not giving the hospital any more money.
"This increase makes our income requirement shoot up," Miller said. "Therefore, we have to raise our fees."
"The hospital operates on patient fees supplemented by state appropriations.
"The state isn't giving us any supplementary funds for this wage increase," Miller said. "I am certain hospital rates will go up in January, but I'm not sure how much.
"Patient fees have already been raised $11 in the last year which is a considerable amount."
The wage increase is a result of a strike last June by the unskilled hospital workers.
"Although there was no immediate salary settlement then,
there was a better understanding between the workers and the administrators," Miller said.
The five percent civil service salary increase will affect five classifications — seamstress, hospital attendants, institutional workers, clerks, and elevator operators—will become effective Sunday, he said.
"Even with the salary increase, low salaries for unskilled labor is one of the largest problems at KUMC. I don't know of any lower salaries, and finding people to hire is also a desperate problem."
There are about 100 unfilled positions, Miller said. But with the low salaries it is difficult for KUMC to compete with other institutions and industries.
"The hospital meets the minimum needs of patients, but there is nothing extra. The service can't help but be less than we would like it to be."
Miss Helen Simms, information service director, said, "We are a state institution, operating partly on state funds. Yet, we are in a large city where competition is great."
Miller said the hospital is also short of nurses and technicians.
"But that is a problem all over Kansas City," he added.
'Jayhawker Headlines' is '67 Homecoming theme
"Jayhawker Headlines," a newspaper theme, will be the basis for this year's Homecoming decorations.
The theme, announced yesterday by Dick Wintermote, executive director of the KU Alumni A association and chairman of the KU homecoming committee, will be somewhat historical. House decorations will depict newsworthy events involving Jayhawkers.
The dates for homecoming activities this year will be Nov. 3 and 4. House decorations will be displayed from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, and all day Saturday, Nov. 4. The climaxing event of homecoming will be the KU-K-State football game at 1:30 p.m. The homecoming queen will be announced at that time.
Co-chairmen of the KU homecoming committee are Winter-
mote and Stephen Adams, Bartlesville, Ckla., junior.
General committee chairmen are: Vince Bilotta, Alumni Association field director, and Jennifer Nilsson, Chicago Heights, Ill., senior, arrangements.
Donald K. Alderson, dean of men, and Fred Krebs, Shawnee Mission senior, decorations; and Kenneth Bloomquist, director of the KU Marching Band, and James Klaver, Klingman sophomore, ceremonies.
Mrs. Katherine Giele, Student Union Activities advisor, and John Hoppe, Ottawa senior, Kansas Union Activities; James Gunn, administrative assistant to KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, and Bill Mauk, Overland Park senior, public relations.
Emily Taylor, dean of women,
and Linda Gilkerson, Mattoon,
Ill., sophomore, queens.
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Marine recruiters discuss the merits of their program with interested KU students at their table on the main floor of the Union. SDS protestors were active at an adjacent table.
THE MARINES WANT YOU
A cross-country "peace torch marathon" which began in San Francisco Aug. 27 will arrive on campus late this afternoon.
SDS continues protest against Marines
Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Chi; McCollum men and McCollum women; Delta Tau Delta and Pi Beta Phi; Delta Gamma and Delta Upsilon; Alpha Phi and Kappa Sigma.
BULLETIN
Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Tau Omega; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Delta Delta; Alpha Gamma Delta and Delta Chi; Templin and Lewis, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Beta Theta Pi.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Thursday, September 28, 1967
Joe Knight, Quinter freshman, said yesterday he also intended to reserve a table for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Marathon officials said a group of 35 will march to the intersection of Oread Street and 13th at 4 p.m., pick up KU students and faculty wishing to join the march, and proceed to Strong Hall.
The protest against Marine Corps representatives recruiting in the Kansas Union continues today, spearheaded by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The SDS protest has been joined by two other student activist groups: the Draft Resisters' League, headed by diZerega, and the Vietnam Committee, led by Hamilton Salsich, assistant instructor of English. Both groups have reserved tables in the Union.
Gus diZerega, Wichita junior and SDS spokesman, said yesterday that today's demonstration would reach its climax at 1 p.m. with a rally in the Union lobby. The rally would include speeches, folk singing, and refreshments "to add to the festive air," said di-Zerega.
Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Chi Omega; Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta Pi.
See SDS, page 3
With a record-breaking 12 entries, this year's Rock Chalk Revue preparations got off the ground last night.
The deadline for preliminary outlines of the skits was set for Oct. 6 at a meeting for Rock Chalk directors held last night.
'Free' university born on Tennessee
Teams for the skits are as follows:
By Maggie Ogilvie Kansas Staff Reporter
Rock Chalk has 12 entrants
A "free" university—planned to cut across the "smorgasbord of the KU curriculum" — was
spawned last night by over a score of Mt. Oread professors and instructors.
"All of us feel the need for an experiment of some sort," announced Hamilton Salsich, English instructor and sponsor of the "free" university's first organizational meeting-held off-campus in a Tennessee Street residence.
Discussion of potential birth pains for the new university filled the air for over two hours as faculty members — teachers of subjects ranging from zoology to philosophy — sprawled on floors and stairways, outlining courses "unhampered" by structured grading systems, teacher-pupil relationships and administrative organization.
Proposals vary
Proposals for a "freer set-up" varied. Salsich suggested prospective students be offered about five courses and the chance to plan them. Then, he said, a teacher or "catalyst" would be assigned to each class.
"After all, many students can teach as well as their instructors," Salsich explained.
One faculty member proposed a professor lecture every month to a meeting of all classes, while another suggested "teaching teams."
After still another said potential students interested in one subject should meet and "decide where to go from there," Salsich interrupted, saying some courses
should deal with "all-incompassing" issues.
"I sort of have a liking for vague courses like that," he said.
"But of course we need some solid ones, too!"
Such courses, he said, were more valuable than those of interest to only majors in one field.
"We do need to give students something to grab on to," agreed another instructor.
Several proposed names
Several proposed names for the university's courses included "Existence" and "The Search for Self."
But besides curricula, there were other problems quickly debated.
"The big question is how to resist the University (KU) passively," said one participant.
No roost for new left
Salsich, agreeing, added, "and without becoming another place for the campus left to come to roost."
Classroom space—the nemesis of all universities—also concerned the nucleus staff of the "free" university.
While debate favored about six to ten students per class, no one seemed sure whether to hold the classes in the Kansas Union or off-campus at the Wesley Foundation on Oread Street or at the "Fiery Furnace" in the basement
See Free, page 9
Gregory will speak on Oct. 3 in Hoch
"A moderate in Natchez, Miss., is a white man who hangs a nigger from a low tree." This is an example of how Dick Gregory makes white audiences squirm—and like it.
But Gregory, who will speak in Hoch Auditorium Oct. 3, is more than just a black funnyman. He is a spokesman for the Negro and a militant activist in the civil rights movement.
Gregory was one of 16 Negro civil rights leaders who met Aug. 10 to discuss the black power movement and possible political alliances with progressive whites.
Recently he criticized President Johnson for not naming a "Negro militant" to his commission on racial disorders.
By using material directed primarily at white audiences, Gregory satirizes their prejudices and attitudes. He focuses on areas of politics, civil rights, and social problems.
Gregory possesses all of the equipment of a stand-up comic: a unique personal style, a perceptive outlook on life and a great deal of wit.
Although Gregory's fame as a civil rights activist almost exceeds his renown as an entertainer, he is partially responsible
for the breakthrough of Negro comics in today's entertainment world.
"Humor has only helped the oppressed in one respect," Gregory maintains, "as a narcotic." If humor were the weapon to solve problems, there would be comedians in the foxholes of Vietnam. As for me, humor is the only outlet open to express my anger."
Tickets for the Gregory performance are now available free to students at the Student Union Activities office in the lobby of the Kansas Union. Tomorrow free tickets will also be offered to the general public.
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