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Wednesday, July 31, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Self-Sufficiency in Energy Needs Is Distant
Columnist Calls Energy Administration Office 'Indifferent'
By NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN King Features Syndicate
WASHINGTON—the gas panic has left us; the highway billboards that admonish us not to be fuelled are tattering. Except for the not-very-strictly-enforced speed limits, it seems the authorities have given up encouraging us to keep down our energy con
Not that our world is the same. Caddilac is coming out with a small car, many a family is finding out that it will have to spend $1,000 on gas to keep rolling this year, and while all the signs of a price-depressing international oil glut are visible, we still may suffer shortages here. The dominance of the major oil companies in refining, transporting and marketing gas over their independent operations, so it may be we're being given gas until after election day, whereupon they could squeeze us again.
Yet another bit of debris from that time of petroleum panic and patriotism was President Nixon's Project Independence, an ill-designed effort which may earn an ignored place next to The Year of Europe. The Nixon Doctrine and the New American Republic, with a proposal to make our country equally energy self-sufficient does enjoy a half-life in John Sawhill's Federal Energy Administration that starting August 6, will hold
poorly publicized hearings on the subject in 10 different cities.
Judging from the performance of Sawhill's office to date I wouldn't stand in line to get a seat. Not only has the Energy Advisor explained the necessity of doubling the price of fuel on the lame, the halt, the black, the old and the blind, it has already managed to get itself charged with harboring conflict-of-interest claims from Sun Oil Company and Philips Petroleum.
With that kind of setup, we can assume that our future energy policies are already decided and, in the sweet by-and-by, will be revealed to us as indistinguishable as those of the past. At least the people sniffing around Savill's premises have concluded that Project Independence is actually Project Dependence on foreign energy sources. So what happened? We wrote that government subsidies and loans for 18 liquid natural gas carriers are flowing into the construction of ships like crude from an east Texas gusher.
They are destined to transport Algerian and Russian gas at a temperature of 260 degrees minus zero to any American port silly enough to receive them, for these vessels are floating bombs, capable of emitting a vaporous fire cloud of lethal consequence over large inhabited areas. In line with the objectives of Project Independence, the
Maritime Commission is also dropping $200 million in the construction of seven new, deep-water ships. They are a more conventional hazard. We'll feel better about the liquid natural gas carriers after one of them has blown up and we know that many people we must expect to die the next time.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, yet one more information suction cup on a Ralph Nader organization tentacle. In this case, the suction cup hill's is a continued rush into atomic energy as well. In 11 years time the FEA people are projecting as much as 40 per cent of our energy.
This sounds hopeful until you read that Wilson Clark, the knowledgeable man at the Environmental Policy Center, estimates that about $10 billion of 50 billion kilowatt hours for us, but the uranium enrichment plants that manufacture their fuel consumed three-fifths of the
The new liquid metal faster breeder reactors are supposed to end that, if they are ever perfected, but in their own way their energy consumption is so great that Clark says, "The distinct possibility exists that the reactors will be totally subsidized by fossil fuels or energy sources." That's a lot of walking to stay in the same place.
Med Center Abortions Increasing
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By CAREN GUMI
Kansan Staff Reporter
The number of women receiving abortions at the University of Kansas Medical Center has increased since December 1973, according to Susan Greenwald, assistant counselor in the family planning and counseling service at the Medical Center.
A weekly clinic was opened in December for abortions of pregnant women eight weeks after the termination. The Medical Center began performing these abortions, the total number of abortions has increased to an average of 15 a day. There are 430 new abortions per week since the new clinic opened.
According to Greenwald, the abortions are divided into four different classifications for termination. Pregnancies are terminated at 10 to 14 days, even if they were still in the womb; are suspected, fewer than 8 weeks; 8 to 12 weeks; and 12 to 20 weeks. Greenwald said.
The prices for the different abortions range from $2.50 to $5.50. The 10 to 14 day termination is done in the clinic, Greenwald said, and it costs $2.50. The termination of confirmed pregnancies of less than eight weeks is done in the clinic, according to Greenwald.
Greenwald said termination of pregnancies of eight weeks to 12 weeks was done in the surgery facilities and cost $72.8 million, about half a day in the hospital, she said.
The abortions performed at 12 to 20 weeks cost $500, and greenwald. The woman must have a 30-day stay.
Greenwald said that all women must have a physical examination before an abortion was performed. This includes tests for gonorrhea, blood tests, pap tests, a pelvic examination and a confirmation of the pregnancy for those more than 14 days.
The average age of women having abortions at the Medical Center is 22, and 23.
race or marital status of a woman is not considered. Greenwald said.
The obstetricians and gynecologists have a contract with the state that covers all aspects of their work at the Medical Center. They years they have formed a corporation.
The Kansas Board of Regents is considering a proposal that would allow the physicians to form a foundation instead of a corporation, according to Charles Brennan, assistant vice chancellor for the Medical Center.
The reason for the change is that as a foundation they would be a non-profit organization and would receive some tax exemptions they were not able to receive as a corporation, Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said yesterday.
Brennan said the formation of a foundation instead of a corporation would have no effect on the practices of the physicians or the salaries or fees of the department.
It will be an expensive stroll too. The planners are talking in terms of an expenditure of more than $800 billion for these power plants, and that's not a typo.
will be necessary for cooling the steam-electric power-producing plants. During the two-thirds of the year when the flood flows are generally lacking, about one-half of the total fresh water runoff will be required for cooling.' Well, there so the trout.
The cost can be calculated in other terms as well. These potentially dangerous installations may have to be placed in 500-acre parks or on floating islands. They will also need much water. Clark says, "One-sixth of the total amount of available fresh water
Perhaps Sawhill might consider giving up his public hearings and his Project Independence to throw us back onto the mercies of others where we seem to have been better off.
IUDs Never Recommended By Physicians at Watkins
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) recently ordered more than 3,000 family planning clinics to stop prescribing the Dakton Shale, a type of IUD, to women. HHE also asked that private physicians not recommend the Dakton Shale until doubts about the safety and effectiveness of it could be resolved.
Dr. Raymond Schwegler, Watkins Hospital, said recently that Watkins physicians have never recommended IUDs to patients because of the difficulties with the devices.
The IUD is now used by 3-5 million women in the United States. A recent study showed that 86 percent of these women rate among women using the Dakton Shield. The rate for other IUDs is about three per cent. The Dakton Shield also reportedly has caused uterine infections in women who use it.
Instead, the physicians at Watkins have removed a number of IUDs from patients, Schwegler said. The IUDs don't seem to have a good percentage of effectiveness compared with Schwegler said. He said he had recently seen three pregnant women who had used the IUD.
Alarming infections, some causing major surgery, seem to accompany the IUDs, Schweiger had. He cited a case where a man's uterus had been perforated by an IUD.
The manufacturers of the Dalkon Shield have agreed to a request by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove the device from the market.
Physicians at Watkins recommend and prescribe the birth control pill most frequently, in an effort to achieve effectiveness. Schweiger said, Watkins physicians also fit diaphramas, which are harmless to the woman's body and are rela- tious against pregnancy. Schweiger said.
Schweigel said that physicians at Watkins would discuss the rhythm method and various other forms of contraceptives with persons who inquire about them, but that he considered them to be far less effective than the birth control pill and the diaphragm.
The Douglas County Health Department
will insert IUDs only to women who already have had children, or to those women whose bodies cannot tolerate the pill, according to research by the Douglas County Health department.
Different Weeds for Different Breeds
Levene said that in the past year she had inserted 30 IUDs with no complications. The Health Department had been using the Dalkon Shield until its removal from the market and is now using an IUD called Lipes Loops.
in brief
"THE NAVIGATOR," a 1924 movie starring Buster Keaton, will be shown at 7:30 tonight in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. Admission is 75 cents.
"DEMONOLOGY in Religious Thought" will be a new course offered in the fall by the School of Religion. It will be a survey of the history and traditional traditions to the phenomenon of evil.
"The other women sit at one table and talk about things like nursing bottles and much sugar to use for freezing food." My interest lies with the other engineers."
One thing Miller finds amusing about her colleagues is their emphasis on good humor.
UNIVERSITY Carillonour Albert Gerken will give a carillon recital at 8 tonight.
WINT WINTER, a 6-1, 215 pound reserve offensive center for the KU Jayhawks the past two seasons, has announced he would be studying abroad next year, his senior year, and would not be playing football for the N.C. State Wolfpack. Sen. and Mrs. Winton Winter of Ottawa.
THE FOURTH ARMY Reserve Band from Topema will present a free concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 13th.
A FACULTY FELLOWSHIP in Science Applied to Societal Problems has been awarded to David E. Willer, associate professor of sociology. The fellows are invited faculty members faculty members broaden their perspective in the applications of science to society.
It has been quite a switch for Miller to go
Miller, who is studying electrical engineering, is an officer in the Society of Women Engineers. She began working at DuPont in Tecumshе three months ago and so far has observed almost no discrimination.
The main problem is at lunchtime, according to Miller. The only other women at the plant are secretaries and she must attend conferences and her social obligations, she said.
Female Student Engineer Hasn't Seen Discrimination
Being one of only two female engineers in a plant that employs nearly 800 people, has proved to be no problem for Susan Miller, Augusta senior.
directly from being a college student to being in management.
"I'm essentially the boss," she said. "If I assign a control panel I have to get an admin to do."
She attributes her success as an
season to the versatility of the field and
her own ability and drive.
Though she has seen almost no discrimination so far, she said that if she had held a higher position on a regular basis there might have been a problem.
"I try to get things done," she said. "When you're in a bureaucracy, which is what plants such as this one are, you have to be careful not to make sure your ideas before they accept someone else's ideas."
She said she hasn't been discriminated against as much because she is a woman as she has because she is a college student. Men and women who are college students aren't taken seriously and have to take a lot of kidding, she said.
She will continue with her schooling this fall, but she said DuFort would like her to be a teacher.
"The opportunities for women in engineering are amazing," Miller said. "You don't have to worry about getting a job because they come to you."
New Law Building to Aid Teaching
By DONNA HOWELL
Kansan Staff Reporter
The new School of Law building, to be completed in 1977, will provide several new methods of instruction that will be the inevitable methods of the future, Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said yesterday.
In addition to the traditional ways of instruction there will be more innovative ways that reflect recent changes and trends, he said. The school will be capable of videotaping and receiving and transmitting closed circuit television, he said.
"The skills of the lawyer, such as presentations in court, are very difficult."
That's why videotaping a student's court presentation in the school's legal Aid Clinic will be helpful, he said. The student will be able to watch himself to see the mistakes he may have made and any faults in his mannerism.
Another difficult aspect of the legal profession is the interview between the lawyer and his client. Dickinson said there were many times when a lawyer must deal with emotional clients, and it was difficult to interview them.
Videotaping an interview between a student and his client would show to the
student how he can handle an interview. Dickinson said an instructor would be able to make recommendations to the student about interviewing.
The library will be built to accommodate both microforms and books. One type of microform is ultrafine. This is a 3x5 inch card capable of holding 1,000 pages of text material. Microforms, Dickinson said, will have high construction cost of housing books.
The building design also provides retrieval of legal sources assisted by computers. The library will be capable of holding 150,000 volumes of legal information, such as statutes. Certain parts of this information will be computerized.
Dickinson said that because the library would be free from distractions, students would not want to leave the library with them. She would reduce the incidence of lost books.
The traditional, large, noisy and distracting reading room will be eliminated, Dickinson said. Student study stations will be scattered throughout the room to minimize distractions. Students student to study near the type of library material be may be using at that time.
The library in Green Hall often has a distracting atmosphere, Dickinson said. A
few years ago the School of Law had a problem because many students would take books from the library to study in a quiet place. This caused a high incidence of lost books.
Rieke Chosen For Committee
William O. Rieke, executive vice chancellor for the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been invited to be on a 16-day advisory committee for teaching hospitals.
The committee is one of three that will study medical topics. It will also provide information on reimbursement methods for physicians' services in teaching hospitals.
The committee will also study how much funds from social security support training medical specialties that are in excess supply and teaching programs that attract a disproportionate number of foreign medical graduates.
The committee will include recommendations on how social security funds can be used to better distribute physicians on a geographical and specialty basis.
Effects of Marijuana Disputed—But Use Still Grows
Kansan Staff Reporter
By RICK HIRD
Concern about recent studies indicating potential harms from smoking marijuana has been widely reported.
Waren Wenzel, professor of pharmacology and toxicology, said Monday, "In the case of murjama, my own feeling is that there is far more to excite suspicion than with other things."
The potential harms recently discovered are sterility, genetic damage, brain shrinkage.
However, most of the exporter reporting these findings are quick to point out that their results are inconclusive.
Wenzel has done considerable work on the effects of cigarette smoking and compared the discovery of nicotine to that of heroin.
"At the first of our smoking research, we got the same story of harlemness with scattered reports of harm," he said. "We know now that tobacco is killing people, but there are no laws covering it." Wenzel said that if it were possible to effectively regulate against the desire to smoke marijuana,
"The issue is whether people are really willing to
"As far as problems with murjunaq go, we have practically nothing," he said. "We don't really know who smokes murjunaq. I can't recall seeing any of them for months for any kind of a drug problem, like that."
accept the judgment in terms of probability and possibility," he said.
Dr. Raymond Schweigler, a physician at Watkins Hospital, and he didn't aware of any large continuing series of studies one way or the other. He took many drugs that he had handled at Watkins Hospital.
Schweiger said that some hein problem are handled through the methane treatment service at the hospital, but that the number attending the treatment was all of those taking treatment were non-students.
"If you have a vested interest, it's easy to find results either way," he said. "A lot of good scientists are being fooled. And that's on both sides of the fence."
John Weir, professor of physiology and cell biology, said a central problem in the dispute over stem cells is that there are too many.
Whear said another problem with research was that negative results weren't usually published. He
cited, as an example, a recent symposium on the effects of radiation on mice. Little evidence of harm was found, he said, but few realized that that was important in itself.
"One should be very cautious in these things." Weir said. "I seriously doubt that it doesn't have some harm, but that can be true about drinking a lot of coffee.
"Milk can be very bad for some adults who lack the enzymes needed to digest it. We know that milk can cause severe diarrhea in some cases, but we don't have laws against milk."
Whether marijuana smoking causes the side effects that some fear isn't certain. But it is certain that those who smoke marijuana are smoking more than ever.
According to figures from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 1968 federal arrests for marijuana were 354,000; in 1974 the figure rose to 308,048. In 1974, the figure more than doubled: 328,933 pounds of marijuana
The administration also said that roughly eight pounds of the drug reaches the street for every one hundred yards.
more than six million pounds of marijuana reached users.
State Sen. Arden Booth said he had seen no mass movement or change in the public attitudes.
"I don't think marijana is one of the burning issues of 1974," he said. "Many of us are aware of the new claims and alarms and that perhaps the President's commission oversimplified the
Despite the work of groups such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), local politicians foresee little change in state laws controlling the use of the drux.
On March 22, 1972, the 13-member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended that all criminal penalties for the private use and possession of marijuana be abolished. The panel said that on the basis of what is known from legal research it does not pose a serious threat to public health.
Booth said the bills introduced by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, to legalize possession “were not taken seriously before” Booth said he doubted that marijuana would even get nast a committee.
"There has been no great shift in public opinion to
legalize it," he said. "In fact, people are a little less apt to look for the liberal point of view."
as important. "These new findings should affect—and will affect—people's thinking," he said, "but I don't think it should affect the needed decriminalization of sale
"We know for a definite fact that alcohol, tobacco and not wearing seat belts can cause death, but we don't."
Glover said methods of enforcement were repressive and that society didn't have the constitutional right to deprive individuals from using the drug.
"Because it doesn't affect the majority yet, there isn't any justice in the books," he said. "Judges and probation officers are doing the best they can, but they only do so much. They can't just ignore the law."
If the reports of permanent serious harm from smoking the drug are true, the rapid rise in the consumption could be an important concern. But nobody really knows for sure yet.