University Daily Kansan
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Monday. Nov. 20, 1961
Lack of Funds-
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the heavy influx of veterans following World War II. The cash savings resulted from a number of factors, but primarily the hospital's inability to obtain sufficient staff for the increased enrollment.
But the savings was eaten up during a period of expanding services and rising prices over the next 10 years. Student health fees were raised from $10 to $12 a semester in 1956 to meet the financial burden of increased costs.
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, except for minor building repairs amounting to about 3 per cent of the annual operating costs, the KU student health service has been supported almost entirely by the student health fee.
The total cost of operation from June 1959 to July 1960 was $309,-
000. The preceding year, the cost was $282,000.
If the hospital is to receive Hill-Burton funds now, the matching funds will have to be raised.
Dr. Canuteson estimates an addition to the hospital similar to the one planned in 1947 will cost approximately $400,000 today.
How much money can be obtained in Hill-Burton funds depends to some degree on the legal classification of Watkins hospital. It is likely the government would grant between 40 and 50 per cent of the expansion cost.
IT IS ALSO LKELY that the school's share of the expansion cost will have to come from a legislative grant, about $200,000.
Dr. Canuteson believes this is feasible and fair since the student health program has cost the taxpayer only a negligible amount over the past 30 years.
While the most critical need for space is in the outpatient department, the hospital will also have to add beds to meet the anticipated increase in student enrollment.
What space has been provided for expansion of other health services has come from cutting space available for beds. Rooms which formerly accommodated 12 beds have been turned into offices for the mental health department, a relatively new service.
EVEN THOUGH ADVANCES in medicine in the past 30 years have reduced the number of beds needed per 1,000 students from 14 to 10. Watkins Hospital, with 52 beds, lacks nearly 50 beds of meeting the standard for present enrollment.
The proposed new wing would provide space for most but not all of the extra 50 beds to meet current needs.
However, the need for more beds only becomes critical in times of epidemics, such as the mild influenza epidemic which came in two waves in 1957. Dr. Canuteson says.
At that time, 403 cases were admitted to Watkins hospital and 213 less seriously ill patients were treated in dormitories. It is for such emergencies that the hospital should maintain a level of one bed per 100 students, the administrator said.
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, in its 1960 report, recommended the present hospital building be remodeled to house only administrative, outpatient and adjunct services, and that a new section contain only beds or complete nursing units.
The report stated:
"The University should give serious consideration to complete remodeling of the present hospital, and adding of beds and services as may be required for a 150-bed hospital.
"A 100-bed hospital is needed now. . . . It is recommended that adjunct facilities be designed for a 150-bed facility and the addition be so planned that 50 beds can be added easily at a later date."
It is the feeling of most members of the hospital staff that Watkins can maintain a high level of service without necessarily expanding to 150 beds.
However, the inadequacy of the present facility makes some kind of major expansion imperative, they say.
Reds Fortify Berlin Wall
BERLIN—(UPI)—Several thousand East German soldiers, policemen, militiamen and workers today turned the Communist wall dividing East and West Berlin into a fortification designed to withstand a western attack.
TANK TRAPS similar to those built by the Nazis into their West Wall were erected along the 25-mile East-West Berlin border. The wall itself was enlarged, extended and deepened.
Informed Allied officials said the reinforced wall obviously was built in fear of a Western attempt to break through the wall.
"The first wall was built Aug. 15 to keep East Germans in," an Allied official said. "The new work obviously is aimed at keeping people out."
SEVERAL THOUSAND soldiers policemen, militia and workers toiled on the wall today, patching up weak points and sealing the famous Brandenburg Gate with cement blocks six feet thick and pilled six feet high, instead of the barbed wire which has blocked it since Aug. 13.
Eyewitnesses returning from East Berlin said the city resembles an armed camp. Steel girders were
THE COMMUNISTS dug a deep trench right across Potsdamer Platz last night, flanked it with barricades and removed both streetcar tracks and overhead wires. Today they poured cement into the ditch to hold camouflaged tank traps of steel girders.
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rammed into the ground behind the wall and East German armored cars stood near the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdam Platz.
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Prof. Weir said that one argument is that shelters are a deterrent to war.
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"But another aspect," he continued, "is that if we convince people that building of shelters is protection against war, it might result in the attitude that we can survive a war."
"But since we continue to think that the only solution to international problems is war or the fear of war, a great danger does exist."
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"On the basis of past actions and words, and on the basis of the theory of international relations, there seems every reason to believe that the Soviets do not want to start World War III.
Prof. Laird said:
Prof. Laird added that what is needed is a third group to take our nuclear weapons and if the United
States or the Russians started anything the third group (the UN or something like the UN) could bring the dispute to a halt.
KIANG EXPLAINED the problem as one of disarmament, not shelters. He said:
"Disarmament by itself will never stop a war. Our forefathers fought with bows and arrows."
"What assurance do we have that if a non-nuclear war begins those nations capable will not begin to build nuclear weapons again.
"I think true disarmament should begin in our minds," he concluded. Turning again to nuclear testing, Prof. Laird said:
"When the day comes that we have enough bombs to wipe out Russia, I can see no reason to go farther. It's like running a spear through a person's heart, knocking him down and then stomping on him.
"I'm sure we're going to start testing again, then the Soviets will start and it won't stop until we have reached overkill."
KU Coed Attacked; Released Unharmed
A KU coed was thrown to the ground last night by a tall molester who grabbed her as she was leaving Malott Hall, according to a report made to campus security police.
The woman described her attacker as tall, thin and wearing a light tan trench coat and grey cap. She told police the man grabbed her at the steps of the building, pulled her over into some bushes and threw her to the ground.
She told the man she expected friends along any moment and he released her and ran off toward Flint Hall after warning her not to report the incident, the report stated.
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