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KANSAN
84th Year, No.149
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
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Monday, June 24, 1974
Kansan Staff Photo by DEBBIE GUMP
Foster Abandoned
Foreign students in the Intensive English Center no longer attend classes in Foster Hall. The dilapidated condition of the classrooms there contributed to the strike by IEC students during the spring semester. TheCenter has temporarily located its locations in Wescow Hall.
Intensive English Center Altered
By KATHY PICKETT
Kansan Staff Reporter
Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on the Intensive English Center.
A serious attention is being made to improve the problems of the students at the Intensive English Center. Robert P. Cobb, chairman, has been the principal.
Several improvements have been made. Grading panes have changed and a new curriculum advisory committee has been established. The program has been temporarily moved from Foster Hall to Wescow Hall, said Cobb, who is also associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, director of Numerak College and professor of English.
The Center has come under fire several times in recent years. Last April about 35 IEC students staged a walkout protesting inadequate facilities ... both academically and structurally. The center had to shut down its classrooms, complaints about grading, texts, tests, teachers and Foster Hall.
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE for the Center has been trying to change some things. Cobb said, even though the
Cobb said the advice of the committee wouldn't be taken casually.
He said the committee wouldn't try to run the center but that the IEC needed to know there were things wrong.
Members of the committee are Farbad Mumma, Lawrence senior; Clark Coan, dean of foreign students; Gilbert K. Dyk, director of admissions; Edward T. Erasmus, director of the Intensive English Center and associate professor of linguistics; Evan Gunzich, associate professor of Kyoto, Japan, graduate student; Claudia J. Temchin, Olivia graduate student; Fawazw T. Ualaby, associate professor of electrical engineering; George F. Wedge, associate professor of English and linguistics; Arnold H. Weiss, assistant dean of the graduate school and associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and languages; Michael R. Wittner, professor of anthropology, East Asian Studies and linguistics.
FOSTER HALL has been the major source of complaints. The student complaint concerning the hall said, "The Center is very nice and I like it."
After the walk-out, R. Keith Lawton, director of facilities planning and operation, said the building was classified obsolete. This meant it should be relocated as soon as possible, he said, but no such plans had been made vet.
IEC classes are in Wescoe Hall this summer.
The students should be going to classes in different buildings, just like the rest of the University, Cobb said.
Another demand was that the Center hire full-time professional teachers specializing in linguistics or teaching
BECAUSE THE CENTER hires graduate students as teachers, there are frequent complaints that the teachers are insecure.
Cobb said all the teachers were connected to the University and were in closely-related fields such as English and
Students also complained about the books and the tests used at the Center. Several of the books were published by the University of Michigan. Cobb said the intensive English program there was very successful.
There are some new texts being used now, with an attempt at specialization in different academic fields.
Because of a lack of funds, Cobb said, the center is unable to have any staff to research teaching methods and tests.
But a curriculum advisory committee, consisting of George Hughes, assistant professor of education, and Yamomo has, been formed.
Another complaint was that the students needed a library of their own. Several students said they had a great deal of trouble finding it.
COBB SAID that the Center had had orientation to University libraries for the students, but that a lack of funds prevented a separate library. He said he saw no real need for one because the libraries were very complete. The main problem was communication.
"These men are professionals in that field," Cobb said.
A major demand was a change in the grading system. A grade of B on the entrance exam to the University was previously set at C. The current grade is D.
Nixon Reactions to Court Unknown, Counsel Says
WASHINGTON (AP)-White House counsel Leonard Garment yesterday dismissed as "idle speculation" whether President Nixon would refuse to comply with a Supreme Court order to surrender further Watergate evidence.
Garrant said also it was "invalid as well as idle" to suggest that any section went forward.
But, two members of the House Judiciary Committee, Reps. Williams Hungate, D-Me, and David W. Dennis, R-Ind., said that a rejection of a Supreme Court decision would be viewed as a very serious matter by the impeachment panel.
Arguments are scheduled for July 8 on Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's demand for tapes of 64 presidential conferences in the Watergate cover-up trial in September.
U.S. District Court Judge J. Sirica
Jones last month, but Nixon appealed the decision.
Garment said that Nixon did not view himself as above the law.
Asked then why Nixon has not complied with the House Judiciary Committee's subpoenas for more evidence, Garment said, "Cooperation in the impachment proceeding does not mean that he abandons the responsibilities of his office."
If Nixon accepted the unilateral determination of the Congress about what evidence is needed, Garment said, "obviously the result of that would be that every piece of paper in the White House would be open to examination."
As to Charles W. Colson's statement in court Friday that Nixon had urged him to defame Daniel Elsberg in 1971, Garment said that "is something I don't know about."
Garment acknowledged that Presidents—he emphasized the plural—sometimes steps that many people would find difficult to own their own sense of what was fit and proper.
In the Ellsberg case, he said. "We have to
nesses, if any, to call. Colson and John Dean III may be on the list, which is expected to be kept short. The panel reportedly is under pressure from the Democratic caucus to marmelate in representations by July 15. Garment was informed program "Face the Nation." Hungate and Dennis appeared on ABC's "Issues and Answers."
Law Professor Chosen As University Attorney
distinguish between matters that would be subject to criticism and matters which are unlawful. At this point, there certainly does not constitute anything that constitutes a violation of law."
But the newly-named University attorney for the University of Kansas, Michael J. Davis, professor of law, said Saturday he left a job in a congressional office because he wanted to see whether he could come back to his home state.
Davis, 31, a native of Clay Center, was named University attorney Thursday. He will succeed Charles Oldfather, who is retiring.
The committee may vote today on whether to subpoena more evidence in the milk fund, ITT and Internal Revenue cases. It also is scheduled to decide what wit-
Most people who work in Washington, D.C. find they "can't go back to Potomac,"
The announcement somewhat surprised Davis, who had told the search committee that he wouldn't accept the position on a full-time basis.
"I thought I was eliminated at that time," Davis said.
However, the committee accepted him on his terms and he will continue to work in the School of Law in addition to his duties as University attorney.
Davis, who joined the KU faculty as an associate professor of law in 1971, was a legislative assistant to Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, from 1969 to 1971.
"I had always been intrigued by 'taught', Davis said in explaining why he learnt."
He said the opportunity to teach in his
Davis received a B.A. degree from Kansas State University in 1964 and his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1967.
Before working in Stokes' office, Davis was the associate director of planning and research for the Legal Services Program of the Economic Opportunity in Washington.
Dewais said his legal and philological viewpoints drew him to endorse his work in the field.
native state was another consideration for leaving Washington.
"It seemed to me that G.M. had enough attorneys," he said.
Davis said he thought the office of University attorney was three jobs: an ambudsman informing people in the University of their rights and responsibilities. University lawyer, and an internal consultant for the chancellor and vice cancellors.
Davis is vice-chairman of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission and a member of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission. He is a member of the Kansas, Missouri and Douglas County bar associations.
By the Associated Press
Events Could Impair Soviet Talks
This will be the third summit in three years for President Nixon and Leonid Breznev, general secretary of the Soviet Communist party. In light of events since the year ago in Washington, the path to the ultimate goal of genuine peace has become trickier.
Good news for the United States and its allies can be bad news for chances of the new Soviet-American summit this week in Moscow, which will teach decisions affecting world peace.
Strategic arms will command much of the attention of the two principals when they meet Thursday. Chances for real combat have been sharply set back by recent events.
—In the Middle East, the West's good news was that the United States established strong influence among Arab nations, in response to rising tensions between the Soviet Union, this spelled painful revers after two decades of enormous investment in arms, economic aid and political courtship.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's members have moved perceptibly closer after a period of severe strains. It's a good news for the United States but can reactivate stubborn Soviet suspicions.
—Glittering generalities of past comin the penitentiary, Frydman said, inmates receive due process of law; that is, they receive review by a board. The assistant warden and the warden had to ask for review, which Frydman said is called "adjustment in treatment" by prison staff and inmates.
Prof Argues Mental Patients' Rights
Kansan Staff Reporter
By ELEANOR WHERRY
The civil rights of mental patients are dead, Loyd Frydman, associate professor of social welfare, said in a recent interview. "I have been accused of seeing the (mental) hospitals of Kansas as jails," Frydman said.
He said he had visited the state penitentiary at Lansing and he thought Lansing was much freer than the state mental hospitals.
In the state mental hospitals in Musica,
Frydmann said, the hospital is given full
powers.
IN A REPORT to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, both generals and psychiatric hospitals are required and said the Teoka State Hospital violated
Frydman admitted he had never seen a patient's record at Topeka State Hospital, but he said he had never met a Topeka State patient who believed he had received treatment according to an "individualized, consistent treatment plan."
Frydman interpreted Principle I to mean that each patient "be painstakingly evaluated and have his treatment carefully planned."
Principles I and II of the Accreditation Manual for Psychiatric Facilities, (1972).
He said each physician at the toppe hospital imposed his own treatment ideology on his ward staff. Frydman said in his report that there appeared to be no "lines of accountability" to any center from each ward physician.
"The right to personal privacy and the
PRINCIPLE II STATES: "The psychiatric facility shall acknowledge the dignity and protect the rights of all its patients."
Frydman stated in his report that he knew of violations of patients' rights to free association and that censorship of mail was left to the discretion of the staff.
right to sanctity of one's body and mind are blatantly violated by the forced administration of psychoactive drugs," given without the consent of the patient and generally without knowledge of the drug and its side effects, the report states.
Frydman particularly objected to seclusion, the practice of placing a patient alone for treatment. He said he thought this would be safer, rather than treatment, by the staff.
However, Dr. Robert A. Haines, director of the Division of Mental Health and Retardation and former director of the Division of Institutional Management, said in the March 18, 1973, Topeka Capital-Journal "Doctors in the state hospitals have never subjected a patient for treatment or medication without the patient's consent."
Marie Schmidt, Phillipsburg graduate student and chairman of the University Committee for Patients' Rights, said the goals of the two groups were to insure that all patients received all their legal rights and to improve legislation specifying rights.
SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS concerned with the rights of mental patients
IN A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION yesterday, Haines said that doctors in the state hospitals usually told the patients their rights. He mentioned legislation pertaining to the rights of mental patients that was in the Kansas Legislature.
The Mental Patients' Support Committee (MPSC), is the main organization advocating new mental health legislation. It will convene a meeting tomorrow at the Lawrence Public Library.
Members of the group include KU students, lay persons, former patients of mental hospitals and professionals in the field.
A student organization, the University committee for Patients' Rights, has mandated that no student will receive a doctor's note.
A third group is the Kansas Council for institutional Reform, an informational planning organization.
muniques on intentions to limit weapons of mass destruction had little noticeable effect
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-
SALT II begged down. So did the Said
European Security Conference and
proposal on reduction of forces in
Central Europe
The security conference has been a Soviet policy centerpiece for which Moscow
—The NATO allies have just declared that continued presence of U.S. troops in Europe is indispensable to common defense. So the leaders talk are hardly likely to move off center.
The mood of Congress has been strongly influenced by recent events, notably in the Middle East. The war in October exposed Soviet intentions and brought a near showdown.
Meanwhile, from Defense Minister Andree Greckho下运, Soviet generals repeatedly rumble warnings to the Kremlin to beware of letting detente go too far. Trump, meaning the United States, they insist poses danger of war "as long as it exists."
Thus, pressure for deep cuts in American military spending is turned aside.
U.S. Senate to Vote on $6.6 Billion Tax Cut Bill
After a week-long fillhunter, the Senate will vote today on a proposed $6.5 billion tax cut. Prospects for approval are considered dim. Backers, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), were reported to be pessimistic about approving for the entire bill but are still hopeful about getting parts of it passed.
Communists Suspend Talks with South Vietnam
Communities supported their participation in military talks with South Vietnam and the United States yesterday in Saigon. They said Saigon and Washington had not shown a serious attitude in the negotiations and continued to intensify the war. It is the second time since May 10 that the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong have broken off the talks, which are trying to achieve the conscript in South Vietnam and to renew the search for 1,000 missing GIs.
American Warship Enters Suez Canal Waters
An American warship has entered the Suez Canal for the first time since the 1967 Middle East war, the U.S. Navy said. The ship, the USS Starrbastute County, will be a communications and logistical support center in the Canal. In other developments in the Middle East, Israeli forces evacuated nearly all the Golan Heights territory captured in the October 1973 war. Troop disengagement with Syria is to be completed by tomorrow.
Mayors Ask for Federal Aid for Mass Transit Democratic mayors of big cities defended their demands for massive federal aid against suggestions that the aid might drive up inflation. At their meeting in San Diego, the mayors called for federal programs to support and develop mass transit systems. The both Democratic and Republican mayors said Watergate government issues had created a bog jam of urban legislation in Washington.