THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
83rd Year, No. 99
College Students Still Marvel At Comic Heroes
Tuesday. February 27, 1973
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Search Group Gains Insight To University
Faculty, student and alumni members of the Campus Advisory Committee said Monday that they were providing insights into problems facing each of the representative groups.
Jaceb Kleinberg, professor of chemistry and chairman of the committee, said that the search process has not been assessed his relations with the alumni members of the committee.
"For the first time, I really appreciate the value of the alumni," he said. "I hope that they now appreciate the problems of the faculty and the students."
Hoy Edwards Jr., alumni member from Kansas City, Kan., said he learned much from his experience on the committee and on the subcommittee which interviewed candidates for chancellor in the city of Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
Edwards said that he had some idea of the scope of these problems but that he didn't know how to solve them.
"When you are sitting on the other side, you really don't understand the kinds of problems the faculty face," he said. "I can always talk to them. I'm the temple-related and budgetary problems."
William Hagman, Pittsburgh alumnus,
and that he never felt that there were three
seasons to play.
"I sensed a feeling of unanimity from the first meeting," he said. "The members of the committee talk as individuals with one another, and that is to get the best man for the job."
The members of the three groups which make up the committee were appointed by three different constituencies, but Edwards and others were not included in references of opinion within the committee.
Speaking about the student members he said, "I found their views and our were the students who believed in change."
Hmagan said that he had worked on many business committees but never one as big as the group, and troopily well-qualified, he said, and the students were "autate." He called his role
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Watched
In an attempt to discourage shoplifters, several Lawrence area grocery stores have installed closed-circuit television systems. The move has met with success.
according to one store manager, who reported that the shoplifting rate decreased in the months after the cameras were installed. Despite preventive measures, shoplifting remains a problem to Lawrence area grocers. See story page
Unsettled Peace Pact Halts POW Release
*SAGION (AP)—The chief spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation said Tuesday there will be no further release of American prisoners of war until several other points in the Vietnam peace agreement are honored.
ree said authorities in Hanoi and officials of the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government and ordered a freeze on the personnel officers on the South, Vietnam.
"The United States is responsible for the failure to declare," Hanoi government, Bai Tin. "deal."
He characterized the situation as "critical."
In Washington, the White House, State
government, the government declined compa-
nion on the development.
JUST BEFORE Tim's announcement, American military sources at Clark Air Base in the Philippines said North Vietnam was expected to hand over in Salon on Wednesday a list of POWs to be freed the following day.
Tin said three critical points must be resolved before the next group of American officials arrive.
—Strict application of the cease-fire;
- Simultaneous return of civilian and military prisoners; . . .
A guarantee of improved working conditions for the four-party Joint Military Committee.
Tin said the Hanoi government understood very well the feelings of the families of the American prisoners and all Americans who waited for them to come
"BUT WE must also think of the families of Vietnamese prisoners and of the millions of Vietnamese who are hoping for peace that they expect to come through the strict application of the Paris peace agreement," he said.
There was no immediate comment from the U.S. delegation.
He charged that the U.S. delegation had
witnessed and had shown only interest in
getting the deal.
Value of Mental Hospitals Questioned
BY JEANETTE HARTMAN
Koncon Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the last of a two-part series of stories examining proposed reforms in the state's mental health care system.
Mental institutions, commitment procedures and the treatment given to patients pose many questions. All of them are difficult and crucial; most are unanswerable.
Who should be involuntarily committed? Is the real purpose of commitment to protect society or to treat the individual? What is the nature of "mental illness"? And what chance is there that the person confined to an institution will be "cured"?
All are questions which present complex obstacles to finding solutions to the problems of mental institutions and patients today.
An experiment by D. L. Rosenhan, publicized in Newsweek and Science magazines, has focused a great deal of attention on the value of hospitalization.
in the experiment, nine sane people voluntarily committed themselves to 12 different hospitals. The hospitals, located in five different states on the East and West sides of the country, provided values and their orientation toward research. Only one was a private institution.
EACH PSEUDOPATENT complained of
bearage vague voices saying "empty",
"empty".
"hollow" and "bud." Beyond falsifying names and occupations, the pseudoputients gave true life histories and behaved as normally as possible once admitted.
All except one were admitted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and released with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in spite of having been from seven to 52 days with an average of 19 days, in spite of the pseudopatiens' requests to be discharged. This was true even in states that required only a three-day notice period before dismissal. Rosenman
CHECKING THE pseudopatients' records afterwards, Rosenhan discovered that the patients' biographical material and behavior were interpreted in a psychopathological context. And although the staff never suspected the pseudopatients' insanity, other patients did, Rosenhan said.
The average daily contact with psychiatrists, psychologists, residents and physicians combined ranged from 3.9 to 25.1 minutes, including admission interviews, ward meetings, group therapy sessions and discharge interviews.
He concluded that "the hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment—the powerlessness, deper-
sonalization, segregation, mortification and self-labeling—seem undoubtedly coun-
According to the National Association for Mental Health, one in 10 Americans had some form of mental or emotional illness in 1969. On any one day, 378,000 persons were residents of a mental institution; 12,700 were under 18.
AS OF 1989, according to the association, there were 498 mental hospitals in the United States, including public hospitals, private hospitals and neuropsychiatric facilities under the Veteran's Adjuvant 380 general hospitals and psychiatric units.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, there was one psychiatrist for every 8,000 people in 1971. But this statistic is distorted because New York, California, and Texas are major centers of practice and half of the total practicing psychiatrists but only one third of the population.
ACCORDING TO James Stachiwak, professor of psychology, at the University of Kansas, hospitalization "is a very complex process" that feels like hospitalizing a person
There were 2,088 public and private clinics treating 1,199,061 patients, both children and adults in 1969, according to the National Association of Mental Health. Nearly half of these clinics were in Northeastern cities.
Unionizing Gets Under Way at KU
Recent moves towards employee organization by maintenance, service and library employees are a first for the University of Kansas.
Kansan Staff Writer
Before this academic year, there had been a system of to officially unionize University employees.
Kansas Senate Bill 333, the "meet and confer" law, which did not take effect until March 1, 1972, provided the framework for the workings of the legislature, including those at KU, could organize.
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
The bill created the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB). Its five members are appointed by the governor and comprise a representative of both public employees and public employers and three members at large.
MUCH ADMINISTRATIVE time is required to meet with employee representatives to discuss working conditions, hours and rates of pay, Nitcher said. In a formal situation, the University needs a staff that meets with employee representatives.
has been to formalize the relationship between KU and its employees.
Charles Oldfather, university attorney, said the effect of employee organization on the campus would not be much different from the effects of a nonunion plan becoming unionized. There would be a representation "of some clout," he said.
Nitcher added the University planned to add the staff by June 1 a labor relations director who would deal with grievances, hearings and other forms of perceptions.
Keith Nitzer, vice chancellor for business affairs, said the effect of the law
When employees organize, Oldfather said, someone represents them when "a secu-
tory needs to be done."
hold for wages, however, he said, because
wages are controlled by the state.
The analogy to private industry does not
BECAUSE OF CIVIL service regulations and state funding, the University does not have as much leeway in dealing with its employees as private employers do, Oldfather said. There are basic hire requirements for civil service employees, and rank and salaries are governed by regulations.
Oldfather said that the University had more control over working conditions than over wages and that most direct bargaining with the University thus would be over working conditions. The most the University can do about wages, he said, is to
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trouble mentally, they have done a good, that belief is not well formed, would suggest that
Although there probably are many people who profit from hospitalization, he said, there is pressure to use the mental health profession to protect the status quo. More than half of these people have the conservative side than be responsible for someone's behavior later, he said.
"I think the whole philosophy of the
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A subcommission on captured persons convened again Tuesday in efforts to restore them.
The United States had said earlier it would press the Communist delegation for a list and timetable of the next group of American prisoners to be released.
At least seven North Vietnamese delegates were injured by mobs of rock-throwing demonstrators in the northern cities and Da Nang on Sunday, acc. to T.P.
THE NORTH VIETNAMESE have repeatedly charged that the Saigon government had harassed and provoked their representatives and had sanctioned demonstrations that have led to violence against members of the Hanoi delegation.
"IF THE United States and the Saigon government had strictly implemented the agreement, the United Nations would haveudio Hanoi said. "The Vietnamese people of South Vietnam should have been offered a peaceful life, independence, and the first step in stabilization and concord should have existed.
Tin said if the harassment, provocation and lack of security and accurate accommodations continued, the Joint Military Commission could not function.
Shortly after Tin's remarks, Radi Hanoi
"But the United States government and the Saigon government have systematically sabotaged the most important and urgent provisions of the agreement. While the cease-fire has been in force for nearly one month, the Saigon government has already launched thousands of bombings and attacks in China under the liberated areas which are under the jurisdiction of the Provisional Revolutionary Government."
denounced Saigon and Washington for "seriously violating" the Paris agreement.
The Provisional Revolutionary Government is the political arm of the Viet Cong.
"I think they (opponents) completely misunderstand the bill," Harder said. "It doesn't open up any gates. Actually, it does more than the present law, I think."
TOPEKA (AP) — The Kansas Senate voted 21-13 Monday to kill a bill designed to bring the state's 1970 abortion law into compliance with the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on two other states' abortion laws, but a move is likely today to reconsider the action.
Abortion Bill Stymied; New Driving Test OKd
The Senate also concurred with a House amendment and sent to Gov. Robert Docking for his signature a bill, effective Jan. 1, 1974, requiring Kansas drivers to take an open-book rules of the road examination and an eye test before they can renew their motor vehicle licenses every four years.
Somewhat surprisingly, the motion carried 20-14, prompting Sen. Joseph Harder, Senate majority leader, to change his vote so he can move for reconsideration today. Only a person voting on it would be considered for consideration. Harder's switch made the vote 21-13. Two senators passed and four were absent.
The Senate passed the driver's license renewal test bill 31-4 after the House had passed it earlier Monday by an 86-34 vote. The abortion bill was killed when sen. Robert Madden, D-Wichita, moved during debate on the measure to strike its enacting clause.
A long hassle is expected today on a school finance plan endorsed by the Senate Education Committee and the Republican majority and opposed by most Democrats.
Sen. Robert F. Bennett, Senate president,
said, "we'll have to see who voted how
before we'll know whether it will be
wrong to vote for him or not, plain to
sure of some the what the bill does."
Harder, who eight years ago spent four hours debating the present school foundation aid system, will again carry the bill. He said he didn't expect to debate as long as he had been in the partnership had continued extensive caucuses to get the plan explained to members.
Madden, Sen. James Francisco, D-Wichita, and Sen. George Bell, D-Kansas City, led theAttorneys no restrictions on who could have an abortion the first 24 weeks of a pregnancy, except that a physician would have to perform the operation in a licensed physician.
In the final three months of pregnancy, a woman could obtain an abortion in Kansas only if a physician agreed it was necessary to protect the health of the woman.
Under the present Kansas law, adopted as part of the state's criminal code in 1970, a woman can get an abortion at any time of her own choice and is necessary for her mental or physical health.
The bill was amended in committee to exempt from performing abortions any hospitals and individual personnel who object to the operation on moral grounds.
Students, Sellers Use Credit Cards As Modern Medium of Exchange
Editor's Note: This is the second story in a three-part series dealing with credit cards and credit sales. Tomorrow's story will examine the advantages and disadvantages of credit cards to the consumer and to the merchant.
By DANGEORGE Kansan Staff Writer
Once the pledge of students in the world of credit could be quite accurately compared to that of non-credit students,
With no steady means of support, the average college student was forced to spend a little money as possible and to never buy anything he couldn't pay for with cash. Thus, when he learned of credit and because of that, found it difficult to get one started.
But that, according to spokesman of BankAmerica and Master Charge corp., has been a "success story."
"Very few bank cards turn down persons for unestablished credit anymore, unless perhaps its a case of a middle-aged guy who simply hasn't bothered to bother, assistant manager of the Bank Americard center at Commerce Bank in Kansas City, Mo.
"We think college students are really pretty good risks. If they're willing to work their way through school, we figure they'll be good risks when they get out. Actually, you can correlate by education how well a person is going to handle credit. The biggest problem for many people is that they just don't understand the system."
ALAN COLLINS, assistant manager of
CAL INFINITI, paid red card credit
City National Bank, CITY Mo.,
agreed that education was a prime con- negation in issuing credit cards.
"We feel very comfortable about today's youth," he said. "Today's college student's potential growth in far greater than it's ever been, simply because he is better educated."
The growing acceptance of college students as credit customers, not only by the bank card corporations but also by oil companies and independent retailers, is reflected on the local level by an increasing use of cards by students in Lawrence. And the uses of the cards appear to be almost as if as the number of students themselves.
Purchases range from the usual gifts at
automobile brakes to the even paying of automobile
burys.
"We accept only Master Charge now," said Ronald Hamilton, comptroller at the University of Kansas, "but students can get from them. We don't send them from their banks and pay it that way."
THE UNIVERSITY accepted 502 payments through Master Charge during fall enrollment last year, Hamilton said, and 432 during spring enrollment this year. The total charge for the two semesters amounted to more than $179,000.
'one card was used primarily for tuition fees, not books or dorm fees,' he said. "The (Kansas) Union is not presently able to get the zero discount that many students receive in Master Charge charge. And there hasn't been much demand expressed by people in the dorms for Master
by people in the country for him
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HEW Team Visiting KU To Study Hiring Practices
A two-man site investigation team from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare began a review of the University employment practices.
Shirley Gilham, director of the affirmative action office, said that the
The team met with Chancellor Raymond Nichols in the morning and began reviewing employment data and interviewing University employees.
team was based in her office and had an additional office in Spencer Library. She said that her office had helped the team with a statistical employee analysis.
"They supplied me with a list of positions for which they wanted to interview," she said. "The list includes students, faculty and administrative staff."
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