University Daily Kansan
Thursday, July 25, 1974
Smoking Habit Lingers Despite Danger Warnings
By MARIAN HORVAT
Kenyon Staff Reporter
By MARIAN HORVAT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
This familiar message decorates each package of cigarettes sold today. It followed a 387-page report by U.S. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry in 1964 that was the public about the dangers of cigarette smoke.
Now, ten years later, numbers of smokers are at an all-time high, according to reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Although a smaller percentage of American adults is smoking, the total usage figure is greater.
For example, 10 years ago 50 million Americans smoked approximately $24 billion cigarettes. Last year, 52 million Americans smoked $83 billion cigarettes.
A particularly disturbing aspect of this poll, the
reports says, is the increasing number of young smokers and the larger percentage increase of women smokers. About 3,000 teen-agers join the brigade of smokers every day.
"I've been smoking since I was 12 years old," Judy Greene, Leawood junior, said. "It was the next
Chip Callahan, Fairway junior, said he also
arted smoking because that was the "in" thing to
do.
"I've really never quit since I was 16," he said,
"although I think I should."
Margaret Vaughn, Lawrence sophomore, said she smoked because she enjoyed it. She quit for four days once, she said, but she was just "too used to doing it."
If you don't want to smoke cigarettes, smoke cigars, is the philosophy of Mary Lou, Lawrence
Cigarette are a big seller at the information desk counter in the Kansas Union, said Mary Katsay, day manager. She said the N. 1 seller was Maribor, Inston and Benson & Heights also popular brands.
"I smoke a pack of claixra a day," she said. "Not only do they have less turt and nicotine, but also."
During the summer session, approximately 175 packages of cigarettes are sold a day. This number will increase to 600 in the peak months of a regular season. The number, which is over 10,000 cigarettes sold in one day.
"I try not to sell to anyone who looks under age," she said. "I think kids think it's a sign of growing up to smoke cigarettes. Then when they get older, they find out they're hooked."
Deans at the University of Kansas hold differing opinions on cigarette smoking in classes.
Although Ed Bassett, dean of the School of Journalism, says he doesn't smoke, he doesn't penetrate. He doesn't like smoking.
"I don't understand how people can, though, when they know the Surgeon General has proclaimed it that it is safe to do this."
"As long as no one objects, including myself," he said, "I don't object. Sometimes it does bother me."
Charles Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture,
he said usually left it up to the students in the class.
said, "I don't object. Sometimes it does bother me."
under no circumstance does James Gowen,
associate professor of English and director of fresh-
man morphology more English, permit smoking in
classes.
Don Schieid, associate dean of the School of Fine Arts, said although he was practically a chain smoker, he tried to make it a practice not to smoke in classes.
Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, said he didn't allow smoking in class because of student policy.
"I read all the course evaluations," he said, "one of the most common complaints concerns classes when smoking is permitted. I think the views of these people should be respected."
"I smoke myself," he said, "but never in classes."
Since 1964, the American Cancer Society reports, 10 million smokers have given up the habit. They attribute this in part to the strong anti-cigarette laws and advertising on the ban on TV and radio cigarette advertisements.
Still more information on the dangers of cigarette smoking will probably be seen in the future. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Surgery General's report, 35 separate agencies concerned with the dangers of tobacco are sponsoring a special program to review what has been gained and what still needs to be done.
Ford Called Competent For Presidency by Profs
By LARRY GREWACH Kansan Staff Reporter
Vice President Gerald Ford would be a competent though not innovative President, several University of Kansas professors said yesterday.
"My impression would be that Ford would not be the most dynamic President we've ever had," said Robert Casad, professor of law.
Casad said Ford, as President, would
would give his leadership to the
leader he would be in imaginative lead.
"I haven't seen much in his career to indicate he would be a dynamic leader," he said.
W. Stitt Robinson, professor of history,
said Ford had a 'structure of honesty and
integrity,' but he said that he was
impressed by Ford's leadership
abilities.
Robinson said a Ford administration would emphasize maintaining the status
"I think he would be less aggressive in foreign affairs than Mr. Nixon, but more effective in his relations with Congress," he said.
Ford would be a strong presidential candidate, according to Robinson.
David Hardcastle, newly appointed acti
david of the School of Social Welfare,
Buffalo
"He has the advantage of being able to separate himself from Watergate and he would be able to benefit from his past experience in the House of Representatives," he said.
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Judiciary...
motion. McClory often has been listed among the Republicans who might support
"In short, the committee has to decide whether the President was telling the truth to the American people," said the chairman.
For months, the 38-member committee had considered impeachment evidence behind closed and barred doors. Now, he said, it is "time we make up our ruins."
Committee Republicans considered moving to delay committee debate on the possibility that further tape 'recordings might become available, but decided against such a move shortly before the session began.
Several committee members circulated texts of their remarks in advance.
Rep. Jack Brooks of Texas, the committee's third-ranking Democrat, did not say in his prepared comments whether he would vote for impeachment, but declared: "On our 198 years we have had evidence of each rampant corruption in government."
said Ford was a "methodical, fairly decent person."
In terms of social welfare legislation,
Hardcastle said a Ford administration
reported that 68% of workers in the
country
"He's not a strong social welfare person, by any means," he said. "He's one of the stalwarts of the conservative branch of the Republican party."
Hardcastle said that Ford would probably approve Congressional social welfare appropriations, rather than impound the assets, as the Nikon administration had done.
In addition, Hardcastle said the government would be more efficient run under
But Francis Heller, professor of law and political science, said it would be difficult to predict what kind of president Ford would be.
"Judging from his past record as a leader of the Republicans in Congress, Ford has been an effective administrator's program and has held generally a conservative view." Heller
But the presidency is a unique office, Heller said, and, once in the office, men have conducted themselves differently from in the past.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example, was passed during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a Texan and a man who had held the White House. A member of the U.S. Separate Held said.
"There is no real apprenticeship for the presidency," he said.
Anin Winner, professor of political science,
also said it would be difficult to predict
it.
Ford was the front runner among Republicans and independents for the 1976 GOP Presidential nomination, according to a recent poll.
But area Republican leaders said yesterday that they had no way of gauging sentiment for Ford among Kansas Republicans.
Stephen Hill, W. 8th St., Douglas County
republican chairman, said he had heard no
advice from the House GOP on him.
"believe he's probably on the whole well regarded for his hard work and integrity,"
Jack Brand, 2013 Quail Creek Drive, 3rd District Republican chairman, said Ford had been very well received at a recent appearance in Johnson County.
"I think he's quite obviously a very competent person," he said.
R. Doug Lewis, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said that the party has no official voice.
Lewis said that Ford, whom he described as "an articulate, quiet, soft-spoken guy," responded with a smile.
"He's a loyal party man. We were somewhat on the decline and he was one of those who has been dedicated to building the party," he said.
THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY
2-6 p.m.
Library Adopts Plant Named Yog
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Two women walked up the stairs in Watson Library, almost covered with the plant they were carrying. Several persons stopped and watched.
Kansas Photos by GEORGE LANDIS
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"It" is Yog, a six-foot Swedish ivy hanging in the reference room in Watson Library. Yog was given to the library by Mr. Roper and his husband, Dan Moore, 736 West 25th St.
"We bought this thing to put in our terrarium," Sieffel said. The plant kept growing and growing, she said, so they decided to name him Yog.
Where Baseball is Our Business
Carol Chittendon Secures Yog the Ivy
at
"I couldn't think of any friends who would take him," Steffel said. Most of her friends, she said, didn't have enough room for Yog. She said she knew that Carol Chittenden, associate reference librarian at Watson College, knew that they decided to give Yog to the library.
"It's beautiful," someone said quietly.
Steffel said she and her husband were moving to Ohio and couldn't take Yog with
Yog is just one of many plants in Watson Library.
"We thought it was a good monster-type name," she said.
"We have about fifty pots of things." Chittendon said. "We had some problem with theft, but I feel confident that no one will take Yog."
Chittenden said that Yog was a Swedish ivy, a relative of the coloe plant, and was originally from Australia and some Pacific Islands.
Watson Library has had plants for almost exactly a year, Chittenden said. The first few, she said, were plants she brought from home. Plants are still brought from home, she said, but many have been given or lent to the library.
"I bought a few." she said.
The librarians will give a cutting of a library plant to anyone who asks for one, Chittenden said, if the plant won't be harmed by taking a cutting from it. She said no cuttings will be given while she is on duty during the last part of summer school.
"Ihope, in the fall, to give out lots and lots of plants," she said.
Assistant Dean Of Men to Leave
Robert W. Rasberry, assistant director of Centennial College and assistant dean of men, will become assistant professor in the School of Business and Business Communications at Southern Methodist University this fall.
As assistant dean of men, Rasberry directed orientation programs for freshmen, supervised student organizations and developed personnel programs such as career and vocational planning, drug education, special awareness and leadership training.
Rasberry also taught two KU seminar courses, Topics and Problems of a Changing Environment and Human Relations in University Life.
Rasberry came to KU in 1971 to work on his doctoral degree in speech communication.
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A $ 175 Grant from the department of Health, Education and Welfare has been awarded Vernon A. Nowick, Green Bay, Wisconsin, graduate student. The grant, an award in the Department of Health Fellowship, is for conducting research in Poland and Austria during the 1974-75 year.
A Grant of $55,200 has been awarded the KU Low Temperature Laboratory. The grant will support a research project concerned with natural gas study.
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp will present its final concerts at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Three jazz ensembles and an all-star band featuring KU faculty members will perform music in the choirs and the Concert Orchestra will perform music and the Concert Choir and Band and the Symphony Orchestra will perform Sunday.
The Baker Playmen, a religious drama troupe from Baker University, will perform the musical "Kingdom on a Hill" at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Plymouth Church congregation, 959 Vermont St. "The Kingdom on a church sermon," has been formed by the group more than 30 times in a tour of California and Texas.
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